Well, from the encouraging comments of Danping, I hope it is more aesthetically pleasing to have the beautiful face of the author greeting my avid fans rather than the popping eyeball of a stranger. Hee hee.. hope that this new layout is not any more scarier than 'the eye' (no pun intended!).
Anyway, I realised that the pictures from 'quizilla' are missing..those emphasizing the fact that I'm a caramel, sensitive girlfriend etc. The background pic of one of my other blog had disappeared, just like what happened to all Xiaxue's images recently...so it's really dangerous to host pictures on other sources. Therefore I'm tearing down the eyeball (which came from an unknown source) to a picture of my own face from my own server, hee hee. At least I'm a paying customer, so if Singnet is not putting up my pictures I can sue their ass off.
Promise to put up a better picture when I can get hold of one!
Sunday, March 28, 2004
我的博客
You must be thinking..what the hell is the topic about? Anyway, my sister brought back a magazine from China and I was reading this article about people keeping online diary, and this word "博客" was a recurring phrase in it. It took me a while before I realised that it's a direct translation from 'blog'! Duh..think the mainlanders have the habit of forming new words from English, and it's like a trend or something. Just like a year ago during SARs, we used to term it "非典型肺炎" in Singapore newspaper before the disease spreaded around China and the term “沙斯”was used instead. In this case, I guess it's a good thing as even the indians knew what we was talking about when we kept saying “沙斯”“沙斯".
It's a calling
I went for a preparatory course the first two days of work and the lecturer was a experienced teacher and a retired principal. I must say that he's quite engaging and gave good pointers. At one of the session, he actually mentioned that it's a calling from God that we should become teachers. Wow..so sacred, it's a calling. I hope that God's next calling for me is to become a tai tai, a millionaire or something.
You must be thinking..what the hell is the topic about? Anyway, my sister brought back a magazine from China and I was reading this article about people keeping online diary, and this word "博客" was a recurring phrase in it. It took me a while before I realised that it's a direct translation from 'blog'! Duh..think the mainlanders have the habit of forming new words from English, and it's like a trend or something. Just like a year ago during SARs, we used to term it "非典型肺炎" in Singapore newspaper before the disease spreaded around China and the term “沙斯”was used instead. In this case, I guess it's a good thing as even the indians knew what we was talking about when we kept saying “沙斯”“沙斯".
It's a calling
I went for a preparatory course the first two days of work and the lecturer was a experienced teacher and a retired principal. I must say that he's quite engaging and gave good pointers. At one of the session, he actually mentioned that it's a calling from God that we should become teachers. Wow..so sacred, it's a calling. I hope that God's next calling for me is to become a tai tai, a millionaire or something.
Saturday, March 27, 2004
I'm a free man!
Yesterday the CID woman called me and said that the case doesn't involve me after their investigation.. Duh..didn't I told you this right from the start?? They're going to return me my laptop and desktop, and I bet it's even more damaged than ever. I'm going to sue them for psychological damage for the past week, for worrying about my laptop containing downloaded mp3 being found out. Hahahaa..I'm just kidding lah.
Yeah..yeah..I'm so happy, I'm the hacker and I haven't been found out!! Kidding again..
Yesterday the CID woman called me and said that the case doesn't involve me after their investigation.. Duh..didn't I told you this right from the start?? They're going to return me my laptop and desktop, and I bet it's even more damaged than ever. I'm going to sue them for psychological damage for the past week, for worrying about my laptop containing downloaded mp3 being found out. Hahahaa..I'm just kidding lah.
Yeah..yeah..I'm so happy, I'm the hacker and I haven't been found out!! Kidding again..
Friday, March 26, 2004
Oh my, it's finally weekend!
Previously, I can't imagine why those people working keep complaining that they don't have life. Now, I've got it, my dear friends.
I DON'T HAVE A LIFE TOO!!
Yesterday was the second day of my teaching in school, and I was really damn tired after my lesson and tuition. Really pushing myself to go for tuitioning these few days, whereas in the past it had already become a habit and part of my routine. I'm so tired.. and I'm only awake for like, an hour or two at home each day. Last night, I came home at 9.30pm after tuition, and knocked out by 10.30pm. Read this, I KNOCKED OUT.. not fell asleep. Then this morning, I woke up around 9 plus (actually woke up at 6am but went back to sleep again), and it's time to report to school again. Sheesh.. don't know why it's so super duper tiring when I only have maximum 4 hours of teaching per day. And the books to mark are already piling up high on my desk.. contempleting if I should go back to mark my books tomorrow. And I thought I don't have to work on Saturdays anymore!!
My students
The kids are pretty nice..and ermm cute. You can see the stark contrast between NUS students and my primary 1 pupils. During tutorials, everyone will act busy or avoid the tutors eyes when questions were being asked in uni. But, if you ask my primary 1 students about anything...they will enthusiastically put up their hands, whether they know the answer or not. There's a constant flow of hand raising that I can hardly bear to move on the the next question, some were practically having their butts lifted off from their seats, waving their hand to catch attention. It's just like I was having a room full of Hermione Granger at Hogwats. But most of the time, it got quite irritating as the most common questions/complaints were..
"Lao shi.. ta da wo!! (he beat me)" OR
"Lao shi.. wo yao qu xiao bian (I wanna go pee)" OR
"Lao shi.. wo yao he shui (I wanna drink water)" OR
other more nonsensical stuff.. Once you've given permission for one person, every pupil's bladder will work extra hard to make sure that they got the sudden urge to go toilet.
The most memorable incident came when a wide eyed little girl came up to me and point at the boy behind her "Lao Shi.. ta shuo "Ch**b**"(the famous hokkien vulgarity). She told me this matter-of-factly and went back to her seat. My god.. kids nowadays.
Previously, I can't imagine why those people working keep complaining that they don't have life. Now, I've got it, my dear friends.
I DON'T HAVE A LIFE TOO!!
Yesterday was the second day of my teaching in school, and I was really damn tired after my lesson and tuition. Really pushing myself to go for tuitioning these few days, whereas in the past it had already become a habit and part of my routine. I'm so tired.. and I'm only awake for like, an hour or two at home each day. Last night, I came home at 9.30pm after tuition, and knocked out by 10.30pm. Read this, I KNOCKED OUT.. not fell asleep. Then this morning, I woke up around 9 plus (actually woke up at 6am but went back to sleep again), and it's time to report to school again. Sheesh.. don't know why it's so super duper tiring when I only have maximum 4 hours of teaching per day. And the books to mark are already piling up high on my desk.. contempleting if I should go back to mark my books tomorrow. And I thought I don't have to work on Saturdays anymore!!
My students
The kids are pretty nice..and ermm cute. You can see the stark contrast between NUS students and my primary 1 pupils. During tutorials, everyone will act busy or avoid the tutors eyes when questions were being asked in uni. But, if you ask my primary 1 students about anything...they will enthusiastically put up their hands, whether they know the answer or not. There's a constant flow of hand raising that I can hardly bear to move on the the next question, some were practically having their butts lifted off from their seats, waving their hand to catch attention. It's just like I was having a room full of Hermione Granger at Hogwats. But most of the time, it got quite irritating as the most common questions/complaints were..
"Lao shi.. ta da wo!! (he beat me)" OR
"Lao shi.. wo yao qu xiao bian (I wanna go pee)" OR
"Lao shi.. wo yao he shui (I wanna drink water)" OR
other more nonsensical stuff.. Once you've given permission for one person, every pupil's bladder will work extra hard to make sure that they got the sudden urge to go toilet.
The most memorable incident came when a wide eyed little girl came up to me and point at the boy behind her "Lao Shi.. ta shuo "Ch**b**"(the famous hokkien vulgarity). She told me this matter-of-factly and went back to her seat. My god.. kids nowadays.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Cineleisure Cheap Photo shots
There..told you I will show you the photos, whether you're interested or not!! I can't possibly go back on my promise, being the lovely, sincere and trust-able person I am. Muahahaha..! Anyway, these are 2 of the shots we've taken. The others are quite similar, not bad ah.. considering I didn't edit with photoshop and its the first time I see Hock Sui in a "Chinese" skin colour.
There..told you I will show you the photos, whether you're interested or not!! I can't possibly go back on my promise, being the lovely, sincere and trust-able person I am. Muahahaha..! Anyway, these are 2 of the shots we've taken. The others are quite similar, not bad ah.. considering I didn't edit with photoshop and its the first time I see Hock Sui in a "Chinese" skin colour.
Induction camp
Okay, think I didn't blog much about the induction camp I went to. This is the whole group of the 'Adventurers' I'm working with, photo taken at the well known NPCC resort (better known as NPCC campsite) jetty. I know the resolution is very poor, but I've downsized the photo else it'll take a long time to load. It's too early to tell, but initially I was not very used to the idea of working with a group of people I've never worked with. It got better during the camp, and had some fun. I'm getting ready for the storming stage, but think majority of the group are fun and spontaneous. By the way, it's one of the slackiest camp I've ever had at the campsite.. just full of discussions, BBQ at the jetty and nobody was rushing us about anything. Actually, I've much more used to better time management.
We've shortlisted a few places in China that we're proposing with SIF to go to.. its either Yunnan, Inner Mongolia or Xinjiang. The expedition venue is the top perks for my motivation to take part in the expedition. I think Inner Mongolia is my favourite, want to go and experience the nomadic lifestyle. Probably built a portable toilet for them? Hmm... Everyone must support me when I'm fund-raising for the expedition okay? Hey hey, don't pretend you never see this okay!!
Okay, think I didn't blog much about the induction camp I went to. This is the whole group of the 'Adventurers' I'm working with, photo taken at the well known NPCC resort (better known as NPCC campsite) jetty. I know the resolution is very poor, but I've downsized the photo else it'll take a long time to load. It's too early to tell, but initially I was not very used to the idea of working with a group of people I've never worked with. It got better during the camp, and had some fun. I'm getting ready for the storming stage, but think majority of the group are fun and spontaneous. By the way, it's one of the slackiest camp I've ever had at the campsite.. just full of discussions, BBQ at the jetty and nobody was rushing us about anything. Actually, I've much more used to better time management.
We've shortlisted a few places in China that we're proposing with SIF to go to.. its either Yunnan, Inner Mongolia or Xinjiang. The expedition venue is the top perks for my motivation to take part in the expedition. I think Inner Mongolia is my favourite, want to go and experience the nomadic lifestyle. Probably built a portable toilet for them? Hmm... Everyone must support me when I'm fund-raising for the expedition okay? Hey hey, don't pretend you never see this okay!!