I knew I was PMSsing. If not, I won't be eating so much these few days.
When the door handle doesn't turn upwards, turn it downwards.
When you put your hand under the tap and no water runs out, press the tap.
When the nose is running and you can't stop it. Lie down.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Argh
I must be pmssing.! I feel so restless and my postings have been rather antagonistic. More to come. Calm down little spirit, calm down....
I wanna go shopping this weekend! One more day to the weekend!
Holidays on tues and wednesdays! Yay!
The theme for teachers' day dinner this year is no theme. In that, every level is supposed to come up with their own theme and dress according to that. My level teachers have been throwing in ideas all day: royal family, from the costume shop, nuns, rock stars, ghosts and the supernatural, etc. Quite fun. But can you imagine moving around town dressing like one of the characters from a horror movie, more so this month- the hungry ghosts festival.
I am taking one hour train ride to bedok. Thank God for the iPhone.
I might just get the koss porta headphones again. They are reliable and have lasted me a good year and a half. Must be gentle with them though.
Sad to hear whenever a friend's loved one is unwell, praying for physical comfort and healing for the unwell, and comfort and strength for their family members.
I have been typing incessantly for the past hour. Time to take a break!
Napping now!
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I wanna go shopping this weekend! One more day to the weekend!
Holidays on tues and wednesdays! Yay!
The theme for teachers' day dinner this year is no theme. In that, every level is supposed to come up with their own theme and dress according to that. My level teachers have been throwing in ideas all day: royal family, from the costume shop, nuns, rock stars, ghosts and the supernatural, etc. Quite fun. But can you imagine moving around town dressing like one of the characters from a horror movie, more so this month- the hungry ghosts festival.
I am taking one hour train ride to bedok. Thank God for the iPhone.
I might just get the koss porta headphones again. They are reliable and have lasted me a good year and a half. Must be gentle with them though.
Sad to hear whenever a friend's loved one is unwell, praying for physical comfort and healing for the unwell, and comfort and strength for their family members.
I have been typing incessantly for the past hour. Time to take a break!
Napping now!
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Bad breath
I have been educating my health education classes about personal hygiene these 2 days. I really enjoyed teaching them about stuff relevant to life. I feel more alive and engaged teaching them about the difference between an anopheles mosquito and aedes mosquito and how they can prevent mosquito breeding at home given the dengue epidemic now.. Some will tell me they share what they learnt with their parents too.
Teaching English is not so easy. Grammar can be so dry but it's really what they need to learn. It's extremely challenging to help them learn grammar in a creative way. Sometimes, when lessons get too fun, you wonder if they had learnt (and half the time, they don't). Inductive learning is most useful but with a syllabus to follow and certain concepts to teach to prep them for their exams, it takes a lot more to cultivate the love of reading in them to be that teacher who exceeds expectations (according to the system which ranks teachers).
I was supposed to talk about bad breath but got carried away. Next entry perhaps......
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Teaching English is not so easy. Grammar can be so dry but it's really what they need to learn. It's extremely challenging to help them learn grammar in a creative way. Sometimes, when lessons get too fun, you wonder if they had learnt (and half the time, they don't). Inductive learning is most useful but with a syllabus to follow and certain concepts to teach to prep them for their exams, it takes a lot more to cultivate the love of reading in them to be that teacher who exceeds expectations (according to the system which ranks teachers).
I was supposed to talk about bad breath but got carried away. Next entry perhaps......
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
What if the ex has changed for the better?
One of my exes has changed so much I barely recognized her. Someone asked me over dinner sometime last week if I would get back with her since I thought she has changed so much after the break up and changed for the better I must say.
My response to her question was pretty general. I told her that the only thing that caused me to decide that it's better for us to be just friends was because it felt like we were just friends. There was nothing unattractive about her before that would cause me to consider a break up. I loved her just the way she was, except for the fact that I didn't feel like we were in a relationship. Then the friend asked: what if she has also changed in that way that she could make you feel like you are the most special person on earth. Well, I can't really answer that question now, can I? But she has changed so much in the past few months I hardly know her. Who I was attracted to before seems foreign now.
Which brings me to this point: that special someone need not be perfect. Romantic love to me is when and where two hearts connect at that level of compatibility.
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My response to her question was pretty general. I told her that the only thing that caused me to decide that it's better for us to be just friends was because it felt like we were just friends. There was nothing unattractive about her before that would cause me to consider a break up. I loved her just the way she was, except for the fact that I didn't feel like we were in a relationship. Then the friend asked: what if she has also changed in that way that she could make you feel like you are the most special person on earth. Well, I can't really answer that question now, can I? But she has changed so much in the past few months I hardly know her. Who I was attracted to before seems foreign now.
Which brings me to this point: that special someone need not be perfect. Romantic love to me is when and where two hearts connect at that level of compatibility.
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Monday, August 1, 2011
In the plane, after the movie
Just finished the movie "social network" for the second time.
E.S was M.Z's only friend before he got famous. His best friend was the one who provided all the finances for him to start of the biz. To me, that, along with friendship and a worthy partnership for the biz is more than what I would ask for in a friendship. Looking at how M.Z treated E.S made me consider the issue of trust between friends. I guess he had more to lose. Not many has a biz that is valued at 25 billion dollars. And perhaps, he felt that the negative incident where E.S Had frozen the bank account warrants some level of distrust on how beneficial future partnership will be.
I am usually termed as trusting and naive by the people closest to me (mostly my partners). They meant to say that that is a virtue I think. They had said before that was what they love about me; sincerity and purity ( in that, they meant the non-menancing and trusting part of me), I think. Afterall, they knew they could trust me, I think. Whether or not they really did, I wouldn't know.i mean, why would I be suspicious and not trust any of my friends right? For me, especially when I am sharing a great proportion of my life with someone special, I feel that I would be able to trust them to a very large degree. Afterall, after I give my heart wholeheartedly to them and give them as much as I can, there won't be anything to lose, will there?
Rewatching this movie caused me to think about this trust issue and I started thinking about the people whom I could really trust with my life; my heart, my finances. I invested half of my savings (not much) in stocks under my mum's name. Am I close to my mum? Not really. To what extent is that sum of money safeguarded? I never really thought about it.
That is the same kind of trust I have with people close to me, except that it extends to other aspects of my life too, not just in the area of finances.
As I was considering this issue of trust, I remembered what the very wise words of King Solomon. He said do not trust in princes and men but put your trust in God. I guess the perspective to take seriously is this: our trust should indeed be in God and no one else because God is perfect and He wont fail us. Likewise, humans are imperfect and will fail us. Does that then mean we become wary of others and start to detach ourselves from the world? I guess the other question to ask then is this: what do we have that we hold on so tightly to that we can't afford to lose? And why is that so?
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E.S was M.Z's only friend before he got famous. His best friend was the one who provided all the finances for him to start of the biz. To me, that, along with friendship and a worthy partnership for the biz is more than what I would ask for in a friendship. Looking at how M.Z treated E.S made me consider the issue of trust between friends. I guess he had more to lose. Not many has a biz that is valued at 25 billion dollars. And perhaps, he felt that the negative incident where E.S Had frozen the bank account warrants some level of distrust on how beneficial future partnership will be.
I am usually termed as trusting and naive by the people closest to me (mostly my partners). They meant to say that that is a virtue I think. They had said before that was what they love about me; sincerity and purity ( in that, they meant the non-menancing and trusting part of me), I think. Afterall, they knew they could trust me, I think. Whether or not they really did, I wouldn't know.i mean, why would I be suspicious and not trust any of my friends right? For me, especially when I am sharing a great proportion of my life with someone special, I feel that I would be able to trust them to a very large degree. Afterall, after I give my heart wholeheartedly to them and give them as much as I can, there won't be anything to lose, will there?
Rewatching this movie caused me to think about this trust issue and I started thinking about the people whom I could really trust with my life; my heart, my finances. I invested half of my savings (not much) in stocks under my mum's name. Am I close to my mum? Not really. To what extent is that sum of money safeguarded? I never really thought about it.
That is the same kind of trust I have with people close to me, except that it extends to other aspects of my life too, not just in the area of finances.
As I was considering this issue of trust, I remembered what the very wise words of King Solomon. He said do not trust in princes and men but put your trust in God. I guess the perspective to take seriously is this: our trust should indeed be in God and no one else because God is perfect and He wont fail us. Likewise, humans are imperfect and will fail us. Does that then mean we become wary of others and start to detach ourselves from the world? I guess the other question to ask then is this: what do we have that we hold on so tightly to that we can't afford to lose? And why is that so?
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At the start of the movie, during the movie
When I have a choice as to what type of movies I like to watch on DVD, I would choose something I have watched before. At least I am familiar with the characters and the content of the movie. Whenever I watch a new movie, I will be so distracted that I will be doing everything else but watch the movie. That's just me. Funnee eh.
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While peeing
Strange what I think about sometimes, at weird moments. While I was flushing the toilet, I thought about how the colour of my urine reflects my health. The lighter the colour, the healthier I am, or so it seems. Yet that is only surface information. We need to "xray" our blood and our urine to determine if we are really healthy.
Jesus also values substance over form. Our spiritual health is not reflected by how we look in front of others; how much we seem to know about Him by talking about Him, how religious we look from the frequency we are seen "doing" spiritual activities.
A good tree bears good fruit. How do we determine the spiritual health of a Christian? It's in our lifestyle; what we say, what we do, how we care, how we give, our attitude in serving etc.
Good reminder for me.
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Jesus also values substance over form. Our spiritual health is not reflected by how we look in front of others; how much we seem to know about Him by talking about Him, how religious we look from the frequency we are seen "doing" spiritual activities.
A good tree bears good fruit. How do we determine the spiritual health of a Christian? It's in our lifestyle; what we say, what we do, how we care, how we give, our attitude in serving etc.
Good reminder for me.
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