It has been a year since I last updated!
I have decided to pick it up again, mainly because I hope to journal my life as I enter another phase! Parenthood!
Nathan Foong is here with us already. A cute big boy weighing 4.105kg, 51cm long.
Before I continue, I better first decide if I wanna continue writing on this space or have another link that elvin and myself can write.. :)
Till further discussion then!

Endless Meetings

学生不在了，老师继续在学校里苦干。
好想好想好好睡一觉。

这几天能和家人和朋友庆生，很幸福！
在忙碌的日程中，大家还抽空为我庆祝， 我真的受宠若惊！感谢上帝派了这么多天使们来爱护我。

这个会议到底有完没完？

真的要开学吗？

要开学了！我真的还没有准备好呢！不过真的还蛮想念孩子们的。不知道他们还能适应上课的节奏和课业吗？

有点紧张，不过也有些许期待。

该用什么心态来迎接这个新的学段？

需要上帝的引导！
积极但放轻松。很矛盾哦！
相信情况会转好。

Come what may!
Living positionally, not conditionally!!

Testing iPhone blogging app

Testing testing!!!
Oh my! This is gonna help with my updating of my working blog! Awesome!

Woah.. It has been long! hahaha..

I really wanted to keep the blogging going but work has been really overwhelming..
Teaching P1, P3 and P5 this year. All higher Chinese classes which means it is gonna be a target stressing year! especially when I have the P5 HCL class with me.. they are the hope for the school! hahaha..

Anyway, academic work aside, I really wanna record about the CCA i'm taking which is basketball!

haha.. don't ask me why I am not taking netball! simply, my school doesn't have one yet. hee..
Back to my point.

Basketball CCA is really the highlight of my afternoons! (with very conscious effort to NOT think about the stacked up and accumulated work and markings!) Seeing the boys improving and most importantly changing their attitude towards people and having increasing sportsmanship is a very encouraging process.

I recall the first time seeing them train and the time when they played match amongst themselves. Gosh. I thought I had a whole bunch of gangsters in my CCA! haha.. of course, there are nice boys too! So many times I just scolded and literally told them they are not that great so better get those weird and nonsense air out and get down to serious training.

I think they got it really bad from me once when I stopped the training and punished them with very tough physical training. They still dared to giggle! AND they loved to talk back and challenge me. Man.. they were messing with the wrong person! hahaha..

Anyway, cut the long story short, I have no idea when they started loving me and vise versa. Maybe they saw our care and concern for them? haha.. I dunno. Maybe it was just genuinely, they grew up.

Today we played teckwhye. Before every match I would remind them about clean language and never to get angry. Even when others push them or hurt them, they must still not let it affect them. Also, I told them that they should apologise when they accidentally committed fouls against opponents. Today some opponents' language was really foul and my boys didn't retaliate and even told me which guy swore and how they ignored it. Really proud of them.

Of course, the boys won because they fought till the end. Ok, I admit, I keep scaring them that we are gonna lose and that we need to score 5 more. this "5 more" didn't decrease at all throughout. hahahah!

All in all, I enjoyed myself tremendously today. Special mention of a darling - Rong Zhi, who stayed to accompany me to wait for the last game to end and helped me pack up the venue. If any of the students are reading this, please help me tell him I really appreciate it! of course, that shy but really tall MVP for today will blush and run away. hahaha..

When my CCA boss asked me what is the most important thing I wanna achieve in this CCA, I told him that I hope that every boy will learn a Never Give Up attitude and pull through every difficulty. Today they really made me proud. We were losing in 1st and 2nd quarter but we came back with a victorious win of 23-41!

Ok, I really just wanna document this feeling before I forget it...
Tomorrow is sports day. I am running teacher's race but now I am aching all over.
Still have essays to finish for my course which is due in less than a day.

It is such an awesome thing to be making a little difference in someone's life.

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