Saturday, June 28, 2008
this week was busy. worked full day on tuesday, then on wednesday, as part of zac's bday celebration, i brought him to St John's island and kusu island. got sunburnt! was really hot. the boat ride there was super choppy because it was raining and the sea was choppy. after that, the sun came out and it just simply burns. the island was mostly deserted, except for a handful of people and kids from the camp site. can hear them cheering. lots of aquatic life there. water snails, different types, tiny crabs and hermit crabs hiding in empty snail shells. pretty interesting. kusu island is abit boring. it's smaller and has only turtles and tortoises to see.throughout this week until yesterday, my muscles ached terribly from monday's gyming. but it's good to know that im more toned now. pain is good.
anyway, one way to find out that you look old or you're starting to look aged is when people start giving up their seats for you on buses or MRTs. during a few occasions, i saw people giving up their seats to women who don't look really old. their faces say mid 40s or early 50s at most, but they have the old woman hairstyle--short curly hair. so it makes them look alot older. they looked super insulted when people give them their seats. haha. cause it shows they look like the elderly.
10:33 PM
Monday, June 23, 2008
worked out at the gym today with my brother. can't remember the last time i gymed. my upper body strength is horrible compared to when i was 17 or 18 and still in jc. haha. but my legs are still strong due to running. acjc gym is big. and since at that time, we all had to pay for compulsory membership, i use it pretty often. after leaving jc, my only form of exercise is doing team sports during inter-school games in uni, or running a few times a week on my own, so i pretty much neglected upper body fitness except for core muscles. running in the correct posture builds core muscles like your abs and lower back muscles. i need to gym more! no more skinny arms. must build muscle mass.10:23 PM
Sunday, June 22, 2008
oh no!!! i just cannot stop spending. although the things i buy are heavily discounted, i buy alot of them, which adds up to quite alot of money. today, i spent on a speedo swim suit and sports bra which are both of the same colour. haha. how can someone keep shopping and shopping like me?!?! if i can't control my spending, then i need to work more. but tomorrow is my centre's off day, then tues im taking off for the 2nd part of zac's birthday celebration. i think i shall work next saturday and sunday also. earn more money.9:25 PM
Saturday, June 21, 2008
this week at work, i taught this holiday english remedial course for primary 1 and 2 kids. once again, i love enthusiastic kids who scream out answers and are eager to answer me, although the answers are all wrong and probably blind guesses. the worst students are kids who just don't care about their work. there was this pri2 boy whom on the first day, i found pretty well-behaved, and he did his work well and got most answers right. however on the 2nd day of the remedial, he started day-dreaming. 3rd day he got worse. he totally wasn't even paying attention. i could be talking to him personally and saying flip to page 3 and paragraph what line what, and he would be totally oblivious and pretend i wasn't even there. he even wrote gibberish on his answer scripts. just random letters that aren't even words. and he's not even really weak in his work like the others. he's just plain lazy.i was just really troubled about some things again. and then i came upon those forwarded videos on facebook. it's about this man who is dying and he goes around giving lectures about how to live your life. it's really inspirational. makes me feel that all my troubles are super trival and superficial even. we really must live our lives well, work hard and don't complain, have fun in everything we do, and don't blame people who nag at us for hours because they care enough to spend so much time nagging you. also, have dreams and fulfil them. there're many more things there. go find it. i probably have it on my superwall also.
yesterday was zac's bday. went to swenson's to have dinner. but that's only a small part of the celebration. i planned something better for another day when we have one full day =) stay tuned.
night!
10:52 PM
Sunday, June 15, 2008
oh crap i need to stop shopping. i already spent more than i earned this week. bought a new pair of kitten heels to replace my tattered URS slipper and i bought a mp3 player from creative. it's the Muvo T100. it's quite good. very small and slim, exactly what i want in a mp3 player suitable for my long jogs. well i bought that instead of the tiny zen stone because this is only $39 for 2GB. haha. got it at PS. it's in a non-retail package, meaning no box, no instructions or earphones. just the player and a pouch. but who cares! the most important thing is the player itself anyway. but im not sure why there's such thing called non-retail package. but it's probably cheap because it doesn't come with earphones and together with other reasons i can't think of. the usual price is $89 i think, with earphones and normal packaging. but, it's still a good bargain. my zen micro is cranky alreadyl still trying to fix it. it's 4GB with hundreds of songs in it, has a screen too. so i'll still use it at work, school or while travelling.teaching yesterday was okay. the boys were sooooo noisy i had to yell at them to shut up and pay attention. they were doing all sorts of nonsense like running around, lying on the floor (wtf?!?!?). then the girls are sooooo quiet. anyway, i kind of realised i prefer noisy students. because if they don't understand anything, they will shout for me, make alot of noise. for quiet students, i'll never know if they know or dont know what im teaching unless i go look at what they're doing.
12:45 PM
Friday, June 13, 2008
learnt new things at violin lesson today. learnt the 5th position fingering. it's unbelievably high pitch on the E string, so much until my ears actually hurt. thought the 3rd positioning is very high already.worked till 9pm today. but then i only reached there around 4pm due to my afternoon violin lesson. tomorrow i'm teaching pri 4 science and pri 3 maths. the maths is super duper easy. of course! but then the science, is just plain stupid. those things all of us learnt at that time is totally useless and cannot be carried past PSLE. after that it's perfectly fine to forget them all. for example, tomorrow's lesson is about the life cycle. why the hell do kids need to know how many stages is the cockroach life cycle? all they need to know is that they're dirty and must kill them if they see them at home. but that's not in the syllabus! i think i'll just concentrate on things that can be applied even in JC, like embryo and germination.
9:46 PM
Thursday, June 12, 2008
why why why isn't someone entitled to her own opinions?let's just say a little sneaky guy comes up to my boyfriend, reporting unhappiness over my blog post saying that the little sneaky guy's girlfriend resembles a certain sort of aquatic organism.
why dont this little sneaky guy comes straight to me? i'm the one with the opinion anyway. anyway im sure that the little sneaky guy must be noticing that his girlfriend do kind of resemble the aquatic organism. of course, who wants to admit that his gf looks like some sort of alien?
PS. To aforementioned sneaky person,
You know, sneaky guy, what i post is none of your business.
xoxo,
me
11:13 AM
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
first day at work today. actually not really the first day because i worked there last year while waiting for release of alvl results. the work is the same monotonous stuff. admin, make worksheets. but this saturday i get to teach 2 classes of kids. i hope it goes well.but work was kind of uneventful. one computer was down, so i had to bring my own laptop. well, my laptop comes with windows vista, and all those old scanners and printers are not compatible with it. i spent a lot of time finding drivers online, installing them, getting them to work. but still failed. in the end, if i want to scan something, which is very often, i have to temporarily use someone else's com, then convert to word doc, save in my thumb drive and get it in my own laptop. it's freaking troublesome, not to mention how imposing it is on my colleague. and my laptop is very heavy. have to bring to work everyday. sigh. it's only for 2 months... anyway thinking about my how boyfriend, cariann and evelyn are working way longer hours than me at places far from their homes, i feel very lucky to have this job that's near my home, and i can basically go to work and go back as and when i wish.
10:51 PM
Monday, June 09, 2008
met up with zac in town. he brought me the things he got me from his bintan trip. so sweet! he got me a puma tshirt, and he picked me many shells from the beach. thanks sweetie. thanks for the rechargeable batteries and the panadol too.
time to go to work. i need the money! for zac's upcoming birthday and also for the new school year starting in august. it's hard to find work. especially with all my meetings and camps. =( being in the organising committee actually isn't fun. so much planning for the sake of freshies. maybe if i joined GLs instead of programmers it wouldn't be so bad.
3:36 PM
Saturday, June 07, 2008
went to zac's friend's wedding today. both the male and female are only 22 years old. im so envious. i want to get married too. by the time zac and i are 22 years old, we would have dated 5 years. that's pretty long. but then most divorces occur in couples who got married before they're 25, and i dont want to become a statistic. i understand why couples who get married young are more likely to get divorced though.anyway the wedding lunch is mediocre. it's a small personal event i must say. i think there was only 6 or 7 tables in this very small room. there was quite little food. it was all the normal mixed rice dishes, except without rice, hence i found it hard to eat. i can only eat such dishes with rice. i ate lots of smoked salmon, which was fabulous, and extremely sumptuous tom yam soup. i had this real real real bad dish there. it's not real bad because the chefs suck, but i just didnt know that alfalfa sprouts taste THAT bad . was my first time having it, and i didn't know what it was. it was in a roll form, and it looked tantalising, hence i took a portion. first bite, okay. 2nd bite, hmm. 3rd bite onwards, oh-crap-i-feel-like-throwing-up kind of horrible. i tried to swallow it, because it is severely unglam to spit it out infront of so many people. but i couldnt swallow it. then i tried drinking it down with pepsi. failed too. in the end, i still spit it out as discretely as i can. i dont think anyone saw. phew! . and then.... the AFTER TASTE. i had 2 bowls of tom yam soup, smoked salmon, kung bao chicken and pepsi to wash the taste off. i couldn't! the taste remained in my mouth for hours. arrrggghhhh!!!!! i think i just got phobic of greens..
after the wedding, we went expo to shop at the sales abit, and then at tampines courts to find the heavily discounted mp3 player, which was sold out. nothing much after that. went home soon after. thanks baby for driving me around so much. <3
8:51 PM
Friday, June 06, 2008
Argh! the rock wall gym at west coast is closed! how come?! now the nearest rock wall gym is probably at mount faber or yishun SAFRA. so far! suppose to go rock climbing with zac tomorrow until i went to the website to check the opening times and found that it closed down or something. never mind. since i wont be climbing tomorrow, i'll just go run till im totally wasted. maybe i'll try for 7km.attending a wedding lunch reception with zac tomorrow. what should i wear? =)
3:41 PM
Thursday, June 05, 2008
yay problem solved. so happy. finally can sleep well. i decided to make certain changes, of course not for them. but for us. i understand that zac doesn't want unpleasant things on my blog. haha. because it brings up unpleasant memories and gives people nightmares. haa.anyway, tip of the day: everyone should take criticisms in their stride and should never make a big fuss out of it, because you'll end up embarrassing yourself. if pride holds you up despite the criticisms, then i salute you. unfortunately...... well.
mood: HAPPY =) LOVE ZAC
9:47 PM
losers should never ever read my blog because you never know when i'll be talking bad about you.i repeat, everyone has a mean streak, and mine is about a mile wide.
everyone is entitled to their own opinions. if you, the losers that is, talk shit about me, of course i wouldn't give a damn because you don't matter to me.
maybe i should be honored that some losers actually read my trash =)
5:30 PM
one bomb exploded: my results. they're fine i guess. no Cs, like i hoped for. and i even got an unexpected A-. this means my grades are kind of the same as last sem. well im like the queen of consistency. i get the same grades over and over again, even if they grades aren't good...
12:50 AM
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
two major headaches. one is i dont know why my boyfriend is upset at me, and he wont be back till tomorrow. second is my results. coming out later at midnight. OMG! these things are enough to cause me to lose sleep last night. i watched tv till super late to get myself to tire out. but failed to get tired. because my brain is just too fired up.when i managed to get sleep, i had this weird vivid dream. i was at some market place, and there was this store selling clothes. i went in, and grabbed a few pieces to try on. all changing rooms are occupied exept one at the corner. then the sales women told me to wait for another changing room because the one at the corner is haunted. odd. then in that dream, i had this flashing image of a man cutting off his thumb. it was all bloody and super disturbing. i left the store, without buying anything. it was raining ultra heavily. i took out my umbrella, but to my dismay, the strong wind blew my umbrella out of proportion, it was flipped inside out and side ways and it looked like a piece of twisted metal in that dream. i went back to the market place, looking to buy a new umbrella. suddenly the rain stopped. i ran furiously, to somewhere, i think is home or some sheltered bus stop, scared that the crazy rain will come again. while running halfway, i saw this girl, whom i recognised as my secondary school classmate. she dropped many pieces of paper. i helped her picked them up. that either i woke up, or i cant remember the rest of my dream.
i had another dream. this is just a short snippet. i dreamt of receiving an email from my boyfriend to meet him at 3.86pm on the day he comes back. i remembered clearly. 3.86. i know there's no such time. but i've been thinking what time he's coming back 2mr, what time should i go find him. i dont know why he's upset, but i know i cannot lose him. he's too important to me.
dreams are suppose to be your subconscious mind, to reflect your heartfelt feelings rather than rational and logical thoughts from your brain. so im trying to think what this long tiring dream meant.
4:43 PM
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
this is such a terrible week. my boyfriend went overseas, and then i got an email from him saying that he's upset about something which he didn't reveal. keeping me in suspense huh? how mean. anyway i dont even know what i did, well, besides insulting a female friend of his. but why would he be so worked up over that female friend? ***suspicious***okay secondly, my semester results will be out on thursday 12am. heck! im so super nervous. i dont want any Cs....at least please give me all Bs?? i dont need any As. sigh. last semester sucked.
