Children's Day

Thank God for the long weekend! I just finished my research at the library! Productive time! Yay!

It was a pretty fun day. The concert for the kids was pretty interesting. Teachers could be a creative lot. Of course the children would like the concert. Teachers were mostly making a fool of themselves, singing, dancing, acting.. :)

Before I gave 3 of my classes their Children's Day gifts, I told them that I also like to give them a hug to wish them Happy Children's Day. Needless to say, there were some squeals, coming from the boys especially.

This is the second time I am hugging an entire class of pupils since I started teaching. The first was hugging every one of my graduating pupils as I handed them their results last year.

Anyhooz, one by one, they came by to hug me. There were some (about 3 out of every 40 pupils)who preferred the handshake (yes, I offered an alternative). I had to teach them the correct way of hugging (arms around the person instead of stiffening the body and giving the body for me to hug like a bolster). It was pretty amusing when the class cheered and clapped when some boys came forward to hug me. I supposed they thought those few boys wouldn't like to display that much affection.

There was one however, rather sad case. He's a boy in my class. After he has hugged me (or I hugged him), he told another classmate that he didn't like the hug because he has not been hugged since K1 (5 years old). That's so sad. I am going to insist on giving him a hug everyday starting next week. *evil laugh*. I am sure he's not the only pupil not getting hugs at home. I shall tell the class that they can choose to hug me at the end of the day if they like. Actually, I don't think I really got hugged after kindergarten.. hmmm..

Anyhooz, I felt really good taking a shower when I got back. Imagine hugging 120 sweaty kids. Euwwwwww.
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aiya

I am not looking for someone who's cute. Honestly, looks do not matter to me as much as warmth, affection and a kind heart. It's really how they make me feel special. And I guess that was how my exes won my heart. Honestly, there were some cute ones who liked me before but when there's no chemistry, there's no chemistry.
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One Heart Part 4

We will know what's happening in one another's lives not just on cg days.
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Dear God.

I am demotivated at work. How?
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One heart part 3

We will have a genuine love for people from the love poured into our hearts by the love of God.
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Ex-colleague

texted me and says he has a friend who wants to attend FCC, so they are attending tomorrow. I also thought he has an inclination to be gay but he has insisted a few times that he is attracted to women. Leave him alone. He is bringing a gal. Should be interesting.

Glad there are more women on the worship team now. Yipee. Higher percentage of representation from women. Yipee.
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Gal from fridae

And so, about the gal from fridae.. I would be more open to meeting up with her one on one if she weren't so persistent in meeting up. Imagine calling me at midnight to ask if I wanted to go for a drink at one of the lesbian ktv place. Thought she needed to talk / in trouble but apparently not.

So after inviting her to play badminton with the rest (she usually can't make it because she's in retail), we finally arranged to play badminton during her off day. I thought she was just bringing another friend along. Lo and behold, I saw 4 others streaming in the badminton court. I had a brief thought that I might get mugged or something. Just a very brief thought. I am kinda paranoid this way; I overthink and overimagine sometimes. Turns out that one is a real estate agent and one an insurance agent. I don't know lah. I really think it's a tough place to be at when one introduces herself to be one of the two. I have this bias that they mostly network to make sales. I know it's wrong to think that way but anyhowz.. 

Maybe that's what people think too when they know that someone's Christian, that they network to get people converted. Sometimes I am guilty of that too. Anyhooz, the intention is to get people to know of the love of the awesome God I worship. That's all. Anyhooz. Random Saturday post. Played too much, ate too much. Time to get some marking done. Ciao.
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