a great start of a week..

It was a great start of week 7..(as teachers, we go by week no..Week 10 is coming!! it means holidays are coming too!)

8 August, Saturday:
Went to school in the morning but the school was closed!sigh..
went back home..
did a bit of marking..

shashi came to pick me up from my house..so nice of him! (but he was 20 minutes late..)
he thot that the ruling was that i would only come down when he gives me a call..
aiyoh..how i know..i thought i should go down at the pre-arranged timing..

hmm..we went to shop at jurong point..
i bought corn for BBQ and kinder brueno for the kids..
yanming said he had no time so we helped him to buy some potato chips..
shashi wanted to buy swensen's ice cream..we were already at the swensen's shopbut cos of me, the auntie, around, the auntie mentality was in the air, he decided to go back to NTUC to buy cheaper ice cream..lol..but of cos, he had wanted to save money as well~! pay day was still 4 days away...

anyway we still remembered to buy a chicken pie each before heading off to mdm fatimah's house..lol
we were almost an hour late..but anyway, we still had the time to run!
woah..think the whole run was about 15 km..
i was feeling lazy, tired and a little weak...
i couldn't really run after about 5km..and i was walking most of the time..
at the start, was walking with yanming..
yanming commented that i should run, landing on my heels instead of on the toes, for long distance..
thot it was quite true cos my toes kinda hurt a little after the 5km jog..

then after that yanming picked up speed and i ended up walking back with shashi..
shashi shares a lot with me..but somehow, i felt bad cos i could't really help much or give any advice/ opinions..
all i could do was only listen..but he said it was good enough..hmm..

in any case, there were always racist jokes around..
back at fatimah's house, had a shower (i din know how to pull the thinggy to turn to the shower mood so i was bathing from a hose..how lame that was!)
had a good dinner with prawns, stingray, chicken wings, chicken curry, pasta, etc.

after that i was jamming time..i felt a little useless cos tho i had grade 8 piano, icouldn't play any piece without a score..mdm fatimah, her husband, hamim, shashi and yanming were good. they could play the song just by hearing..so in the end, i only played 6 notes for the whole song..
sigh..
i must say that yanming was impressive..cos we recorded the song and when we played back, he was able to point out the flaws in the playing...and he could play the drums, the guitar and the keyboard..not bad..
but too bad, i can't really be like him..

had a guitar sing-a-long session before it was time for ice cream and the blackforest cake!
had a talk and fatimah was giving advice to yanming on how he should make something big if he changes to pe department..
left her house at about 2am..

and shashi wrote a note on the facebook about how it was an 8 hour ve lesson on family..
i never knew shashi's whole story about his family..
but he mentioned how he admired mdm fatimah's family..and i agreed too!! she had such close bonds with her husband and children, despite being a HOD in school with a heavy workload..4 adorable children who were so well-behaved..and how supportive her husband was..

9 august, sunday:
it was a long-awaited meet up with swee leng, shernise and chuay sia!
its been a long time since we met swee leng..
i was really happy to see her, listen to her share about her new job as a research coordinator..
basically just to see her move on with her life with a new job..
finally our meet up conversations moved away from school and students..

anyway it was national day..we wanted to say the pledge at 8.22pm but nobody at the restaurant did that..sowe decided not to..anyway the restaurant at Liang court was good..free flow of drinks..and the food was yummy..and not too expensive!

11 august, tuesday:
stayed back after school with my students for Zipline and abseiling..
the highlight was when rohana went down the zipline, she actually shouted " Miss Lin, I'm sorry!"
she apologized for always running away from me for npcc and chemistry..
i was really touched..hope she really meant it..

tried the abseiling..
but after coming down from the abseiling..i felt some kinda backache..must be really old...

12 august,wednesday:
went to KAP with the usual Ls group..
it was a sudden awakening call,..reality..
when roz started talking about ranking and how we should do something big that can be recognized..
sigh..i doubt i have anything big..
i will probably just end up with a bad grading..
hai..i dun really care leh..
i just believed in doing what i feeli should do for my students..
but reality is not that so..
sigh..

13 august, thursday:
due to some unforseen circumstances, alice needed a lift home!
shashi and yaming were not around..so i took the initiative to take shashi's car and drive alice home!
woah..i was amzaed that i could do it!! manual car..
thanks shashi and alice for that confidence in me!! =)

anyway i was spotted by students driving shashi's car..furthermore, i was using shashi's homeroom for AIP..started another round of rumours among students and weird looks from m..somehow, i felt that i needed to stay away from him..somehow..