Blood Donation No. 3

It sure feels good to donate blood, saving a life and everything, but I'm thinking this will be the last time I'll do so.

I think I'm not suitable to be a blood donor for a few reasons.

1) This is my third time donating and everytime I'll feel faint and nauseous after giving blood.

2) I always have big bruising around the needle hole. The nurses always find it hard to secure my vein. This time there's a bump around the needle hole and boy is it aching!

3) The nurses always have to massage my vein to fill the entire packet with blood. My blood just stops flowing after half a packet.

Check out Nicole's needle-hole. So nice and clean.

And my bruised one! It actually looks more swollen in life.

Taekwondo- Lesson 1

Surprise, surprise, I totally enjoyed the lesson!

We did stretching and learnt basic kicks and punches today.
We had really personalised coaching, 3 instructors to the 3 of us. Bonus, our instructors were kinda cute! *lol*

I thought it would be an easy session but was perspiring like mad after just 10 minutes. Now my thighs hurt whenever I go down steps.

I sooo lack exercise.

Instructor: "Now, push your legs apart and put your hands on the floor."
Me: "OWWWWWwwwwwwwwww..."

Instructor: "Up now and down on the other leg."
Me: *loses balance and fell on bum*
Instructor: *um chio* "Long time never exercise is like that one!"

Well, I'll be stretching and practising the movements daily till my next lesson!

Some commands to remember:
차렷- attention
경례- bow
준비ready
쉬어-at ease

To pig not not to pig?

It's Children's Day on Monday! We had the celebration today.

Every year for Children's Day, my school does a drama for the kids.
The script is always written by Abdullah, who is a super funny colleague.
This year's title is 'To pig or not to pig?'

We had 4 weird pigs, Hansel and Gretel who ate up their stepmother, the witch's house and the witch too, the evil witch and her talkative and show-off mirror, and an irritating Goldielocks who was high on sugar. I was Gretel.

It went well, considering that we only had 5 practices. Will put up the pics after I get them!

I blew over $100 for this Children's Day.

Gave each of my P1 darlings:
1) a goodie bag with snacks and sweets
2) a cup of ice cream
3) a highlighter
4) a beautiful hand-made bookmark with their names on

My P6 class got snicker bars. I bet they whined about it. :P
Wasn't there to hear them though.

And then there are the few special kids. They are special because I really really like them.
I don't teach any of them this year. I got the boys Famous Amos cookies and the girls gloomy bear stuffed toys.

There is Clara who's Dutch and is every teacher's dream student. There's Town whom is just as wonderful, she took great care of me in Bangkok. Game who is matured and obedient even though he's alone in Singapore. I've Jae Hun from Korea who is soooo charming at his age. And Tent who is Weilin's favourite, for his killer good-looks (Weilin's exact words). *lol* And Pinghua whom I enjoyed having in my class last year, made me laugh so often with his jokes!

And I'll end the post with...

MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY FOR ME!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOO~

Happiness!~

Mine, all mine!!!!

Erm, honestly, I had trouble finishing the parfait by myself. I'll stick to sharing the next time round. :P

P1 Oral Exam

I examined a weak P1 class today. I almost went nuts.

Happening NO. 1

Kid number 1: (sat down and picked up the reading passage)
"ch" ..."CH" .... "i"........."IL"......."d"...."Dr"........"eN"
Me: (thinking) 'What the *BEEP* is that kid doing? Coughing or what? Trying to be funny?'
Kid1: "ch...i........il......d.......dre.......n"
Me: OH!!!!

That kid took 2 minutes to read one word-children. Guess how long he took to read a PASSAGE?

Happening NO. 2
(Passage) The boy told his sister happily.

Kid number 2: (reads)The box told friend play happily.
Me: *HUH??*

Happening NO. 3
Kid number 3: (reads) The boy ask his friend to his house. His friends and friends came. And then his friends....his friends....
Me: .......... Oi, don't make up your own story. Read the passage PROPERLY!!

Happening NO. 4

Kid named Aaron: (reading)

Friend 1: (walks by)Hi Aaron!!

Aaron: Hi!!!

Friend 2: (walks by) Aaron!!!

Aaron: Hi!!!!

Me: (glares at the kids) OI! go back to your class and stop talking!

AHHhHH... don't these kids know they are having an EXAM?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Parfait Siao

I grabbed these 2 pics from Jiahui's blog.

Check out the gorgeous parfait!

Cannot ah, I better go get my fix today.

It's parfait parfait parfait in my head!

Jiahui and me~

I like this pic! :D

Hosanna

We sang Hosanna (in the highest) in church today. I first sang this song at FCBC, and it really touched me. So I was really happy to sing this song at CHC today! *beams*

Heal my heart and make it clean

Open up my eyes to the things unseen

Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks yours

Everything I am for your kingdom's cause

As I walk from earth into eternity

Hosanna Hosanna

Hosanna in the highest...

Thanks Merf for the song! :D

I'm in looove...

...with the Tiramisu Parfait from Waraku Pasta.
I can't stop thinking about it!!!!!!

Parfait is perfect in French.
This parfait, in my opinion, is absolutely perfect.
I would skip the main course for 3 parfaits~~

UPDATE:
Am tempted to change my blog address to www.tiramisuparfaitsforever.blogspot and fill the page with tiramisu parfait writeups but I shall not be silly and will control myself.

Underdog

Watched Underdog today. It was super lame but I still loved it for two reasons:

1) I've always liked beagles, and this beagle is super cute!

2) The villians, Dr Simon and Cad, are funny!

There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!

Body Aches

I did the Aces day workout with my P1 class today-yeah did all the superhero moves, basketball moves and jumping with them.
Boy is the video loooonnngggg! We were all sweating hard after the workout.

The pupils grumbled... the teacher grumbled (maybe even louder)...



And the teacher is still grumbling now.....

Cheesecake Café

I convinced Weilin to go with me to the Cheesecake café after her training today.
They have a big variety of cheesecakes which are really delicious! My favourite is the Vanilla Chocolate Chip Cheesecake, which wasn't available this week. Here are some pictures.

The inside of the café.
You get dimmed lightings, nice comfy sofas, the tranquil sound of a waterfall....

Weilin ordered nachos and a strawberry Oreo cheesecake, and I had a rum and raisin. The food is half finished because I was late and she started eating first!

My giantic ice chocolate float.My diet is totally totally ruined.... *sob*

And us!

I'm a little gingerbread man

One of my darling students, Hugo, handed me his transport scrapbook, pointed to the cover which had a little gingerbread man drawn on it, and said solemnly, "This is you."

<--- I didn't know I looked like that!

Newest Type of Mooncake-Chinchilla Persian Flavoured

Changes, Settler's Cafe and the Holy Spirit

I'm hooked to blogging! Never thought this would happen~! Things really do change with time... maybe it has to do with me becoming a child of God too.

I noted these differences about myself:
1) I'm a happier person. Life isn't that bad.
2) I no longer am obsessed with designer bags. I've more important uses for my money.
3) I think about saving.
4) I have a small crush on a guy. This is big because I haven't felt something for anyone for years. Haha!
5) I am more concerned about the people around me. It's not just 'me, me and me' anymore.


After lunch today, my fun-loving cell group went to the Settler's Cafe for games. It was hilarious as usual, and Jiahui won the title of 'Miss Ugly' because she was so good at the game 'Ugly Dolls'. I secretly liked the last game best, the game they found too slow. :-X

I had my 4th Bible Studies lesson with Wendy today. I wanna give special thanks to her, she has been so kind, so patient with us. She prayed for us (me and my fellow BS Elementary 1 classmate Mingkai) to receive the gift of tongue after bible studies. This tongue thing really bewilders me. I do feel something sometimes, especially when other people are speaking in tongue, but when I say it out, it sounds and feels like gibberish to me, then I'll wonder if it's me or AM I really speaking in tongue? *Shrugs*
Maybe Mingkai will make some progress (afterall he has Eunice, who is in BS Advance 100000) and then explain to me. *LOL*

Wushu Show

This evening, my sister and I accompanied my mum to the National Wushu Display 2007 at the Indoor Stadium. She learns Taiji so she makes it a point to go for this every year.

There were performances by other countries like the USA, Russia, China, India, Malaysia...they were fantastic. I think the Chinese are just amazing!

The opening performance.

This lion dance troupe came in first in this year's National Lion Dance Competition. They were goooood!

"Tao Nan Quan"
Yes, Tao Nan School has their own gong fu.
The P3s and 4s all do this for PE.








Alot of the performers did gravity defying acts like this.
Reminds me of a tick flying through the air... :P













3 of the hundred taiji performances we saw.












This Shaolin monk balancing on 2 fingers. And he is only ten!



We went for wings and fries and beer at Brewerkz after the show. Yum! I just love the buffalo wings with blue cheese dip!

Horse voiced

I lost my voice. Struggled to talk the entire day.

Took a cab with Weilin and the cab driver asked her (after I got off) if my voice is 'naturally like that'. *mad*

Acid Reflux

Learnt a new medical term through experience today-acid reflux, also known as heartburn.

On Tuesday 1.50am, I woke up with severe tightness to my chest and upper abdomen. I took two panadols hoping that it'd go away, but the pain just worsened. At that moment, I thought I might be having a heart attack.
So I woke my mum up and she sent me to hospital.

At the hospital, I missed Meliza. "How come!!?", you'd ask.
Well, the last time I was in hospital for stomach flu, Meliza was with me... and boy was she efficient. She queued quickly for me and got me the things I wanted immediately. I wanted a blanket I got a blanket. I wanted a drink I got my drink.

This time, my mother didn't know she had to register me and I waited in pain for 15 minutes before my mum went to ask someone and realised her mistake. I wanted a blanket and my mum nearly drove home for a blanket after scolding me for not bringing one along.
*Sigh* I know I know... I should be grateful that she drove me to hospital. But still...

So the doctor diagnosed me with acid reflux. It is a condition in which the liquid content of the stomach regurgitates (backs up, or refluxes) into the esophagus.
So when I was sleeping, my stomach juices went into my chest, causing the chest pain.

I had an ECG done, was given Antacid, and was observed for an hour. I got better and so could go home, and was given an appointment to see a specialist this Friday.

Well what caused it?
I did some research and think my diet did. I had skipped lunch and then had a heavy dinner of pizza and milk. So my stomach juices went into overtime. And then it didn't help that I slept 3 hours after my big meal.

It was a truly unpleasant feeling. I learnt that GML and my colleague Leanne have heartburn too, and gotta watch their diet carefully. Well, I'd take care not to have this happen to me again!

Fellowshipping @ NYDC

Miho is returning tomorrow at dawn and Taka at night, so this is considered as our last dinner together.

We did our best to act cute~

=(^-^)=

After our dinner.

Taka and me

Eliz, Eunice and me with Miho~

I've not been in this cell group for long but Taka and Miho really add fun and colour to this cell group. It's sad that they are returning to Japan but they should be coming back to visit next year! See you guys then~!

JB Jusco and Seafood Trip!

Still feeling hyper from the trip!

Basically, we did two things in JB :
1) Shopping at Jusco Tebrau City
2) Had seafood dinner at Taman Sentosa

I returned back to Singapore with 6 bottles of chewing gum, transformers and Snow Queen (korean serial)DVDs , 4 packets of eye masks from elianto (12 pairs each packet), 1 big box of tau sa piah, 2 big jars of green tea leaves and 1 jar of rose buds. All these for 200RM! What a steal!


Here are some pictures we took:








The stars for the day, Taka and his super kawaii girlfriend Hiromi!








All of us!






Girlies~







Dinner was super delicious! We went to a restaurant recommended by Jason san and had prawns, fish, clams, eggs, veggies and frog legs... paid 35RM each. Cheapest seafood dinner I ever had! And then after dinner, we went for durian, and Hiromi loved it so much she bought durian back for her family!

The highlight of the day for me has to be the visit to the ah beng *achem* DVD shop. It was an experience man, superbly ah beng and *achem*... loved it!

In this posting, I've to give special thanks to Jiahui, Eunice, and Kaixing for helping me to bring back my chewing gum for me. And Ben for the DVDs. Doomo arigatou to you all!

Yet another Karaoke session!

My motto for this week: To play to the max!

Yeah its the September hols...
My friends' MC rates have been found to be positively linked to the school holidays.
And my playmate for the day is........*drumroll*... ah nia!

After her work, we went to Parkway Parade to hang out.

Why do I like Parkway so much? Here are 10 reasons:

1) It's near home (at least for me :P).
2) It's not as crowded as town.

3) They have good fashion shops-Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Mango, GG>5, Adidas, Nike etc.

4)There is Isetan for our cosmetic and assessories needs.

5) K-box is across the road and this K-box offers big discounts for members.

6) There is Ichiban Boshi on the 3rd floor. Their food is good value for money.

7) There is Crystal Jade at the basement (the staff there recognise me now and knows I love their ice red bean dessert).

8) There is a Scoops ice-cream shop at the basement. I can never decide which flavour to have, is it the jackfruit, coconut, green tea or durian!!!?

9) There is Minitoons and Chamelon for you to buy pretty and useless things.

10) MPH and Pacific Coffee went but Borders and Dome are coming!

As usual, we found a whole load of things to buy.

Weilin bought this really pretty starry pressed powder from Kosé.

And I helped my mum to buy the Skinfood's Carrot Collagen Eye sheet. According to my colleague Elvenia, alot of her friends swear by it. It's supposed to reduce puffiness.

It's always out of stock, so my kiasu mother asked me to buy 20 sheets for her.

And then after shopping, the night was still young. So what did we do? Of course we crossed the road and went over to K-box! Here are some pictures:

Advertising for Bioré.

Singing with two mikes takes less effort than with one!

The second of September, some happenings...

SOT Graduation
Congratulations Miho, Taka and Merf!

Merf had some really good results-best since his PSLE he said haha!






K-BOX @ Marine Parade
From left to right: Me, Kaixin, Jiahui, Eunice and Mingkai (affectionally known as 'the couple') and Ben

The 3 teachers, 1 couple and 1 Ben sang from 7.30pm to 12.30am -steady steady pom pi pi!

First Things First

Had alot of 'firsts' today.

1) I attended a cremation-my first.
I was actually really impressed by Mandai Crematorium. Jiahui commented its prettier than the ROM. There were fountains everywhere, the toilets were cleaner than the airport's, the place just exuded peace. Was slightly horrified to learn that they named the place you watch the casket going into the fire 'the viewing gallery'. Isn't it inappropriate?

2) I went to collect my new passport alone-boring boring boring...
The last time it was with my dad in 1996. I waited over 3 hours, for 300 people before my turn. Of course I dozed off....used the guy beside me as a comfortable leaning post and totally scared him off...

3) I bought my first pair of jwest shoes-on impulse!
The leather pumps are kinda expensive ($106) but are really comfortable!

4) I went to the Axis Bar at The Oriental Hotel-with GML (yeah she had to work the next day)
I naively thought the bar had a great view, read that from the website. GML laughed at me when we sat down. We had a view of the parking lots from the 4th floor.
I ordered a Polaris, it had rose tequila, Baileys and strawberries in it, tasted like strawberry smoothie, was delicious! GML had a Hoegaarden, and turned as red as her shoes after drinking just half a bottle. I regretted not taking a pic of her strawberry coloured face.
It was totally unhappening when we were at the bar, then the moment we paid and stepped out of the bar, the jazz guy started singing. Wahlau...


*I did something stupid today-not the first time.

At Accessorize, one of the staff was shifting the racks and a bangle fell. So I bent over to pick it up for her. At that moment, another heavy bangle fell and knocked me hard on the head. OH boy it hurt! In my mind at that moment, I was lamenting to (and blaming) God how I did a good deed and still got hurted.

So I got home at night, had one of my nightly chats with my mum and told her what happened, and thought she would agree to how I didn't deserve the knock. To my surprise, she told me I'm the dumbest person ever, that we should never go below things that are about to drop. A lightbulb suddenly switched on in my mind-yah hor!
Why in the world did I pick up the bangle, when the shop assistant was still shifting the things?