It's teacher's day!

Celebrated my FIRST teacher's day!

The prefects gave us balloons! made the staffroom so lively! =)

Received many presents! quite overwhelmed but frankly, my favourites are mainly the cards and letters that my students wrote.. =) Oh! Love big hand drawn and hand made flower too!

After work, spent my evening eating dinner with my in-laws, chit chat and walk walk! elvin was at yishun with friends and my in-laws were so nice to come accompany me! hee.. pai seh!
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On the actual day, I started my day with a pleasant surprise of my husband taking leave to spend the day with me! =) Ate my favourite KFC breakfast! =)

Went home and opened the remaining gifts! (not nice to open in school so brought back some to open) Totally enjoyed reading the cards~ One of my P5 kid gave me a bag! The bear cup are just timely too! many notebooks and post-its! my students sure know me well! Oh and there's this very classy card holder! love it too!

It's BBQ Day!
Elvin and I had craving the other day and this was what we did! Chris said we are REALLY the kuisine kouple! 重出江湖！

garlic, onion, butter and ginger! woooooo.... hey family, another round together? =)

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这就是在家里吃烤肉的代价！

油嘞！

No matter what, really glad to spend time in such relaxing way with hubby. =)

This is an exciting week!
Wednesday: Claypot dinner with in-laws
Thursday: Dinner at Keh and Dorothy's
Sat-Sunday: KL with family! it's JOHN's convocation and family portrait weekend!
Can't wait!!!!

This is what we will be busy with in a while. =)

To a God who is always near.

Where would I be without you?
Where would I go without you?
I need you, Lord.

Take me deeper
Deeper in love with You.
Jesus hold me close in Your embrace.
Take me deeper
Deeper than I've ever been before
I just want to love you more and more.
How I long to be deeper in love.

Oh Lord, thank you.
Thank you so much for pulling me back in time.
Seriously, I would not want to go anywhere without you again..
Thank you for always being near.
Thank you, Lord.

A song that brought many things to light..

Beautiful
I see Your face in every sunrise
The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You're beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night
Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright
We are amazed in the light of the stars
It's all proclaiming who you are
You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree
You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me
Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne
Soon we will be coming home
You're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity's shore
Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
Your bride will come together
and we'll singYou're beautiful

I see Your face, I see Your face, I see Your face
You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

Yee Ann is back and the RVHS netball girls are gonna be meeting up after my net on Friday. =)

Really can't wait to meet up.

a Decade long friendship.

Joy . Sweat . Tears

We always say when we were younger that we will always meet up, even until we are pushing our baby prams to our meet-ups! Now i'm married, esther will be getting married too. Soon, all will. Next time we will teach our girls how to play netball BUT we'll not let weili the mother hen do it, cos she'll torture our kids like how she trained us last time! hahaha.. =)

Anyhow, can't say how much I love you girls.

Thanks for making RV days the best schooling days ever! =)

To my Secondary 3 Higher Chinese Teacher:
韩老师！这次是我最后一次实习。6月就毕业开工了！特别想要跟您说：谢谢你！你是一位非常优秀的华文老师。小时候感染了您的热忱，让我对教学感兴趣，对华文更是有股不可言喻的爱。这一次实习，得了最高荣誉的优等。是超超超超级难得到的。其实也没想过会有机会，只是一直很认真地把书教好，很想要小朋友们和我一样喜欢华文。=)谢谢您那时写的推荐信。谢谢您启发了一位小女生，想要和您一样，教育下一代。=)

From my Secondary 3 Higher Chinese teacher:
恭喜恭喜！我就想呢，一定是成绩太优异了，才有这么多的视学，因为我知道你不可能不及格（只有特优生及特差生才需要视学得那么频繁嘛）。其实我得要谢谢你们才对，没有你们这一班可爱的学生，我也不会这么喜欢教学啦。所谓教学相长，我从你们身上学到的，绝对不会比你们从我这里学到的少。有幸教到像你这样聪颖伶俐的学生，是我的福分。还好你会继续教育事业，因为我今后应该不会回到前线作教育工作，而是转战教育行政工作了。有幸培育出一个优秀的华文老师，我也不枉教了几年书了。教育是一场马拉松，你才刚刚起步，还有很长的路要走，加油加油！

Thank you God for the many good chinese teacher whom you have placed in my life.. =)

Watched Star Awards while marking my P5 class' compo and so many times i nearly cried.
Not because who and who won and who and who didn't but because our God is so greatly glorified in the whole show.

So many of the artists gave glory to God when they were giving their thank you speech.

Chew Chor Meng's thank you speech really touched my heart..

He quoted Isaiah 40:31,
"but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

And he who is suffering from muscle dystrophy said that God is going to heal him and he gives all glory and honour to his Lord and God.

It was powerful because he used to be a very devoted buddhist. I have read so many articles on him talking about fengshui, about him reading a lot of books on buddhism and he even mentioned that he want to be a monk or something.

However, now he stood in front of national TV, declaring proclaiming his faith in our Lord and Saviour, telling the nations that our God is a God who can heal and bring comfort and peace. It is powerful.

I remembered when he first announced that he is suffering from muscle dystrophy, I mentioned to someone that i felt sad that he can't be recover cos he was a buddhist and only our God can heal. I even said how i wish someone invites him to GNS. I mumbled a short prayer for him about someone telling him about God then. Not with a lot of passion but just hoped and wished and told God.

Xiang yun, Zheng ge ping, Jessica Liu and many many others thanked God last night too..

God honours those who honours Him.

This is awesome.

God, you are awesome.

NO WORDS ARE FULLY DESCRIBE HOW I AM FEELING NOW.

I am done with ALL my 11 lesson observations.

Today I have only one word to describe God:
MY FAITHFUL SUPERNATURAL GOD.

Was so anxious and disorientated since last night! but God has shown Himself always faithful and reliable. Always supportive and encouraging. Always giving me the strength i need.

This is THE MOST IMPORTANT observation any trainee teacher will go through..
I am glad I am able to glorify God by doing well in what I am doing, hand in hand with Him.

The moderator gave good comments and he told me I should be confident as I did well.

All I can say is...
I am safe in God's hands. =)

my fren marked the corrections and wrote 阅 to indicate read and the kid thought that it is a word he wrote wrongly and he wrote beside 阅阅阅.
my another friend just told me, a kid wrote 大家的大wrongly and 方便的便wrongly and he wrote for correction,大便大便大便.
Still got tons of these funny stuff! i'm gonna collate and publish it! hahahah

1 red pen a wk.
35 more compo scripts. =)

Joseph's prayer:

Lord I pray that you'd restore the strength that is so drained, that you'd grant Lixin the peace and creativity to deliever an exellent lesson tomrrow, and may she find favour in the eyes of those who will be observing her lesson. We also pray for the students to be attentive and do the right things at the right time.
May You be in full control and Lixin will rely on your strength and be confident not in herself but in You whom she knows will be watching over her. In Jesus' Name, Amen!

God, in YOU I will trust. =)

I'm not suppose to be blogging cos i have 10 lesson plans to complete and i only did 2. BUT BUT BUT! I have to blog!

ESTHER LIN EN WEI!! I miss u so much! have been keeping myself updated by reading ur blog. =) Very happy that YOUR PP and u are still so loving and cute! MY PP and I talked about u guys often and have been praying for God's intervention for ur wedding.
We gotta meet up for coffee ya?! the two PPs and us! =) We can go on at $15 meal too! hee.. arrange a netball night after 8th k? Ahhh... now i miss weili and Ade too! sobz.. Let's have a RV jersey day too! OR a netball shooting competition and let me air all the balls! hahaha..

Ok.. I better get back to work.

God, thank you for them. =)

正在批改作文中……很难很难改呀！

实习只剩个星期了。虽然很累，但是却非常有满足感。尤其是看到学生有很大的进步，真的觉得牺牲都是值得的。

唯一觉得很过意不去的是，给老公的时间太少太少了。不过没有他的支持和鼓励，我觉得我不可能能够这么全情投入地把工作做好。周下来，有低潮的日子、想放弃的时候，但是老公总是在我身旁，告诉我不要放弃、要继续拼搏。他总是以他的方式宠着我。帮我剪活动的材料，煮东西给我吃，每个早上7点多起床，为我祷告、给我一个拥抱、为我精神喊话，听我滔滔不绝地讲诉学校里的事。他真的让我觉得我可以做得很好。记得有一次，我在电脑前睡着了。老公轻轻地把我叫醒，鼓励我加油。为了确保我不会在睡着，他就坐在我身边。我一睡着，他就拍拍我。就这样睡睡醒醒的，我完成了我的工作。老公还为我大声欢呼！

当然这次会被推选为优等老师，除了老公的功劳，上帝的确很眷顾我。因为上帝的恩典，小朋友们都蛮喜欢我，也很合作。上课时的气氛都很融洽。很多的教学点子，我很肯定是上帝的赐福。

还有晓薇同学！我们两个无私心地互相分享、互相鼓励、互相批评！哈哈哈！很神奇喔！可是真得很庆幸有她！有一个美丽的小女孩，她的名字叫做晓薇！

我还要提一提学校里的同事！爱凌！！看到了吗？我有提起你喔！说真的，没有爱凌和子慧，上班应该会很闷。天啊！这两女是疯子好吗！我一定要把爱凌的bopomofo舞拍下来!!

最后要提到的是我的家人。谢谢妈妈不辞劳苦地准备我和老公每星期的食物。谢谢姐姐勇敢拨出时间载妈妈去买材料。谢谢哥哥大老远地把食物送来我家。谢谢爸爸总是送我们蔬果。谢谢弟弟是不是给我打电话。好爱好爱你们！谢谢你们这么爱我和老公。

教书好好玩！

恭喜哥哥复原中！

昨天和大学的同学吃午餐，好开心哦！

大谈实习的酸甜苦乐。有可爱搞笑的学生，也有想要捏死的学生！哈哈哈！我好高兴我们能会面，而且是在湾仔，吃着我最爱的盅仔饭！

接着我们整整在daiso耗了1小时！老师嘛，一到这类地方就会情不自禁的为上课、学生等，买一些有的没的！哈哈哈！我花了$26!

会面3小时后，本来哓薇得去教补习的，我和毅强真的是损友！我们又劝又逼的，哓薇就乖乖地延后了不惜时间！不过，我觉得她是太舍不得离开我们啦!于是我们就到了tohguan的玲子传媒，在那里有待了2小时！那儿书好多！尤其是绘本！如果可以的话，我看我们可以窝在那里多几个小时呢！要不是他们不能刷卡，我们身上的现金又不够，我想我们可能会买下整间店吧！我买了11本书，才$82!

总的来说，可以和他俩会面真的是件好事。我们三个都是基督徒，理念相同，对看事情的角度也很愿意分享和讨论。常常在彼此身上能学到好多东西。我觉得最可贵的是，我们都认为彼此棒极啦！很多人可能不理解这一点，朋友之间、爱人之间，家人之间，好好看看他们的优点，尝试学习这些优点，其实要有能长久的友谊和感情不难。我们三人微妙但真诚的友谊就是这样建立的吧。而且我们真的衷心希望彼此活得很好。

最近和一个友人疏远了。其实我也不是很晓得为什么会是至今的一个局面。我很认真地思考、很努力的反思，后来发现可能人家长大了，不喜欢听一些他不觉得重要的。理念不同了，价值观也不一样了。老公说我们不能掌控人家的想法。如果不能太亲近，就不要勉强，适当地回应就好了。不要转牛角尖，好好自己活着，世界上还有许多值得我们关爱的事物。不过要敞开胸怀，当他们需要一个靠岸的码头，我们一定要欢迎他们，拥抱他们。可是人人都需要朋友吧，可能我已不再他的朋友名单中。哈哈哈...

改换用华文记录心情，主要是因为很多人看不大懂。看到一堆华文字就会跳页，正合我意！
也当是顺道练练汉语拼音吧！

可能两种关系里头只能选一样。你选的和我选的不一样。结果只能这样。

今天是实习的第三周。身体垮掉了。不觉得是上班的错，因为我真的觉得是那天呛到咖椰，伤到了喉咙引发的。伤了后，又因得一直说话、有时忘了喝水等因素，使情况变得更糟。无论如何，我看还是看看医生为妙。现在喉咙痛到不行，咳嗽咳到胸口痛，上课讲话又一直破声，我最好更虔诚地祷告才是。

上周六，搬了新“家”。我们教会得分会建好了，就在我家和学校之间。哈哈哈…我每天都在同一个地方呢！哈哈！地方很漂亮，天花板很高！很喜欢！=）

昨天为哥哥策划的“求婚计划”非常成功！未来大嫂是个很可爱的人，也非常疼爱我们。很高兴家里多了一个新成员！接下来就只剩信宇和大姐了！以后去长辈们的庆生宴就可以坐满一桌了！不过我好爱好爱和家人出去。他们没有心机、不会想着如何拉拢人或是陷害人。大家可以卸下一切伪装，敞开心房，互敬互爱。在现在这个冷漠的社会，能得到这一点点温暖，真的犹如一阵春风，非常珍贵。

做了一些自我省思和一些重大的决定，我的人生很可能会有很大的改变。但是我很庆幸在这个时刻，我有一个爱我的上帝、疼我的老公、家人和朋友。我想只要把视角移到这些爱我的人，我就可以很幸福了。

妈妈煮了面线，还让弟弟特地从马来西亚带给我和老公。看！我是幸福的！

是时候继续把工作做完了。

充满心机与恶念的小绵羊和只有好意和关心的大老虎，你清醒的双眼会选择和谁做朋友？

Today I bid goodbye to my normal weekdays..
So I decided to record a day in a wk for me BEFORE i started work today. =)

So with me starting work, elvin gave me two very useful things!

Ok, it's 10:30pm and i need to sleep now.

Have to reach work at 6:50am EVERYDAY. ha. =)

Valentines day 2009

Valentine's Day...

was also the 8th month anniversary for elvin and I since we got married.

There were ups and downs, tears and laughter.

Looking back to when we first knew each other 10 yrs ago, started dating 5 years ago and now married for 8 months, it was an amazing walk together.

I cannot thank God enough for being in this walk togther with us..

Elvin and I are very different.

There can be a lot of frictions that can have many very severe effects and results.

However, somehow the rubbing, painful it may be initially, always end with a happy ending..

We are learning how to be as one and how to live as one.

Many many anniversaries I know we will have,

as long as we both keep holding onto each other's hand and walk..

Love you lots, puipui hubby. =)