Went to watch "27 Dresses" with del and tab on tues after work. =)
So good to be seeing them both again!! It was as though the last time we saw each other was the day before.
What can i say about the movie. Hmm... To avoid spoiling it for the rest of you, i shall just say that it was sweet and entertaining. Watch it with your close girl friend and laugh through it or watch it with your guy friend holding hands. Its that sort of movie. Candy sweet.
You can so tell that i'm not in the mood to blog anymore. This always happens. Especially when i'm not in a good mood. Someone just had to spoil my day by acting as perfect strangers.
Just finished reading this jodi piccoult book-"My sister's keeper".
It is such a beautiful book so beautifully written that it actually brings tears to my eyes. The story about how you give up your identity, your life, to live the life of someone whose life overshadows yours just because of the fact that she's dying. A story about morals and ethics entwined together in such a entricate manner. So touching! Highly recommended!
The quotes that are in the books are also very thought provoking and they strike a cord within me for the absolute amount of truth that they contain. "People you love can surprise you everyday" and "...that maybe who we are ain't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it." Just 2 that i picked out from the book when i was reading it last night. Her books are so well written that i think i will plan to collect all of her books or to read all of them. A type of story that requires slow brewing of ideas and thoughts, not a book to rush through at all.
=)
And its monday today. A long day. ARGH!!
TODAY!! I met up with another dear dear person. My jiejie! =)
This girl ar... go America for so many years now then come back!
So glad to see her again today. Nothing beats cousin-love. xp
Met up for squash at kallang courts.
Seeing her for the first time in prolly 2 years didnt come as a shock to me. More or less the same skinny girl that i know. haha. We can't be more similar even though she's so much older than me. Well obviously we decided that fat legs run in the family. HAHAH!!
Yupo! So squash squash at the super ex courts for around 1hr plus(i win!) before we complain of hunger pangs. Took long time to decide and went to marina square to makan! The same as the last time (which is like 2 yrs ago) You still owe me those pics!!! Long time overdue!! Had lunch at Imperious Treasures. The food was blah. Alright i guess, it didn't suit my taste buds. bleh! Then walked around before having dessert at Changing Appetites. =) Nice nice cheesecake! I shall attempt to go there on tues when they have a 50% off all cheesecakes promotion! Say, tues is a good day to go dating. Just a thought.
Yeah so spent some quality time together today. So happy. =) At least we both made the effort to meet up and catch up. She still refuses to tell me if she has a bf though. Lousy cousin don't wanna tell me. HMPH!
Now another thing that happened today...
See, after i took up the teaching job, i've had thought about things such as "what will happen if i see my students outside while i'm shopping/doing something else..." and today i got my ans.
Alighted from the bus at the kallang bus stop and was greeted with an entire bus-stop of students!! HAHA. They of course recognise me so i had to grin and say hello. hahaha!! While they gape at me and mutter among themselves "Isn't that the geog teacher/miss lim??!!". Cuteness. I felt a little like an animal caught in the headlight of the oncoming vehicle though.
Tml meeting tab. =) YES! and i saw del today too. One person in his grp said hi to me. I can't figure out who's that partly because he had shaven head. lol! sorry... but u all look the same on first look. heh heh.
Would love to meet up with you. ARGH!!! but HOW!!! =( Don't like army. yuck!
Yup so about ytd.
It was the day that i spent with a very dear friend, to say goodbye to him perhaps forever. He says no but its so hard to say that i should not have any expectations.
Just fated to meet up with him because it happens that i had the day off so i could spend the whole day with him.
Didn't feel irritated following him around while he does his errands, even going all the way to orchard.
2 years.
I'm glad i know you. So many many things that we have got through together. The whole mess of feelings, the hurt and all but yet emerging out of it as still great friends. Its hard but i guess we did it. You were there when i needed someone and in some sense, you taught me patience. You taught me a great many things and i would like to think that i had some part to play in your personal development too? haha. I sure did!!
You made me feel special too. The card that you gave me for my birthday together with that soft toy? I still have it and you had addressed it to "someone close to my heart". Thanks for seeing me as such a dear friend. To know that meeting up with me probably for the last time before you go on to perth for further education is on the top of your to-do-list, i feel touched and significant. Thanks for always making the effort to make your feelings and emotions known to me, i feel privileged to be included. Being one of those who can listen to you play the piano and sing, while i hog the piano chair squeezing on it beside you.
Well well. Some people come into our lives and leave their footprints in out hearts. Singwei you are one of those people. Thankyou for the 2 years of your life that you have chosen to share with me. I will surely miss you.
And you owe me the pics!! hahaha.
i want to blog about today but i'm so tired. another time. busy weekend ahead. argh.
I am quite pissed off today you know.
I mean what's your prob la. Came and took my students away from their class just because you are selling stuffs. Come on la it is their curriculum time not their recess time. Not just that, you have no sense of respect too. Just what is your point in telling my students things about what i was wearing? Do you even know the whole story? Was it in your place to accuse me? Keep your school patriotism to yourself. You need not preach to me. I don't give a damn about it. Rub the salt into your own wound thankyou. Just keep out of my face. Its not as though you were polite. Yeah i'm rolling my eyes.
Today took relief PE. HAhah of all things. Thank goodness i had my pe kit with me. Not ideal clothing but then again what choice do i have? Enjoyed myself quite abit messing about in the sun and also ahem.. trying to get a healthy tan too. lol. Soccer, monkey, captainsball, sickbay, wound washing, concerned with blood and wound, volleyball, yelling at students to get some vitD and stop slacking in the shade and canteen. Hopeless kids. tsk. Pretty fun. =)
So i'm done with development notes but now i've got to do rivers notes. RARR!!! I don't like doing mindmaps. Will someone pls come help me and save my skin? I've got to get it done by TOMORROW. damn it. haiz.
Shopping for guys stuff is terrorizing and traumatizing. Seriously. Why are they such a mah fan gender of the human race??? hhahaha!! I need a fashion adviser for guy's clothes!! I keep going around shaking my head at the sort of clothes available. So not suitable!!! Urgh. The hunt for nice clothes continues...
Mrt broke down today. I take the bus. =)
Okie bye.
later.
I've got not much time here to type much but then again what's new?
Trying to pack as much into my schedule as is possible, trying to meet up with everyone that i have yet to met and so far have not succeeded in meeting everyone. At least i tried. You know it kinda gets tiring after sometime to be the one who has to keep poking people into meeting up? The organiser always gets the most nonsense from everyone and is often mistreated and not given enough respect. BLEH!!
So many many many people i'm missing, whether i have met them recently or not for like a couple of years. And needless to say, a selected few people will forever top this list. No prizes for guessing who. Yes yes i miss you all till my heart even aches. oh yes. SOMETIMES. So if you suddenly get unstoppable twitch in your eye, it is probably due to me missing you. heh.
Wad nonsense i'm talking...
I've had enough taking disappointments after disappointments in my stride. Starting to think that maybe i've had enough. I hate the feeling. I really do. Coupled with that are high expectations. And my own unsatisfied feelings. Maybe that's the reason i keep finding things to occupy me, even running to msia soon. To get away from all of this. Superficiality.
Maybe it is just the hormones talking and the "results are coming out real soon" jumpiness that is getting to me. I need a break and gosh i miss you terribly.
I see my msn list shrinking fast!
All my crapping friends and those that keep me company are all GONE!
To serve the nation.
Coming back as one entire bunch of botaks. hahaha!!!
If 4F meets up soon, all the boys(or men) would be botaks!!
Just think of the photo~
priceless.
Tml, the teacher that i was relieving will be back.
And so i switch timetables again, covering for another teacher who will be away.
After wed, i would have gotten the chance to teach almost the whole sec 4 level.
Save for 2 classes that i will not enter.
and goodness!! I taught wysen's sis!!!
Without knowing!
And she thought i was far far older than my age.
Goodness. That comment itself is enough for me to re-examine my wardrobe.
Haha maybe it is just because of my confidence.
Just on fri, i was walking around with yan shan to look at the ccas available in school.
Saw softball equipment set up and got excited.
I enjoyed the game back in JC so i decided to walk up and ask for a try.
The next moment, the students were yelling for a camera and saying "This one i must see" as i took position to bat.
*rolls eyes*
And i must say that none of the students there were taught by me!!! I was a perfect stranger to them!!
Anyway, instead of just taking pictures as i thought they would, they took a VIDEO!!!
Oh the embarrassment *hides*
It was all in good fun though. =)
Got my chinese name written out by the calligraphy society too.
Pretty and will be placed at my table! =)
Wanted to go into the AV room to have a look but was stopped, this time by the students that i taught. Rarr!!!
Popped my head in anyway and got greeted by a whole chorus of "hellos", "cher", "ms lim" and even "joyce!".
The last statement got a response from the rest of the students, one whom which called out to me saying "hey why so unfair, he can call you joyce and we have to address you by ms lim".
Can't help but burst into laughter.
The offender who called out "joyce" then hurriedly muttered a resounding "ms lim" to which prompted the whole AV room to laugh.
Priceless!!!
Say aren't they the cutest?
=)
I'm so tired out after all the shopping that i did today.
Must really admire my dad for his patience waiting for 2 of us to hop into every fitting room along the way to try on endless pieces of clothing.
Bought satisfactory pieces of clothing that hopefully would serve me well and last long.
=)
I've been quite bad tempered lately.
Not entirely sure why.
and are you outfield?
=(
i'm tired.
Yup yup it has been quite a few days since i talked about my sch experience. So far it has been good! Been enjoying myself mostly. Teaching is quite fun (if u do know what u are teaching that is). Got to mark work and finally understand our teachers' frustrations when they mark our work. First-hand experience puts everything into perspective.
Teaching the sec 3s, 4s and 5s geography, both core and elective. Taking over the classes now before their actual teacher comes back from her leave. Now that i have been teaching them for at least 2 lessons or more, i am getting to know the students and starting to enjoy them. I feel quite sad that soon i would have to hand them over. =( haha!! They are really quite adorable. You get that warm fuzzy feeling whenever you walk about school and the students you see in class come up to great you or talk to you. "Miss Lim" to them or to most, i'm just "cher". The sec1s are the cutest!!!
I'm falling in love with the classes i'm currently teaching!!!! =)
Here's one!
the sec5s =)
2nd day at work.
i don't like the rush to sch on the bus.
super squeezy.
wondering if i can manage to find someone to give me a lift. xp
my major achievement today!!!! such a freaky day. today i got organised and sure of what i'm supposed to be doing, armed with a timetable as well as a schedule that the teacher had left for me. i had 2 classes today. both sec 4 classes. wad an experience!!!! the major achievement was when i single-handedly taught 51 students (2 combine classes) housed together in an all-too-small computer lab with not enough chairs and computer terminals. to boot, they were the rowdy students of normal acd stream. i had a slping girl that i managed to talk to and got her to do some work, a handful of cheeky guys and (thankgoodness) girls who behaved. i survived with the consolation that some students were nice to me smiling to me and thanking me. was so trying that when i sat down in the staff room, i found out that i was literally trembling.(!!!!)the other geog teacher whose class i took because he was not free at that time slot actually gave me a pat on the back and told me that i had achieved the impossible. haha what a joke... oh at least during this class the elesson that they were supposed to be viewing was available... which brings me to another lesson before it.
i had another lesson before that and once again it is a combined class. one class had 2 students doing geog and 25 from the other class. poor students (i mean the two lonely ones from that class). the elesson was not to be found. being the FIRST lesson that i ever conduct, i panicked!! so time was wasted and i did not finish what i had started out to do. so left with 25 mins or so, i had to do a frantic memory check and actually held a verbal revision lesson with the class. thank goodness my memory of geog-rivers is still not bad. xp and i also learnt something impt today. students will give you due respect if they see that you do know your stuff. if you seem unsure, that's when they feed you to the sharks.
2nd day... reflections. teaching is tiring but i think i'm liking it so far. 6 months i wonder if any time i would change my opinion. the other relief teachers and i, good friends already. =)
i NEED clothes. fullstop.
-i keep seeing shadows of you in the people i meet. that's how much i miss you and i mentally chide myself time and time again.-
new year new beginning. cliched.
nothing much has changed. still getting used to the "oh that's last yr.."
living in the past, because i keep forgetting.
msia trip might be cancelled. i'm SO sad. all so last min. disappointed actually.
i tried so hard but somehow i feel that i was being led on. damn it.
oh mans. lets just see what happens.
and i want to go to hong kong.
urghhh!!
still convincing mom to let me go alone and stay over at friend's house.
it will be so cool if she lets me go.
apparently she's more afraid of me going overseas alone with a guy than me going alone.
weird logic.
i can't quantify her illogical "fear".
lol.
working yet again.
I'M SO TIRED waking up SO EARLY.
yes a teacher's job is not easy.
i keep waiting for time to pass.
haha.
talk to me and i'll tell you more.
first day today and only the thought of you sustained me through.
i know it is stupid but it is true.