D&D Nov Westview Pri



I'm the one on the right... My colleagues said that they thought they went to the wrong place when they saw someone in a gown... They thought it's a wedding reception... ( where's my groom???)

The food is not to my taste... Please don't go to Orchard P***** hotel for buffet...

Anyway, I feel that the dinner serves as a good farewell to my principal.. I bet that he will be enjoying his retirement. I can't wait to retire!

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Toys

I searched frantically for my hello kitty toy which I just received from my Happy Meal. Oh no! I think I might have left it on the table at Mc. :"( It's a beautiful pink Hello Kitty.

Amazingly, even my dad knows what is Hello Kitty. He even collected a whole set of Hello Kitty Magnets from 7-11.

Speaking of toys, I found this on the internet:



People in UK created these toys to mock at people with learning difficulties. They are know as the village idiots.

Your Career Type: Investigative

You are precise, scientific, and intellectual. Your talents lie in understanding and solving math and science problems. You would make an excellent: Architect - Biologist - Chemist Dentist - Electrical Technician - Mathematician Medical Technician - Meteorologist - Pharmacist Physician - Surveyor - Veterinarian The worst career options for your are enterprising careers, like lawyer or real estate agent.

What's Your Ideal Career?

Will it happen to me?

You can say that I worry too much (hehe... when I have too much time I like to worry about things). Looking at my grandma, I wonder if I will be like her when I became old... She was wepting while telling us some fond memories of my late uncle (he died this year). She's in total despair. She's worried about so many things... her future, other children.... etc..

Perhaps, Erik Erikson's theory of personality is true... People lead lifes in stages:
Stage One Oral-Sensory: from birth to one, trust vs. mistrust, feeding;
Stage Two Muscular-Anal: 1-3 years, autonomy vs.doubt, toilet training;
Stage Three Locomotor: 3-6 years, initiative vs.inadequacy, independence;
Stage Four Latency: 6-12 years, industry vs.inferiority, school;
Stage Five Adolescence: 12-18 years, identity vs.confusion, peer relationships;
Stage Six Young Adulthood: 18-40 years, intimacy vs.isolation, love relationships;
Stage Seven Middle Adulthood: 40-65 years, generativity vs.stagnation, parenting;
Stage Eight Maturity: 65 years until death, integrity vs.despair, acceptance of one's life.

My grandma belongs to the maturity stage... Since she can't gain integrity, she's despair.. I want to help her get out from it... But I don't think I can. The only thing I can do is to listen to her when I'm free.

Hope that she will get out from her depression.

Holiday is really here!

It's the month of the year... Ho ho ho...

I love dec.

Meow

Recently, I'm very hook onto online shopping sprees. Currently, I'm just observing. don't dare to take any actions yet. Since the flop with CCT fashion (not exactly a flop, I think I will still buy from them in the future), I'm more careful when I shop online. I saw Xia's blog. She's so into sprees leh. Hmmmm

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Yesterday, I visited Vivocity. My god! It's so crowded. I find the place very weird. Those shops on the ground floor are so high-ended. The chocolates, etc are so ex. I bet it will close down very soon. Looking at the crowd, I think most of them can't afford it!

unfortunate day

Yesterday was an unfortunate day for my school..

First of all, the principal announced that the new principal who was supposed to take over him has been transferred to another school... Don't know why MOE made such a decision.

Secondly, an old lady fell down other side my school. The kind sweeper brought her into the school. Guess what? She died in my school. My colleagues told me that she had already been sent away. So I happily walked down the staircase near to the 'crime scene' 3 hours after the incident. The moment I turned my head, I saw them packing up the 'thing'....

Unlucky

My poor students

My little kids will be taking their exams tomorrow. I'm so worried for them. Some of them encountered some family problems just before the exam. I'm sure it will affect their results.

Kid 1:
MCYS informed me that he was abused. This kids had not being studying for the entire year. Now that the exams are coming, I'm sure he will be greatly affected.

Kid 2:
She told me that she has some issues with her step-mum. Poor thing.

This semester is so short. I felt that I had not done enough for them.

A site to share:

www.cct-fashion.com

Beautiful tops at low prices...

I'm ok

I writing this post coz one of my friends emailed me to enquire about my 'cancer'.... Hai... The thing is that the doc told me there's nothing wrong with me...

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School is so boring... Luckily, the holidays are just around the corner. Maybe I will visit Aussie if I have the time.

I want to post pictures on my blog.. I bought a nice camera for JX. He told me not to use it or else he will kill me.. Too bad. Have to wait for him to come back. In the mean time, I'm missing him.

I'm in trouble

A month ago, I spotted some tiny (pimple size), colorless and painless lumps on my collarbone. I also have some on my chest. I checked it out on the internet and noticed that it can be an inflamation of my lymph nodes. It can signal CANCER!

I think I really have to check it out with the doctor.

My insurance agent bluff me... say that I will get a free checkup yearly with my policy... Now he told me it's biannual!!! Shit him

Life

Happy birthday to Pong. Give you 1 BIG kiss... I love you... Hope that you are happy in Aussie.

I'm so happy that I will be getting an increment next year. Somehow, the govt has answered my prayers. I will be using the funding to subscribe to national geo.

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Another thing about Aussie:

So sad to hear about what happened to the croco hunter..

The fans of discovery channel will miss you.

Happy Teachers' Day

This is my first time celebrating teachers' day as a teacher. I received lots of little presents from my sweeties... All of them are unique. There are some unusual ones:

A card without a name

A very old staple box with a tiny note 'happy teachers' day.

But I simply love everyone of them

Starting to miss him

I start to miss JX...

So sian... The weekends without him. I just bury myself in the books and hopefully I will get something out of it. Haizz..

Later, I have to go for the National Day Dinner... Sianzzz... Hopefully, the food is good enough to make me happy... meow

My $168 hair cut

Today, I still in a bad mood. I'm angry with what had happened yesterday. Furthermore, my dad quarrelled with me today. After doing some work in school, I left for Orchard Road.

It's so boring shopping alone. Luckily, there was some great bargains and I managed to buy some clothes. I had been playing with my hair and I realised that it's really messy and boring... Furthermore, I did not clip it on, so it flew all over the place.

I walked into Icon by Shunji Matsuo at Isetan. Icon is like the more budget version of Shunji Matsuo, so it's gonna be cheaper. For people who know me, I like to cut my hair whenever I'm in a bad mood. (kk.. people do remember my squid hair, don't you?) I recalled my last visit to the salon years ago. There was this cute guy who cut my hair and he's so good in styling. Hopefully he's still around.

Too bad, he's not around. Anyway, an uncle came along to cut my hair. He suggested that I highlight my hair. kk, my hair was limp, so I decided to give it a try.

Oh no it's a bad move!

After all the hard work and the long wait (he was serving two people at the same time!), I don't seem to see much color after all. And after the GST and treatment, it costed me $168!

The hair does look better. The problem is that I don't feel $168 better. Haizzz...

What's the moral of the story, don't think that spending money is going to make you feel better. Secondly, don't ever do things on impulse.

Wow.. It's been so many days since I last blogged... I didn't blog because I don't have a camera... And I think that it's boring to have a blog with no pics. What to do? My bf is not around liao... He's in Aussie land..

Really quite busy with work and studies. I can almost drop dead any moment. Jiro asked me if I call the parents regularly? Not really lar... some parents do call me often. I don't really mind, as long as they don't complain to my sch but complain directly to me.

Currently, I still think that the workload is manageable.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. I will be selling Rojak for the racial harmony day.. So long.

I had not been updating my blog for sometime. Many things are going on in my life and I just don't seem to have the time to blog about it. First it was the trip to Hat Yai and then it was the staff retreat at orchid country club. I took many photos using my bf's cam and my hp... But so far he had not given me the photos. The school holiday was fun and how I wish that it can last longer!

Found meaning in my job

Previously, I don't really like my job. I thought that it is going to be lesson plans and lesson plans. But now as a full-fledged teacher, life is totally different. I became more competent and I can actually do things that I really want to do with the class. Being the form teacher of a class is a brand new experience.I get to see the same kids for aalmost the entire day. I really enjoyed their company.

I realised that I play a very important role in their life. They are very poor in their studies and I will have the power to change their destiny.

Hope that I will continue to enjoy my life in school :)

Just got back from Hat Yai (Thailand)...

Wow I look like so many people...

I run my photo on the face recognition website - www.myheritage.com and I get so many diffferent results.



Using my passport photo, the percentage of resemblance is only between 61% to 48%... Which is relatively low. And most of my lookalikes are not really good looking.. so that means I'm not good looking lar... KK I knew it. Most of my lookalikes look intelligent... so does it mean that I'm smart?

But I tried the same website and used a very different photo which only shows my profile, I get a very different set of results.



This photo yielded more results and notice that this time round my lookalikes are more beautiful (hahaha) and the level of resemblance is also higher. Those highlighted in green are the celebrities that resemble me (the computer said so... not me). Both Grace and me resemble Rita Hayworth. Maybe my profile is more beautiful that's why the results are better LOL... Wow... I'm even look a bit like Lee Yong Ae...

Don't know how the flash works... I supposed that they just think that all asian faces looks alike... I used another photo and they even think I look like Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.

NIE Dinner and Dance

I went to the NIE dinner and dance. It's like my very first 'prom'. back then when I was in sec sch, there wsn't any prom and when I was in poly, no one wants to go. This might be my first and only prom. hahaha. Only a few people attended. The graduating students from dip ed only managed to fill up one table.

The first surprise of the night.



Saw the girl on the left... Her dress is sexy... Very low cut. In this pic u can't see much... But in actual fact, the front cut is all the way to her belly.


Here's her back. I think I saw the same dress on MTV or something... But never thought that someone will wear it other than for clubbing.


Here's Joan acting cute and asking for a fav from me. She wanted me to go for the pageant on her behalf... crazy... she's prettier than me lor. She's just too shy.


The dinner is a bit boring, even when there's some 'games' and a live band there. so We tried to entertain ourselves at our table.



Jeann making a fool... LOL


a group photo
i look so fat!



me, Grace and Joan



Me and saodah


we even had a mini NIE pageant.



Let me present to u ... Princess of NIE


N... Prince of NIE


Prince of NIE looks a bit like Pong JX.

Dreaming

Two days ago, I visited ITE college East. This was a trip planned by the MOE as part of the induction programme for the teachers'. The school is beautiful. The Dean gave a very long speech trying to convince us that the quality of education in ITE is improving. Ok... I believe that the vocational education is useful for some people.

Then he showed us a video clip. In this video clip, they selected handsome and beautiful pupils to talk about their dreams. One part of the clip caught my attention. I saw three handsome guys sitting on the pool side in a row. One of their legs is in the pool while the other is outside the pool (pretty hard to imagine). They pretended that they are paddling a canoe (no canoe!). Then the camera cut to the face of one of the guys who spoke of his dreams to sucess.

What a joke! This shows that the pupils there only stops at dreaming!

Color me beautiful

Today I attended this workshop entitled 'Color me beautiful' by Jill Lowe. In case you don't know who is Jill, she is an image consultant with many years of experience. She show us this diagram and the entire class laughed. I think she somehow censored the word sex on the picture for the male brain and she used the word 'women' instead. She was trying to point out to us that it is important for women to dress appropriately to attract men.

My hamster almost died in my hands

Just now, I accidentally dropped my hamster on the floor. At first, one of its front legs went limp and it only moved using the other legs. I don't know what to do. Then it started to bleed slightly from the nose. It was making a funny sound, as if it was trying to sniff back the blood. After a min, it's front leg seems fine and the bleeding stopped.

Luckily, it was fine. This was not the first accident I had with hamsters. The other time, I injured a baby hamster and it lose one of its front legs.

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Where to get cheaper groceries

Recently, it was reported in the news that one of the supermarket chains was caught selling expired food. The supermarket that is nearest to my home also belongs to the 'sXXX n saXX' chains. Due to the poor business at that branch, a lot of the vegetables, fishes and meat are not fresh.

The branch near my home sells limited range of products. The grocerises are not really that cheap in comparison to 'fair price', giant and 'sheng siong'.

just to name a few

e.g.
At 'sXXX n saXX'
A pack of 5 mid chicken wings -> $2
At 'fair price'
A pack of 7-8 mid chicken wings -> $2

At 'sXXX n saXX'
Mozarella cheese -> $4.10
At 'giant'
Mozarella cheese -> $3.60

Hehe... I'm green




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DIY Takoyaki

My mum bought a packet of takoyaki flour mix and she followed the instructions on the packet to make the takoyaki. It taste better than what is sold at the night market in Singapore.

Here's how to do it->

Ingredients:
300g Takoyaki flour mix (from Daiso)
water 450ml
1 egg
some prawns
100g mozzarella cheese
some dried flaked bonito

Mix part of the flour mix with water and beaten egg until smooth. Add all the water and mixed till homogeneous.
Cut the cheese into small cubes.
Oil and heat the pan. If you don't have the takoyaki pan, you may use a frying pan with the round mould for making round pancakes.
Pour the mixture into the pan. Put in the cheese and prawns as desired.
Wait till it's semi cooked. Use a skewer to turn the takoyaki. Wait for the heat to cook the outside.
Serve with sauce and bonito flakes.

make sure you try it today :)

West Side Story - at the esplanade

It's my first time catching a musical. I was rather excited. The musical was fine. somehow, for a person who is used to watching movies, it's a bit hard to adapt. You see, in a movie, after all the editing, they somehow transit from shots from different camera and positioned in different angles. This makes the whole movie more interesting. Musical is a more traditional form of art. You only get to see one angle. Therefore, it can get a bit boring after sometime. But still it's a good experience.

This time I'm sitting at the circles seats. Maybe if I'm on a budget next time, I will try the restricted seats.

end of practicum

Yesterday marks the end of my 8weeks long practicum. almost wanted to kill myself in the process. Never felt so hopeless before. Now it's all over, I still can't relax. I'm so worried that I will not be able to cope after I had become a full-fledged teacher.

When it comes to graduation, I'm always so worried. I'm not sure if my life will be better after leaving school.

regret

If I confess that I regret... will heaven and earth give me another chance.
I know the greatest dream is the most unattainable. Do I possess the strength to carry on?

I want to break out of this thing... I want back my freedom.

Pls..

I want my freedom.

Depressed

Sometimes, I tend to complicate things... I make a simple question into a complicated one... and in the end I can solve it...

Problem with women

I had been working on and off for alomst 4 years now... In the last 2yrs, most of the people I had been working with are females... coz most of the teachers are female.

I realised it's not that nice working with women... Women who are in their thirties or those who had given birth have very poor memory. (I pray that I will not grow old, or give birth, however, it's impossible). They can't remember what they had told you. Worse still, some of them like to jump into conclusions which can be very frustrating at times.

:< anyway, I still have to endure for at least another 3 years before I regain my freedom.

A Day at the zoo

25th Feb 2006

Had a wonderful time at the zoo... This time round, I'm there on a secret mission. (Since it's a secret, I can't disclose the secret!)



The Singapore Zoo has the largest collection of primates...


Show you my butt... U naughty BIg cat.




Can you spot the animal from the picture?


This cute little thingy... Lying there... Sleepy head... Wake up!!!!



Here's another sleepy head at the children's world.


Finally, I woke up one of the animals...



It jumped down and refused to move... Enjoying the sun... I grabed the ooportunity to take a photo with it.



Pong escaping from the scene as he fear the animal (he is afraid of taking photos)



See who's taller now :"""(



Pong always says that I am as fat as an elephant...


Who say so, u see my foot is a lot smaller.
Elephant oh elephant......What BIG foot you have....



Getting ready for a swim...



The animals are not very cooperative on that day... Most of them were sleeping...

Saw my friend's results for his quiz. Now that I'm at the cross roads once again, I really need to decide where to go fter NIE. And so I took the quiz...

And here's my results:

You scored as Chemistry. You should be a Chemistry major! As if that isnt clear enough, you are deeply passionate about Chemistry, and every single chemical reaction and concept fascinates you. Pursue that!

Chemistry		92%
Biology		92%
Philosophy		83%
Theater		75%
Engineering		75%
Journalism		75%
Anthropology		75%
Mathematics		67%
Psychology		67%
Art		67%
English		50%
Sociology		50%
Dance		50%
Linguistics		50%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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As u can see, I have interestin almost everything.

I think it's quite true...

I'm always open to new things... I always take courses that are not related to each other... E.g. multimedia, econs & management, education... These courses consist of many 'rojak' modules - sociology, econs, biology, English, psychology, programming.... U name it. The few things that I didn't had any formal education in is Art and dance. Due to a broad base in education, I have developed an interest in everything.

I dunno where to go after I had completed my NIE course... Maybe I will go back to SIM-UOL.

Take the quiz in quizfarm

Last day with NIE

Today is my last day in NIE. Everyone was still busy with their assignments till the very last minute. My assignments are not prefect but I still submitted them anyway. Coz I know that I will surely get a B grade for everything.

Anyway, I don't really have much feelings for this school. The people I met here are some of the nicest people I had never met. But I feel there's something cold about this place...

Comparing this school with all the other schools I had been to, I still feel that SIM is the best... But it's so expensive... (NIE is free... LOL) Maybe because I don't really like the course... That's y I feel that way.

I still have a half done degreee. Don't know what to do with it.

Graduating soon...

This is my last week at NIE. I still quite busy with my assignments. Two years with NIE is so short (I dun wish for it to be any longer). I really dun have much feelings for the school. Maybe it's becuase I'm paid to study therefore the school seems like a work place for me.

By next week I will be in my practicum school (internship). It's scary... Not too sure if I can cope with my practicum. I'm so lousy with classroom management. The kids climb over my head.

I had learnt to cope with the reality that I have to teach eventually. I just hope that I will be able to adapt to teaching life.

Gathering with my Secondary School pals

Sorry... no time to crop the photos...

My three friends.

We had been good friends since Secondary school dayz... Oh my time has fly and we are now 10 years older... Those days were the most memorable in my life.

On Monday, we met at cafe Cartel to eat... They food sucks... It's the second time I was there and still there's not improvement. The pork is so tough that it took me a long time to cut.

The three of us acting cute....

Nice fabric rite... We took the photos in esplanade... I even planned to steal the fabric home.

The rest of the photos:

Album

Lost and found

I had been reading many blogs and I realised that many youngsters are like me - very lost.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. From simple things like what clothes to wear, to what career or course I should pursue... Many times I will regret my decisions and get very depressed over them.

Usually I will take the easy way out in life but it will often land me in trouble (sorry can't mention what sort of trouble). For people out there reading this, I must tell you that the toughest path is usually the most rewarding... (provided you have good foresight). Some people always say that they were not given the opportunity... As always, I will blame heaven and earth for my fate... but thinking back, I was given many opportunites... But was I ever really prepared for them?

But I understand that I should learn to count my blessings and be contented with life.

My rabbit

Cute?

A Day At the Sungei Buloh Nature Park

7th Jan 2006

A wet Saturday morning at Sungei Buloh.

The weather is not very good on that day...

I have to say that I'm an excellent photographer... LOL

I even managed to take shots of insects resting.

I wonder what the monitor lizard and the terrapin is doing... Hmmmm

Pong at the lily pond. Hehehe He is camera shy.

Poor me, with a mosquito bite on my forehead. Pong is so stupid, by the time
he warn me, I already got the bite. He should have helped me kill the bug.

Later, we even catch a glimpse of Dong Fang Bi Li at causeway point... I must say that he looks slim...

How much do you know about me?

Here's a simple flash to test how much you know me.
Here's the link: www.faithchen.net/faith/assessment.swf
Do send the results to my email :)

The kidult

Lying on the sofa while reading a copy of 'Harry Porter and The order of the phoenix'. Occasionally, casting my eyes on the TV to catch a glimpse of Baby Tweety bird on 'Baby Looney Tunes'.

It seems like the life of an eleven kid... No you are wrong... It is my life. Since I returned to become a full-time student at NIE, I had the leisure of doing such things in the afternoon.

More and more youngsters are refusing to grow up. At first I thought that I'm the only one suffering from Peter-Pan syndrome... Many of my guy friends still spend their time playing their favourite game on the PC or arcade. And some are like me, refusing to leave school. If they have enough money, they will spend it on collecting certificates.

It is not only in Singapore, but it is a global trend.

Review of Wallace and Gromit - "The curse of the Were Rabbit"

I decided to catch this movie (even when the tickets were so ex) on the last day of the year in my appreciation for the clay animators.

The movie started off with the 15 minutes mini film featuring the cute penguines from Madagascar. These adorable penguines were out to rescue their little recruit who had wondered off to the streets from their bunker before Christmas. The short film was great and a lot more better than the Madagascar film and it serves as nice appetizer.

Wallace and Gromit works hard in the night to guard the vegetables for the villagers before the vegetable compeition. But rabbits are still everywhere. Wallace came up with an invention to rehab the rabbits. As always, Wallace got into trouble when his invention gone wrong. His faithful dog, Gromit saves the day.

The film was truly inspiring for an animator wannabe. The movie is fast pace. The cat-and-mouse chase is still the best part of the film.

Rating: A-