Burning Freezer: Hot and Cold

Oh hello? Is this a blog?

2010-05-05T17:59:00.002+08:00

Hi people.

Seriously, I've forgotten what is a blog. Actually, my awesome future-telling skills tell me that the blogs will go extinct in a year or so. Who wants to read blogs which summarise what happened when you can have 1000 FB updates a day? Or 5000 tweets in 12 hours?

Ok, I exaggerate. But you get the point man.

Life has been zooming by so fast, I can't even sit down here to blog for 5 minutes. Yes, this despite how I type so damn fast!

So anyway, I don't know what got into me, to blog at 6pm. I just got back from my weekly Yew Tee park connector run. I ran 7k in 50minutes hahahaha I know. Your ah ma and ah gong can run faster than me right? Then next week tell them to come down so we can all run together yah?

Before the run, I was at the library giving free consultation for SS. Yes, that's right! FREE consultation! Haha ok just kidding lah no big deal. As you can see after my run, I am a little high, or maybe just crazy. Crazy because tomorrow is SS and SOMETHING JUST TELLS ME THAT MY STUDENTS WILL ALL DO FINE.

I don't even know if they will read this in time. I will publicise a "BLOG UPDATED" together with a little gay " =D " smiley face and see who's here. I can expect LAME comments and whatnot butttt it's ok.

Well, as a last tip for the paper:

Make sure you study hard for the SEQs (essays). Doing well for the essays is half the battle won.

When you get the paper, upon given permission by the invigilator, flip through to check all pages are printed.
Thereafter proceed to complete the ESSAYS first. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED by all the pictures and texts and content of the sources.
When you are done with essays, start reading the background info of the sources. Don't be lazy! Some important information can be found there as well.
Don't be turned off by the length of the text. They are there purposely to kill you. Are you so easily killed?
Don't give effortless answers. If you think it's stupid, it most probably is a stupid answer. Can you please show the marker you are more intelligent than that?
Lastly, DON'T ANYONE DARE TO LEAVE BLANKS. If you are really unprepared for whatever reason, at least write some stuff. You never know, that one mark may make or break your overall grade.

Oh well, I guess that's all. Since it's a happy evening, I will end off with a happy picture. It's a ridiculously RETARDED picture because it's stupid words on a stupid piece of plastic contributed by not very intelligent people. Butttt I guess I like them all the same.

The week so far

2010-02-04T13:07:00.002+08:00

Taking a few minutes to pen down some random thoughts...

1) crashed a badminton training session. Rusty, but was great.

2) some sec 4 students have matured. They are starting to put in more effort into their studies. That's wonderful news.

3) it's morale-boosting to hear our school winning in sports competitions in the morning. we are winners!

4) still so much work to clear. Trying to prioritise and decide on which to do first, but when you look at mountain high loads you tend to get demoralised. This is the same thing I talk about in class. If you fall behind in your studies, you tend to be demoralised and you panick when you see that you are lagging in so much work and it's human tendency to feel stressed and eventually give up. If you can help it, then don't let yourself fall behind. Some of you have many commitments this time of the year. CCAs, Chingays, projects etc etc, please try your best to cope and juggle all your commitments well. If it means less time for movies, so be it. If you do fall behind (like me), do not give up and press on so that you can catch up with the rest. (ok that wasn't so inspiring but gah, I'm tired now lah)

Ok, gotta go update the long overdue ne blog.

CCA orientation day

2010-01-23T17:52:00.002+08:00

Friday concluded a busy week by having a very fun carnival-like type of CCA orientation day. It was great! The music was good. The atmosphere was nice. There were many people.

It was an especially busy day for me as it was my last day in school for a week. I will not be in school next week as I will be on reservist.

So after NCC set up it's uber-cool camo booth, I walked around the school and joined in the 'festivities'! I played some table-tennis, juggled football, met up with past Regenites. The NCC performance was great. The Part Cs have come a long way. I hope they really start to rise up to the occasion and be counted for now. C'mon, Part Cs, NCC needs you!

Then the worst thing of the day happened....

I walked to the basketball court where some of my ex-students were seated. Some of my present students were playing ball. They told me to join in. At first I was like no lah I'm too old already but in the end I did. Hit a lucky jump shot, then a few moments later sprained my right ankle. Argh. I sprained it on Sunday and this time it was worse. Argh. Let's hope my Wolverine-like recovery prowess works again and I get well real soon.

Right now, on this Sat afternoon, I'm setting the common test paper for Sec 1 EL. It's due next week for the HOD to vet through. Probably will be staying home. Not in the right condition to move around. Gotta report to camp Monday morning. RECOVER FAST ARGHHGHG.

Lazy, so will upload pics another time. =p

Facebook and stuff (long post, but do read if free)

2010-01-19T22:05:00.003+08:00

Now this entry is about facebook.

If you do not know by now, facebook has taken over the world by storm.

If someone says he or she doesn't have a facebook account, you will probably look at him with a little doubt and be thinking to yourself "aiyoh how can? so outdated?" blah blah blah things like that.

Now I personally have 2 accounts. The first account is of myself, where I have my own circle of friends. The second account is of my profession, where I have students, ex-students, students whom I don't teach but I see in school, students whom I don't teach and I actually have not talked to in real life.

If you ask me why I need 2 accounts, the reason is obvious. I am not comfortable with students knowing about my personal stuff, or read what my friends tag on my wall. Perhaps some day 'graduated' students from the school can add my 'real' account. Some of you have tried, to which I have ignored. Sorry! To the rest who are thinking right now "Who cares?" then ok you don't have to read on lah haha.

Now I have been saying I don't add people on my school's fb account. It's not because I am trying to be high and almighty and proud and snobbish. It's that I respect your privacy. Unless you change your settings, by default, if you add me as a friend, I will have access to ALL your pictures and all your wall posts and tags and things like that. And of course, you can see mine too.

Which means if we are 'facebook friends', I can see what you did for your recent bbq, how you and your friends went shopping and cam-whoring, how you and your gf/bf had a good time at some tourist spot etc etc etc etc.

Therefore I will just let people add me. If you add me it means you are comfortable with having me as your friend, and being able to see all your info. If not, it's ok. I wouldn't take offence.

Another thing is your photo privacy. As you all know, you can set the settings. For example, each picture can be seen by "everyone", "friends only", or "friends of friends". Depending on your settings, it could mean that I can see photos of someone even though I am not a friend of him, but because he's a friend of mine. Do take note.

The next serious thing is about writing bad things, be it about the school, or the teachers, or even your friends. All of you should know that we must behave responsibly and not bad-mouth any one. Some of you are even doing it on MY WALL, which is ridiculously disrespectful to the person you are insulting, to me, and ultimately to yourself.

So anyway, it's been a really awesome time communicating with you all on fb. I feel that it's really good as a way to destress, playing those silly games, chatting about anything under the sun. BUT TAKE NOTE! You must manage your time properly! Don't be a victim of computer addiction.

Such a long post. It's actually embarrassing if you do not know this, and me, being such an old man, is smarter than you in the IT aspect. Do learn.

Also, after this post (which is so damn long but because I type so damn fast it's so damn quick), if you really wish to delete me as a friend, I am perfectly fine. I perfectly understand.

Busy days argh

2010-01-19T22:02:00.002+08:00

Today was really hectic. A lot of work to be cleared, at very short deadlines.

Afternoon was at the sec 1 story telling workshop. If you are still in school, you should also be having your own EL enrichment programme. This should be your top priority on the day, instead of your CCA or outside commitments.

I promise to update this more often, so I shall try to, not that anyone reads. I'm more into facebook now. If you are my friend on FB then each entry will also be published in fb.

My next entry will be on fb.

End of week 2!

2010-01-15T09:25:00.002+08:00

Yes it's the end of week 2!!

Gonna be a simple day.

After school I'll be with the student leaders to prepare them for this Sunday's dialogue session. At 2pm I gotta leave for Teachers' Network (grange road, orchard road area) to collect the latest NE cds which graduating classes will be required to take before they can graduate from our school.

I'll not be around for NCC, but wow check out that big awesome banner at the parade square!

Pride of the brotherhood! NCC FTW!

The Handball Boys

2010-01-14T14:22:00.007+08:00

After the recent success of the Polo Boys....

Mediacorp decides to film another awesome series called The Handball Boys!

Are you ready?

2010-01-07T00:37:00.002+08:00

You can't say no! The year has started!!!!!!!!!!

I hereby promise to update more often. Wahhaha. "More often" is so subjective. =p

So I've met all my classes. They seem fine. I am so gonna have a tough time remembering all their names. Arghhhhh.

I better go get some sleep now!

year end entry

2009-11-04T13:24:00.002+08:00

not sure when is the next time i will blog again, but here goes.

i am now seated on a chair in an auditorium at nanyang poly. I am attending the NE seminar. NE = national education. By the way, if any of you reading this have any ideas or suggestions for the events like total defence day, international friendship day, racial harmony day, national day, pls feel free to tell me! For example, what ndp gifts for 2010? Pls dont give

The Boomz Girl (vulgarities involved. pls self-censor)

2009-10-28T16:50:00.000+08:00

Well, vulgarities in the dialogues. But since it's found on youtube, I guess you guys can learn from her mistakes. The hosts are obviously making fun of her but she's just so clueless.

Deepavali Weekend

2009-10-18T21:42:00.002+08:00

Happy Deepavali to all.

Been busy marking all this while. All my own fault lah. Individual responsibility: can't take care of my own health. Keep taking MC. Now have to rush marking over this weekend. Marking + dvd. My standard combo.

Grad night was a great success. There were technical hitches as usual.

I gues the highlight of it all was the awesome Michael Jackson tribute performed by the form teachers.

You can check out various versions on youtube.

The performance only starts at around the 2minute mark.

Another perspective with subtitles included haha.

THe part where you see which teacher is donning which costume:

【原创MV】躲避的爱MV

2009-10-01T15:28:00.001+08:00

Discovered this song while googling for something else. Refreshing emo female chinese rap? Other than the middle part where she's weeping, it's quite a nice beat to it. Song starts at 1min 22sec to 3min 40sec. The rest too zzz....

What a fun day

2009-09-24T16:31:00.002+08:00

Well,

today was a fun day, because students made it fun.

I am supposed to be rushing work now, because as spoken, you will not see me tomorrow. Whoever you see whom you think looks like me, will not be me ok. I will be on course at Teachers' Network.
I have work for all the classes. The next message goes out to my graduating class tomorrow:

Please do the SBQs in class. Treat it seriously. No time to joke! Especially questions on utility and prove/not prove, must practise ah.

Ok now where was I?
Yes, quick update (thankfully I type so damn fast wahahhahaha).
In A class today, I literally fell apart in front of everyone. I laughed so hard everyone got so shocked. Haha. What? Teacher can't laugh meh haha.

So anyway. That's that. Haha I know what you're thinking. "say like never say"... "Might as well don't blog.."

I didn't ask you to read! =p

Ok, back to work. 2.5hours more before school closes. See you all Monday!

Reply of tags

2009-09-23T10:48:00.002+08:00

Sup everyone.

Taufiq: Hello. Is that really you hmmmm.

3ric: I didn't mark your paper lah. Extra time extended because I think the referee kelong =x.

Wenhui: You will get back your papers next week, because this Friday I am on course (which is why I took my time to mark the SBQs. I'm done with the SEQs.) Marking Day? Everyday is a marking day lah dey =x I know you meant why no marking day FOR YOU ALL i.e. holiday, but of course not lah. You still have Os to work for, now is not the time to have a holiday =x

Cambassor: Hmm interesting name. I see you are back with a name at least, so I shall reply you. Deleting the tag has got nothing to do with being a man or not lah. And to reply your tag, I where got write till so big? I wrote fever and flu, that's all. I just said I was reluctant to take MC because I wanted a nice record this year. Yeah, chill dude/babe/robot, whatever you are.

SmileBeHappyy :D : All your names like these how I guess -_- But I think I know. I think only. Yeah rock on!! Hippiest teacher no way. Most emo teacher - now that I will win hands down no problem.

Picture taken from:
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs47/300W/i/2009/183/e/2/the_most_emo_drawing_ever_by_Kite_Of_Azure_Flame.jpg

Didn't sleep well. Feel like a zombie. Had to stand at the back of the parade square so that people can't really notice me.

There's still oral exams later. I shall try my best!

Fever + Flu

2009-09-19T13:07:00.002+08:00

Well, I took MC on Friday.

My new year resolution was not to take a single MC this year, and I was really determined. I am also thankful for all the students who cooperated with me when I was feeling a little unwell and I still went to school at times (Thank you lah~).

But that day I couldn't take it anymore. Doctor also said my throat was infected, and might have fever again. I didn't have fever last night. I guess I am ok, and just needed rest. I thought I could hold up till this long weekend, but I couldn't. Sorry. I also felt that it was terribly unfair that Mr O had to take my SS classes without any warning. I hope you guys were angels =)

Oral Exams
The secondary 3s have had their oral exams. Wah.. some of you guys talk so much on a daily basis, but froze when you sit opposite the teacher. Cannot lah. Gotta be more confident!

On Thursday we all ended at 2pm. So hungry. Apologies to a couple of students, as I was munching on a hamburger (provided by the EL dept) while listening to them read the passage. Hey but I was listening and paying attention to the script ok! I also made sure I finished chewing before I said, "Let's move on to the picture discussion." Haha.

Weekend is here.

On my to-do list:
Watch Inglorious Bastards, a film about the nazis. M18. http://www.gv.com.sg/moviedetails/gv_moviedetails_7948.jsp

Finish marking all the SEQs of my 2 classes. (Don't be over-ambitious. I will never finish marking everything even if I say I want to haha, so let's just aim the SEQs.)

Watch Man Utd win Man City on Sunday 830pm HAHAHA! Man City is much stronger now, but thankfully adebayor is suspended.

Play some psp. Haven't touched it since last Sunday lah. Lemmings levels completed: 129/156
I mentioned that it gets harder and harder right haha.

Tired

2009-09-17T18:03:00.001+08:00

Woohoo oral 2 days in a row man.

Anyway, 2 piles of Prelims in my drawer now. I will mark them over the long weekend I guess.

Dozing off as I'm typing this! Gonna quickly finish up some stuff and home I go!

Federer

2009-09-15T14:32:00.001+08:00

Pure genius. Haii. Too bad he lost to Del Potro this morning.. zzz

School

2009-09-13T23:56:00.001+08:00

reopens.

Boo yeah.

Lemmings

2009-09-09T21:16:00.000+08:00

Playing a new PSP game, Lemmings!

It's been my childhood favourite game on PC, and it's now available on PSP as well. Objective is to guide them from a hatch door back to their home. They only go straight, but you can click on them if you want them to block, dig, climb etc etc.

Blogger's picture function is down, but you can also do a google on it!

67 out of 156 levels completed! Haha!

Elearning

2009-09-07T00:24:00.002+08:00

Alright, just for your information,

YOU NEED TO COMPLETE YOUR ELEARNING assignments.

Seriously, the september holidays is a good break for you to relax a little, but please at least finish your homework. If you know you are lagging in some areas, do also spend some time to revise.

I have uploaded 1E/1NA English - just a simple passage with 10 MCQs, as well as 3E/3NA SS - 15 MCQs on Chapter 5: Bonding Singapore.

They are really easy! Do complete them! You only have one try though! =D

During this one week holiday, I intend to:

1) clear my desk.
2) run at least 20k in total.
3) upload national day photos on NE blog. I know. Long overdue. Argh.
4) Watch a movie in a cinema. Any movie.
5) find more psp games.

Mean Kitty VS Domo-Kun

2009-09-02T17:45:00.001+08:00

Just find it adorable.

Touched by an angel...34 of them in fact...

2009-08-31T15:31:00.000+08:00

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

Bad picture. But doesn't matter. It's all in the heart.
Thank you my awesome family =D

This also goes out to everyone else I met today. Thank you for your well wishes. Special thanks to the 2008 batch who came to disturb me during the concert.

What a wonderful day!

Now gonna rest... later at night we have staff dinner.

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

NUMBER 052 WILL WIN FIRST PRIZE for lucky draw!! Pray for me yeah =D =D

Haha.

2009-08-30T13:10:00.000+08:00

Man utd 2-1 Arsenal.

w00t.

Sch picture on CNA!

2009-08-28T22:21:00.001+08:00

MOE to step up opportunities for more students to take part in sports
By Rekha Manoharan, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 28 August 2009 2139 hrs

Photos 1 of 1

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education will step up opportunities for more students to take part in sports and it has appointed a team to study ways to enhance sports and aesthetics in schools.

To do this, the ministry will provide better career pathways for sports and aesthetic educators.

390 schools have registered for the Sports Education Programme this financial year.

The programme gave out a total of S$2.3 million to 342 schools last year.

The ministry will also aim to provide every school with an indoor sports hall and targets to equip eighty schools with synthetic turf pitches for soccer and hockey.

Eight new Junior Sports Academies will also be set up to encourage excellence and raise the quality of sports training in Primary 5 and 6 pupils.

The academies will include three new sports - soccer, shooting and fencing - on top of its current six - badminton, netball, swimming, table tennis, wushu and track and field.

Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen said: "One clear need is to provide better career pathways for sports and aesthetic educators. Greater specialisation of such officers, both in training and deployment will improve the delivery of such programmes in schools. A body of such professionals can also do much in promoting their craft as well as raise standards in schools, as they share best practices and engage with like-minded professionals overseas." - CNA/vm

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1001474/1/.html

sigh

2009-08-28T10:42:00.003+08:00

Slept late + sad stuff:

Tired + emo

the ultimate combo.

F for fish fillet.

Today's reflections

2009-08-25T14:49:00.003+08:00

Students are awesome people, but sometimes they just... arhgghhghg.

Teachers' Day Dinner

2009-08-24T13:38:00.002+08:00

Theme: BLING BLING

So that's the theme for the dinner. Haven't figured out what I'll be dressed in. Probably something like this:

Picture obtained from:http://thetroublemakertimes.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/masta64-bling-bling-tux-40432.png?w=256&h=256

Every accessory the penguin has is simple to find. The golden teeth however... hmm...

Dying right now..

2009-08-24T10:03:00.000+08:00

In comp lab 1... =/

Nokia e71

2009-08-19T07:03:00.002+08:00

Ok, my mind is decided.

Tonight, after NCC, I'll go buy the awesome E71!

I know it's not the newest, and many people already have it, but I've always wanted it, even though I have my reservations about the tiny qwerty pad and my big fingers.

But then, it's cheaper, at $298 compared to the N86. I've never spent more than $300 for a phone, so I don't think I should break my rules.

Most importantly it's super slim and sleek.

Can be easily put in the pockets.

Sometimes people are like
"Huh why you buy the phone? XYZ already has it. You don't copy lah."

I mean, c'mon, only ONE PERSON IN THE WHOLE WORLD CAN BUY THAT PHONE? Grow up lah.

Cool cool. Looking forward to it.

In the words of my student on the tag board, whose name I WILL NOT SAY, "OMG OMG!"

Midnight...

2009-08-18T00:24:00.004+08:00

Finally have finished setting all my papers. Sent them to HODs for vetting.

Alone in my little room... listening to perfect 10...

It's 1225am... shall I start (continue) to mark scripts? Or should I go to sleep...

Tomorrow there's an ncc meeting at 230pm. I am so glad that ncc is working its way up. I'm very proud to see the specialists so dedicated. I've learnt a lot from this cca myself.

For ss, I really hope the sec 3s will take the blogging task seriously. For sec 4s, last stretch, let's sprint till the end. I'm open for consultation. You all know I stay till the sun sets. Just give me a call #324.

For el, sec 1s- It's been extremely fun teaching you guys, but sometimes you all really need to pay attention.

I love teaching =D I hate marking though. Haha. I hope I'm making a positive difference to students, be it in academics, or in attitudes and behaviour. Sometimes the students climb all over me. Ah well. Sometimes I totally lose my voice. Sigh. But at the end of the day, I find it very rewarding, that people have learnt something, either in the subject area or one valuable life lesson.

I take heart in a weaker graduating class (totally no offence, just stating the truth based on results) who has put in so much effort. I can see that they are studying now. We have been through so much the past two years. Conflicts, verbal fights, attitudes, problems, nagging sessions, time wasting exercises, quarrels... and the list goes on. But I can see that they are studying now. Sure, sometimes they still chat A LOT A LOT A LOT, but they are studying now. I really hope they give their best. Hope someone from the class reads this and passes it on. Thank you.

I treat all of you equally. I always see myself as a fair teacher. I don't care what background you have. I don't favour anyone, nor do I purposely put down anyone. I see hope in everyone. Do you see hope in yourself? Work hard, yah.

Eh, I'm not used to writing so much. Everyday it's just work, and maybe facebook, maybe psp (for PES I've now transferred to Athletico Madrid woohoo! Newcastle (tyneside sucks!), maybe gym, and then sleep. Oh, now I PLURK too. All the pictures of the national day concert are with me, and I've not even had the time to choose which ones to upload onto the ne blog, www.neomg.blogspot.com. If you read this, do me a favour, please? Go to the ne site and take the survey. Tell your friends to do so too. As you all know, the NE committee (that's me and other teachers) set up the blog, so we want it to work...). I am also the one who ordered the highlighter-pens, and I'm so glad that most of the students like it. Makes me feel very proud that I've chosen a good national day gift. Next year I'll ask for advice. Do help me in choosing the gift for national day 2010!

One time that struck me on saturday night: while setting papers and watching some dvds at around 9+pm, it suddenly dawned on me that football season has started! I totally forgot! Haha. At least I caught the man utd game. 1-0 is good enough. Haha @ liverpool. But it's still early of course.

Teachers' Day dinner is on Monday 31st August. It's somewhere in town. The theme is BLING BLING! I'm looking for some rapper stuff to wear woohoo. Haha. 77th street like a bit too young for me lah. I need some 50CENT kinda dope. Yeah, and I shall talk like this ya'all~

Well. I'm actually feeling kinda down. Blogging is therapeutic afterall. I am thankful for the students I have. They make me look forward to going to school. I love my form class especially. They make me smile a lot.

K, end of emo speech.

What's the message of the speech?
C: NHS has tendency to be emo.
A: NHS
A: readers of nhs' blog
M: NHS is emo.
I: So that nhs will vent out his frustrations and be less emo.

There. Level 5. 5 marks. Top student thank you thank you.

OH!! Must talk about how 3-5 'fell' in love with me today. We were supposed to start blogs and they kept writing stuff about 'nhs is loved' and that kinda stuff. Really funny. =D Thank you er 3-5, but er, must pay more attention kay.

Alright. Shall go get a drink. Then see what I shall do.
Don't have to physically teach much tomorrow. Mostly it's lab and presentations.

You guys will probably read this Tuesday afternoon/night, so you can check back:

a) Mr Ng was damn tired today(tuesday) > means I must have been marking.
b) Mr Ng is normal > means I have gone to sleep after I get my drink.
c) Mr Ng is tired everyday lah hahaha > means er wait! no lah don't say that ley!
d) WHO CARES! (eh then just alt-f4 pls)

W00t I've written so much, my next update will be in 2010 haha. j/k.

Ok ok.

Nights.

Nah. Don't say I NEVER put picture.

Think it's damn cool.

http://www.plognark.com/Art/Sketches/Blogsketches/2008/thestupiditburns.jpg

plurk

2009-08-17T23:10:00.000+08:00

haha.

plurk. my only friend.

Nokia N86

2009-08-12T15:31:00.002+08:00

This is the phone that I will probably buy after Aug 19th, when my contract is up.

About $500! Argh! Grass grass eat eat!

Size Dimensions 103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm, 69 cc
Weight 149 g
Internal 8 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, buy memory
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
8 MP camera, 3264x2448 pixels, wide 28mm Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, dual LED flash
Games: Yes, N-gage + downloadable
Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
Stand-by Up to 312 h (2G) / 264 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 6 h 18 min (2G) / 3 h 54 min (3G)
Music play Up to 25 h

Woohoo! With 8MP, I will not need to carry a camera ever again! Also, wireless surfing of net. N-gage games!

Kick ass!

Ladies and gentlemen

2009-08-11T16:25:00.002+08:00

Hi.

I've just spent the past few minutes (or was it more than that?!?!?1?!??!) talking to some of my awesome students outside the staff room.

I have the weirdest students.

They talk to the little red star sticker on the door of the prefects' room.

They talk to imaginary friends.

And, get this,

the fire extinguisher outside the staff room is their friend.

Why? Oh Why do I have such students???!? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy *fades out*

New phone

2009-08-04T15:40:00.000+08:00

Looking forward to 19th August, when I'm allowed by singtel to sign a new contract again.

Finally can change my phone! Yay! Any nice ones? Have not really been in the market.

It's August already!

2009-08-02T15:53:00.003+08:00

So fast!

So slow!

Argh!

Yay!

Bi-polar for the win.

NDP rehearsal:
Next one on wednesday 3pm. Full dressed.
Thankfully the band is coming.

Can't imagine I did the *boom boom boom* thing.

Elearning

2009-07-30T16:12:00.002+08:00

This morning was a chaotic morning.

People somehow think that I have magical powers, that if they can't log in to eblaze, by just smsing me and telling me that, they can suddenly log in. -_-

So I had to mass sms everyone that I am not superman lah. I don't wear red underwear on the outside lah.

Then the school passed down instructions, so I quickly passed them on, through sms, blog (previous entry), facebook etc. Then everyone was complaining in their FB and blogs -_-''.

Singaporeans really know how to complain.

That's the purpose of elearning mah, to see how fast we can be. So now we know our server is really very weak. Let's see what they do to improve lor.

After that, I signed on to msn,

and immediately I had like 10 windows opening up, blinking in orange.

They all went something like this:

"elearning sucks."
"how to do siah when we cant go in"
"cannot log on"
"do what lidat?"
"mr ng how?"
"sian waste time"

And I entertained all of them. At the same time I was in the 'class window', chatting with my form class. What a bunch of weirdos! J/k.

Talked about shaq vs big show, what music, what 7-11 it's a store and more, and er, other things which THANKFULLY I HAVE FORGOTTEN because can you imagine the amount of brain space I am wasting to remember such nonsense?!!?! =x

Had a good time, but had to go, because I had to mark papers. Aiyah really sian haha.

Still in school. At least it's Friday. Dammit was looking to cross country. Ah well.

zz.

(er I don't know who's that.pic from http://ducts.org/12_04/images/Superman%20Sleeps.jpg)

elearning

2009-07-30T10:07:00.003+08:00

Log in timing passed down from school:

Sec 1
10am -11am
1pm - 2pm
4pm-5pm

Sec 2
11am - 12noon
2pm - 3pm
5pm -6pm

Sec 3
12noon -1pm
3pm-4pm
6pm-7pm

spread the word so everyone can 'obey' the timing, and not result in a laggy server.

Touched

2009-07-29T18:44:00.000+08:00

$$

2009-07-28T17:43:00.002+08:00

I bought $35 worth of chocolates yesterday at the booth.
Today I went to buy another $25. I gave away many to my colleagues in the staff rooms. It's happy to know that you can make people happy. Well, I hope they are happy. It's good to have high morale in the staff room. Plus, it's for a good cause right. Service learning project.

Meanwhile......

Picture taken from http://th06.deviantart.net/fs18/300W/f/2007/220/7/f/Ohchan__pandas_eat_grass__by_demidemi.jpg

Back to eating grass!

NDP rehearsal #2

2009-07-28T16:24:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow is rehearsal #2!

See ya'all at the parade square! It will be great!

Today was alright. Really tiring day.
Plus there were ghosts at IT resource rooms. Ooohhhhhhhhhhhh!~~~~~

neomg!

2009-07-25T12:44:00.001+08:00

http://www.neomg.blogspot.com/

Check it out!

Hi

2009-07-22T18:32:00.001+08:00

Not in the best of moods actually. Bothered by something personal.

Am still in school. Going off soon.

To any of my sec 1 el students reading this, please stay in class tomorrow. No lab to be booked. We'll go to the lab on Monday instead.

Lost 50% of my voice? =/ Have 12hours to recover.

Sometimes I don't understand why students can be so rude and disrespectful.

Today I have a handful of people saying I look 30. OMG! What a compliment lah. Actually I'm 49, as you all already know.

Jay Chou -半島鐵盒

2009-07-19T21:55:00.000+08:00

Reminiscence.

achilles tendons

2009-07-14T22:35:00.002+08:00

Specialist at NUH said they are swelling and gave me gel to apply. I wasn't given pills because I am allergic to aspirin and they pills belong to the same 'family' so better play safe and don't eat them.

I will be having physiotherapy soon!

Xray will not detect the problem. There's also no need to take MRI because it costs about S$600. Even if I know whether they are torn or what, still need to go physio.

In other news, my table is now so damn neat. HAHA! Try to take a picture tomorrow.

First day of school

2009-07-13T19:44:00.000+08:00

That's for me, today.

Turned out fine. =D

Actually missed the students. Made me realise that I love my job afterall. =D

Hair today gone tomorrow

2009-07-05T22:22:00.001+08:00

Well so I finally got a hair cut.

Was back in school on Friday and many of you all commented on my long hair!

I am not gonna type in super singlish!

One student actually made a super kua zhang comment!

She said, "Wah Mr Ng! I thought a lady walked past lor!"

EH PLEASE LOR WAS MY HAIR REALLY THAT LONG!!!?!?!!?!?

Anyway I've gone for a hair cut ok. If nothing goes wrong, I should be back on Thursday, or Friday, or latest next Monday!

Cya!

painful update

2009-07-04T20:01:00.002+08:00

Well, for my both achilles tendons, they didn't hurt so much during the June hols. On certain days they didn't hurt at all. So I didn't go see a doctor.

That was wrong and stupid. It's like your roof has a leak, and you don't fix it because it's sunny.

But when it rains? Ho ho ho.

So on Thursday it started to hurt, and yesterday it hurt so much in the afternoon, I forced myself to go to NUH a&e to have a referral. I'm now hoping to get an MRI scan next week, and see what physiotherapy I will be given.

Sometimes it's as if there's no pain, but sometimes it's just argh argh argh!

IN AYG news,
you can go to the website www.ayg2009.com for the latest updates and LIVE STREAMING of games.

Happy youth day everyone. =D

Wash your body wash your hands too!

2009-07-01T11:04:00.001+08:00

AYG

2009-06-30T11:20:00.006+08:00

So busy and tiring these past few days!

Trying to get the school to update the AYG blog on the eblaze website with our daily pictures and mini write ups.

Just posting a couple of pics:

Edit: Problem posting pics whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Important updates

2009-06-23T18:08:00.002+08:00

1. As of now, school is reopening same time, same day, Monday 29th June 2009.

2. Everyone please complete your elearning exercises! Those exercises whereby you just have to keep doing till you get 100%, please go try and try again! Don't be satisfied with a 50% or 70%!

3. If you just returned from the following countries, please exercise citizenship responsibility by staying home for 7 days:
USA, Mexico, Canada, Chile, UK, Australia, Argentina, Japan, Thailand,
Spain, Philippines, Panama, Dominican Republic, Hong Kong SAR and Indonesia.

On a personal note,
I'll be welcoming my AYG chef-de-mission tomorrow evening at Changi Airport Terminal 1. Gonna be a busy, busy period till the end of AYG. I hope to take lots photos of this event!

AYG Update

2009-06-16T22:04:00.001+08:00

So today I went for the final briefing, and I've gotten my security pass, and polo tshirts!
Pictures will be up when I'm less lazy. Haha!

50% gone?

2009-06-12T09:50:00.003+08:00

There goes half the June hols.

If it's not freaking you out, it's freaking ME out.

Past 2 weeks have flown by so quickly.

Holiday lessons, AYG briefing etc. For this week, Mon-wed was spent at AES having an NE non-residential camp with 6 students.

I haven't even gotten into the groove to clear my own work!
Friday morning and back at school, clearing emails. My check list seems to have more and more items everyday, argh!

Next Monday afternoon, ncc shift duty at pasir laba camp. Next week is probably the last week I'll have as a break. Come week 4 of June, I'll be busy with AYG again. At least it's exciting!! Unfortunately because of this AYG commitment, I had to pull out of the Brunei jungle course for NCC. Thankfully the district commander was very understanding. Course was supposed to be from 15-25june. Can you imagine if I were to go! I'd have 3 days left to clear my stuff, as the whole holidays will be gone!

Haha!

Hope all of you are enjoying the break! Like I said, I've not done a single thing because of my DAY time schedule, and at night I totally switch off, refusing to do a single thing.

Anyone went to the PC show? Any good buys?

Question:

2009-06-07T15:16:00.003+08:00

What do all these pictures and Mister Ng have in common?

That's right!!

They all eat grass!!!

That is what Mister Ng will eat for the next couple of days, as he's trying to save up! (For nothing in particular. Just wanna make my bank more meaty!)

Great Singapore Sale too... maybe I shouldn't step out of the house hahaaaaaaaa. -_-

Share with me, what have you bought so far?

(Disclaimer: This entry is by no means trying to persuade students to spend their (or their parents') hard-earned savings on materialistic goods.)

Saving is a virtue! Start today!

Plus, grass is really tasty! Ask my students, I tell them to eat grass all the time!
=p

Shocking video in India: Man electrocuted by overhead train cable

2009-06-07T13:09:00.001+08:00

Link here:

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=73449

Check out the video from the link.

Scary.

Hazelnut drink

2009-06-06T01:52:00.002+08:00

Recently, Mr Ng has been eating grass and saving money, just so he could afford this!

Small small size of 1 litre, big big cost of $5+!
(totally ungrammatical =x please don't follow hahahaha)

Really very nice! But Mr Ng will probably not buy it again. Too expensive!

Can be found in West Mall's shop and save.

Wah!

2009-06-04T19:45:00.000+08:00

Nothing.

Just.

Argh.

Holiday lessons tomorrow!

AYG training

2009-06-02T21:25:00.004+08:00

Just had day 1 of AYG training as an LO (liaison officer).

Tiring!
830am at Teachers' Network.
10am Brunch.
11am set off for various venues for recce.
Dismissed only at 530pm.

Another day of training tomorrow!

Just post a quick picture of the merlion! Drove past it when we were at Sentosa earlier. Whipped out my camera phone in 3seconds to capture this image through the bus window haha.

Looks scary. =x

Saturday

2009-05-30T15:17:00.002+08:00

Past few days have been pretty hectic.

Parent-teacher conferences, talking to my class after car washes. Spending more than 12 hours in school, returning home so late at night.

Could hardly catch my breath!

Next message is for NCC cadets:

Recently it seems to me that some of my ncc cadets feel that I'm less involved with NCC, or worse, that I've left them for dead!

This is not true! I am still of course very passionate about NCC. However, I've come to realise that I cannot be everywhere at anytime. For example, during the sports carnival, I was not the ncc teacher in-charge on duty that day, so I can't overrule any of your instructions. What I can do is just to ask around and check that you are all alright. On that day, I had my own duties, being part of the AYG/YOG main committee.

Rest assured I'll be back next term. =D Oh wait, June spec course too. =D

Next message is for my super awesome kickass class of 3-2:
Thank you all.
I have been humbled.
You all have taught me the meaning of love for your friends.
AND I DON'T MEAN THAT OTHER KIND LAH OK!
Really, thank you all for being around. I'm truly blessed with a class like this.
Not gonna mention any names, but you know who you are.

=)

Things floating in my mind

2009-05-28T19:50:00.002+08:00

After 12 hours in the school,

here are the things on my mind, in no particular order:

Man U - argh! Why? Anyway I didn't watch it. I woke up and fell asleep. Read that Barca totally outran the midfield. They are that good, so it's no shame.

Parent-teacher conference - So tiring, but glad to have met them.

My own class - What can I say, I just love them more and more! =D

Again,
I love my job. =D

What time is it?

2009-05-27T19:38:00.001+08:00

It's not Tiger time!

Wah new record! 740pm on a non-camping day! Still in school woohoo!

Time to go home and relax and wait for champions league final!

Just 4 more days

2009-05-25T21:59:00.002+08:00

Till the end of Term 2.

Sorry earthlings, been really spaced out after the sports carnival, hence a lack of action here.

Today we had a level meeting to decide which students whose parents we must meet up (due to poor results), and which students are selected for achievers' tea, which will be held in term 3.

Today I also learnt a lesson the hard and painful way,
which is to not take anything for granted.

Ah well.

Tomorrow I'll be following some sec 1s to the Singapore River.
Hardly in the mood for anything now. Shall just check some emails and log off.

Ciao.

See you at CCAB!

2009-05-20T18:45:00.002+08:00

Sports carnival tomorrow!

See you all at CCAB!

This next message goes out ESPECIALLY to my beloved class:

I'll see ALL OF YOU at 730am! Don't disappoint me! I'll be looking forward to seeing your faces and taking your attendance. =D

-mr ng

Remember to drink lots of water tomorrow. You might want to apply some sunblock too.

Have fun!

Oh no.

2009-05-20T00:38:00.002+08:00

My right leg looks worse than this.

Argh. Now I'm really afraid. Time to see a doc.

http://www.myfootshop.com/images/medical/ortho/Achilles_tendon_rupture_mod.jpg

Stop killing yourself, Mr Ng

2009-05-19T22:35:00.003+08:00

Argh.

Question of the day: A person's right achilles tendon is totally swollen, and hurts.

What does he do?

Answer: Go play basketball.

Argh.

Now it totally hurts even more. I need to rest so I can take part in the Olympics Games day on Thursday! Win points for Tenacity! Win points for my class! Yeah!

Stop killing yourself, Mr Ng.

If you have read this and you see me in school, can you please tell me that. Thank you.
(Please don't say that in front of other teachers though. They will be like ?!?@#!?

=p

Couple kisses passionately

2009-05-18T14:24:00.002+08:00

To read more about it, as well as see a related video, click the link below.
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=68547#

What do you guys think about it?

Is the photographer 'kaypoh', as in, poking his/her nose into other people's affairs, or is it good that he/she is 'publicly shaming' this couple.

Is this couple behaving appropriately? Is there anything wrong? What are your thoughts on PDA - Public Display of Affection?

Use the 'comments' tab at the end of this post to share your thoughts. =D

Done.

2009-05-15T14:43:00.002+08:00

At a little after 1pm, I finally finished all my marking.

I will still have to look through the sec 4 scripts again to see where I can squeeze out a couple more marks for students.

On monday I need to give a 1-2minute reflection kinda presentation to all staff about Public Service Week.

Hmm. Wonder what I should talk about...

The past hours

2009-05-14T20:33:00.002+08:00

Greetings Earthlings.

There is a story about this teacher, who has no life. Let's find out what he's been up to the past few days since the exams started.

Step 1: Marking.
Step 2: Eating.
Step 3: Sleeping.
Step 4: Shitting.
Step 5: Repeat step 1.

Oops sorry that was a bit crude. =p

Anyway, this teacher is very proud to say that he has ALMOST finished all his marking for the mid year exams! He will aim to finish before the day starts tomorrow.
Tomorrow is marking day for teachers. He hopes to go back to school to slack and do his own things while other teachers are still marking. (not laughing at them. Each has own style.)

The past day:

Went home late. Dozed off at 1230am, woke at 230am. Marked all the way till 630am before leaving for school. Watched Man utd come from behind to beat Wigan 2-1.

Morning: Invigilation till 9am. Back to office. Short nap. 945am YOG meeting. Around 11am started marking again. Kept dozing off. Marked more. Around 2pm....

WENT KTV!

Haha. Crazy.

Back at home again.

Btw I've marked all my SS students' scripts. Ok lah. Sec 4s should be doing much better lor I feel.
Sec 3 Express: -_- Gave me only one factor for SEQ. What is this man. Don't be tricked by the question.
Sec 3 NA: Not bad =p

Kk... less blogging, more marking.

Will share some SUPER HILARIOUS Letters (sec 1 letter writing) next time hahaha!

IMPORTANT SS ANNOUNCEMENT

2009-05-07T17:40:00.002+08:00

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SS ANNOUNCEMENT.

The answer key to the healthcare SBQs is now found in EBLAZE.
I realise that it's too difficult to print for all of you at such a short time, so I have decided to attach it in eblaze.

1. First, log in to eblaze. Click on your name.

2. Click on blog: This will go to your own blog.

3. On right side, click on VIEW SITE ENTRIES: This will bring you to entries posted by anyone.

4. Scroll down till you see my post, dated 7 May 2009. There is a word document you can download from there.

5. Alternatively, you can just find my name from the list and then go search for my Eblaze blog.

6. Thank you very much. Please pass this message to your fellow classmates.

=)

Chelsea 1 - 1 Barca

2009-05-07T05:37:00.001+08:00

Wahaha! Yeah!

Dream final.

Barcelona vs Manchester United
28 May 2009.

Wolverine rocks my socks

2009-05-02T12:15:00.003+08:00

Awesome movie.
And that's the most exciting thing I've done in awhile!

Both my achilles tendons hurts after I play soccer / go for a run.
Argh. Is it time to really go see a chinese doc? Or physio?

Meanwhile, everyone take care of themselves. Staying home is the safest.

If I don't post again,
please bring on Monday

1) Thermometers (good to have them in your bag everyday anyway)
2) the contact updating form your parent should have seen/amended/signed.

Thermometers

2009-04-27T18:43:00.001+08:00

Bring your thermometer on

WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL 2009.

There will be a temperature check. I believe it's just to safeguard ourselves, what with the number of deaths from the swine flu recently.

An announcement will be made tomorrow morning.

No good no good!

2009-04-27T18:27:00.001+08:00

Just busy.

Not gonna update much.

Meanwhile, you shouldn't be online much too yah. Study hard for mid year! =D

Another week bites the dust.

2009-04-23T14:56:00.002+08:00

Thursday is over!

Lots of stuff to do this weekend!
Marking marking marking arghghgh.

But it's ok! Time for us to really step up many gears, and push ourselves past the exams, before we play!

You do work! I mark your work! GO GO GO!

*dozes off in staff room*

Liverpool 4-4 Arsenal

2009-04-22T10:45:00.003+08:00

Best result a Man United fan could have asked for.

Although I must say Arsenal is really bad at keeping a lead, having led 3 times in the game, at 1-0, 3-2, 4-3! They scored at the 90th minute! Only to concede at the 92nd minute! ARgh!

Anyway Arshavin's finishing, wow. Top class. After 90 minutes and a hat trick, he still had the desire and pace to match Walcott's breakaway, totally left Arbeloa for dead, and his sweetly struck shot with his left foot - no chance for Reina!

Anyway, to conclude,

Wonderful result!
Haha at all the Liverpool fans for dropping 2 points!
Haha at Arsenal for almost winning the game but didn't!

Sigh

2009-04-21T09:50:00.002+08:00

I don't feel so well. Ran a light fever in the morning. Thankfully it's a 'test' day, as most of my classes are doing work, which means I talk less.

Things which I want them to end, don't end.
Things which I want them to start don't start.

What is this man.

Released May 1993. One of the definitive songs of my Primary/ Secondary school days.
I like people who appreciate 优客李林.

优客乐乐。=D

不舒服，但心里却开心。

Nobody but you - Wonder Girls

2009-04-20T20:46:00.003+08:00

What is now a very popular song. Someone asked me to put it up here for all to see.

I actually love the ENGLISH version as well.

Stolen by Dashboard Confessionals

2009-04-17T18:27:00.000+08:00

IFD

2009-04-16T22:51:00.002+08:00

Well International Friendship Day is in about another hour or so.

17 April 2009 =D

Remember to support the bazaar at the canteen!

The assemblies are finally over. Another thing off my chest. So happy and relieved the assemblies went by without many hiccups.

Was so happy today that it was over. After the assembly had a quick reflection with the teachers on what went well, what went wrong etc etc, and then I went back to the office to settle emails and outstanding stuff.

At 4.30pm I went to play basketball with the Sec 3 bballers.

Played till 630pm.

Super tired lah!!!!!

Very fun. Really fun. I didn't really shoot much because I need to warm up. As you all know my wrists are kinda 'spoilt' so I need some time to get the 'feel' of the ball and strength estimation every time I play bball. Ah well, I was happy grabbing all the rebounds. =D

Damn fun lah! Can't wait to do it again!

THE NE OMG BLOG!

2009-04-16T15:30:00.000+08:00

http://www.neomg.blogspot.com

Check

it

out.

IFD Lower Assembly

2009-04-14T15:15:00.002+08:00

Sigh.

At comp lab 2 now looking at the sec 3s rehearse for this Thursday's assembly programme.

So tired.

The assembly went quite well. Some glitches. But ah well. Everyone really put in a lot of effort into this. Good job everyone! Students, teachers!

IFD

2009-04-13T21:43:00.002+08:00

This week's assembly programme,

we'll be commemorating International Friendship Day (17 April). Riding on the YOG wave, we'll showcase 3 classes each at each respective assembly.

Will be on stage! Do continue to give me your fullest attention! =D

Today at SS

2009-04-13T09:46:00.001+08:00

At my beloved form class:

When discussing about one of the principles of governance "Work for reward, reward for work", I tried to elicit what kinda society we are in.

Mr Ng: Yes! Work for reward, reward for work! Singapore is a what type of society? Starts with the letter... *interrupted*

Student: Pet society!!!!

Mr Ng: Obviously some of you facebook too much......................

For the record, it's meritocratic society lah!
Singapore is based on meritocracy.

Happy Birthday to Me!

2009-04-11T16:33:00.002+08:00

Family celebrated my birthday earlier. Bought this fruity cake from polar puffs. My mum sang the song and I could see she was controlling her emotions. =/

Well,

27 years ago on a fateful morning on 11th April 1982 (easter sunday), I was born at the old KK hospital.

Been a bumpy ride. Wouldn't say that I really enjoyed my childhood, but I grew up healthy, and I'm safe now, and in that I should be thankful.

It's a new chapter. I'm gonna work so hard.

Argh 27 feels so old! Where did all the years go?!?!

Just another day

2009-04-11T11:06:00.002+08:00

Thanks for the well-wishes through the blog, facebook and smses. =)

It's time to go for a run.

Just another day~

Nephew's big day

2009-04-10T22:36:00.002+08:00

My nephew turned 1 year old!

The gathering was very boring though. All my brother's friends (as well my sister-in-law's friends) brought their kids along so it was like a function room full of many kids running around, chasing after balloons, shaking toys that made a lot of noise, wearing shoes which made squeeky sounds etc etc. And every single adult there was talking about children - the latest diapers on offer and stuff like that.

I did try to occupy myself by playing with whatever kids that roamed my way.

Kids are such miracles aren't they? =)

25 more hours

2009-04-09T22:49:00.003+08:00

to my birthday!

On a serious note,

to the people who are constantly chatting on my tagboard, please stop.

"Shoutbox limit of 60 posts per hour reached."

Please know the limits lah. I don't mind a couple of tags, but if you're using it to chat, it becomes very inconvenient for me to read other people's tags and so on. I hope you understand. =)

I'm finally home after a long day!

YOG meeting at Republic Poly.
NCC 57th Officer Cadet Parade.

A little past 3am.

2009-04-08T03:08:00.002+08:00

Woo I happen to wake just in time for champions league football: Man Utd vs Porto.

Chances are I'll probably fall asleep before full time.

Been another busy, hectic few days. Rest assured that I've read ALL the tags (including the very childish spreading of rumours), but I'll now choose to reply selectively.

Yesterday (as in Tuesday, because it's now Wednesday morning) I did have a presentation for the Key Personnel (P, VPs, HODs in the school). I presented on NE and we had a Q & A. In total it was about 25minutes. It went pretty smoothly. P and VPs asked some questions but I thought I handled them very well. =D

After that I went to the YOG lunchtime programme.

I have to say SORRY to my beloved class of 3-2 because I promised them I'd do up the script (which in the first place should be done up by you guys in the first place! But nevertheless I promised and I didn't deliver, so it's my fault), but I was so caught up with things and it was another mad rushing day so I really didn't have the time. Good job Sufiyan, Rozita on the presentation and Nadia on the clicking~! =D And many thanks to the people of 3-2 who came down to support your classmates. You know who you are. =)

3-6 you all were very noisy lah. =/ It's good you all came down to support, but you guys were noisy even when your own class was presenting. That's not cool man.

3-3 nice to see you all. Mongolia is not Magnolia!

3-4 wah so pro come and check out the competition today when you guys are not presenting!

Busy busy week. Can't wait for the long weekend!

3 more days to my birthday. Gosh getting old.

My world collapsed.

2009-04-07T10:06:00.001+08:00

Ok no maybe it's not that bad.

But moody.

I promise myself to not be moody in class. =)

I'll work hard!

4 days to my birthday!

Awards Day

2009-04-03T22:54:00.003+08:00

Well, it's over!

Good job everyone in the parade! I'm proud of all of you, holding well, standing smart. =D

The ceremony in the hall:
Thanks everyone for cheering and clapping when my name was announced. Appreciate it. =)
I shook the P's hand and she said "Wow you're really popular!"

A popular teacher might not be a good teacher, but still, it never hurts to be popular. I rather be popular than be hated, or be unknown. Then again, I'm not saying that I AM popular. I just have certain groups of awesome students. =) I will improve to be a better teacher.

NCC:
Possibly the swan song of the Sec 4s and 5s. The EMO in me has not been activated yet, but I'll definitely feel it when the weeks pass.

Just now, some of them came over and asked me if I know what's happening next Saturday. I said nothing. They said it's the 11th April! I said yah my birthday! Wow they actually remember! Eh hello can you all go and remember more important things! My birthdate is not tested in the N and O levels ok!

I'm touched. =) I love teaching.

Why so serious?

2009-04-03T07:11:00.002+08:00

Latest addition to my work desk. It's a little too big =/ so I'm trying to think of how to fit it in. Right now it's on the floor directly behind me (It's covering the cupboard behind my seat.)

The Dark Knight was a great movie alright.

Of being on course and Awards Day

2009-03-30T16:56:00.002+08:00

Very busy, so just a quick update.

1. Will be on a full day course in Unity Sec tomorrow, so I wouldn't be in school the whole day. Relief teachers will be going in with work for you all to do. Kindly finish them and hand in within that period. Don't give them any trouble!

2. Next Awards Day rehearsal is Wednesday 330pm. Half-U.
There is a change in the marching off.
GOH will now march pass, followed by supporting contingents. ALL OF YOU will then march back to your original positions, hentak-kaki together and then stop in tune with the band percussion. Everyone will face the front again and remain still.

After the VIP takes his leave, the RSM will keluar-baris the parade.

We'll practise this on Wednesday.

Reply of tags

2009-03-29T14:01:00.002+08:00

Nasir: Yes yes can you go publicise who wants to go as well.
Eric: Thanks.
Ahjie: Yah, but I think most of the CULPRITS are from NCC. =/
Weilin, Jacqueline, Jun Li: What's the big deal with specs. Argh don't say I look so cute!

Weekend!

2009-03-28T11:43:00.003+08:00

End of Term 2 Week 1!

Yesterday:

Simple day. The Secondary One students applauded when they saw me. -_- Why? Specs? Or 'cos they hardly see me in jeans? Anyway thanks! Haha.

Awards Day Rehearsal:
Thanks to all Uniformed groups. Basically the feedback gathered from teachers is that
- GOH not garang-looking enough; tilt weapon not at same angle
- everyone marching not smart enough
- supporting contingent head tilt right not synchronised
- some people were smiling when marching

We'll improve on these aspects. =D
Hope everyone is resting well. What a hot day!
Next Full-dressed rehearsal is on Monday 3.30pm.

Rifle PT:
After that we did a simple and what-I-think-is-a fun version of rifle PT! The teachers even did push ups with all cadets!
And some of the cadets really SABO LOR (correct noun: saboteur), recover also RECOVER SO SLOWLY, so I had to say push up position down and recover and push up position down again, and I also 'suffer' together. Woo! Fun fun!

I HOPE ALL YOUR ARM AND CHEST AND SHOULDER MUSCLES ARE SORE AS THEY SHOULD BE!!!! =p

Next time we'll carry the rifle and run 2.4km. It's gonna be fun, really! =D

Today:
Attending another friend's wedding this evening. Hmm. Lots of ang baos to give away!

Tired. Maybe I'll go take a nap.

Reply of tags!

Yilin: Wo hao. Ni hao ma. =)

静 : Hi you are the 'guest'? Sorry I'm not sure whose chinese name has 静 in it or if it means anything else, so I still don't know who you are =s Anyway, 真成熟的reply。慢慢等的意思是指那位女生未必 ready for a relationship lor, so 你就慢慢等lor. My pain in the heel goes on and off. Really thanks for your concern. =)

Eric: Aiyah you shuddap lah I know you very pro lah! =p

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But I AM happy. =D

Latest update:

HQ NCC will be sending a delegation for jungle training in Brunei.
The selected delegation will comprise of 2 NCC Teacher-Officers and 10 Cadet
Officers/Cadets (Part C and above) to participate in the Jungle Training with
Kadet Tentera Brunei in Brunei from 15 to 25 Jun 09.

I AM GONNA APPLY FOR THIS!

Everyone wish me luck! I 'heard' that in the past not many teachers would want to go, but nonetheless, I am very confident of getting the spot regardless of the number of teacher officers applying. Yeah yeah! =D

Awards Day Rehearsal

2009-03-26T15:38:00.003+08:00

Attention all Uniformed Groups,

The full-dress rehearsal is from 330pm-430pm tomorrow.

Pending confirmation, there should be another rehearsal on Monday as well as next Wednesday. The actual Awards Day is on next Friday, 3rd April.

I did not decide on this. Information is just passed down from the top.

We'll work hard and make this a huge success. =)

Reply of tags

2009-03-26T12:06:00.002+08:00

Been a super busy day!!!!

It's actually not my ankle, but the back of it, i.e. the heel. Sucks.

10mins till my next class. Faster reply some tags.

Shirley: Haha yah correct I like your motto lah!!! Perhaps I should make one and paste BIG BIG on my table (sentence is ungrammatical) too!

Chrismeen: Thanks! I was just moving it. In the morning it's especially painful. =(

Eric: That Jason called me, but my heel hurt + lazy to go down. If they were outside my staff room I would have gone out.

Guest: Hello. 你好。下次留个名好吗？笔名也好。Well, 幸福靠缘分，但也要靠自己去争取的。

Happy. 开心。

2009-03-25T11:02:00.002+08:00

I had a wonderful day on Tuesday.

I'm trying to be a happier person this term.

HOWEVER, these few days, my right ankle has been hurting and I'm in physical pain and it might show on my face, especially if I'm climbing stairs. That's a legitimate excuse. Don't ask why I look so angry/sad/emo.

Destiny. Do you believe in it?

韦礼安 - 慢慢等

2009-03-24T15:41:00.002+08:00

One of my favourite Mandarin songs at the moment:

韦礼安 - 慢慢等

For that mysterious (non-existant?) lady, who will probably not see this.

慢慢等歌词：
作词：韦礼安作曲：韦礼安制作人：韦礼安

你终究占据了我的心房
我终於知道什麽叫做疯狂
因为你我不再怕黑暗
想着你让我更加勇敢
你说你害怕曾经受过的伤
过去发生的情节让你迷惘
害怕重演在你身上却步
让你失去了方向
或许我没资格说什麽(有谁不会害怕呢)
但我知道我会愿意等(你相信我的时候)
我会慢慢等慢慢等慢慢等.....
等上线的铃声
慢慢等慢慢等等到我都睡着了
耐心等只为了心动那一刻
我会慢慢等慢慢等慢慢等.....
等红灯变绿灯
慢慢等慢慢等当你突然觉得冷
我会握着温暖在这里等着

Meaningful.

Prefectorial Camp

2009-03-23T17:35:00.002+08:00

I think Jun Kang took this picture.

My free dinner.

"Camp Fire" in the hall. Awesome!

Nice time I had. Thanks all. More pics to be posted in my fb.

You make it real for me.

2009-03-22T18:15:00.001+08:00

So beautiful. And so true.

12 hours to school reopening

2009-03-22T18:06:00.003+08:00

Preparing to go for a wedding dinner now.

Tired.

Haha. Been sleeping on off the whole day.

Am I READY for term 2? Yes Sir.

AM I ready for a brand new ass-kicking, butt-swiping, adrenaline-pumping, emotionally charged excitement-filled Term 2?

Hahaha.

Ahhhh *dozes off*.

Ok ciao everyone.