The Class

 

The last RJ

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That’s the last click to the last RJ grading. Somehow I know I will miss this class. Bunch of Sunshines and though I know they are at times (or many times) harvesting their crops, feeding their fish, cooking at world cafe, or posting another 88 postings while trying to have their eyes & ears on my Resource Review slides – this is the bunch of creative and happy kids. What amazed me is their difference in characters and personalities actually made up a good cocktail of Friendship.

We had pizza party during lunch and we all had fun!  David got me a nice chocolate waffles and it made me blushed. haha.  It had a sweet note on it as well.  Tasted so good – I wonder how come the kids can always get yummy food in school while I have never ever get to taste anything outside Koufu near E5. See, I dont even remember the block number where Koufu is.  Perhaps next time, I should stalked them during breakout 1. =)

The girls also gave me “farewell” pressie -  box of chocies and a little cute bear holding a rose (so cute!) – are we allowed to receive gifts? I know in sec sch, you cant – rather, you have to declare it.

Okie, im declaring it over cyberspace – counted?

So im going to miss this class and I hope my next class will be merciful too.

UT3’s gonna be a day before Lunar NY eve so that means…………………….

THAT MEANS – I have to mark 475 SCRIPTS in a week! During CNY week…………!! AAhhhh~~~~~~

Halim left me a nice little quote: You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

Thanks E55D for your laughters which brightened up my Wednesdays.

 

An 8 year old boy’s point of view

A friend shared this email over dinner tonight and I thought it was so beautiful. Children always say the darnest things, but at many times, their level of faith just surged so much higher than all of us. Pure love, Pure faith, Pure Belief….

This is an 8 year old Danny Dutton who live in Chula Vista, CA and this was his explanation of God when asked to complete an assignment to “Explain God”. If this was my assignment, I would have thrown in all the theology I knew about Jesus Christ, added in all important bible phrases, etc. But Danny just explained it simply, as-a-matter-of-fact manner, and in pure faith.

EXPLANATION  OF GOD:

‘One of God’s main jobs is making  people. He makes them to replace the ones that  die, so there will be enough people to take care  of things on earth.. He doesn’t make grown-ups, just  babies. I think because they are smaller and  easier to make. That way he doesn’t have to take  up his valuable time teaching them to talk and  walk. He can just leave that to mothers and  fathers.’
 

‘God’s  second most important job is listening to prayers.  An awful lot of this goes on, since some people,  like preachers and things, pray at times beside  bedtime. God doesn’t have time to listen to the  radio or TV because of this. Because he hears  everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise  in his ears, unless he has thought of a way to  turn it off.’

‘God  sees everything and hears everything and is  everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you  shouldn’t go wasting his time by going over your  mom and dad’s head asking for something they said  you couldn’t have.’

‘Atheists  are people who don’t believe in God. I don’t think  there are any in Chula  Vista . At  least there aren’t any who come to our  church.’

‘Jesus is God’s Son. He used to do  all the hard work, like walking on water and  performing miracles and trying to teach the people  who didn’t want to learn about God. They finally  got tired of him preaching to them and they  crucified him But he was good and kind, like his  father, and he told his father that they didn’t  know what they were doing and to forgive them and  God said O.K.’

‘His  dad (God) appreciated everything that he had done  and all his hard work on earth so he told him he  didn’t have to go out on the road anymore. He  could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps  his dad out by listening to prayers and seeing  things which are important for God to take care of  and which ones he can take care of himself without  having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more  important.’

‘You  can pray anytime you want and they are sure to  help you because they got it worked out so one of  them is on duty all the time.’

‘You  should always go to church on Sabbath because it  makes God happy, and if there’s anybody you want  to make happy, it’s God!

Don’t  skip church to do something you think will be more  fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And  besides the sun doesn’t come out at the beach  until noon  anyway.’

‘If  you don’t believe in God, besides being an  atheist, you will be very lonely, because your  parents can’t go everywhere with you, like to  camp, but God can. It is good to know He’s around  you when you’re scared, in the dark or when you  can’t swim and you get thrown into real deep water  by big kids.’

‘But…you  shouldn’t just always think of what God can do for  you. I figure God put me here and he can take me  back anytime he pleases.

And…that’s  why I believe in God.’

Isn’t this beautiful?

 

The dream that made the rose of rosebery cry

All these years after leaving Sydney, I miss the times spent with my RBBs. I believe throughout these 7 years, I have endless blog entries about them. My best friends, my best brothers, my family in Kimberly. The people who were there when I was at my lowest, and also the people who were there when I am at my happiest.  They are both my punching bags and my helium. 

I was so used to having dinner together every night that I remembered feeling insecure and odd when there was a night that I agreed to have dinner with the guy who asked me out on a date. hehe.

So this fateful saturday – 16 Jan 2010 – was the day all the memories came rushing back like niagara falls.  In the dream, it seemed like another day we spent together , preparing for dinner. All of us still looked the same in the dresm – yes, Jack, we were young and cute – It was like as though it was co-shared by Lio and Louisa. It was a gorgeous house, 4 storeys high, sea facing with a HUGE garden! I walked out to the garden facing the satin blue sea, enjoying the breeze. Such a picturisque sight.  I didnt wanna wake up, it was such a nice dream. Really made me miss all of them again.

3 out of 5 RBBs is in Singapore – 2 RBB and their rose (me la! haha) while 2 out of 5 is still in Sydney. Every July, it is reunion time for 3 RBBs in Sydney, this year I hope Louisa can go back as well, then it will be almost full force.

Missing all of them, I went to look for some pics that we took over the years….here are just some of them. TOO many to be posted here

I miss you people!

3/5 RBBs (see same position as the pic we took in ‘03)

During my convo

Complete RBB with Kee (far right) @ Ken Yuen’s wedding

Dinner 4/5 RBBs @ East Coast

Yum Cha, Sydney, 2003

Louis and Jack @ our usual Sunday Yum Cha session @ Marigold

One of our daily dinner – i cooked sukiyaki @ my place

 

Celebrating the finale of 2009 with a big meal!

YES! A great way to celebrate the last day of the decade….with MORE food~ only difference – I am the chef today =)

Gonna be a busy day in the kitchen today………starting in 5 minutes. Here’s what the guests is expecting for the menu:

Fresh Garden Salad with baked garlic slices

Bake potato wedges with stuffed broccoli & cheese

Chili Minced Beef Dip

Yakisoba

Japanese Curry & steamed rice

Pink Guava Soda with Mint leaves

How not to smile at this? hehe.  Okie, the chef is starting to work on these….will update with more pics.

Happy New Year people!

 

That’s really a Hiatus!

Awww, i realised my last post was in September!  Since then, it was a horrible horrible schedule that I have to cope. Though i enjoyed it, but it really worn me out. I was really tired. I guessed as usual, I was addicted to stress. There was the endless travels (unfortunately not for leisure), unbelievable workload coz I AM the team, then there comes lecturing in RP which was really satisfying. Without the encouragement of Stanley and Albert who are secondary school teachers themselves and of coz by the love from God, i embarked to become an educator. My first class was a joyous bunch and delightful to teach.

Then comes the planning of Sunday school curriculum, planning of Christmas parties, christmas shoppings, my hanoi show in December.

So in the 3 months, I did all these….if i could remember all of them:

• Guangzhou
• Shanghai
• India
• Rotterdam
• Shanghai again
  
• Hanoi
• planning the birthdays
  
• Sunday School
• Preparing for lectures @ RP
• Irritating 30 calls-a-day saga
• YEEKY one man team
• more report more reports more reports….!
• Crap….FB made me real upset and I am still mourning over the lost of my FB account =(
• Finale with my happy team at Viet transport Hanoi
• Made a new friend, Stefanie whom we went shopping and massage in Hanoi, and we share a crazy passion for shoes
• Christmas Shopping
• Sending of Christmas e-cards
• Preparing for Xmas Eve theme party
• Blessed LifeGroup Christmas party
• more luncheons and dinners for the christmas season
• Hsien & Ruth’s wedding
• David & Crystal’s wedding
• …..and slotting in between these schedules were nothing but work work work work work …..more work….

I am glad I finally finished these long list and able to vegetate for some days to end 2009, the last year of this decade.

2010 will be a fantabulous year, and I prayed it will be.  Well, for at least I am looking forward to ….. to visit my saviour’s birthland, Israel. I bet it will be the best trip ever!

 

I am like Mary Magdalene?

Wow….

Grace Eileen took the Which mighty woman of the Bible are you most like? quiz and the result is You are most like MARY MAGDALENE

She was forgiven much & loved much, and you certainly love much! You are a passionate person, who loves God & life. You ha…ve a tendency to count your blessings and be very grateful, even in small things. You are an overcomer, and will not allow any life circumstances to hold you down.

 

the trinity

Was out shopping with my cousins and the guys and my cousin decided to check out wedding bands, so we joined in.

Oh man, fell in love with the trinity – such a treasure since 1924. beautiful and simple and symbolises the trinity.

Okie, i have to go to bed immediately so that i can live in the dream. haha. It’s worst when i tried it on and it fitted perfectly on my finger….awwwww……..burbye…see you in dreamland, trinity…….muaks…..

 

09-09-09

How often does this happen? Nice number.  The chinese said this is auspicious coz it has “9″ in it.

Then again…how “auspicious” can it be when it is the Lunar 7th month where the chinese believe that it is the “ghost month” where the ghosts of the underworld comes to earth for their 30 days annual leave.

Some couples chose to get hitched on this date to signify “eternity”. Well..that’s what the chinese believe – the number “9″ means “long” (direct translation), which means eternity.

Some couples choose to double date.

haha. That was grumpy and me, ah bil and jan. Well, this double date dinner eventually became a BIG dinner coz it was Mei’s birthday as well so we decided to all meet up and have a birthday dinner.

Was pretty fun – coz it seemed ages since we gather for dinner and drinks.

So..what’s next? 10-10-10 hehe. nice binary codes.

So long then…its gonna be a year later.

 

auntie chubs has pitiful looks….. (#.#)”

auntie chubise saw the leftover S$2 discount voucher in her car and realised the expiry date is 31 Aug!

OMG, that’s today, so kiasu auntie decided to drop by SPC to gas up LatioGhini..hoho..juz need to pump 40 bux, and after all the discount, auntie prolly just need to pay 35 or 36 bux.

So with half a tank, auntie chubsie stopover SPC after work….and happily grabbed the discount card and discount coupon (yeah..double whammy!) and Q up to pay.

Then…..dang~~!!  The lady behind the cashier bar said in mandarin….

“xiao jie, discount coupon cannot use…coz only S$39……….”

WHAT??!!!  S$39??? sobsob…juz one more dollar i can have S$2 discount..sobsobsob.

So i said “errr..i asked that uncle to pump S$40….”  Then the lady said again…”erm…xiao jie…cannot fit already, your tank full………”

Sobsobsobsobsobsob……

So as usual, auntie chubs let out a pitiful look…..

It WORKS…

The Lady said “erm….do you need receipt?”

“No”

“Oh ok, if you don need receipt, i can just take in your voucher so i can still give you 2 dollar discount”

::chubs let out a beaming joy….::

So…auntie chubs got her S$2 additional disocunt…heeeeeeeeeee………………..

Then, the lady handed me another set of S$2 coupons for Sept……………….

“……………………………….”

I should have just waited tml (SEPT) to use the new set of coupon.  gasps, i didnt know i was so auntie……… *blush*