Simply.Just.Pure.Me
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Qifa.Commonwealth.Hwa Chong.
BMTC II.AFS.SOA.PLAD
Ren.Ray.Jan.Yu
Woon.Zing.Ner.Aili.Re.Ngai.Li
Blue.White and hazel choc
Travelling.Reading
For 2007, I hope to...
:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
:Not involve my car in any accident:
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"Dun teach so much until you have no time to spend the money..."
That was what my friend Zing told me last year when I started giving tuition and when I shared my experiences of having multiple students. And that is so true and so coming back to haunt me now...
Anyway I found myself trying to squeeze out time out of my NS work and also away from my tuition hours to have fun, and found it so difficult to do so. I mean, of all my available hours out of work, nearly half is taken up by tuition. And because of that sometimes I find myself torn between going out, having fun with my frens and staying in touch, and having a good rest at home. Both of which are very needed.
But sometimes, when I look at my students, and seeing their zest and eagerness to learn and to want to do well in school, and of course the remuneration, I find it so diffcult to let go.
Sometimes I also wonder if I am doing this for any sort of weird psychotic need to prove anything. I'm not so sure anymore.
But the reality now is that I feel so torn and in between 2 situations I am stuck in.
Sigh. enough about the ranting, it's always the most boring part. On a brigther note, I managed to salvage a little life out of my hectic schedule. Friday I was on off (yay!) and I went to have a lavish (kind of cuz the food wasn't fantastic) dim sum breakfast. Heh. Haven't had one for osme time. At Redhill... the restaurant was called... oops I forgot liao. But not very good la.
Tuition in the afternoon... followed by woon and ner's hall drama production performance at NAFA. So funny. Me and Zing were like lost sheeps wandering ard Bugis trying to find it cuz we were late and directionless. Anyway the show started late cuz most of its audience were too. However, the show was a little disappointing to be frankfully honest. I dunno... maybe it's me being in drama for 4 years and under strict standards of both teachers in sec sch and jc, that got me taking note of every thing they could have done better, and which got me criticising (in my mind of course) the things that were not so right. So sorry if this offends woon and/or ner but ur performances were great... many others' weren't. Lol.
Then on saturday, I was able to finally catch FD 3, long awaiting its arrival after I saw its movie poster in Bangkok last december. On sat... thanks to ray who was in town on fri night to help buy the tix... or else the lethal combo (of weekend show, new show, town area) would almost ensure no seats available if we were to purchase the tix on the day itself...
Movie was exciting as usual... but it lost much of its gore (to censorship?) and also much of its appeal to me: the keep-me-in-the-edge-of-my-seat-cuz-i-noe-some-death-is-about-to-happen-and-i-noe-it-would-make-me-cringe feeling. A lot of it just went poof. I like the ending tho... it screams FD 4 in neon lights!
It was followed by a wonderful dinner at CJ LaMianXiaoLongBao at Scott's. Very nice outlet to visit cuz it is quite unknown i think and thus, there will usually be no queue. The staff were quite frenly and prompt in service. We had such a wonderful dinner, with dim sum and dessert and all haha. Splurge it out man!
Then it was no life sunday (all tuition)...
Then yesterday was much better. I was working but not really working as well. You see, there's going to be a new ammo management system launched in April, which, judging by the amount of bugs and cock-ups, most of us predict would not happen, and so every ammo depot has to send a few ppl to go and learn how to use it so they in turn can teach their campmates.
So me and 5 others were chosen, and we went down to harbourfront to have the training. It was a bad start as a lethal combo of 1) 3 full 188 buses 2) not enough time and haivng to take a cab and 3) bad jam on AYE cost me a $14.20 cab ride to harbourfront... -.-'''
So anyway the only good thing was that we attended the course in CV attire, not No.4. And we had a loooooong 1.5 hour lunch break, as well as an early fall out at 4 plus. Muahhaha. The downside? Work was slowly ut surely accumulating back at my workplace.... But it was good la... It made me feel civilian... being able to walk ard HBF in CV and all...
Got my tuition pay today... makes me think that all my hard work is worth it... I hope.
"Dun teach so much until you have no time to spend the money..." I hope I try to keep this line in mind.
Terence pens his legacy at 11:02 PM
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