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Teaching itself can be an education. There is no student who cannot learn. There is only teacher who cannot teach. I am not sure if I can become a teacher who can really teach. I hope I can become one. It is not easy. I will work hard.
I hate my hair. It is too long and not manageable.
I miss my mum.
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All the motivation… is gone. I find myself stucked. I no longer like what I do. I do not see the point of it any more. Maybe I should just quit for good. I feel really exhausted. Dragging myself around is really painful. My surety, don’t worry. I’m not quitting my job. I’m talking about something else.
I actually kinda started to like NIE life now. I still hate where it is, its one thousand staircase, its polluted air and its seriously lousy food. But I enjoy having lesson with all these nice and fun people. Without them, school would be more dreadful. It would have been better if we have less assignments to do. Now I actually feel sad that we are going to be posted out soon.
Before I have realized, we are already in February! And Chinese New Year was over too! The past Chinese New Year was a busy one. I went to visit Leng’s relatives, they came to his house and visit. We visited his friend’s place, his boss’s place. His boss and the wife are really sweet. They actually took a photo of us and printed it out for us. So sweet of them.
There is actually no coherence in the post. Really tired.
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I have been simply too lazy to update. One and half weeks more before we are sent out for practicum. This week is definitely hell. Essays, presentation, microteachings, reflection, test construction… I seriously should have started on the assignments earlier. Too late for that though.
On the bright side, coming Saturday is V Day! Well, although I’m not a big fan of V Day, at least I have something to look forward too. But… Saturday is fully packed as well.
I was looking through my blog, and realized that my posts on Aussie trip stopped on the 2nd day. -.-”’ I shall do something about that once this week is over. And maybe some recent happenings as well.
Off to bed… ZzzZzzz…
I’m in school computer lab now. Today we actually learn how to use blog… So… I created another blog. I don’t even update when I only have 1 blog, not to mention 2. lol.
Life in NIE has not been very exciting, partly because of its location. I need to travel 1 hour plus to reach school. The travelling already drains my energy every day. To my dislike, the course is CA based. I have assignments and presentation almost every week. Well, I guess I cannot complain too much since I am paid to study.
Just realized that I didn’t even finish blogging about my grad trip. I guess I should finish that soon. Just upload some of the photos I guess.
Weekends are quite tiring nowadays. Last Saturday I left home at 8am plus and reached back at midnight. I went to watch Money No Enough. It was very entertaining, although part of it made me very sad. It reminded me of something happened in the past, something that I hope never had happened. Well, after the movie, I went to collect my bowling shoe and bought one very nice strap for my new LG Viewty. Then we went to Villa Bali to meet up Ben and Swan. I haven’t been there since 10 July. 
Since Leng had to fetch me back, the 3 of us finished a bottle of red wine. So by the end of day, I was tired and drunk, and only went home to realize that I still needed to continue my ppt slides. Even though, I cannot wait for my next weekend to come. I wanna play bowling!!!
P.S. the camera of LG Viewty is quite good, even at night!
This is what I have been telling myself the entire afternoon. I got really pissed by some admin staff from my department. It started with a key to my lab. As an undergrad, I was not supposed to have access to lab without someone to supervise me. But somehow, I was allowed to have one key. Couples of months later, one nosy prof found out about it, and I was supposed to return the key. So I did. I didn’t fancy holding that key anyway. When I returned this key to this staff, I asked her whether I needed to sign any form although I totally forgot about the 10 dollar deposit I paid. She replied that there was no need, then I happily walked off.
3 months later, thanks to my lab partner, I realized that she still owed me 10 dollars. Too lazy to just go down and take it myself, my lab partner kindly offered to help me take. Then I got a call from him this afternoon. The staff said she never recalled me returning the key to her. My lab partner called me and handed the phone to her. So I just explained what happened at that time, but she insisted that it couldn’t be the case and gave me a lot of ‘reasons’ that couldn’t have happened. I was like… She was the one taking care of the keys. If she said it was not there, there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t possibly tell her that what she put it. Then she got angry, and told me that if I just wanted the money, she could pay me. Wth! What she said really pissed me off. She forgot about it doesn’t mean that never happened. She just refused to admit that she was the one being blur and got angry to make it seem like I was the one pushing for that money. Left with no choice, I told her never mind. Since she couldn’t locate that key, she could just forfeit the deposit. She just rudely cut off the call without acknowledging what I have said! And the call was made from my friend’s phone! She didn’t even have the courtesy to hand over the call back to my friend! I don’t really care who is right or who is wrong in this case. But at least I expect basic manner and respect. It doesn’t mean that she’s more senior (just a nice way of saying ‘old’) she got the right to treat me and talk to me any way she wants.
Well, sadly, she’s not the only one like this in the department. I still remember this prof who never addressed me in an email, and started it with this sentence, I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE NOT FREE TO DO WHAT YOU WANT. All I wanted to ask him was whether it was possible for me to do my attachment overseas if I could find a partner university offering me an opportunity. I guess my classmates should know who I am talking about.
Sometimes I wonder why this kind of thing is happening. Since my university claims that it is a global university that offers chances for students to do intern or study overseas, why didn’t my department even consider giving me a chance? If they are running the university like an enterprise, doesn’t it mean I should get what I want as long as I have paid?
Ok, I guess I’m drifting too far. I think I’m too tired after driving, bowling… Time to head to bed.
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My mum always says that people who truly love life love colors. I just changed my quill cover and pillow cases to bright orange. I’ll try to love my life a bit more…
Yesterday I was in a really bad mood. It made me remember my JC time. In J2, I was acting in a Chinese drama production, and my role was a mother of a introvert boy with an alcoholic husband. There was one scene that my ‘husband’ supposed to push me onto the floor and I supposed to start crying after that. At that time, it doesn’t matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t think of one thing that could make me tear. I miss those times, when I was so carefree and life just went easy on me. Concentrating on one thing was so easy unlike nowadays…
My holiday was cut short again by stupid China Eastern Airline. I swear that once I start earning money, I will never ever take flights by China Eastern again.
I have been sleeping hell a lot these few days, on average 12 hours per day. I don’t know whether it is still because of the flu bug, or I am simply going into hibernating mode.
Anyway, I went for bowling on Saturday evening at Orchid Country Club. Was surprised by the crowd there. OCC is at a very ulu place near Yishun and is extremely inaccessible (don’t even think of going there if you don’t own a car). I played quite horribly. I didn’t know what I was doing, where I was aiming at and not to mention my terrible posture. Only managed to score 100 at the last game. The scores of the other 2 games were very pathetic. After bowling, we went for a short KTV session. I find Tanya Chua’s most recent album really nice, very suitable to listen to while lazing around. Well, I always like this kinda music anyway.Finally booked air ticket back home, but seat is still not confirmed. I’ll reach home on 23rd May morning. Cannot wait for holiday to come!
A butterfly along the corridor near my house. Is it a butterfly?
