My CCAs as a student

started off with gymnastic class when i was in P3.... lasted only a few weeks as it was just too expensive to carry on.... it cost about $25 a month (why was i even paying for CCA???) and within these first few week, the instructor already made us buy gymnastic ball, ribbons and even hula hoop....

i quit after getting the ball.... this CCA was just too expensive for me.... =S....

then i was in athletic, just because it was at 3+ on a Friday afternoon, created an opportunity for the 4 of us to pop by Thomson Yahoo Wywy game centre in between school dismissal and CCA... =).... but soon, it got a little bored with just running around our pathetic school field that all 4 of us decided to just disappear from our CCA and extended the time we spent at wywy before heading off for home...=P

it was only when the school make CCA compulsory for all P6 pupils that i finally settled for science club where i had to complete project after project just to earn a botanist badge..... and this was where i met mei who later on was in the same class with me at HIHS... =)

it was compulsory for all HIHS pupils to have a sport and a club CCA... both mei and i went for the trial for badminton.... both failed to get in and ended up in volleyball ...a sport which i believe that none of us managed to master.... heee....

transferred to RSS in sec two and got conned into st john ambulance brigade.... hate marching in the sun, hate having to do change parade, hate getting bullied by childish seniors who thought that making juniors do degrading punishments and activities were fun and were considered team bonding, hate having to polish my shoes, basically hate everything except one about st john...luv the fact that i could be on duty during cross country .... no need to run the 3.2km every year ...=)

was also in modern dance.... a new CCA created by my then sec 2 form teacher and miraculously, i was just enrolled without my knowledge by the girl who conned me in into st john on the day when i was on ML....diao.... but i was glad....cos it means no more st john....woohoo....

although without any dance background, i grew to love dancing and performed in my very first SYF....the troupe managed to get a bronze on our first attempt which was pretty awesome la....

 (with choir singers and chinese dancers on Speech Day)

went on to join chinese orchestra in CJ to learn how to play the yang qin ....

i was super not musically incline.....i didnt know when my yang qin was totally out of tune and needed tunning... even my instructor was super amazed that i could still play the whole song when my yang qin was totally off key.... hahahha.... another amazing thing was that i dun need to look at the scoresheet when i performed.... i couldnt multi task with looking at the score, listening to my orchestra mates and playing the instrument all at the same time.... i ended up memorising the whole song so that i would only need to listen and play... despite all the difficulties, i learnt how to play 2 songs in my 1.5 years in the CCA....hahahahaha......

i was also in the 24th student council.... my first experience of going for an interview with the teachers-in-charge, giving a speech in front of the whole school, giving out M&Ms to pull votes....

(with fellow council mates during investiture)

love the bond we had as a council, love the privilege of the council room and locker, love planning for orientation and after exam program, love investiture, love council camp, basically love everything about it....even the shitty stuff... hahahaha 

one of my council mates was very into dancing and started a dance troupe in the beginning of year 2 just for the SYF... she invited me into the dance troupe and despite not having any teacher-in-charge and instructor, we secured a bronze... =)  ....

that's all for CCAs in my life as a student...=).... moving on to CCAs as a teacher.... =)

Toothless

remember this cartoon????

i loved it max max lo.... i was so crazy over it that i called my baby 'baby toothless' for days after watching the movie.... heee... =).... this was only one of the two additional nicknames baby had from me in her 7.5 years with us...the other one was 蔡宝贝 ... copied after 紀宝贝 (the name of a super cute white maltese) from the show 命中注定我愛你....

anyway, got a rude shock when i saw the text "Your dog drop a tooth!" and "Found another tooth. No idea whose it is...i am a little freak out by it... T.T"....from angela in my message inbox on friday while i was in school...

immediately contacted julius (pups' groomer) only to find out that there's no call for panic.... just like human, pups have a set of milk teeth that will be replace by the time they are 8 - 9 months old.... wahahaha.....so cute one.... pups got teething problem too... how come i dun recall my baby and dash dash going thru that when they were pups.... hmmmm.....

did a bit of reading from the net and this is what i gotten.....


"Puppies are initially born without teeth. They do not receive their first puppy teeth until they reach the age of between six and eight weeks old. They grow a total of 28 teeth, which are known as baby teeth or deciduous teeth. The first teeth that fall out are the incisor teeth, followed by the premolars and the canines. Puppies do not have molar teeth, only premolars. Their upper and lower canine teeth are at the back of their mouths and are larger. Their upper and lower incisor teeth are located in the middle.

For puppies, the teething process continues for several months, off and on. For a puppy, this can be an uncomfortable and painful period. When puppies are teething, they increase their biting and chewing and test out different objects and texture to relieve the discomfort.

Between the ages of three months and seven months, a puppy begins to lose its deciduous teeth. Each deciduous tooth root will generally be absorbed by the adult tooth, though there are instances where this does not properly occur. At three months, the incisors begin to fall out to make room for the new adult teeth. At the age of four months, the adult molars and adult canines are beginning to come in. Between the ages of six and seven months, the adult molars will come in. Finally, by seven to eight months, the full set of adult teeth should have come in.

By the time a puppy is eight months old, it should have a full set of a total of 42 teeth, but some breeds have more or fewer. The larger the dog, generally speaking, the faster the teeth will appear. Doberman pinchers are an example of dogs that have fewer teeth. Spaniels and greyhounds tend to have more teeth. At the age of between three months and four months, a puppy should be checked out by a veterinarian to make sure that there are no bite problems. If bad bite is occurring as a result of puppy teeth, pulling the baby teeth prematurely may be necessary."



a picture of 3 of their teeth that we managed to find around the kitchen....really hope they din swallow any.... 

ending off the post with a 'bo gai' snowy.....hahahaha....

lawba's wedding

been 4 years since i had long hair.... was contemplating if i should go back to being a 长发 '美女' again....heee.....but gave up after 5 months ....

my shoulder length hair was in a super big mess and was super floppy too... used Lawrence's wedding as an excuse to pay the hairdresser a visit and with some make-up on, i did look quite cute at age 30....hahahahaha.....

as the wedding was held in rasa sentosa, ah niu niu picked me up at st james carpark to head in together.... but guess what???....carpark full!!!!...was advised to park at the beach carpark and to take the free hotel transfer from there... ah niu was in a coat and i was in heels.... =S....

but the surprising thing was, we were still considered very early by the time we reached, so we decided to 自拍...

then along came edwin, who was one of the 兄弟s

and finally with the groom, who is finally married to his sweetheart of 8 years....

the centre piece on my table, apparently, 4 of the gnomes went missing from the wedding.... oopx...

as i was sitting near the entrance, i got to sprinkle rose petals on the blessed couple too.... =)

the bride's gowns, all 3 of them were super duber mad chio..... this cheong sum above was the last one which she changed into....will try to steal photos of the other 2 once they are uploaded... =P....

we are always one table full at each other's wedding.... presenting 2S7 and associates.... 11 in total this round... 5 pretty babes;

mel, candy, meixiang, yanjun and liza

and 6 suave hunks

libert, zhixiang, wee meng, aneurin, edwin and sherman

ending off the celebration with a super blur picture of the groom downing a glass full of white wine + hard liqour, specially prepared by liza......hahahaha

Failed Tree Project

A brief intro to my failed tree project .... =( 

was taking the train to school during the september school holiday when i realised that the row of trees planted along yio chu kang mrt station were all 99.9% botak, with only a branch of leaves left on each tree.... i was amazed that the huge trees could actually survive just based on the food produced and the amount of oxygen or carbon dioxide taken in or given out by the few leaves left dangling la.... and so i decided to take a picture of a particular tree that i labelled as 'MY tree' once every week.... 

i was hoping that i could 'chart' the growth of MY tree from botak till fully covered with leaves again.... and arrange the photos into a collage to be placed next to Mr Ang's study table....  风水师 said that we needs to have some green plants in that area for something something something which i forgot for what... hahahaha.....but nevermind...just put it up can liao......

it was fun to see the 'development' of MY tree through the photos though....

14 sept 2011 - with small twigs of leaves here and there

20 sept 2011- number of leaves had doubled or tripled

26 sept 2011 - continued to double and tripled

10 oct 2011- and somemore again... =)

it's fun to do comparison of the photos week after week to see the differences.... =)...it was my mini entertainment every week on my way to school.... heee....got a sense of ownership wor...hahaha.... cos it's a project on MY tree..... =)

due to PSLE marking from 17 - 20 october, i wasnt able to take any photo of MY tree that particular week before lending 洪妈妈 my camera.... =(...that's y there was a 3 weeks break although 洪妈妈's trip to 九寨沟 with 洪爸爸 was only about 2 weeks...

so was super duper happy when i finally had the chance to bring my camera along on my way to school once more... but to my horror..... the new platform screen doors at yio chu kang mrt totally 夭折 my project lo....sianx....i cant take any photo of MY tree without taking the screen doors together with it lo....

so sianx.... only managed to chart it for 4 weeks only.... haix....

so now, need to think of another plant project liao..... maybe i can just put together all the trees which my class drew for their nature drawing lesson.... heee...

Gifts from Charlene

lene just came back from hong kong and got me gifts... she is one amazing person who buys MANY MANY gifts for friends and family members on all her holiday trips and i always receive many many gifts despite getting her none on most of my trips...oopxy...i m just not a gift person while she is.... we are always opposite and regarding this issue... she's on the more lugi side lo... 

anyway, back to the gifts.....heart heart this woody photo album that comes in a pretty brown box.. there's even melody when the shooting star is being turn oh.... would love it more if the guy was hugging the girl from the back though....wahahahaha...

love this bag the moment i set eyes on it....always luv sling bag.... uber convenient during weekend lessons lo.... interesting colour combi with dotzzzz.....

every time she stays over at home sweet home, she will use one of those disposable toothbrushes from hotels which i had kooped previously... quite smart of her to remember to replenish my stock of disposable toothbrushes with 8 more sets.. =)

and not forgetting the box of 老婆饼.... lala said that mr ang should eat more then will luv 老婆 me more oh....hahahhaa...

first third of my birthday weekend

a whole day of happy events and the first one is me waking up at 1130am..... woohoo.....super nice weather in the morning to sleep in lo.... surf net and nua till 3pm before i finally realised that i shouldnt be wasting my children's day like that.... doll myself up a little and headed for some shopping....

i know...it's a little too revealing..that's y small small pix only.. hahahaha.....Mr Ang confirmed will definitely nag...so i 乖乖地 wear a black spagetti top inside the dress before i head out lo...

first place that i decided to check out was my all time favourite - Far East Plaza....yayaya....i know...i m too old for the clothes there.... but no harm trying right??? hahahaha... guess i'm still mentally not at my age yet.... =P....

after trying and trying on clothes...either i'm too tall (i wish) or the trend is short dresses lo.... i only managed to get 2 dresses from one of the shops that starts with JO** at the basement which i think are long enough to wear to work despite trying on at least 10.... 

$29.90

 

$32.90





   actually not that long la.. especially the orangey one.... but at least it's not short short... maybe the orange one will wear go kai kai instead bah... the blue one too 'formal' for me to go kai kai in liao lo...

then from far east walked walked walked till H&M...finally.... after all the woo and the haa..... finally it's my turn in there.... but sad to say....none of the item, together with its pricing, caught my eyes.... was out within 20 minutes??? the queue at the fitting room and cashier were scary too....

 went into cotton on and forever 21...also nothing lo.... chanced upon hula & co and bought a dress and a top...



  

they having promo....first piece at $25 and the second one at $15...that's the end of my happy event 2 (shopping) and rushed to happy event 3 (dinner with ntu pals)... =) 

tried out Woo Jung Korean Restaurant which we walked past during the last gathering....it's near raffles mrt the ocbc exit, opposite toast box at far east square

look at all the 小菜....free de lo....and free flow somemore lo....we had like 4 plates of the vege in chilli, 2 plates of the mushroom, 2 plates of cabbage kimchi and 2 plates of the chilli 年糕 or fish cake thingy...

the 吸油烟机 that removes most of the smoke from the bbq meat....　

is charcoal bbq oh.... not the hot plate kind which Mr Ang and I tried a few weeks back....

our pork being bbq-ed ... this one is super duper yummilious la....

one of the waitresses helping with the bbq-ing and th bill turned up to be only $87 after service charge ...only $29 each... =)

baby marcus with his fries from mos burger....he always got this blur blur cute cute look one lo..... uber cute....

and happy event 4....xinying and vivian gave me a $80 gift card from topshop as me birthday present.... luv them max max.... heee.... more shopping shopping shopping...

Children's Day gifts for me

Happy Children's Day

Yippy Ya Yo!!!..... i 'm one of the lucky group of adults who gets to enjoy children's day holiday... just cos i'm teaching in a primary school..... sec and jc teachers dun have this holiday de wor.... hahahaha..... and for this year, i had initially decided to give them one cute marker with chop for each of my kiddos.....

$2.90 for a box of 12... making it only $0.25 each....

i also bought a lollipop each for them.... but a day after, i decided to give them only the lollipop....wahahaha.... all 9 boxes of markers were shared by my two P4 art classes to create dot art instead.... maybe only give it to them after the art lessons are completed at the end of october.....

The staff welfare committee arranged for a vendor to come in to sell cute cute stuff which teachers can purchase as children's day gifts....and since i had already gotten mine, i went in just to kpo but came out $20+ poorer..... =(..... but the items bought were all for myself or my friends....wahahaha....

passport covers

for baby marcus, charlene and mummy

A5 notebook - my favourite character....DOPEY

miss my big ears boy so much....hahaha

pouches 

for baby marcus, me (new pencil case for weekend lesson) and me (foreign currency)

name stickers....

for me

for mab.....