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today is my best friend's birthday, and he said that i was a hypocrite because i had forgotten his birthday. oh man i feel so bad!!! i wanted to do something for him, REALLY!!! haiz. i suck.

but!!!

i shall comfort myself that he has never attended any of my birthday celebrations before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STILL DARE TO CONSTANTLY REMIND ME ABOUT OUR 5-YEARS FRIENDSHIP!!!

hahaha

there!

i feel all better now!


HAHAHAHAHA!


just kidding.

i still feel bad.

and he's still always my best friend even though i've forgotten his birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




today.

was my first day teaching at a student care centre.

my class consists of Primary 1s and 2s.

These kids are tiny!

they are 7 and 8 years old and so small!

but they are soooo full of energy! power-packed little humans! haha!

children are indeed life at its best!

my first day and i could quickly get a feel of what's happening in the class.

there's a crybaby.

there's a very strong-minded and bossy girl that all the girls want to be friends with. and that's a problem for me. i realise that when she's there, the girls that follow her, will tend to be very rebellous like her. gawd. but once she's not there, those girls become sweet little things again.

oh. and it's a problem for me because this girl is very very intelligent and she knows it. she constantly reminds you that she's from a top girls' school, and that she dances ballet. she quickly picks it up when you say something wrong, and interrogate you until you apologise for your mistake. and when you apologise, she's got this satisfied smirk on her face.

i appreciate all human beings, big and small, intelligent or simple-minded. but to have such a young kid being seemingly smarter than you is...ineffable (new word i learnt in my luxurious weekend. haha! it means indescribable.)


today a kid asked me, "Miss Tan, are you smart?"

I said, "well, what do you think?"

"what is 1 plus 1?"

"2."

"2 plus 2?"

"4."

"4 plus 4?"

"8."

"What's the first question i asked?"

"Miss Tan, are you smart?"

and she looked at me with renewed respect.


HAHAHAHAH!

this brings back a lot of memories!

how many times have you been tricked by your friend by this cunning question when you were in primary school?


children are still the same.

i really disagree with what people are forever saying.

like, how children nowadays are more mature, more ill-behaved etc etc

children now are still like children in the past.

they are still rather pure and innocent although nowadays they get to know the 'f-word' rather early! i only knew there was such word when i was 11 or 12.

let me share something rather cute today alright?

so the lower primary kids had this pizza making session, and the teacher was introducing one of the ingredients, which were button mushrooms.

"butter mushrooms?" one student asked.

"no. button mushrooms. B-U-T-T-O-N. BUTTON," the teacher said.

"why is it called a button mushroom?" another student queried.

"well, don't ask me! i don't know why!" the teacher said.

"is it because it is made from buttons?" one of the youngest girls in the class asked innocently.

and the funniest thing is that everyone was looking at the teacher expectantly, kind of like waiting for a "Yes! that's it!" reaction from the teacher.

they honestly do think that might be it.

haha!

super cute!


and then when the green peppers were introduced, many students went, "EEEWWW!"

and the teacher said, "no, these are great! put them into your pizza alright? trust me, they are very very delicious."

there were a lot of protests, and out of nowhere, this youngest girl looked the teacher straight into her eye and shouted, "I TRUST YOU!"

and the teacher went, "what?" she couldn't hear the little girl very clearly from all the chaos.

and the girl repeated with the same sincerity and firm stare, "I TRUST YOU!"

the teacher laughed and said, "ok! haha!"

the girl didn't laugh. she still had this really serious expression on her face.

it's really cute!

and btw, the teacher is not me ok. haha!



ahhh

i've just typed a full chunk of words, words and more words!

i've a lot to share but i've got to turn in early.

it takes a lot a lot of attention and focus to teach young kids.



and also, night shift at the ramen restaurant was great tonight. customers were all so nice and considerate to me!

i always think i'm so lucky!

whenever i work in the service line, all i get are really nice customers who smile kindly at me, and who seem to trust me.

what do i mean by trusting me?

like, sharing with me some of their joy that day although we've only seen each other for maybe a few minutes in the restaurant? like, pulling me in to their surprise birthday plans. like, ordering what i recommend just because i recommend it. like giving me feedback on the food and service.

not big things.

but if you are in the service line, have you ever think about your customers in such a good way? that your customers are here to enjoy themselves, and that you should feel lucky and honoured that they are putting trust in you that you will give them a fabulous time? that you are lucky to be able to share someone else's pride and joy?

sometimes i really feel very very lucky because the customers i get are all very fun, polite, understanding, funny etc etc.


or perhaps it's my lucky day today because it's my best friend's birthday. :)

Hi!

Today sure was a busy night! But I like it! :D I just love the rush of it all. hehehe!


So Monday, I would start my relief teaching job at a Before and After Schoolcare Center. I'm lucky! Like, there was only one vacancy left, and I got it! Suddenly I have so many chances in the education sector. I'm really grateful you know. :D

When I was a student, I've always wanted to try teaching, but I could never get any teaching jobs!

So it seems that my chances are coming now, and I'm determined to do an excellent job! Hehe!

I spent the whole morning making lesson plans. I think my lessons are so exciting and interesting and meaningful!!! HAHAHA!

Hope I can spend my 1.25 remaining year in Singapore teaching!!!


Kids are so wonderful. I can't stress enough about that!

They are really really really sweet in their own little ways. Yea, even the notorious 14 year-olds are sweet. Haha! As long as you are still in school, and not exposed to the working society yet, you are probably really innocent and sweet, even if you think otherwise.



Anyway, on Sunday night, I went to my cousin's wedding with my mother, and shared a table with some other people, and it turned out that this woman sitting opposite me managed talents in a event company. And she said I looked like a Japanese doll ( super happy! hahaha! ), and asked me whether I would like to sing in events.

I was really super happy, although I know her company couldn't possibly manage me because their company only managed young talents. Young as in children. You know? 12 years old and below? You know? That age that we were 10 years ago?!?! -_-"

But she invited me to sing at some famous pub. ( I've heard of the pub's name before, but I can't recall the name now. I'm not a night-life person at all!! Bleahh... But since pub noobs like me have even heard of the name before, that means it's pretty famous, right! )

I guess I will contact her soon. I need to share this news with Xuan!!! She said I could invite a friend to sing too!!!

Anyway, I'm not sure of the details. Will get back to her soon I guess! :D


And here are some pictures of me and my mum after the wedding dinner. :D

Alright, that's all!

Oh...i read my brother's blog this afternoon, and he wrote that he wished he were as clever as me. -_-"

I don't think I'm very clever at all. And I'm upset he wrote me as clever only. Why couldn't he write, "I wished I were as funny as my sister?"


I used to be funny.

But you know what?

I don't think i'm that funny anymore.

I feel that 2009 is a very important year to me. I can feel some drastic changes inside me that I know once I change to what I feel I should, there will be no return.

So I'm spending a lot of time, asking myself what kind of person I really want to become. And I will throw away parts of the old me.

I don't know. I just feel that it is a year of big change in me.

I just have that feeling inside me that says, "You are ready now."

It's weird.

I wonder if everyone goes through this?

Because I have seen people change drastically suddenly, and I've always wondered WHAT HAPPENED??!!

maybe this happened to them too.

the reason why i want to learn Lindy Hop is because i like that kind of music!! hahaha!

i remember once when i went over to Mervyn's place for some misc work, he asked me what kind of music i liked, and he randomly played this record on his antique record player, and immediately, i felt like dancing. HAHAHAHA! it's lindy hop's kind of songs...

and this post is really random i know.

but...

is lindy hop hard to learn, i wonder.

looks so hard!!!

check this out!!!




promise me to watch this, won't ya?

ok who am i talking to?

i don't know.

off to bed.

zzzz