injury at west coast park

My Girl injured herself last Tuesday at west coast park. Now her leg already recovered.She fell down after walking too much...very bad mummy and daddy forced her to walk so much.Her 1st leg injury. She didn't cry but refused to carry on walking.
A few days after that, she still didn't know her leg pain pain, she thought the red marks,bruises were dirty marking on her legs and keep saying "yee yee" (dirty), trying to wipe it off.

recent photos

My girl on the Ikea trolley.

upcoming events

currently i still need to report for school everyday from 8.30am to 12.30pm. Until 13 of Nov 2007, after that no need report to school as i will be going for marking.
14Nov to 23 Nov, i will be marking O level Chinese Lit paper.
24 Nov is Daxiong's Church Wedding.
5,6,11 December, will be having chinese lit lesson with my students in the morning.
9 Dec is my hubby's cousin's wedding dinner.
17 Dec tentatively is N level results release. My form class 4T1 will be getting results. Need to go sch to give out results and also promised the chinese students that I will treatthem for lunch.
27 Dec is staff meeting, 28 dec dept meeting and comittee meeting.

also planning to bring my family to sentosa for one day in december. tentatively 15 Dec.

Then most of the time left will be used for lesson planning for my next year chinese lit class.

baby girl

yesterday i went for my gynae check up. Now ard week 15.
gynae do scanning, say most probably is a baby girl.
So my little xiao mo tou will have a baby sister next year.:)
My hubby likes girls, i actually prefer a boy for 2nd one, coz i like variety.
But doesn't matter, as long as baby healthy, other things are not important.

I will be doing my detail 20 weeks scanning in mid November, another 5 weeks from now.By then can confirm alot of things, and make sure the baby is healthy.:)

I have not seen my girl for 2 days. Today going back jurong to see her.
My hubby in China for work this week, so have to crawl back yishun tonite myself.

naked baby

my ger is very mischievous. Just before her daddy bathe her, she saw her daddy's laptop and quickly put her itchy fingers on it, imitating her daddy doing work.
She loves to play with laptops.

more photos

So many froggies at the Jurong Frog Farm. I dun think my ger know what are frogs. When you ask her if she want to play with the frog/goat/other animals, she will always say "yao", she wants to play with anything.

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....