On being a non-conformist

Yesterday I felt that I was myself as in whole and complete. A funny feeling that was.

I'm coping with work and I am learning how to re-structure and re-organise my time. Recently I was told that I have managed to surprise someone 3 times.

Non-conformist.

Sometimes I like being different from what is expected of me.

Yeah..sometimes...

What can a PSLE certificate do?

I was just thinking....if the students I'm teaching now, quit school...

They will only have a PSLE certificate which is practically useless now and will be totally phased out in a decade.

They will be stuck with jobs that pays below $1000 for life? With increasing inflation that will erode away the value? An average of 3% inflation per year will in 10 year's time erode away 30% of that $1000 and this year's inflation rate is already what...6%?!!!

A twist in the Bhutan perspectivet

I wished the celebrity couple had never held their wedding in Bhutan.

Now, I am not so sure that I want to go there anymore.

Ok, more like, I think it is still one of the place where I have to be, except that a little bit of the magic and charm is lost. I will be part of the massive hordes of tourist that will be visiting Bhutan simply because someone famous has held their wedding there.

Wynner's concert

Nana had tickets to Wynner's concert over the weekend, so we went. I picked her up from Kallang MRT and we went off in search for dinner. The area was unbelievably packed. We went from restaurant to restaurant and all they could tell us was that they couldn't give us a table without a reservation. (-_-")

In the end we ended up eating Indian food at Vansh. The lighting makes me look good, as you can tell from the collage of pictures below. HAHA. I think the food was ok but we were in a rush and didn't took the effort to properly savour the food. It tastes ok. However I must admit I am not exactly the most enthusiastic fan of Indian food and so cannot say for sure that I will patronise the restaurant because I am uber in love with the food.

The concert was not exactly exciting for me. They were conversing in Cantonese the entire concert and dialects are so not my thing. I can profess to understand a bit of Hokkien but Cantonese is so out of my league other than the Ngoh Ai Loi (I love you), Ho Mm Ho (How are you guys or literally translated as 'good or not'.

The songs were retro 80's so there were a couple of English songs and one or two Cantonese songs sounded familiar. Anyway just in case anybody is curious, Kenny B still looks freaking hot. Alan Tam has a tummy !!!

Initially I thought that nobody would be THAT enthusiastic but I was wrong. The crowd was quite worked up and I heard that the concert was a success, at least 90% of the tickets were sold out.

Ah well, Nana and I were contemplating a movie after that but I went back to school in the morning to settle some stuff and to see a student so I was pretty tired. We went over to a cinema in Orchard and all they were showing were Hancock, Hellboy2 and Batman plus maybe 1 or 2 other unappealing movie. I was only interested in Batman but the next screening was at 2 a.m. so *shrugs..we went to do a little shopping and I got a big Winnie-the-Pooh cup so I can eat ta-pao food in.

There are other minute details but I'm too lazy to blog about them. It was quite a good weekend I had. So I hope many had one too. :)

悬

唯一的庇护是距离

与天与地

一天又一点

越抗拒越放松绳子拉长距离

拔河

下一秒

往前还是后退

倾向又转身背对

怎么就像飞蛾扑火

许着不该许的愿望
就悬困在空中

两半心的摇椅

摇摇蓝蓝

忽高忽低

与天空地面的拔河

近天近地

伸手摘星无法如愿

脚踏实地无法情愿

falling,smiling

Falling slowly into entrainment

Sunshine coming through

Little shared moments

Sparkle and smile

Feeling better...

Today was better but my legs ached terribly, all the way to the small of my back. I have no idea why. It couldn't be the run because the 9 k.m. with Gan didn't give me much of a problem and it was only about 2 k.m. today. The area around my knees ache especially the back of them. I think it is because I am not used to standing for long periods of time. And to think that I wore flats yesterday and sport shoes today. I think heels would have damaged my legs already.

The car has been changed. It is now a cool white. A 2.0 litre car and the top can open a little. It looks a bit weird though because that part is black. I was vastly amused to realised that all the fuss yesterday and today...and they wanted to trade that horrid blue for this white one. But come to think of it, I'm missing it ...a little now. After all it has been ferrying me and my stuff to school and places for the past 4 months. At least it was the one that accompanied me for most of the practicum.

Still tired. Came home to collapse after dinner. Slept and then woke up to staple worksheets. I couldn't send them for printing in time and the machine ran out of bullets.

Still feel like sleeping. Maybe I will after I finished stapling them. I've finished a class. Somehow, this reminds me of practicum. (-_-")

There are lots of things to learn and do. Most of them are shoved to the back of my head where I hope I will remember them. There hasn't even been time for me to figure out and start with the new laptop. Right now, it is sitting dismally on the table.

However some of the classes that I've been to seem rather nice. I just hope that they do stay that way.

Anyway, Nana got into the next round of SuperBand. Isn't that great?

Tomorrow....only 6 periods !!! Woo-hoo