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[Aug. 28th, 2009|09:26 pm] |
I started tutoring a little six year old girl today - my fourth student. she lives just a couple of blocks away. next week, we're going to do a tour of the neighbourhood to practice her oral skills. :)
got a new phone delivered yesterday!! like an old lady who quietly passes away the night before she's to move to the old folks' home, my elderly Samsung died before her replacement arrived.
I've got to do my next assignment on Adobe Illustrator for my visualcomms module. I'm so so so so fervently praying that the software won't crash my computer. since they're already so shitty to begin with, I wonder just how much more my drawing skills will suck when I start work on Illustrator.
(will find out at least a day later, after the 1 bloody gig file finishes downloading) |
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| Cheap Thrills At MJC! |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|09:21 pm] |
(an article I wrote for Musings@Meridian that never got published)
1) At matches (never at matchboxes), sit right in the middle of the block of rival school supporters and do the loudest possible version ever of a solo Meridian Medley with great gusto and chest thumps. Thrill factor x2 if you bring sparkly blue pom-poms and a chair to stand on.
2) Hang around outside an empty toilet till someone goes in. Wait long enough for him/her to enter a cubicle, then enter and sing in falsetto a verse from the Phantom of the Opera. Leave silently before he/she comes out. Add a sprinkle of maniacal laughter for added effect.
3) Translate the Meridian school song into another language and perform it during assembly.
4) Proclaim a Nerd Day when everyone should wear knee-high socks, tuck in their shirts to the armpits, and carry backpacks with straps tightened all the way. Oh, and ditch those coloured contacts for your geekiest glasses.
5) Attach yourself to a computer in the Project Room, and cackle to yourself while typing away furiously at the keyboard. When anyone turns to check out your screen, immediately cover it secretively with something, and continue to patter away while peeking underneath. Thrill factor x2 if you laugh lecherously and leer at the screen.
6) Post up advertisements for a fake CCA around school and prank whoever calls you up about it.
7) During breaks, stalk the vending machines near the LTs when demand for sneaky, surreptitious snacks is at its greatest, i.e. when the ‘ding ding ding’ bell sounds and everyone is leaving for the next class. Just before the whole 10,000 person queue attaches itself to one of the machines, plant yourself right in front. Drop in a 10 cent coin, punch in your phone number, then proceed to yell “HELLO?! IS ANYONE AT HOME???!” repeatedly into the return-coin slot. |
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[Jul. 26th, 2009|02:36 am] |
I really like my job. thanks liling :) as a (part-time) research assistant, I get to travel around to different schools and interview students. on my first day, I had a little *thrill* when I stood in front of a class of 40 students in teacher-ly clothes, and felt like I'd kind of fulfilled the teaching dream I'd had in primary school.
it's like wanting to be a pilot when you were little, and one day, sitting in the cockpit of a plane. it's no longer your dream, and you're not quite flying the plane, but still, it does mean something. :)
in one school, I noticed that all the girls in my class were wearing pigtails. and not just pigtails. two pigtails each. it was the cutest thing. I thought it was a class spirit thing (who knows?), but then I noticed the girls running in the corridors outside, and the floor below, and the floor below that, and they all had their hair in two braids! I really felt like patting their heads. so cute. turns out it's a school rule.
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my mum's coming back this saturday! yay :) I better find some time to do a major cleaning. and maybe I should do something about the plants. like buying new ones. new undead ones. was thinking of cooking something nice to show how my cooking skills have made staggering improvements (from naught to not-naught) but might not have time because of tuition, and the award ceremony for the bursary thing! never mind, got other opportunities to show off :D
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oh thought of another thing that makes me happy. the little brother of one of my students likes me!! (I dunno why the hell, though) he's three years old and talks at the top of his voice in this hoarse shout, in the way that little ones do. he insisted on staying in the room with us last week and had to be carried out, bawling, by his mum. then his sister locked the door. haha.
after lesson ends he runs up to me and shows me his shirt (oh, what a nice shirt!) and an assortment of toys (oh, what nice toys!) or tells me about school (oh, what - er, what did he say? and his sister translates his three-year-old's speech. haha).
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okies, back to marking essays! |
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|11:25 pm] |
sheep earrings!!! how can anyone resist!!! aren't they the cutest?
I have sushi, ice-cream, turtles, fish, cakes and carrots but I don't have sheep!
but these sheep cost $23...
looks like you're not fated to be with me, sheep... :( |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:03 am] |
my brudder's packing for some mobilisation thingy tomorrow. suddenly he's looking for stuff like mess tins and kiwi and travel-sized toothpaste.
"where's my jack knife???"
"I dunno but you couldn't have thrown it away right?"
"can help me find?"
"how to help you find???"
"I dunno!"
"er. accio knife!!!"
brother gives me a look.
"sorry, didn't work. forgot I'm a muggle."
well, how the hell was I supposed to know where HIS jack knife was??
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yawen and I had our yearly meetup yesterday XD
I decided on this Japanese restaurant at Liang Court called Tampopo. the ramen is frickin good. I had the kyushu ramen with pork base soup, and yawen had the miso deluxe. the broth was super tasty, and the egg was the coolest egg I've ever tried. it's hard-boiled on the outside, and completely liquid on the inside. tasted gooooood too. after tax and everything it was about 16 bucks a bowl but... worth it :D
and I'm not online now but yawen if you happen to read this, let's go watch harry potter again this year!!! I was so sad when I thought you'd be in UK for the 6th movie but yay you're back! we've watched 1-5 together right? must continue the tradition! :D
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I have my GP/Hist tuition tomorrow, the first lesson. kinda scared that the student and parent will be the attitude kind. I already suspect the SS/Hist one on sunday is the attitude kind :( he cancelled on our first lesson on monday by just smsing "I'm not free".
the tuition coordinator for tomorrow's lesson actually called me earlier to say that the parent said to bring "all my notes". he'd tried to bargain down my tuition fee but I said that teaching History would require more work on my part (than GP) because of doing notes, essay plans and all that stuff. I'm terrified that he's the kind of parent who wants an itemised bill for all the services I'm providing to justify my pay -_- |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|12:11 am] |
hahhaa caryl and I were having one of our meaningless MSN convos. you know, one that follows this pattern:
A: im bored
B: me too
A: sigh sians
B: yeah
soooo we started playing online taboo! funny shitz. the full, unabridged answers as used in our game:
NORTH WING
two words: a compass direction, and sth that helps chickens fly
POWER
something that in spiderman it says that if u have it, you have responsiblity
FLOWER GIRL
a female child who's not a bridesmaid and carries the pretty plants
GREAT-GRANDFATHER
your male DNA contributor's male DNA contributor's male DNA contributor's male DNA contributor
WHAT'S UP
what u always say whenever i come online and can theoretically be answered "ceiling" |
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[May. 30th, 2009|10:07 pm] |
it's been a month and I still haven't found a job!! I went and printed a bunch of ads for GP tuition yesterday, and went around sticking them in lift landings in my neighbouring blocks. but today on the way home, I noticed that they'd all been taken down!!! :( what kind of super-efficient cleaners do we have ar??
anyway, next sem's probable timetable:
LAK2201 Korean 2
NM2219 Communication Management
NM2208 Visual Communication
NM3224 Culture Industries
CS1105 Computing and Society
did okay this sem! korean ended up pulling me down, but what the hell. KOREA SEP HERE I COME!!! AND HUI HUI WE HAVE TO GO TOGETHER OKAY???????????????????????????????????????? :D |
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| a post that somehow ended up being all about babies |
[May. 19th, 2009|03:13 am] |
hey jude, do you wanna make it barer?
it's hysterical!
sure, he's no kid michael jackson but he's got that jason mraz-y swing, doesn't he? you can tell he's really enjoying himself, which is what makes it so fun!
oh my god I totally cracked up when he did the AHHHHHH~!!!!!
I love it when little kids show so much spunk :D
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and speaking of little kids... I went to pick up the mail before heading upstairs earlier, and saw next door's grandfather and baby hanging out around the letterboxes.
have I ever mentioned the little guy before? he's only the handsomest baby ever, like all half-angmoh kids. (why are all mixed kids so exceptionally pretty? is that a genetic hint from Mother Nature or something, to encourage us to mix-n-match?)
when we first moved in , he was a little big-eyed thing in a pram. a few months ago, he was watching me clean my bike, clutching onto the metal bars of his gate. his grandfather was encouraging him to say "jiejie" but he was too shy.
a few minutes after his grandfather wandered back inside, he suddenly burst out, "jiejie!" and ran back in.
isn't he darling????
so anyway, back to the mailboxes. today, he said hello after grandfather prompted him. and after I collected my letters, he said byebye without being asked to! :)
(he's about [edit] eleven months [/edit], I think, for those of you who actually care about this sort of thing)
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oh, you have to watch this as well...!
Charlie's face...!! I can see that expression on the face of a sixty-year-old British beer guzzler whose football team just lost a match. and that grin after Harry started sobbing a little was pure evil.
it's just averagely funny actually. until Charlie started SNIGGERING and I was like OH MY GOD THIS IS LIKE ME AND MY BROTHER AGAIN!
(when I was that age, I was also fat and bald and not very affectionate. and I scratched my brother a lot, because HE was the affectionate one and couldn't keep his hands off me. still can't, actually, which is why some scars are more recent than others.) |
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[May. 16th, 2009|10:00 pm] |
just came back from NTUC.
it's about 9.25pm, and most of the lanes are closed. I spot an open counter, and the cashier smiles at me. I smile back and hurry over.
cashier: hi, darling! how are you?
me: yeah, great!
I'm unloading my cart - all sensible grocery stuff like meat and vegetables and soya sauce - when an elderly gentleman carrying a little boy walks in.
cashier: oh, your father and your son?
me: I'm only a student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*cries* |
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[May. 16th, 2009|04:31 pm] |
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Petrie: "I... I... I flied?"
Ducky: "No, you falled."
Petrie: "I falled!!! :(("
The Land Before Time
certainly my favourite non-Disney childhood movie. :)
my favourite dinosaur is Cera. :) |
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