Bon Voyage, Ah Bong!
Kt, ah meng and I went to send Ben off at Changi Airport. The next time we shall see him will be August most probably. Originally, there was supposed to be four of us. But mg last minute “fly aeroplane”.
We were there super early, at around 9.10pm. When we reached, the male lead was not even there yet. Lucky, I told ah meng that 7pm was too early, else we would be even earlier. But kt and ah meng still met at 7pm… to play psp at mac. Zzz…
Most of the time, the three of us were just chit chatting among ourselves as Ben had other groups of friends coming to send him off too. Ben said that he brought xiao bai and I reminded him to take pictures with xiao bai whiles hes there.. haha.. Ben and his friend literally lead a procession all the way to the departure gate, and we were nosiest bunch of people in Terminal One.
What happened next is a direct consequence of being in the company of someone who is always trying to gain weight. Ya, we had supper at Popeyes after the stroke of midnight. And blame myself for not being able to resist the temptation.
We took a cab back and it was 1am++ when I reached home. As usual, I met kt in Castle Age soon after that : x
O level Results
2 of my students got their results on Monday.
Boy
Emaths: E8 -> B3
Science: C5/6 -> B3
Quite a bit of improvements shown, considering the fact that he only came to me 2 months before the O levels. But I think that he could have done better especially emaths. He finished the paper in 45mins and left the examination hall in 1 hour, after checking it thrice. But when he compared answers with me, quite a number of careless mistakes. Questions which he normally did well in, he fumbled. Over-confidence.
Girl
E Maths: C6 -> ???
No reply from her. I guessed its bad news?
Kinda disappointed with the results because I really put in effort to help them. Sigh. Maybe my expectations were too high. Ultimately, the game is set in their hands, not mine.
Post BP Gang Syndrome
A few days ago, Jan was posting the idea of going for xmas photo taking on facebook. Somehow yesterday, we anyhow anyhow and all of us were meeting for a dinner. Kinda amazed how everything was only confirmed at noon and attendance was 90%. I like impromtu =)
So we had dinner at Aston, Cathay branch. It took me half an hour to get from train station to the restaurant. It happens that PS was having a movie event and invited Jay Chou and Lin Zhi Ling. They shut down some of the escalators and I had to walk through congested human traffic. I think it was near the time where the actors finally came out, from the sound of the fans’ screams and camera flashes .
So we went out to take photos after dinner. We talked more than we walked. Walked 5 steps, chit chat 10 mins. We only managed to go from PS to Central eventually.
As usual, we had to have supper. Ended up none of us ate anything. Only a drink each. And we sat there chit chatting from 12am – 4am. I have a feeling that if we wanted to, we can go all the way till public transport comes alive again.
We talked about lotsa random stuff, future plans, marriage, gossip about other people etc…. Basically just the 4 of us talking. Ah meng was sleepy, kt and mg went home.
I had a super evil thought. I just thought how nice the chit chat session was without mg, without him adding unnecessary comments or parroting the last comment anybody said or just saying the “wrong” stuff. Its like conversations are able to go on smoothly.. no “dropped communication”. Maybe you can say there is no such thing as saying the wrong stuff or you cant expect the whole conversation to be full of “right” stuff. Oh well, thats just what I thought.
I remembered Jan? was like saying, how come you know so much ar? My first reaction was, I know alot meh? However, it does seems like i know abit here and there. Some are my points of view, not facts. My point here is not to “show off ” or rather to reflect on our relationship, as a group. We can say we are close, but most of the time we dont know what is going on, until long after the incident or we just never know? Maybe its because of the fact the our group has more guys than girls, and guys dont usually share? haha, making huge assumptions here. Then again, us 3 girls also ___ i dunno how to say. haha…
Conclusion: Such sessions are good and we should keep it up. We have stick through the student era. As we move on to the next phase of life, be it working life or even marriage, hope we will still be able to stick it through together. Friendships are not meant to be found and lost, but cherished and maintained.
Surgery saved my life
Todays episode was about a six years old boy who needs a double transplant. His mum donated her liver and his uncle his kidney. As the show title implied, the transplant was a success.
When I saw the doctors taking the organs, my first thought was “oh? Thats how our liver and kidney looks like?” I expected something more… oomph. I mean, we studied how our kidney works, functions of liver, how important they are, I expected to be more “big”, no talking about size of course. Perhaps Im too used to seeing the coloured pictures. 2nd thought, no offense, was how it look like pig liver. The same one that my mum bought from the wet market.
When the doctor took the diseased liver from the boy, it was 5 times the normal size and weighed 1kg++(or 1 pound++, didnt hear properly). The boy looked so small and the liver already took up how much of him. How much can a six years old boy weigh? It really taking a big toil on his body.
The boy is really lucky that his relatives are able to donate the 2 organ. How many more people are waiting for that one transplant?
ScreenHunter 5.1 Free
There are occasions where I need to take a screen capture, whether to note down something you see or for backups. I always do it old-fashioned way, use the Prt Sc button, paste it on another software and save it. I know of screen capture software existence but find it a hassle to actually source for a good, free one.
Saw this in the school software directory. The small file size attracted me. Tada, now Im a fan of it. haha… small and easy to use. The free version is good enough for a casual user.
http://wisdom-soft.com/downloads/downloadfiles.htm
The link is further down the page.
Short Term Memory
I know for a fact that I take a longer than average time to bathe. During shower, my mind is usually on some stuff or just plain stoning. It is not wrong to say that I am on auto mode, going through the motions mindlessly. Bath time is the time for me to relax no matter how the day went.
However, for the past few days, I realised that I have to stop and think whether I have used the shower gel. Seriously, I cant smell my arm for the “rose flavour” every single this happens.
Is this the sign of aging? Stressed lifestyle? Or just STM.
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Did I say it too loudly?
Location: NTU
What: A flock of birds were circling in the air. Because it was evening time so there were quite a number of them.
MG: Wa, so many birds, so cute
Me: 大便你就知道
A girl who was walking beside us and eating old chang kee started arm chio(hokkien)… abit too obviously.
Exercise Book
My mum recently found a half-used exercise book from somewhere and passed it to me for rough work. It was my secondary one thinking class exercise book. Thinking about thinking, my teacher say.
First Page: Habits of Mind, 1/2/99
As I flipped through, I saw words like Questioning Concepts, Creative Problem Solving, Abstracting etc etc.
One of the pages was on comparing hobbies. I actually wrote ” I enjoy reading and playing badminton”. I spent quite some time to think why I actually wrote that. Only then did I remember that I used to play badminton every week with some neigbourhood kids.
I wonder what else have I forgotten over the years…
Teacher + Why
Somehow, my students are very concerned about my outward appearance.
“Teacher, why you dont tie your hair?”
“Teacher, why you like to wear black?”
“Teacher, why you wear shorts today?”
“Teacher, why you so short?”
Or more recently…
“Teacher, why you so fat?”
oh oh…
