Kids will be kids

I've forgotten that "Starbucks" doesn't exist in secondary school students' dictionary.

JJ: Can I buy something with 2 dollars??

JJ: Wah....... So expensive.

Of course I didn't bring the lot to Starbucks and expect them to pay for the drinks. I remembered back then 5 bucks was my JC allowance a day -.- Which means it was effectively lesser than 5 bucks for sec sch, and then a drink at Starbucks is like, 6 bucks.

So I bought them a couple of drinks + muffin. Anyone would smile seeing the look on their faces after drinking and eating. (: It's the kind of simple happiness I seldom find on people's face nowadays. They kinda brought me back to the sec sch days, where having a 6 bucks nice coffee drink was pure bliss.

Of course, it's hard to attain that level with the equivalent, or even more, sometimes. Hard to search back that feeling, and even though they thanked me for today, I felt that I should be thanking them instead. Haha, seriously hard to describe my feelings now. Maybe the sense of satisfaction is much easier to explain, seeing the lot nodding their heads. Hmmm, I need to practise people management when dealing with 3 kids. The best effective way to not waste everyone's time. 

I may not have landed the teaching job, but I'm deriving the same kind of satisfaction here, which unfortunately I can't get in YL. Dizi <3

What is Singapore famous for?

1. American naval base
2. Bird Park
3. Changi Water Recycling Plant - world's largest (I thought this could be Changi Airport)
4. Diversity - multiracial, multiethnic, multinational
5. Esplanade - centre for the arts
6. Food - all kinds of food, all kinds of cuisine, at all kinds of prices. I highly recommend seafood at East Coast beach
7. Government. Lee Kuan Yew. Housing and Healthcare policy. World's highest rate of home ownership (90%) and world's lowest healthcare cost (3.7% of GDP). World's first electronic road pricing system.
8. Hub - every year, as many ships call at the Singapore port as at all of the ports of the United States. The port transships a fifth of the world's containers and half of the world's crude oil. Financial centre and forex trading hub.
9. Inkjet printers - HP develops and makes lots of them here and Dell launched its printers division in Singapore
10. Jurong Island - an offshore island formed by combining seven islands. The world's third densest chemical cluster after Houston and Rotterdam
11. K
12. L in Jun Jie!!!! LOL
13. Mustapha - Little India. 24 hour shopping.
14. Night safari - world's first
15. One North - a 200 ha research and education hub located one degree north of the equator - and INSEAD is part of it
16. Pulau Ubin - an offshore island, the last 'kampung' village left in Singapore. you take a boat there and you feel like you travel back in time
17. Q
18. Rainforest. One of two cities in the world that has a tropical rainforest.
19. Sentosa.
20. Trade. Total trade is more than 300% of GDP.
21. Umbrella - good for rain and sun. Bring yours along
22. Vanessa Mae
23. Water sports
24. X
25. Y
26. Zoo - one of our top attractions

Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Singapore_famous_for

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Haha, I wonder if anyone can find events/places for the missing alphabets.. (Ok, I put JJ's name in :s hahaha) This is quite interesting. Came across this site while pondering over the itinerary for my event.

Super tired, Slept only 3 hours on Sunday morning -.- Visited the National Museum of Singapore - it's my first time!!!!! Visited the Quest for Immortality and saw mummies. Rather interesting. Shall put the photos up when I have time. :D The paper bag exhibition was interesting too! It makes me feel like going on a museum tour around Singapore. They can be interesting! I wonder why I've always hankered after overseas museums but not our own. They are nice (:

And because I stayed up late yesterday to watch Autumn's concerto, I was so worried I wouldn't be able to wake up this morning -.- (and still continued to watch anyway~). Thanks to Clement's dad for fetching us to work, at least I got a seat all the way even if I thought it would be really rude to fall asleep on the car, LOL. 

And HELLO YUENLING YOU'RE BACK!! :D:D:D

1001 things to clear on the list by the weekend

I need to:

1) Finish my tuition work (dragging for too long!!)

2) Brainstorm ideas and draft up something for CAS day

3) Help Cynthia tomorrow

4) Go for NTUCO concert

5) BUY MY CNY CLOTHES OMG.

6) Decide on which wallet to get :D 

CNY is a week away, but I no longer have free time all the way till nxt Thursday.. :(

I need 48 hrs a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

小小彬 vs 小彬彬

Omg I swear this kid's a natural at crying.. 0_0 To cry until so tired and stoning!!!!!

Just the actors alone, it's worth watching the show. (:

A regular chip off the old block, like the legendary 小彬彬 that everyone knew (everyone born in the 70s anyway). They look identical!!!!

 

Left kid:  小小彬 Right kid: 小彬彬

It's 2 hours to FRIDAY!!

Contemplating whether to spend 80 bucks or 100 bucks :]

Spent a bomb on clothes yesterday! But it was quite reasonable, I think. Shopping shopping and more shopping ~~~~

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Feel like fainting so often these days, I suspect I can become very cynical towards a person who irritates me. =.= Gosh, how, for the next n days?! It's endless rambling if I start, so better not.

On the other hand.. stage 1 and 2 have passed. Now just waiting for THAT phone call, then stage 3 to finally having an existence known!

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Sometimes, all I need is that instant gratification when I get a "I understand" and proceed to really understand. Sometimes really, this is just what I need. Monetary gains are just secondary (:

OMG, you HAVE to watch this.

[edit] OMG, I just heard at the end of the link, "Be original, buy original. A message brought to you by IPOS."

Tell me, am I sane or have I gone mad from work?!?!?!

Oh gosh, what a fantastic surprise! Trust JJ to do something like that, given the previous performance @ JJ Party 3.. :D I think I can totally understand why JY cried. 0_0 It's a pleasant surprise not everyone may get, and it's one of my fave surprises :D :D :D Because if you didn't realize, I'm a fanatic of surprises, which is why I crack my head to surprise other people :D

In case anyone is interested in what he was saying before that..

Happening weekend~

Weekend started off on Friday night with the SCO Opening Gala and Y.E.S. 93.3 FM 20th Anniversary Rhapsodies of Spring 2010 春花齐放 2010~! Bwahaha, thanks to the source who got me the tickets, the performance was fantastic, and it's been so long since I've listened to chinese chinese orchestra songs. Violinist was great, and so was the 600k violin that she was using.. :s My only grumble was that the skit was so short! :s It's a rare sight to see all 933 deejays together (:

Seem to be conking out at nights lately. Conked out at about 2am and woke up at 9plus to prepare for the huge Costa Sands party project for the day. And yes, I skipped the talk that I registered for =.= Loaded some stuff to bring to the chalet, went for lunch, and ended up at the chalet at 2plus. It took 2 trips for most of the stuff to be brought over to the chalet, and one more trip to bring my mum + bbq food over. So many things!!!!!!!! While I was still blowing the balloons, Jason + kid and wife arrived.. And the endless rounds of carrying nieces/nephews/cousin began!! Everything snowballed from there and soon we had so many people it's scary :p Miss icy-friendship-only-last-half-an-hour-princess arrived and it took me so long to cajole her to end up playing balloons with her :D

And Pinyan got to play with her because of me, LOL. The first person outside of family to see Janelle. Well done. 

Popped over to Harry's birthday for a while for cake cutting, and mingled for a little while before going back, but alas, Janelle was gone by then! Cleared up everything after they were done with their mahjong and finished at about 2.30, before sleeping at 3plus, near 4. --> Family chalet, so definitely will end up sleeping. Haha.

My brother's friends are uber creative. They gave him a key and told him it was to unlock something. Upon reaching home at noon to collect his old phone (consequence of a stupid act, but it's okay), he found a bike outside our house!!!!!!!!!! BIKE!!!!!!! Okay, he already said I'm more excited than him. :D hahahaha.

BBQ-ed more before returning the equipment at noon time. So ate rubbish food for the entire day, but mum cooked charcoal-ed porridge!! Woot <3 Left the chalet at 5plus, and so damn tired with aching everywhere!!

But still enjoying my Autumn's Concerto now :D

Another workweek, back to the headache paper. I just have this feeling I might have put a little more pressure on myself more than I realized.. But do it, I will! Butchered - Heaven's will. Maybe that's how I'll learn the most in the shortest amount of time.

Lesson no. 1: Never assume

Assuming gets people into silly situations and stupid mistakes.

So remember, never assume!!!!!

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Am in 2 minds about the GCIP talk on Saturday. On one hand, I know I'm not really prepared for it, both mentally and knowledge wise. On the other hand.. I really relished the feeling and mugging hard, especially with a friend. Although for now, not much can be said.. =.= Should I go, or should I not. Decisions, decisions..

Maybe I should decide on Saturday, IF I manage to wake up. ... Meanwhile.. I better get back to my paper, so that lessons 2 and 3 won't be tomorrow =.=

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I can officially drive without that triangle from today onwards! BUT. Let's be happy only when I get a car of my own which could be.. 5 years later.

Me: I don't need P Plate anymore!
Dad: Okay, then can buy car liao lor.
Me: .. You say until like buying vegetables @ market like that.
Dad: Okay, if in 5 years' time you haven't gotten a car, I will pay the downpayment for you.
Me: Wah!
Dad: Because I can get my CPF by then.

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Going for the YES933 concert, yay!