Happy Labour Day ...

I enjoyed the morning changing sheets, mopping floor, sitting down in front of the com catching up on GE/WP/CST's news, sipping coffee ...
Have been a very tiring period since March 17 :)
All is worth it though :D
Still,  I appreciate a good day, a Public Holiday, from the last one to today's to the next two :)
And better still, with dear's blessing :p the Bali trip with Marjie and Jan (sobz, Shar, we'll miss you) in 36 days! ...

Along today's news catchup:

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/workers-party-reaches-aljunied-voters-190428837.html

Meanwhile, Aljunied GRC candidate Pritam Singh targeted his message at civil servants and youth.



To civil servants afraid of voting for the opposition, he said, "Please think again. The PAP did not give you your job, the civil service will not crumble just because the PAP loses a few ministers."

Many colleagues, friends, people have their reservations and their own assumptions.
I have told off kindly but honestly a few.
We are adults who know what we want not because we should or we must :)

Drumstick Time

Hot sunny weather.
Good happy day.
Cute lovely children.
Yumz drumstick ice-cream.

And so, after the 2nd last class, I sent tw out to buy us ice-cream :)

Yumz!

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TGIF

A good week like usual made better with good news, happy moments and long weekend :)

1. Happy Easter
2. Par tor @ Queensway with DD
3. Bottega came!
4. Good news from ARO
5. First time in my life I ate so much carrots, thanks to Jan :)
6. Advance bday celebration for Chris dear ...
7. Saw BB
8. KPO with Seetoh
9. Met JY
10. '8 course dinner' with DD due to miscommunication (yumz)

And all these, led to the beginning of a great long weekend!

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Extremely good day

My Thursday just got better with thie good news!

"Hi All,

As you probably know by now, Tanjong Pagar GRC is not contested and therefore, you will not be required to perform election duties at Tanjong Pagar GRC. The Election Department, however, has the right to re-deploy you to other contested constituencies if needed. You will be separately informed by the Election Department should you be re-deployed.

Thank you."

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Sweet dear dear

Today I received request asking me to resign again. Hee. So sweet of him. Hee.

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It's here! S.H.I.T.

Yeah!
Though not the 1st choice colour,
But I still love it.
Woohoo!
S.o H.appy I.t's T.hursday !

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Ice Cream Lip Gloss

Yummy.
Hee.
From Ms. Teo ...
I like!!!!

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Happy Easter :)

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Children Full of Life

Barely 2 minutes of watching this (sitting at the recept area of the centre), i'm almost crying. how many of us can tell the class at the beginning of the year that we only have one life and the most important thing is to be happy. everything here is psle, ca1, sa1, ca2, sa2, going for redundant workshops. tonnes of do-to-show-and-get-pb events, lots of b*tches. my love for kids is still here and always will be. but passion for the work is diminishing. maybe i am not as good as you or whoever (you are thinking have been in it for so long and is managing and hanging on). i try my best to do everything for the kids, yet everyday i've no time and i've to tell the girls, ok, sorry, we've to do it fast, exams are coming.



I barely have time to try to get to know what is happening in their lives, what they really want, and connect whatever i am teaching with their life. and no i'm not giving up, i'm just aiming for, doing what i still want to do for children, in a different environment.







they are still the motivation to get to work. and actually, the thoughts of not seeing them every morning makes me tear again  ...

Whose education is it anyway?

Was reading Dr. Cheah's blog ... and I particularly like this entry.

Excerpt from her blog:

I ask this because I feel teachers take their responsibilities to their students too seriously. Whoa, I can hear all of you saying, “But they should!” Yes, they should, to a certain extent. Are teachers always responsible for all of their students’ learning? I don’t think so. Students have to do their bit too as do their parents. But, you protest, “Isn’t that what teachers are paid to do?” Well, yes and no. Just because they are paid, doesn’t mean they have to do everything. I’m sure many of our domestic maids are paid too, but they are not expected to do everything for the child or the family.
But as I said, teachers take their jobs very seriously, and this is both a good and bad thing. The good part is that we can always rely on our teachers, but the bad part is that teachers end up doing their share of mollycoddling in school. And how do we do that in school? Well, I can think of many ways but how about these for a start? Accepting their sloppy work and correcting all the mistakes for them, rewriting their essays so that they can copy these out, and making and printing out copious notes which students will usually put away, to be forgotten as soon as school is over?

Chanel Always ...

Was watching TLC - Cake Off then Cake Boss.
And before I change my mind, I've decided, I really do not need a $5000 Chanel bag for my 30th Birthday.
I think I just want a Chanel cake to celebrate with mummy and papa and boy and dear @ MBS this year.
Of course, wisdom comes with age.
I think I would rather dear use the $5000 to get a fridge, oven, coffee maker, etc for our future house :)
I've enough Chanel slippers and shoes and bags :)
Haha ...
我真的差不多要长大了。

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Good Friday ...

Have a blessed weekend everyone ...

1. Supposed to go and see gowns but the bridal place made a mistake and was not available for us.

2. Sorry Marj, JR and Norin for the wasted trip.

3. We decided to have fries @ Everything With Fries! Yumz. (Read: Overload of carbo)

4. Went to Saucony warehouse sale. Dear and JR shopped to their hearts' content.

5. Headed to Holiday Inn to made payment of deposit for banquet.

6. Visited Peina and Anton (ok, John too) :p and thanks to Peina and John :) for the overload of KFC and Pizzahut :p

7. Shall watch my drama!

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Boring ...

I'm extremely bored @ contact time.
Falling asleep.
Getting restless.
Super bored.

And so ... I shall blog ...
Had yummy weekend dinner with dear, jr and Norin. Jap food!!!
I love Jap food.
And latest fav - Salmon Don!

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Early Easter on Maundy Thursday

Chris was even earlier, she us cookies (in my tummy) on Monday and Jan the Edo today.

Yumz.

Happy Thursday :)
Long Weekend!

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Too long ...

Was looking @ my CV ...
Date due for retirement is 2043?!
Madness.
Gona shorten it!
Or rather, make it come earlier!

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New Clothes for Old iPhone

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Extremely random ...

I heart Bottega :p

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Our One Minute of Fame ...

But  ... Eternal Love and Memories ...

单身男女

TGIF came early :)
Ice wine.
Cheese chips.
Movie.
Nice :)

Happy Birthday Jo and Auntie Dearest :)

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Repeated Workshop

I'm @ a workshop that I've actually attended before! OMG. Why?!
I'm not the one looking into all these and so, I'm here blogging, Whatsapping, boring myself.
I want to go off!

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