wheeeee!! :) school holidays are here finally, which means a nice long break that will get me rejuvenated for another bout of teaching the kids next term! haha i feel a little guilty for feeling so happy over something which means i don't see them for a month, i'll miss them i really will, but the break is much needed *grinses* ah well, there's still parent-teacher meeting tomorrow to get through, and submission of my kids' work for HOD check argh :( didn't know about it until the very last minute, so had to call up my kids one by one and tell them to bring their practice books and files today...eeks i'm such a disorganised teacher *grinses*
anyway! haha i honestly thought that PW was out of my life forever the last day we did our presentation, BUT it seems not. spent 3 plus hours straight today in LC (learning circle) meeting today in school working on the teachers' PW project hahaha sheeesh...and it's practically the same as our PW in the past where you're given an outline and you're supposed to think of how you use the outline to fit your own project in. hurhur but we're good man...managed to roll PW, English project and SS project all into one, which means we do 2 less projects now hahaha! *grinses* wah but the workload of the PW is really huge man...meetings during holidays to discuss action plans and drawing up worksheets for the kids...erps i think my inexperience is really *not* gonna be an asset to them :S
right, gotta get sleep so i don't accidentally rattle off weird things to the parents tomorrow haha erps...*grinses*
+ serene @ 12:04 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 12:04 AM
class gathering today had quite a good turnout surprisingly! thank you kaihan for making the effort to arrange one :) had fun at kbox with new additions like jerold and silvanus and yanghan..haha jerold's so pro when he raps jay chou! *grinses* anyway, it was great fun, love you all :) then had sinful desserts at..erps i carn remember the name of the cafe haha...well it was terribly sinful that's for sure. moved on to play pool..ahem attempt to play would be a better phrase...it was rather pathetic actually...so embarrassing to play when i so obviously cannot at all! sighs the girls took like half an hour to finish a game erps..yanghan is skilful! :) heh all the hidden talents pple have that you never find out even after 2 years in the same class *grinses* then walked around aimlessly and 5 of us stood outside macs for 1.5 hours talking about university studies and our future careers. and i was thinking to myself the whole time that we've really grown up somehow in these few months..it's quite scary to grow up so fast, but i guess there's no way around it. no more of i'll do what i want and heck care any consequences - everything has a bearing on everything from now on. responsibilities to undertake, plans and dreams to fulfill, maturity to grow into - i just hope some part of me forever retains the optimism and clings onto dreams :)
and....i got my new imac G5!!!! hahaha i'm super happy with it...it's so so pretty!! just the screen, wireless keyboard and mouse and everything's so neat and tidy with only one wire connecting to the power point!! gosh it's like the prettiest thing in my room right now yaaaay! :)
and if you read this, thank you so much jingjing! :):):) gosh i have such lovely seniors *beams*
+ serene @ 9:56 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 9:56 PM
yaaaaay! haha i'm so happy i got into med!! and so happy for many many people who got in too! finally my worries are over, and now it's just thinking about my first exam that's coming up in november..hurhur just joking! *grinses* (or maybe not :P)
anyway, had lots of fun with the gals at sentosa yesterday! attempting to play frisbee ahem..never got the hang of it in rj even under ms poon's teachings, and yesterday was a very good example of my inability to play that. sorrie ms poon *grinses* i think i caught the frisbee a grand total of 2 times haha sighs..pathetic really. then volleyball was just as bad for me too! haha sighs :)
met so many of the rj guys at the beach! the ocs guys were there having their bonding session with the sispec-transferred-over-to-ocs guys and it was like a huge rj gathering all over again. met ian, what a wonderful surprise! haven't seen that guy since results were out...hope he comes for class gathering tomorrow!
one more week to holidays! the days of rest are drawing closer and closer, and happiness is too! haha now i've just gotta figure out what to say to the parents of my kids when they come for a compulsory parents-teachers meeting on friday erps :S
+ serene @ 10:16 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 10:16 PM
*phew* finally finished up with all the calculation of marks and analysis of paper...it's been a frantic week with the kids' exams going on...a frenzy of inviligation, revision with them, marking of scripts and doing post-mortem...on top of zijian migrating to canada and the paperwork that goes along with it (since he told me so so very late!!)...sighs i'll miss that boy...the class won't be the same without him going "ms thain who's ur valentine/boyfriend/birthday/address/handphone number/favourite animal (??) ?" (u get the idea) every 5 minutes hurhur...sighs :(
looking forward to activities lined up over the weekend though! *beams* my darling 412 gals whom i haven't seen for the longest time (but that's really my fault sighs) and of cos the 3L pple whom i *hope* will turn up for gathering hurhur cos we never seem to successfully get the whole class to turn up...hurhur unless someone uses the jue3 zao1 and call everyone up one by one (like last year's 412 gathering) so that they are guilted into coming *grinses*
so glad the term's ending soon...i really really REALLY need a break. :)
+ serene @ 4:48 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 4:48 PM
yaaaay had so much fun yesterday evening with the debate girls! it's been forever since we three spent some time together...almost 2 years since we split from rg i think...it was fantastic to catch up with them and talk about stuff going on in our lives...*grinses* mich hasn't changed and neither has xiumin...they're still so uniquely *them* and it just brings back those wonderful sec 4 debate memories that really defined a huge part of my rj life, of cos with 412 being the other large part. *beams* had dinner at thai express, and later dessert at baker's inn where we met clara! heh so great to see her, always seem to bump into her, this is the third time in a matter of 2 months already! :) glad everyone's happy with life, and pursuing their dreams...mich and xiu with law, and hopefully, on my part hurhur...well let's just say ii hope i get to "abandon" them in a way *laughs* and do what i really wanna do :) anyway, we had so much to talk about, in the end we just spent about an hour saying goodbyes cos we just kept moving onto another topic! spent that one hour standing outside delifrance of taka hurhur...sighs dun wanna say goodbye to them, but i guess come september i'll be making quite a large number of trips to the airport to see all my darlings off :( but! very very happy for them *grin*
+ serene @ 11:30 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:30 PM
went to watch "the ten tenors" at esplanade yesterday! wowww that's all i can say...such a fabulous performance! i couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole performance, their songs and choreo were so uplifting! *beams* bought their album there and then, and got all of their 10 autographs yay! *grinses* wheeeee....concerts are so happifying! :)
bought "passion of the christ" vcd! finally have a chance to watch the movie..i remember the last time i missed out on the show because i was a few days/weeks underage hurhur :)
hurhur i think today must have been the most responsive my kids have ever been...on normal days they're already quite good when it comes to answering questions that it often gets ahem *too* responsive, but wah today was responsive yet orderly! and all with the help of the word "competition" and the promise of "gifts" for the winners hurhur...even my usual kids who tend to not pay attention were going "ms thain i want to try i want to try!" hahaha i was like facing the whiteboard and trying so hard not to laugh man...sheesh *grinses* well at least revision went well today *beams*
+ serene @ 12:21 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 12:21 AM
finally the interviews i've been waiting all my life for over! *beams* really heaved a sigh of relief after my 2nd med interview, finally can go out with friends without feeling that tinge of guilt anymore hurhur :) looking forward to the rest of the week and the various meeting ups with friends! love my kids, but there's only so much i can take of not talking to people my own age...can feel my brain slipping into the mind of a primary three kid already...haha sheesh :) and better get all the relaxation i can afford to get this week...next week's a frenzy of invigilation, marking scripts, returning scripts and going through scripts...hurhur though i feel that my kids deserve a break man...i've been giving them so much work to do in class...poor them for getting a teacher like me who feels that practice is the key to success hurhur *grinses* hurhur they were sooooo happy the other day when i brought them to the comp lab to play with the schooldna website with games and stories and stuff...so fun *grinses* made up my mind to give them a movie treat in class (the incredibles) immediately after their exams...the darlings deserve it :)
it was fun meeting people at the interview today though :) shulin, cheukka, xiuyi and some other new friends made while waiting for the interviews! all such wonderful and deserving people...stiff competition indeed, but really hope we all get in together *beams*
+ serene @ 9:19 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 9:19 PM
a few days ago, after getting cambridge's acceptance letter, i was feeling so happy that i was a little disorientated. somehow the idea of doing cambridge law in my favourite person's exact same ex-college of cambridge (hurhur i'm referring to MM LKY, those of you who shared sec 4 and jc years with me should know this *grin*) was so darned appealing, and i can't deny that it still is. plus a sponsored education, and even allowances during my studying years! was floating on air for a few days heh *grin*
but today, i stepped into NUH, and all doubts disappeared, and my mind was clear once again. The perpetual antiseptic smell of the hospital, the patients i saw today, just strikes something in me that makes me so sure about the decision i've made, and only if God dictates otherwise then i'll follow His will and do what he has planned for me in life. still glad at least I have such a wonderful alternative route to go, thank Him for that *beams*
but still, i wish i didn't have to make these painful decisions in my life. it's so so hard to let go of something so wonderful, and i'm sure at one point or another in my life later on, in harder low times, i might just look back and think how it might have been if i had taken a totally different path. no matter whether i'm 100% happy in my future career or not, i'm sure looking back is something we all do, regardless. still, i hope come end may, i have a decision to make, rather than none at all *shivers* praying for guidance from God whether my decision is the right one for me, and trying to understand what He would want me to do in my life. :)
+ serene @ 12:15 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 12:15 AM
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