Wednesday, October 31, 2007
easy life? @ 11:18 AM
i have ear plugs on. retro beats playing. i'm blogging. i'm jotting down the clothes i'm going to bring to Japan in another 43 days.
that's life for me. in DHS. like what Glen described in friendster, i'm his very bored colleague in school. hahah...
what to do. enter the school at this time of the year..
friday night was wonderful with the girls. with jeanie driving us around. supper was a easy breeze. we had tau hway and stuff at rocher road. darlie came to fetch me from ps' house much later in the night. the girls were complaining after we start working, we have no time to go out and enjoy. that makes us feel so old. but now! we've found a form of relaxation. we're gonna have more of such late night gatherings and supper. especially now that all 4 of us are licensed drivers!! :) [june said daryl and i are very sticky together since we got together. hahah.. didn't realize that]
sat was a good day too. went for breakfast with Daryl and his dad. good beef kway teow. then we had a stroll along good ol' singapore river, one fullerton, asian civilization museum, merlion and all... followed by TRANFORMERS dvd in the afternoon with dear. haha i LOVE the shOw! pasta in the night was tOo mUch. we tried to cut down on the pasta but still, we had way too much ingredients. but still, home-cooked dinner by 2 of us is always lovely. partly because i don't have to wash the dishes. hahah.
sunday morning is always carwash time~ went to vivo in the afternoon. with uncle n dear. bought dear his birthday present. a pair of white loafers. very nice. he'll look nice in them. and not ah-bengish. hmmm. haha..
darlie ordered a ipod nano (red) for me. he can get staff price. gonna pay him back. o yep, it's not a gift from him. i wanna treat myself well after working 'so hard'. =P
bye all! going for my lunch.
Friday, October 26, 2007
recap @ 5:59 PM
saturday - birthday lunch for sis at tak po in chinatown. whole family thingy. mum, sis, jason, daryl & me!! super full in the end..
sunday - all dressed up for dinner with darlie. haha think we overdid it but who cares. once in a while mahh. uncle totally agreed when i said i look like i'm attending wedding dinner. haha. i was in a very sloppy attire in the afternoon. when dear saw me in the evening, he said i always seem like i've gone for make-over. haha not bad eh? he knows how to humour me... :) dinner was too filling. very romantic. haha. we talked. but stupid him gave stupid answers which made me tear. tears because i wanted to whack him, wanted to laugh yet felt a little sad.
"why did you choose me?"
"because i think you are the type who can be a good wife and good mother"
"why do you think i can be a good wife?"
"because find wife cannot find those pretty ones.........(my mind totally shut off on its own after that sentence so i can't rem what he said next) "
zhubajie.
anyway, ice cream from anderson's ice cream after dinner made me (and him too) happy. a walk along esplanade and it was of course followed by a series of photo-taking.
here goes.
wednesday - was in charge of a Year 1 class and went along with them for a sculpture walk along marina centre (esplanade, marina square, suntec city & millenium walk) err. it was tough controlling them. no respect for the school though they were in school uniform. went shopping with dear in the night in ntuc. haha. ice cream treats!thursday - school as usual. went to relief a class for my colleague. DHS students are well-behaved. i mean the upper sec students. really well-behaved and polite. the junior levels behave like monkeys. tsk... but still, they're adorable at times.
friday - DHS self-declared holiday. celebration for some sports achievement. so i've been relaxing at home for the whole day. going to meet my dear girls at ps' house later in the night. i'll be staying out!!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
blessed lady @ 12:55 PM
and most importantly, HAPPY 28th MONTH ANNIVERSARY dear!!! :) BiG HuG & KiSs to yOu.
he's treating her to Tony Roma's tonight. so she's extremely happy. they've cut down quite a lot on such restaurant dining compared to one year ago. they were there at the same restaurant last year, same day. they're gonna relive the happy times.... and yes, they're still very much in love.
(saw the new ipod nano yesterday... i want it... it's so beautiful...i'm gonna get it when i have the cash. which means after the trip... hope the price drops further..)
a woman in love is always pretty... because love makes her glow with happiness... my darlie is cute and dumb. so i get not only the glow of happiness, i get fun & laughter too..
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
driving test: PASSED!!! @ 2:48 PM
"okay. you pass your driving test. your driving outside generally quite good"
"thank you sir, thank you sir!!"
YEAP. i've passed my manual driving test this morning!! the scary test... made me lose sleep and appetite. caused me to experience palpitation too..
so glad and happy that i've passed... no need to waste money to re-take... a million thanks to Mr TAN!! scolded me like shit yesterday and today and still, luck was with me and our hard work paid off! 32 lessons leh... too many for some but just nice to salvage the situation for me. haha
10 demerit points. 2 for the wrong gear applied. wanted to reverse but forgot to change gear. car moved forward. just a bit. quickly changed back but he noticed. sigh. 8 points for causing a bike to slow down/evade. (don't have leh. he didn't brake or evade. coz i stopped) he signalled too early. thought he'll turn so i turned. end up he went straight. all kena in circuit.
outside on bukit batok road was miraculously empty!!! haha fast lane change was a lot easier than usual!! wasn't told what was route 10 before and someone chose that route for me.. veri good! route 10 no outside slope. only one U-turn. wahhahah... 10 is my lucky number....
super happy!!!!!!! but i think my license photo will look quite old. haha. was joking with a girl i just met today and also passed. told her don't like can change. just pay 25 bucks. but most prob by the time i change, i will look similar to the photo. (OLD)... that license should be able to last till when i'm 40 lor.
veri good. veri happi.
this shows a few things.
no 1: it doesn't mean private candidates have less chance of passing. first time may not fail!!
no 2: everyone has the chance to pass. i was scolded so much. so depressed. felt so hopeless. always making all the stupid and careless mistakes that i shouldn't even be making... even i can pass, everyone out there sure have chance!! haha
i'm going out with dear later. maybe he'll be nice and reward me. haha! thanks everyone!! those who had given me encouragement or wished me luck... thank gods. (dear and mum prayed for me) my greatest encouragement came from uncle!! haha. he actually said if i pass, he'll let me drive his Mark X. and he told me to let him know the results after my test. haha. now pass already but i don't think i will wanna drive his car. too new and too big, i don't dare...
i shall wait for dear's yellow swift sports!!! haha my favourite car!! you're arriving just at the right time....
i'm still smiling. hurhur... the picture was taken just now...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
back @ 9:48 PM
intensive driving lessons since weeks ago. test is coming soon......!! i'm nervousssss :( gimme all the luck on tuesday....
alright, here are the photos from night safari 6th october 2007. it was fun... just a lil' disappointed by the tiger. think it went bonkers and really stressed after being cooped up in a place for too long. it just PACED back and forth. miserable 3 metres. didn't come close to the glass at all. boohoo. nice & funny animal show, not-so-bad-at-all tram ride (except for stupid foreign girls who stood up to view smth and totally blocked my view)... it was enjoyable larh. people in the pics: lennart & ps, daryl & i, Ben & tina, shawn & wendy.
watched THE LOST WORLD and MATRIX dvds with darlie last week. nice to watch 'old' films. reminisce. haha. caught the movie 'resident evil 3' last night with dear, ryan, bryan, ann & ryan's cousin. not too bad. though i didn't watch the first 2, milla jovovich made the show rather awesome. she looked very cool in the whole show. but still, the story was just like a combination of land of the dead & matrix (many many clones VS many many unawakened in those bubble-like liquid or whatsoever) to me.friday was a night at chinatown with dear. super heavy meal at Macs. exchanged for our japan YEN. bought new black piggie beanie soft toy. SUPER CUTE & stupid. hahah.
when i'm free, i shall talk about buses and trains. and very POLITE singaporeans.
Friday, October 05, 2007
shopping madness. @ 9:39 AM
i shall now declare i'll shop no more in the next 2 months. Like what dear said, i'm going a little overboard... :( went town on wednesday night and i bought another green blouse and white jacket for school... and a pair of cute white flats which bite unfortunately. spend spend spend. all on credit. haha dear's credit card. i'll know it when my pay comes in. all debts gotta be cleared. and i gotta give half my salary to him for safe keeping. it's funds for japan trip. he and i are both scared i'll spend them away. it's almost definite they'll be gone in just a while if they're in my hands.. bahhh...
i smiled to Mrs AA. happened to see her at the staircase. can's avoid it can i? nvr mind. xiao yi xiao. you bu hui shao yi kuai rou.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
alive once again @ 3:47 PM
it was a shitty monday no doubt. cos i had to take shit. but tuesday turned out wonderfully. i went for lunch with the newbie gang (the 4 new teachers in DHS incl me) at ghim moh market and we chatted for so long. lunch is always an hour plus but ytd's was near 2 hours. laughed like mad. OH! before we went out, i was complaining about my backache. glen said the funniest thing. "of course lah! you got back-stabbed mahhhh..." hahahha.. bth. so funny. marriage, bust measurement, girlfriend's height etc. we talked about anything under the sun... newbie gang brightened my day. YAY...
then we took part in the sports for life event for the school. 2.4km run. oh man, it had been like what. 4 years since i did that... i came in last. hahah... 17"01... nvm lahhh... running is so boring.. especially ON THE TRACK. wanted to give up after first round. was on the verge of collapsing after the 3rd. haha. i'm lousy larh. an zua?
most of the teachers who ran are young... talked to them... chatted in the staff room which is so cold. we stinked the room i guess. haha.. got to know more colleagues.. SWC chairman is so funny. she's super nice larh! these people yesterday really made my day. i was smiling when i was telling daryl all this over the phone in the night... they made me feel there's still hope and nice people in the school... it's just a very great encouragement... :) HEE
i'm still in school at 4pm now because i'm marking exam scripts. i love the feeling to have things to do... seriously... after that, i'm going shopping with dear dear in town!! bye peeps!!
Monday, October 01, 2007
my stand @ 8:55 PM
3rd week in my teaching career & i got myself into such a nasty situation. she's senior. so what? does that mean she has the right to distort truth, to bully the new-comers, and go around spreading words that aren't true? wtf. yes. what the fuck. told daryl i hate girls to use the word. i'm using it now.
this was the polite me last friday. was polite even after i got to know the whole thing which i thought was absolutely ridiculous. here's the letter i typed.
Dear Mrs AA
This is Violet. The teacher who entered the classroom of Year 1H after your lesson with them. I have heard from Mr C that my attitude has offended you in class earlier on. I'm really sorry and would like to take this chance to apologize to you and also to clarify what had happened.
I want to apologize to you personally immediately after I got to know about this from Mr C but you've gone home. I certainly do not hope that this matter will dampen your mood over the weekend, hence I'm sending you an email first.
First of all, I really had no intention of disrespecting you in front of a class which I do not know. I knocked on the door and I forgot to greet you. That was my fault and also partly because I do not know your name but I know that is not an excuse. I waited outside the room with the door opened and I thought it wasn't nice, so I tried to close it a little. Actually I thought i could open the door for you, so I left it slightly open. I was standing by the door when the students greeted you. And I remember myself entering the classroom after they've greeted you. (unless my memory fails me. And please pardon me, because i have a really bad memory) And also while I was standing near the door, students were all walking around freely and because i was near the door, they had to ask for my permission to go to the restroom. I certainly hope this did not give you the impression that I was trying to take over the control of the class. As for the pencil case and worksheets that I left on the desk, I'm really sorry but I cannot remember at which point of time did I leave them there. I should have really just waited outside the classroom all the time. It was my fault for not being able to understand how should one lesson be passed on to another teacher in the school.
In fact, we got the timing of the class wrongly. When I went to the class, I saw you teaching in there. Mr C told me to call the monitor out to just pass the handout to her. I really thought I should not interrupt your lesson so I did not enter at all and waited for the actual lesson to begin.
Sorry for all this misunderstanding, Mrs AA. I will apologize personally to you on Monday and I hope to gain your understanding over this matter.
P/s: The above stated are all that I can recall and I may have recalled wrongly.
Regards,
Violet
so yeap. read it? the whole thing was... i did not even want to interrupt her lesson. i waited for my class. i was standing in for a colleague. i walked to the classroom after the bell rang. this teacher. let's name her AA. was inside the aircon classroom. yeap! bell rang!! HELLO. was she deaf?? nvm. she had something to tell her 'children' as how she calls them. i knocked on the door. forgot to greet her. because i don't know her nice and sweet name. (sorry. i had to greet her good afternoon?? my aunt says that's bullshit) i politely asked "is it chinese class now?" after she asked me "what is it..." yah. apparently she don't know her class has ended. nvm. when she asked the class was it chinese lesson, all replied YES happily. guess her lesson was quite you know.... so she called it a day. it might have been my fault to let the door remain slightly open. but i swear i stood outside all this while. even when the class greeted her. after that she remained inside talking to some students at the desk area. i stepped in i guess. when i saw the students walking out of the classroom. i happened to be at the door so they asked for my permission to go washroom. i did not talk to the class. perhaps i walked to the desk area to put down my stack of handouts and pencil case when she was still inside the room. i'm sure i wrote my surname on the board so that students can greet me only after she left. and students greeted me then. sounds reasonable?? my mistakes if i really have to admit, were that i did not smile and say good afternoon (ridiculous and unknown to me) and i stepped into the classroom.
what did she do?? let's see. i can imagine now. an angry old woman entered staff room and started to get really mad and complained to 2 of the senior chinese dept heads. that i was a very rude female teacher. so new yet so rude. i was the rudest teacher she has ever seen in her 40 years of teaching. she was talking quite loudly. most interesting part. that would be her side of story. i knocked on the door, walked right in, put down my BAG and started to talk to her class. tmd. she fast forward everything. cool eh? my officers all shocked.
that was why when i told them what happened this morning, they said the stories are different. my officers and the colleague who asked me to stand him for him, all 3 of them are very supportive and nice to me in this whole incident. including the session to 'clarify' matters. they told me to REN3... treat it as a senior teacher teaching me something... i am fine with it. if REN3 can solve the matter i'll do just that. even though i'm super reluctant.
the time came, all 4 of us from chinese dept stood outside the staffroom. when my colleague went to get her, you get see from AA's face she was reluctant to meet me. not the why bother to talk to me type. i felt it was more like don't wanna meet me face-to-face. was she ashamed or what? i don't know. she had been spreading bad things about me. the teachers around her during flag raising actually looked in my direction trying to spot me and i stared back.
she did all the talking. it was meant to clarify matters. but looking at her and the way and the things she spoke, i gave up explaining. she printed out my email. she said my letter helped to solve a lot of her anger. because i said i did not understand many things in school. does that mean she really wanted to gain respect because she's more senior? i don't know. but yet she did not agree with the point her students were walking about after they greeted her. she insisted her students are all well-behaved. won't behave like that. tmd. i was referring to the behaviour after they greeted her lor. never mind. she said "i was so stunned!" 4 times or so. she repeated "what i did". all i had in mind was "madness, crazy, bullshit". she said there she was teaching her children good manners and here she saw a rude teacher entering the class like that. talk about being well-mannered. talk about being polite. BEST PART OF HER WORDS. when a teacher is in the classroom and towards the end of the lesson, he or she may be trying to cover one last part or something. allow her to finish, then after that she has to shut down her laptop at times, pack up.... and what i did was make her pack up so quickly that day (which i did not intend to. but anything wrong in the first place???) and so she said, "when we come out of the classroom, it's up to us to decide whether we want to apologize to the teacher waiting outside." WEET!! WOAH!! can anyone imagine how impressed i was when i heard that??
all i did was nod my head every few seconds while looking into her "daily clubbing smoky eye make-up". yeap. whopping 60+ years old. tried to explain a bit but i think she didn't want to hear and will intelligently brushed it away.
my 3 colleagues after everything actually said "if you wanna scold, scold me. let you scold" to her. why!!! why do that. make me feel worse. i got them into this. couldn't hold back my tears so i cried. cried so hard on friday. and so hard again in the office today. DAMN THING. DAMN WARPED REASONING. don't have to apologize to me because you asked me to stand in a lesson for you. i'm glad you guys understand where i'm coming from. my side of story. i hope you guys believe in it. i'm mad because i had to bow down to lies and wrong accusations simply because i'm new and she's senior. i might be in the wrong. so? just tell me. do not complain to everyone else but do not dare to see me or appear so paiseh. and the whole thing was so......... yeap, the word is "minor".
horoscope was a spot on. from all magazines and newspapers. i will have conflict with colleagues. there will be people sneering at me. and the advice is do not hear any of them. mum and everyone i know root for me. mum was so mad. she can't stand AA for saying i'm rude. i am well brought up by my mum. i still am well-mannered. but all this can't beat the hierarchy in education system. right? i'm deemed rude from now on in the school...
this lesson taught me something: being senior doesn't mean he or she is always right. senior may also equals senile. they forget what happened....