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.:)