Saizou's Playground

Thursday, February 26, 2009

School's been crazy recently. My masters classes are rather hectic as well. Too much work piling up! Not a good thing at all. There's hardly any time to sit down and think about what I've been doing right or wrong in class. I make it a point not to bring markings home during the weekdays but found that I can't stick to it today. There's simply too much stuff to mark! It's bogging me down. And while I like my kids, all the inane stuff in school just kills me. There's no energy to do anything extra. Tomorrow will be another hectic day and Sat as well because of CIP with the kids and meeting up with the crazy colleagues(ex) in the evening!

Yosh! Have discipline! Must force myself to do work!! No more slacking and watching dramas...for these few days at the very least!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Pictures from Tokyo!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Growing up and apart?

Heh. My kids are adorable. Most of them anyway. Their trivial little troubles bothers them so much. I guess I was the same way back then. Then I grew up and those trivial little troubles seems so minute and insignificant. Time really plays a major role in a lot of things. We grow up, grow apart from some friends, make new ones, get interested in new things, lose interest in others. This cycle never seems to differ from individual to individual. It's kinda pointless to expect others to stay the same way when you're constantly changing yourself.

A few months ago, I'm very bothered by the fact that a friend was acting differently towards me. Was it something I did? Was it something I said? I guess on hindsight, we're just growing apart. I was really bothered ya know. Coz this friend is very important to me. Now, it all seems so trivial to me. I've not made any new friends in these few months, there's no new interests to occupy my mind... well, except photography. hehe... but other than that. I don't see how my life has changed in the past few months. But what seemed so important and bothered me so much then, hardly seems to matter now. I guess self-preservation kicks in and I began to pull back myself. Perhaps this friendship (of quite a few years I might add) might fizzle out... perhaps we just needed time away from each other... I don't know and while I can't say that it doesn't bother me at all, it's not that important to me now. Time really plays an important role in a lot of things.

Maybe the problem lies with me. I'm just not that bothered to put in effort in most relationships. But what's the point? Nothing ever remains constant. Haha... maybe that's why it never lasts.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Ok.. this is rather funny IMO

I told my younger brother that I'll be heading a committee (albeit a small one) in school next year, and that committee is...... Character Education!

Here's what he said,

"Oh Gwad! Putting you in charge of character education is like putting Hitler in charge of Human Rights!"

Haha... that little fucker. =_=

Friday, December 26, 2008

End of the year! Again!

2008 has been ok in my humble opinion. Not as great as 2007 but it's cool. I missed my 4E5 and I think I'll miss my 4E3 this year. It's all part and parcel of them growing up and us growing old. T_T

Other than that, life's been pretty all right. Good friends, family in good health, great colleagues (now minus a few), good money (from slogging in hell), made more new friends, took up a new (and expensive) hobby. Yeah, life's pretty good at this moment in time.

December's really my favourite month of the year. In fact, I'm in such charity with the world that I can't really remember anything bad that happened earlier in the year.

December's also the month where I catch up on my reading that I've sadly neglected the rest of the year. In fact, I think I've read more books in December alone than the whole of the rest of the year. Let me count for a sec....wah... I just counted and (excluding the e-books), its bout 44 books. I would like to brag and post their titles online but the majority of those books are chick lit and/or romance and they don't really count. Haha... damn... I wish I had more time to bum around and read more books and watch more dramas before the damn term starts.

L warned me that I'll regret saying I'm bored when I told her in Nov. T_T boo! Now I'm feeling the regret keenly.

But overall, December was good. Tokyo trip was fun and I wish Singapore has winter! +_+ okies. Enough of a disjointed and confused post. I'm off to read more books!

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Assorted Pictures...

Tobacco

I wanna go out and play too.....

What's up? Get that camera out of my face!!

prone position!

Marina Barrage

Some sort of covering i guess... not too sure about that.

View of the Marina Barrage

The B&W version...

Thought he looked real small and defenseless. .. ok! i admit i felt sadistic for a second and wonder if it'll be easy to kick him into the water. =_=

I didn't dare to take pictures of the little girls in case their parents beat me up so i took a picture of their shadows. ahahha....

Random shot of kids playing with water

one of last shots of the day before my camera ran out of batt. =_=

Thursday, November 13, 2008

My new god-daughter!

Behold! My new doll to dress up! My first and only god-child!

Isn't she just adorable? I swear! Babies are just so cute! Especially when they're not your own. Hahaha.... then when they poop or cry, you can just hand em right back to their mothers. But this little lady is simply precious! Me and Ra are so proud to be her god-mums!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

I love this time of the year!

The marking's done! Results decided. All that's left is the O'levels. I actually love small group tuition. I feel that I can actually connect with them during these sessions. I can see the absorption of knowledge and the realization and understanding once they 'got' it. Plus I really do have real affections towards my sec 4s.

Was bored this morning and looked through some of my old blog posts of previous years. Mostly at the pictures I put up. I should put up more pictures... they are the ones I enjoyed looking at most of the times. It's like an online photo album!

Student years are the best! Nothing to worry about except how to improve in kendo and how to attend more trainings. School was a breeze. Until the honours year that is... then I started feeling slightly stressed up. But Kendo was a constant in my NUS years. My Kendo pals (and J) were the constant in NUS. Joined in honours year by Ra, Nat and Hen. They made the four years there fantastic in spite of the school.

Then NIE... studying while getting paid. How great was that? Kendo was no longer a constant... and I kinda missed that.

Practicum was fun and surprisingly not as stressful as I'd thought it would be. Kids were great, my mentors were great, my sup was great, even my practicum mates were great. Guess I was really lucky. Kendo was not in the picture at this point in time. I guess I feel slightly sad.

Starting work for real at my current school. I have my grouses and my whines and complaints... but overall I think I had and still have a great time in school. I'm happiest in 2007 I guess. My 4E5'07 was a great source of comfort and amusement. Sometimes, a source of heartache... but mostly happy memories from them. Best of all, I have this group of whacky colleagues that turned into bosom buddies! J once told me that colleagues are not friends. But I feel that this group made the transition quite well. hahahaha... It's sad that my whacky pals are leaving the service one by one... but friendship extend beyond work! That's the difference between friends and colleagues!

2008 was an ok year. My 4E5 is gone but they've gone to bigger better things in life and I'm happy for them. My classes this year are cool and I have my current sec 4s to consider so am kept rather busy. Another bunch of kids who feel that no one believes in them. Attitude this time is slightly better. I'm expecting more from this batch. Sweet kids. My friends are still around. J is still around. Just that... Kendo in this period of my life was periodic to say the least. Once a month if I'm lucky with old friends... nothing constant. There's always other things I'm busy with... my kids, my work, my friends... all excuses. And I know this. Recently, I looked at my bougu, my shinai bag, my poor neglected shinais, my gi and hakama, and recalled how happy I was when I first bought them in year 1. I feel that I cannot let it end like that. I feel like going back and I think that I'm going to.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Tagged!

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Instructions:

a) Answer the questions below, do a Google Image search with your answer, take a picture from the first page of results, and do it with minimal words of explanation.

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1. The age you’ll be on your next birthday:-