First Teachers' Day

School started at 725am as usual but it'll only be half day. After assembly was the ACES day workout. The teachers were encouraged to come in sports gear, but I didn't. And many didn't as well. I was supposed to have one lesson at the third period, but Miss Ong said I need not go cos' she'll be going through answers. So, no lessons! So with the other teachers, we went for the first concert session for the lower sec. The concert was ok, but Dunman's one were better. I remembered being a student councillor in Dunman, we actually had to plan the Teachers' Day concert. We made use of dry ice for the grand entrance of teachers and our programmes were of higher standard. I remembered staying till 11pm in the school for Teachers' Day rehearsal.

Got a bar of chocolates from the Maths subject head and some chocolate cookies during the concert. Nothing from the students. I didn't expect anything, cos' I'm not close to them. So well, hehe.

At 12pm, all the teachers walked over to Sakura restaurant at Downtown East for Teachers' Day buffet lunch. Wahaha!! Heard it cost $22 per person! Lotsa salmon sashimi, tuna and other kinds' of fish sashimi! Oysters, tempura prawns, teppanyaki, claypot, chicken wings, soup.... so much to eat! But I didn't eat a lot cos' I ate alot of sashimi! HAHA! Yummy!

After lunch, it was about 2pm. I took bus 3 to Tampines interchange. Then walked over to TM and Century Square for shopping. Been quite bored with my clothes, and need some additions. Somemore, my mum said all my clothes look quite old, so have to get some clothes to make me young and fresh! HAHA!

A simple shopping made me burn a BIG pocket. Firstly I bought another spagetti top at Giordano at $14. Then at OAMC, bought a wrap grey skirt and 2 tops at $93.50. And this price was after 50% discount!! Imagine without discounts?!?! Went over to Century Square to Echo Of Nature, and spent a freaking $282.30! Got a belt, 4 tops, 2 skirts and a jeans there. The sales girl was good, she knew how to match and give me what I want. And the clothes were nice this season! Having spent so much, I got myself their lifetime membership which entitles me to 10% discount. Total damage = $389.80. I never spent so much on clothes in my whole life! Time to munch on bread!

COMEX 05 but I lack $$

Eyeing for EXILIM S500!! And Cruzer Titanium 1GB flash drive!! And an ibook! Damn cool can?

Firstly for EXILIM S500 @ $749:



Comes in ORANGE colour!!

- ULTRA-SLIM
- 5 Mega Pixel
- records beautiful VGA size (640 x 480-pixel) images at 30 frames per second
- Anti Shake Digital Signal Processor, which reduces blurring caused by shaking hands or moving subjects, while the Auto Macro and Quick Shutter functions ensure that photos are properly focused
- Super Life battery to deliver up to 200 snapshots* or 80 minutes of continuous movie recording on a singe charge
- EXILIM starts up in just 1.0 seconds
- Built-in flash memory (Image Recording Area: 8.3 MB); SD memory cards; MMC compatible
- built-in memory of 8.3MB
- focal range F2.7(W) to F5.2(T)

Bad part is that it does't have a view finder.

Secondly for Cruzer Titanium 1GB flash drive @ US$120:



The Cruzer Titanium is built with Liquidmetal™ space-age metal casing that is crush-resistant over 2,000 lbs (about 900kg). And comes in a chio Distinctive Blue LED! The only selling point is that it's crush resistant, and made of Titanium casing. Other than that, I think Cruzer mini will do the job. It only cost US$100 for the same storage.

Thirdly for Apple's ibook @ Price unavailable yet (but heard was $1800 only):



- G4 processor running at accelerated speeds up to 1.42GHz
- built-in wireless capability
- built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
- DVD-burning SuperDrive DVD-ROM/CD-RW
- incredible six hours of battery life
- lightest all-in-one consumer notebook on the market, the 12.1-inch (2.2kg) iBook G4 weighs in at a mere 4.9 (2.7kg) pounds. The 14.1-inch model weighs just 5.9 pounds.
- Sudden Motion Sensor to help protect your most valuable asset: your data
- 1.33GHz (for 12.1 inch) or a 1.42GHz (for 14.1 inch) PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine and 512K Level 2 Cache
- 133MHz (for 12.1 inch) or 142MHz (for 14.1 inch) system bus and 512MB of onboard memory
- HDD storage of 40GB (for 12.1 inch) or 60GB (for 14.1 inch)
- Two USB 2.0 ports

Compared to Fujitsu Lifebook S6240 @ $3,488:



- Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
- 13.3" SuperFine XGA TFT
- 512MB DDR2 533MHz or 256MB DDR2 533MHz
- HDD Storage 80GB
- Battery life 3.6hrs
- Weight: 1.65kg
- built-in wireless
- USB 2.0 x 3
- Dual Layer DVD Super Multi Writer or DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive

SO WHAT AM I THINKING? MERELY DREAMING.

Greetings!

Hi everybody! Long time no blog! Been rather busy with school lately. School has been fine so far. Teacher's Day day after next, and next week is the September one week break. Haha. Shall not write anything about school anymore. What if the students search and found my blog? Die man.

Internet is still down. Singnet called me up and told me about their broadband promotion. Yes, my contract is up, and can change plan le! Now thinking of signing up the 1500kbps. Fast leh! Better than this miserable 512kbps. 3 times more speed! But the August promotion is bad. Only got a free wireless modem. Sucks. My friend got an ipod shuffle and $300 Royal Sporting House vouchers ok!!! So I told that Singnet lady, and said she will feedback to the management. HAHA! Right now, waiting for September. See how it goes. Must get the best. Everytime I recontract, a better promotion comes out. Can't they always give the same stuff? If not, change the promotion freebies with same value!! GRRRR!!

Met up with Yuhua, Jiehui and David last week for dinner at Suntec Swensons. Yuhua bought us gifts from the States! Look!



There's Lancome eyeshadow, a "sponge-on" eyeshadow, lotion, spray, pedicure set, sun-screen lip-gloss, and an underwear..... ALL in PURPLE! HAHA! Thanks girl, like that so much!

After that, we went NYDC for desserts!



Had mudpies and a rocky cake. Can't really remember the name. But the chocolate fudge was sooooooooooooooo nice! Hehe.

Been feeling happy these days. Hehe. He's been sms-ing me daily, in the morning, in the day, in the night. When I was so bored marking papers in the staff room, his message would arrive and perk me up. Will it continue? Or is he just as bored with his work too? Sigh.

Project Superstar

Damn sad that Jun Yang is out!!! Boo hoo!!

Ouch! A Pain in the EYE!

Yesterday was a bit demoralising for me. I went thru Physics answers with 4N1 and gave the wrong answer. Mr Yap was inside the classroom with me, and he sort of hinted me it was wrong, but brainless me didn't know where I was wrong. So he went in front of the class and told them the correct answer. He was very nice, he explained to the class I am a new teacher, and told them to give me more encouragement. He even told them when he was a new teacher, he also made mistakes. I think he was very nice loh. This is the kind of gentleman who wouldn't let anyone lose face in front of others. (unlike someone......)

After school, went for string practise. Drove along ECP home, and ended up in Changi Airport!

Today started out unlucky. I burned my left eye!! WHY? Cos I didn't put in the neutralising pill into the contact lens solution!!! I put on my contacts and got a REAL stinging burning pain in my left eye!! It was so painful I can't even open my eyes!!! I stood in front of the mirror like for a minute plus before I can calm myself down to take out the lens. It was so difficult to even open my eyes, not to say, take the lens out!!! OUCCH!! It left the blood veins in my left eye popping out. I wore glasses to school today, and the eye was painful and red for the whole day.

However, the day in school turned out to be better than I thought. Being a Tuesday, I have lessons the whole day, and after school, there is afternoon programme and remedial which will end at 5pm. The first period was a repeat lesson for another class, so I need not go in. So I got 2 periods to prepare for my lesson on Nuclear Physics. Though it was a super simple topic, the problem was how to extend the lesson to 35 minutes! And while thinking, I feel asleep. The chime went and I went to class. Lucky me, the class had biology practical before that, and were 10 minutes into lesson time. Hehe, 25 min to go. Went in, luckily information flowed quite well. But the lesson ended in 10 minutes. Darn. So I called out," Miss Lim?" Hehe, she told me beforehand if I ended early, she could give out the practical and test papers. Phew.

Then, it was 2 periods of MAths. But Miss Ong was on MC, and already gave them worksheets to do. Woo hoo! 2 more periods free! Happily can do my stuff!! Then 2 hours later, it was afternoon programme time. Had to go through Mock Exam paper with the class, but when I reached the classroom, there wasn't anyone inside! And their bags were all gone! Later, I found out that they all had English oral in the hall! Whoo!!

Remedial was also cancelled, cos the students wanted to rush their D&T project. HAHA! MEANS CAN GO HOME!! And my mum offered to come fetch me home!!! WAAAHHH!!! I feel lucky today. OK! Must do more good things, so that I can be lucky.

Ok, needa sleep. Eye still pain. Hope tom will be fine.

CAC Ball - Galaxy: Cynosure

Just came back from CAC Ball 2005. It was held at Amara Hotel. Cost of ticket: $49. This year is different from all the other years I've been to. It's the least preparation work done in terms of the dressing and hairdo, and going to the ball was kinda last minute, only decided on Wed. I wore the same set of clothings that I wore to in 2003. Regarding the hair, I just half-tied it, and plucked in a shiny star-crystal pin that I bought in HK.



Before that, the whole day I was super busy. Morning had to go for my theory lessons, which my teacher said," Next time must do first then come ah!" Sigh, I also wish so la, but I was really really too busy throughout the week irregardless of the two day school holiday. Sigh. Then had to rush home, packed, bathed and went Century again to do pedicure for the night's ball. Then met my family at 1245, where my brother came picked me up at Tampines MRT and ate lunch at Hougang. Some roast duck and "shao rou", and were not comparable to the one in Serangoon. I treated them lunch as I got my first pay yesterday. Hehe, finally money is starting to come in.

Then I was lucky that my brother was so kind enough to send me to NTU for my string practise. Hehe, I reached at 220pm, 20 minutes late. But the conductor was even later. Sigh, I got a feeling, he won't last long. Give him another year or two, he will quit. Trust me. Practises are getting boring. Maybe cos' of the new members who are learning to play the repertoire. Gotta give them more time and patience, isn't it? The conductor is also someone who talks alot of stories and have extended short breaks. I hate them. Reason being - I had to spend so much time travelling, so don't waste my time like that. Today, I sat there and wonder, is it all worth it to go for string practises? Sigh. I am starting to get impatient with him. Hence, I took it all out on my violin during practise today.

Then I went to RT's hall to get changed and made up. We were ready in 45 minutes, and YH drove to fetch us to Amara. There wasn't anyone I know there, except Wee Fong. The feeling of "old" there. The people were dressed down, I don't see sexy and revealing gowns like Eve's? Haha. Not many people wore gowns. The food was ok only; there were only 9 of us (we shared a table with Piano Ensemble people), but the portion of food was not considered big, maybe only barely sufficient. The games were fresh to me, alas some new stuff. But was pretty boring. Maybe the gang I used to go with were so much bigger, hence more lively. YH was again kind enough to send me back to my house.

Back to some school stuff, have been marking scripts, and going to classes alone. 4N1 people, a bunch of XXX. Don't know to use what adjective to describe them. Made two of them stayed back after class. 5N2 kids were more willing to learn. They do their work, and asked questions. One kid asked,"Cher, when you leaving ar? You gonna stay till after Teacher's Day?"

I shrugged. "We want to give you Teacher's Day present. You'll still be here right?"

"No need, no need, don't need present la." I replied, afraid of them giving me "surprises". Haha. At least I prefer 5N2 to 5N1, 5N1 gave me a hard time on Thursday. Firstly, so many of them didn't bring their workbooks. Then I changed to do TYS instead. But they started to talk and not listen to me. Sigh. It's bad. 4N1 kids also jia lat, some really stubborn. GRRRR!!

Now, next assignment is to come up with a test paper on Radioactivity for 4E4 and 4E6. Add.Math paper solutions have yet completed! Jia lat!!

Wireless internet is stil not fixed. Sigh. I haven't touched my lappie for a long time!

Over the 2nd and into the 3rd!

It has been so long since I've blogged man!! Blame the internet connection! I wanted to blog on Saturday, but the stupid wireless router suddenly went bongus! There was actually "Excellent signal" displayed on my lappie, but just couldn't connect to the internet! Even the PC too! With all the correct signals and stuff, but just couldn't access to the internet! It just went kaput! TMD~ now I am using my ADSL modem to connect and only at 8Mbps. Damn!

So what happened in the second week? I got my first teaching experience! The first class I taught was 5N1! Topic on Center of Gravity and Stability. Was supposed to teach 5N2 on Friday, but Ms Chua suddenly told me to teach the same thing to 5N1 on Thursday itself. Faint. Haven't really prepared yet! Went to make up some transparency and did reading before the lesson. The time finally came, and I went into the class ALONE. They were quite nice, some paid attention to me, some ignored me, but AT LEAST they didn't make noise! The lesson started out quite well, but started to freak out. Haha, then I started to look at my textbook for clues. I had everything in my mind, but they just couldn't flow smoothly. Eventually it ended, finished before the 35-minute period. Thank goodness, I hoped they learned something!

Friday came, it's the same stuff for 5N2. I was so much in a better form! I went home to reflect on Thursday's lesson, and did even more preparation. I went in class today and could babble everything from my memory. Even more stuff was taught to the class today. To that point, I thought I did injustise to 5N1. Heck. Ms Chua was sitting in class that day, and important thing is to treat her INVISIBLE. Haha!

Today was National Day celebration. Boring CCA commendation ceremony in the morning. Then waited for another boring Speech Day at 4pm. Then what to do between 11am and 4pm?? CL, Nic and I went TM for lunch. Ate Ding Tai Feng, sucky leh! And somemore so ex!! I think Crystal Jade is so much better, and cheaper also! No more Ding Tai Feng le!! Then I went home to charge my handphone. So much time left loh! Still have some time to practise piano! HAHA!

After the speech thingy, I took a cab down to NTU for SE practise. Cost me $23!! But today's practise was fun leh. Played Overture to Barber of Sevielle, my fave! HAHA! And one of the new members was actually Clara, a choir member from TPJC! HAHA, she's in NIE, and happened to be Sheryl's coursemate! What a small world ya?

Needa sleep. More work at home tom!

Survived the 1 week ordeal

So far so good. Hope everything will be smooth sailing. Tom's the start of a new week. Please be good... *pray hard*

Spent 2 days of the weekend doing E math paper. Finally finished it without as much problems as Add Maths. Going to print on transparency tom. Kind of waste paper leh. Next time shall do it on the transparency itself. Busy reading on Physics now. Have stopped reading since Tuesday cos' was rushing through the Add Maths syllabus. Phew. Hope everything stays in my brain.

Changed the background music! It's the Mandarin version of Hong Ri by Hacken Lee. His new Mandarin album has just been released on 28th July. All nice songs! Enjoy the music!

Work life has started

First day of work 25th July. Almost late. Got to the bus stop at 640am, and waiting for bus 17 till 655am. If the bus goes faster, I might be able to reach school by 720am. Saw no Hai Sing student at the bus stop. Smells something fishy. Boarded the bus, none Haisians on board. Die. Is is a holiday today? No, I see many Ngee Ann and Dunman students. The bus crawled along Tampines Ave 2, then turned to Ave 7. Many cars. 710am already. Students alighted at TPJC bus stop and the one after. No good. Jam is getting bad! The bus is still crawling! I got off the bus. Prayed for a cab to come. Not to be late for work again?!?! I was late for work on the first day I worked at HP. Got a mercedes cab!!! Thank god! The driver cut lanes and zoomed me to school in just 4 minutes!!! And cost me $4. I stepped into the school at 7:19am. Ask for directions to the general office. Amazed by what I saw. The students were all seated on the parade square reading their story books! I rushed into the office, and was told to wait at the lounge. No need to attend assembly, hmm. The chime went at 725am. National anthem was sung followed by the pledge. The principal introduced the 4 new teachers to the students. But I wasn't at the assembly ground!

Then the Principal welcomed and briefed the 4 of us. We were showed our seats. Hehe, we've got new tables, they changed part of the pantry into tables for us. I'm so happy I've got a new table all to myself! And a comfortable chair, and a locker under my table. The best is I'm in a corner, can slack anytime! Then we toured the school briefly, and realised the school compound was similar to my sec sch. It wasn't too difficult to get around the school for me. Afterwhich, we met up with our respective HODs. I got my timetable and will be teaching 3 subjects - Combined Physics, E and A Maths, and attached to the graduating classes, both the 4 Express and 5 Normals. I do not need to teach, but will be assisting the teachers in any ways. I only need to sit in office today and I read up on textbooks. Shucks, can't remember so much stuff! Lunch was the food in canteen. It was cheap, only $1 for most of the things! I had chicken bryani for $1.60.

Day 2 - 26th July. Ultimately wet day. Hoping to be on time, left the house at 630am. Raining cats and dogs, bananas and papayas. Stood in the rain, wanted to take cab. And my cab was snatched by a stupid maid sending her mistress to school. TMD! Then I walked further up to flag. 655am. Shucks. No cab in sight! Called all the cab companies. All engaged tones. *Become hysterical* Called sleeping brother. Asked him to send me to school. 7:01am. Got on the car with my pants all wet and shoes soaked with water. Totally jammed along the way. *turns hysterical* Brother said there's no need to worry, cos' definitely gonna be late! Asked him what reason to give, he said "severe jam". Got me laughing for moment. But tears were brimming in my eyes.

Reached 735am. DM alike said,"Bad weather, isn't it?" Sounds nice, but don't know if it carried a sacastic meaning.

Luckily not late for the first period of lesson. First time enter the classroom with all eyes on me. Feel so weird! The first period was with 5N1. They gonna draw graph. Couldn't rem a lot, but slowly, came back. Then had Maths lessons. Physics lesson on radioactive was very interesting by Mr Yap. He was a Mechanical Engineer but switched to teaching. Then after school, there was Math mock exam invigilation. After that, I went to the Popular in White Sands and bought TYS. *SCREAMS!* Really need to get ready to do revisions with the kids!

Day 3 and Day 4 - 27th and 28th July. We went for a course at MOE Cluster Schools somewhere in Redhill. 830am to 530pm. 2 long and tedious days. But there were a lot of things learnt and many friends made. After I got home, I struggled through A Maths prelim papers. I had to come up with the solutions. ARGH, someone return me my memory!

Day 5 - 29th July. Finally in time for school. I took the MRT instead, less the trouble of jamming. Phew. Went to lab with 5N2. They did an experiment on Moments. These people are damn noisy, and had untidy handwriting on their papers, especially the guys! OMG! They never read the instructions, and many copied each other. Chaos in the lab man! But it was pretty interesting to walk around and guide them. Then went for Mr Yap's Physics class with 4N1. Went in, and some of them said,"Cher, cher, you very pretty!" Haha, but I was talking to another boy in class, so I ignored that remark. They will be sitting for their N levels soon. All the classes I've been to have a few black sheeps. I guess it takes some skill to control them. Used to the feeling of entering the class with all eyes on me. Guess it will be more intimidating when it's my turn to teach the class. Grr, I hate attention like this.

Of Feet and Shoes (Of Mice and Men)

I spent another yet unfruitful day doodling with PS2. It was my brother who suggested to play it yesterday. All thanks to him, there goes the time to read up on Physics and violin practise. Mum is away in Beijing, so hence, the 3 pigs at home are on rampage.

While MH (younger brother) was out and MK (youngest brother) was in school, I went to Tampines Central to shop for my shoes. Needed some appropriate shoes for teaching! Finally got to a shop in Century Square in a corner and got them! They were beige in colour and I really love them! Had been looking around for shoes like that, but they didn't give me a good feeling. And I got my shoes for $29.55 after a 20% discount!

Then I shopped for some tops at Metro and Double Index. Roughly adding up to $70+++, near to $80 I guess. ~$~

Adding on to the damage, I went for my life's every first - a express pedicure for $15 at Nails In Vouge. Express pedicure only covers filing of nails and painting with nail art on 2 toes. I kind of like it! Maybe next time can consider going for a full pedicure!

I'm going to skip my SE practise tomorrow. Don't want to spoil the practise session. Think ZH will drill the performers for Monday's gig, and the non-performers will sit there staring. Or am I making excuses for myself? Recently has been thinking if I should get my Piano diploma. It seems something far-fetched. How about violin? Haven't been improving after playing for so long. Should I really get serious lessons? But where's the time?

Should I get tuition kids? Should I get music students? Money seems to be everything I'm thinking now.

A guy sms me at 730am this morning! TMD! The msg wrote: good morning! Time 2 wake up!
What the hell? Did I request for a morning call? Instead of a good morning, it became a frustrated morning. Had some trouble getting into sleep last night, and woken up by MK going to school at 630am. I suppose I'm anxious over my first day at Hai Sing Catholic School. I suppose I miss HIM even more. Shan't think so much now, he's trying hard to get over his ex now.