Targets

Schools have targets and so do I!

The following are my targets which I hope I can achieve at the end of my practicum:

1. Be more organized
2. Improve my interpersonal skills
3. Work more efficiently
4. Build up self-confidence
5. Have better time management
6. Be more focused

At the end of my practicum, I will come back to review these targets.

"Focusation"

Dar was complaining that she is the only one contributing to this blog, not really.. Exams are approaching. Prelims starting next week and I'm digging holes into my notes. Couldn't really blog much on the new year happenings. Basically, the usual relatives visitings and money taking.

Found the title of this song on radio and decided to share with you all! Wish me good luck for my exams!

Contrasting Days

Two days into practicum le.

Got a terrible headache on the first day but on the second day, I am so energetic, even now! Even went back to the institution to photocopy lesson plans. Hmm... should have went earlier because the library closes at 8 and there are still quite alot I have not photocopied.

I am really determined to do well but I guess, sometimes, luck plays a part too.

The year of PIG

Hello everyone out there reading this blog! I'm so excited! After a wait of more than 10 years, its my year again! Since my brother (Nicholas) is also born in the year of the pig and he has a blog here, I have decided to contribute a surprise entry here! What I am going to share with all of you is what we pigs do when we celebrate our year! Hmm.... I guess all humans out there do the same thing as us, pigs!


Read on to find out if we are really similar!


First, we will have a spring-cleaning of our pig sty. As you all know, we pigs are quite sloppy in the way we live and since even humans are celebrating our year, we have to respect ourselves too right? So yah, we had a hard time cleaning our sty! But I must say its all worth it lah.



Next up will be going to the salon for some hair make-over! We pigs also want to look presentable and maybe hope to attract more pigs of the opposite sex in the year of pig! Pigs like humans, need companions de mah. So don't laugh at us okay.



After all that is done, we will be ready for the reunion dinner! Yes! We eat together too! We pigs have strong community ties okay. Just like the steamboat that you humans eat, we have 'steamboat' too. We have all our food gathered in the centre and we'll form a circle and start our feast!



Okay enough said, I have to run now. There is a feast waiting for me now!
Have a Happy and fruitful Pig Year!
Collect more Ang Baos and win more money!

Sign off as the cutest pig of the world,
Miss Piggy.

Great Valentines' Day

Hee.... the title says it all lah.

I was being treated like a princess! No, I should say I am always being treated like a princess. Dear is simply too good to be true!

Ok, here's the photos as promised.

Hee... tired me with new hair and new dress.

Full view of the 'princess' dress!

Dear and I at Vivocity after watching a movie.

I did my hair!

Whoopie! Finally did something to my hair!

Guess what did I do in the end?




~Guess lah~





~Scroll down somemore!!~



Heh... I did rebonding lah. Quite satisfied with the result for now. Hope that it last longer. Will post a photo after tomorrow lah hor.

Hee.... after that, went shopping with Dear. Bought a sweet pink dress to wear for tomorrow! Yeah!!! Super duper happy!

Honesty and fretting over hair

I am an honest person!

Bought a magazine at a newspaper stand in the morning before I go to school. Gave the Auntie a Ten-Dollar note to pay for a $2.50 magazine. By right, I should get back $7.50 right? But as I took the change given by the Auntie in my hand, I realized there were 4 pieces of Two-Dollar note, a dollar coin and one fifty-cent. Obviously, the Aunties had given me $2 extra! At that point of time, I was thinking to myself: 'Should I keep quiet about it?' But very quickly, I told myself that I should not do it. And below was my conversation with the Auntie.

Me: Auntie, you gave me $2 more.
Auntie: Oh! I'm so forgetful! You're such a nice lady, will tell me that I gave you more change.
Me: (Just smile)
Auntie: You're so nice! Let me wish you 新年发大财！
Me: (Smile again) 一样一样.
Auntie: If not ah, I will scold and scold behind your back. Haha....
Me: (--) !!


So, I'm really happy that I did not allow the greedy side to take over at that situation! Hee...
Anyway, I'm fretting over what I should do to my hair now. Should I do soft straightening or perming? Haiz... really worried over my hair condition sia.

The S-Eleven Terminology

S11, also known as money has become a burden in everyone's life. Everyone is dying to get it legally or illegitimately. Once you earn your first thousand, you started to spend your thousand and one.

When having supper last night, CK was, as usual complaining his depleting fortune, putting blame on HS for the cause of it. I was on my verge to scold him good and proper but given his strong arbitrary character, I hold back to avoid unhappiness. I was thinking, "Since you've chosen her as your partner? Why are you still complaining on her character? If she's such a spendthrift, then break up. She's born by her parents not you therefore you shouldn't be the one commanding her against her will (I mean COMMANDING, not commenting)." He's drawing a monthly NS allowance, which gave him a solid $700/-. He is still complaining he have not enough to spend.

I was talking to HS moments ago on MSN. The usual, telling me that she's low in cash now. She's worse, earning about $1440nett a month and also complaining.

I wonder if they have think of my situation? No income since ORD, which is like 6 months back and not complaining much. Though I have the support from darling occasionally but this is not being responsible. I'm working at 7-Eleven, 3 days a week from 11pm-7am but dad is objecting on it. He's telling me that the $100 that he gave me a month is sufficient if I spend it on my needs only, even can use it for savings at the end. How am I suppose to tell him that this is absolutely not enough? He was thinking that everyone could be like him, staying a home everyday after work with no leisure. CK and CJ share his thoughts.

I better be getting at least a 2nd Upper Honours Degree minimum, if not, even darling is going to look down on me.

Money - The rich says it is second, compared to their hobbies. The poor says without it, don't even think about hobbies.

I want to be the one having lots of it.

*Test*

平和型（隨和豁達，樂天知命）

您通常是溫暖、友善、忍耐、隨和、不好競爭，以及愛說話。您偏好和平、有組織、可預期而舒服的生活。您喜歡配合環境，因而很難知道自己的優先次序，變成跟隨別人所希望而去做事，有時候甚至模仿別人說話的腔調、用詞，以及身體語言。

優點：非常主動，具有眾多興趣和嗜好。您喜歡與人為伍，可以為了別人而發揮最具生產力的工作成效。

缺點：您會「自我遺忘」，失去了什麼是對自己真正重要的覺察力。您很容易分心，即使一個人時，亦有可能把高度優先的事情留到最後才做。看起來很像是拖延，但並不故意。

愛情：您一旦擁有了關係，不會想到分離，而且會承諾去經營恆常不分離的關係。您既忠誠又慷慨，可以不帶妒忌或競爭心去支持並慶賀伴侶的成功，當伴侶的需要浮現時，更能給予回應。
您的憤怒最有可能在親密關係中顯現。因為當您迎合別人時，自己就消失了。

安定方位：成就型在安定的狀態下您會變得很專一，能在短時間內完成許多傑出的事。

壓力方位：忠誠型當面對感情的壓力或情緒對抗時，您會變得充滿恐懼，意識到所潛在的威脅，不但變得退縮，甚至唯命是從、好鬥、彆扭而且更頑固。
建意：問問自己的想法，而非顧慮別人的意見注意您對改變的不適感，學習歡迎新事物。注意您的頑固和被動式抗拒.

最渴望：和洽相處
最恐懼：有紛爭，有衝突
最難達到的美德：果斷 (Right action)
最難克服的執念：懶惰 (Sloth)

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Felt bored and did this test. Muahahha... I must say that the part which says I'm not decisive and very lazy is very true!

Clcik here if you are interested.

The day of my Fieldwork

Yes, today's the big day! My Social Studies fieldwork is finally over! But not the report. Still have a 50 pages report to write sia!

Anyway, I am quite upset with my own performance. As usual I said the wrong things again. I actually said that the Malay New Year is Hari Raya! Oh my god.... I was so pai seh that I do not know how to react and face the class sia. Sure to be marked down lah. But as I console myself, whatever should not have been said have already been said. So no point dwelling on it le right? But I still do not feel good lah.

Other than that, my group has been quite blessed because the inital drizzle only lasted for like 2 minutes and my tutor who always act as the naughty kid, suddenly decided to be the soft-spoken kid today! Oh my god... She was practially not speaking when she was asked to answer questions. I have to act as if I am showing concern by asking if she is having a sore throat or what sia. But anyway, I'll rather have her as a quiet 'student' than a noisy 'student'. Hmmm.... hopefully she won't mark us down for not giving her sufficient attention and concern.

Though I am still quite worried for my individual work during the fieldwork, I am really satisfied with the overall teamwork and the turnout of the fieldwork!

Just pray that I will get reasonable grades! Awaiting for my tutor's more detailed feedback next Monday then!