hanging out with you makes me feel childish

i've been enjoying myself thoroughly this christmas weekend hanging out with my family and church friends... even though it's been a packed week, we had quite a bit of time to hang out in btw activities. i realised after spending time with them that i'm really gonna miss their company, especially the presence of my siblings. it's awesome staying in hall (and i miss Michelle already) but i miss home sometimes.

 i wish my one month break was a real holiday, but i guess its not meant to be-.-'' just filled up my new scheduler (thanks to glor sherm sarah fish!!) for jan and it's all trainings and matches. i suppose i'll come out of hols being pretty fit but exhausted as well. BAH. WHAT HOLIDAYS. it's gonna be one of those "tiring but fun" kinda season i hope. it sucks that i've to be taken out of track cuz i've IVP training on the morning of the IHG track heats:(  and it's not like i'm going to be playing on the IVP team either... this is what i'm missing 3/4 of the SNP retreat for?!! ARGHHH. 

christmas eve

done:

-shopping for christmas presents

-meeting up with different groups of friends

-christmasing performances

not done:

-writing christmas cards

-wrapping presents

-paying back sleep debt

so easy to reduce christmas to a list of to-dos..

"let every heart prepare Him room"

4 days to Christmas!!

exams are finally over, and been busy with performances in church and at orchard road!!! anyway, finally got to take a photo with my new fringe (which is giving me forehead pimples but is awesome cuz i dun have to do my eyebrows HAHA). i'm going to sleep now cuz i stayed up to watch grey's anatomy WOOHOOO this is the post-exam life:D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!

I spent national day with my family, mostly. Had delicious home-cooked lunch at home before heading down to church to help faith n vee with rttp decor. Went all the way to parkway w faith to get the A1 corrugated boards and queued up for koi! YUM:) oh, did you know if you rotate the word KOI 45 degrees to the left you get the chinese character "dou", which is bean. i thought it was very clever until i realised that koi sells bubble tea not soya bean milk....

been quite an eventful weekend for me, but i've tuition tmr at 9am so let me summarise:

FRI-  lunch w colleagues followed by costume rental for staff dinner (i got a han bok!). i left my phone in the cab on the way to the rental shop so kept calling till the taxi uncle picked up (later he told us he didn't know how to answer the call! touch screen...) Thank God i managed to get it back:)

went to meet vee n nicole for dinner after that, and we watched the last airbender! it's not too bad, despite the bad reviews. it's a decent action film, just not as humourous as the cartoon.

SAT- went to donate blood with taariq in the morning! too bad his veins were too small so he couldn't donate:/ then i had tuition with abby, then i went home and slacked the rest of the day! haha ok not very eventful there.

SUN- church service, then short leaders' meeting, then off to play netball at my junior's church! wah i'm aching slightly from the exercise. i haven't played in ages!!! and missing it more now.. 

evening was our annual SNP national day hide-and-seek!! managed to spend some time with Rita (friend from China on holiday here) so that was good:) 

by the time i reached home i was so exhausted i dozed off for awhile on the com before dragging my stinky self to the shower and to bed...

Oh when, oh when can i do my marking?

back for good!

the retreat was great!!! glorious sky sea sun... batam is really lovely. although we only had this type of weather on like the first and last day we were there, the sunsets were always so awesome. photos on fb, not that i took any, there were enough cameras anyway.

there was alot of free and easy time, which we spent mostly in the pool, soaking up the chlorine; that i had to condition my hair like ALOT. i'm glad i managed to spend some time with the girls, and chat more to some of the chinese cong youth, it really does make you feel like the church is more united simply cuz of the fellowship. and i'm so happy i got to hang out with people my age too! not that i hate playing baby sitter of course;)

the resort was really awesome, even though the chalet we stayed in was like at the top of this enormous hill that we huffed and puffed up at least once a day. oh they have exceptional service! always impressed with awesome service staff. wish we had more time to explore the place, and do some of the water sports! didn't get to do much cuz most afternoons we were having sessions, and the weather was kinda cloudy anyway. 

OH but our speaker was great! Pastor Thomas seriously has a gift, no one would hear him and say he wasn't an engaging, thought-provoking, relevant speaker. he really brought across how we shouldn't be merely "running different softwares" for the various roles we play in life, who we are in Christ should permeate our entire living. okay gonna read the notes and take some practical action!! ;)

non-stop action begins today

3 camps in 2 weeks. all my friends and family, please tell me NOT to do this again (esp during precious holiday time). 

actually i think it's this first camp that is taking alot out of me. seriously i have outgrown disciplinary training camps. i just kinda lost the heart, that's why it's gonna be a painful 4 days ahead. let you know what happens when i'm all burnt and aching and tired on thurs evening...

i've yet to reveal to my parents that i'm leaving on friday again...

please pray for me not to fall ill!

night time scrabble

feel like such a board game geek! we hung out at edwin's place playing card version of monopoly, and later scrabble. taariq kept winning the monopoly and we didn't play points for scrabble so we kinda gave up after awhile. oh and this woman called up midway thru monopoly (it was a very slow 2nd round)

she should be so grateful i uploaded such a nice picture of her (courtesy of facebook of course). ok mel, next time we will rmb to call you for our impromptu and meaningless gatherings. 

calendar for next 2 weeks:

7-10 June (mon-thurs) LTC@JBAC (lim chu kang area)

11-13 June (fri-sun) SnP leaders retreat@JB

14-17 June (mon-thurs) BLC retreat!! @Batam

cool right. 3 camps in 2 weeks. leaving me ONE week of hols to unwind and prep for my last month in sch. hope i get the uni letter soon, hopefully before i leave for Batam. so i can send in my appeal letter if i'm rejected.

PACKING DAYS

LTC- 5 June/6 June evening

Leaders retreat- 11 June afternoon

BLC retreat- 13 June evening

countdown to hols begins

i am so tired. really hate bringing work home, but i must i must i must finish marking, clearing the books. because book-checking is coming soon. because i am trying to be a better teacher, responsible worker, hardworking and persevering. because i am trying to be blameless. but i am so tired. from the kids and the screaming and my blood pressure has definitely increased.

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Matthew 11:28-30

9 more days to june hols

i have red pens in every bag

haha i'll be thrilled if my students could speak in proper sentences like that!

i'm gearing up for a busy next few weeks cuz EXAMS are here and i gotta clear all my backlog and return the files for them to revise by NEXT WEEK. oh and there's block marking of exam scripts to do *faints*

next three days will be at least 10-hour days, cuz of courses and compo block marking *sobs*

have no fear, long weekend approaching! if only we were like France - if a holiday fell on thurs or tues, the middle working day (fri or mon) would be a holiday too. Think, if only we had 4-day long weekends!!

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)

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:)

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 ;)

looking forward to hall 5

 

me and my handsome brother on his bday celeb last thurs!:)

sorry i've been so lazy to post during CNY!! kinda creepy cuz i found out my friends actually read my blog (and i didn't know) then i realised it could be read by like anyone and i wouldn't know who. all you creepy stalkers!! (actually FB's more stalkery but its not as creepy somehow)

interestingly i felt that there was more time this CNY, probably cuz it coincided with the weekend so it just felt like an extended weekend. i watched like 3 korean shows in 2 days, 2 on mio home movies and one on chU, i'm seriously hooked. gonna take me awhile to get out of the holiday mood :(

and i haven't finished my marking!! sighhh...