bottle it up

i promise i'll blog properly over the weekend! if i'm not marking my ass off or finishing the sci-fi sequel that jeanle lent me (I <3 Ender!) all you sci-fi critics, you ain't seen anything till you read Ender's Game (and all the subsequent books in the series). proof - mel hasn't returned me one of the sequels yet (Ender's Shadow i think). okay but come to think of it she hasn't returned me alot of stuff GRRR.

alright back to marking! (i havent exactly started on today's pile but i'm going to! after i feed my growling tummy:P)

Whip It!

i'm in love with the idea of roller skating! those with four wheels in a square, so old school!

btw "whip it" refers to a stunt that's pulled off in roller derby, really awesome;)

i really like ellen page! she's such a fresh atypical natural beauty, and the films she stars in always have some family theme or growing pains, but somehow comes across very realistically and not corny. drew barrymore's the director and she also stars in this film, it's very very funny and so is she! or at least the character she plays. but i do think she has a great sense of humour too.

ok so if you like ellen page and drew barrymore, go watch this movie! i tell you, you'd feel like owning a pair of roller skates is the coolest thing in the world:)

PPT

yupp, it's over! the physical proficiency test i've been fretting over these few weeks. results will be out in about 3-4 weeks time, but honestly i don't have a good feeling about it. don't think i did much better for the different stations as compared to the first time i took the test. already preparing to sign up for the next test in May, which is the last one i can take before they consider my application for NIE. if i fail the May test as well, i'll forgo PE and be a regular subject teacher :/

i actually enjoy teaching in the classroom, but i feel that studying PE is smth i would enjoy very much...

oh well. let's just hope and pray for the best!

thanks ya'll who have been so supportive - trying desperately to teach me cartwheels, playing badminton, asking about the test... so touching even my kor jon asked how it went! AWWW (he hardly asks me stuff, i usually volunteer info and push my daily stories down his ears haha)

meanwhile, i'll stick to my weekly exercise routine of FB hehe

miss lee, how?

is teaching the thing for me? i can see myself being in education for the next 5-10 years maybe, but 20, 30 years? the problem with taking a bachelors in education is that it limits my options for jobs in other fields. but i guess its like that for most academic degrees, no?

solution: apply for everything first and see what happens

today was a fairytale

8am

exercise

Helped out Admin for Teengames2010 n hung out with

YAY

we met an amazing gymnast who kindly tried to coach me in

 and

 

but finally discovered i should start with the apparently much easier skill

 

6.30pm i look like this

but Thank God for sending me such amazing people to teach me stuff! :)

then i went over to punggol to spend time w

 

<3<3<3

finally reached home, then - 

i'm so glad we finally cleared things up!

you made my wonderful, bruised, fruitful day even better:)

i'm so nervous

my Physical Proficiency Test is exactly a week away and i'm far from being able to do a decent cartwheel or handstand. like seriously i'm gonna make a fool out of myself again:(

managed to wake at 8plus today and went for a slow jog cuz my right hamstring and butt's been aching since yings tried to drill me on the kicking technique for the cartwheel. i was starting to think it was a strain when the pain didn't go away after warming up/jogging/cooling down. but it suddenly got better after i stretched it out a few times, so yay!

i'm gonna ask amaryllis to help me hold my legs so i can practice my handstand. i'm considering doing that instead of a cartwheel cuz i can't seem to get the twist of the hands and body which is needed for handstand. hopefully i don't have to hold my upside down position too long:/

oh. and i don't think i'm staying in hall.

WHEEEEEEEEEE

i am super high on sugar! must be the insane amount of milo i drank in the past 8 hours hahahaha!

makes me wanna do a hundred things at once and be as efficient as my non-multi-tasking self can be, which is why i'm torturing my com by syncing my ipod and bluetoothing my phone photos at the same time. hee. 

this week has been such a rush! but its a welcome change from my usual school routine - i've been sleeping late and waking late, wasting precious daylight hours snoozing when i could be finishing up my overdue marking (it has progressed from piles on my desk to a cupboard full of it. very decieving cuz now my desk is clear) SOOO i have decided that tmr, the last weekday of the sch hols, will be my EFFECIENT MARKING DAY! *cheers and whoops for joy* (this means i have to sleep soon or i'll end up waking at 12 again)

BUT these few days hasn't been a total waste, i managed to do important official things and hang out with people and also excercise a teeny bit. i shall bore you with my unroutine schedule this week! here goes:

MON - 4.30pm reached sch to mark books (sch closes at 5 haha)

7.30pm dinner w Foster Fam @ city hall

10pm drop by kembangan to get stuff from glor, we chat for an hour or so

11.45pm my EZlink kena "overstay" at the pasir ris ticket gate

TUES - 2pm cycling@ECP w davidson jolene nicole audrey jeremiah (we're all late and only start cycling at 3 plus)

8pm dinner with cherrie esther jingyan @ Jurong Point

11pm reached NTU hall 5! sleepover@Shell's (She n Ryan helped me w my uni app essays)

WED - 11am Yings comes over to help us cook breakfast in Shell's room.

2pm  Yings n Shell help me w my handstand n cartwheel attempts in prep for PPT next fri

5pm dinner time then Shell leaves for class.

6.30pm nap time before completing my uni app essays

10pm set off for HOME SWEET HOME

2.45am finish reading Time Traveller's Wife :) 

THURS - 1.30pm meet Kendra at Hougang for lunch n let her do the confirmation class test she missed

4pm Reached sch to mark. my HW=3 stacks of WS

6pm meet gwen n daryl @ LJS for dinner n REW emcee discussion

9pm we move to simpang cuz i need to pee

11pm dad smses me to come home cuz i've been MIA for 2 nights in a row

FRI - wake up as early as possible to go swim or run

go sch to mark math WB

6pm go to Amaryllis' to bake n write RL n update my blog music

SAT - 11am music prac @ BLC

3pm-ish roller blading w SPY girls

5pm SPY girls picnic

SUN - 9.45am Take A Knee

10.20am Service

12.30pm REW emcee discussion

1.30pm YSS

2.30pm REW emcee discussion

3pm floorball

6pm family dinner

12am LOOK OUT T2W1 APPROACHING 

 guess the sugar's run out. photo update soon

:) 

 

akan datang

i will update soon!! i promise. lotsa things have been happening, and the march break will prove to be exciting! gotta get back into the groove of bloggin again ;)

MTP

MEET THE PARENTS.

no, not the movie (unfortunately). i really am meeting the parents of my students tomorrow night :0

SOB another LOOOOOOOONG day at work, starting from 10am remedial and ending at 9.30pm when my nightmare would finally be over. i can imagine myself rushing thru the presentation and trying to push the parents out to meet the mother tongue teachers before my allocated hour is up. but of course i can't do that :(

i'm secretly hoping most of the parents won't come for the meeting so i won't have trouble remembering parents' faces/surnames/specific family issues and have to promise each one of them that "i'll keep an eye out for your child". because seriously i only have a pair, and yes, every child is precious but it's true i don't and can't give special attention to each one. 

ok gonna add in more slides for the ppt presentation so will have more killed more time and to bore the parents so they'll be less energetic by the time it comes to the Q&A. hehehee.

and we know it's never simple never easy

"it's the big stuff u don't wanna blog about"

i'm so angry!!!!

but it's giving way to slight guilt for raising my voice at you on the phone. i know you don't like being yelled at and i know i kept insisting on my viewpoint, but you know i'd only do that if it was really, really important!

sorry for shouting at you:(

i still love you LL <3

1:25am

i think i am incapable of sleeping early:(

 

had dinner with some of my vjnb juniors, miss them so much i just blog-stalked them. yea it was good to catch up of sorts. felt kinda naggy cuz i kept talking bout teaching and my kids etc. but i do enjoy their company and i miss training with them. i think i miss training. 

anyway, all the best for this fri yea babes! keep the calm going :)

gonna play badminton with yani tmr! let's go PPT!

step up

wish i had a similar picture without the bearded guy!

change is coming, i know it! time to change my perspective, change for the better, and grow up. i think it's time i start taking responsibility in my own relationships and commitments, because it's a waste of anyone's life to live like a cruiser. 

charisma + maturity = influence

late night rant and monday blues

is it the lack of sleep or the irrepressible heat or that nagging feeling of an unresolved soul issue? maybe all 3, which is enough to make me ALMOST scream at my class today, but i didn't, Thank God for the little self-restraint left in me. it's one thing to discipline a child, and quite another to take out my bad moods at them. you know how they say just do the best you can, but what if my best kinda sucks? i really want to be a good teacher and role model to the kids, and it's difficult to know the best way to respond to every situation. it's been and continues to be a really rich experience for a newbie like me, but i can't help feeling i'm benefitting more than the children i'm teaching. sometimes i comfort myself that i can barely rmb anything from P2 so maybe i won't scar my students' lives or anything... i know, stop wallowing in self-doubt already right?


is this what it means to love my students?


honestly i think my confidence is on an all-time low, (i know, amazing right?) but it's not necessarily a bad thing

tv is evil

 

a little more sleep goes a long way.

i am a strong supporter of 8 hours of sleep for a happier and more energetic day!

plus lack of sleep makes me eat more (body needs more energy to stay awake longer)

i think i should fast from tv and fb, that would allow me to accomplish MUCH more, and USEFUL stuff too.

Eirene Lee, please just do what you have to do!

i totally killed more than 5 mosquitoes at home just tonight-.-'' BLOOD SUCKERS