It's time to blog about our bowling session in Greenery resort. Right now I am in the midst chatting with my parents and it is really hard doing two things at the same time. When my side gets silent for a while, they thought that I am not attending the microphone! Anyway, let me dig out some pictures and phlog along instead.
One of the activities we did in Greenery is play bowling. I haven't really played for quite sometime...wait...maybe for a year or so! See, my life hardly touches luxury!
So the first day we watched our friends play...some of them asked us to play or join their game but we I refused although I know Roy really wanted to! Somehow I managed to divert his attention to super frozen delicious ice-cream!
Then the next day, I almost skipped meeting hours just to go play bowling and try out other thrillers! Well I didn't skip meeting but right after we immediately changed from flip-flops to sneakers and ran with some gangs. There were four of us, 3 roses and 1 thorn.
*Yellow-blue bowl shoes! Mine the feet! *_*
So we started to roll...roll...rolling...rolling...rolling...
The result showed in the screen. Guess who won??
Obviously, the thorn won!! The game ended after 10 rounds each. So we retreated to ice-cream again before going for lunch!
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I just noticed I use nasty English!!! What in the world??? "Hung out" became "hanged out"!!! Tsk! I was actually reading some comments on the previous post and noticed this supposed-to-be slang. Please help me out here...
I wanted to use this slang "hang out" or "hanging out" as in "hang/hanging out with friends", but as of my habit, I write without thinking too much (sometimes I might offend someone, sorry)!
So I thought since it's in the past, it must be "hanged out" as in be it the one that means "suspend" or "execute".
Then somehow I felt "hanged"?? "hanged"?? "hanged"?? Isk...it sounds funny..."hanged out". Plus when I checked it out and got the above result, "hang" is "execute", so "hanged" is "executed"!!
Goodness but it is a slang Aims!!! So I checked Answers.com and got this:
As I've promised earlier, here is a quick summary (thanks to photographs) on our 3 days 2 nights school retreat at Greenery Resort from Sept 23rd - Sept. 24th.
After making several U-turns to get to the right road, we finally reached Greenery Resort, Khao Yai at 12:34pm. The scene that welcomed us just took our breath away! Located at the foot of a mountain range, this resort compound is shared with another Resort -- The Golden Valley Resort.
*Notice the tropical houses, oriental duplex and cabana houses on the right hand side? Some of faculty and staffs stayed there while we were given a hotel room. So to sum up, they have quite a variety of rooms/houses you can choose from.
*Entrance to the lobby and check in area. Around the lobby is where we had our breakfast and lunch surrounded with beautiful indoor plants, fish ponds with lots of fish and a swimming pool.
*The Golden Valley Resort. Big resort indeed.
By the time we reached, some of our friends are already there. While waiting for the rest to arrive, we went ahead with lunch and mingled with each other to kill time waiting!
*We were surprised for the unplanned red! It was almost like a red day since many wore super hot red that day!:wink:
By the time we got to check in, it was already 2 something pm!
*We were assigned to room 111, right at the end of the hotel building (ground floor). The room was neat, tidy and cozy. I like the built-in hairdryer!
Since it was late noon, the sun was strikingly hot! So most of us decided to stay in our rooms/house. Hobbit and I then couldn't stand a long nap, so we took a tour around the place and displayed some killer poses! Ceh!
*My friend who is a frequent reader of my blog complained that I seldom post my picture. So here you go kawan! Nothing to sorok lah...me all loaded with paunch and flabs!
In the evening, healthy fulfilling dinner was served. One of my favorite dishes was the beef lasagna. The rakuses seated with us wanted more but it was all gone too fast! Haha!
We hanged out for a while and retreated to our own cozy land. I guess everyone was tired from the long journey from Bangkok that noon. In our case, we stayed overnight at MC that it didn't took us long to get to this ala paradise!
Well, the next day was really packed with fun activities that our friends, Hobbit and I were complaining about our postures and body aches the next day! So stay tuned to my coming posts!
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It's 3:32am. I was too tired after coming back from our school retreat that as soon as Hobbit and I came home, we unpacked out things, shower, cooked dinner, cleaned up and slept. I have lots and lots of exciting stuff to blog about the retreat but right now I am just too occupied with my Avondale assignments! Yes, I couldn't get back to sleep, so here I am doing some research online. Tsk! My assignments seem to be endless! Greenery Resort, take me back for another retreat!!! For the time being, check out Greenery Resort, the resort that I went to for the school retreat. It's such a refreshing place and gave me inspiration as to where I would be living when I surpass the average life span of human beings and all down with arthritis! *_*
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* Deanna gave this cute Precious Moments deco with our names on it. Thanks Dee!
Precious Moments characters has been my favorite since zaman kanak-kanak. I recall having a cute shirt of PM that I wore almost everyday, key chains, and stickers. When I went to college, Jaff gave me a cute PM bible. Until today I still have that bible around. During college, whenever I was too lazy to carry anything to church, I just had to grab that bible and go. Last January, there was a huge sale in Emporium on PM's figurines, I really wanted to have one of the cute ones but too bad the it was too pricey! Anyway, it is not so easy to find PM's stuff again now days and if I do find some, I just couldn't afford it. Here are some collections I like:
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My faithful companion Whitey notebook was admitted at Nexgen's hospital. Now I'm so handicap and lonely without it. *sigh* Doing anything online is almost impossible since I depend on lappy too much in the past. Now I have to queue in line just to use this teacher's room one and only desktop. The thing is, the IT dept. gave us each a desktop but funny thing, no cables to connect the pc to the monitor! Think it's new? Think again!! The school recently purchased new macintosh desktops and who are using it? Well, the kinders get to use it, not teachers. So in order to get rid of the lab's old ones, they dumped it to us here in the teacher's room. *double sigh* Lappy, come back to mama soon!
Two more classes to go until school ends. One student commented saying I don't look pretty today, blame it on my kembang hair! With the baby hair sprouting up, plus the dryness (no serum on) makes it even worse! Tsk! Feel like curling it again!
I could not blog properly at this moment. Just don't know what to say after reading accounts from the plane crash survivors...
Here are some excerpts from Bangkok Post dated 18 September 2007.
A man saved by a yellow saint...
This is an account of a woman who missed her flight. She works in Phuket but flew to Bangkok to visit relatives and supposed to fly back on the same flight...
A thankful cry and regret from an eleven year old survivor:
Declared a hero, also a survivor:
Ah...it hurts so much, don't you think so? Lord, please teach me not to take MY LIFE for granted, will You??
Life Will Never Be The Same
We all take the miracle of life for granted
Our busy hectic lives see to it that there is never enough time
Only Jesus Christ knew where He came from and where He was going
All of us of this world are left to only our faith
How does life get so unbearable for someone who is loved so much
This eternal question will never be answered by those of us left behind
The pain cannot be expressed in words, but can be seen on our faces
A tidal wave of emotion fills our spirits with anger, grief, sadness, and love
I for one will take more time to listen, and spend less time talking
When faced with a choice I will no longer take the selfish option
How many times could I have changed my schedule so I could be there
Why does it take a tragedy for families who love each other to show it
I will spend the rest of my time on earth letting the people I love know it
This poem is meant not to blame ourselves, but to open our eyes
No mother, sister, father, or brother should ever have to go through this
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As I switched on the telly this evening and browsed through the channel, I suddenly stopped browsing when a Thai broadcast news highlighted a plane crash in Phuket, Thailand. Obviously as I continued watching, I managed to interpret what the news reader were saying in Thai -- 128, One-To-Go, Phuket Adventist Hospital, Phuket General Hospital, Raining...66 killed...Arggh! So frustrating when I cannot understand full sentences in Thai! However, I managed to put everything together and sum up the incident.
It was a One-To-Go budget plane from Bangkok to Phuket crashed this afternoon at about 3:35pm while landing at Phuket International Airport. As I am typing, the death toll is 88 and it is increasing in minutes! There were 123 passengers who boarded the plane including 5 crew members. The passengers were mixtures of foreigners and Thais so I guess the whole world is watching and following the news every now and then. Read more about it here.
How sad. I was speechless after I learned about it and I still am at this moment. All I can do is lift up prayers for those who are involved directly and indirectly, the victims, families and friends, the rescue teams, hospitals, etc. God, please help and comfort them. I've read of many plane crash incident in Phuket, my prayer is that let this be the last one. Well, no place is safe anymore in this world. He is coming soon! So people get ready.
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Read my favorite book in the Bible, Romans. Why do I like this book? Because it sounds like Romance! Hah! Kidding! Well, I just find this book beautiful and the messages are so practical. Sometimes the verses just hit me, hence realization kicked in that made me realize how human I am and how much I needed God. It gives me the urge to turn back before I fall into satan's pit!
Romans 12:2 - Don't be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to Him.
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Right now, I'm thinking hard of what to actually write in my journals for my Cultural class assignments. Goodness...10 entries to write, what to write?? It's as if a humongous rock is covering my mental site from seeing the key words or hints to my assignments. *sigh* *sigh*
Good thing is I can keep myself from being insane through chatting with friends.
Finally got my pp verified after a long wait.
Argh...what's wrong with this weather? I just took shower and now it's as if I'm steaming in a sauna again! The fan tried its best to cooperate but this pms-ing flimsy just ain't satisfied.
God, grant me ideas for my journal entries please...
Today next week Hobbit and I will be going for my school retreat close to Khao Yai National Park and we will be staying at a resort close by the park. According to my friend, besides all the fun outdoor activities you can do in this place, this is also good place to do bird watching activity. Just so you know, I have been longing to learn this quiet activity since college. I have heard of it as being fun, relaxing and all, but have not done any serious bird watch since. So I thought this is my opportunity. However, I need to hunt for a good binoculars in order to get engage in this activity.
After doing some search on the net, I found out nikon binoculars to be really handy. I haven't really picked anything specific yet but this website does provide a lot of high quality binoculars options. If you are a newbie like me, don't worry because this website provides you with all the specifications information and even how to buy one. You can even get them on discount prices. Need telescope, spotting scopes? You can find them here too. Go visit their website and browse away, you might be able to get what you're looking for! *_*
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Mind me? Of course I mintapuji (show off)..ehek! Actually, just want to make my husband hobbit jealous. He is wayyyyyyyy down there hahahahhahaha! Want me to prove it? Well, here you go...
Hahahahahahahahahahha! *cough* *cough* *cough*
I don't know why I feel bloated the whole day today. Probably because the first thing I ate this morning was horlicks + wheatbix prepared by hobbit at 5:16am. I woke up rubbing my eyes and saw him carrying the portable breakfast table into the room. Hmmmmm I thought...strange! He seldom fix breakfast...Anyway, thanks to him that now I feel like I'm going to do the "double P" in no time!
I gave my G2A their first Science test today. Before I handed out the paper, I gave them a long lecture on how they should behave during their test.
Ma'am Amy: "Make sure all of you get 3 pieces of papers and with all both sides printed. There are thirty multiple-choice questions in your Science test and I want you to answer all the questions."
Students: *BIG EYES* "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aah!"
Ma'am Amy: "When you don't know the answer to a question, skip it and move to the next question. When you get to the end, go back and answer the questions that you left earlier. Then when you're done with all the answers, re-check your answers until you are fully satisfied with it."
Students: *silence*
Ma'am Amy: " If you have questions, or you want to borrow something, raise your hands. If I caught anyone talking, whispering, walking, or signing during the test or worst, cheating, I will immediately give a big beautiful 0 on their paper without listening to any explanation. Understand?"
Students: "Yes Ma'am!"
Ma'am Amy: "When you're done, leave your papers on your desk and bow your heads and close your eyes. It's a good way to relax while waiting for others to finish."
Then my G3 students came in and gave me a piece of white chocolate cake on a paper. I said thank you and put it on my desk so that I can wait until school's over to eat it. Then I started to distribute the papers.
Apparently, one of the boy who was sitting right in front of my desk (the naughtiest one of course) took a few steps from his seat and went over to smell my cake!
Ma'am Amy: "Pisol, what did I say? No walking now. Go back to your seat."
Pisol: "What cake is that? Why is it on the table?"
Ma'am Amy: *still distributing papers* "Well, I will eat it later after school."
Students began answering their papers
A few minutes later...
Pisol: "Ma'am, I'm done!"
Ma'am Amy: "So fast? Well, go through your papers again and check your answers."
I could see from behind that Pisol only flipped through his papers and laid it on the desk, folded his hands together and bowed his head.
Ma'am Amy: "Did you really check your answers Pisol?"
Pisol: "Yes..."
I was then busy monitoring and entertaining the raised hands. Suddenly...
Students: "Ma'am, Pisol is licking your cake!"
Pisol: *cunning smile, smile, smile!*
Ma'am Amy: " Pisol, did I say you can leave your seat or touch the cake?"
Pisol: "Why is the cake small? Whose birthday was it? Who gave you the cake?Who....?What...? When...How...!"
Ma'am Amy: *All heated up!* "Pisol!!! You never touch something that isn't yours! Always ask for permission before touching other people's stuff!"
Pisol: *Maybe got irritated and pushed his desk that it hit my desk and the cake got a feel of a tremendous earthquake*
...and the cake went tumbling down! *sob sob heart*
But lucky I still got to taste a full nice piece after school! *_*
Beautiful morning! I decided to dress up looking very professional today, not because something is up but since it's Wednesday, and Wednesday is when I meet my nursery kids, I definitely have to wear pants instead of fluffy skirts. The last time I wore a skirt, one kinder.1 kid actually crawl between my legs while I was teaching them some action songs. I was too busy being a clown, entertaining the rest of the short attention span kids, I didn't noticed this pervert kid actually ramp under my skirt! So I quickly shooed him away and continued the clown act again. Urggggh! Speaking of entertaining these bunch of itsy bitsy human beings! Anyway, today is Wednesday and Wednesday is pants day and Wednesday means a day of transformation from being a witch for G1 and G2 to being a happy clown! Since this month I chose Animals as my theme for the kinders, I have prepared some bright colorful pictures of animals and some worksheets activity for them to get their hands on (so that this clown can at least have a break). Then one big duty call today is to teach K2 this song:
1:30am. I am just done with my Assessment assignment and posted it up on Moodle. Yippee! Special thanks to Hobbit (currently snoring or is he snorting??) for making it possible. I'm such a lousy writer when it comes to research stuff, but he knows all the MLA/APA stuff! I hate it when it comes to referencing, makes me want to cabut all my hair! Uuuuuuuuuurgh! *roar*
We slept at 5:10am this morning and woke up at 11 something am. Hobbit and I were too addicted to Wonderful Life that we didn't care took less care of our health! Then while having brunch, we managed to watch two more episodes including the last ep. It's a record for us to actually finish a whole series of Korean movies in just less than a week time. The last K series we watched, Stairway to Heaven, took us like 3 months! Thank goodness Shin Bi didn't die in WL. Just some typical story line or peculiar incidents I noticed that you will always get in Korean series is as follow:
1. The characters like to run. Bet all of them can win a marathon.
2. Male characters like to carry their significant others or whosoever female characters on their back and walk/run.
3. The usual type of disease is leukemia.
4. A turning point starts when a disease strikes one of the character.
5. The conflict is so predictable.
6. There's always a third or fourth party that don't give way to the audience' sympathy!
7. One way for most characters to express their inner feeling is through drinking and getting drunk.
So on and so on...and those are what I personally noticed.
Okay, enough about K drama. Guess what I did today? I made pancakes for Hobbit! He really liked it (or was he trying to make me feel good only??) because he kept on showing me the two thumbs up while I was frying (literally too) in front of the stove. Oh well, he deserved it since he has been working hard helping me with my stuff! Hehe...stuff! Just don't write me a bill later okay Love??
I thought mommy was weird. She call-chat me until I had to rush to take out my mic and now she's not even talking! The call-chat went
"Mie, Mie...are you there? How come I cannot hear you?"
Then when I typed
"Hold on....I'm digging out my mic.."
and she went on
"I cannot hear you!"
Urgh! Then when I was finally on, speaking through my mic, all she said was
"Go to this website and read..."
My respond..
"Okay, just read right?"
...Silence...
"Mom? Mommy? Mom? Dad??"
...Silence...
Hobbit went
"Aren't you chatting with Mommy?"
Me answered
"She's still connected..."
Check, check, check..
"Ah...she put me on hold!"
Tsk!
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I think I should go shower. It's 10:09pm. I can feel my hair and face is too greasy now due to eating too much lap chiong (oily chicken sausage like minced stick)+ ikan masin (salted fish), and my mouth is smelling, definitely a result from eating too much tempoyak (fermented durian)! No matter how these food makes me stick and smells like them, I still loveeeeeeeee it to pieces. Yay..lap chiong, ikan masin and tempoyak rule!
"Look back, look back...Ma'am Amy is sitting behind us!"
"Hiiiiiii Ma'am Amy!"
"Amy Lao Shi Zhao An!"
"Don't speak Thai, Ma'am Amy is behind!"
So were the words from a bunch of my students sitting in the front row in Barney show (chapel program) today.
I was drifting to sleep watching the show (boring Barney show!) when suddenly two of my Grade 3 students came tapping on my shoulder and said "Hiiiiiiiiii Ma'am Amyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
Ma'am Amy: "Oh...Hi!" (with Garfield eyes on)
Sorawee and Thitaree were racing in words as to see who could convey the message to me first...
Sorawee: "Ma'am....ugh...ugh..."
Thitaree: "Ma'am...you know..."
Thitaree: "Ma'am, you know, Switt told the whole class that you are his wife!"
Ma'am Amy: "What? Maybe he's just joking!"
Sorawee: "No Ma'am...He is not joking! He is serious. He told us!"
Obviously these two students got bored from Barney show and went to sit at the empty chairs next to me. No live Barney that's why! The speakers (from some Thai companies) were talking about vegetables instead. What to do with Barney??
Thitaree: "He even told us that he wants to kiss you Ma'am..."
Ma'am Amy: "What??" (Garfield eyes totally gone!)
Thitaree & Sorawee silently giggled and I can see Switt, that chummy guy, was looking back once in a while with cunning smile!
Ma'am Amy: "Shhhhhh...I think you two should go back to your seats before your homeroom teacher notices you for not paying attention!"
Thitaree: "Eeeee Ma'am...hehehheheh!"
Ma'am Amy: "Go...go...go...!"
Giggle, giggle before they finally went back.
Goodness! So young and already talking about I Dos and Intimacy! Tsk...tsk...tsk...
I was talking with a colleague today about home luxury. He told me that one of his dream is to own a luxury house before his daughter starts school. According to him, he went to HomePro yesterday and made a survey by talking to some of the interior designers about the possibility of renovating his house. When i asked about the end discussion result, he said that they were offered a package to renovate a small kitchen like his that cost 300,000 Baht! My jaw dropped immidiately after he quote the price. "Only for a luxury kitchen and you are willing to spend that much?" So he said that the sample kitchen they saw was very attractive and classy! He and his wife wanted the kitchen to be complete with all the appliances intact as so it is convenient for them. I thought my goodness! Here I am without any future savings would never have thought of owning a luxury kitchen at this stage of life! So he went on to talk about renovating his house with a professional interior designer and told me that he was offered 500,000 Baht total for his size of house renovation. Again, it makes me thought, wow! This guy do have lots of money, or to be more polite, what a big dream he has. According to him, it's not impossible for him to renovate the house with such an amount, just that it needs to wait maybe in 2-3 years time. Man I thought, if I save it's still impossible that I have that much money in that short period of time.
So the conversation went on and on with him being the narrator and I being the audience listening patiently while cutting the Kinders cut-and-paste worksheets.
Still on house renovation topic, he told me of a couple who live close to his house who sold their luxury car and rather take the taxi to work everyday so that they could use the money to renovate their town house! Now, this couple is living in luxury but still takes the cab everyday to work! How pethatic!
My point is, people can have anything they want with their hard earn money but to what extend and level should we spend it? Are you satisfied once your needs are met? Are you satisfied once your wants are met? Are you satisfied once your satisfaction is met? How do we really classify the word "rich" really? I don't mean to neglect the richness that the Bible talks about here, maybe I'll blog about this kind of richness later. How do you consider a person is rich? There are rich people in this world who don't have luxury of things to show. There are rich people who don't disclose themselves to the public, there are rich people with 10 cars, 10 bathtubs, 10 everything...
I hope that when my bank account shows 500,000 Baht on the credit side, I would just go to work as usual and go home at the end of the day feeling tired, hungry, sleepy and think about the next usual day to come!
One of my favorite vegetable snacks is tomatoes. Besides loving the color, I love the taste. I'm kind of addicted to it. Since there are varieties of tomatoes, I especially love cherry tomatoes. Whenever I want to snack, I will just wash a bowlful of cherry tomatoes and prepare apricot powder to go with it. Dip, dip, dip while chatting online or reading does makes me feel so good! Try it, dip it with apricot powder or eat it raw without anything and enjoy the juice going down your throat. Sometimes I even like to sip the juice from the fruit and it's all tasty! I do know of many who don't like tomatoes at all. Hobbit likes it only when it's cooked and we sure do argue about the benefits of eating it raw and cooked. But hey, after reading this article, there's surely benefits eating from from cooked tomatoes. Read ahead! This article is taken from CBN Wrap-up September 01,2007. If you happen to stumble onto any tomatoes article, please forward it to me for I'm still very curious to study these cute munchies!
Boost AntiOxidants
See Red and Lose Weight
By Dr. Leo Galland, M.D., and Jonathan Galland
Tomatoes are one of our favorite fat-burning foods. They help reduce inflammation and reverse leptin resistance. Reversing leptin resistance is the key to losing those stubborn extra pounds. That is why tomatoes are used almost daily in The Fat Resistance Diet.
Tomatoes are excellent sources of potassium and several vitamins:
folic acid
vitamin A
vitamin C
vitamin E
Tomatoes also contain important anti-inflammatory nutrients called carotenoids and bioflavonoids. Key tomato carotenoids are lycopene, a red pigment with potential anti-cancer effects, and beta-carotene, an orange pigment that is an important antioxidant to protect against damage from sunlight.
Bioflavonoids, which are concentrated in the tomato skin, counteract inflammation and allergic reactions. The main compounds are quercetin and kaempferol.
Studies indicate that tomato consumption is associated with a reduced risk of:
prostate cancer
ovarian cancer, especially in premenopausal women
digestive tract cancers
cardiovascular disease
asthma and chronic lung disease
The absorption of carotenoids and flavonoids from tomatoes is greater from cooked tomatoes than fresh tomatoes, since cooking breaks down the tomato cell matrix and makes the carotenoids more available. The addition of olive oil to diced tomatoes during cooking greatly increases the absorption of lycopene. Oil is essential for absorbing carotenoids from tomatoes in salads or salsa. There is almost no absorption of these vital nutrients from salad eaten with a non-fat dressing.
The recipes and meal plans in our book give you a variety of delicious ways to prepare tomatoes. From our frittatas and omelets at breakfast; salads, sandwiches, and pasta at lunch; to appetizers, entrées, and salads for dinner, we show you wonderful ways to get tomatoes into your day.
Summertime is the perfect season to enjoy tomatoes. Look for fresh ripe tomatoes at farmer’s markets in the city or a farm stand in the country or at your local supermarket. They are so tasty and plentiful now, you will want to stock up to make our delicious Gazpacho for your friends and family.
My weekend felt short. All I could think of at the end of the day before work tomorrow is a stretched long 48 hrs Sunday! Even after 4 hours of nap isn't quite helping. My body is just too tired, I feel drowsy and weak. Well, hobbit and I just finished with episodes of Wonderful Life and even though we're ever busy as a beaver, Korean movies still can get in our way!
Before I zzz, let me brief you on how the Malaysian Party for the Merdeka Celebration and the Welcoming New Students went. If you were here for the past celebration, all that is more exciting than this one, err..in my opinion. We expected genuine support especially from the Malaysians but what we get is an immense congratulations from our guests! Where are the rest of the citizens?? The home cooking was splendid. The Malaysian flag decorated cake was there to grace the event, as usual. Just too bad I just got to lick the icing!
An event like this usually sends me home hungry. It's not the food that is not enough, but it's the long-time-no-see chit chats that usually takes over and dragged to the end. Someone (an elderly he is) made a slight comment saying "how come the sumandaks (young ladies) in this batch no longer help with the preparations and cleaning up unlike the first few batches (and mentioned names yada yada..)?" Then this mid-aged replied "Well, most of the sumandaks here now are very immature since they come fresh after finishing their high schools." Eh...common lah...what's helping to do with immaturity I thought, but couldn't help agreeing with the statement said. Ahhh...pedulikan! They need better role-models. Oh about new students, there are about fingers countable.
So the celebration finished quite early about 8 in the evening. A few of us decided to lepak at the benches enjoying MC's fresh air and just laugh away! Twas this day, a day to be much thankful for, thanks God.
So I quickly shooed him away and continued the clown act again. Urggggh! Speaking of entertaining these bunch of itsy bitsy human beings! Anyway, today is Wednesday and Wednesday is pants day and Wednesday means a day of transformation from being a witch for G1 and G2 to being a happy clown! Since this month I chose Animals as my theme for the kinders, I have prepared some bright colorful pictures of animals and some worksheets activity for them to get their hands on (so that this clown can at least have a break). Then one big duty call today is to teach K2 this song:
Good day!!! 
) because he kept on showing me the two thumbs up while I was frying (literally too) in front of the stove. Oh well, he deserved it since he has been working hard helping me with my stuff! Hehe...stuff! Just don't write me a bill later okay Love?? 
