Sunday, April 29, 2007

NYJC 30th Anniversary

yesterday, went back to NY for its 30th anniversary and of course, to witness the opening of the time capsule which we buried 15 years ago. brought max and mabel along too.

after the opening of the time capsule, we had a fun time looking through at the items. it's still look quite good, juz that of course the stale smell is there. showed mabel the name list where my name was. we looked at the various cca's collar pin, saw many different things and we had fun recalling our memories.

then we toured round the college. after rebuilding, of course, all the familiar things are not there anymore. the only regonisable thing is the track and we could still remember fondly the PE building beside the track and JL and PL, NY's favourite dogs. but it is now all gone and replacing it are some basketball courts or was it tennis court.

of course, we met some teachers, but i dun think my teachers can remember me because basically, i'm not the top student, i didn't score well for my A levels. luckily i didn't fail their subjects, otherwise, i really got no face to see them. then of course, we met up with some long lost friends. and i saw my ex! it was like after 15 years, this is the first time i've met him... although i've heard bits and pieces of news of him. well, in a group, we all exchanged our his and byes, didn't really ask much. the last i heard about him was that he was married. so i guess he feels kind of weird too to see me carry max. anyway, darn Eddie, must u give that kind of expression?

it was a good time to catch up with all the old councillor friends. it was also weird to introduce ourselves to the 29th and 30th Student Council. it was like, ermmm, we are from the 15th Student Council.... how time flies. but as we met some of our school friends yesterday, we all had the same feeling. looks wise, i guess we all didn't change much, juz maybe most a little fatter than we used to be. but looking at the face, we can like identify each other.

ok, when i get the pics, i'll definitely upload the pics. will look forward to more gatherings. the next one, probably my place, housewarming.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

25th April, a very interesting day.

let me start with work first:
1) disappointment. two days i'm not in school, they all turn to disappointment. can feel my blood pressure went up.

2) mabel's class has two cases of HFMD, so class close for one week. got to monitor all of them to make sure that mabel didn't bring the virus back and give it to the rest of them.

3) went to someone's funeral last nite.

4) max didn't sleep well last nite. woke up at 3 something, ok, pampers wet, change for him. make him sleep again. then 4 something woke up again, pang sai!!! ok, change pampers again. after that, he didn't want to sleep, he actually kept singing and singing. tried to make him sleep at 5 plus, but didn't work, then it's almost time to wake up. so i seriously didn't have enough sleep.

thought that sleep can help me get over 25th april, but the lack of sleep didn't help. i'm feeling as lousy today.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

ok, was reading a book and thought i find some quotes interesting.

To do well in career:
willingness to learn from everyone
good people skills, to work through people, respect them and motivate them so as to get things done
resilience to stress
determination in adversity
readiness to put failure behind us
courage to venture out of our comfort zone
take risks and seize opportunities

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

hmmm, juz feel that today must comment on some issues in the newspaper...

1) the shooting in America university: this is really really very sad. The rest of the people are innocent. no matter how screwed up this person is, no matter wat, he has no right to take away people's lives. and the best thing later, he shot himself. this i think is an cowardly act. yah, so he died, an easy way to run away from responsibilities. if he really wants to die, then why take other people's lives? if you say that this man shoots because he feels that the world has let him down, then i say to you, stop blaming everyone else's for your plight. you have the choice, you have the right to make good your own life. why didn't you choose to rise up from all your circumstances and make yourself to be someone to change the world? why did you choose to be morbid, dark, depressed? god, i'm cursing a dead person. forgive me.
also... where is the family???? dun the parents feel remorseful that you didn't bring up your child properly? where was the intervention when he was young?

2) the en bloc sale.... ha, when i read it, i was really laughing my head off from this family. didn't the family open up their letter boxes? and how can she claim that she dunno anything where all her neighbours moved out? dun she feel that something queer is going on when all her neighbours have left? or she wasn't even aware in the first place? well, the policy is like that, when it's stated 80% then too bad if you are the 20%. dun blame everybody for your plight. go find out yourself what is happening.

3) Treetop@ Punggol: singaporeans are always like that, whatever is new, they will all want a piece of the cake. well, it's their choice. wondered if it's a blessing or curse that i've sold my flat. i choose to take it as a blessing. I've shifted to punggol, i've lived in punggol, no regrets about it. I believe punggol will be a great town in the future with all these new developments slated in punggol. perhaps i was juz too impatient to wait for all these facilities. It would definitely take another 10 years or so to be fully developed. so since i've made the choice, no regrets.

4) salary increase: excuse me? pay increase for teachers? i'm getting mixed up signal here. i thought the pay increase is a one time payment of 0.5-0.75 months and not 1.35 months as reported. and this is based on performance. oh, now i know why 0.8-1.35 months, this is inclusive of the GROW package that they announced in Sept last year. but.... ok, i shall reserve my comments about the grow package.
i repeat it is a ONE TIME payment. and it's CPF deductible. but if you divide the one time payment over 12 months, well, i guess it is some sort of increment. so dun envy my pay increment. with pay increment, this raises people's expectation on teachers, esp parents. they would want us to justify our pay increment through our discharge of duties. so dun be too happy for my increment. i know what i'm in for and i'm prepared. must be careful to word this paragraph properly, there are lots of spies out there.
so i mean, honestly, i appreciate the government's effort to give us more money, but i also understand the increment comes with a price.

so, all in all, stop blaming other people for your plight. change, adapt, be flexible and adjust quickly and then survived them all. Outlast them all.... that's the key to surviving in the society.

Monday, April 16, 2007

gooooooooooood morning. it's a brand new day, brand new week. must be the middle term syndrome. feel so tired (mentally) to go on like that, but keep conditioning myself to go on, go on.... persevere.

the sun will shine bright and cheerful. the clouds will be white and fluffy, the sky will be bright and blue. if it rains, it will bring cool relief to the sweltering heat. be optimistic.

ok, i'm spouting nonsense. juz some phrases to motivate myself.

Sunday, April 08, 2007

that time i've read about angelina jolie adopting yet another child. this time a boy from vietnam. didnt' really go and find out more until today was watching youtube, then decided to make a search for her videos. saw a few.... the one i enjoyed most was about the growth of her family, showing all her 4 children. i particularly like maddox and shiloh. shiloh is really very pretty. she has angelina jolie's mouth, brad pitts face shape. very pretty girl.

anyway, juz feelings and thoughts.

Max is also getting cuter each day. these two days becos of his fever, his double eyelid for his left eye came out. he look really nice with double eyelid.

if i could, i would love to have another baby. babies are really very cute. not that kind of cute, cute. that kind of cute which would melt your heart, that kind of cute where u would be willing to work hard to provide for their future.

Monday, April 02, 2007

never update? yup, no time to update and vexed to update too.