Thursday, January 19, 2006:
ehhey.. haha. blogging at work again (: again while waiting for the ARs to finish downloading. it really takes a while. cant go more than 4 downloading windows at a go. so weird. there's something wrong my laptop. -frowns- mhmm. today's like half day i think. but going out after maybe. or maybe i should just go home to catch up on sleep. even coffee doesnt seem to be working today. haha. the caffeine has lost its effect. -yawns- mhmm. was browsing thru google earth again yesterday with my mom (yeah, some mother-daughter time) and we were marking out places in perth.. so that when i get there i sort of know roughly my whereabouts and location. somewhat. navigating on google earth really amused my mom. "this programme is so educational!" haha. yah. actually its quite fun (: marked out alot of places in s'pore and boy am i proud to say that i have a more or less good sense of direction.. :P
actually i'm starting to warm up to the idea of going away to perth. maybe its because i'm getting influenced here at work by the people who studied/studying there, giving me advice and stuff on what to do and where to go there. or maybe its because everyone's so busy with school that there isnt really much to do but want to go to school.. like there's a need to study. i really do miss it.
1. i miss sitting in lessons trying to listen to the teacher but getting distracted with my pencil or the going-ons outside the window
2. counting down to the bell for recess or for school to end
3. getting homework and procrastinating about it.
4. i miss the socialising and fraternising with classmates,the occasional hellos from the other sec4s from the other end of the corridor at 10.35 or 2.05
5. the teachers - both funny&loud and boring&lame. haha. (mummy & daddy of 4b1! :D ) ms tan with her drum stick going around tapping (more like hitting.. :S ) people on the shoulder during english, mr yeo for nagging at us all the time esp picking on mey and jiajia for talking in class (and they're right in front somemore. goodness), mrs r. ong for her boring boring lessons on LORMs not history or ss, mrs e. chan for her slow instructions for PE, mrs cheong for her blonde jokes, mrs chong's rainforests ;p and her gushing abt her sons and husband and overseas trips, lao shi for being ever so encouraging all the time, miss sim for being so motivational and for her strange laughter, which makes me laugh, and also for advising us how to tell buff from beige and white from pale blue while in chem lab.
6. getting up at like, 7am and rushing out of the house by 7.05am (otherwise i'll be late for school, its a long walk up the hill okay!) for school
7. sleeping in class, hugging the pillars (esp the staff room ones - when the staff room was still accessible last time)
8. getting wet in the toilets while waiting for mr tay to stroll into class after our PE lesson (cos its bio next) and say "aiyo, girls.."
9. i miss trying to open the lock to my locker but to no avail cos i keep forgetting the combi, so i end up dumping my hp and discman or mp3 into one of the eight's lockers then rushing for assembly (or maybe its always just because i'm forever just on time for school and there isnt much time for opening the lockers.
10. whining about the lack of free periods so that we can go to the feezing north pole library to chillout with mey and minty (who keeps photocopying stuff from journals like the economist, and playing word games in reader's digest.) while me and abi go use the computer terminals.
11. eating recess everyday with the eight, where we have to wait for our dear princess goh lee mey to finish chewing her food and drinking up her coke. and claire having her jack and jill chilli potato chips. while minty and me hunt for crunchy guava. lol. and then rushing back to class on tuesdays, thursdays and fridays before mr yeo gets into it for math or a math and locks us out after a thorough lecture-and-booking session for our late arrival when we had half an hour (plenty of time for him but not for us, or rather, miss goh :p ) for our recess.
12. going for camps, like OBS, adventure camp, LTC etc.. it was always loads of fun. and i enjoyed it alot. (: raises the whole level's unity and its a great for nurturing THE mg spirit.
13. even the mugging for exams (even though it can seem like a chore and i do hate it sometimes, but if you do it with friends, it seems alot easier cos we're all facing and doing it together, so you dont feel so alone in this whole exam situation)
14. assembly, where we mouth
majulah singapura and the school song, and say the pledge, greeting with "
good morning ms kon/mrs yap/mrs sim, good morning teachers" in our really tiny voices.. and then getting reprimanded by mrs yap for not being loud enough and then we end up having to greet again/staying back for a while sometimes just to sing the school song again so that its audible enough for her.
15. but what i miss most is monday chapel, and the daily devotions.. its a good start to the week of school and refreshes me everyday with God's word.. although i must admit of being quite tired on certain days, so i end up stoning instead of listening to the pastors/ms kon/mrs yap/mrs sim/mrs chang/mrs robers.
man. i do miss school alot. its not just mg.. its the whole affair of going to school that i miss. i dont want to admit it, but i love school. really. i do. so maybe thats why i dont mind going now. so that i'll have something constructive to do (not that work isnt constructive, its just.. not proper work. i dont go out to get clients right.) and i'll have a few friends there too. (although quite a distance from school, but still perth! :p and a couple of school friends already.. i dont think (or at least i hope) life would be great there. so i'm anticipating the 29th. no its not chinese new year, its orientation. although i'll be missing out in the fun of collecting-our-ang-paos,-hide-in-the-room-with-your-cousins-and-lock-the-door-to-open-the-ang-pao-and compare-the-amount-of-money-we-all-get (its a really really rude, bad habit. haha. but its like a tradition already :D ) part, i'm sure i'll be having fun touring the school and all. getting used to the uber large environment i'll be calling home for 2006. yeah. i'll be alright.
this is your life
are you who you want to be
are you everything you dream to be?
a shout of praise.
11:17 AM
