I am weary, and I a stranger,
Lead me to the land of angels.
Be my eyes in time of darkness,
Be my shield against host of faery,
Be my wings till I find my home.
Taken from Stone Maiden
by Susan King
Friday, June 30, 2006
I hate it when i can't say goodbye properly. It's extremely irritating.
Today is the 12th day of 21 days. We're getting there.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
I am losing my voice due to yelling at the top of my voice just to teach. I have no more volume to increase when I need to shout at the class. Luckily, in most classes, I have a voluntary student amplifier who will tell the class "Miss Goh says keep quiet!". Embarrassing but helpful, though.
Hmm...some students are a bit weird. I have a healthy dislike for one of the classes I teach on wednesday - I dread this day! I think it's because of this girl who keeps staring at me in defiance...for no reason at all. She doesn't really do her work, but her grades are good. So, I shall take pride in the fact that someone actually cares enough to hate me..haha. Not nice, but at least better than people who stare at me very blankly. Of course, I am comfortable knowing that if I ever get too frustrated, I have all the reason in the world to shout at her yes?
Today is the 10th day of 21 days...sigh. Thank goodness for sunday.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Have you ever seen tea leaves that come as a ball, and you have to peel the individual leaves off? I wonder...does it mean that the tea plant grows as little cabbage like plants the size of tennis balls?
How cold is it in London? How cold is 5°C? I think the coldest that I've experienced is 15°C and I remember I had to wrap my toes in hot towels in the hotel room with the radiator turned to the maximum. Brrrrr.....
Oh, and I've finally rejected the place at NUS. Hopefully someone out there who is praying hard to get into NUS gets it! Good luck!
Today is the 7th day of 21 days.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
I'm feeling rather worried about university although I know it's rather pointless, considering I'll only have to deal with it in 3 years, but I need to get first class honour for geog in 3 years!! After speaking to a senior there, she has assured me that it will be impossibly difficult and almost unattainable. Oh well. I'm also extremely unsure about how I go about doing english at uni? Considering that I only applied for geog, sigh, I wish I had someon to tell me all this stuff, haha, Huimin, I wish you could be my source of info for UCL on top of NUS too...
Melissa from MEP is taking a local scholarship to do literature at NUS! It was comforting to know that I'll have someone at OBS with me, but...she chose to study locally because she decided she wouldn't be able to cope overseas on her own. Oh dear...I was never really sure I could as well.
Back to planning lessons. My brains seem to have turned to cheese - can someone help me with the grammar of this question?
"What states does water exist in?" or "What states do water exist in?"
Friday, June 23, 2006
I went to school for a departmental meeting today - this sounds so professional huh. Well, I guess it went pretty well, most of the teachers were very flustered because they came from a meeting before, and were going for a meeting after. Sigh, I wish teachers did not have to spend so much time on issues that don't concern teaching, but I guess it's a job hazard. I realise that I have to set an exam paper next term, but let's worry about it on monday! Haha, I also learnt that teachers get start-of-school jitters as well...they get stressed on sunday night too!
Hmm, unpleasant as this may seem, I guess i have to come to terms with the fact that not all teahers are nice to each other. I don't know why, it's such a big change from MOE where everyone was very friendly and warm, but some people in school are downright rude. Perhaps they despise the fact that I'm a relief teacher, or perhap they're just too stressed, but it's too RUDE.
Today is the 5th day of 21 days. It's not getting any better.
I went to school for a departmental meeting today - this sounds so professional huh. Well, I guess it went pretty well, most of the teachers were very flustered because they came from a meeting before, and were going for a meeting after. Sigh, I wish teachers did not have to spend so much time on issues that don't concern teaching, but I guess it's a job hazard. I realise that I have to set an exam paper next term, but let's worry about it on monday! Haha, I also learnt that teachers get start-of-school jitters as well...they get stressed on sunday night too!
Hmm, unpleasant as this may seem, I guess i have to come to terms with the fact that not all teahers are nice to each other. I don't know why, it's such a big change from MOE where everyone was very friendly and warm, but some people in school are downright rude. Perhaps they despise the fact that I'm a relief teacher, or perhap they're just too stressed, but it's too RUDE.
Today is the 5th day of 21 days. It's not getting any better.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Ok I shall now try to write more detailed posts about my life.
Went out with Huimin and Xuhua today..haha, why are people always late? But never mind, at least huimin is always around. I will not lament about how bad I am at ice-skating - I always take such a long time to learn things! But it's a rather interesting sport, so let's see how, I might go back and learn it again.
Wow, I just found out that Alicia from TK, 4/3, has a sister who is on MOE scholarship to study geog at UCL too! But she's 3 years older than me, and we have been assigned as buddies..haha. What a small world...
Sigh, I actually am not sure if I want to go overseas. Everyone says I should, and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, but I'm not sure I want to go. Then again, if I don't go, I'll be wondering for the rest of my life what it would have been like.
If getting through these 2 weeks is living hell for me, what will it be like when I'm in London, and he has survival camp in Brunei? It's really strange why I still get so..sad, when he went through BMT already. I guess time heals the wound, but it's always ready to break again...ewww, I sound like those people who have nothing better to do than blog about thier relationhips!
Today is the 4th day of 21 days.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Outings are nice...I never thought it was possible to sit down and talk for 4 hours straight, but we did it!
Sometimes if you totally disagree with someone's opinion, it's better to keep quiet and say "mmm" in a considerate way because it would be pointless to contradict her. Also, it wouldn't be nice.
I just found out I had a classmate who decided to redo his BMT just because he couldn't become an officer cadet the first time. I'm highly skeptical, but I guess this is an example of peserverance? Although repeatedly banging your head into a wall because you didn't die the first time may also be considered peserverance.
Today is the 2nd day of 21 days.
Friday, June 09, 2006
I've gotten a wonderful camera! It's the Canon Digital Ixus 800I, so I'll be able to start a proper photo blog! I may have to shift my blog then, but let's see how. Anyway, this is actually for when I go overseas, so perhaps now it's just test driving.
Going for a short holiday tomorrow...
100 days.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Ok, this is bad. I have to go for a physcological interview to "further determine my suitability for a teaching scholarship". I'm actually don't mind, but it's weird because I'm the only one I know going!!! I hope this doesn't have something to do with my physcometric test - perhaps there is something wrong with me?
What I'm REALLY worried about is, haha, if they find that I'm not of sound mind, then I don't get the scholarship?
it's not the years in your life that count,
but the life in your years.
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And in the end,
On |ove`*
And now I will show you the most excellent way:
If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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