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preferred to be called: qI
years of existence: Officially 23
preoccupied with: running, rowing, slacking, stoning, the internet, cafes , star-gazing

*loves:
the sea
sea breeze
stars
teh
kaya toast
adidas
mocha
nike sports bras

*DREAMS:
GTO Wanna-Be
Boat shed by the Reservoir
Sunrise by the Beach
Driver in shades

PDA phone
Travel
Adidas shades
Tees and shorts for teaching
Notebook- A gold coloured one?
iPOD Nano 4GB
driving licence
Fossil Gold Wallet
backpack
track pants

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I just took some time to organize my schedule from april - june. This period will be a fast-paced one, with teaching, trainings, races coming up. Oh and of cos my "pursue" for a driving licence!! haha the next available test date is in July, meaning I still haf ard 3 months till then. Im still not very steady on the roads yet.

My initial intention of giving tuition is still on hold. Im still reviewing my schedule to see how I can slot in time for that. This will gimme more experience and exposure to the subject, and to teaching the subject. =)

Wont want my life to pass thru in a rush. Hopefully every pace i tk will be a fruitful one. =)

11:12 AM
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Im still learning.

To find the balance point between a mentor and a fren.

Many times during lessons I realise instead of teaching the syllabus, I end up disciplining the students. Looking @ the other teachers, I admire the way they handle the balance. Setting your ground rules, this is what the other teachers call it. I guess these grd rules will correspond to your beliefs as well.

I hope I can treat my students as sensible and mature kids. But many times, I realise they dun behave that way. Im not bothered by the way they look @ me nor the way they speak. Cos I believe I was once like dat too (oops)But they dun understand the importance of being attentive in class.

I tink at many times, they've already realised dat Im a gullible teacher =( OK i got tricked by a student. See what I mean that I cant trust that they're sensible. I felt a lil foolish after dat.

I hope for mutual trust.

I tried to be as stern as I could but they'll still mis-behave during my class. I guess they'll just push their luck. Maybe cos I nv take action for their defiance.

My rules are not complete enough, at least for the particular class. The consequences are not apparent to them.

Still, I'll continue to believe that I shld give, instead of keeping it. They're still kids after all. I hope one day they'll learn, like how I learnt.

9:01 AM
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Normal operating hours: 0600 - 0000

AM peak hour: 0750-1400

PM peak hour: 1830-2200

11:34 PM
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Tuesday is my most hectic day. I've got lessons str till bout 1215. Then, I get 2 periods of break before taking my most mischievious form class.

This class isnt bad. They're just restless and most of the time, lost in their own world. I was q happy dat they approached me for help in chemistry. Sometimes, they have problems listening because the rest of the class is too rowdy already. Datz why they get distracted.

My policy is very str-forward. As long as I see that they have interest to learn, I will help. Interest = at least they bring out their text book + write their names on their worksheets. As simple as that.

2:17 PM
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Eh I passed my physical proficiency test. haa

Got a 9.

11:22 PM
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Time flies I supposed. Had my 23rd bday celebration on the 23rd-24th March. No photos yet, so stay tuned.

Was at Essential Brews with the girls from my NJ Team. It was a combined celebration for me and CY. the NUS ppl were all talking bout submissions. heh..Shihui and I were like huh.. haha. And PY wasnt here ..but girl, thks for ur e-card yah. Hope to meet up one day before u fly off to pursue further studies yah.

Then it was wala with my NTEAM team mates. Thks all who came by. Can sense everyone's fatigue after a hectic week, so really appreciate the time and effort =) Thanks a lot! And the stationeries came just in time! haha. The waterfall was a lil disappointing. I kind of expected a tower! But the whole thing happened like how a lumboguini would look like.

And thks for the bday dedication! CY, SH were upstairs chilling (GY came later) and it was really coincidental to haf met Dianne and her frens. Dianne was busy taking photos with everyone she met.

It was my third consecutive bday celebration @ Wala =)

And I got home safely heh. Saw a present from neighbour. Hey thks too!

Then come 24th where I had a short gathering with my primary school frens. Thanks for the cake!! Had to leave early cos there was a Meet-The-Parents session in school.

Missed training. And my day ended with a dinner with my family. =)

Concussed at 10pm cos of the long week. =)

5:45 PM
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Presenting to you here: SDBA idols of the year! haha just kidding. But these 2 puppies have completely charmed everyone in SDBA! Cute right..? =)




The photos are taken from Joesie's blog. =)

Ok, they're the latest "dogs" which WK has adopted. Our last dog was Rocky which was put to sleep cos he fell sick. Previously, we also had a few dogs which "did not come to a good end." The previous dogs which we had were old dogs. This time round, WK apparently decided to start them young. Hence, now we have 2 little puppies!

To the left is "Skinny" and to the right is "Fat-Fat". The names are given by my dad haha. Cos of the apparent difference in size btw them.

4:18 PM
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When was the last time some one stopped believing in me?

I asked myself this question, after seeing my kids in class.

Ultimately, I hope they can learn. Only they, themselves have the right to stop believing in their own abilities.

5:52 PM
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My first day has been great so far! Only took PE classes thou. Wonder how the Chemistry classes will turn out to be. Guess some of the teachers are quite surprised dat I only took Chemistry at A Levels, not a Major in Uni dat is. I felt a lil shy to tell them dat I was a Business Marketing student infact. haha

Basically following my mentor around for the day, only had to do one period of relief. I think I din perform well for the relief period cos the students werent totally obedient and seated at their seats. I allowed them to walk ard and talk to their frens as long as the volume din go out of hand. I tink they're alwaz excited when there are new teachers ard I supposed.

Oh the only thing which I felt a lil culture shock was the lack of stationeries. It's not provided in school, unlike the corporate companies out there. Which means I haf to start bringing in my own stationeries and no wonder laoshi was telling me dat we need to haf a huge pencil case! And I supposed I need to do some shopping oso. =) Need to go find something like a handbook which I can bring ard to my classes and oso for meetings.

Eh weights tonight...*bleah*

3:21 PM
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Life is moving fast now. I hope it will move faster thou. Guess the 2 weeks of short break did gimme the time to rest and recharged. =)

Every day will be a fulfilling day.

My sprained ankle is healing! yeah! I shld be moving and hopping in no time! Hopefully by this wed when I report to school, I'll be ready to run ard!

The course had been enriching so far with a 66 year old retired teacher sharing with us her experiences. Her lesson had given us a positive and practical outlook towards teaching. Partly cos of her attitude and personality dat she had come this far. And at this age, she is still assisting the ministry to undertake a couple of projects. *Pei fu*

One more day of course and I'll be ready!

MR 500 RESULTS: 2ND for Womens' Open

7:48 PM
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MR 500
A DB made up of NTU Canoeists and NTU's canoe polo girls - We did well, but of cos it cld haf been better. Im glad we cld still hold our heads up after dat with a timing of 2:39.

Disc Dragon & Dat Dragon
AWARE Frisbee session with quite good teams. In between, there were quite a number of small arguments. But I guess they have been resolved? We made it to the top 3rd and 4th placing (Our teams were Disc Dragon & Dat Dragon. hahah damn duh.) but the decision for third and fourth place was decided internally thru a game of "which team can finish their beer faster" haha I think we behaved like mad women yesterday, keep re-filling our beer haha and we finished all their beer!

5KM Run
5km run- I came in 9th. The timing wasnt v good thou 25:XX haha i cldnt remember the secs. The prize was $100 vouchers from Leonard Drake for some face spa or sthg..=( thot maybe i cld haf some vouchers fr Aqualeisure or sth.


Drunkard Soccer Players
We ended our day in ECP with a game of soccer where I sprained my ankle. Some of us were high from the beer. So we were laughing, running and kicking at the same time. The grd was pretty uneven ... so there goes my poor left ankle. It's still pretty swollen.

Some Photos from the Event







heh the last picture's taken at this part of east coast which showcases a real sandcastle. There's some kind of gallery there too but only opened during the weekends.

Saturday Night Hang Out
Laoshi managed to convince my dad to cancel trg today. I seriously dunno how she managed to do it. But so after dinner, we went to laoshi's house for a hang out session. The house was filled with "drinking ppl" hah And I watched the one of the shows which I've been wanting to watch on dvd! - HAPPYNESS heh.

9:34 AM
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Went back to NTU for our weights session today. Haa was reluctant initially cos of the distance dat I haf to travel. But since everyone's going, I decided to go there too.

There were altogether 7 of us doing the weights, each taking a station. haa just nice a number. The weights session dis evening was like " those were the days" kind of thing. ( The grp consisted of 5 of us previously from NTU Canoeing, datz y it felt like our 'old' trg session. haa) It was quite fun having to rotate amongst the 7 stations, with almost everyone complaining bout our "swollen" limbs haha, laughing and joking bout it. And we modified some of the conditioning exercises to suit our "needs" den. =)

Dinner was settled at ah-fang, with another 2 of our old-birds joining us after their canoe polo session. Im still full *burp* Was rather disappointed with the ee-mian dat I had. It had so much pork lard in it! I din remember it looking like dat the last time I had it. ( Actually I cant remember when was the last time I had ee mian at ah-fang but definitely not dat much of pork lard!)

Just got home. And Im tired. My assets are all over the plc. I left my new backpack in BY's car, my shades are with pris, my shoes are with del and my cap is stil at SDBA. haha

12:48 AM
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heh..Just bought 10 Fuji apples @ $1.99 from the newly opened Giant! hahahhahha

Super value-for -money!!

10:53 AM
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Just did weights over at TPY stadium dis morning. And my upper body , esp the shoulders are aching. Training frequency has increased to officially 6 times a week, with 2 self-arranged weights session incorporated. With all the loading that we're having, Im starting to have problems wearing my clothes.esp sports bras =( It's this period of loading where everyone of us will find ourselves "growing" haha.

At the gym, we were all grumbling bout "growing" bigger and I even asked "how to mk it smaller?" 'It' refering to my shoulders + arms. But I guess it's a rheotorical qn. *bleah*

"How can we become smaller with all dat ur dad is making us do?"

haha

1:25 PM
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today's Straits Times reported that 1 in 4 teens and young adults here and in developed countries cld face mental problems.

Some excerpts from the article:-

"25 per cent of those in their teens and early 20s suffer fr mental problems such as anoroxia, anxiety, depression, psychosis and personality disorder"

" This means that going by sg's popn growth rate, 1,000 babies born here each yr cld end up with serious psychological problems."

" Most serious mental illnesses hit people in theirs teens or early 20s- when the brain'a frontal lobe is developing...This is an area that helps u plan, organise, strategise- all the high level processing. It is important in controlling behaviour and emotion- which adolescents struggle with."

I found the article, first, alarming. But on the other hand, it does raise awareness of this potential problem which cld face our popn as sg develops.

Psychological problems' sometimes more scary than physical pain. it might just quietly creep into a person's life and affect their behaviour and mentality. The worse is when the person chooses to live in denial, that they choose to believe that they are "alright". It takes courage to face it -to accept treatment and face the pain that is causing their psychological problem. Some people tk months to recover, but some may take years. It's a person's attitude, determination and sometimes encouragement from their loved ones which help them to walk out of it?

People are trapped in their own pain. But when we see and learn bout other ppl's problems, our own pain becomes insignificant. ( Now I noe what's all the CIP back in school was for haa)

And i nv knew psychological problems can be caused by the brain. eh I learn sthg new. =)

8:57 PM
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Went visiting at my new school for the first time dis morning. I tink dad was even more excited den me. Before I even changed and get ready to go school, he already bathed and changed. Din in fact expect him to wanna gimme a lift, but tink he was just excited for me. Dun wanna reject his offer oso haha. Had to tell him to drop me at the food court opp, quite paiseh for a teacher to tk a ride from her dad? But he had wanted to go "da jiao dao" with the sch's security guard. haha.

The principal's a lady, sounded firm and respectable. =)

Environment's pretty nice, windy, spacious =)

During the meeting, the principal commented bout hair - tinted is ok but not too exaggerated. It also has to be neat. I was really wondering whether she was commenting bout mine.. hmm. Oh and thk goodness I remembered to remove my ear ring before going to the sch. =) I was the only PE teacher joining the sch and the principal mentioned sth bout shorts. Shorts cannot be too short heh.

I managed to get a desk. It's "chopped" with my name on a piece of paper.

The HOD in charge did mention dat I wont be taking the full load oso. The sch already has 6 PE teachers. Some FT, some trainees and some contract. With me, it's 7.

I wonder will I be put into the coming NIE intake. Or rather, will I wanna go in for the coming intake or to go for the full one year contract. Am still considering...

1:16 PM
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Took a walk back from Buangkok MRT just now. And I finally managed to see some stars! haa..it's been cloudy these days. So am glad to catch some stars haha

*burnt* bleahh

12:23 AM
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Finally done with the PPT test. Now is just the wait for the results. Really keeping my fingers crossed!

*My dear Meishi..please remember ur lumboguini and my waterfall* haha

My cartwheel wasnt exactly very good sigh. Wonder how everyone else cld do such an excellent one. They even can leap and do the cartwheel!!My most relaxed station was definitely the swim heh. And Im glad it was my last station!

Wanted to stay in NTU a while longer to do a run, to run of my many pieces of sinful bak kwa. But I was a lil too sian haha. So Im back home instead to get a good rest! =)

7:04 PM
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Finally gotten my posting!

The school's located in Sengkang..and along my running route heh. Shall not reveal the school on my blog, just in case it appears in the results when someone googled.

It feels a lil more settled after im aware of my posting. =)

12:35 AM
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I was trying to register for my DBS ibanking just now. But I realised dat I have misplaced the letter, so I wasnt able to key in the registration code which was required. Sigh.

As I get older, more bills start accumulating, I realise. Or rather, when I start work. So many papers ..ok letters, bank's acct statements, bills, cpf letters starts getting chuck into my mailbox. And what do I do with them..? Just glance and leave it at one side. Haa..damn bochup.

So I guess it's time to gather all my "papers" and organize them!

3:41 PM
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My first time taking 2 driving lessons consecutively.

I haf coordination problems haa. Like my feet cant exactly coordinate the pressing of the pedals.

Feeling a lil heavy on my head. Maybe it was the many round-abouts which I was doing. Actually had to look for sweets after my lessons. haa

And..the last thing i did was to slam the car door when my instructor was still inside. Really din do it on purpose and I regret not apologizing just now. =(

5:07 PM
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Went to the newly opened AMK HUb with dad just now. The place is "UP" man~

The first tenant i saw is Subway! And I regretted having eaten fried bee hoon just now =( My second visit to the plc and so many other shops have opened their doors.

There's New York, New York (Q a surprise to see the reataurant opened an outlet in a heartland), Dian Xiao Er (they have another branch @ Marina Sq. They specialise in roast duck i tink) and of cos other eateries as well. Shopping wise, I was really surprised to see a Levis outlet, and of cos there were other familiar outlets like Verge, Bossini ( Ok not v exciting), Pepper Plus and more to come. There's also this Korean signage ladies wear shop. Cos they werent opened yet, so I could only peer thru the window 2 see what they were selling. Their clothes looked not bad =)

The focus of our trip there was actually the NTUC Supermarket. So yes, the supermarket is huge. And the overall feeling was like dat of Carrefour. There were the electronic section, simple clothes (My dad wanted to get this $3.90 berms which looked like they were designed for kids. But cos I frowned, tink he decided that it was not meant for him), n of cos the normal supermkt stuffs. Their fuji apples are fresh n juicy (munching them now)!

before making our way back, Dad & I went to get the Tip Top Curry Puff. A hot curry puff really brighten up the day heh..But hor. It din taste as good as before. The paste felt a lil dry.

Eh I've been eating and sleeping for the past few days! haa oh wel. Now it's power nap before going for my driving later.

11:02 AM
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可能是最近解决了一些恼人的事， 让自己有更多的时间和空间去面对自己心里一直压抑着的情绪。 不去想它，就让日子一天天地过。一旦逼自己去面对，心还是会痛。我期待那一天， 在我再次 想起一切的时侯，脸上是挂着淡淡的微笑 ＝）

理性与感性间。。。

11:43 PM
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March is going to be busy!!

I've already got a few tasks on the list:-
- Settle graduation photo
- Fix my laptop
- Facial ( Outbreak. *Bleah*)
- Do Public Service Card

And I've just volunteered myself to substitute LaoShi for the 5km run for the AWARE fundraising event. So which means:- Higher running mileage. The last time i ran competitively for more than 2.4km was 1plus years ago? haa

This friday's gonna be the PPT test. And ok..Im not exactly v zai in games. Heard from Joesie that everyone will piah during the ball game, which means ppl will be aggressive. Hopefully I can at least mk a pass amidst all the "gao shou". And laoshi oso said my cartwheel cannot mk it. haa..Just gonna gif a try at it.

Followed by driving lessons. Driving has been fun so far. It's like manoveuring my kayak. The same kind of feel. But I still haf a lot to brush up on. Somehow I can forsee myself as a reckless driver.haa.

Im still waiting for my posting. Till den, I wont be able to plan my schedule for next week. Just bought a pair of track pants for teaching cos I realised I dun haf dark coloured track pants in my wardrobe.

Training frequency will increase by another 2 sessions- weights session. So most probably it will be a mass gaining month too. haa

Im hooked onto 花样少年少女 at the moment. Going to start on episode 10! Eh watching these kind of 偶象剧 will set ppl fantasizing sometimes.. oh well. =) And 吴尊 is really cute!

9:48 PM
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Yeah I managed to catch the most heartwarming episode of Under the Canopy of Love. Yishi finally understood Shen Lang's actions and they got back together. But then, they have hurt the most innocent party in the story...

2:16 AM
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Just got a haircut. It feels lighter with the short hair. Not quite used to black hair thou haa.

But Meishi & I spent like hours going thru the entire cut and dye process haha.

I was sitting there from 5plus til 9 plus. Meishi had shorter hair..so 6 plus til 9 plus? hhaha

2:05 AM
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