Late Night Thinkings....

I've just watched "I Am Legend" on HBO. It is the first time I caught it and I like it a lot. And this show really gets me thinking. What if this really happens one day?

In the show, 99% of the human population in the world turned into mutant humans because of a cancer cure. What if, one day, we manage to find a cure to cancer and it turns out like this?

I feel like we are walking down that path. Look at SARS. Look at H1N1. They are both mutated form of flu virus. Everytime we controlled one, stronger ones pop up.

In Buddhist teaching, it always talk about the 2 opposite sides. Light and dark. Day and night. Good and evil. Always about the balance. So if we have a cure, will new stronger viruses pop up to balance the whole system?

In Evolution, living things evolve to meet the meet the challenges in their ecosystem. So will the viruses evolve to a form when we can't find a cure anymore?

It is a scary thought. So far, the mutated flu virus only made us feverish, sore and with flu-like symptoms. What if a new mutated virus attacks the brain and brings out the animal instinct side of us? What if it makes us aggressive? What if it makes us irrational? What if it makes us stop thinking?





I just hope that when that day comes, neither me nor my loved ones will be around.

Out they go..

I extracted 2 of my teeth on Tuesday.


Here they are:






Didn't expect them to be so long. When I first had them out, I had a mixture of feelings inside me. First, I was guilty. They are healthy, strong, fine-looking teeth! Then, I was sad. After all, they WERE healthy, strong, fine-looking teeth. I was also disgusted. Coz now I have two big gaping holes in my mouth. My brother said that I looked like a witch when I laugh. Sharon told me I looked cute. I shall believe Sharon and practised selective hearing.

I am also excited. I even dreamt about having even, straight teeth. Hee! Can't wait after two years to see the results!

Anyway, these are my "before" photos. Two years later, I shall post the "after" photos.

The extraction of the teeth were not painful. The seperators placed between my teeth are the ones that are giving me pain now! They are placed there to create gaps for the ortho to place the brackets 2 weeks later. They made ALL my teeth super sensitive and super sore. I cannot even eat steamed fish without some discomfort! I have since practised the art of swallowing my food. =(

Going back on Monday to extract 2 more teeth. Haiz... Poor teeth. Going to buy a box with cushions and place my teeth inside. Very xin tong.

Havoc Nights

The Enemies clique had 2 "havoc" nights recently. I am loving clubbing!! Haha! (A little over-age, I know.)

We got Buttered

We are Rebels.

Actually, I had a lot of things to say about the 2 nights. But it has been so long since we took these photos. Grrr... Stupid blogger better not fail me again. Coz we are going back for our bottle at Rebel soon!

Quoted from Birdie: *Loves*

Trying not to be broke

Finally! My blogger seems to be running into problems every few days. I have tons and tons of photos to blog about but the blogger keeps giving me trouble. Grrr...

Well, school has started and I am loving it. Feels kinda weird saying it huh.. It is great to be in the role of a student again and not the role of teacher.

I have been really obedient too! I didn't take any cab at all this week! Last Tues was the first day in 3 years that I took MRT and buses to school. On Monday, I took MRT and bus home from Plaza Singapura which is also my first. I am finally kicking my habit of taking cabs. Yeah! Quick, praise me! Haha!

Shall post up my pictures soon. I got to go and sleep now. Night, world!

Bracing for Braces

Wah.. Finally, my blogspot is working. Havent post anything since there was something wrong with my blogspot.



Anyway, I have decided on this:







Yea! Have already booked the dates to extract my teeth and to put on the braces. I am so excited. On the other hand, I am going to miss my 4 teeth and my buck teeth. After all, they have been with me for more than 10 years.


(Decided to go for metal instead of ceramics because I am going to be very poor for the next 2 years. =( Bear with the ugly metal bah!)

I didn't know

I didn't know I like him that much. When I brought him up to my girl friends yesterday night, it just suddenly struck me that I really like him. To the extent of me feeling a little upset even after accepting the news for a long time already.

Reality Check

To "Her" who acts in the dark,


I don't get it. When two of your friends quarrelled and end up not talking to each other, isn't it your role to help them reconcile and to clear up misunderstandings? I don't understand why you had to make things worst by digging up the past and made him even more angry with her.

Thanks, man. No wonder he is so angry. And it is of no wonder that no matter what I said, it won't help.

You are scary. I finally get to know the real you.

For Hardcore Harry Potter Fans

A sms conversation with my brother



Me: Enjoy waiting for her.. =P (My brother was waiting for his gf)



Bro: Wa. Thanks. I shall enjoy harry's company.



Me: Haha! At first I thought who is harry... Haha!



Bro: Potter is the surname. Haha.



Me: Is he your gay partner? Haha!



Bro: No. He teach my magic.. Avadera kedava.



Me: *dead*



Bro: Yesh. Thanks harry. :)



Me: Harry not like that one lor.. U're lord voldermort!



Bro: I use wrong spell. Should use patronus on you. Lol.





For those who are clueless, patronus is used on this creature:













Stupid Bro.









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Well, I think you can see blogging everyday for the next few days. I am stuck in this school with ABSOLUTELY nothing to do.

I can't wait to leave.

Genting Trip 2009

Ahh... Finally, I have time to blog about my Genting trip. =)

Took Silkair to KL before taking a cab to Genting.

They served only drinks on the flight. It was a mad rush. They served the drinks and before you know it, it was time to collect the cups.

Look at the state of my bag! This is the result of last minute packing. I didn't realise that my bag, which had been hidden in the cupboard for ages, had started peeling. It was too late to buy a new bag. So embarrassing! Countless people had stared at my bag! =( (I bought a new Converse bag in Genting.)

Still feeling hungry after dinner at Hao Wei. So we popped into Mary Brown before hitting the casino. =P

Anyway, here's a list of good places to dine in Genting. I really could not stand the standard of the food there.

Places I have visited (excluding fastfood):
1) Kenny Rogers
2) PizzaHut
3) Coffee Terrace
4) Torcello
5) First World Cafe
6) Only Mee Restaurant
7) Xiao Long Bao Restaurant
8) Genting Palace
9) Hao Wei
10) Various Foodcourts

Places that I recommend:
1) PizzaHut
2) Hao Wei
3) Torcello
4) First World Cafe
5) Convenience Stores for Cup Noodles

And so, this time round, my dad did some research for places to eat before the trip. His friend recommended the Mushroom Farm restaurant. It is not situated within the theme park. We had to call them to come and bring us to the place. The service was good and the food was so much better and cheaper than the ones in Genting. They are opened from 7am - 10pm.

The fish in the picture tasted like cereal prawn. Very special.

During the trip with my Enemies to Genting in 2005, we met Elvin Ng, the Mediacorp actor, in Coffee Bean. I really regretted missing the chance to take a picture with him. =( And so, whenever I visit Genting, I would always go to Coffee Bean, hoping that I will bump into him again. Keke! And I really met him this time round!!

On television. We even had coffee together. Haha!

On the last day, we set off to Sunway Lagoon to meet up with my cousins and nephews. Sunway Lagoon is a really nice place!! Many things to play, eat and buy. The shopping centre really wowed me away. There are soooooooo many shops and restaurants! I think that the shopping centre is as big as Vivo. Cool right?

In the hotel room, waiting for my twin nephews to wake up.

Water theme park in the background.

Ice-skating rink on the basement of the shopping centre.

I think I mentioned before in one of my previous posts that my Dad knows how to act cute. Here's another proof. Haha!

Early dinner at a Hakka restaurant before leaving for the airport.

The restaurant has a few Hakka dishes which I have never heard nor seen before. The topmost picture is Chee Cheong Fun with Chai Poh (the pickled veg that goes with Chee Kueh), the green glop is still a mystery to me but it tasted better than it looked and the picture on the right is bittergourd stuffed with pig's stomach and mushroom.

Family picture in the lobby of the hotel.

Finally, flight back to Singapore.


I love family trips. =)

Short Trip

I haven't updated my blog for a long time. As I have happily declared in my previous post, I am staying on in NIE to pursue a degree in English Language. Therefore, I will be on no-pay leave while I am studying. You won't see me taking cabs all the time. I hope that I will be able to kick this habit soon. =P

On another happy note, I will be on holiday from the 17th-19th. Will be going Genting (again) with my family. The only difference is that we will be taking a plane there and back. On our journey back, we will be meeting up with my niece and nephews who are staying in Sunway Lagoon. We will tour around KL (my first!) before taking a flight back. Wish me good luck in the casinos! Haha!

Will update if there is something worth blogging. =) Btw, any of you on Twitter?

A Better Future!

*Screams* YEA!! I AM CROSSING OVER!!!

You say what huh?

We were driving past West Coast when we saw this banner outside Tanglin Secondary School. "Tanglin welcomes you!" or something like that. When I saw this, I started thinking, "'Welcome' got 's" one meh?" I've just checked the dictionary and although "welcome" is a verb, it doesn't have the normal singular and plural form. There is no "s". So embarrassing! A secondary school making that mistake in a huge banner that is facing the road.

Actually, there are many English mistakes I've spotted in print and during conversations. I am not saying that I am a Guru in English and I can't speak English fluently either. But those mistakes are just so glaring that I couldn't ignore it.

The following mistakes are made by many people and I am not aiming at anybody.

1) "Welcome" has no "s".

2) "Couple" means 2. Do not use "a couple of days" when you mean more than 2 days.

3) "Either" can only be used between 2 choices.

4) "Sort of" is not pronounced as "short of". These are 2 different words with different meanings.

5) "Touchy" means sensitive. "My friend is very touchy". This means that my friend gets irritated easily. It doesn't mean that my friend likes to touch people.

6) It's "take off your clothes", not "take of your clothes".

7) "Taught" is the past tense of "teach". "Thought" is the past tense of "think". 2 different words.

Ok, think that's all for now. Finally can get some off my chest. =P Now, you can go and aim your friends. Haha!

My Reward~

My picture says it all. I HAVE BOUGHT A KEYBOARD! And the best part is that I bought it at a $200 discount! Yeah!!



On Sunday, we went for Ice-Creams near my place and look at what we did.

Too bad those durians were not ripe. They were blown down by the wind. Bleagh.. No free durians for me. We are really city kids. Couldn't even recognise that those durians were not ripe. But we had fun from our durian-picking. =)

Last Day at Work

Finally. I have cleared 10 weeks of practicum. It was a bittersweet day. It was kind of sad knowing that I won't be going back to the same school again.

On Thursday, the trainees in my school went for a celebration dinner at Sakura Restaurant.



Looking at the pictures, I realised that we represent a multi-cultural group. Keke.


On the last day itself, I actually end work at 3pm because I had a supplementary lesson with my P5s. I will really, really, really miss teaching them. Although they are a noisy and handful bunch, they are really nice kids and very responsive in lessons. I love teaching children who are responsive and who really take interest in the subject.

At the end of the lesson, they surprised me by giving me cards and gifts! I didn't tell them I was leaving because I didn't want them to spend time and money making things for me. Turned that their form teacher informed them a few days ago. Looking at the cards, I was so happy and touched. One of the girls actually teared a little and was caught by her friends. Made me held back my tears too.

Most of the cards were from my P5s. Made me laughed when they said they enjoyed my M&Ms activity for teaching ratio. I made them swallowed ALL the M&Ms within 5 seconds because I was rushing for time. They enjoyed that part most. Haha!


During lunch, I went to the canteen to buy food. Suddenly, my P6s surrounded me and gave me this huge pot of flowers. They cheered and shouted in the canteen. I was so surprised!! I only met them twice a week for Social Studies and I am ashamed to say that I do not know most of them well. Yet, they bought flowers for me. So sweet.


Their form teacher, who is also my CT, gave me this. And I only gave her a stalk of sunflower.

My English CT is on long term MC so I didn't get to see her and thank her personally one last time. Haiz. She bought me this Molton Brown shower gel.



My School Coordinating Mentor gave me this.



2 adjunct teachers (retired teachers but who are still working) gave me this necklace to thank me for helping them with the IT stuffs. I am writing an IT Manual for them. Haha!




I am such a lucky girl to have such wonderful CTs, colleagues and students. But my fate with them ends on Friday and now, a new school with a new bunch of people are waiting for me to join them. Hope that my experience there will be equally great and fulfilling. If not, even better.

How I wish....

for a glass of Margarita now....

Never Ending

I thought that after all my observations, I have a chance to relax a bit. Do a little less work everyday.

BUT! I forgot 1 major thing! Exams starts next week! And I have not even started on revision!! I thought I have 1 more week to do revision but I didn't factor in the other subjects. The exams will take up my Maths periods. Argh! Super stress!!

So many students, so many parents, so many teachers to account to.... Think my cough and cramps will only stop after my practicum.

Too stress?

I don't know why I keep thinking about him. Too stress maybe. Wish I could stop.



(Maybe he is married. Isn't thinking about him a waste of time and energy?)

Good or Bad?

I can't believe I actually broke down in front of my supervisor on Friday. It was pretty embarrassing.

I am a big crybaby. Crying and crying all the time.


Heard a news on Friday which was something I didn't expect at all. I don't know whether it is a good or bad news. Hopefully, something good can come out of this.


Like what I told my supervisor, "I just want to be happier."

Hamster

Do you know that hamsters have pouches in their cheeks for them to store food? Here's a funny video about a hamster stuffing a carrot half its size into his own cheeks. Cute.

Excuse me, you are Miss... Mrs... Mdm... ??

One of the problems I face at work is the salutations of the females! I don't understand. There is no problem addressing a man. He is always a "Mr", "Mr" Tan, "Mr" Foo, "Mr" Quek, "Mr", "Mr", "Mr"! No confusion. But when it comes to the ladies...

1) Young ladies - Naturally, we call her "Miss" something.

2) Middle Age to Old ladies - Most likely she is a "Mrs" something.

You think the world is so clear cut?!

3) Young but married - "Mrs" something.

4) Young but married but still want to use her own maiden sirname - "Mdm" something

5) Young but married but still want to use her maiden sirname but find "Mdm" too old -"Miss" something

6) Middle-Old but are single - Still "Miss" something

7) All used-to-be married - Once "Mrs" something, now "Miss" something.

8) Elderly but don't want to use "Miss" - "Mdm" something

(Insert your own vulgarities; I'm trying to stay vulgarities-free) ISN'T IT CONFUSING??!!! I can't possibly ask someone whether she is married or single or divorced when she introduces herself right?? Grrr....

Bloody... (Oops, don't think this is a vulgarity right?) Why can't the saluatations be as simple and straightforward as the guys? Why do we need to differentiate between the married ones and the singles? I don't see that happening to the guys.

Whatever... I'm going to call all the ladies, whom I have never met before, "Excuse Me" from today onwards.