the last post of the holidays

I was reading through the previous entries and cringed at some sentence structures. I wished I could write better and writing comes so naturally to me that I do not need to spend anytime reading through my thoughts and editing the language. But that's prolly the reason why writing is not part of my profession (writing letters and model compositions with the students do not count)

The holidays have officially ended. I must say that this is the first time I did not use my passport at all during the month long school holidays since 1998- the year I started to travel independant of my parents. Still there were several first times that I experienced during this break. This First Time thing came from my P where she started last holidays by asking us to do something that we had never done before in our lives. She reminds me of the President of the United States in the drama series West Wing. A Great compassionate leader who would change the lives of so many under her.

My P got a Tiffany and Co pendant from her hubby for her 49th bday. I wished her happy belated bday at the end of the workshop and she gave me a hug. She's kinda sweet, and of course, it doesn't help decrease the guilt level that I feel about leaving service at the end of the year.

I did not take the buses that were chartered from school. She was giving out complimentary car park tickets but obviously, there weren't enough to go around. At first, she asked me why I drove since a few buses had been chartered to bring the teachers from CCK to Quality hotel Balestier. I couldn't answer her because I was stunned from the way she asked the question. SHe asked whether I stay at CCK thrice before I said yes. Then she took away the complimetary ticket she had put in my hands and told me I should have taken the bus. I was feeling a lil sore about that, but very soon later, she came by and slipped the ticket into my pocket and i managed a " I was going to send my friends off at the airport later". It was only when she apologised to the staff that there ain't enough complimentary car coupons to give away that I realised that I was special. She saved me a freaking $16 bucks. More importantly, I get this warm feeling when I think about what that meant.
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