"I'm still not used to writing date ending with 2010"... this shall be my first thought of year 2010 =D.
New year represents some sort of new life. Yep, is true for me. I guess entering into NIE opens a new phase of experiences. However, I am still struggling to overcome the 'Holiday too idle syndrome'. Guess i need some time to recover, regain the energy.
Okie, some opening good news for the new year=D. Ann zai, well, scores extremely well for her O-level. She said she cried like shit, which I believe is true. I guess she has never been so determined and hardworking before, and probably this is the first time she realizes what is important. Keep up the good job for ur A-level and of course ur Uni life. Sometimes, when I reflect back to my dear little sis secondary study journey, I wonder what's going to happen if she didn't receive the scholarship. How will she be if she's still in Mxxa. We often ridicule she will be the next gangster head if she's still in kt. u can write a story of ur life, ann zai. On how u transform from devil into emm.. angel?Ok, not to that extreme.
This links me to the importance of education. As an educator now, I witness so much difference bet Sg education and my own country. In a country that can't even decide the language of study, how far do u hope your people can do for you. In a country that emphasizes that much on particular race study context and set a stupid moral module that attempts to fail everyone, how loyal do you want your people to be for you. and i guess they dun even bother to accept u as own ppl except when u r needed. Wat ridiculous ' 1 Mxxxxxxa ’ remark, that is so fake. Cherish what you have, sgreanss...dun always complain the foreign talents grab all your goodies. We are just the minority seeking for a new land for some opportunities and yet there are far more durable chances for you that u never realize. Perhaps when you look at another perspective, some complaining and stop comparing, you will find your own land.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Holidayss 2 - The Friends Episode
Ok, I admit I have not played enough. Just few days after the Mc-Sz-Hk trip, Shirlin asked me whether I would like to join the Malacca trip, I answered her immediately ' Yes, why not. Count me in', and here we go.. Malacca- historical city of Malaysia =D...
My memories of Malacca was the Sec 2 School trip, organized by Teacher Tang. A fade scene in my mind of Malacca is the red house, the butterfly farm, durian cendol and a big ship, and of course A Famosa, this one I vividly remember, because the little princess Ann zai spoilt it all...
Historical walk =)
The food episode- we waited 1 hr for the famous satay cellup-_-'. It is worthwhile anyway.
Besides satay cellup, tried also the famous Chicken rice ball, the most original one according to Tc, I like this the most. Durian cendol. Bah Kut Teh, Dim sum.. wuahahaha.
New tourist spot in Malacca- the eye and the tamang sari tower.
Malacca is a nice place with good food and nice view. At the historical area, the A famosa and the gate, I was like return to Macao =)They were all under Portugis , so have the same architectures. Just one thing about Malacca that i dun like, the traffic but I guess they are doing their best to expand the road.
One more thing, I saw more Singaporeans than local tourists in Malacca... Out of 10 cars in the hotel, 9 are Sg cars.. which means Malacca becomes the latest weekend escape spots for Singaporeans? It could be a good news to boost the local tourist industry but I hope it doesn't cause inflation in prices of food and goods there.
Thanks again Tc for organizing this short but sweet trip. I guess the rain doesn't spoil our mood =). Thanks also to the guys who took turns driving the car.
My memories of Malacca was the Sec 2 School trip, organized by Teacher Tang. A fade scene in my mind of Malacca is the red house, the butterfly farm, durian cendol and a big ship, and of course A Famosa, this one I vividly remember, because the little princess Ann zai spoilt it all...
Historical walk =)
The food episode- we waited 1 hr for the famous satay cellup-_-'. It is worthwhile anyway.
Besides satay cellup, tried also the famous Chicken rice ball, the most original one according to Tc, I like this the most. Durian cendol. Bah Kut Teh, Dim sum.. wuahahaha.
New tourist spot in Malacca- the eye and the tamang sari tower.
Malacca is a nice place with good food and nice view. At the historical area, the A famosa and the gate, I was like return to Macao =)They were all under Portugis , so have the same architectures. Just one thing about Malacca that i dun like, the traffic but I guess they are doing their best to expand the road.
One more thing, I saw more Singaporeans than local tourists in Malacca... Out of 10 cars in the hotel, 9 are Sg cars.. which means Malacca becomes the latest weekend escape spots for Singaporeans? It could be a good news to boost the local tourist industry but I hope it doesn't cause inflation in prices of food and goods there.
Thanks again Tc for organizing this short but sweet trip. I guess the rain doesn't spoil our mood =). Thanks also to the guys who took turns driving the car.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Holidayss 1- The Family Episode
The long waited family trip. After the much disappointed Bangkok plan, this Mc-Sz-Hk trip held a great stress over me. I cannot accept another blow if this time the airplane or whatever political chaos or h1n1 pandemic stop my holiday plan. Blessed, i finally brought my family except Jie oversea to Mc-Sz-Hk.
I guess a picture wins over a thousand words... lets just post some holidays pic =). Thx zuan for making these pictures. =)
Oct east --> The wetland garden
Macao-- The historical and entertaining city.
Hong Kong-- the peak n wax museum.
Oct east
There's a lot of lessons and memories for my first oversea family trip. Sometimes I may be too anxious to show them what to see during the trip that I overlooked my parents esp my father's needs. Free n Easy is tiring n requires lots of walking which may not be suitable for elderly. This is one thing I need to take note. Anyway, is a nice trip and I enjoy listening to my father's great discovery of sz life which I never noticed during the last trip, 'How come Sz never has fatso. The fattest is your mummy', he said. =)
I guess a picture wins over a thousand words... lets just post some holidays pic =). Thx zuan for making these pictures. =)
Oct east --> The wetland garden
Macao-- The historical and entertaining city.
Hong Kong-- the peak n wax museum.
Oct east
There's a lot of lessons and memories for my first oversea family trip. Sometimes I may be too anxious to show them what to see during the trip that I overlooked my parents esp my father's needs. Free n Easy is tiring n requires lots of walking which may not be suitable for elderly. This is one thing I need to take note. Anyway, is a nice trip and I enjoy listening to my father's great discovery of sz life which I never noticed during the last trip, 'How come Sz never has fatso. The fattest is your mummy', he said. =)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
How Many Times...
No invigilation duty today, after that day the invi mistake, now i felt so odd to go for any invi duty. Luckily, there's only one more day left.
1 student sent me her blogspot add, in her blog posts, most of it mingled around her messy life, her broken family, her boring life. At that instant, I felt so much to reply her; life is not boring. U determine ur own life, although u might from a broken family, but it shouldn't block ur way towards pursuing the lilfe u want. I hope she won't blame her mother anymore, because from wat I see, her mother still loves her alot. When something happens in life, we like to put the fault on others, how many times do we really thought about our own mistake?
Talked about 'the gal' that day. I knew my fren will stay by her. Alot of times, frens told me this is none of my business. If he really wants to go bec to her side, it is none of my concern also, I'm not his parents or family. I told my fren, if one day, they 2 are really together, I won't give them any blessings. I said that. I'm not purposely want to make my fren life worse, I knew he will feel bad because of him, I hate the gal so much. But when I truely think abt it, it is no longer totally because of my good fren, is because of the gal's character. Some mistakes in life cannot be fixed. When once there's someone give u so much concern and loves which u reject and even hurt the person, and now you want to get it back. Sorry, I will only look down at you.
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These days have been quite free, not much school duties. I hate gg out the room early in the morning if i'm not required to go school, wk would ask:' today no sch again, so nice to be a teacher, so free.' Not sure is it teaching trained my EQ, I did not show my temper, just rebuke him that since he felt that so, why not take up teaching? He just barely answered because he is not interested.... Always, people like to compare and envy of others, how many times do we really cherish of what we have? I knew every jobs has its difficulty, so I never give any sarcastic comments to their jobs since I didn't even try of these jobs. As teacher, I need to overcome the fear of speaking in fronts of others, so many times, I need to control my temper when dealing with groups of monkeys. So many times, I need to think of ways to encounter questions from students and even teachers and not to say crack my brain for more creative lessons for students. When late in night I'm still preparing for next day lesson while others who claim they work from 9 to 6 which to them is consider so much hardworking than teachers is playing and surfing nets, how many of you really realize I'm busy, teachers are busy, and more, we do not have OT. Please stop comparing, that will only make your own life suffering.
Reading 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' at the moment. The book teaches us how to become rich. But wat more, I feel that this book is actually teaching us how to look at your own life, what do you want for ur life and how to look at people characteristic. The book challenges the belief that bright kids with professional jobs will be rich. When I'm reading it, I realized that my school education does not even teach me about money. We have the belief from young, from secondary sch when we are choosing elective subjects. The brighter ones will go to science stream, the not so bright or so called useless kids go to the literature class. School trains the brighter one to become professional people, but not rich people. In one of the chapter which Robert wrote about 'Work to learn; Don't work for money', that talked about a writer who has a great talent in writing, but her novels just cannot sell. When Robert recommended her to take up selling and marketing course, she rebuked that she is a highly educated, professional trained writer that do not required selling course, like a low standard course to help her. Sometimes, our pride leads us to dead road, it blinds us from looking clearly for opportunities. Highly educated doesn't mean you are top of others. Highly educated doesn't mean you do not need further learning.
Look at things at different ways. Do not block your own views. =D
1 student sent me her blogspot add, in her blog posts, most of it mingled around her messy life, her broken family, her boring life. At that instant, I felt so much to reply her; life is not boring. U determine ur own life, although u might from a broken family, but it shouldn't block ur way towards pursuing the lilfe u want. I hope she won't blame her mother anymore, because from wat I see, her mother still loves her alot. When something happens in life, we like to put the fault on others, how many times do we really thought about our own mistake?
Talked about 'the gal' that day. I knew my fren will stay by her. Alot of times, frens told me this is none of my business. If he really wants to go bec to her side, it is none of my concern also, I'm not his parents or family. I told my fren, if one day, they 2 are really together, I won't give them any blessings. I said that. I'm not purposely want to make my fren life worse, I knew he will feel bad because of him, I hate the gal so much. But when I truely think abt it, it is no longer totally because of my good fren, is because of the gal's character. Some mistakes in life cannot be fixed. When once there's someone give u so much concern and loves which u reject and even hurt the person, and now you want to get it back. Sorry, I will only look down at you.
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These days have been quite free, not much school duties. I hate gg out the room early in the morning if i'm not required to go school, wk would ask:' today no sch again, so nice to be a teacher, so free.' Not sure is it teaching trained my EQ, I did not show my temper, just rebuke him that since he felt that so, why not take up teaching? He just barely answered because he is not interested.... Always, people like to compare and envy of others, how many times do we really cherish of what we have? I knew every jobs has its difficulty, so I never give any sarcastic comments to their jobs since I didn't even try of these jobs. As teacher, I need to overcome the fear of speaking in fronts of others, so many times, I need to control my temper when dealing with groups of monkeys. So many times, I need to think of ways to encounter questions from students and even teachers and not to say crack my brain for more creative lessons for students. When late in night I'm still preparing for next day lesson while others who claim they work from 9 to 6 which to them is consider so much hardworking than teachers is playing and surfing nets, how many of you really realize I'm busy, teachers are busy, and more, we do not have OT. Please stop comparing, that will only make your own life suffering.
Reading 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' at the moment. The book teaches us how to become rich. But wat more, I feel that this book is actually teaching us how to look at your own life, what do you want for ur life and how to look at people characteristic. The book challenges the belief that bright kids with professional jobs will be rich. When I'm reading it, I realized that my school education does not even teach me about money. We have the belief from young, from secondary sch when we are choosing elective subjects. The brighter ones will go to science stream, the not so bright or so called useless kids go to the literature class. School trains the brighter one to become professional people, but not rich people. In one of the chapter which Robert wrote about 'Work to learn; Don't work for money', that talked about a writer who has a great talent in writing, but her novels just cannot sell. When Robert recommended her to take up selling and marketing course, she rebuked that she is a highly educated, professional trained writer that do not required selling course, like a low standard course to help her. Sometimes, our pride leads us to dead road, it blinds us from looking clearly for opportunities. Highly educated doesn't mean you are top of others. Highly educated doesn't mean you do not need further learning.
Look at things at different ways. Do not block your own views. =D
Sunday, November 1, 2009
In Sunday Mood- My dream 1
I spent this weekend mostly on updating my blog, read on books and magazines and then I came across this book ' The 100 Places a person should go', chinese version which i bought in Shenzhen.
When always we were asked about our dreams, most will say: to travel around the world, however, in the end, how many of us could really achieve it? When in 20s, we said this is the time to start work hard, earn money and prepare for our dream. In 30s, we start building up a new family,and this dream gradually moves away slowly from our mind. In 40s, our life mingles around family and children. 50s approaching and comes 60s when our physical no longer supports our dreams.
It sounds so sad when we look back our life journey, most of our dreams are not achieved. But, to look at the other side, dreams support our life. It makes our life wonderful and colorful. I believe the process counts, not the result.
So, I have a dream, which is to visit the Top 10 destinations in my mind, the list goes as below.
rocky mountain Kilimanjaro
Hokaido Switzerland
Vermont New Zealand
Maldives Niagara Falls
2 more--- to be continued.
When always we were asked about our dreams, most will say: to travel around the world, however, in the end, how many of us could really achieve it? When in 20s, we said this is the time to start work hard, earn money and prepare for our dream. In 30s, we start building up a new family,and this dream gradually moves away slowly from our mind. In 40s, our life mingles around family and children. 50s approaching and comes 60s when our physical no longer supports our dreams.
It sounds so sad when we look back our life journey, most of our dreams are not achieved. But, to look at the other side, dreams support our life. It makes our life wonderful and colorful. I believe the process counts, not the result.
So, I have a dream, which is to visit the Top 10 destinations in my mind, the list goes as below.
rocky mountain Kilimanjaro
Hokaido Switzerland
Vermont New Zealand
Maldives Niagara Falls
2 more--- to be continued.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Why Men stay with Miss Wrong
I read this article in recent CLEO, 'why men stay with miss wrong', and in my mind, straight appearing one of my good fren image, with a gal that seems far from perfect from him.
They are not together, not couple btw. But i just cannot accept the fact that after so many things happen, he still stand with her. I admit i'm someone who will not change opinion easily. When my six sense tells me something wrong with this person, dun expect me to be fren with her. Even thought how well she was in front of others.
When you are the one once weeping in front of me, telling me how it hurts that she did this and that to you, please don't expect me to believe in her again, saying things like she had changed, she is just indecisive in relationships matters.
You may be surprise, but women that i hate most are not those bossy, self-serving or overdo in make up as wat mention in CLEO. Yes, they may be irritating but not to the extend that cause me to hate them. But those hypocrite, act pity gals are.
When a right guy/gal met with a wrong gal/guy, they have different poles charge. This is why they are attracted to each other. One day, they will split, when one party neutralizes another. This is a vicious cycle.
The right couple will have same charge, they are not ligated together because you knew they can stand on their own with each has different personalities and characters. They will stand along side by side supporting each other.
They are not together, not couple btw. But i just cannot accept the fact that after so many things happen, he still stand with her. I admit i'm someone who will not change opinion easily. When my six sense tells me something wrong with this person, dun expect me to be fren with her. Even thought how well she was in front of others.
When you are the one once weeping in front of me, telling me how it hurts that she did this and that to you, please don't expect me to believe in her again, saying things like she had changed, she is just indecisive in relationships matters.
You may be surprise, but women that i hate most are not those bossy, self-serving or overdo in make up as wat mention in CLEO. Yes, they may be irritating but not to the extend that cause me to hate them. But those hypocrite, act pity gals are.
When a right guy/gal met with a wrong gal/guy, they have different poles charge. This is why they are attracted to each other. One day, they will split, when one party neutralizes another. This is a vicious cycle.
The right couple will have same charge, they are not ligated together because you knew they can stand on their own with each has different personalities and characters. They will stand along side by side supporting each other.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
My Sister's Keeper
OK, there's gone my blog layout. I lost all my current fav movie, books column etc etc. This will take some of my time to redesign my blog, beautify it. So, just bear with its empty shell for a period of time.
Is there a theory whereby if u sleep more, u get more tired? The last weekend was more like a sleeping week to me. I slept almost 1 hr plus on Fri nite, reluctantly wake up for a supper and bac to dreamland again. Sat nap around 2 hr plus.. which is a lot to me because I normally take only half n hr nap. BUT, the main point is, I still feel restless.. err.. izit a sign of aging? should not be that fast right?
Watched 'My Sister's Keeper' last Saturday. I have not read the novel before, without knowing any synopsis of the story, just based on Ann's good comment of the novel. These days, I have to trust Ann zai, although she might not read the lot of storybooks before age-13, but after coming to Singapore to study, I have to say, believe in her choice. The movie tells the story of a family struggling to cope with a child illness while presenting different points of views from the family members. A tear-jerking movie. The sadness in the movie goes so deep into your heart that you can feel the pain of Kate and her family.
The strength to overcome a sickness is not easy. Often, we would rather die than suffering mentally and physically. Especially for a young child, is cruel. What is still in your heart is the hope of recovering and the support from your loves.
I had been telling myself, even though some days work and stress from school is so great that discourages me a lot. I am so fortunate to be still able to work and teach the children. I am so fortunate that I can continue color my life. I am lucky I do not need to work under the sun. You can learn alot from movies, novels and surrounding. Even though we knew this deep in our heart to cherish our life and your loves one. But most of the times, we just overlook this importance.
Is there a theory whereby if u sleep more, u get more tired? The last weekend was more like a sleeping week to me. I slept almost 1 hr plus on Fri nite, reluctantly wake up for a supper and bac to dreamland again. Sat nap around 2 hr plus.. which is a lot to me because I normally take only half n hr nap. BUT, the main point is, I still feel restless.. err.. izit a sign of aging? should not be that fast right?
Watched 'My Sister's Keeper' last Saturday. I have not read the novel before, without knowing any synopsis of the story, just based on Ann's good comment of the novel. These days, I have to trust Ann zai, although she might not read the lot of storybooks before age-13, but after coming to Singapore to study, I have to say, believe in her choice. The movie tells the story of a family struggling to cope with a child illness while presenting different points of views from the family members. A tear-jerking movie. The sadness in the movie goes so deep into your heart that you can feel the pain of Kate and her family.
The strength to overcome a sickness is not easy. Often, we would rather die than suffering mentally and physically. Especially for a young child, is cruel. What is still in your heart is the hope of recovering and the support from your loves.
I had been telling myself, even though some days work and stress from school is so great that discourages me a lot. I am so fortunate to be still able to work and teach the children. I am so fortunate that I can continue color my life. I am lucky I do not need to work under the sun. You can learn alot from movies, novels and surrounding. Even though we knew this deep in our heart to cherish our life and your loves one. But most of the times, we just overlook this importance.
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