Children's day tmr.

Its children's day tmr. Today was hounded by greedy bloodsuckers. At least the primary one children are properly appreciative. Look at me with excited bright shiny eyes and thank me properly. The primary 3 just come across as greedy materialistic gluttons. Wonder what the upper primary will be like? Worse, i guess.

common language

Centuries and more have been spent on trying find a common language so that people of the world can communicate and understand one another. But even after spending years learning and communicating with the same language, its still possible for people not to understand one another.

Its like how I've seen students read a whole passage fluently but are unable to get a simple question like "what did the main character do?". Even tho they can read every single word in the passage, and they can read the question without problem, they can still have no idea how to answer.

Today, my bf and I were reading up on an article about insurance. And there was this sentence in the passage. "Term insurance is a pay-as-you-go, no frills insurance." And it states that because of that, it is a better bargain than life insurance. Maybe I really am an idiot or something, but for the life of me I just do not understand what kind of insurance term insurance is by that statement.

Please dun try and explain what term insurance is to me, cas my bf already did. But it took quite a few mins and got both of us rather frustrated.

But what gets me is we are both reading English, which we have spent more than a decade on, and he can understand from that one statement and I cant. Sigh... Maybe its really just because I'm stupid or something, and perhaps I shd quit my job and study some more. Anyone noes a gd place to take an "English for dummies course"?

Update

Not much time to write properly but I guess I shd update a bit.

I've graduated, and have began working for 3 mths or so.

I got bored pretty quickly and i cant wait for a break. Its coming tmr :)

I miss the othello guys from my hall, and my classmates and muh, and a bunch of other frens, but as usual, I'm super lazy to initiate contact.

I really miss the feeling of sleeping for 8 hrs a day, without waking up anytime in between.

Long time no see.

Hey peepz. Its been quite a while. I have so much things i suppose to blog on and never, but I havent been free. Not free now either. Just to share some news.

My Grandma passed away yesterday. so for the next few days I'll be busier even. Sigh, time to go. Till next time.

Bored

I have officially started work, and therefore, instead of enjoying the June Holidays like other students, I am currently in school. Yes, right now this very moment.

You must wondering, if that is so, y am I so free? Or I suddenly become so brave and dare to slack on the job, even tho I am a newbie.

The truth is, as a newbie, I simply do not have much work yet. My superior is away at meeting, and she was too busy to schedule work for me before she left. Other more experience senpais are simply too busy with their own jobs. There was one work for me to do, due on friday, but I finished it even before lunch. I'm not boasting, it truely is easily done. Its just that the senpais have more urgent work, so the deadline for this is long. Also, the sample will only be out tomorrow.

So now, I'm doing some personal stuff. Hopefully, I get a bit more things to do tmr. Else must wait til thurs when my superior come back, but unfortunately, i also going overseas that night. I wonder how am I going to find time to do it. Please dun email me my work on Friday, I wont have internet access overseas.... *cries*

An eventful date

It's been long since my bf and I went for an outdoor date. Usually we go libraries, shopping centres and other air conditioned places. Maybe that's why both of us end up so tired. Not used to going out so long and playing so hard.

Firstly, we went to a charity bazaar near eunos mrt. I got bags, another chinese style fan :P, and the best buy of the day, these four colourful dice!

I'm planning to keep two and give Jerine n JezC one die each. However, girls, you need to wait til I made up my mind which two i am keeping for myselves. :P

After lunch, we went East Coast Park to fly kite.

I couldn't figure out how to use bluetooth to send my photos from hp to com, so i just use camera to take it again, that's y its so blurry. :P That's the my bf with the kite.


When it was my turn, i got too close to the tree, the string got caught on it. Lucky we managed to get the kite down. The ironic thing is, the kite flew to the highest pt when the string was caught on the tree. Looks like the tree is the best kite flyer among us. :P


After that, we went cycling on a double bike. My bf cant cycle so i have to take the front. Its my first time at the front of a double bike. And i'm not a particularly gd cyclist either, it took me abt 25 mins before i more or less got the hang of it. And 10 mins before our 1 hr was up, we crashed. The basket they lent us to put my bag was at the front of the bike. It took most of burden, it got damage beyond repair, even the bike store uncle was stunned and waive off our offer to pay for it, i guess he kinda pity us. We were really lucky tho, we are more or less unharmed.


We decided that was enuf for a day after crashing, and went home after dinner.


Today was fun, but I think i'll like to take another long break from outdoor dates. :P


Oh ya, one last thing. I especially bought spf 130+ sunblock, and I still got sunburnt! and you wont believe the place I got sunburnt. Its a thin stretch of skin, right above my upper lip! Sigh... I thot I was careful enuf already.

long time no see

Its been a while since my last blog. And tho I actually wanted to update about prac and all. I think I will forget all that and write something else.

I am becoming more and more tactless and blunt. I have no idea how to talk courteosly anymore. I cant stand it that I am being rude, even by my own standards. But I think I lost the ability to say things nicely and tactfully and still get what I mean across.

Maybe I should just practice smiling. And sit and smile at the world around me. Surely if I practise enough, I should be able to smile without offending anyone, right? If I dun talk, I dun need to be disappointed in myself.

Sigh... why do I only really like to write/type when I am moody? My blog is getting more and more depressing. Maybe I should delete it and start over. Or maybe I should consider practising how to clasp my hands elegantly, so I can stop myself for writing such stuff, while pretending nothing is wrong.

Nobody likes a gloomy person, and no one likes a person who doesnt like themselves. I noe all that. So why am I still unable, to make myself like me?

I wish I were like gold or silver. So someone can come along and melt me down, and mold me again. However, relying on others mean I am not likely to turn out the way I wanna be. Is it possible for anything to mold itself? Or is there someone whom I can trust, to mold me into what I wanna be? Lord pls grant me the strenght to change myself.

Sigh... I wish I can happily recite the poem from the p3 chinese textbook, where the kid happily concludes that it is most interesting to be a new me. Or maybe bcas kids arent suppose to noe how difficult that is, so they are able to happily recite it. Or they just havent thot abt that yet.

Goals are good, target setting is gd, but reaching it is not easy. You need to plan, prepare and practice before it can succeed, and for my case I always seem to stumble at the preparation stage. Lousy, cant even walk properly. Drop on all fours and proceed in a crawl. as long as you dun give up you can reach it some day. And since the center of gravity will be lower and its easy to balance on fours then on twos, maybe I can finally proceed, without stumbling too much.

Sheesh... comforting myself is fine and all, but I myself noe i am already crawling. If I dun manage to pick myself up soon, I am going to end up lying on the ground. Oh well, maybe I can try convince myself to try rolling in order to move forward then.