A test i chanced upon

You're Elizabeth Swan, governer's daughter. Every pervy orlando-fancier hates you.

Which POTC character are you?

Not really sure what the part abt "pervy orlando-fancier" means cos did not catch the Pirates of the Carribean and then again, IF only i was really as beautiful as Elizabeth Swan...haha...better don't comment further on a character i barely know, later she's those vicious pirates that look good but are real terrors...>_<

Renault deal

Hi Friends,

I have a friend who's offering a pretty good deal for Renault cars or mini vans...so if you are currently thinking of buying 1, do check out the various models on the renault (singapore) webpage and post up a comment here so that I can inform my friend to liaise with u. No worries, this cheaper deal still comes with the 3 yr warranty and it's not like the vehicle has any stolen or faulty parts...brand new vehicles, just that my friend will earn less commission from the sale, as simple as that...and yes, he is an authorised part-time dealer, not doing this illegal. =P

Reporting sick

How? hOw? hoW?
so much assignments to complete, so little time...ok no use whining...waste time only...but really feeling ill, it's only a matter of time before i 'collapse' from stress and tiredness...like what Fen-jie say, can hardly fight the Z monster during class...Seems like my defence army against the Z monster is weakening...vulnerable to X virus and Y do they still expect us to report to class all smiles??? All the grim faces and half-open eyelids are the evidence of our race with time...

Coupled with this tiredness, my sore throat and dry cough is not helping too...so decided to inform my tuition kid's mum that i can't make it for today's session cos im ill...which is half true...the other part is that i wish to complete a draft report for tml in sch...which i failed to complete cos i was busy chatting with a like-minded friend and dealing with other chapalang stuff that will demand my attention sooner or later...

Luckily, managed to complete the draft pretty quickly (or i won't be able to be online at this time, still working on it)...really think there's a bad karma between my sis and me these few days...what's going on man? I tried to talk to her nicely, yet in the end, she still flares up and spoke rudely to a tired and almost resigned me. My parents overheard the conversation and guess what? Again...my fault...hiaz...just gotta activate my "忍功"

The past week

Quite alot have happened for the past week...just that no time to blog the experiences so here's the condensed, rewind form...

Sunday 26/9/04

Woke up this morn, happy that i'll be catching a movie "The terminal" with my sis and doing some shopping after my piano lessons but after I've changed, Sis tells me that she don't feel like going for the movie. The thundercloud gathers almost immediately above my head. Really dislikes it when plans changes the last minute...really makes me pissed off...will think thrice if the next time i ever have the thought of going out with her. So after my piano lesson, went for retail therapy...it really works wonders for me man, especially when the stores which I went to were offering clothes at a gd bargain...so as u can guess, spent quite abit but at least my face was not as black as in the morn...hahaha...however, think the past week of late nites and the stress of 10 more reports to go before the exams arrive are starting to get to me...having a sore throat and headaches for 2 days in a row...getting sick soon...haiz...can't afford to fall sick now man... 1o more days to the day which commemorate “母亲受难日”=“生日”and must bid the teenage years gdbye. *sob*sob*

Saturday 25/09/04

Watched a french film "The Buttefly" during GE today...real touching and nice movie...think in the whole class of abt 20 pple, I was the only one who was openly affected by the movie (meaning I cried when there were touching moment lah) But that's how I am...easily affected when I'm watching a movie or reading a book...get totally into the story that I feel for the characters...(so friends, if we go for the movies next time, if u see me sniffing halfway through the show, don't worry, I'm fine, just getting too involved in the story and at the same time it's a way for me to release stress...really, outpour of emotions) in short, some will say that I'm an emotional wreck when it comes to such instances...this is actually quite worrying cos i'll be out teaching soon and if i cannot control my emotions appropriately, will most probably break down in front of my students when i screen movies for them or in more serious instances, like hearing of real-life sad accounts...hope to attend a course to learn how to control my emotions soon...

Friday 24/9/04

Visited ARPC with Yifen and friends today despite the fact that I'm dead tired...cos want to check out some books only available there...the bus-ride there was quite lousy cos the bus was stuffy and i was having a splitting headache from lack of sleep...luckily, after dinner at Adam Road hawker centre, felt better. Felt quite embaressed that the first time out with Yifen's friends and I'm not feeling well, appear so "off" (walk slower than usual, did not communicate much, particular about not sitting near the mutton soup stall cos of the strong smell) Hope that they'll understand if they get the chance to read this blog...thanks for understanding! But, I'm really glad that I went cos i've learnt quite alot and hope to have the chance to go with Yifen more often (Fen-jie, u know what i mean ~sigh~)

Thursday 23/9/04

My "travelmate", "咖啡姐", chum in NIE turns 23 today!!! Happy Belated Birthday wishes yah...(cos i blog on sunday mahz) Hope you had a very memorable 23rd birthday celebration with different groups of your loved ones and friends...Just wanna say a big THANK YOU...for being an extremely supportive friend, sharing with me whenever I've alot of 'weird' queries abt Christianity, sharing life experiences with me through the stories and our daily "gossips" haha...really feel very fortunate to have met you and got to know you in NIE cos it's really quite rare to find someone with the same schema as me on alot of issues especially in tertiary instituition (people normally find their closest friends in secondary schools and jcs)!!! Gotta thank my guardian angels that I managed to find a close friend in each stage of my education and to many more years of our friendships to come...CHEERS! (too bad msn emoticons not available here...or else blog entry will be more interesting)

Back to school...

With a blink of the eye, the 1 week break is sadly over...don't think i've accomplished much, considering that there's another 2 reports due next week which i've yet to start on...real sickening...it's like trying to race against time and trying hard to complete 1 report after the other. Luckily, i did not fall ill during this break, cos heard that alot of people spent their hols trying to recuperate frm flu, etc...quite sad to have the break burnt just like that. Oh well, i better go start on my dummy picture book...do some drawings instead of facing the com all the time.

Noisy Sunday

Testing 1...testing 2...testing 1, 2, 3...geez...that's the racket which woke me up on this sunday morning...

Apparently, the RC near my place is having some carnival of sorts and they are using a super-powerful sound system early this morning(7+am) to be my morning call...and i did not request for 1 in the 1st place! Luckily, the whole event ended by 1230pm, so no more loud, annoying noise torturing our eardrums.

After 1 week of break frm sch, managed to complete 3 reports which will be due in the week when sch reopens. Feel that ive not accomplished much...quite slack when i should be packing my room and completing more reports...what to do...it's the hols...there's excuse to cut myself some slack...=P

Supper talk

Met up with Carol, Colin, Rosman and Siti at Raffles Place to discuss our upcoming NSS presentation. After ending our meeting, Colin, Rosman, Siti and myself went to Lau Pa Sat to get supper. We started recounting past relationships, learning from each others' experiences amongst other topics...reached home quite late, around 1am but the sharing was worthwhile and gave us a chance to get to know each other better.

New lovely shop

After sending my dad off for yet another business trip (to different parts of India this time round for a week), my mum, sis and i took a bus down to Suntec. Actually, my main purpose was to go check out this new Japanese shop which was featured in a Chinese programme I saw on TV this afternoon.

The shop is located in Citylink Mall, #B1-16, named Kokon Tozai. It sells accesories made with vintage kimono fabric and I really fancy the hair accesories and handbags there cos every piece is unique...nearly bought a hair accesory with pastel pink sakura design cos misheard the salesgirl saying that it costs $14.90 (which is already very pricey) but in the end, did not get it cos the actual price is $24.90!!!

Really dislike the feeling when i fancy something yet cannot buy it...guess everyone experienced that before and can understand what i mean...

It's really quite scary...i actually dreamt that I went back to the shop again with another friend and to my disappointment, the design of the hair accesory which i liked are all sold out!!! Haha...quite silly isn't it?

Flashback

During the "teaching of writing" class today, our teacher recounted that he had an accident on his bike when he was in his teens and this brings to mind the accidents i encountered when i was in primary school...the weird thing was that most of these accidents happened about 1 or 2 weeks before my birthday...real unlucky then...

It all started when i was in Primary 2, I will normally board the school bus once school's dismissed and not leave the bus to play with my friends, but 1 day, my classmate, Wanli asked me to come down and I did...when i returned to where my schoolbus was parked initially, realised that the uncle has left the school compound with my bag in the bus but not me...hence i decided to walk home, cos it's just a 15min walk and I know the way...Wanli even offered to ask her school bus uncle to give me a lift back, but i bravely said, it's ok i know my way back...unfortunately, at that age, i did not have the concept of cars capable of making u-turns at an uncontrolled junction...I was knocked down by a light blue van but luckily because it was trying to u-turn, the speed was quite slow, i only suffered some light injuries...the driver did stop the van and helped carry me to the pavements, a maid who can recognise me fussed over me before my anxious school bus uncle found me and sent me home. I did not cry until I called my mum who was at my maternal grandfather's wake, cos there was no one at home except my indifferent paternal grandfather. Upon hearing my mum's voice asking me what's wrong, I guess "self-pity" overwhelmed me and later in the evening, my dad brought me to make a police report. It was heard that the driver was caught but we did not take any legal actions against him cos I was also at fault for crossing the road recklessly...

In Primary 3, I contracted chicken pox from a classmate...so i did not really enjoy my 10th birthday...

Another dramatic accident happened when i was in Primary 4: playing catching was the "in" thing during recess so 1 fateful morning, most of our classmates were out there in the school field playing catching around 1 of the goal posts under the hot sun...i was standing near to the goalpost and another friend, Dunlin was standing at the other side of the goalpost...he started leaning on the rusty goalpost and before we knew it the goalpost started tilting forward towards me...I stood there, rooted to the spot, eyes transfixed on the falling goalpost, my mind a complete blank...until at almost the very last moment, I fell back in shock and the heavy goalpost landed on my left ankle...I was trapped and 2 other classmates were also hurt by the accident but my case was the most serious...the principal, Mr Fang was notified and another female teacher hurried to the scene. I remembered that cos my ankle was injured quite badly, it started swelling up and I could not walk. Hence, my principal carried me to his car and sent both me and another classmate, Yongqing (if i remember his name correctly) to Toa Payoh Hospital with the female teacher who was nagging all the way..."Why are all of u so mischievous? Recess time go to the field to play...see what happened now?...only know how to give us trouble..." As we were approaching the hospital, we passed by a disabled home and due to my young age, my imagination started running wild...I was thinking to myself..."Oh no...what if I end up a cripple and have to live in the disabled home for the rest of my life now???"

While waiting for our turn to get the doctor's consultation, both of us were seated in the wheelchair and the Singapore workout on TV was the only thing that can help keep my mind off the dreary image of living in the disabled home for the rest of my life. Can still recall how that song sounds...*_* The doctor made me do an X-ray and I can still remember how cold the screen was compared to my throbbing ankle...which swelled pretty much into a "tii kar". Was really glad when the principal sent us back to school for our parents to come fetch us home. While I was waiting for my dad to arrive, I remembered that the kind and endearing principal even gave me a packet of chocolate milk to fill my stomach cos it was getting quite late. (May seem nothing much to others but it left quite a deep impression in my young mind that Mr Fang did not reprimand us for our mischief but showed true concern for his students)

I was pretty lucky that I fell back in shock and had a hair-line crack in my ankle bone cos if i did not fall back, the heavy goalpost would have landed straight on my head...and i might not be able to live to this age and type what happened then...somehow, felt that some divine being was there to help me at that precise moment...maybe it was my guardian angel saving me in the nick of time or it could be my maternal grandfather who was protecting me from suffering greater harm. Remembered that my dad had to piggyback me like i was 5 up the 3 storeys to our home when we returned and I had to hop around for about 2 weeks before i can start to walk slowly again...

I remembered vividly that by the time I was back in school (rested abt 1 week at home), ironically hopscotch was the "in" game during recess and Liduan who's very straightforward, approached me and asked: "Hey Geraldine, now you must be really good at hopscotch right?" She was pretty mean, so I ignored her and limped away...

Luckily, when I was in Primary 5, my luck started to change for the better...finally, my lucky stars are shining bright once again in the sky. =)

Teacher's Day

Yesterday was Teacher's day but ironically, the trainees and lecturers in NIE did not get to enjoy a day off...it was back to campus to attend lessons and more lecturing to be done. 实习教师 “命苦”啊！ ^_^

Finally at noontime, met up with the laptop spoiler to settle the repayment matters...really glad that Fen-jie was there to help talk it out...got quite emotionally upset with the spoiler and could barely speak understandably with a raging storm brewing in my mind...In the end, can only settle for 70% which he'll pay me by 13th September while I have to fork out 30% of the total repairment fee to repay the loan I got to get my laptop back first.

Around 4.15pm, there was a fire drill practice in NIE Block 3 where we were having lessons, so the lesson had to end, and all of us gathered in the carpark. We saw most of our lecturers gathered there as well and after standing around for awhile, we decided to approach them and wish them Happy Teacher's Day..quite funny picture cos they look like celebrities shaking hands with their fans...hahaha =P The fire drill is the most realistic one most of us had ever experienced cos the fire engine and firefighters actually arrive and started extinguishing the supposedly burning area. We were dismissed after 1 hr and that was when we decided to take a class photo with most of the lecturers we know (Chinese department of cos). In the end, the photo turned out quite nice. Finally, our chinese class has a class photo...

Met up with Jiahui at Causeway Point and had fun chatting with her. Cos had a long day in sch and we spent quite a long time chatting and having dinner, by the time we left Woodlands, we were dead tired...but it was worth it! =)