school's up in less than a week's time! not only that, the staff deployment duties are also already out!

let me tell you all something.

i was relegated to a state of daze for a few hours after i'd gotten to know my duties. all of a sudden, i have so many work to do. heck, i'm still trying to make sense of some of it! there was this thing about a ( Read more... )

for lack of a better word to use, let me just say that i feel so pitam at the moment. i'm not too sure whether this is a javanese or a malay word but my guess is that it's the former as my javanese gran whose lingua franca is javanese (DU-UH!!) usually uses this word to describe herself whenever her head's spinning.

and yes, my head's spinning right ( Read more... )

i'm currently blogging from cameron highlands. the trip here has proved to me two things:

1. i'm a geek through and through
2. i'm a tropical person

as soon as i knew that we'll be driving our car to cameron highlands, i'd already run through a mental list of things to bring which includes (what else?) my laptop! once we've checked into the resort and ( Read more... )

 Allright. I'm just back from a staff retreat and am actually kinda tired but I don't feel like sleeping yet. So, here goes an entry!

Wanna know the boo-boos I made at the staff retreat just now?

1. I played an utterly terrible game of bowling. If you all recall, I totally suck at ball games so imagine me playing TWO rounds of bowling just now. I was ( Read more... )

My family and I (minus the youngest brother who stayed home to study for his arab language exam later today) went to Arab St for dinner just now. Eh... I didn't realize that Arab St is a darn happening place at night! There were lotsa young people hanging out at the eating joint over there. Mostly guys. With coooooool bikes! Heh, I can't help ( Read more... )

Urgh. Unproductive day today.

My parents were out for some class. The elder brother was out working. The youngest  brother was also away for a religious class.

So where does that leave me? Home alone!

Technically, that would be a perfect time for me to finish up my work as I won't be distracted by anyone but it apparently didn't work out that way. I ( Read more... )

Argh!

I'm in the midst of planning a unit of lesson for my EL and I've hit a wall. I've totally ran out of juice as to how I can conceptualize the lessons.

Oh, I do know exactly what it is that I want to teach but how the heck do I tie it up with the theme that I'm writing?? Urgh! This is so irritating lah!

Ho'well. On to other things.

I went to Changi ( Read more... )

Eh by the way, let me whine about the following:

1. I'm having insomnia! I haven't been able to sleep well for the past few days!
2. My back is still aching. Howowowow?? One of my colleagues reckoned that it's rheumatism. I brushed it aside when she said it but minutes later, I started to ask myself "WHAT IF IT IS?!?!?!"

Oh, I have an eerie incident I ( Read more... )

I've been working on my literature review since 4+ this afternoon (it's slightly after midnight now by the way) and it's still not done. Yet. Technically speaking, I've kept the MS Word document containing my supposed lit review opened since 4+ but have been actively surfing the web since then till now. You won't believe the things I've been ( Read more... )

I think that I've strained a muscle on my back. For the past 3-4 days, my back (the left side) has been aching. When I asked my mom to massage it yesterday to relief the ache... Oh boy... I winced in pain. I really am clueless as to how I might've strained it. Anyway, I need to get a massage a.s.a.p. The ache is causing me such discomfort.

And with ( Read more... )