The Passion Didn't Die

My new Sec 3 class is ok, minus away the noise they always make. They are ultimately talkative. They're quite a nice bunch of kids, except they are quite slow at grasping concepts. Perhaps, they were talking amongst themselves? Perhaps I wasn't good enough. But I have put in my best. They are going for their final exams next Friday. With that, I will be teaching 4E2, cos their Maths teacher is down with chicken pox.

School has been really busy. 2 weeks I've been reaching home after 6pm. Sigh. Lotsa remedials, meetings, CCAs and staying back for invigilation for the Prelims. I wasn't spared for anything. No time to rest, always gobbled down my lunch and coffee. Coffee has become a necessity to keep myself going. It's non-stop from 750am to 330pm. After that, I usually collapsed on my chair and stoned literally. Sigh, I'm afraid fatique will once again conquer me.

There's so much stuff I can't write it here. Sigh. So much to grumble about. But at least there are a few close colleagues to grumble to. 2 out of the 5 contract teachers have undergone observation by their HOD and VP. My HOD didn't inform me of any. Am I going to be left out? Am I not going into NIE in 2006? I WANT TO GO NIE!! I want my pay increment! My pay now is pathetic. Sigh.

Will teaching become my career or my job? Will I make it my career or my job? This is an important decision to make.

Long time no blog

A new week is ahead. I've got my second month salary. Suddenly, the joy of seeing my money growing is wonderful. And suddenly, the thought of making more money comes into my mind. I registered myself with a tuition agent. Hopefully, I will be getting students soon.

Went for SE chalet at Aloha Chalets in Changi on Tuesday evening. How I wish I could stay over and join them in their majong!! We had own-made steamboat there! Was pretty good! And very enjoyable! HAHA! Took a cab back home.

From tomorrow onwards, I'll be teaching 3E4 Add Math. The current teacher left the class cos' they complained to change teacher. I wonder what is behind it. I worry they are a problematic class. There will be 3 teachers in the class for every lesson. One of them is their another current Maths teacher, and the other is a contract teacher like me. He will be teaching them E Math. Sigh, have to pray hard.

Will be going Genting Highlands with the school band in Dec for 5 days. The teacher I/C had to come up with the teacher-student ratio of 1:20. Many teachers will be away for the English trip, so she came to approach me. I agreed the same day. What's there to lose? The whole trip will be paid for!! And we will be staying in hotel! Somemore the contract teacher in charge of band is going too. At least got company!! And also a getaway frOm Singapore!! And to revisit Genting after more than 5 years!! Wonder how great it will be! Hopefully, Hacken will go there for concert in Dec! HaHa! I'm dreaming......

My piano teacher agreed to teach me Diploma. Guess I'll be busy practising piano again!

I bought my micro hi-fi for $186. Best Denki sold it for $199 and Courts at $209! I bought it at Gain City. Coincidentally, outside the Gain City in Tampines, they were having Nets-It promotion. It's something like spend $1 using Nets will be rewarded with 1 Nets point. Somemore registration is free and life-long. With the sign-up, I got a 200 points voucher. So the hi-fi was actually $195, but using 100 points, I can buy it at $186. Hehe. But the 100 points remaining gone to waste.





My new micro hi-fi on my shelf!

It has blue backlight and vertical CD loading. Two things I don't like about this is it doesn't have a wire antenna; it uses the traditional type of antenna that you have to pull out and turn in various directions to get signals. And also it doesn't have a glass cd lid for me to look at the spinning cd. Other than that, the sound is pretty good! Finally a micro hi-fi of my own after wishing for 7 years! Music is finally coming to accompany me everynight! There was an even chio-er one I saw in Courts.



Look at the lights! So nice! And when the CD spins, it's gonna be pretty!! Somemore the cover slides up!



Look at the thickness! I didn't get this because the cover slides up and I don't have enough room on my shelf to accomodate it.

Yesterday after practise, YH drove RT and I to Suntec. Cos' RT was having dinner there, and Angela will be there too. So after that we can all go Changi Airport together to send KY off to Germany as a surprise. But halfway thru the journey after sending KY and YT home, YH's car suddenly had funny noises coming out of his accelerator pedal. After a while, YH suddenly suspect his engine was overheating!! Quickly, I took out the street directory in his car, and flipped for the nearest pertrol station! After turning into 2 wrong short roads (I hate city roads, it's damn confusing), his engine died about 50m from the petrol station. It was while making a turn outside Albert Hotel, and the car stopped in the middle of the road. Had no choice, YH asked me to steer the wheel while he and RT pushed at the back. I was a bit gan chiong. When I sat in the driver's seat, I suddenly forgot what to do. I didn't even have enough strength to release the handbrake. I think I was lost cos' it's the first time the car I sat in broke down. But I quickly re-composed myself and got the car nearer to the side of the road. YH opened up the bonnet, then opened the coolant tank and smoke emerged. Not much smoke. But the fact that the car couldn't start worried him. YH then called the tow truck. RT took a cab to rush to Suntec for her dinner. So both of us waited for the tow truck for about an hour.



The uncle was directing him how to position his car.



YH got in his car, which can be restarted after cooling down. He was relieved the engine was not burnt.



Positioning the car wheels with the "tow-er".



His car was elevated.



Last goodbye to his car......

Both of us had dinner at "Gao Ji" outside Bugis Junction. Was pretty expensive, and the air-con wasn't cooling. YH was full of imagination how suay he can get after his car broke down and handphone on NO battery. Funny guy he is.

Then we took MRT to Changi Airport. We reached there at 910pm. We checked out KY's flight which was at 1105pm and found out he would check-in at Row 2. He wasn't here. So I sms him, trying to find out where he is. He replied saying he checked-in very early, and was having dinner with his family. Not wanting to let him know we were sending him off, I tried to probe for further detailed locations of him. But he didn't reply my sms, so we went to the customs entry to try our luck to meet him. 945pm. We started to get worried. RT and Angela hadn't reached too. YH then called KY to ask directly where he was. Haha, in the end we met. He was about to go in already! How lucky we were. 10 min after we met, RT and Angela came. We took photos and gave him a card and loitered there till 1040pm when his Dad said he better go in. We said our last goodbyes and he went in. I'm gonna miss someone suaning me and a listening ear.

Jealousy

You are 30.16% jealous!
For this test, the average jealousy percentage is 35.54%.
266505 people have taken this test to date.

This percentage means that :
- You are not a jealous person, but sometimes can be.
- Occasionally, you over-react to situations.
- Most of the time, you trust the people around.
- Jealously will not be a major issue in relationships, but you might want to improve your self-esteem.

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Feeling

How long will the feeling last? It's so difficult to like somebody, and so easy to un-like somebody, for me at least. The feeling of liking is good, but liking without him knowing is miserable. It's worse if he treats you coldly. Is he THE ONE? When will I meet THE ONE?

Comex 05

Weilian won Superstar. Sigh.

Condolences to my Principal who lost her dad. Hope she is fine.

Went Comex at Suntec after school today. It was damn crowded. MRT was crowded, City Hall was crowded. Marina Square was Crowded. SUNTEC WAS EVEN MORE CROWDED! The crowd was made worse with the rainy weather. Met up with KY to go Comex. Took a few brochures here and there, and tried out some cameras. Tried EXILIM S500! HAHA! Very chio! And saw many sleek laptops!! Wheah, all nice and sleek lappies are above $3k! How long must I save to get that?! Cry man.

At 830pm, we went to have dinner at Marche. Long time since I went Marche. There were quite a lot of people inside, but we got our seats quite fast. Stayed there till 11pm. Talked so much crap and stuff. In the end, when we got to the MRT station, the last train to Boon Lay already left, so KY had to take a bus back instead. Luckily I still have my train. Hehe.

School holidays started. Need not go back school. No need go for netball duty. Hehe. So glad! Need to make use of this one week break to do lotsa things! Finish my music theory!! And catch up more on Physics and Maths! Pack my room! Clean my room! Sigh. Maybe go swimming too. Long time haven't swum. Meanwhile, relax and enjoy!