happy life everyday

guess what this is?

it's my very very thick stacks of developed photos which i just collected (hands ached so much just carrying them around) had around 700 photos altogether, all taken within end of 2008 till last week... there's really a whole lot of memories there.. of celebrations, play, study, travel, eat, chill, and many other stuffs i did with friends and families..

as i was looking through them, cant help but feel this joy and love...

"oh i really love my friends and families so so so so much!"

it's such a joy to look through all the photos and recall what we did.. really thank God for all YOU friends.. without YOU i definitely wont have such an exciting and happening life.. hee.. love YOU all! *muacks*muacks*

and yep, so to cater to this entry's theme, i also went online to find a poem :D

Friendship
Such love I cannot analyze;
It does not rest in lips or eyes,
Neither in kisses nor caress.
Partly, I know, it’s gentleness

And understanding in one word
Or in brief letters. It’s preserved
By trust and by respect and awe.
These are the words I’m feeling for.

Two people, yes, two lasting friends.
The giving comes, the taking ends
There is no measure for such things.
For this all Nature slows and sings.

so alright.. now that i'm done reminiscing, i must think of how or rather, when i can finally arrange all these photos in the photo albums.. i also have another additional 500+ photos which i developed last year but yet to arrange.. so altogether, 1200 photos to arrange in the photo albums.. moreover i dont use those albums with pockets but those like sticker book one.. so i can arrange/stick the photos differently/creatively and also include other things like dialogue boxes.. will look nicer and personal but more work for me also..

haix.. i'm so tempted to take one day off just to arrange these photos :D (but maybe one day also not enough ~_~")

maybe i shld.. time to use my "single-day" leave also bahz.. hee.. a day which ntuc-mfc will provide for us singles to "look" for our other half.. as if we can find him/her in one day.. hee.. but good la.. got leave = better than no leave at all

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aft youth last sat, went to watch "my girlfriend is an agent" movie.. i really recommend you to watch it too~ hee.. super nice!! a tight script with appropriate amount of action/thriller and lot's of hilarious scenes... also love the chemistry btwn the 2 main characters, but even the other minor characters are also nice to watch.. overall a very good comedy movie :D

aft that, the youth did some "surprise" thinggy again...


on wed, went to watch meteor shower with jr, jer, ps and min.. we reached japanese garden at ard 10pm.. chose a nice dark comfy spot to place our picnic mats and then did lot's of things to pass time.. tried to read mags but due to the super lack of lights we gave up.. then we started playing and talking bout lot's of lame stuffs (which is what we usually do anyway, if not we wont be called lame friends le).. so much so that......

me: hey i learned this new game which we can play from a variety show..
ps: will throw face one or not?
me: DEFINITELY!
ps: ok good, coz if not i wont play.....

haha.. tt's the right spirit ar! anyway~ we tried playing the game but so lame that we cant continue aft a few rounds.. then we played connecting words, singing songs (mixing the lyrics actually), me teaching them how to sing some nursery songs, drawing clouds and many many more la.. all just to wait for the meteor shower to begin..

oh yah.. we also played with sky lantern.. :D i really didnt know we can release sky lantern in SG as well.. i'm so excited when i saw ppl doing that.. quickly went to buy one so we can release it as well (one for $8)..

this sky lantern is smaller than the one i released in taiwan.. but cuter coz it's heart-shaped.. initially we had some difficulty "flying" it.. it just dun wanna float.. but thankfully aft some time, it finally took off.. when that happened, all those who were around us cheered and clapped.. haha.. tt's when i realized so many ppl were watching us releasing the sky lantern.. pai say~ our sky lantern also flew very very up high.. higher than those released earlier..

ps: wow our sky lantern flew SO SO SO high ar!
the rest of us: YAH!!
ps: wah the higher it flew, the more our wishes are gonna come true!
me: but we got no pens.... WE DIDNT WRITE ANY WISHES!!!!!!
ps and me: WAHH!!!!!!! *wailing*

haha.. i think those around us must be thinking we're really crazy.. but well~ aft that more and more ppl started releasing sky lanterns too.. i think the organisers could set a specific timing then all of us release it tgt.. i think tt'll be a very spectacular view~ :D

but well~ finally we waited till 2-3am.. and started to spot some meteor shooting by~ we're so excited when we saw the first one.. everyone started cheering.. but then the clouds were really playing tricks with us.. it was initially so heavily clouded that we wanted to give up, thinking that it's impossible to see meteor shower with those clouds.. but then the clouds started dispersing.. our hopes were high again and waited patiently for the meteor shower.. but when it's finally time for the meteor shower to begin, the clouds came back again, blocking most of our view

haix.. so coz of the clouds, we didnt see the entire meteor shower.. (but thank God it didnt rain on that day, if not it'll be worst bahz.. there's really no shelter over there, especially for almost 10,000 ppl...) but we still saw around 10 meteors la.. at least it's better than none.. but worth it too coz they're really VERY VERY beautiful! awesome~ we stayed till Mr. Sun came up and left around 6+am.. 8hrs of waiting ar.. but at least it's a very nice experience, lying down and enjoying the night sky and chilling with friends..

maybe next time we can catch an entire meteor shower bahz... now i'm thinking of going overseas to catch meteor showers.. hee.. at least the conditions in some countries wld provide us with better viewing of meteor showers bahz.. anyway that has always been my wishes too.. to travel overseas to watch meteor showers, see milky way and stars-filled skies and also north pole to watch aurora.. hee.. someday la.. hopefully..

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this year leonid meteor shower will happen on 18th nov, starting aft midnight and peak at 5am!

and good for us Singaporeans, coz this time the meteors will pass by very closely to the centre of the earth (which is where SG is at la~~) so hopefully we can see a really spectacular view of meteor shower! plus, it'll be on the day of new moon, so very minimum light pollution/distraction from the moon..

Singapore Science Centre and The Astronomical Society of Singapore are gonna organize various fringe activities in japanese garden while waiting for the real meteor shower.. can check out more info here: Festival of the Stars.

yea~ i'm gonna go with my best-est lame friends.. now we just need to find a nice dark spot in SG.. and pray that it wont be rainy or cloudy on that day~ *prays hard*

anyone else wanna join us? :D

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Singapore is FINALLY getting its own pandas from China! The pair of pandas, a one-year-old female and a two-year-old male, are from the Wolong panda reserve in China’s south-western Sichuan province.

yeah!yeah! finally!!! for so long we've been wondering when China will send us pandas too.. now finally they're doing so :D the pandas are expected to arrive in 2011 and will be housed at the new River Safari.. it's gonna be very crowded bahz... but so exciting.. finally can see the pandas without flying overseas..

i'm just wondering why they are loaning it to us for 10years ~_~" we have to return the pandas to them aft 10 years... what abt their offsprings then? hmm.. they'll born in SG bahz.... so.. can they stay? hmm....

pandas!! time to go to the zoo again!! :D
(min was asking me to go zoo recently also.. haha.. let's wait for the pandas to arrive?? haha)

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Translation for video: During summer vacation, my family and I went to a field of flowers which produce many peanuts. We also went to FenQiHu to swim (a place in Taiwan. Though they have the word “lake” in the name for this place, it is actually not a lake but a village in the mountain). Dad even caught a huge fish. After we got tire out from playing, I climbed onto a watermelon tree and picked many watermelons for everyone to eat. We also went to Hsuehshan Tunnel for snow-skiing (direct translation = snow mountain tunnel. a very long underground tunnel in Taiwan meant for vehicles, didn’t really have snow).

I finally found this video! Saw this ad so many months ago, kept thinking of it but cant find it online coz I’m not sure what this ad is featuring exactly. Finally ystd it just dawned on me who the young actor was, and I searched for this ad under his name.. and ta-da~ found it at last.. :D I shld have guessed it was him long ago ar, that chubbiness and tone….. hee.. he’s actually quite popular in Taiwan now coz he acted in one popular drama.

Initially when I saw this ad, I thought it was to advice parents to bring their child out during the holidays. Importance of going outdoors sort of message.. But then I finally saw the full version.. it’s actually ad for rentals of cars, so parents shld rent cars to bring their children out during the holidays.. quite innovative ar.. so cute oso.. hee.. if only we have more of such ads in SG.. :D

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Children see.
Childen do.
Make your influence positive.

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Singapore Hits Award on friday was a blast.. first time attending a "live" awards ceremony for singers instead of watching the telecast at home.. so the "good" thing about watching it live, is that you will see things/actions that you cant see on tv.. anyway the entire ceremony lasted about 4hrs, but the telecast on tv lasted for only 2hrs.. so you wont be able to see the other 2hrs if you didnt attend the ceremony..

there's also scenes where the crews will be sweeping the floor or setting up the stage when the camera was focused only on the singer's face (when he/she was giving his/her thanksgiving speech).. there's also parts when there's technical difficulties and the videos were cut off halfway.. thanks to such technical faults, i get to see how we singaporeans changed so quickly from cheering to boo-ing.. and they'll also record our cheering and clapping right before the start of the ceremony.. and many many more.. it's really quite interesting..

but anyway~ i was there coz Mayday were there dragged ps, ps's cousin and yp there coz S.H.E. were there too.. i especially love the parts where S.H.E. and Mayday were like "challenging" one another to see who receive the most number of awards.. sadly Mayday only sang 3 songs but understandable la.. since it's not their concert alone ~_~" hmm.. now i cant wait for their next concert.. hee.. well, another good thing is we got to hear and see so many other singers la.. not bad experience on the whole :D


celebrated wan's 22nd bday ystd aft church service too.. went to this italian restaurant in serangoon gdn (Ristorante De Parma).. we walked passed the restaurant so many times in the past but didnt really step in.. i even doubted the quality of the food initially.. but aft reading reviews online (which were mostly quite positive ones), we decided to just go and try it out..

when we're there, they informed us that there's no pizza for the day coz their pizza machine was under some sort of maintenance.. sad for me coz i'm kinda looking forward to eating pizza.. but well~ at least they still have pastas.. we ordered 2 pastas and 1 plate of mussels to share.. food were very yummy though we waited for quite some time for the food~ :D service was good too.. price reasonable.. another good place for good meal in gardens

next we went icecube for dessert.. and finally off to min's hse to play mahjong.. tingS and ps spent some time to teach me first before we really started playing.. so stress playing with these "experts" ar.. luckily we're not playing with money.. if not i duno need to pay them how many millions le.. i think mahjong is quite fun.. but really require alot of thinking.. play until headache ar.. haha.. too much thinking le.. i think i need more practices to play against the tingS and ps again.. haha.. any online version to recommend? :D

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what is your everyday routine?

a few days ago i thought to myself, "routine is in fact, something very scary.. very very scary.." well routine could be good for a child so that he may feel secure etc.. but for adults, it could be so scary, esp when we are too accustomed to these routines..

it all started when i recalled the last six months since i started working.. "wow, half a year already?!?!".. i felt like as though i've pressed some fast forward buttons that i hardly feel i've been working for that long.. i wonder whether this is good or not.. either i'm really enjoying myself in work that time flies or everything became a routine that i didnt even know time is ticking away.. hmm..

anyway~ everything is similar to me everyday.. wake up, go work, teach, supervise, work, facilitate, play, go home, slack, work, sleep..

the other day one of my NP's lecturers, Philip, came to my centre to supervise this attachment student in my class.. and we had a little talk.. one of the questions he asked me really put me into thinking.. he asked, "so do your students engage in such outdoor free-play everyday?" i started thinking, "yah though we will change venues for children's outdoor play, it's basically just time for them to play freely outdoor".. then philip asked, "no planned games/activities for them?" (yah, he and his games...) well i used to plan games for them when i just started work.. but then.........

that's when i thought that i had been so routinized that i started to "slack" in my work.. i realized i might be losing some interest or rather, motivation to do something different.. which is really not what i want and definitely not what i learned.. hmm.. i better be doing sth different from now on..

i've decided....

i need to read again (like how i used to read up texts/research/information everyday when i'm a student)..

i need to start planning and conducting sth different (outdoor activities/games, using puppets in storytelling again, educational activities in the afternoon even though it's free-play time - actually i got bored watching and playing the same old toys with the kids too.. etc)..

i need to focus on my professisonal development and learning too (get started in action research already, going for workshops/talks wld be actually good too, spend more time writing reflective journals.. etc)..

i need to be different.. i need to grow grow grow~~ :D

alright.. so let's hope i'll be able to break away from these routines and start to do things differently.. i think my students and me deserve to have lot's of happy experiences in school and i shld provide more of that.. maybe i shld include a "be different" time slot in my routine.. so i can "force" myself to do or try out different things every week..

so much of our time is routine.. let's break free already~

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another song that i cant stop listening to recently.. duet by Jay Chou and Cindy Yuan.. nice song!

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i'm gonna start from the most recent events....

so last fri, went field trip with my kids and their parents to jurong bird park.. thank God for the awesome weather, cloudy but not raining.. i think it's my first time there.. and wow, it's actually not so bad :D but cant really explore the place at my own pace, coz i still have to lead the kids and parents to various "stations".. felt like a tour guide rushing the tourists to go here and there.. i think we see each bird for like only less than 1min then we gotta move on.. i didnt really know the names of all the birds as well.. so when i'm explaining to the kids, i wld say, "wow, look at that BIRD~".. and then, "see that BIRD with the long beak".. "that's a beautiful BIRD!".. haha.. they're all BIRDS to me..

some kids went without having their parents accompanying them, so the teachers had to be their "mummies" for a day.. and man~ it's so tiring ar~~ have to make sure they're always always within my view, or they're hydrating themselves well enough, or they're enjoying themselves, or they're this and that and this and that.. haix.. i think such trip is useful for teachers like me to understand the things that parents have to deal with.. on the other hand, i also think it is useful for parents to understand what the teachers have to deal with.. haha.. such an amaze that we're dealing with the same kids but in such different ways..

anyway i really had fun with the kids.. cant wait for another field trip~~ hee..


went night safari (halloween event) last last weekend with some 14 friends.. aft sat youth service, we headed to night safari and reached there bout 8pm.. the queue to buy tickets was SUPER SUPER SUPER LONG~~~ actually everywhere there's queue and they're all super long.. ~_~" thought we might not be able to enter in the first place and wanted to give up.. hmm.. anyway~ thankfully we met yin jie, coz she had 9 of her relatives and friends together (and she's quite ahead in the long queue), so plus our 14, we can get 23 tickets all tgt.. the main point is, we can get 20% off if we got 30 ppl.. so initially we had to find 16 ppl more, but with yin jie and gang, we just need to find 7 more.. which made things so much easier :D

so well~ once we're finally INSIDE the night safari, it's already 10plus.. we went for an animal show and then the tram of terror, where they fetched us to some "haunted" places in the safari with lot's of "ghosts".. man they're really freaking.. ~_~"

but the most most "FREAKING" of them all, is an elephant.. haha.. the largest elephant in the compound, so innocently looking when the guide was explaining it to us.. then suddenly it lifted it's HUGE trunk up and sprayed a MASSIVE amount of water at us.. thankfully ps was sitting next to me, helping me to block most of the water.. HAHA.. but later she smelled like the entire night safari.. such a playful elephant :D so aft the tram ride, wanted to explore the safari even more, but then it closed at 12mn.. :( thought it was 2am.. haix.. wanted to explore it even more..



min's 22nd birthday celebration.. first we went to this E2Max Chambers where we got a room to watch movie or play games.. spent there for the afternoon watching "bedtime stories" and playing some racing games.. then we randomly chose a korean restaurant in orchard central for dinner.. thankfully the food is yummy~ :D next we had supper at ben and jerry.. such a long time catching up with one another and celebrating and doing lame stuffs as usual :D

celebrated my bro's birthday with some relatives (whose bday fell on the same day as min's bday) in the same korean restaurant which we celebrated min's bday.. hee.. same bday, same place for celebration..



lastly, gathering with some wheelock girls a few weeks ago.. it was a really good "reunion".. went waruku at hereen for dinner (since we have 10 of us, we got a private dining area, so cool).. we ate and gossiped chatted from 7plus all the way till closing at 10plus.. then we moved on to TCC and continued chatting all the way till closing at 2am.. haha.. i think tt's what happened when a bunch of females gathered, we have never-ending topics to chat about.. cant wait to meet them again! :D christmas chalet!!! :D

ok enough bout updating~ now a favour from all of you~

today in the afternoon, received a call from uncle john with a really bad news..... ystd i was teaching sunday school, and one of the girl that i taught got fever later at night, and was confirmed to have hand-foot-mouth disease.. i really got a shock aft hearing that because not only hfmd is contagious, but if i got it, i might be spreading it to 30 over kids as well.. and one of the symptoms is having ulcers in your mouth.. and so i got 2 ulcers which started just today also in my mouth.. i really really am praying super hard that it's not hfmd but just that i'm heaty.. ARGH!!~~ i really dun wanna get hfmd.. i got so many plans for weekend also :(

so please please pray for me tt i'll not get hfmd~!! ARGH~~ i dont want!!!!~~~

thanks~ :D

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