If you've been traveling on the MRT lately, I'm quite sure you might have seen this advertisement showing on the SMRT media mobile screen, promote Healthy Lifestyle in Singapore.
It goes something like this. The first shot is a close-up of our infamous Singapore icon Zoe Tay, and she was approaching a lift. Apparantly, she was going to press the button. But the next thing you know... a smile spreaded over her face (completed with the 'ah-ha'!! look) and she went to the stairs next to the lift instead.
Next shot, the camera pulled away and showed her climbing up the stairs happily, donned in high heels and a flowing skirt. It was still quite normal till this point when she started climbing up and down the same few steps to emphasize her happiness over CLIMBING A STAIRCASE. She did a dramatic twirling at the landing and went up the next flight of steps, with some energetic and jumpy steps. Finally, these wordings appeared "Fit health into your life right now.. Exercise and eat right."
You may find that I'm quite weird today, spending time blogging about an advert, but guess what? It redefined my idea of a 'dumb advertisement' and brought the meaning to a greater heights. Woah...Incredible.. I was trying hard not to laugh out loud when I first saw it. The whole idea of the advert from my understanding was that: we can look as glam as Zoe and get some exercise done at the same time. Right!! But my point is, who in the world in her right mind will think of climbing up stairs looking so ecstatic in high heels? Obviously that person will end up with a sprain ankle. *Ouch* Try coming to NIE and climb up the many flights of stairs FOC here, without panting, gasping for air under the hot sun?? Impossible!! Looking as glam as Zoe Tay? I felt that the whole advert had made her an equal with 许纯美 instead. Opps, getting real cynical here.
Haiz.. probably I'm just irritated and tired as I watched the same advert on SMRT mobile TV for the whole journey from Bishan and Boon Lay this evening (happened to forget my mp3 player today), and it was the most unfortunate! Everyone knows that whatever is showing up there will be playing all over and over and over and over again.. Every 10 seconds or so I looked up, there she is climbing stairs. Arggghh.. I was quite amused initially, but I found myself scrowling at the screen eventually. Can't they just play something decent on those mobile screens, since the technology has been invented? After all I had paid for the MRT ride, at least they can get better entertainment.
I found myself at a moral dilemma, either I break the screen of the TV or I get myself crazy. Yeah right, healthy lifestyle indeed. 不把我逼疯才怪！ I forced myself to divert my eyes to the passengers stoning opposite me, and the wonderful scenery outside. I was so glad when the train finally pulled in at Jurong East. Stepping happily into the train heading to Boon Lay with a heave of relief, I looked up and Zoe was there again!! Help!!
End of blog. It's a very abrupt ending but do forgive me. The people downstairs are making a din right now, time for block supper!! Yummy food, here I come.. =)
Thursday, September 30, 2004
不想做作业的结果就是“情不自禁”地一blog 再 blog.. All my dedicated readers are in luck!
Miss Giam, one of my 'best acquaintance' suddenly turned up at my room on the night of the mid-autumn to terrorise the population of Hall 15. It was intended as a surprise, but she surprised herself as she didn't know that it's mid-autumn and my dear roomie wasn't around. I almost went home as well, if not for the early Wed lessons. Can't imagine what would happen if I did.
Apparantly, she was prepared to stay over for the night, and even brought us presents. May I add that her idea of present is sometimes a bit different...erm, as what you can see above. We couldn't decide if it's meant to be a mini dustbin or just something to collect our stuff. It even looks like a child's potty! Well, somebody had actually gotten a real dustbin from Giam during our christmas celebration gift exchange last year, how fabulous.. =P
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Miss Giam, one of my 'best acquaintance' suddenly turned up at my room on the night of the mid-autumn to terrorise the population of Hall 15. It was intended as a surprise, but she surprised herself as she didn't know that it's mid-autumn and my dear roomie wasn't around. I almost went home as well, if not for the early Wed lessons. Can't imagine what would happen if I did.
Apparantly, she was prepared to stay over for the night, and even brought us presents. May I add that her idea of present is sometimes a bit different...erm, as what you can see above. We couldn't decide if it's meant to be a mini dustbin or just something to collect our stuff. It even looks like a child's potty! Well, somebody had actually gotten a real dustbin from Giam during our christmas celebration gift exchange last year, how fabulous.. =P
Don't you love my photos
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Went to Xiaxue's blog just now and was surprised to see a full entry in Chinese, much longer than any of those that I had happened to blog on this site. I think I saw the same entry last night but it was full of '????' with no words, I tried switching the encoding around, trying to decode it but still couldn't read what she wrote. I thought to myself: "Xiaxue can't be blogging in Chinese, maybe this is something creative she had came up with??" and left it as that.
Hahaahaa...but she really had done it, much to my surprise! It's not easy to blog in Chinese in a candid manner as the language is basically more formal, so it really tickles me when she kept referring to herself as '老娘'. Heehee.. I must say that her command of the language is really not bad, definitely someone who is effectively bilingual. Wow...
Well, today one of my lecturers was mentioning that it's sad when even Chinese teachers like us are not reading Chinese newspapers, or type our sms in Chinese. Hmm.. in his words: "如果连华文老师们都不看华文报了,还有谁看华文报呢?"
I think if the same lecturer know something about blog, he would have advice us to type chinese text in our blogs too.. heeheee. I must admit that I don't type sms, neither do I blog in Chinese because the main purpose of language is for communication, therefor it depends on the targeted audience. 不瞒大家，其实我的华文水准不高，现在只是混口饭吃罢了。See, how modest I am!
Actually, the only person I do sms Chinese text to is my mum, as that's how she communicate with me.
I think the thing with language is quite tricky, sometimes we do get quite used with one mode of communication over another. I remembered that when I just got out of NY, I felt the culture shock when I realised that not everyone converse in Chinese in like what we used to do, so I always switch when I speak to different people. Ah..the art of socializing..
Hmm, better not digress too much.. heehee, I better get on with my reports!! But I suddenly had the idea if famous bloggers all start blogging in Chinese, then maybe it's one way to promote the language. Right? Okay okay, I think too much liao.. =P
Hahaahaa...but she really had done it, much to my surprise! It's not easy to blog in Chinese in a candid manner as the language is basically more formal, so it really tickles me when she kept referring to herself as '老娘'. Heehee.. I must say that her command of the language is really not bad, definitely someone who is effectively bilingual. Wow...
Well, today one of my lecturers was mentioning that it's sad when even Chinese teachers like us are not reading Chinese newspapers, or type our sms in Chinese. Hmm.. in his words: "如果连华文老师们都不看华文报了,还有谁看华文报呢?"
I think if the same lecturer know something about blog, he would have advice us to type chinese text in our blogs too.. heeheee. I must admit that I don't type sms, neither do I blog in Chinese because the main purpose of language is for communication, therefor it depends on the targeted audience. 不瞒大家，其实我的华文水准不高，现在只是混口饭吃罢了。See, how modest I am!
Actually, the only person I do sms Chinese text to is my mum, as that's how she communicate with me.
I think the thing with language is quite tricky, sometimes we do get quite used with one mode of communication over another. I remembered that when I just got out of NY, I felt the culture shock when I realised that not everyone converse in Chinese in like what we used to do, so I always switch when I speak to different people. Ah..the art of socializing..
Hmm, better not digress too much.. heehee, I better get on with my reports!! But I suddenly had the idea if famous bloggers all start blogging in Chinese, then maybe it's one way to promote the language. Right? Okay okay, I think too much liao.. =P
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Mid-autumn.. aka Mooncake festival
It's mid-autumn tonight! The moon is supposed to be bright bright and nice nice at this particular night of the year.. So just now, after I woke up from my nap and realised it's after nightfall, I looked out of the window expecting to see the round moon but it was nowhere in sight. No moon!???
I went downstairs to get my dinner and decided to take a walk to NIE, in search of the moon．To my disappointment, it didn't turn up.. 为什么会这样？月亮失约了！As I turned back from NIE to head back to hall, finally spotted it rising up from behind the roof.
When I was younger, I'll go to the park with my family with a box of mooncakes and our lanterns on the night of the mid-autumn. The excitement was to light up the candles and make it melt everywhere, and then burn up our lanterns at the end of it. The last few years, I only remembered about it when I saw kids playing with their lanterns at the playground downstairs, on my way home. And this year is the best, nobody playing with lanterns, no laughter coming up from the playground.. can do nothing but only my reports, so pathetic leh.. Speaking of which, I just finished one before I went to nap today, finally! But I still have approximately 239399595 more reports to do... I'll spend another 200 years in NIE.
Talking about reports and work is always depressing..heehee.. I even got quite sick of the moon last night when I was cramming for a test.
一钩弯月，一轮明月，一泓满月，还有一粒月亮，一丸月亮！
How creative.. Hahaha, my favourite is the last two, as it reminded me of the egg yolk in the mooncakes. =P Actually, the moon reminded me of the delicious salted egg yolk just now, it's so yellow and big, almost dripping with a bit of oil. Hahahaa.. Last year, I was telling my friend "Eh, tonight the moon like egg yolk hor?".. he thought I was crazy.
天若有情天亦老，月如无痕月常圆
It's mid-autumn tonight! The moon is supposed to be bright bright and nice nice at this particular night of the year.. So just now, after I woke up from my nap and realised it's after nightfall, I looked out of the window expecting to see the round moon but it was nowhere in sight. No moon!???
I went downstairs to get my dinner and decided to take a walk to NIE, in search of the moon．To my disappointment, it didn't turn up.. 为什么会这样？月亮失约了！As I turned back from NIE to head back to hall, finally spotted it rising up from behind the roof.
When I was younger, I'll go to the park with my family with a box of mooncakes and our lanterns on the night of the mid-autumn. The excitement was to light up the candles and make it melt everywhere, and then burn up our lanterns at the end of it. The last few years, I only remembered about it when I saw kids playing with their lanterns at the playground downstairs, on my way home. And this year is the best, nobody playing with lanterns, no laughter coming up from the playground.. can do nothing but only my reports, so pathetic leh.. Speaking of which, I just finished one before I went to nap today, finally! But I still have approximately 239399595 more reports to do... I'll spend another 200 years in NIE.
Talking about reports and work is always depressing..heehee.. I even got quite sick of the moon last night when I was cramming for a test.
一钩弯月，一轮明月，一泓满月，还有一粒月亮，一丸月亮！
How creative.. Hahaha, my favourite is the last two, as it reminded me of the egg yolk in the mooncakes. =P Actually, the moon reminded me of the delicious salted egg yolk just now, it's so yellow and big, almost dripping with a bit of oil. Hahahaa.. Last year, I was telling my friend "Eh, tonight the moon like egg yolk hor?".. he thought I was crazy.
天若有情天亦老，月如无痕月常圆
Yesterday, we were really taken by surprise when a 好心人came to our lecture to give out a box of mooncakes to each of us. It's not the cheapo kind, but even the packaging was quite nice, as what you can see above. As the saying goes 'there's no free lunch in this world'.. but it really happened. Sitting comfortably in the LT and the yue bing came flooded to us. As Singaporeans, we are all naturally 'gian bng', therefore majority of us were really happy to get the freebies, though a tad skeptical. Is it really really really for free? Hahahaa..
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Monday, September 27, 2004
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Cute mooncakes from Four Seasons
Walked past Sun plaza just now, and saw these very cute snow-skinned mooncakes. Realised that I didn't buy any mooncakes home this year, so decided to get them for my parents. =) Look closely, there's different flowers moulded on the mooncake..yummy..! They tasted really good too, with four different flavours. What you see here is only half of the box, my parents ate up 4 of them in just ten minutes!!
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Walked past Sun plaza just now, and saw these very cute snow-skinned mooncakes. Realised that I didn't buy any mooncakes home this year, so decided to get them for my parents. =) Look closely, there's different flowers moulded on the mooncake..yummy..! They tasted really good too, with four different flavours. What you see here is only half of the box, my parents ate up 4 of them in just ten minutes!!
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Settlers
Finally played my first game of Settlers two weeks ago after hearing it for so long.. A while ago, you'll always see Aileen post up pictures like this in her blog, and I'd always go 'HUH??'. But Settlers was really fun, as I won one of the two games we played. Yeah, I was that good.. hahaa, even my friends admitted that I had very good strategies.
This was our first trial. Finally set up the board and after Aileen's many efforts in explaining how the game goes, we got started. What you see now was our first arrangement of the settlements. Apparently, Aileen is already an expert in explaining how Settlers was being played..hahaa.. at certain parts, she'll just say "Later you'll understand". Aileen, hor?
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This is the end of the first game.. I was in blue and Aileen won the game (she was in orange). After this, all of us were immediately into the game and we carried on to the 2nd match at 4 in the morning!
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Finally played my first game of Settlers two weeks ago after hearing it for so long.. A while ago, you'll always see Aileen post up pictures like this in her blog, and I'd always go 'HUH??'. But Settlers was really fun, as I won one of the two games we played. Yeah, I was that good.. hahaa, even my friends admitted that I had very good strategies.
This was our first trial. Finally set up the board and after Aileen's many efforts in explaining how the game goes, we got started. What you see now was our first arrangement of the settlements. Apparently, Aileen is already an expert in explaining how Settlers was being played..hahaa.. at certain parts, she'll just say "Later you'll understand". Aileen, hor?
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This is the end of the first game.. I was in blue and Aileen won the game (she was in orange). After this, all of us were immediately into the game and we carried on to the 2nd match at 4 in the morning!
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Rainy daze...
The rainy season seems to be early this year, it had been raining almost every afternoon/evening last week, and now while I'm safely back under the roof of my room, I can hear the rain "patter..patter..patter" outside. The sky had been greyish all day, it was only bright and sunny in the morning and when come afternoon, there was a huge downpour, complete with howling wind. I was lucky though, to be in school all these times until the rain god was taking a break right after I finished my day, and I quickly rushed back. Lucky yo, all through last week and this week I hadn't been caught in the rain..
It must be strange for me to be blogging about this, but I do have a love-hate relationship with the rain. It seems to be an annoucement that we're nearer to the end of the year, and nearer to Christmas. If I'm out and the weather is cold and dowdy, I'll hate the dampness and I'll hate it as the world seems to become sad and moody. Dunno? Maybe the weather does affect people. Speaking of which, I seemed to noticed that teachers in the afternoon sessions shout and scream at the kids more often then those in the morning session.. maybe it's due to the hot weather? Probably its a good thing that all schools are converting to partial single session by next year.. Hahahha...
Okay, I'm digressing. Back to the rain, whenever it's raining during the late afternoons and evenings and I'm at home, I'll cherish the chance to laze around, and I appreciate it a lot. It tend to remind me of many things that I used to do during holidays in December, and to think of it now, I do missed all those things. I always associate rain with December and the Christmas season etc.. therefore I have all these fond memories. It reminds me of CI course, and camping, or hiking in the rain during my past years of youth. It remind me of Christmas celebrations that I'll always have with my friends. I look forward to Christmas, and the end of the year, and the holidays when the rain is here.
The rainy season seems to be early this year, it had been raining almost every afternoon/evening last week, and now while I'm safely back under the roof of my room, I can hear the rain "patter..patter..patter" outside. The sky had been greyish all day, it was only bright and sunny in the morning and when come afternoon, there was a huge downpour, complete with howling wind. I was lucky though, to be in school all these times until the rain god was taking a break right after I finished my day, and I quickly rushed back. Lucky yo, all through last week and this week I hadn't been caught in the rain..
It must be strange for me to be blogging about this, but I do have a love-hate relationship with the rain. It seems to be an annoucement that we're nearer to the end of the year, and nearer to Christmas. If I'm out and the weather is cold and dowdy, I'll hate the dampness and I'll hate it as the world seems to become sad and moody. Dunno? Maybe the weather does affect people. Speaking of which, I seemed to noticed that teachers in the afternoon sessions shout and scream at the kids more often then those in the morning session.. maybe it's due to the hot weather? Probably its a good thing that all schools are converting to partial single session by next year.. Hahahha...
Okay, I'm digressing. Back to the rain, whenever it's raining during the late afternoons and evenings and I'm at home, I'll cherish the chance to laze around, and I appreciate it a lot. It tend to remind me of many things that I used to do during holidays in December, and to think of it now, I do missed all those things. I always associate rain with December and the Christmas season etc.. therefore I have all these fond memories. It reminds me of CI course, and camping, or hiking in the rain during my past years of youth. It remind me of Christmas celebrations that I'll always have with my friends. I look forward to Christmas, and the end of the year, and the holidays when the rain is here.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
I saw Xiaxue's latest post and it reminded me so much about myself that I've decided to blog so late at night. =P
Well, I must say that she's really quite courageous to 'show off' her result slips in her blog, and I'm not even brave enough to mention that I was from CJC in the first 3 mths of my JC life. This is something that I really admire about Xiaxue, so frank and candid about her life. Many things that I would have experienced but feel too embarrassed to tell others, she'll blog about it. That girl is sooooooooo good. There's nothing wrong with being from CJC I guess, especially now to think of it. (So, no offense to the CJCians there!) But when I had just graduated from my secondary school and when I was there, I didn't feel proud of myself at all.. so much so that I stopped going there after the first month, when I moved further away from that school. Even though my PSLE score wasn't as good as hers, I was from a school no less better than RV, therefore most of my classmates and friends eventually attended JCs in the top 5 ranking.
I had no choice but to went on to first 3 mths without any of my friends, as I wouldn't want to be the odd ball who didn't make it to JC, even though I was among the botton few of my class. I felt so bad during that phase of my life that I really pitied myself. Other than the culture shock to be around convent girls who conversed mostly in English, I remembered I was with another NY gal on the first day at CJC when there was a rude guy from SJI who said "NY girls? Why are you all here?" I was also asking myself why I was there at that point of time. And I refused to attend school soon after that, even though the school called up to enquired about my absence.
I certainly wasn't as brave as Xiaxue to be so determined to take the Poly path.. I think I was really someone who's very average and wanted to be in the mainstream like other Jane, Lucy or Mary. And so I was, floated along with the rest, all my life. Now, 6 years down the road, I really have no shame to speak of anymore... it's just a phase of my life that I once felt so strongly about, so bitter-sweet to remember nowadays. Sometimes, I'm really regretful of why I didn't study harder when I was younger, but either I'm too stubborn to admit my faults, or I didn't want to dwell on the past too much, I don't know. I have so many things to be regretful about, yet I have many things to be thankful about too. Overall, I think I'm a really lucky person, so I have to count my blessings. I managed to float along with the rest to finish my JC, graduated from Uni and to have found my dream career path. Met a few bumps here and there, but eventually I'm still here. Certainly, I could have done better. But that 'could have' will be better if I can make it a 'will have' in the days to come.. I'm a disgustingly overly optimistic person at times!
Anyway, I was writing in my 散文 assignment that I'm certainly a person who's made out of the words 小时了了。。 I topped my level once when I was in my Primary School, and was the champion for three years for my school's chinese eassay writing competition (that's the only thing that makes me suitable for my job now). And since this is the time to brag, I must add that I was even nominated to be my class's model student when I was in Sec 2, hahahhahaa.. I couldn't even remember how I did that at all.
Well, I must say that she's really quite courageous to 'show off' her result slips in her blog, and I'm not even brave enough to mention that I was from CJC in the first 3 mths of my JC life. This is something that I really admire about Xiaxue, so frank and candid about her life. Many things that I would have experienced but feel too embarrassed to tell others, she'll blog about it. That girl is sooooooooo good. There's nothing wrong with being from CJC I guess, especially now to think of it. (So, no offense to the CJCians there!) But when I had just graduated from my secondary school and when I was there, I didn't feel proud of myself at all.. so much so that I stopped going there after the first month, when I moved further away from that school. Even though my PSLE score wasn't as good as hers, I was from a school no less better than RV, therefore most of my classmates and friends eventually attended JCs in the top 5 ranking.
I had no choice but to went on to first 3 mths without any of my friends, as I wouldn't want to be the odd ball who didn't make it to JC, even though I was among the botton few of my class. I felt so bad during that phase of my life that I really pitied myself. Other than the culture shock to be around convent girls who conversed mostly in English, I remembered I was with another NY gal on the first day at CJC when there was a rude guy from SJI who said "NY girls? Why are you all here?" I was also asking myself why I was there at that point of time. And I refused to attend school soon after that, even though the school called up to enquired about my absence.
I certainly wasn't as brave as Xiaxue to be so determined to take the Poly path.. I think I was really someone who's very average and wanted to be in the mainstream like other Jane, Lucy or Mary. And so I was, floated along with the rest, all my life. Now, 6 years down the road, I really have no shame to speak of anymore... it's just a phase of my life that I once felt so strongly about, so bitter-sweet to remember nowadays. Sometimes, I'm really regretful of why I didn't study harder when I was younger, but either I'm too stubborn to admit my faults, or I didn't want to dwell on the past too much, I don't know. I have so many things to be regretful about, yet I have many things to be thankful about too. Overall, I think I'm a really lucky person, so I have to count my blessings. I managed to float along with the rest to finish my JC, graduated from Uni and to have found my dream career path. Met a few bumps here and there, but eventually I'm still here. Certainly, I could have done better. But that 'could have' will be better if I can make it a 'will have' in the days to come.. I'm a disgustingly overly optimistic person at times!
Anyway, I was writing in my 散文 assignment that I'm certainly a person who's made out of the words 小时了了。。 I topped my level once when I was in my Primary School, and was the champion for three years for my school's chinese eassay writing competition (that's the only thing that makes me suitable for my job now). And since this is the time to brag, I must add that I was even nominated to be my class's model student when I was in Sec 2, hahahhahaa.. I couldn't even remember how I did that at all.
Friday, September 17, 2004
I'm watching the news now and guess what? Just saw the news that Mediacorp and Mediaworks had merged.. I was like, DUH!!!
Then why in the first place they set up a new company? Haiyoh..now it's back to square one due to cash flow problems. Now we are going to have Streats and Today as one, though there's still going to be Channel 8, 5 and Channel U.
Okay, maybe more competitive for the Stars Award this year.. I'm sick of seeing all the same few faces.
Then why in the first place they set up a new company? Haiyoh..now it's back to square one due to cash flow problems. Now we are going to have Streats and Today as one, though there's still going to be Channel 8, 5 and Channel U.
Okay, maybe more competitive for the Stars Award this year.. I'm sick of seeing all the same few faces.
Monday, September 13, 2004
Yo yo.. I'm back at home, bathed and had dinner at 6.30pm!!
Well, well, though I kept complaining that we poor PGDE pple are not having our hols this semester, the school experience did help a little to soothe my anguish. Becos, it's ahem.. a rather slack experience. Here's what I did today:
I reported at 7am and left the school around 1.30pm.. woah.. and in between I only had 2 hours of lessons which I have to observe, luckily I was smart enough to bring in some reports that I intend to complete this week. The other NIE trainee in the morning session even brought his own laptop to do his stuff.. Hmm... But of course, all this is really an illusion. I only have 21 periods of lessons on my timetable this week but for all other teachers its more than 40 periods per week, excluding CCAs, remedials and meetings. Sigh.. My CTs (cooperating teachers, and in layman's term, the teachers whom I'm attached to) didn't have time to speak to me much, as they only had one measly break the whole day. So I was left alone most of the time..
2pm- Reached Northpoint, went to look look see see around.. Decided to head for Causeway point after getting some stuff.
2.45pm- Reached Causeway Point, made appointment to trim my eyebrow and head for the library
3.30pm-Eyebrow trimming at Metro
4pm-Head back to Sun Plaza
4.20pm- Visted the dentist at Sun Plaza
5.30pm- After some polishing and scaling, plus filling up SIX cavities (!!) at the dentist, I reached home!!
See, I did all that in a day, whereas in my normal NIE Mondays, I only just finished my lesson at 5.30pm!! Well, maybe this is only the first day, so probably it's rather free and easy, but I think it's still better than no slacking all at.. =)
Yeah.. I did throw in $290 just to beautify myself today, and of course.. majority of it went to the dentist. That shows that there's no ugly woman in the world, only POOR woman. I must mention that the dental benefits for civil servants, or maybe just for us teachers, is really miserable. The claims for medical can go up to $350 per year, but I can only claim $70 for this dental visit, and that's all for this year. This is really unfair to me, as I hardly visit the doctor the whole year, yet one visit to the dentist can cost a bomb! It's a discrimination to those who are just born healthy yet with bad teeth, namely..yours truly.
Sigh..speaking of the dentist, I had very bad experiences as I need lots and lots of fillings done ever since I was in primary school. There's perpetually some decay somewhere every minute, or every second, of my life. I was called to the 'missy' many times more often than my classmates when I was in primary school, I get to miss a lot of lessons but as a result, was really traumatised. The dentist chair is really my biggest phobia in life! My last visit to the dentist before today was 2 years ago, and that was a 'marathon' session that cost almost $300 bucks too, as even my front tooth was decaying! Ouch.. had you ever had your front teeth filled up b4?
I really had to push myself to the dental clinic today as I saw black spots in between my front teeth a few days back*groan*, my stomach was practically churning and my palms sweaty on my way there. I took my painless eyebrow trimming as a sign that my threshold for pain is higher today..
And yes, I was really lucky as today's visit to the dentist was almost painless.. Maybe due to its due to good surgery skills, better technology or maybe just more mental preparation on my part. Phew...
By the way... this long blog just shows that I had no monday blues today! =)
Well, well, though I kept complaining that we poor PGDE pple are not having our hols this semester, the school experience did help a little to soothe my anguish. Becos, it's ahem.. a rather slack experience. Here's what I did today:
I reported at 7am and left the school around 1.30pm.. woah.. and in between I only had 2 hours of lessons which I have to observe, luckily I was smart enough to bring in some reports that I intend to complete this week. The other NIE trainee in the morning session even brought his own laptop to do his stuff.. Hmm... But of course, all this is really an illusion. I only have 21 periods of lessons on my timetable this week but for all other teachers its more than 40 periods per week, excluding CCAs, remedials and meetings. Sigh.. My CTs (cooperating teachers, and in layman's term, the teachers whom I'm attached to) didn't have time to speak to me much, as they only had one measly break the whole day. So I was left alone most of the time..
2pm- Reached Northpoint, went to look look see see around.. Decided to head for Causeway point after getting some stuff.
2.45pm- Reached Causeway Point, made appointment to trim my eyebrow and head for the library
3.30pm-Eyebrow trimming at Metro
4pm-Head back to Sun Plaza
4.20pm- Visted the dentist at Sun Plaza
5.30pm- After some polishing and scaling, plus filling up SIX cavities (!!) at the dentist, I reached home!!
See, I did all that in a day, whereas in my normal NIE Mondays, I only just finished my lesson at 5.30pm!! Well, maybe this is only the first day, so probably it's rather free and easy, but I think it's still better than no slacking all at.. =)
Yeah.. I did throw in $290 just to beautify myself today, and of course.. majority of it went to the dentist. That shows that there's no ugly woman in the world, only POOR woman. I must mention that the dental benefits for civil servants, or maybe just for us teachers, is really miserable. The claims for medical can go up to $350 per year, but I can only claim $70 for this dental visit, and that's all for this year. This is really unfair to me, as I hardly visit the doctor the whole year, yet one visit to the dentist can cost a bomb! It's a discrimination to those who are just born healthy yet with bad teeth, namely..yours truly.
Sigh..speaking of the dentist, I had very bad experiences as I need lots and lots of fillings done ever since I was in primary school. There's perpetually some decay somewhere every minute, or every second, of my life. I was called to the 'missy' many times more often than my classmates when I was in primary school, I get to miss a lot of lessons but as a result, was really traumatised. The dentist chair is really my biggest phobia in life! My last visit to the dentist before today was 2 years ago, and that was a 'marathon' session that cost almost $300 bucks too, as even my front tooth was decaying! Ouch.. had you ever had your front teeth filled up b4?
I really had to push myself to the dental clinic today as I saw black spots in between my front teeth a few days back*groan*, my stomach was practically churning and my palms sweaty on my way there. I took my painless eyebrow trimming as a sign that my threshold for pain is higher today..
And yes, I was really lucky as today's visit to the dentist was almost painless.. Maybe due to its due to good surgery skills, better technology or maybe just more mental preparation on my part. Phew...
By the way... this long blog just shows that I had no monday blues today! =)
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Friday, September 10, 2004
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Yo, I'm back.. Apparently the school network is doing some upgrading, so that network is pretty unstable and sometimes it lags terribly. That's the biggest irony, what kind of upgrading will cos the network to be downgraded first? And the best part is that it's going to last the whole mth. If you have me on MSN, I'll be popping up approximately every 2.343424 minutes for a thousand times per night. Yeah..it's irritating. But that's way better than my ICQ, which refused to get me logged on at all.
Anyway, I think Xiaxue is doing her virgin appearance on Channel I at this moment.. Oh no, don't imagine anything much with my usage of the word 'virgin' *hohoho*, it's just her first appearance on national TV even though she's been featured in Straits Times etc. She's really good I must say, and I can't imagine where she found her inspirations for all this blogging. As you would have guessed, I'm experience some sort of blogging dry spell, well.. at least I can only squeeze this much words out. And it's nothing interesting really..bleah..
I found that one of my fellow Chinese classmates have quite an interesting blog too. And no, when I said that he's my Chinese classmate, I wasn't talking about his race only. I mean, he's Chinese of course! But he's in my chinese language lessons as well, and right now, that takes up about 80% of my waking hours. Anyway, back to his blog.. he blogs in Chinese most of the time. And that's amazing, I think he can just write poems off his head regularly, or something like that. I'm so ashamed that I've posted up my poems on my blog after I've seen what he had handed up for the assignment. Haiz..
Last of all, another reason for the non-blogging season is also because well.. life is rather busy as usual. But the unusual thing is that nothing interesting is happening in my life too.. hahaa.. i can't even take photos and do my photoblog.. =(
Anyway, for those that still don't know, next week I'm moving back home. Oh no no, even though my gorgeous roomie had been in her cranky mood lately due to a disgusting bastard emailing her, and sometimes she's also in a bad mood for underterminable reasons...we're still on pretty good terms. =) Those who are thinking that we're going to enjoy our term break next week, can just go and bang your head on the wall! Yes, you're rubbing it in! We DO NOT have a term break this semester at NIE.. boohoo.. Most people that I know think that I'm having a term break this week with the primary schoolers, if not next week with the rest of the NTU population. But they're wrong, this week I'm just mugging and mugging to finish my report, if there's ever such a thing as 'finish'. Of course, there's lessons going on as usual. And next week, we're all going down to schools to have our 'school experience'.. and more reports to do after that. Well, at least I'm quite pleased with the school I'm posted to..hohoho.. even though I'm only spending a week there. =)
Alrighty, gtg.. still waiting for Danping to be back, then we can have our dinner. =)
Anyway, I think Xiaxue is doing her virgin appearance on Channel I at this moment.. Oh no, don't imagine anything much with my usage of the word 'virgin' *hohoho*, it's just her first appearance on national TV even though she's been featured in Straits Times etc. She's really good I must say, and I can't imagine where she found her inspirations for all this blogging. As you would have guessed, I'm experience some sort of blogging dry spell, well.. at least I can only squeeze this much words out. And it's nothing interesting really..bleah..
I found that one of my fellow Chinese classmates have quite an interesting blog too. And no, when I said that he's my Chinese classmate, I wasn't talking about his race only. I mean, he's Chinese of course! But he's in my chinese language lessons as well, and right now, that takes up about 80% of my waking hours. Anyway, back to his blog.. he blogs in Chinese most of the time. And that's amazing, I think he can just write poems off his head regularly, or something like that. I'm so ashamed that I've posted up my poems on my blog after I've seen what he had handed up for the assignment. Haiz..
Last of all, another reason for the non-blogging season is also because well.. life is rather busy as usual. But the unusual thing is that nothing interesting is happening in my life too.. hahaa.. i can't even take photos and do my photoblog.. =(
Anyway, for those that still don't know, next week I'm moving back home. Oh no no, even though my gorgeous roomie had been in her cranky mood lately due to a disgusting bastard emailing her, and sometimes she's also in a bad mood for underterminable reasons...we're still on pretty good terms. =) Those who are thinking that we're going to enjoy our term break next week, can just go and bang your head on the wall! Yes, you're rubbing it in! We DO NOT have a term break this semester at NIE.. boohoo.. Most people that I know think that I'm having a term break this week with the primary schoolers, if not next week with the rest of the NTU population. But they're wrong, this week I'm just mugging and mugging to finish my report, if there's ever such a thing as 'finish'. Of course, there's lessons going on as usual. And next week, we're all going down to schools to have our 'school experience'.. and more reports to do after that. Well, at least I'm quite pleased with the school I'm posted to..hohoho.. even though I'm only spending a week there. =)
Alrighty, gtg.. still waiting for Danping to be back, then we can have our dinner. =)
Friday, September 03, 2004
Do you remember giving out sweet little presents for your teachers when you were in primary school? I certainly do! I was a very quiet girl in school, and was shy to approach my teachers but every year, I'd pester my mum to buy me some cards and presents for my teachers on teachers' day. Even the strictest teacher will give me a big smile when they see me approaching with my little presents.
It's little thing like this that keeps me going..
I got this from my little boyfriend this year, he's only in K1 this year..heehee... and he was so proud when he came running up with the bookmark. I was really surprised as I didn't expect to get any teachers' day gift..
When I got to Primary 3, my class started to have 'surprises' for our teachers by decorating the classroom with balloons and drawings on the board. Then we'd switch off the lights, close the doors and windows when our teachers were coming in for lesson, and jump up to surprise them when they enter the class. Of course, I've realised by now that my ex-teachers had seen through our tricks right from the start, heehee..but they were great sport to play along with us.
It's little thing like this that keeps me going..
I got this from my little boyfriend this year, he's only in K1 this year..heehee... and he was so proud when he came running up with the bookmark. I was really surprised as I didn't expect to get any teachers' day gift..
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Been back to NUS today, how I miss the uncluttered roads, and the funky arts environment!! And arts canteen food is really good now that I've visited the NIE and NTU canteens.. I had my favourite salmon set at the Japanese food stall, even though the vendor had changed, they've lowered the price and it's as nice as I can remember it. =)
Or maybe I was just too hungry? Before having dinner at arts canteen at 7pm, my brunch (breakfast + lunch) was at 9.30am as it was my only break throughout the 9 hours of lessons! Very very hungry today.. how I look forward to next Teachers' Day when I can enjoy the privilege of sitting down to receive loads of presents..=P (hopefully lah)
Or maybe I was just too hungry? Before having dinner at arts canteen at 7pm, my brunch (breakfast + lunch) was at 9.30am as it was my only break throughout the 9 hours of lessons! Very very hungry today.. how I look forward to next Teachers' Day when I can enjoy the privilege of sitting down to receive loads of presents..=P (hopefully lah)
Tsk tsk..
Lately I had been working out, going to gym and jogging around in hall. But I still think I'm developing a tummy and my fitness level had dropped. Anyway, I'm just on a diet perpetually. Oh my god, I can't remember the last time I jogged before this actually! *wide eyes*
Anyway, Olympics are finally over. I'm like living in a cave where I don't catch any of the action unless I went home during the weekends. And my mum loves to watch sports.. so I stayed up watching the men's diving and the women's volleyball finals last Sun morning. And of course, we were supporting China since all the Singapore athletes had got back to Singapore long ago..=P The volleyball match was a really good one, I must say.. very exciting. I was supporting Tian Liang to come up top for the men's 10m diveboard but think he only got third in the end..haiz. Isn't him kinda of cute? Heehee.. those eyes..*saliva dripping* I remember supporting him 4 years ago too, though I can't remember what I was doing at the times of the Olympics.
My roomie is in a bad mood tonight..shhh..
Lately I had been working out, going to gym and jogging around in hall. But I still think I'm developing a tummy and my fitness level had dropped. Anyway, I'm just on a diet perpetually. Oh my god, I can't remember the last time I jogged before this actually! *wide eyes*
Anyway, Olympics are finally over. I'm like living in a cave where I don't catch any of the action unless I went home during the weekends. And my mum loves to watch sports.. so I stayed up watching the men's diving and the women's volleyball finals last Sun morning. And of course, we were supporting China since all the Singapore athletes had got back to Singapore long ago..=P The volleyball match was a really good one, I must say.. very exciting. I was supporting Tian Liang to come up top for the men's 10m diveboard but think he only got third in the end..haiz. Isn't him kinda of cute? Heehee.. those eyes..*saliva dripping* I remember supporting him 4 years ago too, though I can't remember what I was doing at the times of the Olympics.
My roomie is in a bad mood tonight..shhh..