Wednesday, January 30, 2008
singapore is seriously minute. either tt or i'm just superrr lucky. imagine having 5 gatherings clash in one day and still get to randomly meet people you've lost contact with since your pri. sch days on the streets. anw i had a major reunion with people who have walked in and out of the past 18 yrs of my life.on friday during my job orientation, i met the sister of my pri.2 gd fren. someone who has disappeared from my life for 10 years, but still vividly alive in my memories.
sat, i had my sec 2 clique gathering. during which i met my sec 4 clzmate and a fellow ny schmate.
after tt i attended the aep gathering, where we finally caught up with dear lyly! haha. she hasn't changed much. except for the dyed hair kw calls 'beautiful'. hahaha. man..i hadn't expect the aep class to be so active. we seem to have had quite a few gatherings alr, in a short span of 2 weeks. keeps me in touch with the art world. i like tt. haha. oh and dear shum brought her gang of ny aep-ers along! so i got to see karen chen, eileen and meisan! =D
oh yes! and while we were scouting for a cosy location for catching up, i met mrs seah! my fav. tchr in pri sch!!! even though she didn't recognize me, it was a humongous pleasant surprise coz i never thought i'd get to see her again since the last time i visited her in sec 3. and she's still as youthful n charismatic ^^
supposed to have a13 n 411 gathering after tt. but i went for oac gahtering. haha yea and the guys dun really look very different. except mabbe for a few. haha it was interesting listenin to all the ns stories. but i crave to do something ezoac together soon! like cycling in ubin or playing ultimate at the beach. especially now when i'm working in sentosa, i keep getting reminded of the times we spent there every time i pass the places we once left a mark.
a very tranquil beach. but i'm surrounded by the waves tt keep jerking my memories.
a toast to the sea! posted @ 11:55 PM
Friday, January 25, 2008
i dislike the feeling of laying on the bed with eyes wide opened and staring at the ceiling. it makes me feel even more alone than i already am, isolated in a room with one empty bed. and my eyes start scanning the room, then when i see the photos at the side of my bed, i start thinking about things. and i start feeling emo. =Xi miss 06 n 07!
posted @ 12:52 AM
Thursday, January 24, 2008
sentosa...my new home in the weeks to come. (:
posted @ 11:28 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2008
two days before i become officially unemployed, i realise that the laptop i've been staring at for the past week and 3 days is a tablet pc. i hyperventilate and go crazy.posted @ 12:50 AM
Friday, January 18, 2008
thursdays and fridays are my happy days! =Di think you really derive a lot of satisfaction when you see your students responding to what you've painstakingly tried to convey. and i can't think of any other job (at the moment) that presents you with such interesting situations to deal with every day.
i realised routine lifestyle has become ingrained in my life. no matter how much i wish to experience diversities once in a while, routines are still much sought after especially when your brain is so drained of ideas of what to do the next day. you can get sick of freedom sometimes. but even in routines, there can be little surprises that jolts your mundane day. i like such surprises (:
classes, like all things in life, have polars. some can be so agonizing and devillish you wish to chain them up and hang them on the rooftop (ok bad example); but those hair-tearing situations are only there to make heartwarming moments even more diabetic.
i guess these past 2 weeks of relief teaching has expanded my vision a little. i'm even reconsidering if i should reconsider teaching as a career. haha. it isn't that bad and teaching isn't such a boring job afterall. but then again, its only been 2 weeks, too short to tell.
its dumb how i just realised how invincible time is. it's the only thing in this world that can't be stopped.
distance has tamed my heart.
posted @ 10:41 AM
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
i love catching up with friends! (:
happy birthday yingxu! (: posted @ 7:15 AM
Sunday, January 13, 2008
i have effectively done nothing work-related over the entire weekend. in fact, other than sleeping, eating, being a couch potato, meeting up with my frens and laughing as hongwei got his hair chopped off, i did nothing else constructive.yayy one more week of teaching! actually i wouldn't mind staying longer since i get paid and the hrs are comparatively short. but just to comfort myself, YAYY one more week of agony! =D
posted @ 10:50 PM
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Great sense of achievement today! =D maybe it does get better with experience. Or maybe it was the people involved. Whichever, I’m glad to have gotten the attention and co-operation of the classes today. =) It’s a wonderful feeling when you see them not frowning at you but enjoying themselves. At least I think they did. And I did too. ^^Painting together with the sec 4s today made me feel like a student again. Back in the artroom in ny, crazy-ing away with the GAP pple; talking back to mrs teo and getting hit on the head by her or trying to squirm out of a sudden embrace by her, which often makes us end up feeling violated; climbing over the gate at night, earning the gazes of appalled passengers on the buses and sightseers at the bustop. Coursework awaits them! This is very exciting! XD
posted @ 5:13 PM
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
how exhausting. now i truely believe in paybacks in life. being a teacher really isn't an easy task and somehow we're receiving all the misdeeds we did to our teachers back in our rebellious schooling days. haha.but then again, i've never come across a stern art teacher because the nature of the subject ostracizes that trait. even if being fierce gets the students to listen to me, the reluctance on their faces would make me feel no point in continuing to share with them what i love most. why is it that i always have to come across such contradictions and dilemmas in art?
its getting frustrating. and i'm very certain i'm not cut out for teaching. but i'll continue to search for that equilibrium. so that i can balance comfortably and nicely to get the best of and give the best to both worlds, and not laze comfortably in the lush of one pasture while ignoring the presence of the sheeps on the other withered land.
posted @ 11:12 PM
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
This has been one of the most meaningful countdowns I’ve ever had. Actually countdowns have never meant anything special to me apart from the reality check that school is going to start in a few days time. Or maybe the excitement has gradually worn off over the years as I soon realize that the crossing over to a new year does not change anything at all. What is history will still be there to haunt your memory and paint your future.
The only New Year’s Day that I distinctly remember is when I woke up in the morning to find two MacDonald’s hello kitty sitting on my bedside. Coz my sis had spent a night chilling out on the streets of Orchard after the millennium countdown, got bored, and decided to join the queue.
As far as I remember, this is the first time I spent countdown outside and with friends. The last night of and eventful year and the first morning of a year laid with surprises spent together with ezoac, this must indicate a good start to a new year.
We weren’t among the rowdy crowds to cheer our lungs out as the clock struck 12 (in fact, we didn’t even know when it already did), and we weren’t exactly very high even when the fireworks came popping out of the midnight sky. But the darkened surroundings and calm night breeze made me even more aware of the importance of the people who were there with me.
i don't remember feeling so tired during bike hike. or maybe i haven't been on the road for too long and i've forgotten how it feels like. but i loved the adrenalin rush as i graze past my near-death experiences. haha. no, i don't want to die. i just enjoy the taste of psuedo-freedom as the road gets empty by the hour. you feel like you own the streets. haha. oh and visiting wen and getting her to grasp the gist of biking in mere 15mins was fun!
posted @ 5:00 PM