once upon a many Saturdays ago, I went to Pulau Ubin with my girls, Zhisheng and Wei Chong. Beauties and the beasts. hee.
Before I met up with the girls, I had 2 classes. & my 2nd class kids were mischievous that day. Primary 4 kids talking about sex? refused to take down notes, called names, walked out of the room to buy food when i was teaching, took my HP and read my msges, stuck their tongues out at me & video me when i'm teaching.
I wouldnt mind what they do in class as long as they listen and do their work cause I want my kids to enjoy their learning. Walking around, listening to music or eating is definitely fine with me. but what they did really crossed the line.
I've asked my sister before- will she prefer a less academically inclined but hardworking kid or a smart but complacent one. As a tutor, nothing satisfies me more than seeing someone diligently taking down notes and doing their best to try the questions whether or not their answers are correct, no? My P1, 5& 6 kids make me look forward to their lessons cause we can chat, have fun and still get things done. Some Singaporeans are really living in their own comfort zone, too comfortable for their own good. My 2 most hardworking students are from Korea, trying so hard to understand the foreign language that I am teaching. They might take a lil more effort to teach but if they are willing to learn, I am equally willing to teach.
then finally, my blood vomiting session ended at 1.30pm and I dashed down to Changi to find the girls who've decomposed from waiting for me. haha. Finally reached there at 2.30, had lunch and off to the jetty into the arms of the mosquitoes.
On the bumpy boat, heading towards the land of happy mosquitoes!
On the boat (: Gonna get killed for posting this up muahhaha
Anyway I wanted to wear shorts initially cause it was stiffing hot but Gypsy managed to psycho me out of it. Comfort VS mosquitoes harassment. And i chose to give up the former so i turned up looking like a farmer going to gen1 tian2, thanks to my great friends who pointed that out to me hahaha..
Sneak preview of my gen1 tian2 pants& we arrived at Pulau Ubin 5 minutes later. Rented a bike and headed towards Chek Jawa Wetlands. And not long after, I FELL OFF MY BIKE!!! On an incredibly safe road. The angle of slope is less than 15 degrees haha. And the culprit was non other than a fly that zoomed into my eye at top speed. and the next moment i was "AH!! boomed. HAHA"
I screamed, I fell, and i cannot stop laughing. I DONT KNOW WHY. hahaha.
that planted me 10 blueblacks on my knees, thighs, elbow and ribcage. Internal injury ahha. cause the bike crashed onto my body and caused me to be entangled in a mess at an awkward position. In short it was unglam to the max hahaha.
K moving on... I started avoiding all the slopes. Very kia si... haha. and finally arrived at Chek Jawa! The long tedious and mosquitoy journey was all worth it.
Climbed up the viewing tower and the gap between each step was horrifying big. and that scare the hell out of Lee Kiang and I who were super scared of heights! So that took us twice the time to wobble up. but the scenery was rewarding. Breathtaking much! = ) and....mosquitoless hees. so we comfortably took out our mats, food and refused to get our butts going haha.
Top of the world
Yes her shirt!!!
5 cute girls. hahaha. Meiqi's not cute enough to make it to the picture hahah
lush green forest. wanna capture the beautiful sight but this dirty green picture seriously doesn't do the real version justice :(
We were trying to look like vampires...but.....the "fangs" failed to look like fangs haha
& Finally we took a decent one =)Finally, with much reluctance, we restarted our engine and went ahead with the boardwalk along the sea.. At this time, Gypsy and her nan ren arrived. We get to see different creatures on the marshy land, weird mutilated mini crabs, mudskippers, barnacles, mangrove etc =) BUT.. i didnt get to see the starfish that everyone saw!
I love how close i am to mother nature (: except the whizzing mosquitoes..It's about late evening by the time we are done with the trail. cycled back and off we are on a bumpy ride back to the main land.
went to Changi Village and had a seafood feast. but was very cheated cause the portion was pathetic for big eaters.
We were all sticky + smelly and very very lang bei at the end of the day, so we put off our plans to go sherlin house.It was a fantastic day and.. I finally get to go to Pulau Ubin! A very strong sense of suakuism :D
DON'T YOU AGREE?
It's the only time i get to do what i really like after a nasty office week but unfortunately and sadly time flies when you're having fun, no?
well anyway, happy stuff in this entry only = )
Once upon a last week, Bee Leng brought her camera to work and we started "trying" it out.
You've just seen 5 cute people.haha.
objections are not allowed.
The camera can make us...
...become kawaii nehsxz....but the function somehow doesn't work on zhiwei..
....or become james bond/sexy lips/a flower without pot/pervert kissing awayAnd on Saturday, I went to ICA to make a replacement of my I/C. My I/C photo is unfortunately still as hideous as the one on my previous I/C. They should do away with the no-fringe-covering-eyebrow rule. That makes me look like an alien's twin. k but that's not important... cause what's important is that after the interview with the officer, they waive the replacement fee by $40! keke. it's really hard to keep the auntieness in me under wraps..
Then went to teach my 2 classes of kids... then went to temple... then went out with my parents..then home sweet home. (:
On Sunday, my parents went back to Malaysia for a day. Then I had my first class with the Korean kid! Teaching someone without chinese background at all Chinese...is certainly no easy feat haha.. i was croaking like a frog at the end of the lesson.
After my lesson with her on sunday, i went "under the scissors". Wanna abandon my long dull fringe and give short fringe a shot...and as usual, experiment PHAILZ.
I told the hairdresser to cut till my brows. but it ended up way way way above. I don't know la, maybe I subconsciously raised my brows? haha. and that's the start of my kiddy fringe once again. :(( but my fringe made so many laugh. xi sheng siao wo, wan cheng da wo..
It's not that i wanna practise censorship and deliberately choose a blur one.. a bit ghostly also. i merely chose the one that's safest for your eyes..keke..then when i met the girls after that, Ng Lee Kiang burst out into laughter after seeing the sparse weed on my hair. Thanks leh!! hahaa...
Put a group of gossip mongers + Huiying and it'll create a chemical reaction of top speed and volume chatters.
Gossip mongers (s) + Huiying (s) ---> Noise pollution (g) + H20 (saliva) (l)
K IGNORE ME.
We started off normal. I mean with normal topics...then we moved on to our usual gay topics and finally some artistic topics. hahaha I swear it's always Jasmine who started being very R.A lor..
Took lots of photos and alot will be censored due to hair that's desperately calling for a wig. haha KIDDING. Uploading them when i got the photos (:
My last visitor sticker cause I finally got my CPF pass! after paying $20.30 for something I can't keep after I leave the place :(No more borrowing of pass whenever i need to go toilet/fill bottle etc. I'm almost totally confined to the office for the whole week. Wanted to take pictures of all my visitor stickers but being very me, I lost all of them obviously muahaha.. except for that survivor one.
looking forward to the next weekend now, will be off to Pulau Ubin with the girls, finally! I've been begging them to go since sec school. and they'll always reject me and make it sound as though i'm asking them to swim there. I hope that i wont roll down the slope and have my limps cut off.
CHOY.
Bye!
Neither do i understand why some people can talk as loud as thunder, laugh like hyenah and eat like they're at an eat-all-you-can competition and can get away with it and when we do so occasionally, we get the "i've heard from others that you all.... " kind of crap. It's not as if i've not heard louder chattering in this place. Well, different mouth has got different privilege. Maybe the quickest mouth to do the ratting gets the special treatment.
Finally, I don't understand why we must be the toiletbowls of those who can't keep these shit to themselves.
There are more things that happened that i do not understand. I just cannot type out every single thing that happened. Reading is not believing. Nobody else will understand this better than the 5 of us who go through this like a routine.
All the things arrowed towards us just because we have 3 temps in the team (but that only makes us a small team of 5) and perceived to be very free. I believe the amount of workload regardless of whichever team is equal. Why do some people complain and whine endlessly about having no time to finish their work and yet have so much time on hand to spy on how free others are and do some ratting?
Then are we to say that the Gate of Hell open especially early this year and the good friends finish up the work for us?
I might understand their underhand behaviour if there's a payrise or award of commendation for it. But no. perhaps some secret desire to get promoted for that. Psychologists are not here for nothing.
The 1st time i heard of this kind of unconstructive comments was 20 days after i started working there. How hard it is for these people to keep their foul mouth shut. Subsequently, every few weeks. Never before in my 19 years of life have I talked in this manner. It's quite a cruel truth to recall how cheery i used to be and how i allow these unworthy people to take the smile off. I thank them for discovering this side of me and enlightening me. Just when i thought I should start blogging about happy issues like before.
Thank goodness today is thursday. tmr is friday. and the day after is saturday.
Now I am counting down to weekends. I'm now holding 3 jobs, working 7 days/week. But none tires me out more than this.
Soon I'll resort to counting down to my days left in this no-transparency, no-democracy company.
like anyone else, i don't get money from the sky and neither do i get any from my parents. i hold 2 jobs and work from day to night to support myself and I have to contribute to my family allowance too. shame on the person. very very shameful. even my students know how shameful stealing is.
still lots of unerupted anger in me. but i'm working on the after-matters already. HP, house& tuition centre's keys settled. CPF pass settling.. and i'm left with the i/c and my kids' work to account. i can only rest my mind when all these are settled. right now, everything is still weighing hard on me. so sorry to all whom i am not very friendly to these days
That was the word i knew since primary school. and it remained merely a word to me till yesterday.
because of what happened last night, my only identification now is a police report.
I managed to fall asleep only @ 5am that night.
when i first realised my bag was missing, i can't believe it was stolen. I was convinced that it was taken away by mistake because i seriously can't imagine how one human being can bear to put another through such agony. but the truth soon struck me when i was unable to call through my handphone lines.
i'm angry at the thief, but even more so at those staff who were supposed to render help to helpless people like me. 1 popeye staff reluctantly gave in to my repeated frantic pleas to rewind the cctv. A security guard with shiny badges all over his uniform shrug his shoulders and walk off hastily before i can even complete my sentence. how undeserving. So much for the tight security in the mighty Changi Airport, now we know how pretentious these people are when the film's rolling.
what i lost is not just my treasured belongings but also things that cannot be recovered with money- my family's safety (my keys& i/c in my bag), my kids' work and notes that they diligently took down during my lessons and the trust and faith in human beings. I help whenever i can, I return things that do not belong to me. but none of these happen to me when i needed them most.
I will not curse and swear at the fella who brought such agony to me. cause i know that the torture that i went through, the pain that i am put through, all the tears i shed, all the stress I'm under will be paid back thrice to the culprit.
I had a really bad fright last night. and I'm really extremely touched and grateful to those who cared for me in one way or another, particularly meiqi, weichong and zhisheng who stayed by my side throughout the whole incident and supported me when I'm on the verge of breaking down, my entire application team mates, Gianhui and Yock Kin for showering me with concern and helping out as much as they can.
I've retrieved my SIM card today but all my contacts are gone. do help me out by sending in your numbers okay.. and to those who sent me msges of concern, thanks and sorry for not replying cause i'm just worn out from everything. really greatly appreciated.
guys and girls, take care of your belongings. this certainly doesn't feel good.
