Out of impulse...

Was feeling bored today and spotted a creepy crawlie amidst my pile of letters. Immediate reaction was to find the creepy crawlie and eliminate it. But what was simply a small natural act evolved into a major project of cleaning up my room.

Maybe that's what people say... "once you start, you don't know when to stop". That is so true... I just got so carried away cleaning up my room, I proceeded from wiping and tidying up my desk to clearing my shelves, rearranging my stuff, repacking my bags and cleaning up the shelves and cabinets. I started at around 8 and it took me till like 12 midnight before I was finally done.

Guess that reflects what kind of person I am... haha. A very impulsive person. Maybe ruled more by the heart than by the mind, but I kind of like myself for who I am.

Today has been a pretty fruitful day I guess... not only did I managed to clean up my room, I understood myself a little more. =)

Staying healthy

Been trying to stay healthy by...

SLEEPING AT 8PM!

Hahaha.

Yah, I have been hitting my bed at 8pm for the past few nights, and I think tonight I shall do the same too. Am so exhausted in school after lessons and clearing my markings, the only one thing I feel like doing when I get home is to SLEEP SLEEP and SLEEP somemore. Sleeping seems like the main component of my life after work.

Anyway, this week has been okay, not too busy, though a little frustrating at times. Whatever though, since tomorrow is FRIDAY, and my beloved weekends are here again! Accompanied my class to the Tennis Finals yesterday at Kallang Tennis Center. I admit I am a sports idiot, hence I can't fanthom the beauty of the game or understand the game. Thus, I was pretty bored out. Spent like 2 hours odd over there, chatting to the other teachers, joking around with the guys, attempting to teach Maths to one with my half past six standard and playing Hangman. Gave them one which wasn't solved yesterday until today when I revealed the answer. The word I gave them was "lackadaisical" and they thought I made it up. -_-" Nonetheless, it was fun. At least they made me laugh and enjoyed myself in the midst of it, not forgetting how amusing they were with that jelly ice creams they were all having.

Today was pretty relaxing, in a sense it was my shortest day of the week. I left work at around 3 plus to have lunch with the kids first before meeting my friend for shopping! Sadly, I didn't get to buy anything. Hopefully, tomorrow's late night shopping trip will yield a better haul. Haha. Then I spent half an hour queueing at this stall selling Durian pancakes just to get some for my parents. Think I haven't been spending enough time communicating with them ever since I started work. Everyday I return home, I simply glue myself to the TV, the newspapers, the computer or the bed. Thus, just felt like springing a little nice surprise to them by getting them food they like. The compliments they had for the pancakes definitely made the wait worthwhile!

Tomorrow marks the start of Mastery Review for the lower Secondary students. Some encouragement/ naggings for the guys (think they will kill me if I call them boys? haha!) in my form class.

NOTE: IN ORDER OF NO PREFERENCE

Junyao and Roy: Definitely no problem! Just do your best and don't be too nervous!

Ryan Goh: Should have no problem with passing, stay focused and score!!!

Ryan Lim Zhihan (haha, you should know why I call you by full name ^^): Read the passages carefully, remember not to copy too much from the comprehension passages!

Jin Hong: Don't talk too much crap and work hard for the paper, you can pass with better grades.

Joseph, Fabian, Eugene, Wei Xuan, Leon, Matthew: Work hard, good luck!

Michael: Play a bit lesser, pay a bit more attention. At least pass the subject okay?

Gar Wye: Be a little more attentive and do well like last year, you are bright enough for that!

Ivan: Please start working hard and stop slacking. You MUST pass Chinese.

Darren, Nicholas: Dream a bit lesser, work hard a little more, I have confidence in you guys!

晋豪弟弟: Good luck and I have confidence you will do well. Just don't gan chiong and remember to read your questions carefully!

凯民弟弟: You slack enough already ar, must do well for Chinese to show me you are still studying hor!!!

Weijie: Don't emo too much, you are clever and you can do well. Just work hard for the exams okay? Jia you!!!

Shawn: You don't emo with Weijie also, and WORK HARD, be confident!!! Put what you have learnt to use, and remember to read your questions carefully!!! Remember what you promised me and the rewards!!!

Okay, I think that should be enough naggings for now! Time for me to end this entry. Haha.

Good luck everyone for Mastery Review tomorrow!!!

Monday blues

If Mondays were blue, I would say Tuesdays are green. Green because you get sick from being blue on Monday.

I have two class observations tomorrow, great. -_-"

Anyway, recieved a mailer from Metro inviting me to a special cardholder preview. Still deliberating over if I should go, knowing I would probably spend if I go though. But discounts are hard to resist. (>.<)" Argh!!!

Exams are coming soon, I see many stressed faces all around me, and of course some with the blur look, like they are still unaware of what's happening. Nevertheless, strive on for now, guys. The results will be pleasant!

Having fun

Been having fun yesterday, and now I am rushing my work review plus a couple of test papers.

Work is important, I know, you know, everyone knows. But all work and no play makes everyone dull and sad. Hence, I still advocate a fairly equal amount of play and work.

Had a great time yesterday with my friends doing things that I like, chilling out over drinks and having a few rounds of overnight dry swimming.

Hope May comes soon. May's a month of enjoyment and cultural immersion. I am going to catch A Midsummer Night's Dream at Fort Canning! Can't wait for it.

The reality

Isn't it kind of amazing at times how the mind can conjure up such splendid stuff on its own?

Sometimes I am amazed at how others can simply conjure up their own imaginations of the lives others lead, simply with their minds.

Sad to say though, many a times, the lives imagined differ vastly from the actual lives led. Times when people imagined, when people pictured that this person must have led a super amazing, interesting and happening life, the actual truth is like a complete bummer.

I guess that's why, people often says... "reality sucks".

Rest

Took my blog off for a couple of days, because I needed some rest and I had no idea what to blog about.

Anyway, changed the blogskin again, but lazy me simply got this off the Internet.

Now that my blog's had enough rest, it's time for me to take a rest.

Weekends, my favourite.

Minor changes

Did away with the tagboard for now, before deciding if I want to either:

(a)stop blogging completely
(b)change a blog address
(c)lock the blog and make it private
(d)stay here

Anyway, after some thinking, I feel that for now, it is more likely I will be sticking to this blog. I did no wrong, hence I see no point in why I should be the one shifting blogs and running away. There are idiots and morons everywhere, else how would we be able to differentiate the ones with brains from them? Thus I have decided for now, I shall just stick here and continue posting as and when I like. BUT, I have decided to do away with the tagboard, because I don't want my friends to get involved with ridiculous verbal wars with imbeciles.

Okay, with that, I shall move on.

Yesterday night was pretty fun. Met up with a friend in town for movies and drinks. Caught The Reaping, which was pretty good I would say. I seem to be very interested in such movies recently... keep watching movies of such themes, haha. Anyway, after that we hung around town and went for drinks at The Balcony. Me likes Lychee Martinis a lot. ^^ Then we ventured around town in search of quirky places, but too bad they were all closed for the day. In the end, we decided upon another movie, Sunshine, which was not bad, but seemed pretty low budget. I preferred The Day After Tomorrow, not forgetting there's Jake Gyllenhaal in it! And I would definitely prefer to freeze than to get scorched, though of course if I can choose neither, that would be best.

Then, talking about quality service, I thought the cab driver was really nice. I paid up and was getting out from the cab when the driver asked if I would like him to wait first and see me get into the lift safely before he drive off. I was quite touched by his quality service, because it is not everyday you get strangers who are concerned for your safety. But, despite it being like almost 5am in the morning, I felt pretty safe in my area, so I declined him politely, thanked him, then hurriedly scooted off. But I think sometimes going the extra mile is what put certain people one notch above the others. If only there were more of such quality service in Singapore!

Sigh, Sunday is ending and Monday is coming again. I wish it was Sunday everyday.

Great!

Great, just great.

I am sick of irritating idiots who spam the tagboard. If you have nothing better to say, just shut up and get a life.

I am sick of deleting dumb senseless comments.

In fact, I am getting sick of blogging because of all these.

Maybe having a blog was a mistake afterall.

有时候。。。

有话想说，却不知道怎么开口。

病从口入，祸从口出。

这句话今天听了很多次，我也一直很相信。往往，无心之说，带来的后果，却是何其之大。不是针对任何人，只是有感而发。

人生许多时候，总是说。。。

“如果当初我没有这么说。。。”

只可惜，千千万万个如果，还是换不回重来的机会。

The fan from hell

Eeeks, just when I thought things finally calmed down, the crazy fan strikes again. Apparently this crazed China woman is still unrepentant. She is suppose to be in Hong Kong on special permit pass to settle her father's wake, and YET she is still dragging her mother to Andy Lau's place to stalk him. I can't believe there can actually be such a crazy person. Tsk.

Something interesting

Saw this on Sharepoint, not sure if it's alright to be posting it in my blog, but I do presume it should be okay.

Dear Teachers,
Please help to save energy.

Comparative electricity comsumption for air-cons usge for the year 2006. ( Jan - Dec 2006 ) at the following special rooms.

STAFF ROOM 1 - 24,767 kWh
STAFF ROOM 2 - 16,115 kWh
BAN PRACTISE - 10,408 kWh
MEDIA STUDIO - 3,031 kWh
MUSIC DANCE - 3,964 Kwh
CHINESE ORCHESTRA - No records - Meter being vandalised.

Thanks

OM

Hahaha.

Imposter

How does it feel... when people do not believe you are really who you are?

For the first time, someone actually thought I was pretending to be myself.

Hmm, it feels funny, because I realised I don't really know how to prove I am myself either.

Japanese Movies

Watched two Japanese movies over the weekend. First was《春の夏》(Haru no Natsu) and then《涙そうそう》(Nada Sou Sou).

Coincidentally, both movies were by Tsumabuki Satoshi (妻夫木聡). He seems pretty versatile for an actor, considering that the role portrayal in both movies were so vastly different. In Haru no Natsu, he was this cold, aloof and pretty childish Hiroki who lost what he wanted because of silly mind games. In Nada Sou Sou, he was Yotaro, the responsible and optimistic brother who loved and wanted the best for his step sister, Kaoru.

Between both shows, I preferred Nada Sou Sou a lot more. Though the story plot was very simple, and somewhat cliche, yet it moved me far greater than Haru no Natsu. The genuine love Yotaro had for Kaoru, wanting the best for her, thinking of her far more than of himself, and the very fact that this step sister was someone who had no blood ties with him... Overall, I enjoyed this movie far more than the other. The only thing I learned from watching Haru no Natsu was some Japanese culture, and that there's no second chances in life. Don't wait till everything's too late and there's no more room for regret before you do anything. Don't miss the chance of attaining happiness simply because you were too proud to admit something. Don't live to regret only after losing something most important.

Anyway, sharing with everyone the trailer for Nada Sou Sou. My favourite scene has got to be the one when Kaoru bades farewell to Yotaro, and he breaks down in his own garden.

I like Japanese movies. They are simple, yet philosophical. To me, they always seem to be portraying things in lives that we want to be, yet no longer get to be.

Pictures of the week!

This one week had been one exciting week. From the nervous and diligent practise sessions we had over the weekends to the official SYF competition day, from pre SYF last minute fine tuning to awaiting the results, from feeling jittery over our "fate" to sealing it with a Gold with honours, and finally to celebrating our victory at the chalet.

Words aside, let the pictures do the talking.

In school before setting off to Singapore Conference Hall for the judging.


Inside the tuning room going through our set piece for the final time.


Emerging as winners and post SYF siao acts


Old boys + EXCO + Ms Yeo, Ms Leong and me!


At the Pasir Ris People's Association chalet on Thursday afternoon


Preparing the BBQ and having fun!


The cooks and the food


Rejoicing in our win!

All in all, this has been one great week! May CHSCO continue to reign in SYF Central Judging 2009!

过度沉迷于追偶像

Gave my class 报章读后感 assignment to do today. The article was about the above mentioned.

Frankly speaking, I have been following the news reports and articles on this issue pretty closely. And seriously, up to this point of stage, I STILL do not think it is the fault of the artiste, whom in this case happens to be Andy Lau (thus the reason I am SO interested in this issue).

In my opinion (strictly of that simply as an individual), I think that woman's insane, and so are her parents. Which parents in their right minds would spend all their money to indulge their daughter in her star chasing fantasy for 13 years? And isn't it ridiculous for a grown up person to believe she's destined to be with some famous artiste just because she dreamt of him? Oh please, then if she had dreamt of Osama, would she be somewhere in the Middle East trying to track him down and stick to him like super glue? Or what if she had dreamt of Bruce Lee instead? So she's going to commit suicide and join him down there to fulfill their destiny? Diao!!!

And now that her father's dead, she blames Andy Lau for causing his death. Firstly, hasn't it ever occurred to her that her father died because SHE was the one who was obssessed with Andy Lau? If SHE hadn't want to go to Hong Kong to see Andy Lau and speak to him alone, if SHE hadn't been disappointed on not being able to speak to him alone, if SHE hadn't made her father borrow from loansharks just to let her go to Hong Kong and see Andy Lau, would any of these happened? NOPE. And so who's to be blamed? HERSELF. She has herself to blame for her father's death. If she had used a little more brain cells to figure out that Andy Lau doesn't belong to her, that she should simply get a life, that she should be looking after her parents and not make them look after her, probably her dad might have lived to a hundred and not simply jumped off from Star Ferry in Hong Kong. Again, so who's to be blamed for all these? Simply HERSELF.

If you think that's the end of the story, nope. Now, she's claiming that she never had the intention of wanting to see Andy Lau, and she asks him to "go to hell" for being such an unfeeling and callous person. That woman is CRAZY. If she were to get her way, would it mean more people trying to commit suicide just so their idols would oblige to all their unreasonable requests? Then wouldn't the idols be so busy trying to appease their fans from not commiting suicide all the time? And what if some really looney fans use death to threaten these idols into marrying them? Won't these idols have so many husbands/wives? Ridiculous.

Seriously, I hate people who always try to push the blame onto other people when things happen. Did this woman ever once felt that she was in a way or another responsible for her father's death? Nope. Did she ever felt responsible for landing her parents into such predicament? Nope. In every report I have seen so far, she seems to feel that whatever she has done over these 13 years are all right. And her definition of "right" includes dropping out of school, buying cds and idol related merchandise with her parents' hardearn money, living off her parents and being a practically piece of junk rotting at home fantasizing about Andy Lau. Gees, she is so "right". No one can ever be more "right" than her. And so now the entire world is to be blamed for her sad plight. Andy Lau should be blamed for her father's death simply because he refused to give in to her demand of an one-to-one session. How "right" she is! *roll eyes*

But I do have to agree that she's right in one thing - not wanting to see Andy Lau anymore. With fans like that, who needs flamers? She is clearly so much more a detractor than anything else. I am just so happy she finally made one right decision of not wanting to see Andy Lau anymore. Please, free the poor artiste from her lunatic acts. These artistes just want to make a living, they don't deserve this kind of shit stuff from freakos like that woman.

Okay, I think I have made my point/stand super clear, haha. End of entry.

Post SYF

I fell sick immediately the day after SYF. Great. According to the doctor, it's fatigue. Haha. But it was worth it, the Gold with Honours made up for everything.

Took some pictures yesterday...

Shall upload later if I feel better.

Gold with honours

We did it, yay!!!

We are the Catholic High School Chinese Orchestra who won Gold with honours for SYF Central Judging 2007.

Yay~!!!

The Eve

Today's the eve of the big day. Feeling a little jittery and crossing my fingers that tomorrow will turn out good.

SYF '07 - the honor will will be ours!!!

簡単な女、この国を出たい。

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