nights out

been coming home late and going to work early this week, and i'm pretty exhausted! bleagh. 

the nights out have been pretty good though:)

yest dinner w mel n taariq was nice n cheap, and i loved the post dinner walk n talk w riq cuz we have comfortably serious/lighthearted convos which are always so real. and i met jo for dinner today, zo n charm were sick so i forced her to meet me cuz i dressed for the occasion HAHA. it was quite refreshing! like haven't had such a long comfotable evening with a girlfriend in quite long. we talked and talked till we both got a little sleepy (might've been the beer) but it wasn't like we were gonna run out of things to say. YAY for sincere conversations! <3 <3

INCEPTION TOMORROW!!!!!

really hope i can wake up tmr for sports day/ national day celebrations! rarrr

aniyohaseyo!

just came back from shermy wormy's 21st bday party! (daryl's such an efficient photo uploader!) THEME: EVERYTHING KOREAN! it was a really nice simple dinner-then-games prog, with nice personal touches (our on nametags in korean, prepared slots for us to write on her bday card) and it was a small comfortable group la. like bout 20 ppl, and we had a blast!! thanks to vee's hilarious games and everyone being so sporting. oh and the food was surprisingly awesome! i didn't know they could cook so well (one of the cooks was my sister haha, which explains my wonderment). HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHERM:)

tmr no sch cuz youth day holiday.. going to meet gwen at carl's junior at big splash to do marking!!! hehe. seriously need company to get me motivated, even tho i know i'll suffer if i keep procrastinating. must faster clear!!!!

things i've been dying to tell you all week!

Term 3 Week 1 was a blast! i mean it literally, as in, it was so packed my brain's all saturated with stuff i wasn't able to pen down cuz i was coming home so late and had to wake up so early. YES i forsook fb for a whole 3 days! HAHA. seems like forever (i know, terrible right) and i'm blabbering now cuz i haven't blogged for that long.

first things first! 

UPDATE: 

tues interview went well! it was this nice caucasian lady interviewer, an assc prof, who was friendly and didn't make me more stupidly nervous than i already was. she asked general guiding qns which weren't annoyingly vague (e.g. tell me about yourself) nor unreasonable (e.g. name the ethical issues surrounding the Human Genome Project). i did prepare for that last question by the way, cuz i was freaking out that much in the car on the way there, caught in that terrible PIE jam caused by 2 accidents. i called poor michelle and she could amazingly tell me some of the ethical stuff we learnt during the bio lectures we slept thru. ANYWAY i should know the results next week, or later.

let's go LAURENT BERNARD'S @ robertson quay! because the chocolate desserts there are to die for, like seriously, i hardly can tell the difference btw good and excellent but these sweet treats are to die for. yes i sound like an over-enthusiastic food critic now but it's awesome seriously let's go when i get my next pay. YUMMMMM.

i went there with my SERVE babes on thurs, we hardly meet up but we always have memorable outings. like has to be awesome food or cool (mostly ulu) location or doing fun stuff. like how we had sashimi @ sagisawa which was as thick as my fingers! also at robertson quay, fyi.

oh and i had udders at the ulu part of bukit timah on wed! siglap one nicer venue but saw new weird flavours at bukit. it was aft yummy simpang-like dinner with cherrie jingyan esther at clementi area. we divulged alot of secrets HAHAHAH. it was awesome catching up with them la:) just that we kinda couldn't find the bus stop which had the buses that would bring us home, so in the end i burnt another hole in my wallet taking cab home:/

OK AND ROYALS CAFE@SIGLAP HAS SURPRISINGLY DELICIOUS CHICKEN SOUP. order the set meal!

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

week 8

this week was exam week! not particularly stressful because we're just invigilating and marking the scripts, but it's so tiring! like seriously, we gotta stay awake for 1.5 hours (no toilet break) just staring at the students. and that's after 3 hours of block marking in the morning... 

but i'm not complaining, cuz this means hols are coming soon!!!!! and that i don't have to rush syllabus like crazy anymore...

i'm playing netball tmr with my juniors at some free and easy carnival... i miss the sport, i miss playing:) caught up with my juniors recently and really wished i could've been there for their season this year :/  but well i'm glad we still get along fine and that their passion for netball hasn't dampened one bit! it's infectious, almost. thinking if i should join bedok training (the netball club mel's in) when their league season ends, but i dunno if i can commit... see how it goes!

hope i can wake up tmr, game's at 9am. after that it's shopping with nicole!! 

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

:) 

 

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!

the way we are

 

 

hot plate dinner at zoe's followed by nwuaghing session on the unclean side of her bed (she refused to let us touch her CLEAN bed, we're all squashed at her sister's bed). shall wait for the photos to be up on fb. and my reputation shall be ruined (again, as usual. sigh)


love u babes;)

quit your job and climb a tree, one with hearts instead of leaves

 

the first home-grown flower from my mum's rose plant!! so pretty

went for sentosa trip with my class on tues. OMG. my legs were like jelly after walking from the drop off point to the outside of universal studios to the merlion to butterfly park to pick up point. here, pictures tell a thousand words (but cannot fully describe my exhaustion)

 

 

 can you see the neat row of children on the left? yea, that's another (well-behaved) class. you see the one fidgeting and posing? that's my class.

tried to take class photo with them, but they are really, really restless. but ironically i'm the one who looks distracted.

finally i decided i'm the one who has to look at the camera, and this boy walks over to complain to me about his friend walking over his bag (or smth)

 

okay time for some close ups of my cute students - check out the cute boys (yes there is a lack of proper eye candy at my workplace, see what i resorted to)

 

 (actually the red cap person is a girl, she just cut her hair)

 

 

<3 <3 <3

they look so much cuter when i'm NOT teaching them in class.

exciting new things!

this is my new top i bought for CNY! so festive right! babe on the left is my all-time camwhore best-y cuz we look good in photos tgt :D

 we went to andre's on 3rd day of CNY for lunch and pictionary and sincerely had a good time:) this is melyssa my ever-changing and mia-ing bff. i think she was going for the katy perry look. only u can carry such scary brows and look cool la mel

 

this is just to show off my grey lenses!!! not bad right. but quite uncomfortable at first. but not obvious unless i keep opening my eyes like that.

 

see when i take picture with my handsome brother you can't tell my eye colour's fake right? haha

anyway i wore it for the first time on sat during the MIMBY event which ryan and LL came for (i think they secretly hate me but they're too nice to admit it)

oh well. sorry ryan there was another pic which u looked better in but i look better in this one! haha
 

 

my hair smells like strawberry bubble gum

i'm using my sister's hair conditioner but i think i better buy my own before she realizes it's depleting faster than usual! it smells really yummy tho :D

went out with yani and her friend for coffee and late evening chat, and i realised that i must seem really YOUNG to the world of working adults. it doesn't help that i was pretty tired and i started being enthu and animated to engage myself in the conversation, which looks rather bimbotic and YOUNG actually.

but honestly i like being the age i am now, and i don't think i want or need to act older than my age to get along with my colleagues or friends of colleagues. but what i want and need is to be and LOOK professional when i'm working. now that's an image i'm not too sure how to create....

sore throat

i'm losing my voice! blame it on my unhealthy lifestyle during the long hols - late nights, crazy diets, etc. and totally did not help when i screamed at my kids today :( i'm such a terrible teacher i know! like real pro teachers they don't even have to raise their voice to get their class' attention (but then again, they don't send the pro teachers to the moderate IQ class, and such pupils aren't as sensitive to the teacher)

had some crazy shopping with taariq and wan ting at tamp!! we met for dinner (food court, Thank Goodness) then we went round buying stuff i've been waiting to get

1. working clothes! TM had G2000 bazaar, bought $19 blouses *screams for joy*

2. my earphones!!! yay it's this green btw

3. coloured contacts! they didn't have brown in my degree so i got grey and green, 2 for 2, shared with taariq. only monthly tho:/

4. strawberry milk bubble tea. haha ok so i wasn't dying to get this but i wanted to add another item in red so the list looks nice:D 

okie doke my clothes are done washing so i'm gonnahang them and sleeeeep! gotta wake up early for remedial tmr :( 

 

fascinating!

 

busy day today and i am seriously sleep deprived! amazing how my contact lenses and adrenaline could last me from 8am-1am. 

but it was good, especially the outing with untouchables-cum-farewell for lima. it's pretty amazing how much could be said in one night. and i'm again reminded why they're called untouchables - all these rich and intelligent people!! what's more amazing is how we can all converse even after about a year of not meeting up.

oh and badminton with ryan h was pretty cool too, he corrected my badminton and i think i did improve after about 3 hours of play. thank you ryan!

ok totally falling asleep at the com, update soooooooooooooooon!

sooo dead

 

dunno why i've been sleeping so late this whole week:( 

been home late every night so horrible right. keep waking up late and i'm (as usual) behind on my marking, my poor students.

monday - stayed back in sch till 9

tuesday - went vee's place 

wednesday - outing with gwen!! <3 ECP

thursday - marking again. we ordered macdelivery!

friday - CYCLING DAY. song prac, meet gals for dinner

saturday - training@VJC, badminton w Ryan, reflection CG, slacker-untouchables-girls-outing@ECP!

sunday - TAK@945, service, YSS, floorball

 monday - the cycle starts again!!

awesome. the colours make me feel better already. ok time for me to do my TYMT letter:)

    

  

 

Happily Bruised Up

I've rekindled my love for East Coast and Katong!!! Yesterday i played host to my 3 friends from the west - Cherrie, Esther and Jin Yan, my awesome group mates from PLAYMAX!! (oops haven't blogged about that event yet). They stay pretty far west, like jurong and chua chu kang, so it's understandable that they've not been spending much time in the happening east-side of Singapore. So when we decided to go to ECP it wasn't me being lazy to travel ok, i really wanted to show them the exciting side of the island:D

We were supposed to go cycling after we had our subway lunch but we ended up going in-line skating *WOOHOO* i love roller blading!!! but unfortunately my dear friends didn't have much experience skating, so we were struggling for most of the 2 hours HAHAHA ie. walking more than actually skating. Until we discovered this awesome way of going like a little faster (than the painful snail pace we were going cuz Cherrie had never skated before, but she was doing great for a first timer la) - one person would skate while the other person just holds onto the skating person's bag and be pulled along!! yay smart right? that was what i thought until i lost balance and fell sprawling face first on the ground..... ARGH SO EMBARRASSING!! i mean cherrie who was holding onto me fell too, but she fell quite glam-ly at least! like seriously i landed on my stomach in the middle of the cycling track. cherrie felt really bad la but honestly skating with people who can't skate isn't fun if no one falls. and so that's how i got my bruises - they're really "orh" you know! (as in "orh-ceh" or blue-black) i've a really painful one on my hip and both my knees too, even though we were wearing knee pads. which is ok, i don't mind getting bruises (not too many or in obvious places of course) cuz it means i've been out and about, and anyway they usually can't be seen since i got my tan back haha.

After we returned the skates 40 minutes late (which the boss VERY kindly said it's ok he wouldn't charge us the $7 for the 3rd hour) we rested at macs before heading to the seaside. i think we missed the sunset while we were inside macs:( but playing at the beach was still pretty fun, we made sand animals HAHA a really cute turtle and a teddy-bear looking monkey, then decided to hop into the water and discovered it was actually warmer in the water than on land with the increasingly strong sea breeze we were getting. of course when we stepped out of the water we were freezing la, but before we did that we spent quite awhile in the choppy and very dirty waters. Like seriously it was littered with all sorts of nonsense - plastic bags, snack wrappers, plastic covers - and the water was so murky i couldn't see my hand if it was just beneath the surface. Somehow we found ourselves surrounded with lots of loose seaweed and leaves while standing on rough stones in the shallower end, which wasn't very shallow since it was high tide. And being on the receiving end of the waves wasn't exactly comfortable, it was really quite strong and we found ourselves having to brace ourselves for every wave, sometimes having to catch our breath after being hit, which wasn't pleasant cuz then you'd get a taste of the salty sea water.

Yet despite all these unfavourable conditions we actually had alot of fun in the water - we sat on the shallow end being battered by the waves, picked up the bigger stones from the very rocky beach and competed to see who could throw the furthest, throwing up our arms in glee like we were in a roller coaster everytime a big wave came to bash us. And when the sand in our pants became unbearable from being constantly washed ashore while sitting, we stood in the deeper waters (not too deep of course, es and cherr aren't too tall haha) and walked in a row along the shore, jumping at every big wave and tickling each other with the stray seaweed. when we finally came up out of the water when we felt too drenched and salted from the sea, we had like a million and one attempts at a nice jumpshot - like really, we were very persistent! sigh, but it was difficult to get the timing right with jy's lag camera, but at least we managed to have nice group shots!:) shall put it up when they're uploaded (it'll be up on fb first of course)

So we found that it was getting pretty dark after camwhoring by the sea, and walked over to the showers to wash up and change. and yes, you guessed it, we camwhored there too! Esther had this bright idea of using the mirror to take group photos (we found that the mirror was too murky to actually take reflective shots) with the help with my long arm to press the button heh. Until we figured we could just set the camera on timer! HAHA too bad the camera ran out of battery so we only had like ONE nice shot from the timer shots:/

Then we walked and took a bus down to Katong to eat Katong Laksa!! YAYY :D too bad it was late so most of the shops were closed, and the laksa shop itself was pretty empty. nevertheless the west-end ladies wanted to walk around to see the place cuz *gasp* they've never been to Katong before!!! Es kept saying how it looks like malaysia haha but i think these shophouses are one of a kind. we walked along the lanes peering into darkened shop windows, mostly only the food places were open, and the interesting small shops were all closed by then:( We passed the famous 5 star chicken rice stall and saw this small shop across the road,it had a quirky name "oompa loompa" and more importantly there was bright light shining thru its shop window! So desperate we were to enter a nice quirky shop in katong that we crossed the road and went to take a look. Turns out it was a gourmet chocolate shop which does customized choc designs too, and after chatting to the nice sales girl and her boss aka her brother, we discovered they stayed in the west too! like really close to cherrie, and they even went to nearby schools! so they had this nice long west-end chat while i chose ZO cards (they've such nice stock) and drooled over the chocolates on display. The boss was really good at PR and treated us to a piece of home-made choc, it was really good! In the end we all ended up purchasing some for ourselves (the boss gave us all 10% discount), I bought 4 for my parents who just returned from malaysia. After that yummy experience i was ready to go home, shower and rest my bruised body, but first i had to ensure the 3 west girls didn't lose their way home! Amazingly the boss offered them a ride home in his lorry, and more amazingly they accepted. No worries they got home safe, and before i reached home myself. (I decided to endure a long bus ride home cuz i spent my EZlink top up money on the choc and couldn't afford a train ride home)

After a long day out, it was just great to be able to shower (not before unloading my day's activities on my poor brother's aching ears while giving him a much needed shoulder rub) and sink into bed, slipping into a much deserved sleep...

Thanks for an awesome time babes, looking forward to seeing you this saturday!:)