12 April - YAC @ Partyworld

Date: 12 April 2008
Where: Partyworld @ Orchard

Who: YAC!

Collin and Shijie - DUET!

The 2 Jia-s with ME!

Mike and Shijie - Ai Mei right?!

Shigong who sings v well!

No abs still wana show off! -_-

Weiming, Jen, Jill and ME!

Collin's friends

2 singing, 2 playing

Girls Power! MIA: Shijie!

We are being forced. Obvious right!

Love Me - Collin Raye

Love Me - Collin Raye

I read a note my Grandma wrote back in 1923
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me
He said, "Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I love your Grandma so.

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together
Get married in the first town we came to and live forever
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead
I found this letter, and this is what it said :

"If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I'll meet you when my chores are through
I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then
Til I see you again

I'll be loving you
Love, Me."

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away
In the doorway of the church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray
I know I've never seen him cry in all my fifteen years
But as he said these words to her, his eyes fill up with tears

"If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I'll meet you when my chores are through
I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then
Til I see you again

I'll be loving you
Love, Me."

I have been listening to this song for the whole day today, which makes me very emotional and touched. Reminds me of my grandmother.

Life is full of expected things.

Today she maybe here, and the other day she may already have left. So treasure whatever you have now. really.

Dinner was too much

This is my dinner menu yesterday:
- scallop
- foie gras pizza
- crab
- prawns
- beef
- ice cream

OMFG. Can u imagine how much cholesterol and calories I took in just from the dinner?

Yes, you may think:”WOW, YOU ARE LUCKY!”

But when u are eating this for 3-4 times in a month, I am sure u will start to get worried of your shape and health. When I tell my aunty that im eating foie gras, she is always jealous and envy, saying that I 生在福中不知福. But, she never take into consideration that all these big meals are really … horrible.

After surfing the net, this is a little information about foie gras:


Foie Gras directly translated means “fat liver” and refers to duck or goose liver from force-fed animals. The liver, which is grossly enlarged by methodically fattening the bird, (also called: cramming) has been counted as a delicacy since classical times, when the force-feeding of the birds was practised in Classical Rome (the Romans used figs for this).

Foie gras is unhealthy for humans. It derives 85 percent of its calories from fat: a 2-ounce serving contains 25 grams of fat and 85 milligrams of cholesterol.(20)

After reaching home at about 11.10pm last night, I was so tired that I went to bed. But my stomach was feeling so grouchy and upset that I had tummy ache throughout the night. Woke up at 1pm to shit. Woke yo at 3pm to shit. Woke up at 5pm to shit. Finally, at 6am, I fell asleep. And I thought of coming to work abit later todat, but instead, I woke up at 7.30am.

The food from dinner is still churning in my tummy that I don’t want to eat anything anymore.

At first, I thought I was a lucky girl, able to eat the best food on Earth. But now, after eating all these for so many months, I just want to have plain porridge for all my meals. The feeling is like u become rich one day, but u aren’t enjoying it and wanted to be poor again.

You know how I feel!!

So please, share an AMORE package and give it to me during my birthday. I will be really grateful to you.

Anyway, I have bought an amore package from a member at $80 per mth already. Wth, she is giving it up at a cheaper price than student package. But of coz it’s illegal, cuz im using her name to attend the aerobics. Thanks Michelle for recommending her!

But who cares? I will just be low profile!

Now that my granddaddy is suffering from high cholesterol, I am paying more attention to it. Below are some tips on how to reduce ur cholesterol level:

Food to avoid or limit: •
Fatty meats but if you do eat them cut off all the visible fat.
• Sausages, goose and duck.
• Pies and pastries.
• Fat or oil in cooking.
• Prawns, shrimp and fish roe.
• Fried foods
• Dairy products such as full milk, cream, cheese, butter and ice cream.
• Egg yolks, limit to 2 a week.
• Cakes, crisps, biscuits, sweets and chocolate.

Try to grill or steam meats instead of frying or roasting but if you do roast, place meat on a rack to allow the fat to drain off. When frying choose a vegetable oil, such as sunflower.

Healthier foods which you could try eating are as follows:
• Fish, especially oil rich fish such as sardines, salmon, mackerel, pilchards
and trout. This type of fish contains Omega-3 fatty acids and they are
thought to lower LDL cholesterol.
• Poultry (chicken, veal or turkey) but remove the skin.
• Low-Fat dairy products, use semi skimmed or skimmed milk, low fat yoghurts
and mono or poly-unsaturated spreads.
• Foods high in polyunsaturated (found in nuts, seeds and vegetable oils)&
monounsaturated (found in olive, rapeseed, walnut oil and avocado) fats.
• Fruit and vegetables, you should eat at least 5 portions every day.
• Garlic
• Wholegrain breads
• Cereals
• Baked beans and red kidney beans
• Pasta and rice

So Sweet!

Going for 2 food tastings today, one in the afternoon and the other one at night. gosh, all western. -_-

When i came to office today, i saw something on my desk that made my day:



There is one and only person who will do this stupid yet heart warming thing. And it’s our san-bat Adeline. –applaud-

Ok la, just nice I didn’t have my breakfast this morning.

THANK YOU SWEETIE! :D

MRT Accident

Another one, either the fella accidentally fell or commit suicide. it's so dumb to do it on the MRT station, especially it's during peak hours. perhaps he just wants the world country to stop going to work and witness his death.

I remembered i was in the train when the MRT hit a girl at AMK MRT station a few years back. And i still busy body go and take a look at the rocks that is stained with blood (apparently she was sorta being crushed). Thankfully it happened in AMK, when i had to alight.

Eh, wrong. what am i saying? of cus i don't want accidents to happen in AMK.
But well, at least i don't have to take another trouble to travel to another destination.

Let's bet, these MRT cases always come one after another. Some fella may already been planning where to jump next.

And this morning, i already saw a sick person fainted at AMK MRT station.

Why am i always so unlucky? HAHA.

I realised i havent been mentioning about work lately. Well, with one man's show, of course there is a significant increase in my workload. thankfully im managing it well. but i presume there is more to come, looking at the progress.

Numerology lessons are ending in two week's time. i cant wait for it to end, cuz it's taking up my whole saturday. what i need is time now.

oh did i announce?

i dunnoe when is school gona reopen in august, but i dun care. let mi have a good break before i start my FYP yea. so im leaving singapore!

im going HONG KONG for holiday!! From 4 August to 7 August 2008. pre celebration for national day!

I know, u guys will think:"not again? can u go somewhere else?"

well, im going with different person every holiday. So the feel and excitement is different! i m going with Chris this time round. heng ar, thanks to adeline for introducing wingk to me. he volunteers himself to bring us around in HK. i shall get him a present!

this time i die die also wana visit da yu shan, the big big buddha! hehe

That's all for now.

Indulgence

On Wednesday:

MASKS! Do we look like ghosts?

On Friday - YAC

Look at wad are both of them doing! scandalous! i was the accomplice...hiak hiak hiak...mike is in our hands. any takers? pebbles?

before going for dinner. but i didnt join them, cuz im meeting chris for midnight kbox till 3am! gosh...but well, now tt im still young, if dun play, wan to wait till old then play meh? i guess im really fortunate to noe this bunch of yac people! -muacks-

On Saturday:

i went late for suan ming cuz i dcided to indulge abit. so i went celine' place to do pedicure. unfortunately celine injured herself. so i let jocelyn do it for mi. nice anot? haha, and i had impulsively bought a pedi package...

Once in a while indulgence la!! :D

今天是清明节

几星期前，梦见外婆临死前在医院的那一幕，有点难过，也有点害怕。因为忙着学校活动，所以前两年都没有扫墓，让我已经非常内疚了。

本以为上周六一定可以到坟前拜祭，可是我居然选在这个时候生病。真该死！

今天是清明节。家人都请了假拜祭外婆。唯独我还在上班。

今晚要到YAC庆功宴，本来没有在家用餐。外公却一直再三嘱咐要回家用餐，于心不忍之下，也内疚自己没有贡献，只好答应了。

今晚我又要变大肥妹了！

1 HORRIBLE teacher + 1 TERRIBLE student = MADNESS!

Let me begin with the HORRIBLE teacher.

My sweet student, Sharlene, went for a Parents Meeting session and came back to me with a funny yet ridiculous conversation with her Maths Teacher. Sharlene is Secondary 4 this year, and I have been coaching her since mid of 2007, when she was Sec 3. She failed terribly for Maths (F9) and doesn’t pay attention in class. But now, she works hard and is a high flyer for Maths. 

So one evening, she came very late for tuition as she went for Parent’s Meeting Session with her school teachers. So when both Sharlene and her mummy met her Maths Teacher, he commented:

S = Sharlene HMT = Horrible Maths Teacher M: Sharlene’s Mummy

HMT: Sharlene failed her current surprise Trigo Ratio Test very badly.

(It’s my fault la, actually. Because I taught her all the difficult Trigo sections (including bearing and 3D-Trigo), but I had forgotten to teach her the simple trigo functions. Anyway, her school teacher has taught her wad! But it shows that she doesn’t pay attention in school..)

M: Oh….

HMT: Did you send her for tuition?

M: Yes, I did.

HMT: Oh then the tuition teacher never teach her this chapter? Can understand la, trigo ratio is difficult to explain. Perhaps the tuition teacher herself don’t know how to do or don’t know how to explain, that’s why never teach her.

(AT THIS POINT, I WAS FUMING! WTH LA, my sweetie student never even listens in your class. If not, how can she fail this simple section! Still dare to shift the blame to me! Trigo ratio is not difficult to explain la, it’s you are lousy!)

S & M: ….

HMT: But Sharlene’s Maths has improved tremendously under me. (feeling contented)

(AT THIS POINT, THE VOLCANO ERUPTED. And I was scolding all the vulgarities in front of Sharlene. Win liao, take all the credits. See how HORRBILE this school teacher is!)

Thankfully, my dear student said smth.

S: No lo, it’s because of my tuition teacher…

AWWW! So sweet. And when they left the room, Sharlene’s mummy said:

“Why your teacher so BHB one!”

I love them totally.

A week later, the sweet girl gave me a packet of strawberries that the Mummy bought. AWWW! HOW SWEET! For that, I will work hard! 



*****

Let’s move on to the TERRIBLE student.

Tell me, when you have tuition with a new student for the first time, how does the student behave? You are lucky if you met shy but obedient student. But not for me this time. And this is the FIRST TIME in my whole 6 years that I met this kind spoil brat.

I got an assignment from Florence and since she is such a nice lady, I decided to accept a Chinese tuition assignment at PASIR RIS! Gawd, I think im crazy.

So last Tuesday evening, when it’s pouring, I took a few assessment books and took a cab from AMK to Pasir Ris. I was rather reluctant to go la, partly of the rain, partly of the long journey.

In the end, I was late. But expected la, I left AMK at 715pm, how can not late right?

I consoled myself: “It’s okay! I will meet nice kid that will make my trip worthwhile!”

So I reached at 745pm. The P6 boy is a very sweet and good looking kid. You can say that he is handsome at the young age! At this period, most schools would have reached the last chapter or smth, and he was no exception. So I decided to give him a surprise Spelling for the previous few chapters (第三单元) to see how well he remembered.

But of course, I sat down with him, look through the handbook, read to him all the words for him 3 times! Front to back, Back to Front. And I helped him to recognize some of the tougher words by linking it to stories.

And he studied and read seriously. Really seriously.

So I thought, wah smart boy! Sure hardworking and fun to teach la!

Then I only chose 20 words to give him out of so many words…and he only knew like 4-5 of them!

So I thought, it’s okay! He may be poor but if he is hardworking, he can do well.

So I tried to let him try the most simple 句子选择 among the paper.

YOU KNOW WAD!

He never even read the 4 sentences, took out his rubber, and throw dice to guess the answer.

So when I tell him not to be funny, he still do it.

And time and again, he kept trying to flip back to see answers.

And he proudly shows off his invention that if first 4 MCQ answes are 4, the rest are all 4s.

I dunnoe to think him as stupid or over confident. And when I tried explaining, he just dun bother.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I SCREAMED AT STUDENT AT FIRST LESSON.

Usually I only does that after 4th lesson la, I try to be nice to them first. But he kept trying to throw the rubber. I got so pissed off that I threw the rubber to the floor, screamed at him to ask and then he finally sit down and behave.

And when 9pm reached, he just quickly goes to the sofa, take remote controller and watch tv. HELLO? AM I TRANSPARENT!

By right we should end at 915pm but he doesn’t care.

And he inisisted on NO HOMEWORK

Go and die la. PSLE coming, ur Chinese CMI, still no homework.

So one day after the lesson, I fired him.

Wasted 1.5hr by train to go there, see his stupid actions, and travel 1.5 hrs back. Worse, if I take cab, I wont even earn back anything!

First lesson already so mischievous. I cant imagine hw will the subsequent lessons be like!

HORRIBLE! TERRIBLE! RAWWWW!

Weekend is all about YAC!

Chris has kindly helped me to write out the complicated dance steps so that I can go home and learn! How nice! :)

Friday – Performance Day 1

Heads down - thinking hard...DIE WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP! Aiya, never mind la, just pose n act cool!







Saturday: Watching Wei Qiang Lao Shi’s Mini Music Performance at Nonya Bistro

Lao Shi sang well!

The pretty girls..
New friend, which I cant remember his name. haha

My lover...HAHA

Pretty Cailing...Happy Birthday!

Sweet Jennifer has made muffins for me! SLURPS!

Sunday – Performance Day 2






Kherray and Me! Her bf happens to be my pri classmate!!!
Stern Lao Shi...-trembles-



THE END!

Another Day of Rest

Today is another day of rest at home. Thankfully im getting better, so tomolo i will be going back to office to do work, and continue the one man's show battle! :)

On Saturday when I had Numerology lesson, Mr Ong said something about me which i totally agree. Then i started to ponder...

Actually being an aunt agony can be good and bad sometimes. Good in the sense that friends confide in you and u can share the other person's burden together.

But it will no longer be good when the other person's problem has affected me and become my problem. Worse, when i feel that it had been affecting me too much and i decided to put a stop, we may not become friends anymore.

Sometimes, 真的不得不相信缘分。

I have seen so many friends come and go. Some stay for a while, and left. Some turn from love to hatred. Some, when we do not do smth together or share an interest anymore, the friendship fades...

As a 旁观者, it seems so much clearer who is in the right, who is in the wrong. but becuz being a friend, and knowing that self esteem is very important, i have to be super tactful to what is being bring across. Any wrong words may sound to the other person as not standing by his / her side.

其实，很多事情都是很容易解决的。可是当事人坚持证明某些事，一直不停地在钻牛角尖。原本与我无关的事，最后好像变成我是伤者。

让一切平息吧，这样大家也会快乐点。 :)

On a second note, i haven been doing justice to my students lately. The hectic schedule really made me tired. When i reached Renena, i will be too tired to even teach.

Private tuitions are worse, i have practically cancelled all of them for these few weeks and thankfully they are a bunch of nice parents.

Now that i have 2 days of rest at home, i hope my brain has started working and gathered sufficient energy to continue the battle.

今年对所有小六和中四学生都很重要。我绝对不可以放弃任何一个人！