搬家咯！

Don't be mistaken!

i am not shifting house again, as for now

had a conversation with mummy today

and i realise my memory is starting to spring clean my old houses out!

so i shall jot down these places where i once

left my footprints, fingerprints, blah blah blah =)

shifted around 7 times before i came to singapore

cuz different ppl took turns to take care of me and mama, haha

too young to remember but its anywhere between johore and ipoh

227, pending road

the home where i ate a lot of nutella breadspread

thinking they are chocolate

206, petir road

started attening kindergarden at the cc

(oops, mama forgot to enroll me for nursery :P)

and then soon after, i am off to primary school :)

my school bus is 20X (X=3,4,5 or 6 i forgot)

i rmb the unit number is #07-587!

XXX, XXX road

a few months there before we can shift to 273

short stay so i cant remember all the details

its near bangkit road too

remember an aquarium there

and one of the fish died so mama had to buy one back

lilin always have stomachache there

so she seems to be forever sitting on the potty

made mum real angry once when i refused to drink the e.xcel stuff

so she packed my stuff in my fav bag ahma gave me

and ask me 离家出走, haha

273, bangkit road

the house i stayed the longest (around 5 years)

i can remember the whole address plus house phone number orh

LOVE THIS PLACE :D
my whole family painted the house ourselves

my first computer

cycling

skating down the grass slope outside my house with a cardboard

a lot a lot

507, segar road

no house phone

right beside greenridge primary school

but i already graduated from there then o.0

64, fulton road

last time my hse had a house phone

自懂事以来的 first terrace

had a salt & pepper miniature schnauzer

totally objected to having him at first

in the end, i am the one clearing his business and cleaning him

so i kinda miss him now T.T

can see the 三跪一拜 from my house

landmark: guang ming shan

36, hemsley ave

nice garden with hibiscus! :)

at serangoon garden,

meaning near chomp chomp

meaning GOOD FOOD!

landmark: chomp chomp lo!

643, hougang ave 8

o level-ing there

ang moh supermart there

643, hougang ave 8

yep, not typo, i shifted to another unit in the same block

cannot remember the unit number for both the units thou =S

landmark: xin ming sec sch

268D, compassvale link

another favourite!

because its so near to mrt

and its those new HDB

nice house :D

landmark: nil

580, hougang ave 4

super near to hougang green

will miss the tau huay, kway chap, and bookshop there

always telling people who asked me where i live

that i lived near IMH, not INSIDE IMH

landmark: IMH

20, hougang ave 3

i am neighbour with Geraldine!!! =))

the most convenient house so far

it had buses that go anywhere!

and just 2 stops away from kovan mrt

not forgetting nice food too

landmark: SRJC

a quick count, i have shifted house 19 times!

so on an average, its once a year

haha, can qualify as an experienced house mover already

and i do know quite a number of buses :))

but i hope i can stop moving

all the stickers are leaving marks on my ic....

i want to be a...

I WANT TO BE A...

I want to be a teacher because teachers are very clever.

They know about a lot of things.

They teach many students and help them in their work.

My teachers are very nice to me so i want to be like them in the future.

Remembered when we are younger, teachers would always ask us to write about our ambitions. Without fail, my ambition is to be a teacher. I can't really remember what I wrote but it would be something along that line. Frankly speaking, at that age, I didn't really know what I want to be in the future nor do I have the burning passion to be like those tall adults standing infront of the class, talking at an unusual loud volume and always making us learn things that i don't know why we are learning them for. The ambition I wrote down was just the shortlisted ambition i made from an already very short list of ambitions i knew. Back at that time, i guess every 小不点 in the class only knows police, air stewardess, nurses, doctors, lawyers, actors/actresses, and maybe for a rare few, engineeers, on top of teachers. So, I chose teacher. =)

And then, time had wings and I grew taller, I knew a lot more about other occupations. Despite so, i somehow felt that i still wanted to be a teacher, although i knew accountant earns a lot, doctors and laywers enjoy high prestige, event planners can face many interesing challenges and yadah yadah. So, alright, i wanted to be a teacher but i didn't know why because i never really sat down and think of the reasons.

Then came A levels and application for scholarship and stuff. Oops, I had interviews to attend to. There, interviewers would ask me to justify my decision, which meant lisitng reason 1, 2, 3 to convince them... ... So with that, i gave a very disorganised explanation to the police hq psychologist. Disorganised because i had a lot to say but simply don't know how to express myself, to the extent that my mind went blank and gave the example of teachers asking us to drink more water as a form of concern (well, i still think its ok to say that but apparently, thats not a very strong point T.T, esp judging from the psychologist's expression >.<)

For the days that followed, more interviewers asked the same million bucks question. Why be a teacher? Why only apply this and not that? Then, people around me also asked the same questions. That's the period when i really delve about what i really want. I am not sure if ths is really what i would want in the future, but for now, it is :)

After organising my memory bank and thoughts and forcing myself to think and piece the big picture, i think i want to be a teacher because...

I want to make a difference. Motivation behind it is probably because I want to pay it forward, something that Mr Ng enlightened me about. Typical story, I didn't come from a perfect family. I have been through a lot of stuff when i was younger, big big potential triggers that may cause me to go stray and not be the peiyee i am now. Not that my teachers did some extraordinary acts that touched me and made me remain good, in fact, they did nothing because they didn't even know i was feeling down. However, i believe i still owe it to them because at least they made me enjoy schooling when i was younger, so that i felt i had something to work towards to and not give up on myself. A teacher can play a very very important part in a person's life. Though other occupations do have their own challenges and accomplishments, i think nothing beats the teachers' because what they are influencing is a kid's character and development. My teachers gave me a healthy start so i want to do the same for other kids too =)

I had good teachers. Yes, i had awesome teachers, mr jumat, ms lee, ms tan, mr ng and ms wassan to name a few. They made learning different. Some really cared for your welfare, some had marvellous teaching skills, some simply knew how to build good rapport with the class where a teacher-student relationship can be maintained as a friend-friend relationship. I admire them for that and i want to be like them. Again, to pay it forward. =)

I thought my family background can allow me to help certain kids =)

I want to be in touch with kids. Reason? Simplicity. I realise adults think a lot. Though there may still be office politics even in a school environment but at least i get to teach the kids. Naughty at times, they give insights and remarks that adults can never think of. i like this feeling =)

I still feel that I want to be a teacher after so many years.

yup, that's about all i can recall for now. I have to admit that despite all that i want to do as a good teacher, there are bound to be limitations. I may have the desire to be a good teacher but i might not have the ability to. Not everyone knows the tricks to make students gain knowledge happily and willingly, not everyone can click with the kids, not everyone can cope with the demand of being a teacher. However, i will do my best and make sure the passion stays =)

P.S. other random reasons: eat canteen food which is supposedly healthier :P no need to fight with the traffic jam because school starts earlier than office :P can know the lastest youth's stuff from the kiddy informers :P enjoy school holidays (alright, i know there is still work, at least i can dress informally then) :P can rehearse national anthem and pledge everyday :P can see the kids grow and how they fight and argue and yet continued to be friends the next day :P mark exams paper after mine got marked for almost 2o years :P can be in charge of different CCAs and learn a lot of new things! :P and many other things that are exclusive to a teacher =)

school holidaying

School holidaying means i spend my holidays in school, which is kind of true since i have been going to school quite oftenly and this is even my 3rd day in a row in school already. The first 2 days thanks to the huge rain which makes 'flood' in singapore possible. had another meeting in school this morning, so now i am happily playing with my ahaha while i wait for 5pm to take my saliva sample. Alright, shall spend the next 2 hours to do some intensive blogging!

walking is a goody form of exercise too =)

i realised i walked a lot recently

my 战绩with my cotton on rubi sandals so far!

2 hrs walk from vivo to pgp

2 hrs around half of nus

4 hrs walk around hougang

N hours walk in pc show for two days

3 hrs walk around bugis

i heard walking burn fats

so bye bye fats! =)

but, i ate a lot too =P

and to my sandals

thou u are not the best walking khaki

(esp when compared to yuting's)

but unfortunately, i am always wearing you whenever i need to walk a lot

so thank you!

and i will treasure my last few days with you before u snap =X

my hols has reach a point i start to talk to my sandals

lol..may a non-contract job lobang drop from the sky soon!

AnD

i seriously smell something fishy, prawny and crabby between A and D

if there is indeed sth,

to D: you are really very very sick and i am going to turn very nasty,

even though idk how nasty i can get

to A: you only make me more wary and scared of you, really

thank you =)

Told myself that whatever i got for my first uni maths module, i am going to have this post

ma1505 is scary,

because my classmates are all engineers

because my frequecy doesn't match the lecturer's

because uni maths is very diiferent from jc maths

because my maths standard isn't that good to survive uni maths

but it turn out to be better than i expected, though not the best,

and this would be impossible without the following people =)

thank you gorgor

for your well wishes, reminders, shortcuts, past years papers

and your ears and eyes for my whining

about how i am murdered by the assessment =)

thank you yuting

for the wonderful detailed booklet of tutorial solutions and extra details

(that booklet is AMAZING),

also, you ears for my whining too

(esp after i come back from src =P)

and your all your advices regarding the calculator and exam tricks

(ahaha i still rmb)

thank you AK, zinmon, yuthi and khine

okie, thank you AK because you indirectly helped me

by passing the lecture package cds to zinmon, yuthi and khine

and thank you to the 3 burmese girls

for offering to lend me the cds to burn

haha, and at least i am not alone in taking this module =)

thank you to the tutorial booklet tutor
i don't know who she is but she is definitely an A++ tutor

detailed and clear tutorial solutions

with GOOD elaborations and super cool summary

thank you to the lecturer in the CD

the lecture series in the cd was recored in 2006

i don't know who is the lecturer but he is definitely an A++++++++, AWESOME lecturer

when i don't understand my lecturer (which is almost everytime)

the cd lecturer ALWAYS enlighten me

with good explanations, extra elaborations, illustrations and summary

plus he conducts revision, and give reminders for exam (thou its N.A to me =P)!

he is like my saviour! ahaha

thank you to my lecturer cum tutor

although i don't understand what he is talking about

but i think he tried his best and is prepared for lectures

although he likes to suan me when i ask questions

(will always remember his 'all engineers will do that!'

and 'this is just simple algebraic manipulation'),

but he will tried his best to explain and make sure i get it

and his suan-ing 激发 me to not give up!

lastly, thank you to anybody who hear me whine about ma1505 before

and a little thank you to my cheat sheet =)

although i could have squeeze more stuff in

after seeing how cramped yuting's and other ppl's cheatsheet is,

you didn't fail me

and i think my cheatsheet is very neat! (lol, so 自恋 =S)

although not all the above will get to read this,

but i really want to put this down so that i can remember

the extra efforts that have to be put in ,

like listen to lecture twice, review other materials

and MOST IMPORTANTLY, past year papers,

to just get a decent grade in uni maths

and also to remember the people who have helped me

this module is super impactful on me

cuz this is the first time maths can be so UNFAMILIAR to me

and somemore it is the first step i am taking in my desire to minor in maths =S

so 谢谢！=)

and i still love maths ^^

what have you been doing laobei!

okie, i am officially a yr 2 student next sem

since today is a kongbu exam results release day,

i shall jot down my 10 modules taken so far

09/10 sem 1

el1101e - english

not forgetting the crazy project with xiangling, yuting and chris XD

pl1101e - psychology

psych psych psych with tutoral at 8am =)

se1101e - sea studies

assignments done very badly =S

sw1101e - social work

must talk talk talk during tutorial =O

(forgot module code) - genes and society

BIO! ^^

09/10 sem 2

ma1505 - mathematics

killer module where everyone is an engineer

and i don't get what the lecturer is talking about

pl2131 - stats and research

a very unique lecturer

pl3235- social psychology

interesting!

pl3236 - abnormal psychology

scary, both content and assessment

sss1207 -natural heritage

yesh! i am now more educated about nature in singapore =)

but what have i been doing?!!!

i actually allowed my grades to drop!

omg, to think my commitment in sem 1 is so much higher with the

16hrs weekly tuition, gc and yep

and my sem 2 is like slack slack with only citr popping out recently

time to reflect

perhaps last sem i have less time so i worry more and study harder?

so this sem 就懈怠!

so much until abnormal psych's grade just make it to moe's requirement

(heng i am not going to be a clinical psychologist next time)

and i am getting more and more childish

i am starting to have likes and dislikes (no more of this next time! =))

alright, as mum said, this drop will give me MORE (yes much more) room for improvement!

next sem must 发奋图强

must learn from my two role models, one fake and one real elder sibling =)

and naiyi. naima, remember to cane me if u find me lazing around next sem!