Day 66

Went for piano today and Auntie treated us to doughnuts from Mumsie's Oven.



Thought i'll give visitors to this blog a visual treat =D

Day 65

It was the last day the theaters were showing Jay Chou's Secret, and we mangaged to catch it. Brilliant storyline I'd say, never expected such fare especially since it was his maiden movie, in directorship and scriptwriting. Anyways, the guy's a genius! Touched me with his playing of the piano in the show. Truely a 音乐才子。The movie truely resonated with his love for music, imagine actually weaving a love story using "Chopin's" score. Love+ Music = 凄美。

Day 64

Heard this song by Eva Cassidy playing on tv. Didn't know fever can be so sensual too. Was down with fever on Sunday....and it was nothing like that. Well anyway i found someone in the same boat, my ssb lecturer. Caught in the rain, fever and sore throat. Lol. The ssb lecturer is a very funny old man who danced to some Jap music for us today. He DOESN't have the moves, reminds me of Pinoccio, but you really hv to hand it to him, totally someone who doesn't care abt image or appearance....esp for someone his age. In contrast, another lecturer this week refused webcast saying "with my face like that?...are you sure??" Lol.

Here are the pics of Saturday's Arts Bash, after the fireworks:

Day 63

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the August babies! We went to MOF at Marina Sq to celebrate today!

Day 62

First blading attempt at ECP last night during the post-camp bbq. Ha I took 1 hr to get from the rental shop at the Mac to our pit, then 0.5 hrs back. So it was considered an improvement *self-consolation* Hopefully i'll get a 2nd go soon =)

It was gd seeing all the camp ppl again. Edwin got us OP pencil cases but apparently no one knew it was OP.....many thought it was from the pasar malam...haha, can imagine Edwin's heartache "捶心肝".

~Trying out new things is fun~~

Day 61

86MB of zipped pictures in my inbox, those we took last night at Vivo.






Dim Sum buffet at DragonGate, tea at Hong Kong KimGary Cafe, shopping at Topshop and tons of photo-taking.

I forgot why but we decided to all put the same msn nick that day....."4S3 confused"...some sort of a demonstration of class spirit?? Lol.

Day 60

This has been a busy week.

I concluded my relief teaching stint. It wasn't as distressing as the impression I'd created ealier, that was just one unlucky bad day whereby i got the worst class of the level.

the top 5 highlights...

1) My sticker collection came to gd use....kids really like stickers!!! And story-telling!! I like story-telling!!!
2) I was particularly amused when some kids pulled me into their ghost-hunt, afterwhich even the cleaner lady knew me =X It turned out to be only some storerooms out-of-bounds to them.
3) It's nice hearing the kids call you "Miss T" everyday, evne those who you don't teach or only taught once. Sometimes they called "Mrs. T"....argh! Lol, i always correct those.
4) When some kids holds your hand, saying they wanted to be your 'partner'...Even when your instructions to line up in twos fall on deaf ears, you fail to get angry bcos you're under their spell...
5) I became the "snackiest" teacher around bcos of all the free periods i got. I sat in the staff room all day snacking away on all the packets of biscuits I brought.... Think I must've put on some weight from those.

I'm very thankful to the colleagues who were so forthcoming with their help and re-assurances. In my opinion, the best part of the job was the challenge of having to improvise along the way, coming up with games, lesson plans on the spot. It was a chance to learn, not only teach. You've to out-wit, out-run,out-talk, out-shout the kids, it's really not easy being a teacher. I really salute all pri sch teachers.

As the principal put it, "Classroom mgt is one of the toughest skill to learn. Once you master it, you feel like you can do anything in the world."

Mon night, I managed to squeeze time for a movie with Cat and the rest. It was supposed to be a horror movie called "Alone", but nobody in the theatre screamed. The story was gd, but not fun at all.

Tue night, stayover in school! For nussu flag counting! It was nice cos of the gd company. We had dinner at munchie and breadfast at engin canteen. Totally in love with the dessert stall now....think i'll frequent it often when sch starts. ^^

But i rushed here and there for the week to the result that i fell sick on Nat'l Day n had to stay home. Wasted 1 day =( Luckily in the evening we went to kent rd and I got to play Uno Stacko with the kids....Fun

This was the pic i drew during my free time in the staff room. You can see how much free time was that....

~Cheering for Edward Bacheras~

Day 59

"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea..." Today we did colouring at mwh. Managed to source for many cute fish pictures off the internet and whilst doing it, i came across Spongebob pictures and decided to throw them in as well since technically spongebob and his friends live under the sea. It'll be interesting to see the old folks fish up spongebob characters! Jam said maybe we cld do a jingle whenever someone fishes out SpongeBob :)

Anw only 3 ppl turned up today, Jon, Gary and I. We went for dinner at Kovan hawker which is in my opinion one of the best eating places in Spore (my family likes to go there). Last wk we had Roti Prata...every wk's a different treat aft session... Hmm....*smacks lips*