Day 1

It’s the end of day one and frankly speaking, I didn’t really do all that much. Observed two periods of literature, read animal farm, read the history textbook and basically stoned for the majority of the day. The girls all seem nice and polite; the teachers as a whole are pretty friendly. But all PL lady teachers got to wear skirts. T_T That sort of threw me into a panic because I don’t own more than two of the said garment. =P

So it’s skirt shopping for me after school with J. Shucks… I really can’t stand those formal looking skirts… I look so auntie in them! Me and skirts just don’t go together… =( oh! Ra! You’ve passed your lip-balm/gloss disease over to me!! I find myself buying lip-gloss even though I have more than enough at home.

Argh… I hate the location of the school lah. I think I’ll have to take cab to school almost every morning if I’m going to be on time. It’s bloody out of the way! =_= Transport's gonna cost a bomb!~ I couldn't bring myself to buy a book I really wanted today because I was thinking of future cab fares. T_T Life is sad...

Work starts… life goes on…

The first week of NIE and content upgrading has been rather dreary. Man… the amount of steps we have to climb in campus… just thinking about it is enough to make me T_T

Thank goodness for the great company… as indicated in the pic below. But not forgetting denise, shuhui and pearl. Oh man... Content upgrading would be unthinkable without you guys! =)




Posted to PLMGS for the one month school experience. Ra and nat were rather disgruntled with their postings. The poor dears… =P Heh. But I don’t really feel anything much about mine. I know that it’s supposed to be a good school etc etc but there are other disadvantages present. Overall, I’m not really unhappy over this posting nor am I jumping for joy lah. PLMGS is in freaking Serangoon for goodness sake!

Seeing as nat has gotten an Ipod mini from her dad as a graduation present, and ra got herself an Ipod Photo, the green-eyed monster reared its head. I just had to buy something! Now I’m the proud owner of a red Olympus Mini! Hehe… partly sponsored by my dearest daddy. It’s sort of my graduation present. My dad’s the best! =)

Can’t wait for the 12th of July… then I’ll truly feel I’ve started work…

Shah Rukh Khan

Isn't he just the loveliest thing? Well, he's not the most good looking fellow out there (since Johnny is the fairest of them all), nor is he the tallest. But he has got that charm. His facial expressions are priceless! I'm going to start on Veer-Zaara soon. Hope it'll be as good as Kal Ho Naa Ho. =)

=_=

I actually had a dream about the Hindi movies I’ve been watching. Nothing really vivid other than the expected dancing and singing… the dream must have been the result of the movies and the new book I bought on a whim. Aptly titled “Bindis & Brides”. Another one of those fluffy books that I love, though this one’s not really that good. Bought it because I couldn’t bear to leave kino yesterday without buying anything. =_=

Anyways, back to the dream, Bollywood scene fades out then I was in this shop. Met a little girl and we started talking. She was telling me about how she came to Singapore by boat from Yangzhou and how she wanted to take a boat to Hong Kong but had some problems. I ended helping her to ask the lady in the shop if there were tickets on the boat ride to Hong Kong. Turned out the boat is full up and she would have to wait till next week. She was rather disappointed but she thanked me and left. =_=

In the dream I totally didn’t think it was strange that the mode of travel was by boat instead of planes. What freaked me out was how I still remember her face and the conversation we had even now. Normally, I’ll forget details as soon as I wake up. I’ll only remember the vague feelings and emotions. J thought it might have been a visitation. And frankly speaking, I’m not feeling too great about it too. But we might just have been thinking too much. But, if it really was a visitation, I do hope that she managed to get to Hong Kong as she wanted.

Sad…

My internet is down. For reasons unknown to me. T_T

I’ve not felt so inconsolable since my baby laptop died on me. Alas! I don’t have anymore Hindi flicks to watch. Must remember to get more from ra tomorrow. So now I’m using my bro’s com to blog while listening to the soundtrack of Kal Ho Naa Ho in an attempt to make myself feel better. Woah! The songs are actually very very very good! Can you imagine pretty woman in hindi? Amazingly, it sounds good!~ But my favourite is still the main theme song “Kal Ho Naa Ho”. J thinks i've gone mad. =P

Quoted: "just two weeks ago, you were normal" Wahahahahaha.... maybe I've gone a little mad from boredom but Shah Rukh Khan is really something! So cute!

Went to check out the stuff at Shu Uemura with J today. Wah… their stuff is so nice, yet so expensive. Already made out a rudimentary shopping list. Can’t wait for 1st july! =)

ps: I've managed to convert my younger brother into the world of Hindi movies... he actually uploaded the soundtrack of Kal Ho Naa Ho into his ipod and asked me when is ra passing me more stuff. =_= He's my first successful convert. =P Tried to convert asstea by letting her listen to pretty woman in hindi. But alas, no luck thus far. hahaha...

Hindi flicks is an acquired taste...

I have officially watched 5 hindi movies!

1)Munna Bhai M.B.B.S
2)Main Hoon Na
3)Kal Ho Naa Ho
4)Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
5)Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham…

All five are fantastic! With the exception of Munna Bhai M.B.B.S, the rest of the movies have Shah Rukh Khan in em! He is such a good-looking chap! Fantastic dancer and actor! He made me laugh and he made me cry… literally buckets of tears! In fact, that’s what good scripts and actors should be able to do. The ability to manipulate the emotions of the audience is a must! =P or maybe I’m just a crybaby…

Hahaha… he even made the dancing scenes watch-able! The soundtrack of Kal Ho Naa Ho is actually very nice! Dearest ra sent the songs to me and I’m listening to em all day on my ipod mini! So nice!!!

Onward! NUSKK!!

Congrats to all who passed their grading today! I know some may be disappointed with their results, but hey! Everyone passed! And maybe this step by step advancement will make your eventual dan grade all the more valued! Every step is an experience! =)

Was especially happy when tan lei passed his shodan! He’s one of the first among all my juniors to pass! Yay! Here’s hoping NUSKK continue to progress in the future! =)

groggy tobacco
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Some pics of my big baby!!

tobacco's fav past time.... =_=
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tobacco rolling around on the floor... as usual... =_=
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No longer a bum!

I finally went back for training after a damn long time! Though I felt sick in the first part of the training, it was really pretty fun. Today’s training reminded me of why I stuck in kendo for so long. =)

Oh! Not to forget the people I have not seen for such a long time! It was real good to see the SKC people, like xiao hui, xiao xiong, kuro-chan, tiff, chan sensei and even david sensei! I even got to see that old turtle ZX! Heh. Old turtle is not an insult but an affectionate *puke* nickname!~ (coz he called me the small turtle mah.). Thanks ZX aka old turtle for the drink after training(soya bean as well as the mysterious glucose =p)! And thanks er jie for the lift! The kangoo was damn cool! =)

Heh. One more fantastic thing that happened was that the set of VCDs I’ve been waiting for finally arrived! My faith in the basic goodness of mankind and yahoo auctions has finally been restored! Yay!

I'm a new convert...

Just watched Munna Bhai… man… I’m a new convert to the cult of hindi movies! It’s fucking hilarious! =_=

Ra, nat, you guys have ruined me for life! Hindi movies for god’s sake! *shakes head*

Made my younger brother watch it too! He’s laughing his head off now! Hilarious… I really can’t imagine a day when we watch hindi movies and like it. But it happened. =P

Oh… the simple things in life we take for granted.

Singapore never looked so lovely tonight. Man… you got to go without to appreciate the things you take for granted. Clean toilets for one. The toilets along the way to Genting were horrid to say the least. I still shudder when I think about their condition. *shudders* Even the hotel toilets was horrible, so were the ones in the shopping centers. Yucks to the power of 10!!! =_=

But the trip as a whole was all right. Except for the fact that the security guards at the casino kept checking my IC and it was pretty embarrassing to hold up the people behind while I fished for my IC. And I found a no-smoking area within one of the casino… Happiness!! I nearly died of smoke inhalation in the normal areas of the casino. =_=

My aunt just shopped and shopped while my mum cosseted herself in the casino. We only got to see her during meal times. Haha… I can’t keep up with either of them. My mum apparently don’t need to rest while my aunt’s a one woman shopping machine. So I just sat at starbucks and stone…

Met an old neighbour on our second day there. She’s there with her son and his daughters. Her elder granddaughter is only ten and she’s already 1.7m!! I can’t fucking believe it man! I last saw the girl during Chinese New Year and she was still shorter than me! How can anyone grow more than 20 cm in a few months time?? And she’s only ten for goodness sake! Trauma! I can’t accustom myself to looking UP at her. *trauma*

Took the afternoon bus back to Singapore. Uneventful… thank goodness for my mini i-pod!

Feelin’ pretty fine!

Today is payday! Woohoo!~ that’s the main reason lah! Hahaha… but seriously… even though I nearly died of high blood pressure teaching those P2 kids, I find them strangely endearing at the end of the lesson. Was having dinner with J just yesterday and strangely enough, when I told J all the exasperating stories of the kids, I found myself torn between laughter and annoyance. I’m sure I was a super fierce teacher, shouting at them all the time. But surprisingly, they were very clingy. P2 kids are so simple. Still, children shouldn’t grow up too fast. =_=

Our dear Ra treated us, as in me and nat, to sakae sushi for lunch today! Hehe… come on sista… what’s $30 in the sea of 6k? hahahaha…. After that, we went back to school to let the lady at the co-op measure us for the gown and the cap. As we were walking out of the co-op, I was complaining to ra about having to wear L for the mortar cap… “Do I really have such a big head?” To my surprise, I heard a “yes” behind me and turned back to see CG!! Oh man! I haven seen him for such a long time! haha… but come think of it, I haven seen much of my classmates for a long time too. Been too much of a recluse. =P

After NUS, we went to Little India for threading and ra and nat introduced me to the world of Hindi movies. The world of song and dance and of going round the coconut trees. =P But I’m always open to more movies lah. Heh. Then we just sat at BK and laughed, talked and gossiped for hours! It was fun!

There’s one thing that bothered me though. T_T One set of VCDs I bought over yahoo auction didn’t arrive. I think it got lost in the mail. And sadly, I’ve been waiting forever to see that series. T_T so sad…

Stupid Saizou...

Argh… I’d forgotten the birthday of one of my dearest friends. Damn it! How could I have forgotten?? Just a week ago I was thinking to myself that it’s approaching and I’ll at the very least call or sms. It’s now 30th May and I’m two days late. Damn it!

I really need some ginko nuts...

some stuff inspired by Jenn...

I was reading Jenn’s blog and her post about Japanese lessons in NUS, and it triggered memories of my own. I got the same teacher as you Jenn! I got Xia Qian… but I wasn’t really happy with her lah. Three different tutorials, three different tutors. Frankly speaking, only the TA tutor was a good teacher. TB tutor was xia qian and I can’t quite remember the name of the TC tutor except that he’s a Taiwanese guy. Reason being I don’t really go for TC tutorials. Haha… I think I only went for 3-4 TC lessons the whole semester. Japanese lessons as a whole didn't really register in my brain. It was a series of lectures I didn't go for and tests I'd forgotten to study for. Not to mention homework that I didn't do. =_= Of course I did some of it... I'm not really that suicidal in my second semester. That came later in my NUS life. =_=

Surprisingly, TB lessons were the ones I enjoyed the most. I guess it’s because of the crazy tutorial mates I met there. There were two from the Taekwondo Club, the then vice-captain and another girl. And I'm the "crazy girl" from Kendo (according to him lah. That idiot. =P). We got along famously. Maybe it’s because we’re all from martial arts clubs and we could grouse about the useless sports club together. In any case, I’d forgotten his name now, and I’ll bet that he had forgotten mine coz we usually call each other “xiao eh!” meaning crazy. I still see them the year following the Japanese lessons on some of the training days. Haha…the reason I remembered them is coz I’ll usually be paired up with the crazy guy for Japanese conversation. =_= which meant that I’ll have to endure his crazy and inventive, not to mention loud interpretation of what the conversation is supposed to sound like.

Another classmate I remembered was this tall guy. It was kinda awkward because I had chided him prior to the start of the first class for smoking in AS3. Imagine my shock when he walked in and sat next to me when class commenced. Haha… but we got over that little bit of unpleasantness soon enough. He's the only guy I know that has a bike that cost cheaper than his helmet! Haha... incredulous as it sounds, it's all true! But I can't really remember his name now. =P

Charles told me that I’ll regret it if I don’t drop the module. He took the same module the previous semester. But I was stubborn and well, I paid the price for my stupidity I guess. All in all, it was an eventful class, though the grade I got for this module pulled down my CAP. Damn it! =P I wish I’ll be able to see my tutorial mates again someday… but I don’t much relish being called “xiao eh” in the middle of the street. =_=

Oh... the things I do for money...

Today’s class totally drained me. Now I understand how nat felt last week. Argh… the kids acted like little gangsters and they’re still so tiny! I can sweep them aside with one flick of my arm. And they still want to act tough. It’s so laughable that it’s no longer funny. And so, I decided to relax for a while after the lesson instead of rushing home to go for training. Paisay ah estee… I promised that I’ll go and I didn’t in the end. Gomenasai! >_<

New assignment starts on Monday. Argh… I’m so not looking forward to it. I have to do all nine of the activities with the kids. Unlike Nat, that lucky gal… only has to do the same three activities on all three days. There’s one that’s more distasteful than the rest. It involves measuring the legs of little frogs. =_= I sure hope the kids don’t kill em man. Little kids can be so rough sometimes.

Still, the money will be good. I just hope I don’t die of high blood pressure at the end of the three days. There’s a reason why I don’t want to teach in a primary school. Little kids freak me out. =_= I don’t know how to handle them. One moment they’re cute as hell, the next I want to throttle them. I wonder how on earth I'm going to survive the three days. Still, I think I'm going to be a happy gal come Wednesday! =P

One Year Old!!

*throws confetti into the air*

Today’s the 1st anniversary of my blog! I can’t believe one year has gone by so quickly. The main motive for the setting up of this blog was to get gmail invites, back in the time when no one had gmail and gmail invites were hard to come by. Haha…Of how in the beginning, only J knew I had this blog, then it spread to the kendo peeps, then to my honours classmates. I never intended to keep the blog for long. But somehow, it became a habit to rant and rave in it. =_= Here’s a happy birthday to me blog and hope that there’ll be many more ahead! =)

老了就是这样

I wanted to go for the Kata session on Saturday. Honest! But I only remembered it on Sunday. One of my juniors said this to me over msn... "老了就是这样"

Hurt me deep deep. T_T

I just need more ginko nuts... but I'm young at heart!

Heh. Speaking of ginko nuts... that sort of reminded me of something J said. Think it was from some book J read.
"Everyone should take their daily dose of ginko and viagra. So they can remember what the fuck they're doing."

=p

On a happier note…

Well… coz I was so upset over the manga…I went to watch some anime… Eyeshield 21 is about American Football… *pui* such a primitive game… but the anime is funny!!







Hee hee… Hiruma is a hell of a character! YA-HA!!