presenting......

7 dwarfs =)

wee wee & charcoal

waiting for the other 3 dwarfs to come

xueyi & izzy

izzy's hungry..she's eating cheeeessseee. LOL

hungry hungry.. eating xueyi's valentine's day prezzie.. haha

weeee weeee

wee wee's valentine's gift

charcoal's valentine's gift

wee wee's playing "poker cards"

look at xueyi's face while giving v-day's gift to joelyn..haha

look at the valentine's day prezzies!

so hardworking??..haha. she's actually copying jap hw. lol.

my birthday prezzie from the 7 dwarfs!
nice nice! (=

ordering food time! yay!

thirsty thirsty...

yummy yummy! food!

eating and chatting.

serene, veron, guan ling, kawai

what's the pepper doing in the picture??? haha

what are the extra fingers doing there?? haha.

charcoal, waiwai

charcoal, miss/mrs ho

jo, codfish, izzy

smile! =)

crazyeee pple. lol.

charcoal, mrs ho, jo

the spousies...hee hee

THANK YOU 7 dwarfs for the prezzie! the prezzie was bought like today when i met xueyi in the afternoon. haha. and the 7 dwarfs finally met for dinner @ pizza hut. our meet up has been pushed like since cny. aniwae, celebrated my early birthday. first pple to celebrate my birthday this year. turning another year older. but still as playful as ever! whaha! it was such a crazy time! totally enjoyable! LOVE YOU 7 dwarfs! *muacks* =)

went back to mg for the release of the o level results. was there to give my sis moral support. the atmosphere was so tense. everyone was so so nervous. we were once there too. hee. but in don't know how many more days time, it'll be the release of the A's. ah! aniwae, this year's results were much better than last year. but the class of 2003 (which was our year) still obtained the best results. woo hoo!

finally when the time arrived to collect their results, the girls were too scared to go collect it. there was like no queue behind mz tan's desk. mz tan had to personally call out one name at a time. during our year, everyone was so eager to collect their results that caused the aisle to be jammed packed. aniwaes, my sis did pretty well. feel so happy for her!

for the first time, uncle mark opened his house to the worship team for dinner. but anyhows, the youths beat the adults to visiting his house because we went there last year for our christmas lunch. haha. then my sis and i decided that we would stayover at grace's house which was just a unit away. . it was so last min. but totally cool!

just came home from the airport not too long ago. went to send ling-long off. *sobz* she won't be back till dec. gonna miss her and those fun times we've had. we grew closer especially after conference. and in a week's time, sanne's going back too! *sobz sobz* love you both!!

did pri 1 kids for RT today. some of them are pretty adorable, some were just playful. but overall, they were considered well-behaved unlike those naughty kids that everyone else got. aniwae, had 2 hrs of slacking before going into the pri 1 class. took the class only after recess. before recess, they had 2 hrs of cheena lessons. poor kids! after recess, i had to talk almost non-stop for 3 hrs. was almost dehydrated. haha. made them do some worksheets and taught them english too. i was reading to them at my normal pace but it was too fast for them to catch what i was saying. forgot that i was teaching pri 1 kids. was so used to teaching upper pri level. and i had to mark whatever work i set out. time maganagement was important. good thing i finished marking all the scripts.

after work, went to sanne's house. had dinner. watched a bit of chicken little. helped sanne's bro apply for RT. everyone is joining RT. haha. cool. aniwae, schools are always in need of RT. lol. both sanne and i were fun laughing at our sec photos, we looked so so different then. seemed more guai then. whaha! and it definitely brought back fond memories! love the gang, love mg, love the teachers (but not all teachers..haha). love them all!

relief today was pretty slack. before recess, i was practically baby-sitting the class. the students were free to do whatever they wanted. then after recess, work was being assigned to them. so i need not teach at all. haha. but the thing was that i had to ran a lot today. for the first period, i was like running here and there for at least 10-15 mins all because the teacher-in-charge for RT made a mistake in my timetable.

after recess, had to give a pri 6 class a science test. upon reaching the last row, i realised i was short of test papers. had to run down to the staffroom to get extras. but the only teacher i saw weren't in charge of science. thus, she requested that i zapped the missing sets. had to run up to get a copy of the test paper. had no choice but to borrow from a girl who was doing her test half-way. run down again to staffroom. and the copier machine didn't have paper inside. so had to take paper from the teacher. she gave me like 20 sheets. nvm. zapped what i could first. and i asked her for paper again. this time i told her i needed more because i needed to zap 6 copies of 11 pages each. but still she gave me about 20 sheets. finished using the 20 sheets. asked for more paper again. this time she asked "how many sets are you printing?" obviously she didn't listen to me. then suddenly she decided to check if the science teacher in charge was at her seat because she saw teachers coming into the staffroom. luckily the science teacher was at her seat and she had extras. so i didn't have to print anymore. phew! wasted 20 mins running and printing. the poor girls who had to wait so long.

worst news today, i failed basic theory. had so many many weird scenario questions. like what's happening at the road junctions. surprisingly only a few qns on road signs. oh wells. only left jo and i who haven't pass. jia you too joelyn! we will pass the next test!

the o level results are out this friday. when will it be ours...???

yeeks and i hang out at ling-long's place yesterday. the time spent was awesome and totally worth it! had dinner..like fries + desserts. the desserts were delicious! heard great testimonies from ling-long and yeeks. and finally we crashed through 14 out of 20 episodes of 'stairway to heaven'. but i must say it was a great achievement. haha. didn't plan to stay till so late but the show was too addictive that we couldn't get off it. ended up going back at like 6am today because of church service. it felt so melbournish, just bumming at someone's place overnight. cool! and though we didn't complete the whole serial, kinda figured out the ending. lol. ling-long was like the producer of the show. she knew what would happen next and what would follow after. she's really good!

on fri, had the same class i took on thursday. goodness! this time they were not focus, really noisy and extremely playful. had to ask the class to keep quiet many more times as compared to thursday. during certain periods, the class would really get so noisy that my voice would be drowned by theirs. thus, had to raise my voice or rather shout at them to keep quiet. shouted until i started coughing. it was so terrible. and the class could really get out of hand. ended up punishing the whole class by making them stand. then one boy which had attention deficit disorder coudn't stand the class being so noisy. he would keep telling me to keep the class quiet. he also couldn't take it lying down that he had to be punished for not talking. he reached his maximum and ended up crying and then said he wanted to go on a strike. he wanted the whole class to go on a strike with him. the ironic part is that he couldn't stand the class so being so noisy and yet he wants everyone to follow him on his strike. anyway, it was really hilarious seeing how the boy wanted to go on a strike. wanted to laugh but couldn't. it was supposed to be a serious moment as i was in the midst of making them stand and asking them to keep quiet. oh wells. interesting yet a scary experience.

see what time i'm blogging. haha. i'm actually using the teacher's com to blog. whaha! full utilization of resources. hee. waiting for 1.30pm to come because the kids got supplementary class today. for the first time, i've seen a class where the boys are the majority. this results in a noisy and rowdy class. was screaming until i started coughing. haha. but i still have my voice. LOL.

and because the school ran out of the tags for me to have access into the staffroom, i'm like locked out of the staffroom. got to wait like a student outside the staffroom for someone to rescue me. poor me! haha.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
love ya all!! =)

gong xi gong xi
the tan family

the bar counter made of ice

the gang @ eski bar - yeeks, chris, sanne, me, sabby, nat

smile!

sanne the superhero without a jacket

reallie good to see chris after eons

in the super cold room

sanne, me, sabby

the 2 opposites who are best friends
one hates cheena and one taught cheena. haha

2 tans', 1 khoo, 1 yee
ms yee, ms khoo, mz tan, ms tan

lao shi and us

me, yeeks, sanne

@ mz tan's table
the staffroom buddies

sanne and i

on fri, went back to mg to 'pai nian' to the teachers and to eat our fav laska. haha. it was cool to see so many ex-students going back to school.

after mg, bummed at yeeks place. finally get to see her after so so long. chatted the whole afternoon and we both miss the good old mg days! time flies by and it's been 2 yrs plus since sec 4. totally increadible how we're still so close! really treasure our gang. those mg days were indescribable! doing insane things in and out of class. love those times!

it's really cool to have the gang reunited again after so long. so glad everyone could come even though their exams were coming pretty soon, except for sanne and i who are on hols. lol. did lots of catching up. went to holland v..had dinner and we headed down to eski bar. it was really cold. only sanne was without a jacket. well, she's used to it. haha. had an increadible time. love you gals! =)

on thur...of all the subjects, i had to teach my fav subject - CHEENA! i almost dieded. whaha! taught pri 3, 5 and 6. when i stepped into every class, all the pupils were rejocing because it meant FREE PERIOD. however, when i asked them to take out their chinese textbook, their reaction was "huh? ", because no play time for them. or "she's chinese?" simply hilarious!

the pri 3 class was adorable. pretty easy to teach them. played hang-man too. as for the pri 5 and pri 6, it was horrorendous! was teaching them the passage from the textbook and happened to get the pin-yin wrong for some words, so the smart alexes in the class were like correcting me. so so embarrassing! but seriously, what are they learning? the chinese is so difficult. don't remember learning such difficult words. haha. oh wells. it was a good experience though. hee hee.

oh my! had a MONSTEROUS class today. ok lar, not everyone in the class is naughty. but half the class is bad enough. and there's a particular boy who is super naughty. it's because he has attention-seeking-deficit syndrome. aniwae, the point is that he disrupts the whole class, hit the girl with a broom and inflicting pain on people. and poor me was one of the victim. while teaching a boy how to go about writing a composition, i got flicked by a rubber band at my back. it was painful mind you. oh wells.

after RT, met sanne, ling-long and mz tan for movie. watched CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2. a family kind of show. not too bad a show. then we headed down to chomp chomp for dinner. the sambal stingray and crayfish were SUPER YUMMY!!! and the drinks were huggeeee. DELICIOUS dinner!

bummed at nat's house. had a great time chatting about so many things. just miss those good old mg days!

it's back to the same pri 4 class. haha. the teacher is on mc again. had to teach the class today because the class has completed all the assignments last week. taught the class mathematics - multiplication of a one digit or two digit number. did a biit of english. and ended the day teaching science. taught them the three states of water (solid, liquid and gas) and the water cycle. so geography. whaha! and i'm impressed with myself. taught two topics in 40 mins. or rather, the topics were easy to comprehend. LOL. teaching the students were a breeze because they understood the lesson pretty fast. and also, could feel how teachers felt while they were teaching us. hee hee. 1 boy was practically reading a storybook right under my nose and a few of them in a row were playing some game. but at least the rest were listening. haha.

here's wad's been happening...

last thur and fri did relief teaching at bukit panjang pri. its like 5 mins walk from my house. so near. save time on travelling. haha. but would want to try other schools too. aniwae, this time had a pri 4 class. my! they are so super hardworking and so guai. the class does work pretty quietly plus some whispers here and there. [wee wee, izzy and kawai would love a class so quiet. whaha! don't have to keep screaming. haha.] and once they're done with their work, 3/4 of them would take out their storybook to read. they're not called the 2nd best class for nothing. whaha!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALISH!!
*sorry for the late entry..hee hee*

celebrated daddy's birthday yesterday. it was a belated birthday because he had to work till late on fri. so sad. oh wells. work comes first la.

can't believe it. matthew got his new clothes in less than half an hour. i still need to get some clothes and heels....

2nd day of relief teaching. went through the comprehension passage, vocab worksheet and gave out maths and science worksheet papers. the students were complaining of me giving too much hw. oh wells. this was not my idea. whaha! brought them to the computer lab so that they could finish their project.

and i punished one of boys by making him do his work while standing. he kept talking non-stop and kept saying "really... really.... really" after every sentence i made. had to repeat myself like 4 -5 times before he actually stood up. real rascal! he practically stood for almost the whole day except for the time while they were in the lab. after recess, the whole class got punished because of him. and they were all glad to be punished by me. somehow, they love to stand. some cheered, some clapped-hands upon hearing that they have to stand for the whole lesson.

found it unjustifiable for the whole class to be punished for something they had not done. so decided to let those who answered my question sit down.

at 12.00 pm, it was time to leave the class. i'm gonna miss them even though they were rascals! =)

did relief teaching today. it was pretty fun. haha. had a primary 6.4 class. the kids were so so talkative, but still adorable la. at least they listened to me to a certain extent. LOL. had this long list of things set by the teacher because the teacher was on course and because this was their important year. or else like the other primary levels, we relief teachers just got to go into class and baby-sit the class with no work set. went into one pri 3 class today. practically just stoning in class and waiting for time to pass. luckily had a book to keep me company or hearing the students ask "teacher teacher, can i go toilet?? teacher teacher... teacher teacher..." whaha.

aniwae, back to the primary sixes. gave them spelling, dictation. went through vocab worksheet. assigned them math problem sums. oh my, the maths questions are so so DIFFICULT. the students were asking "teacher teacher, how to do question 6? how to do question 8." i was like starring at the question with many many question marks. so ended up referring to the answers from the teacher's book before explaining to them. and the kids love echoing each other mann. every instruction that was given, the same boy wld start the ball rolling. he'll say "really ah...really ah." goodness. then a few other boys would copy him too. and many of them love acting smart. they'll tell me what to do. "teacher teacher, you must do..." and the most funny thing was, 2 kids asked me "teacher teacher, you malay or chinese?" after answering them, they'll say "i thought you chinese". that was hilarious! whaha!

after teaching, went queenways. bought a bag. haha. then watched ELISABETH TOWN with izzy and wee wee. nice nice show! go catch it!

started work at manulife again. it was kinda slack because at my side of the office, no adult was present. it was only xueyi, kawai and myself. whaha! so we called, chatted, snacked. super slack. worked for only half a day today. haha.

then in the afternoon, the 7 dwarves minus jojo went back to JJ. can you believe it, we were actually going back to JJ. we were missing those times we had in our 04a1 classroom and of course some teachers like lumlum. we met up with lumlum and had a good time talking.

anyway, on our journey there, 2 embarrassing moments happened. haha. we had to walk out from the bus parking area with everyone fixing their eyes on us. the bus driver didn't realise that there were still people on the bus as we were on the upper deck of the bus. then when i got off the bus, i forgot to tap my ez-link card. so i wanted to go back up the bus to tap, and the bus driver actually opened the bus door, but i wasn't fast enough to tap it. haha. oh wells, just got to pay more for my bus ride. whaha! I WANT MY BUS CONCESSION! so used to it.

got news to announce. hohoho is teaching clara econs! clara is the econs rep! how bad can this get??! hohoho is going to terrorize her. whaha! of all the teachers, clara got hohoho as her teacher. and she didn't get lumlum or mandy for geo. so sad. got some new teacher instead. bleah.

then the 6 dwarves hang out at pizza hut for late lunch cum early dinner. haha. had a FANTASTIC TIME together!! =)

helped out at the kids sunday school today. the kids are fantastic, mischevious at times, but simply adorable! eunice and i taught them the J.E.S.U.S cheer. the kids learnt it almost immediately. cool!

one year past so fast. youth H.U.B has turned one year's old! had a one year anniversary celebration yesterday. so glad that number of the youths are growing! C'MON GET UP, THE KING IS HERE! THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING IN THE ATMOSPHERE! yeah!

"what a perfect day!" it didn't rain today. cool! travelling was made a breeze.

in the late morning, went back to MG. helped the teachers. saw many of clara's frens back in MG too. clara was no exception. the staffroom was so noisy and lively. and i was so surprize to find out that mz tan is the form teacher of my buddy (the primary 5 - primary 1 buddy system). amazing! she still looks pretty much the same, but just much much taller. how coincident!

met up with my 1st 3 mths frens after eons! had whole lot of fun! we laughed till our cheek muscles were aching. LOL. snapped many pictures too. had a FANTASTIC time together! =)

it's been raining everyday! so inconvenient to go out. but the only comfort is that it's nice to sleep in such cool weather. whaha! aniwae, think the monsoon season this time is pretty horrible. didn't expect it to rain from morning till night. the earth must be undergoing a climatic change back to the glacial period. considering that we're in the interglacial period now. haha. or it may be linked to the el-nino or el-nina phenomena. LOL.

was out getting stuff for our youth H.U.B. 1st anniversary this sat and transport is so ex! no more bus concession! *sobs* was so use to taking multiple bus rides everyday, changing many buses to get to one destination asap. ahaha. now, no more such privilege. =(

no work and no school.. how slack can i get??! haha. gotta find a job real soon. but i want the relief teaching job! and i need the money to spend. LOL.

had my first jap lesson today. it was totally hilarious! firstly, the teacher was talking so fast. and many of us couldn't catch wad the teacher was saying initially. secondly, the way we pronounced the words sounded funny. whaha! but guess it takes time to familarize with the jap words. and the class was majority filled with working adults. we're like the youngest there. haha.

to anyone out there : if you got good suggestions on how to teach primary sch kids chinese, please let me know! how ironic is this, teaching chinese??!! i'm running out of ideas of teaching my brother chinese and getting him to rmb the words. i'm going insane! LOL.

sanne and mee

mee, vonnie, sannie

humongous fredos ice-cream

ling-long and mee

in the tram : mee and jo-jo

su-su, meiling, sanne, bonnie and me

3 mg girls at the tram stop waiting for the tram =)

federation bells

enjoying the cool breeze

touring round vodafone arena

vodafone arena - place where the planetshakers conference was held

yarra river

posing for the australia open. LOL

climbing the rock wall

up on the spider web

I'M BACK! touched down yesterday at 5.20am. there weren't on-demand movies on the plane. pretty tired too. so slept on the plane. was talking to sanne too. food was pretty alright. at the arrival hall, saw mummy and matthew. daddy was buying some food. hugged them all! LOVE THEM!!

woo-hoo! this trip was TOTALLY FRUITFUL! IT'S SO SO WORTH GOING!!!
the conference was FLIPPING AWESOME!!! learnt so many new things from the speakers - chris hill, reggie debbs, matt fielder, russel evans. the style of bringing the message across was so different from the here. INTERESTING!! LOVE IT ALL!! praise and worship was simply BREATH TAKING!! jumping and lifting our praises to the Lord! the presence of the Holy Spirit was definitely moving. something was happening the in atmosphere. FANTASTICAL!!! =)

made so so many friends too! AWESOME!! =)
gonna miss them all!! love ya all!!

hey clara and matthew! how's first day of school? hope your are doing fine. =) enjoy school! i'll be back real soon yeah!

2005 has ended. but hey, 2006 is going to be a splendid and glorious year! God is going to do something great and mighty! woo hoo! =)

3rd day of jan 2006. here i am in melbourne with sanne. whee! shopping shopping and more shopping! bought many many things and spending a lot of money too. but it can't be helped. whaha! because there's simply no time to visit scenic places - the great ocean road, phillip island. LOL.

met sanne's group of frens yesterday. after dinner, sanne decided to pop over at one of her fren's, bonnie, place. and it so happened that the few of them was there too. so we hang out at bonnie's place. had a good time laughing. it was a time of crazyness. FUN! but the more hilarious part was that this guy, scott, hangs out most of the time with this group of girls and always gets attacked by the girls. what can i say. if the guys are the minority, they'll get attacked by the girls and vice-versa. just like in A1. whahaha. what's more was that the girls were all from girls' school. LOL.

can't wait for tmr's conference. it's gonna be awesome! yuppie! =)

wee wee, charcoal, cherryn, izzy

7 pretty ladies!

hip-hop mrs razal

form teacher - lumlum

elegant looking 04A1

my kindergarten friend

little rascals

tuition mate

fuifui & charcoal

blackiez unite!