photos

recently, brought my ger to some farm visits. 2 weeks ago went to Hay Dairies goat farm.....last time brought my red cross there also.....
Last week, went the Jurong Frog farm.
next time maybe can go vege farm.
see we got the same family t shirt. Snoopy cute cute....

my sec 3 chinese literature class

my class has done quite badly for chinese literature. Even my best student score only 29/50. She has done well in the part that she can study, but the second part on unknown text, she cannot do well, and did not have time to do all the questions.She miss out a 10 marks question. what a pity.

My 7 students results as follows:
Student A 29/50
Student B 33/50
Student C 37/50
Student D 27/50
Student E 26/50
Student F 18/50
Student G 33/50

Convert the marks to 100%, I have only 1 student with A2 distinction. Quite disappointing. I muz think of ways to help them score better. For the unseen text portion, all do the novel question, nobody attempt to do the poem, which i find quite disappointed also. As I like poems more than other literature forms.
Attach my literature paper here. Some of you may want to try the poem?haha......


C组：现当代文学作品选读（选答一题，占25分）

1 试写出《行人道上的镜子》在写作方面的特色。（25分）


2 《苹果核》的主题是什么？这篇小说在人物塑造方面有什么特点？
（25分）



D组：课外文学篇章赏析（选答一题，占25分）

1 阅读下面这首诗，然后回答问题。

花环 何其芳
放在一个小坟上

开落在幽谷里的花最香，
无人记忆的朝露最有光，
我说你是幸福的，小玲玲，
没有照过影子的小溪最清亮。

你梦过绿藤缘进你的窗里，
金色的小花坠落到你的发上。
你为檐雨说出的故事感动，
你爱寂寞，寂寞的星光。

你有珍珠似的少女的泪，
常流着没有名字的伤悲。
你有美丽得使你忧愁的日子，
你有更美丽的夭亡。


(a)为什么诗人会说少女的夭亡是美丽的？(6分)
(b)试分析诗中少女的性格。（8分）
(c)这首诗运用的意象有什么特别之处？（6分）这首诗还有什么其它的艺术特色？（5分）





2 阅读以下这篇小说，然后回答问题。
　　　　
乌节一角 黄孟文

　　 珍妮从先得坊购物出来，满怀高兴，牵着小女儿的手，走向隔邻的露天茶座，找了一张空桌子，坐下歇息。
　　她叫了一杯冰冻的柠檬茶，另外叫了一杯巧克力冰淇淋给女儿，还叫了鸡肉三文治。
　　女儿的眼睛忽然望着隔邻桌下，拍起手来。“小狗，妈咪，你看，小狗。”
　　珍妮顺眼望去。果然，那儿躺着一只狐狸狗。
　　“哇，真漂亮！”珍妮赞声不绝。
　　她和女儿都站起来，走过去摸它，一边生硬地吹着口哨，一边口里发出“啧啧啧”的声音，去逗弄它。
　　这只小狗全身白绒绒，发出艳丽的亮光。眼睛圆圆的，黑中带一些红色，有点儿像小白兔哩！
　　“咦，怎么它是绑着的？谁将它用铁链绑在椅脚上？还给阳光晒到？”
　　珍妮怒冲冲地张目四望，想要寻出谁是小狗的主人。
　　刚好茶座老板娘在场，她向珍妮解释说是一位熟顾客的。她到附近购物去了，托她们照顾一下。
　　“她还答应给我们十块钱哩！”一个年轻侍者得意洋洋地说，好像很为这笔额外的收入而踌躇满志。“乌节地带的人最慷慨！”她加一句，露出一排参差不齐的牙齿。
　　“哎呀，真是罪孽，怎么可以把它绑起来呢？”
　　“狗也像人一样，是会感到不舒服的呀！——Sayang Sayang……”1言下不胜怜惜，不断抚摸小狗的头，双眼显露母爱的光辉。
　　她还叫侍者把那支立着的大阳伞移过去一点，免得小狗给太阳晒到。
　　小女儿吵着妈咪多叫了一碟鸡肉三文治，拿了一块过去喂小狗。
　　小狗嗅了一下，没精打采地把头伏回地上，好像一点食欲都没有。
　　“哎呀，我忘了，那位顾客说它只吃纽西兰的新鲜牛肉，不爱吃鸡肉的。”老板娘忽然想起。
　　小女儿挖了一小汤匙的冰淇淋给它吃，它连望都不望一眼，闭起眼睛养神。
　　“你应该告诉你的顾客，”珍妮对老板娘说。“把小动物这样绑在椅脚，让它睡在硬硬的地砖上，又晒到阳光，这是不准许的——我是防止虐待动物协会的理事。”
　　“是的，是的，我会转告她。”老板娘有点肃然起敬的样子。
　　这时，一个印度小女孩带着一个小男孩走过来，以右手轻碰额头，作行礼状，她嗫嚅着说：
　　“太太，这碟剩下的面包给我好吗？我的妈妈生病了，我和弟弟肚子好饿。”
　　“你们怎么可以讨食呢？”珍妮满脸不高兴。“你知道新加坡早就禁止乞丐了吗？”
　　“我……我……没办法，妈妈不能工作。”
　　“她的妈妈是这一带的扫地工人，很久没有看到她了。”老板娘代为解释。
　　“不可以，”珍妮坚持。“要讨食也不要跑到乌节地带来呀，给游客看见，不是把新加坡人的脸都丢光？去，去，走开，这么脏！”
　　小女儿忽然走到妈妈身边，惊恐万分：“妈咪，他们有爱滋病吗？”她想起爸妈的话，想起他们常叫她小心，在外头不要乱摸脏物，不要乱碰陌生人，恐怕染上最可怕的爱滋病。
　　“走开，走开，赶快走开，我的女儿害怕了。你再不走，我叫警察来抓你。”珍妮杏眼圆睁，猛拍桌子。
　　印度女孩满眼失望，怯生生地走开了，弟弟跟在后头，双眼闪着泪光。
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

注：1马来语，可怜爱惜之意。
　　
(a) 小说中的珍妮是个怎样的人？试分析珍妮的人物形象。（8分）
(b) 试概括这篇小说的主题思想。（7分）
(c) 作者如何运用对比手法表现主题？试详细说明。（10分）

芝麻绿豆

改完了中三快捷的试卷一。其中一个作文题目是关于两家邻居为了芝麻绿豆的小事吵架。描写吵架情形。改到一些令人啼笑皆非的吵架情形。原来还有学生不明白“芝麻绿豆”的小事的意思。他们觉得“芝麻绿豆的小事”真的和“芝麻绿豆”有关。

有个学生说两家人为了买一包“芝麻绿豆”吵架，因为一个要煮“芝麻绿豆汤”给家婆喝，另一个要煮给孩子喝。

我吃过芝麻糊也喝过绿豆汤，但是从没喝过什么“芝麻绿豆汤”，你们有谁喝过？究竟是什么味道？

另一个学生写一个邻居为了种“芝麻绿豆”而和另一个邻居吵架。因为对方觉得他种的“芝麻绿豆”长成小树后会生很多蚂蚁和昆虫。但这个种“芝麻绿豆”树的邻居却觉得他种的“芝麻绿豆”发出香味。

你们觉得这些“芝麻绿豆”事件如何？？

巫启贤演唱会

星期六晚上，去看了巫启贤演唱会。
去看演唱会和新谣有关，但在众多新谣歌手中，他并不是我最喜欢的。
那场演唱会虽然没有太多新谣，但却是一个难得的回味过去的聚会。
喜欢那场演唱会的人情味。巫启贤究竟是怎样的一个人？

以前对他总没什么好感，因为负面新闻太多。
但是听了演唱会之后，觉得他这个人还蛮真的。
也许是过去误信了不正确的报道，我也希望是这样。
演唱会像一个让他抒发情感，表达感激之情的途径。
他有太多的人要感谢，我很欣赏他这样当众表达情感的方式。
看起来似乎是很重情重义之人。

有亲情、友情、爱情。。。。。。是一场很温馨的演唱会，是个很温馨的聚会。
不说新谣，他的其它歌曲有几首是我很喜欢的，像以下这首闽南语歌曲《叫阮的名》。


《叫阮的名》
作词：何启弘 作曲：巫启贤 编曲：吴庆隆

谁在叫阮的名 一句比一句痛 亲像在问阮甘会惊寒
不需要别人来讲 阮心内嘛知影 是你的声 是你的声

谁住在阮的梦 一住就一世人 尚惊日头会将咱拆散
虽然离开那呢远 阮犹原会知影 是你的影 是你的影

叫阮的名 阮用一生斟酌听 当初细汉未赴乎你了解 你是阮的生命
叫阮的名 阮需要你来作伴 人生的路途阮爱你牵阮走


还有这首《思念谁》也是我很喜欢的。

《思念谁》

你知不知道
思念一个人的滋味
就像喝一杯冰冷的水
然后用很长很长的时间
一颗一颗流成热泪

你知不知道寂寞的滋味
寂寞是因为思念谁
你知不知道痛苦的滋味
痛苦是因为想忘记谁

你知不知道
忘记一个人的滋味就像欣赏一种残酷的美
然后用很小很小的声音告诉自己坚强面对
你知不知道你知不知道你知不知道寂寞的滋味
寂寞是因为思念谁

updates

Now i'm busy doing marking as the school end of year exam has started and my papers came in already. Marking sec 3 express paper 1 and sec 2 express paper 2. I start with the easier one first--paper 2. Still have not finish the paper 2, hope by tonite, i will be able to clear quite a bit and maybe by tomolo can finish paper 2, then friday i can start on paper 1, and the whole of next week to mark paper 1 as well.

Have not been teaching my chinese Literature afternoon lessons for abt 3 weeks already, as i got quite bad 'evening sickness'. Feeling very tired and nauseous in the afternoon. I supposed a few more weeks later i will be able to teach in the afternoon again. If nothing goes wrong, I will be giving my little monster a sibling next year April. Now still dunno boy or girl, but doesn't really matter as long as healthy can already:)
But this time round, i experience more jialat 'evening sickness'. since week 7, have been puking almost everyday. Now is week 12, just 3 months only, the sickness getting better and i dun puke so often, though i just had my puking session yesterday nite. Hopefully the sickness will goes off soon, and i will regain my energy level.

how is everyone? Sometimes i can read the tag box, but most of the time, the box is not visible to me. Even though i re install the box, but still dun function well.

sometimes i wonder how are things in JWSS? Is life there getting better? There are certain things i miss in JWSS...........

upset over shoes

my ger is upset over wearing shoes on her bday celebration. She doesn't like them.
But NOW she likes them already. Now whenever she go out to walk walk, she will wear her shoes. Not she wear herself, we wear for her lah, coz she dunno how to wear the shoes herself yet:) But she likes them already.

more pictures.

the bday cake

my little monster's pictures

long time never post my ger pictures.here are some recent ones.
taken on 11 August, we celebrate little monster's 1st birthday.:)

memories

recently my guides won the 1st prize in dance for their north division campfire. I am very happy for them, its the only competition we win in this 2 years. I felt so bad the guides got only a bronze award this year. ( from Gold to bronze)I really did not do enough last year as I just joined the school and was pregnant then. This year I hope i have done enough for them to get a silver award next year March. I hope to help them get Gold, but the criteria is getting more difficult each year.

really hope before i take up part-time teaching scheme in next year july, the guides can get a good award in next year March. Have been thinking about this part time teaching scheme as I want more time for my family. other than more time, hope to reduce doing admin work, and concentrate more on lesson planning and teaching.

will still be teaching my chinese lit next year. And it will be sec 4 class. And will maybe teach higher chinese and another graduating class. In terms of teaching load, even if take part time teaching, it will not be reduce. But i guess teaching will be more fufiling? but at a pay cut.

currently trying to plan out a heritage trail for my guides, thinking of bring them to city hall area this coming school holidays. Have went down and took alot of photos. will plan something like a treasure hunt. They will be able to get their heritage badge and local history badge. reminds me of the times when in red cross. I miss those days. I remember the various trails that were carried out during red cross camps. And I always put on sun block when go out of the red cross campsite, and cindy, sylvia always make funny remarks on my behavior. Seems like all those memories were still so fresh, but that was years ago.

I wanted to update something here, but i guess i will do it in my next entry.:)

好久好久

好久好久没有用中文留言。
好久好久没有和好朋友见面。
好久好久没有朋友们的最新消息。

大家都还好吗？
我的世界里似乎只有我的小魔头，
忽略了许许多多的朋友。

我忘了佳佳的生日，
也忘了更多朋友的生日。

我的小魔头刚过一岁生日。
虽然没有大事庆祝，
但也算有个温馨的生日。

小魔头就快能够放开手走路了。
在电话的另一端听到我的声音，
小魔头认得是妈妈的声音，
小魔头会叫妈妈。

听到小魔头叫妈妈，
很多原本重要的东西就变得不再重要。

an unlucky year

tuesday i was on child sick. my ger was having high fever up to 40 degree. after seeing a GP, not much use. I bring her see PD. the doc say maybe its "fake measles
", he say nowdays children have injection so dun have real measles. But my ger schedule for the measles injection is in dec leh......that means can be real measles also mah??anyway, my ger after 3 days of fever, yest and today, she got quite alot of red spots on her body...so its really measles.

my grandmum pass away on tuesday nite at 10pm. I was still in jurong then as was on child sick leave. was planning to go back school teach on weds, but grandmum passed away. So i phone my HOD and say need 3 days leave. will on go back on monday. Grandmum is 101 years old. she refused to eat any food since sunday, and passed away peacefully like sleeping on tuesday nite. no pain no suffering, considered v gd life already.

i send my girl to my in law house yesterday so that i can go to the funeral. alot of things need to be done there, as my grandmum children not many( 2 passed away, left 4), and grandchildren also not many. great grandchild only got one.that is my girl.

today i am in yishun house taking care of my girl. As she is not feeling well and with measles, she is very easily irritated. After yesterday taking care session by my in laws, last nite they say cannot help to take care anymore as my girl is very difficult, keep crying and very unhappy. Initially still thought of going down to the wake, now cannot liao.

dun know what to do for the next few days, my grandmum funeral will only end on sunday evening. Need someone to look after her as my whole family will be involve in the funeral and my jurong house is the base for the funeral.so my girl cannot go there also.

I guess my hubby really have to take a half day leave on friday to look after my girl, then maybe i will tell my mum he cannot come for the ritual thing on saturday. then he can look after my girl on saturday. sunday will be difficult, my hubby definitely need to be at the funeral as its the sending off.

selfishness

I know of a real life story. A mother wanting to give up her 2 young kids(the youngest is not even 1 yr old) to be together with a married man who has 1 kid. What has the world becoming? She want to have a divorce with her husband, claiming that they are incompatible in many ways, and she could not live together and tolerate him anymore. The husband may be taking her for granted in the past, but if really need to go separate ways because of imcompatibility. That is fine....but what about the kids....shouldn't she take the custody of the kids? I cannot comprehend why a mother doesn't want her kids....... There are pple who try all means to have kids, but they can't. There are pple who love kids so much that they adopt one. And now this mother who has 2 kids, want to forsake the kids just to go after a married man.

If she were my sister, i would give her a few slaps on the face. WTF.
damn angry when i think about the 2 children, the youngest was not even 1 yr old, and her parents are separating.

incompatility is only a reason for marriage if there is no 3rd party. Just divorce and get back to your life, you still have ur kids with you....now she is using her husband weakness and the incompatibility issue to justify her divorce, which i find it is just selfishness. Divorce and kids are 2 separate issue. if really incompatilibilty, you will only divorce the husband, but the kids you will still love them. But now because you fall in love with somebody else, then you want to have YOUR own happiness, you dun wan your kids....it only means selfishness, and your incompatibility reasoning makes no sense.

And what if the another married guy is not serious in the relationship? Maybe he is just fooling around, which i think is highly possible. I dun think his wife know about it. Probably he is lying, saying he is planning to divorce. I think this divorce thing will never happen.

I cannot understand this married woman, what is she thinking. She is not a 20 yr old young gal. Already in mid 30s......what the hell is she doing!
5 years down the road, she is going to regret. That guy that she claim she trusted, would have still been living happily with his wife and kid. And she a divorce woman who forsake her kids, will be hated by her own kids. And worse if she were to get pregnant with that guy who is lying to her, no one will pity her, and i'm 100% sure that guy will run away and leave her to face her own problem.

I have never been so angry b4. something which seems to be happening in tv series has happen in real life. If I know her well enough, i would have give her a few tight slaps and kick her back to reality. She think she is sleeping beauty or what.......she think got prince to rescue her from her so call "boring" life? If really got prince, he would not want a woman who has no heart, who can forsake own children. If you love a person, you accept what the person is, you accept his/her children if she/he have any.

Do you think this person is truly loving you when he only want you, and not your children? If he really love you, he would have let you go and not entering this adultery relationship. You betray ur marriage and he betray his......so what is the point of getting married? If you cannot make up ur mind to spend the rest of your life with a person, dun take the oath......promises are meant to be kept not broken.

I cannot understand.........how can a mother do this to her kids? I know of pple who wanted kids very much, who miscarriage for many times, who try many years, and pple who had still born kids, pple who leave the hospital ward with no baby. whenever i read these real life story i will cry together with these mothers-to-be. They wanted to be mothers so much, but some never had this chance.

After i give birth to my gal, i finally understand the feeling and thoughts of a mother. kids are blessing....i miss my gal alot when i din get to see her. everyday when go to work,i will think of my ger....when i am not doing teaching, when i am back at my desk, i will think of her......at least 5times everyday, she will come into my mind. I will think about what she will be doing at my mum house, is she eating her porriage, is she sleeping, is she playing....I will want to go jurong to visit her, but sometimes i cannot....i have my lessons to prepare, i have my books to mark.

I think family is the most impt foundation. if family is not strong, alot of things will not work out, you canot work efficently. your mind will be thinking about other things all the time. I think next yr, i will take part time teaching, so that i will have more time with my ger. money is just money. i dun mind lesser money and lesser workload. i am not an ambitious person. I dun need to climb watever ladder to go up the top. All i need/want is a life that is happy......and i know this happiness need to work on, not something that will come by itself....

marking done

Today, the O level Mother Tongue June paper marking is completed.
Tomolo I can go school to do some work, then friday i can go and see my ger and fetch her home.
Tues then will send her back Jurong. I have a few days to play with her.
my ger is now coming 10 months. She can now stand when holding on to things, cannot stand on her own yet. She now learned how to clap her hands and trying to learn how to nod her head, but when she nod, her whole body move together with the head movement, look very funni.
Now she is more and more cheeky. She only call "ba ba", refused to call any other pple, not even my mum. She used to call " ba ba", "ma ma" very often and she also know how to call "ah ma", but she just dun wan to call now. Her favourite word is "mum mum"(eat), seems like she is also high metabolism like me, eat and eat, seems to be hungry most of the time and she eat almost anything....apple, pear, papaya, honey dew, cabbage, green vege, potato, pumpkin, cauli flower, fish, porriage, rice, biscuit, bread, egg etc.
Now waiting for her to learn how to stand on her own and hopefully when she turn 1 year old she can walk.

I have bought her 2 swim suits, but still no opportunity to bring her swimming.( even though i can't swim, but introduce her to water/swimming early will be good, scare next time when she older, she will be scare of water, then difficult to get her learn)

I hope this weekend can bring her to swim.

updates

currently I'm marking the june o level papers at tiong bahru. officially, my duty will end next friday...still a long way to go.

For this 2 weeks, will be seeing Ms Chua and Mdm Lim everyday and eat lunch together.

This June holiday is very short. After marking, left one week, but 2 days on course and 1 day staff meeting. I'm left with about 2 days to do lesson preparation. No time to set CA papers. Sighz........

Thought of preparing more stuff for my Literature class, seems like no time also....

video

my ger video, taken a few months back.

thinking too much

my cough is getting better. But its still there.
Have been thinking about some things recently, and causing me some stress.
Maybe I'm just thinking too much. Things should turn out to be better I hope.

maybe becoz I am very rational and highly disciplined, thats why I cannot understand pple who can forsake family/kids etc for their own freedom/enjoyment/life.

Though its not my problem, but just thinking about it had already build up my stress level.Alot of things in life is about commitment, if one is not ready for commitments, then should not get involved. How can there be pple with no sense of responsibilty?

Just thinking about these 'non of my business' problems, makes me sad and stress.

UTF8

by the way, if the chinese texts cannot be seen, must go to "view", then "encoding", then "UTF8".

in case some of u forgot how to do it:)

i am sick

sighz.........I am actually on MC today, but today its my school sports day, if take MC today, very lugi, only half day. So i force myself to go to the yishun stadium.

I think for this year I have taken 4 days MC already. 3 days for my wisdom tooth surgery and another one on the just past monday. i hope i will not become "MC queen" for the year.

My cough dun seem to get better even though I have seen 2 doctors. The medicine is strong enough I think, feel very light and giddy after taking them. weekend is coming, I am very scare that I will pass the virus to my gal. what to do?

Today is half day for my school again. But evening time need to go back for meet the parents sessions. Its not very fair for mother tongue teachers right? We teach all levels, so end up got to go for sec1 to sec4 meet the parents sessions..........and very waste time coz sometimes only a few parents want to see us, sometimes none. So sit there waste time rite? I think for tomolo evening i will check my sec 2 class got how many parents coming, I got only 16 students for sec 2. So if those parents come and left, maybe I can knock off early??( In JWSS of coz no such thing as knock off early, but here different mah, if no business wait for what)

This sat will bring my gal for the 9mth health checkup. Dun know now she got 7kg or not? The last time she only 6.3kg. consider very small size for a 9 mth old baby.
After the morning checkup, I will need to go Guide house for my annual girl guide meeting. Hopefully that will not take long. Think have to wear full uniform, where got the time?! now i think uniforms are nuisance!

sunday planning to go chinese resturant for a belated mother day lunch with my family. But if I still not feeling too well by then, perhaps I will postpone again.

feeling sick and tired recently.........

some funni compo sentences

这些句子都是今年年中考试试卷一的“佳句”。你们看，我现在的学生和两年前的你们相比，是不是“青出于蓝”？

1 或许她有点短，很难看到她。
（她又不是铅笔，怎么能用短？？）

2 她看见我和妈妈，站在那里不感动。
（如果只要站着就能“感动”别人，那个人才真的有问题！）

3 我把油倒在车上，一把火把车烤了。
（这个学生是不是想BBQ想疯了？？）

4 我要去了，再见。
（听起来多不吉利，去哪里？？用“停笔”，不就行了？〕

5 我问他是否有抽烟，他否认他没有抽烟。
（他到底有没有抽烟？不要假厉害，句子不是越长越好。“否认”加上“没有”，意思全变了！）

6 他被关进赶化院。
（我们当然希望进入“感化院”的青年能够“赶快”改过自新，但也不用这么“赶”对吗？）

7 谈完心事过后，我真的是感到轻飘多了！
（原来谈心事和服食“爱它死”的感觉是一样的。）

8 我希望能给他们过一个平静的后半身。
（那“上半身”呢？“生”和“身”怎么能乱用？）

9 如果我考得好，我以后可以找到一份好工作，可以赚钱养我的父母到长生不老。
（我能理解你的孝心，但是有钱也不能把父母养到“长生不老”！！）

10 我、妹妹和弟弟的双脚马上跑到厕所。
（只有你们的“脚”到厕所，那“身体”又到哪儿去了？原来你们的脚是可以和身体其他部位分开行动的！）

11 几个月后，我们就开始交网了。
（莫非你们是蜘蛛，不然哪有网可交？〕

12 过后，我们就去附近的草原踢球。
（我真怀疑这个学生是生活在新加坡吗？我们这里随处都有草原吗？那应该也有牛羊吧？那么好的草原竟然用来踢球，真是糟蹋了大自然！）


读完之后有何感想？

farewell to my auntie

My aunt left...after about 1.5 week of staying in the ICU.
Left on wednesday nite at 9pm.
The doctor had a conference with my relatives and they decide to remove the equipment that was helping my aunt to breathe.
True enough, without the equipment, she could not breathe on her own, and within 10 minutes, she was gone....

Yesterday after school, I went to her wake at her Jurong west void deck. Today after school, I will go again.Then sat and sunday will spend more time there. Sunday is also mother's day, and its also the last day of the wake.

My gal is at my in law house for these 2 days, as my parents need to help out with the funeral stuffs.

I'm feeling quite sick these few days.Got a very bad cough and losing my voice. I remember there was once in JWSS, I totally lose my voice, and have to write on the white board the work I need u all to do.......

lucky now examz are over, so dun really have much teaching to do.

I marked my literature paper yesterday. I have 7 students only. ( 6 china and 1 malyasian students) And 5 of them failed the paper. Only the malaysian and 1 china student passed the paper. Its not a very difficult paper, I think they did not make a good effort to memorize the text.It very similar to history, if u dun memorize the notes, how to write essay. Having good language foundation is not good enough, there is no content in the essays.

exams exams

My school is having exams now. And I have alot of marking to do...already finish 5 classes of paper 2 and 2 classes of paper 1. Now left 5 classes of paper 1, which means 88 letter writing and 88 compositions to mark.

come across alot of funni sentences. And there's one "genius", who do not know what is composition, sec 1 obviously. And there are 4 qns to choose from. He wrote each qn as one paragraph in his compo. And of coz I do not know which qn he is actually writing. My 4 years of teaching, this is the 1st time i have seen this kind of compo.

I still have literature paper coming on thursday to mark. Have to finish marking the 88 letter writing and 88 compo by tomolo nite.....lets see how much i can finish tonite.


remember 2 years ago i posted some of the funni sentences from compo on blog? I will post again when i am free, then u all can have a good laugh:)

updates

my 3rd auntie is still in hospital. Still not conscious. condition still dun look good. I guess its a waiting stage. Even if she regain conscious, she will be a vegetable. Her brain is damaged.For the people around her, they will definately hope that she can regain conscious. But to regain conscious and become a vegetable, is that a better option? I dun think so. Will that be a comfort for the people around her? Is alive and being a vegetable better than to just go?

Will there be a miracle?

gal gal studio photo

a bad year

This year is not a good year.....seems like alot of things happening.
start with my ger fall sick, my toothache and wisdom tooth surgery, my mum chicken pox....
recently my hubby sprain his ankle. haven't recover yet.

yesterday my 3rd auntie had a fall in her house. That was 2am in the morning. A very serious fall, she fall backward, and her head hit the floor, was operated on the brain to remove blood clot, but since the fall until now still in coma. Yest went to see her in NUH, she is in the ICU. felt like crying when i saw her lying on the bed with a swelling head.
Condition very critical. any good/bad news will be known within this 3 to 7 days.
my cousin appear to be strong, but i know his heart is breaking.
lets pray that she will be regain conscious and will be ok.
I was so paraniod with my HP today. Afraid that the ringing come with bad news.

About 2 years ago, when I was still in JWSS, one afternoon i receive my brother's call, and know the news of my 1st auntie sudden passed away. She was bitten by mosquito, and died from dengue fever. That was very sudden news, everything happened within a few hours, she could not be saved as she seek medical help too late.

i dread attending funerals of loved ones, but i know that is part and parcel of life. everyone will have their turn to go.............but why must there be so much suffering before one goes......

my auntie is not very old, she still have a long way to go.....she still have not seen my cousin setting up family in future, she still have not have any grandchildren yet.

pray for her to recover.........please pray for her to recover..........

personality test again

found this test on a friend's blog.

You Are Grape

You are bold and a true individual. You are very different and very okay with that. People know you as a straight shooter. You're very honest, even when the truth hurts. You are also very grounded and practical. No one is going to sneak anything by you. People enjoy your fresh approach to life. And it's this honesty that makes you a very innovative person.

What Color Purple Are You?

my hubby's personality test

I "requested" my hubby to do this personality test as well. This is the result:

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another personality test

Found this on sandra's blog. Quite interesting also....as usual, very curious, so i went to do this test as well. The result as follows:

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personality test

Found this test on a friend's blog. Quite interesting, so went to do one for myself. This is the result. If anyone interested to do the test also, can go to the link.



My Personality

Neuroticism	47
Extraversion	8
Openness To Experience	3
Agreeableness	34
Conscientiousness	61

You are introverted, reserved, and quiet with a preference for solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends. Stressful and frustrating situations can be upsetting to you, but you are generally able to get over these feelings and cope with these situations. As a practical person you like to think in plain and simple terms. Others describe you as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative. You have some concern with others' needs, and are generally pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative. You are reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled.

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busy week

very busy this week as my mum is down with chicken pox and i have to bring my gal back to my yishun house. My mum in law helping me to look after her during daytime. And i will look after her during nite time.

my mum is 61 years old already. Now then have chicken pox. Very dangerous and xin1 ku3.

next weekend, will be installing aircon for my house. my gal is a sweaty baby, sweat very very easily. And the weather is very hot. Will be installing for 2 rooms and the living room also. One of the room, will be a playroom for my gal. Going to make it very nice. Now thinking of how to decorate the room..........

concert

I will be going for a concert with my hubby this coming saturday.....will my face be swelling or will it be ok? Hopefully I will be in gd condition to go to the concert.
I think most of you will not know the singing group as they don't belong to your generation...........they are from my generation...haha..can see we have generation gap rite??

teddy bear

This is a teddy bear i make for my gal gal. Looks a bit weird rite? I named it the same name as "Mr Bean"'s teddy bear. In chinese, the bear is call Tai4 di2. My gal play with the bear for sometimes, now she is sick of it..she get sick of toys very easily.....one toy can only last 15mins at most..then she will start to throw them everywhere.....

lastest photos

these are taken just last sunday. We went to NTU for a walk. Btw there was one earlier photo with 2 babies. The other baby is my hubby's sister baby. Borned in same month, but she is 2 weeks older than my baby:)

photos

some photos

sick

my gal was sick for the past 1 week. She had fever, the highest temperature hit 40 degree. Bring her to see PD and got some medicine. Paid 110 bucks for it. Being a PD not bad, can earn alot of money.

My gal had recovered. And now its my turn to take MC. I just had a surgery on my right side wisdom tooth. yesterday nite i had a toothache for no reason. And couldn't sleep. Just now i went to see dentist at sengkang ( the clinic used to be at yishun northpoint, shifted to seng kang), did an x ray on the tooth. the wisdom tooth was hitting my molar and worse, it had decay. So have to extract it....but becoz its not growing normally, have to do a surgery.Quite painful.

The dentist tried to save my molar. It had decay a bit also. dun know if my molar can survive for how long more.( my last visit to dentist was in my secondary 4...haha..i think serve me rite for not visiting dentist on a regular basis)But I have phobia for dentist....all becoz of my primary school dentist who do constuction work violently on my teeth....

The surgery on my wisdom tooth cost me $500. That was one tooth. cannot imagine if the rest of my wisdom tooth suddenly give me toothache......it will be a bigger nightmare...........i hope this day will not come....

Btw, I am on 5 days mc starting from tomolo. Sunday i will need to go and remove my stitches. Sunday is Ms Hilda Toh's wedding dinner. I wonder if I will be able to make it?? can't possibly go if my face is swollen......sighz..what to do...........

coming march holidays

march holidays is coming. Its going to be busy for me. From 10 march to 13 march, I will be camping in camp christine. ( Its the basic training course for guiders)

Can don't go??? Sighz.....haha...its ok actually. Its in the west side of singapore. I have requested to go back home every night to see my gal. But the place is very ulu. So have to call cab, if my hubby is not able to fetch me. But in the morning still have to go back camp very early.

When was my last camping session?? seems like i'm getting old. Now very not use to the idea of camping. The last time i camp was with my JWSS red cross, end of the yr 2005. That was just before i had my traditionl wedding dinner in dec05.

Seems like a long time from now.
I miss those Jwss angels from the 1st day i step into the school to teach. I miss my 2N1 class and 2E1 class especially. That was the 1st year i enter JWSS. Now all of you from this batch had graduated and taken your o levels results.
time really flies.........

daxiong and ger ger

post 2 photos taken on 16 feb when i went back to JWSS to visit some teachers.
Mr Lim Teck Siong( daxiong) and my ger ger. my ger ger seems to like him. Maybe he look very much like my brother. So she thought the person carrying her is her uncle(jiu4 jiu4).

flu and more flu

My flu is just recovering and now its my hubby's turn. He is on MC today, down with flu. my gal also having runny nose.....hopefully by end of week all will be well.

Tomolo i have half day, as my school declare tomolo half day becoz of gd o levels results. the reward came a bit slow....but its ok, better than nothing. But the half day is not very half day, since there is still staff meeting. But its a few hours earlier. I can go Jurong to see my gal earlier.hooray!

another photo

some photos

yest i have gone to see doc and get some medicine for my flu. Today feeling very much better...at least my runny nose is settled. Today went for the girl guide thinking day celebration at indoor stadium. my precious saturday is gone.........not that i dun like to go for this event, but really have very limited time.....
I always feel quite bad not very attached to my new students esp. my CCA students.I used to take a camera and go around taking my red cross students pictures, but now I hardly take any pictures of my guides.There's a saying : 曾经沧海难为水, i think this is why i find it so difficult to build up strong bonds with my new students.

my hubby just downloaded some photos from the digital camera, now i post a few on blog. These are taken on the past tuesday when we go sentosa, together with my 3rd uncle family.

down with flu

Sighz.......i'm down with c2pid flu...yesterday morning when i woke up, i already sense something not too right. My throat going sore. This morning when i work up, still got running nose.Its the time of the year i usually get sick. After the nose thingy, next coming up will be 100 days cough as usual. I think most of you will remember, I always cough, and my cough last very long.

Just pray that this time i will not kena the cough. If i really kena very serious flu and cough, i will quarantine myself from my gal.........Sighz.....my poor gal gal:(

testing uploading video

now trying to learn how to upload video.
try out one video on my crying ger ger.

late posting.........

I'm so sorry my little angels that i couldn't go for the footdrill competition the past weekend.
I was attending my guider course when i saw the sms.
I know u all are disappointed with the results, but its a tough fight.
I know everyone in the squad had done your best, that is good enough.
As long as the team spirit is there, there will be one year the team can bring the glory back.
That year will not be too far from now............believe in yourselves, and you will be able to do it!

busy busy life

My life is now so busy until i hardly had time to breathe.
Endless work to do, work that can never be finished.
spent alot of time preparing for lessons end up don't even have time to do marking...sigh....

Seem to be quite fated with 4T. My form class this yr is again 4T...reminds me of JWSS. But here we have 2 form teachers for 4T. Time is spent in phoning students and trying to catch them back to school. I have one student who had suicide tendency. had not come to school for 5 days, and get to know it from her mum. She finally came back today and seems to be feeling quite bad about running away from home....seems like she regret what she had done....BUT then less than half a day, she run away from school without informing anyone.......run away together with another 2 classmates. My goodness, I have 3 students missing from class 3 periods b4 the dismissal bell ring.

spent another few hours trying to call her mum to inform her about it. And was worried sick that what might happened.THEN finally i got her mum, and she said the girl was back quite early and sleeping in the room.........

I don't know what to say......her mum can't do anything about her. I phone her the other time and she say she can't get her girl to come to school. And she say she cannot communicate with her girl.

what a day for me. thousands of things not done.I wonder what will they become if they were in JWSS? The learning environment is heaven here, and they don't seems to appreciate. maybe should have an exchange programme, send them over to hell to have a look, then they will know what is heaven.

my gal learn flipping

it has been a long time since i last blog. my gal recently juz learn how to flip from lying on back to stomach. She is a bit slow. But after she know how to flip, she keep flipping and crying for help after that. And immediately after we flip her back on her back, she start to flip to stomach again, and less than 1 minute, she will cry for help.

my school teaching workload this yr is still ok, except got more admin/paper work to do. Have been preparing powerpoints for lesson these few weeks.

now my gal stay with my mum in jurong, and i only visit her during tues and thurs on weekdays. And bring her back to yishun on saturday morning or friday nite. will tend to miss her when she is not around.

will post more of my ger photos next time...have to go prepare lesson again.....

Mr Lim's wedding

yesterday nite i went to Mr David Lim' s wedding dinner at goodwood park hotel. I think u all still remember him rite? ( last time teach english and english lit) His bride is very pretty:) Seen alot of Jwss ex teachers and current teachers as well.

This coming friday i'm going to another ex jwss teacher's wedding dinner.

luckily i still can squeeze in my dress for both wedding dinner. just that my hair is in a total mess and cannot be improve. Have been dropping alot of hair since giving birth and cannot do rebonding also, coz my hair will drop more after that. so got to endure for a while more before i can fix the mess.

my hubby went china for work again. once in every month. he will be coming back on friday nite, not in time to attend the ex teacher's wedding dinner with me.

my parents going hongkong for tour this coming thursday. I have to carry my baby to my in laws house on friday evening before going to wedding dinner. So that they can babysit for me. I think i will look funny carrying the baby infront using a carrier when i wear a dress. but using pram i dun know how to go up escalator....haha..betta dun take the risk. now i carry the baby a bit too long my back will ache. i'm getting old..haha

updates

recently bought alot of stuffs for my ger. bought a bumper playmat, very nice material. i can sleep on it also.bought a hand squeezer, can produce sound when squeeze, a baby carrier which i will be trying out tomolo for my 1st outing with baby only. I will see if i can bring baby from jurong to yishun without external help...haha....hopefully she wun cry on the way there.

last sunday my hubby and me bring ger ger to suntec to walk walk.......to try out the pram.
I still dun know how to get the pram up the stairs with the baby inside...seems very challenging.now i only push the pram on smooth surface.......always take lift, and if got stairs, will make a detour.

dun know how other people manage to get the pram up everywhere.

my ger is now trying out formula milk......she dun seems to like it. i think formula milk really got no taste. dun know which brand she will like better.

my ger is scare of my yishun house, maybe becoz she seldom go back. i had a hard time getting her to sleep last saturday. she scream and cry and keep staring at the lights, we took hours to pacify her and she manage to sleep at 5am.

I think she is not expose to alot of things, so every new thing she also scare. we have decide to bring her out to see things everyday. and maybe certain weekday bring her back to yishun. if not next time she dun want to come back home.

next year i will be teaching a new course "chinese literature", open for sec 3 and 4 students only. seems interesting.

will be teaching 1n2, 2e1,3e4,3t1,4t1 and the sec 3 chinese lit class. One very good point about this school is that their chinese class is very small. average only 15 students per class. my 4T has only 11 students. the biggest class is about 26.

btw today i bring my ger out on pram to nearby jogging track walk walk. Then guess who i saw? Mr Gopal! how come the world is so small. i din even see him when he jog pass. Seems that his eye sight is better than mine. he ask whose baby is that.....maybe i should say the baby is my baby sister..haha

back to school

my maternity leave ended yesterday. Today I have reported to school for work. have to go to school everyday until 17 nov. That is the last day of o levels. Some of you mention want to come to my jurong house to see baby on last day of o levels, now a bit difficult liao, unless you all can wait for me to crawl back to jurong from yishun....haha

one day never see my ger ger already start to miss her..haha

today is o level maths paper? everything ok? Good luck...work hard........:D

more photos

my gal now still dunno how to grab things with her hands. I have just taken off her mittens, so that she can feel the things around her and learn faster.
Taken alot of her pictures recently.

little monster

my gal is now 2 months old. She looks very sweet and gentle, but is a little monster in reality. She scream and yell when during feeding time, pooing time, before sleeping. when you are a bit slow, she will scream the whole house down. She just cannot wait, too hot tempered and quick tempered. I guess inherited from both my hubby and me.

When she is in a good mood, she will smile, like an angel. But she turn monster in a very short time. When you look at her pictures, dun be deceive by her appearance:)

fathers are great too!

We have always read stories about great mothers. Even mother's day are more well remembered and celebrated than father's day.

Other than zhu1 zi4 qing1 famous work "bei4 ying3", there are not alot of good essays on fathers.

The below 2 stories about fathers are very touching........if you have time, do read:)


奇迹的名字 叶倾城

（一）

1948年，一艘横渡大西洋的船上，有一位父亲带着他的小女儿，去和在美国的妻子会合。

海上风平浪静，晨昏瑰丽的云霓交替出现。一天早上，男人正在舱里削苹果，船却突然剧烈地摇晃，刀子滑落在他的衣服上。男人跌坐在地上，全身都在颤抖，嘴唇瞬间乌白。

6岁的女儿被父亲瞬间的变化吓坏了，尖叫着扑过来想要扶他，他却微笑着推开女儿的手：“没事，只是摔了一跤。”然后轻轻地拾起刀子，很慢很慢地爬起来，不引人注意地，用大拇指揩去了刀锋上的血迹。

以后3天，男人照常每晚为女儿唱摇篮曲，清晨替她系好美丽的蝴蝶结，带她去看蔚蓝的大海。仿佛一切如常，而小女儿尚不能注意到父亲每一分钟都比上一分钟更衰弱苍白，他投向海平线的眼光又是那样的忧伤。

抵达目的地的前夜，男人来到女儿身边，对女儿说：“明天见到妈妈的时候，请告诉妈妈，我爱她。”

女儿不解地问：“可是你明天就要见到她了，你为什么不自己告诉她呢？”

他笑了，俯身，在女儿额上深深刻下一个吻。

船到纽约港了，女儿一眼便在熙熙攘攘的人群里认出母亲，她大喊一声：“妈妈……”周围忽然一片惊呼，她一回头，她的父亲已经仰面倒下，胸口血如井喷，刹那间染红了整片天空……

尸解的结果让所有人惊呆了：那把刀无比精确地洞穿了他的心脏，他却多活了3天，而且不被任何人知觉。唯一可能的解释是因为创口太小，使得被切断的心肌依原样贴在一起，维持了3天的供血。

这是医学史上不可多得的奇迹。医学会议上，有人说要称它为大西洋奇迹，有人建议以死者的名字命名，还有人说要叫它神迹……

“够了。”那是一位坐在首席的老医生，须发俱白，皱纹里满是人生的智慧，此刻一声大喝，然后一字一顿地说，这个奇迹的名字，叫做父亲。


（二）

几年前，武汉发生了一起火车和汽车相撞的事故。

一辆早班的公共汽车搁浅在一个无人看守的道口，驾驶员下车找水去了。是农历正月，天寒地冻，十几名乘客都舒舒服服地呆在还算暖和的车厢里，谁也没有想到大祸的降临。

没人留意到火车是几时来的，从远远的岔道。只能说，是呵气成霜的车窗玻璃模糊了众人的视线，而马达的轰鸣和紧闭的门窗又隔绝了汽笛的鸣响。当发觉的时候，顷刻间，一切已经停止了。

一切停止了，却突然间爆发出孩子的哭声。

那是一个大概两三岁的小孩子，就躺在路旁边一点点远的地方，穿着整洁的红棉袄，小孩一手揉着惺忪的眼睛，还不知发生了什么事。只一味哭叫：“爸爸，爸爸……”

有旁观者说，在最后的刹那，有一双手伸出窗外，把孩子抛了出来……

他的父亲，后来找到了。他的座位正对着火车那一面，几乎是第一个被撞上的人，他的身体上所有的骨头都被撞断了，他的头颅被挤扁了，他满是血污与脑浆的衣服看不出颜色与质地……是怎么认出他的呢？

因为他的双手，仍对着窗外，做着抛丢的姿势。

好几年前的事了，早没人记得他的名字，只是，在经过这个道口的时候，还会有人指指点点：“曾经，有一个父亲……”

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<<爱的另一种方式>> 王涛


一个可爱的孩子走了，他是溺水走的。他出门的时候，对母亲说要到同学家复习功课。谁知他出门后，就永远没有回来。

那天，他和同学做完了功课，没有回家吃饭，而是在河边玩耍，却不知为何掉入了河中。等到有人发现，他们已在静静的河里躺了很久了。一切都晚了，孩子打捞上来，发现他紧紧地抓着同学的手，他的父亲用了很大的劲也无法将他们分开。

记者来了，注意到了这个细节，判定孩子是为救同学才死的，因为他拉着同学的手。这是一件十分感人的事。报纸第二天就刊出这则新闻。在很短的时间内，全县的人都知道了这个可敬的小男孩的名字。不久，学校授予他“优秀少先队员”的称号。许多人自发地到男孩的家中慰问，送去了他们的心意。还有那位同学的父母，更是在男孩的父母面前痛苦，他们说自己的孩子对不起这男孩，更对不起他的父母。同样是父母，他们除了承受丧子之痛，还要承受良心上的不安。

这对男孩的父母是一种安慰。但是，他们却时刻在怀疑，他们认为孩子不会去救人，因为孩子从小就很怕水，也不会游泳。他不会冒险跳入河中救同学。他们想知道孩子是如何死的。

带着疑问，他们找到了一位目击妇女，妇女回忆说，那天她在摘桑叶，看到两个孩子在采桑椹，河边有一株野桑上结满了果实，我看到一个孩子把身子伸向河中，另一个孩子用手拉着他。过了一会儿，她发现两个孩子不见了，她以为他们离去了。

男孩的父母在河边找到了那株桑树，果然桑树上结满了果实，在树干上，有一个十分明显的断枝痕迹。

男孩的父母什么都明白了：他们的孩子并没有在水中救同学，而是一起掉下去的。

他们先到男孩同学家里，向他的父母说明真相。然后又到报社说他们的报道错了。这种做法受到了各种阻力，包括他们的亲属。

但是，他们固执地一次又一次往报社和学校跑，请求公布孩子溺水的真相。他们说，他们不想让孩子在九泉之下有愧。

他们的努力终于实现了，他们用自己的方式，用一颗晶莹剔透的心灵告诉我们怎样去爱孩子，即使他们永远不再回来。




<<美丽的歧视>> 胡子宏


高考落榜，对于一个正值青春花季的年轻人，无疑是一个打击。八年前，我的同学大伟就处于这种境地。而我则考上京城的一所大学。

当我进入大学三年级时，有一天大伟忽然在校园里找到了我，原来，他也是北京某名牌大学的一员了。

“祝贺你……”我说。

“是该祝贺。你知道吗？两年前我一直认为自己完了，没什么出息了，可父母对我抱有很大希望，我被迫去复读。你知道‘被迫’是一种什么滋味吗？在复读班，我的成绩是倒数第五……”

“可你现在……”我迷惑了。

“你接着听我说。有一次那个教英语的张老师让我在课堂上背单词。那会儿我正读一本武侠小说。张老师很生气，说：‘大伟，你真是没出息，你不仅糟蹋父母的钱还耗费自己的青春。如果你能考上大学，全世界就没有文盲了。’我当时仿佛要炸开了，我马上跳离座位，跨到讲台上指着老师说：‘你不要瞧不起人，我此生必定要考上大学。’说着我把那本武侠小说撕得粉碎。你知道，第一次高考我分数差了100多分，可第二年我差17分，今年高考，我竟超了80多分……我真想找到张老师，告诉他：我不是孬种……”

三年后，我回到我高中的母校，班主任告诉我：教英语的张老师得了骨癌。我去看他，他兴致很高，其间，我忍不住提起了大伟的事……

张老师突然老泪横流。过了一会儿，他让老伴取来了一幅照片，照片上，一位书生正在巴黎的埃菲尔铁塔下微笑。

张老师说：“18年前，他是我教的那个班里最聪明也是最不用功的学生。有一次，我在课堂上讲，像你这样的学生，如果能考上大学，我头朝地向下转三圈。”

“后来呢？”我问。

“后来同大伟一样。”张老师言语哽咽着说，“对有的学生，一般的鼓励是没有用的，关键是要用锋利的刀子去做他们的心灵手术……你相信吗？很多时候，别人的歧视能使我们激发出心底最坚强的力量。”

两个月后，张老师离开了人世。又过了4年，我出差至京，意外地在大街上遇到大伟，读博士的他正携着女友悠闲地购物。我给大伟讲了张老师的那席话。

在熙熙攘攘的人群中，大伟突然泪流满面。

在那以后的时光里，我一直回味着大伟所遭遇的满含爱意却又非常残酷的“歧视”。我感到，那“歧视”蕴含着一种催人奋进的力量。对大伟和那位埃菲尔铁塔下留影的学生而言，在他们的人生征途中，张老师的“歧视”肯定是最宝贵最美丽的。




<<母亲的目光>> 小乔


做了母亲之后，十分喜欢看着儿子睡觉。他泥鳅一样光滑的背，黝黑健康
的胳膊，饱满茁壮的腿，眉宇间不可言说的可爱深情……看着看着，我常常觉得，单是为了这么一看，女人就不能错过做母亲的机会。

忽然又想，自己这么小的时候，一定也是这么在母亲的目光里熟睡的吧？
然而快乐的童年又是懵懂的，在这种目光里我一次也没有被看醒，所以也不曾记得。对这种目光开始有感受是在渐渐长大之后，那一年我大约十三四岁，正是女孩子刚刚有心事的时候。

一天，我正在房间午睡，还没睡稳，听到母亲走进来，摸摸索索的，似乎
在找什么东西，过了一会儿，忽然静了。可她分明没有出去。我们两个的呼吸声交替着，如树叶的微叹，我莫名地紧张起来，十分不自在。等了一会儿，还没有听到她的声响，便睁开眼。我看见，母亲站在离床一步远的地方，正默默地看着我。

“妈，怎么了？”我很纳闷。

“不怎么。”她说。似乎有些慌乱地怔了怔，走开了。

后来，这种情形又重复了一次。我就有些不耐烦地说：“妈，你老是这么
看我干吗？”母亲仿佛犯了错似的，一句话也没有说。

以后，她再也没有这么看过我，或者说，是她再也没有让我发现她这么看
着我了。而到我终于有些懂得她这种目光的时候，她已经病逝了。再也不会有人这么看着我了。我知道，这是天空对白云的目光，这是礁石对海浪的目光，这是河床对小鱼的目光。这种目光，只属于母亲。

孩子在我的目光里，笑出声来。我的目光给他带来美梦了吗？我忽然想，
如果能够再次拥有母亲的这种目光，我该怎么做？是用笑的甜美来抚慰她的疲惫和劳累？是用泪的晶莹来诠释自己的呼应和感怀？还是始终维持着单纯的睡颜，去成全她欣赏孩子和享受孩子的心情？

有些错误，生活从来都不再赐予改过的机会。我知道，这种假设对我而
言，只是想像的盛宴而已。但是我想，是不是还有一些人也许需要这种假设的提醒呢？如果你有幸还拥有母亲，如果你浅眠时的双睑偶然被母亲温暖的目光所包裹，那么，千万不要像我当年一样无知和愚蠢。请你安然假寐，一定不要打扰母亲。
你会知道，这种小小的成全，对你和母亲而言，都是一种深深的幸福。

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<<人生一课>> 蔡良


一次，我为培训中心代课，只来了四个学生，我认认真真地上了两个半小时。回家时天黑路滑，跌了一身泥。事后，有个朋友好心地劝我：干吗要这样认真，出两个思考题糊弄一下不就行了？我说：“我不能辜负那四位顶着风雨来上课的学生。”他似乎很不理解。其实，我还有段心事没直说出来。

在我上大学二年级的时候，一个周末下午，有堂选修辅导课。教师是从另一所大学请来的。当时开学不久，再加上是周末，学校组织了好几个活动，班里的同学都忙得不亦乐乎，谁也没心思去上什么课了。我正准备参加一场年级足球赛，成天忙着在球场上训练，当然也不准备去听课，尤其是这种辅导课。

跑到球场，才发现没带足球鞋，只好又转身回教室。当我一头冲进教室，脚步却不由自主地停住了：教室里空空荡荡，只有一位埋头擦汗的白发老人坐在前排。我不觉一愣，才想起今天下午有课。不知为什么，心里有些紧张，便把脚步放轻放慢向座位走去。

“来上课的？”一个沉着的声音在教室前排响起。我感到有一种深邃的目光在望着自己。我没敢吭声，坐在座位上套好足球鞋。就在我刚想站起来的时候，他突然转过身来，一字一句地对我说：“一个人我这课也要上，不能辜负你。”

这句话就如同一枚钉子，把我钉在凳子上。他走上讲台，背影有些苍老，但脚步却很坚定。我看见他打开厚厚的一叠教案，然后转身，一丝不苟地写下一行板书。他的声音依然沉着，而且洪亮，空空荡荡的教室里响起一种震撼人心的回声。我悄悄地把那双足球鞋脱了，又悄悄地拿出课本，仔细地放好，用一种近乎虔诚的心情去捕捉老师的每一句话，每一个动作……

后来有很多球场上的同学都回来了，和我一样，端坐在课桌前，听这位白发的老人给我们上课。事后我才知道，他们在操场上等我，老不见人，便来找我，却在窗外看到教室里的情景。他们你看看我，我看看你，都从后门悄悄溜进了课室。这堂课时间过得真快，我真希望时间能过得慢点，好让更多的同学来听他的课，好像只有这样才不辜负他的一片心。下课了，他拍拍身上的粉笔灰，向我点了点头，夹起讲义走出教室，望着他的白发和微驼的背，我的眼睛有点湿。以后，我没有遇到这位教师，可他说的那句话却深深地铭记在我的心里。真的，不论遇到什么困难和挫折，我们都不应该辜负别人的信任和尊重，也许只有这样，真诚地对待生活，回首往事时，我们才不会有什么愧疚和遗憾。




<<20岁，我哭了>> 周晴


小时候，日子是坎坷的，家里很少有一种快乐的气氛。但每次我过生日那天，家里总是愉快的，妈妈会烧那么多好吃的菜，并且也会买几件礼物，我便俨然是个骄傲的小公主。那时常想，看看我的生日，真有一种能使大家愉快的神奇魔力！

每年，我都盼望生日。每年，都在欢乐中度过生日。终于，我20岁了。

“20岁是个大生日。”同学们对我说，爸爸妈妈也这么说。我参加过好几个同学的20岁生日宴会。或许是家里的房子都不大，也或许有长辈在旁边，宴会总让人有几分别扭。爸爸妈妈如不参加，同龄人有的是自己的快乐。

一个狂欢的夜晚，常常让我们一下子感觉到自己长大了。我的生日也要这样过，我想。可是，我有些为难了。

母亲早几天就在张罗着问我爱吃什么？父亲还问我喜欢什么礼物。我怎么开口呢？

时间不等人，同学是早就约好了。如果爸爸妈妈请来外婆一家，就麻烦了。我嗫嗫嚅嚅地开了口：“我想请同学来热闹一天，你们那天先不参加，过几天家里再过，好吗？”

我看到他们都不吭声了，脸色也不大好看。我差不多要哭了，亲爱的爸爸妈妈，你们能理解女儿吗？她也是大人了，也有自己微不足道的社交和由此产生的欢乐，而这一切，我怎么说得清楚呢？

僵了好一会儿，爸爸叹口气说：“好吧！我们出去躲一个晚上。”

生日那一天，妈妈还是为我买了许多荤素小菜，但大家都有些沉默，我有些不知所措，不久，爸爸妈妈带着弟弟出去了。

我一个人，忙得不亦乐乎。菜摆满了一桌子，够丰盛的。我欣赏着自己的杰作，得意中常常掠过几丝不安，剪不断，理还乱，拂去又来。直到同学们来了以后，这几丝不安才冰消雪融。

欢笑一下子充满了整个房间，相册、娃娃、围巾……堆了一桌子，我们吵啊、闹啊，笑声夹着歌声一次又一次地爆发。当20只蜡烛点燃的时候，我发现自己在这一个晚上，拥有了太多的快乐。

10点，爸爸妈妈回来了，我笑着请他们吃蛋糕，他们也似是高兴地与同学打招呼，吃了蛋糕，回自己房间去了。我送走同学回来时，他们已关灯睡觉了。以后几天，爸妈变得沉默寡言了，我也很难解释。

不久的一个下午，朱叔叔突然夫妻来访。一进门，就对爸爸说：“今天要躲儿子生日，来你家混顿晚饭，你招待不招待？”他爱人俞阿姨也忍不住说：“十月怀胎，一把尿一把屎的，好容易盼到他20岁，想同他欢欢喜喜过个生日也不成。他要请同学，不要老头子、老太婆了，想想真伤心啊！”说着眼泪真的下来了。
大家都愣住了，妈妈跟着长叹一声，爸爸朝我眯眼睛。我鼻子一酸，哭了。

Princess Hours

This week, i have been watching the vcd of the new show on channel U----Princess Hours 宫－野蛮王妃

Have not watch finish yet. Today just finish watching disc 5, still have 3 more disc to go.
Think will be able to finish watching by next tuesday, if my gal is cooperative. ( if she can spend more time sleeping)

This show reminds me of the taiwan "meteor garden". One ordinary gal. One guy trying to be cool. And another guy who always appear when the gal is sad. Seems like quite similar except different background, different country.

touching stories

have been doing some reading during my confinement. alot of touching stories.
share one here with everyone. in chinese.


《乡村教师》 岳勇


临近大学毕业的那段日子，同学们都为毕业后能留在城里能有份好工作忙开了，唯有娟子按兵不动，如无事人一般。

我们同宿舍的几个姐妹都劝她出去活动活动，争取能在城里留下来。哪知娟子却笑笑说：“我要回乡下去。”

我们都吃了一惊。娟子的老家我们结伴去游玩过一次，在大巴山最深处，汽车在20里以外就进不去了，村里人住的全是茅草屋。我们当时都笑着调侃说那儿是全中国最贫瘠的地方。而现在，娟子却轻描淡写地放弃了这次改变命运跳出农门的良机，要重新回到那穷山沟，我们都替她惋惜。

这时，娟子一本正经地给我们讲了一个故事。

10年前，大巴山深处有一所学校。整个学校只有一间茅草搭成的教室，只有一个班级，也只有一个老师。班上有13名学生，那位乡村老师将他们从一年级教起，一直教到六年级。

然而，就在小学快毕业的时候，不幸的事发生了。

有个放牛娃在山上玩火，不小心把茅屋教室给引燃了。等大家发现时，大火已经快封住了教室的门。

教室里的13名乡下娃子都乱了套，但那位乡村教师却比以往任何时候都镇静。他一面叫孩子们不要慌张，一面将被大火围困的孩子们一个个往外背。大火已将窄窄的木门完全封住，老师的衣服、头发和胡子全都烧焦了。但他并没有放弃。到最后，教室里只剩下两名女同学。

老师再一次冲进火海，那两名女同学正坐在教室里哇哇大哭。老师看了她俩一眼，最后咬咬牙，背起其中一个就往外冲。

烧得通红的门框呼的一声砸下，将老师砸了一个踉跄，但他最后还是背着那个女孩从大火中爬了出来。

他把那个女孩背到安全地带，然后又急急地冲进了早已变成火海的教室。就在这时，轰的一声，教室烧塌了。老师和最后那名学生再也没有出来……

讲完这个故事，娟子眼圈都红了。

我们都猜了出来：“最后救出的那名女同学就是你，是吗？”

“是的。”娟子含泪点点头，“但你们知道最后那位被老师留在教室里再也没有背出来的同学是谁吗？”我们都摇摇头。

娟子说：“是老师的女儿呀！”

说完这句话，娟子再也忍不住哭了起来。

我们的眼圈也都红了。

最后，我们宿舍有三个姐妹跟着娟子去她老家做了乡村教师。我是其中一位。

shopping

recently i have been doing alot of shopping. But all for baby items.
Today i just went jurong point to buy some things.
Saw shirley in kiddy palace again. And she help me to get the items i wanted. Thanks for her advice also on the baby items, she seems like an expert?! And i got discount for all the items, thanks to her...

Now i have become an "auntie", sourcing for cheaper diapers, cheaper baby items.
went ntuc to buy mamy poko diapers. My baby gal usage of diapers is alot. change about 10 diapers per day. one pkt of 52 diapers can at most last 1 week only. have tried alot of brands and some are really horrible. drypers left red red marks on my gal thighs, not good to use. Fitti basic leak like mad. cheap diapers not very good to use. So far the best is still pampers premium. But they are very expensive and 1 week can use 2 packets. So i have to source for cheap diapers to use in the day and pampers or mamy poko for the night.

Saw qianhao and weihong eating at long john silver. Had a short chat with them. They have done very well for the chinese o level paper. well done.

o level is just around the corner. Work hard!

tiring times

The past weekend was very tiring. Fetch baby back to yishun house on friday night. She managed to sleep quite well. Wake up at 3am for feed and 6am for another.

Saturday night was a disaster. My hubby was not feeling too well. I have to take care of the baby myself. baby was not cooperative. finished her feed at 11pm plus, refused to sleep. I got no time to bathe and brush teeth. feed her again at 12 midnight as she seems hungry again. After that still refused to sleep. Entertain her until 2am, lucky i bought a rocker for her, put her on the rocker and she manage to sleep at 2am. Then i have time to brush and bathe. After that still have to wash and sterilize the bottles. By the time everything is done, its 3am plus. The rocker was in the living room, so end up i have to bring out a mattress and sleep in the living room. Dun want to wake up baby and hubby also.

At 5am, baby wake up for feed. after that put her on mattress to sleep. dun know why she doesn't like the cot in bedroom, put her down, she will cry. then i got time to express milk for her and wash, sterilize things again.i manage to sleep another 1 hr, then she start to scream for another feeding at 8am.

was very very tired. sleep less than 3 hours. Worse is the small baby is cranky and the "big baby" is sick. yesterday night bring baby back to jurong house. She is still the same pattern, after 11pm plus feed, refuse to sleep and wail like mad. end up no choice , i use the pacifer for the 1st time, and it works immediately. She stop crying and we put her on cot to sleep, she just suck the pacifer until she sleep. Its really a breeze. at 3am, she wake up, i push the pacifer back into her mouth and she sleep until 5am.

I manged to sleep well last night. Thanks to the pacifer. Its really a wonderful invention.
The baby is now sleeping in the rocker. She cry for feed but drink a few mouthful, fell alseep. Now waiting for her to wake up.

more baby photos

baby photo

my gal is about 1 month old already.
Her look changes every week. have not download her recent photo, so upload one that is taken about 2 weeks ago.:)

how's everyone?
I have only met persis recently at Jurong point. After that when I go kiddy palace to buy something, I saw shirley ( ex 4E2 student). She was working there at the cashier counter.

I'm still staying with my mum in jurong. but from next week onwards, every weeked i will bring baby back to my Yishun house. And also to my in-laws' house, so that they can see their grandchild.

my hubby is now in shandong for work, coming back this saturday.

updates

Today my baby gal is 19 days old.
Her weight increase a bit, now 3.1kg
btw my baby name is Yip Yee Leng. No christian name given. Next time if she want, she can name herself:)

Feeling quite tired these 2 weeks. Lack of sleep. Not easy to take care of baby. Most of the time i have to sleep in the day when baby sleep. Wake up when she wake up. At night she will normally have her feed at ard 11 plus, then if i'm lucky, she can sleep. If not have to entertain her until 2am plus. She will normally have her feed again, then go to sleep. And will wake up at ard 5am plus for another feed. So have to wake up 2-3 times in the night just to feed her.

She got a blocked nose and difficulty in drinking milk( tend to puke very often) and sleeping. Breathe like pig. Took her to see doctor on sunday. nothing serious. She got a sensitive nose.

Now she is more sensitive to sounds. A bit louder sound will scare her. Like coughing, sneezing etc. Sometimes she is scare by her own sneezing.

my hubby is not going to china to work, so i need not relocate myself next yr. But his job is still a new one, so i try not to deprive him of rest. weekday he stay in yishun, weekend then come over jurong to see me and baby.

now its sep holidays, all of you enjoying ur holidays?

baby born on 17 august

I have given birth to my 2.725kg baby gal on 17th august at around 7.15pm
admitted into hospital that day at around 4.30pm. A short labour but very painful. Until now still very pain, have to lie on bed. Have been eating pain killer for the past 6 days.

Today is exactly one week since i given birth. But still in pain. cannot sit, so i did not post anything on blog. now i stand to type. after this have to go back to lie on bed. I think the wound will take another 1 week to recover.

will post the photo of baby gal after i get a bit better. As for her name, after consulting a feng shui master, all the previous names i thought of are not suitable becoz of the number of strokes. So most probably we will stick to what the master given us. That is yi2 ling2 ( one of the tcs actoress had the same name, except her surname is lai4, but my baby surname is ye4)

ok, thats all for today. will update again soon.:)

still around

sighz...........
my baby gal still very happy inside my stomach....until now still dun wan to come out.....

i have already activated my maternity leave. Went to walk around singapore for the past 3 days. Very boring. Monday went for lunch with sandra and daxiong ( Mr lim) at lau pa sat. After that I went shop shop at Novena (united square), bought a baby sling. Tuesday went plaza sing to watch a movie, then shop shop. yesterday went toa payoh walk walk. eat at crystal jade for lunch, then went to buy a chocolate cake from awfully chocolate at upper thomson.

today i am going to see my gynae, hope that he will give me some good news.
Really tired of waiting.......these few days waiting for contractions, water bag burst etc, but no signs. Only got a bit of irregular stomach cramps...not very painful type......all false alarm.

I bought alot of chinese books yesterday. So that I can read during my confinement period. If not i will be bored to death.

my hubby's new job got some changes.Maybe he will not go china end of this month. The company offer him another position in singapore office. Have to see the prospects 1st. But any decision doesn't affect me really much coz I will remind in teaching if he stay in singapore. My current school is quite good and i quite happy there.

To all my sec 4E and 5N angels:

I know alot of u are not satisfied with ur mid yr o levels results. Many of you r going to re take. Dun be too disappointed. I know many of you are capable of getting a A2, but got b3 instead. The problem may lies in the oral as the allocation of oral marks is really really high. But there is no re taking for oral examinations if i am not wrong.

for those retaking, work on paper 1, just make sure ur essay is not out of point. And from my marking experience, official letter score better than personal letter. As for paper 2, work on the way u all answer questions. your answer need to be longer( not short and sweet kind) , but dun write unnessary info.

Most importantly, pay more attention to other subjects ok. chinese is only one of them, dun take it that its the end of the world if dun get distinction. End of the day, u still depend alot on yr other subjects. :)

waiting and more waiting

how's has all my angels done in O levels mother tongue papers?
Sec 5N and 4E angels, how r your results?

I hope u all get what u want:)

I'm still waiting for my baby to come. She is still very comfortable inside, din want to come out yet.

The doc say as long dun exceed my estimated due date is ok. So I still have about 1 week to wait. But in the meantime, I have activated my maternity leave officially on next monday. Have a few days to go shop the whole singapore.

my next appointment with doc is Thursday. After that if baby still refuse to come out, will induce her. Really hope the next 1 or 2 days she will decide to come out herself. heard that induce birth will be more painful.

Ms Sng ( sandra)and Mr Lim ( teck siong ) are both back in Singapore already. I am thinking of meeting them b4 i go deliver, dun know if can make it on time....

not in time for national day

today my school had national day celebrations. activities end at ard 10am. tomolo and thursday will be holidays........but thinking of friday going back to school again very sianz........

I will be visiting my gynae again this friday. Most probably will induce birth next week. dun wan to wait until exactly 40th week.

tomolo is national day already. my baby is going to miss national day. not in time to come out.

waiting...........

yest i went for my gynae visit. Now baby is about 2.4kg.
Still no sign of her wanting to come out.
The doc say wait another week.

Might not be able to give birth naturally. coz of my height....too short.
But will try...if cannot then go for c section.

Next week is national day already...think i will overshot the date....most probably will miss the chance of having a national day baby......

still waiting

My baby still not sign of coming out yet.
Yesterday my hubby's sis just given birth to a baby gal. Her estimated due date is later than mine, but she delivered so much earlier. And her baby is about 2.75kg. A good weight. But her labour is long, normally 2nd labour will be faster. But she took more than 12 hours.

I'm still waiting. really hope by next week can deliver.
maybe i should go eat some really good meals this weekend and maybe watch my last movie b4 delivered.

Tomolo i'm going for my gynae visit. Looking forward to it.

baby is not moving as much as she used to. Dun know is it becoz she is heavier. Will ask the doc tomolo.:)

updates

Today I went for my gynae visit. baby still about 2.3kg. Din gain any weight this week.

Baby head is still not engaged yet. So most probably have to wait a bit more. But doc mentioned that will definately give birth before my estimated date.

My relief teacher will be coming on next monday, so that i can talk to him and pass some of the import stuffs to him, in case i go deliver. I think the school manage to get a very experience teacher. Heard that he is 62 years old and was a retired ex HOD from some school.

I am looking forward to national day week. alot of holidays that week. :)

Next week will be August already. chinese 'O' level results will be coming out in a few weeks time. I hope all the sec 4 angels will be able to get very good results. Remember to update all your results when it is released.

still around

I'm still around. still waiting to see when baby want to come out. Actually is week 37 this week, so its ok if she wants to come out early.

Tomolo i will be going to see my gynae. Hopefully he can give me some good news. Really hope baby can arrive faster. Tired of waiting and also getting heavier. Just climb a bit of stairs, my legs will be very suan.

Have been drinking coconut juice for the past 2 weeks. There's a saying that its very cooling and that labour will be more smooth. dun know true or not.

I think raspberry tea also quite good. Maybe i should go and buy some to drink.

2 days mc

I on mc for today and yesterday. Had a very bad stomach cramp on wednesday morning. End up half way through my lessons, have to go toilet to puke. And all my breakfast came out. And halfway to toilet have to puke in dustbin also...cannot make it on time.

After that go back class to teach again. That was only the 1st period of lesson. Got 3 period in a round that day. And on and off my stomach cramp. wanted to go see doc, but when stomach not cramping, then its like nothing. So i did not go see doc half way. wait until lesson end at 2pm, then find that stomach not cramping already.

But still go see doc in the evening. I got duty in the afternoon to go swimming pool take attendance for the school swimming programme. Then there's also no afternoon clinic on wednesday. So at ard 5pm, went to see my gynae. waited for more than 1 hr, as i had no appointment. Then after that he say may be due to food poisoning, and check that cervix is a bit open. so give me some medicine and rest for 2 days. Now the baby coming to 36 weeks. juz in case she want to come out too fast, so i eat the medicine for these few days. I think next week i can stop eating liao, coz next saturday baby will be around 37wks. Even if come out will be considered as a full term baby, not a prematured baby.

Actually dun mind the baby coming out one week b4 national day.

updates

yesterday night i went for my gynae appointment. Now at week 34+ , the baby is about 2.1 -2.2kg. A very big increase since the last appointment 3 weeks ago.

The gynae say i cannot have too big baby. The best baby weight will be 2.5-2.6kg at birth. if bigger, will most probably have to c section. So probably another 2 more weeks, the baby will hit that weight already.

Thinking of letting the baby come out earlier, maybe at week 37?
Then my hubby can have more time spent with baby b4 he go over to china to work.
And also the baby will of a weight that maybe still can come out naturally. if too big will need to c section.

I have gain abt another 3 kg. Now a total gain of about 14kg.

My hospital bag almost packed ready, left some toiletries, baby stuffs also bought almost all ready.

Got admission letter yesterday. So anytime when i have to go deliver, just need to grab the hospital bag and go. Think the fastest, will be another 2-3 weeks time.
The gynae did not mentioned that the baby will come out early.

To all the sec5N students who have not taken your oral exams:

GOOD LUCK!

hope the qn will be easy for u all!

thanks for yest lunch

Yesterday, met up with Sandra( Ms Sng), cindy, sylvia and Fatimah. Had lunch at plaza Sing pizza hut. Thanks for the lunch hor......u all not earning money yet, should not have paid for the meal. And sorry for making u all wake up early for the lunch, though it is not really early liao. 12noon, the sun already very high up in the sky.:P
after lunch, we walk around Plaza Sing and after that walk towards Taka, along the way went Heeren.

I miss those time in red cross when Sandra was still around. That was the best time i had in jwss. After 2 of my best friends in school left. ( The other one was Mr Lim Teck Siong), life became different and facilitate my decision to transfer school also.

miss the time when cindy, sylvia,fatimah, serene etc were ex co in red cross. They were the very united batch of gals. Muz treasure the friendship.....most probably your secondary school friends will be those who will accompany u for the rest of your life.

sylvia, dun be too "jie2 pi4", coz next time ur bf will have a hard time. probably will get slap by u everyday for making the house dirty and untidy:) So have u found out how frequent ur mum wash ur bedsheet? Hope everyone of u will do well in ur poly course. And in future, go for upgrading again......but interest still the most important. Do what u are interested in.

yesterday, i went john little to get my similar pair of sandals, juz that i bought a white colour one instead of pink. This time i will keep the sandals inside the house, juz in case get stolen again. I want to wear it to hospital when i deliever.

have been trying to eat more since my last visit to the gynae. Still want baby to come out at week 38. have about 6-7 weeks more to go. juz now for dinner, i da bao porriage from food court, then da bao water cress soup and one bowl of dou hua. and also bought half a honey dew back.

ever since i get pregnant, my face become rounder and rounder, and now already having double chin. hopefully for the next few weeks, the weight will goes to my baby instead of keep adding on to my face.

after school reopen, will be the o level mother tongue oral examination. I will be on duty also, for 9 days, going to a school in north side. This will be the last major work i have for this year. After that i will go deliver soon.

missing sandals

somebody took my sandals away outside my door. Today when i want to go out, I found my sandals missing. Out of so many pairs of shoes, only the sandals is gone. And it is not an expensive one, juz that still quite new...less than 2 weeks old. bought from John Little. Now i have to go and get another pair of similar sandals.....maybe i will buy a black colour one, perhaps pink colour is too tempting for pple to steal.

Went for gynae check up today also. baby is now ard 1.4-1.5kg, at week 31. She is on the small side. But I am already eating like nobody business, but dun know why she never grow enough. Think my dream of getting a national day baby is not possible. She is too small to come out early. Next appointment will be 3 weeks later, hopefully she will eat and grow well.:)

tomolo i am going to bring a group of students to singapore press holding for a visit and some sort of a reporter type of event. will be a whole day event, after that maybe i will drop by John little to get my sandals, extra work for me....sighz....

updatez

My days in the holidays are juz too plain and nothing special. Thus not able to update frequently, as there is nothing really interesting.

Now is almost the same everyday. Morning wake up, if no need to go school, i will sleep again. And time for lunch. Eat and surf a bit of net, and sleep again. Time for dinner, eat and laze around and sleep again. haha......damn boring rite? To summarize, is eat and sleep, sleep and eat.

2 more mths to go before my little baby gal is here. I hope that she can arrive 2 weeks earlier, which is at week 38. maybe can come on national day.

Today geneviere, qiuping and chuan jun came to my house. Had a long chat with them and took some photos. remember to send the photos to me hor....the singnet account. They still look the same...not much changes........after i give birth, i will be back at my mum house which is in jurong. So no need to travel so far to visit me already. I will probably still at my mum house form mid august all the way to next year Feb.

New plan for next yr will be, maybe i will take one year no pay leave starting Jan. Maybe will take another year after that.
After chinese new year, will go china for some time, as my hubby will be going there to work.
Will be in shandong. Then I will be full time mother for maybe one year or so, baby will be going over there with me. will come back singapore 2-3 times in a year.

next monday i will be going to see my gynae again. Can get to see my baby scan picture on screen. dunno how much weight bb has gained. I already gained 12kg.

o level marking

Today is the starting of my 2 weeks o levels mother tongue paper marking.

Saw mdm lim today. She is there too. Cannot recognize her as she got a new hair style...now hair straightened liao.

Saw Ms chua bee kuan also. U all remember her?

Then at lunch time we went for lunch together. For the next 2 weeks, we will be having lunch everyday together.

This morning i realise to travel from Yishun to Tiong Bahru is so inconvenient. Only 2 ways. One is to take Mrt from yishun to Jurong east, then from jurong east to tiong bahru. Another is to take Mrt from yishun to douby guat, then from there take to outram, then change train to tiong bahru. Both way will end up about 1 hr 15mins. I tried taking bus 851 from tiong bahru back to yishun, take also about 1 hr 15 mins.

Think next week onwards, have to get up earlier, if not will be late for marking.

I have seen the question paper today. Paper 1 is real easy. majority of those i mark do the official letter question, which is easier. This time I mark only paper 1 ying yong wen. Last year I mark composition.

paper 2 is not as diificult as so of you think. Just that the li jie wen da more of news type than story type. Dun be too demoralize, there is still oral and listening yet to come. these 2 items will decide if you can get A1. Try to do as good as possible esp in oral.:)

updates

went to see my gynae just on wednesday. Now baby is about 1kg at week 28.
Next appointment will be 4 weeks later.
I have put on 11kg so far.....the number is getting bigger and bigger....3 more months to go, by then i dun know how fat i will look already.

went to watch x-men on thursday. yesterday had sec 4 meet the parents session in school. I think Jwss also had meet the parents session yesterday.

sec 4 'O' levels june papers is coming...2 more days. How are all my sec 4 angels? I hope everyone will do very well. remember paper one, do selection of qns carefully. make sure u know the requirement of the topic b4 you do it. certain topic seems to be a narrative topic, but can turn out to be writing about feelings. Can end up failing the compo. Newspapers Qn will be a safe choice.....read up more on model essays.

I wish u all best of luck in exams.......remember to bring dictionary and your I/C hor....

mid yr results back?

Have u all got back your mid year results? remember to update okie:)

Election day juz over. Quite happy that the WP retained Hougang and Mr chiam retained his potong pasir too. A close fight in Aljunied. maybe 5 years later, they may have a chance to capture that piece of land.

So far i have put on 8kg. Stomach getting bigger, now walk like penguin. climb a bit of stairs will get breathless easily.

now i am marking my mid yr papers. papers came in last friday. have about 2 weeks to finish marking. much better than when in JWSS. at least got more time to mark. Students have more time to prepare for exams also. the whole exam stretches over a period of 2 weeks.

getting lazy

now i'm getting more and more lazy.
most of the time i sleep. sleep in the morning, afternoon and nite..haha...once i have time, nothing to do, i will sleep. surprisingly, no matter how much i slept in the day, i have no difficulty sleeping in the nite.

my baby gal move more often now...she can do bigger movements. most of the time she move during the nite when i tried to sleep.

Geraldine, saw ur messages. Thanks for the advices. Hope that you will be able to complete the nursing course with good results and pursue your interest further.

I will be giving birth in TMC in August. Hope that can give birth naturally without having to inject the pain killer. Not too sure, but if baby too big, then have to go c-section.

Have now gained a total of 8 kg. will have a hard time to slim down after birth.


heard that JWSS got new relief teachers. There's one quite good looking one is it? heard that he was told to leave the school due to whatever reasons.

next week is election. I will have to vote for my area. Yishun East. Second time voting. last time was for Jurong GRC. Not very concern with politics all along. But for past 2 days, have went to listen to the rally. The Workers' Party one was super crowded. the entire roads all parked with cars. But the PAP one not too many people. Of course the result of election may turn out opposite.

Sometimes i wondered, civil servants working under government, has got a voting right? Are we supposed (by right) to vote for the government? Do we have a choice? Will anything happen if we do not follow the 'by right'? maybe i am thinking too much..haha....that's the problem with pregnant woman. too free. too many things to think.:)