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6B POTLUCK @ LG's hse

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

HEY everybadeh!

as some of you would have known, we're having a clss gathering/outing this fri! initially i said we'll be going out rite...but we've decided that we shall gather at mr lan's hse for potluck dinner! firstly, SAVE MONEY. secondly, more cosy and homely -.- hmm..

as the name suggests, potluck means each of us must bring some food to contribute la. so..... let's think of what food we can bring on fri! yay! the guys, even if u cant cook dun everyone just go and buy chips and snacks hor. at least buy some substantial food like satay/fried mee/rojak etc.

Below is the list of food that we're thinking of:
- chips (no more than 3 packets)
- drinks (about four 1.5L drinks will do)
- satay?
- nuggest, hotdogs
- fried beehoon
- curry chicken (whose mum can volunteer to cook!)
- rojak
- banana cake
- fruits
- jelly
- cocktail

1) TAKE YOUR PICK! (meaning which one u wanna bring)
2) and TAG at the board what u've chosen to bring

to avoid repetitons.

ok, so tentatively:

[1] Date: Good Friday!
[2] Time: meet at 4pm (we're definitely expecting late comers)
[3] Venue: mr lan's hse
(or meet at the busstop at his hse, there're 48, 93, 153, 165, 174, 186, 961 and some others? for full list pls msg languan/mrs lan [im sure she knows v well])

Agenda o.O :
[1] celebrate our gd results! (vvvv good la, relative to prelims -.-)
[2] clss bonding!
[3] reminisce our past :D
[4] sing K at lg's hse
[5] watch dvds at his hse
[6] chill out at the swimming pooooooL! (again)
[7] after which we can take a bus to bk timah plaza to play the REAL pool?

YUP THATS WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO! :D

be excited yo!
rmb to TAKE YOUR PICK & TAG, cya!

MAKING LESSONS COME ALIVE and see yourself half dead

Sunday, March 16, 2008

i know this is random.

anyway, i was thinking about some things this morning and i had a moment of epiphany!

from this 3 months experience as a relief teacher,

i realised...
1. it's frigging difficult to remember names
2. it's takes SUPER ALOT OF EFFORT to actually remember a particular student's style of writing, individual mistake and choice of topic. so if you recall, mr wong would tell xiaomeng: "i can predict what topic you will choose in your block test. rethink your choice..." -.- woah.
3. writing "see me" on the piece of homework or forcing the student to come down for consultation is actually a STRESSFUL TASK. you actually think teachers WANT to see you so much? hoho. and you wonder why teachers hound you for work, force you to write extra essays (Mrs Lee). and even presents you a consultation booking form that eases the whole process of robbing away the teacher's much-needed personal time. (Mr Chua)
4. to prepare interesting methods to conduct lessons is a BRAIN CELL KILLING activity. do you recall our j1 GP lessons where we had skits, role play, some nuclear war activity and deciding whether to save the old scientist or a young disabled man. and you wonder where ms yang's brain cells came from..
5. and you'll find students remember how many times they have gone to the toilet in a day much better than what you've taught them. and while you are refraining from pulling your hair out because you're repeating the SAME thing for the umpteenth time, they still expect you to be patient. OH WELLS.

not that my experience's been that bad, but i just had the opportunity to look into the staffroom to see how teachers are humans after all...

bottomline: let's spend a minute to observe silence and appreciate teachers!

yeah...i decided teaching is one of the most noble careers around, especially with students like us. too bad, if i were to be a student again, i'd be the best one ever man! but haha so sad, our classroom days are overrrrr!

an innocent comment

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Ok.
considering its the first time i lay my fingers on this blog, i should be entitled to a standing ovation for having the courage to niao myself =.= (on orders of whoever u may see involved in the following conversation)

thx ar ><

here goes..

=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
thats like the FIRST joke i ever rmb la
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
and one more lame one by eunmice!
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
shit i sudd forgot
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
oh cos we in clss say 'man, do the right thing!'
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
den she.. 'woman, do the left thing'
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
....
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
that was the first time we got super LAMED by her

fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
ohhh
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
yea
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
i rem tat one lol
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
they qt zai
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
i must admit

=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
..............................................
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
lidat called zai
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
oh shit
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
typo
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
i meant sai
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
she'd be delighted to hear that!
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
full of shit
=) 蒨chiann lol class blog damn funny says:
HAHAHAHAH! thats like holy different!
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
yea
fei : : co sentosa outing ANYONEXD says:
holy shit rite

zzz. ok!

a proper closure? or just another beginning?

Saturday, March 08, 2008

so there goes our last time gathering tgt as a cohort.. (not that we had the time and mood to reminisce and be emo ytd)

but still, it could be considered as a proper closure for us? hopefully a pleasant one for most. the end result of 2 years of hard (or maybe not so hard sometimes) work, lectures and tutorials, and here we have it - all summed up on ONE piece of flimsy half A4-sized paper. hmm...who dare say it's fair? but it's not entirely unfair either.

good or bad, there'll always be a way for everything/everyone, and a reason why some things turn out the way they turn out to be.

that said, it only gives us the tangible, the ABCDs that are printed black and white on paper, which of course do matter. but for how long? 6 months? 2 years?

the intangible - the fun we had in tutorials, the bonds we forged thru having common external 'threats' and 'enemies', our fame among teachers (for all the not-so-correct reasons), outings outside of class, our cliched "oh 你很好 SHIAO" convos..... are the ones that are going to live on for a long, long, long, long time.

ha, the other day eunice was commenting that on hindsight, most things would seem a lot more memorable. and i agreed, it didnt feel bad at all, even the minor conflicts and disputes along the way were not entirely unbearable. so i was telling her how sometimes those lame fun we had in class would just very randomly flash across my mind, and i'd laugh to myself very stupidly like when i'm on bus/road/train etc.

like for example,

one of the very first jokes during our first yr:
(during one of the skit presentation in msyang's GP clss)

Eunice (in the skit): "Hi, this is the pharmacy! I am the.."
Dt (one of the audience): "...farmer."

haha i dunno why, but i just seem to rmb this part very very well. and yuanxin (wow) who was sitting beside me went "shit 为什么 daoteng 学到 eunice!" i still rmb the setting! i think it was A4-01! or A3-01. eunice, hany, nigel and shengbin were supposedly presenting their skit.

and somemore:

Classic dialogues during econs lessons

Lee: 45% of singaporeans have only up to secondary sch education!
HF: har really meh!?
Lee: har wat! very surprising meh. if you fail your 'A's you're going to fall into that category.
HF: ...... (whole class burst into laughter)

*(AND THANK GOODNESS IT DIDN'T HAPPEN)

Lee: malaysia produces their own car, Proton. but what will happen to proton once they remove the tariffs on japan cars?
Pow: become electron!

(HAHA, i seriously thought this was DAMN funny. i think i laughed for quite a long time before i could calm myself down)

yea, so that's what i mean by the intangibles. that makes this whole thing not so much of a closure, but rather a new phase of our friendship correct?? the extension of it even after we leave school, thanks to the lameness that makes tutorials alot more (or maybe not so) bearable :)

how about let's have a fixed date in June every year to meet up? firstly, June = 6 = us. (but i dunno which day to choose since i cant decide what number B represents). secondly, June = JuneYang, the very very impt person in our 2 yrs! ok that was wholly random :D

waha, i have a feeling no one will respond to this suggestion. ah but fine, just hope we'll still see each other as often as possible.

thanks for everything in these 2 years, u've made college life alot more memorable for me (whether good or bad, even the bad are not so bad in a way)

;)

愿我们在迈向成功路上再次相见