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Be good, and if you can't be good, be careful.

i am who i am
i hate squatting toilets and people who cycle on pedestrian paths
i love my sg gibson bass guitar and playing crisis core
i spend half my life in yuhua secondary school

As you might have realised, I have a new blogskin. Thanks YEW LIANG for tweaking and twiddling it for me! Also the groovy pic of Pervy Boy was done by Brenda! Thanks Brenda, it's awesome! :)

Anyway, today I had my last lesson of the year with my beloved 3E5. Sad that not the whole class was there (Melvyn is in China! Boohoo! Along with Min Er and Yuxin!) (and Wanrong PONTENG AGAIN! THINK I DON'T KNOW) but I'll probably see them again soon. Christmas party? Hee hee. Oh and you know what... We're going to be 4E5 next year after all. Changes in the class lineup. I think 4E5 sounds better than 4E4. Doesn't look as weird too.

2N4! MOVIE! MONDAY!
You guys up for it? I have decided I only want to watch HSM3. Nice brainless musical movie. Plus I heard the clothes are really cool. Who's up for it eh? Email me at msstraatenrocks at g mail dot com to let me know. Let your friends know (the ones who don't read my blog/don't have comp/internet).

I miss Melvyn! So sad! :((((((

Labels: 2N4, 3E5

Today I watched House Bunny with Nicholas, Melvyn, Lihui, Peiling, Joshua, Yan Wei and Minnie. LOL. The guys were very taken by the slapping-breast thing. And yes it was a PG show! Hahaha. Poor Minnie only found the cinema toward the end of the show. But she sat with me while I got a manicure. I am very vain. How sad.

Anyway I owe Boon Hock a Ten-Things post. But first I shall post a couple of videos.

This one is my favourite Japanese song, by an obscure band called Swinging Popsicle.



And this one is specially for Yew Liang! Haha it's a clip from one of my favourite TV shows, Blackadder. Rowan Atkinson rocks!

Labels: 3E5, boredom, music videos I like

So yesterday Pervy Boy played at the ACRES roadshow to help raise awareness of the plight of animals around us. We had to wait really long in the sun though - and the band kept drinking to cool themselves down, so by the time we went on everyone was slightly drunk. Haha.














Cheers to the cheerleading team who came down! Linda, Amanda, Sheryl and Minnie who refused to be in the photo because she has some weird phobia of cameras. Strange girl.














Pervy Boy rocks! Thanks for all your (mental) support guys!

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In other news, I am still marking EL Paper 1. And no, 3E5, I haven't reached you guys yet.

Labels: 3E5, acres, adam's fans, pervy boy

Labels: 3E5, links, pervy boy, report cards

Yesterday I asked 3E5 to practise writing narrative essays because we had only been doing discursive and I was afraid most people had forgotten how to write a narrative. So I gave them a few choices and they wrote stuff.

I read them last night and this morning and I LOL'ed at so many (not in a bad way, but because they were entertaining). And this month's prize for Most Hilarious Statement In A Narrative Essay goes to Lincoln, who wrote:

Eugene was singing like a happy pigeon, Nicholas was growing obese everyday and me, myself, was working the best of my life for my end-of-year exams...

EUGENE = PIGEON
NICHOLAS = OBESE
MS STRAATEN = DEAD FROM LAUGHING

:D

By the way before I forget, I was telling my Tuesday group this the other day, thought it would be useful for everyone:

There's a rule for using the words 'more' and 'most', and it depends on the number of syllables in the word. Let's use nice as our first example.

Nice, Nicer, Nicest

Nice has only one syllable so instead of using 'more' and 'most' we just add "r" and "st" at the end.

Our second example needs two-syllable words, so let's use funny and stupid.

Funny, Funnier, Funniest

Funny follows the rule for one-syllable words, that is, adding 'r' and 'st'. In this case because of the 'y' at the end of the word, we add 'ier' and 'iest' instead. How about stupid?

Stupid, Stupider, Stupidest?

The rule for two-syllable words that don't end with a vowel sound is that you use 'more' and 'most'.

Stupid, More Stupid, Most Stupid

How about three-syllable words? Let's use confusing and hilarious.

Confusing, More Confusing, Most Confusing

Hilarious, More Hilarious, Most Hilarious

Does that make sense? Hope so. :D The only exceptions to this rule I think are the words good and bad.

Good, Better (not more better!), Best

Bad, Worse, Worst

Ta-da! Online English lesson! Sigh now I have to go invigilate. Bye.

Labels: 3E5, LOL, new words

I've been telling people the wrong thing!

MELANCHOLY is pronounced MELON - COLLIE

AARGH! I feel so embarrassed now... Sigh people make mistakes okay. Even super anal irritating English teachers.

Oh and. 3E5!! WHO HASN'T GIVEN ME CCA RECORDS/PROGRESS REPORTS??? Hmph there are still some monkeys who owe me their stuff. If I count and check and find out who you are I'm going to fry your ass. Hmph.

Okay now I'm going back to marking. My brief Tourette's moment is over. (Saturday remedial people, I want my neoprint tomorrow! :D)

Labels: 3E5, words

(Krystal, Songtao, Tu Yong and Rahul, man you guys missed a rockin' party.)

Thank you Yuxin for providing the venue and for fending off the rabid security guards.

Thank you Ai Poh for preparing food and being there so early to help out, and for buying food too.

Thank you Wanrong for being 10 min earlier than Ai Poh and for also helping to cook the food which people promptly ate.

Thank you Jin Lun for the map and for helping to cook, and for being innovative when problems arise.

Thank you Wei Jie for coming out to fetch me in and for the bizarre street directions you gave haha.

Thank you Apple for also coming out to fetch me, and for eating a lot of the food (or so I was told).

Thank you Minnie for preparing the fried rice (which I ate quite a lot of), and for helping to clean up the room.

Thank you Boon Hock for helping to plan this whole thing so well and for being pro-active when necessary.

Thank you Chun Heng for being the secret (silent) brains behind the operation.

Thank you Sumathi for the gift and for also helping Boon Hock and Chun Heng.

Thank you Sahil for coming and for saying I'm fat (I got my revenge later eh). And for wishing me happy teacher's day twice!

Thank you Cedric for saying I'm pretty in my own way. *hearts Cedric*

Thank you Desmond for coming and for the good company.

Thank you Hema for coming too, because I missed your noisy self when you were at OBS.

Thank you Erin for also coming and bringing back your noise which I missed.

Thank you Eugene for pushing me into the pool a second time (growl).

Thank you Nicholas for all the phototaking, for bringing your laptop for music and for helping to buy food and everything. And for getting your lower half wet. And later the rest of you.

Thank you Lincoln for the phototaking as well, and for wishing me happy teacher's day!

Thank you Jocelyn for swanning around like a princess which you always do.

Thank you Augustine for the pity upon seeing me completely soaked (although it did nothing to make me drier).

Thank you Ryan for being helpful and for staying dry (I'm going to push you in at the next one).

Thank you Yan Wei for sitting next to me and annoying me while I was eating. :D

Thank you Joshua for your noise! I have never been so happy to hear your squeaky shrieky voice. See what OBS deprives me of.

Thank you Min Er for wearing that music T-shirt, it has inspired me greatly :)

Thank you Xinhui for being there. <3

Thank you Musarrat for coming when I thought you weren't - such a pleasant surprise.

Thank you Li Hui for yelling and screaming like a mad woman. It's very reassuring to know you are still crazy after OBS.

Thank you Kamal for helping me with the tissue (although the later toilet incident must have been traumatic for you - I went in later and saw MUCH MORE than necessary, more than I needed to. I am still applying eye drops yuck yuck yuck).

Thank you Amar for coming and being sociable!

Thank you Pei Ling for adding noise to the party too - pling plong!

Thank you Radyia for gracing the occasion - never mind that you came a bit later, we're glad you came in the end :)

Thank you Pei Si for being there to help eat ahaha. And for sportingly getting thrown in even though you were wearing *ahem* white.

Thank you Li Kuang for also sportingly getting thrown in although search-and-rescue had to be carried out on your unfortunate spectacles.

Thank you Yew Liang for bringing the gayness to the party! Clayness and gayness! No Snowman, don't do it! Ahahaha sorry. Inside joke :P

Thank you Tong Jing for being a man even though you're not, and helping the guys to cook. Muahaha girl power.

Thank you Melvyn! I don't know for what, but yay Melvyn is back from OBS!

Thank you 3E5 for the cake, for the singing (of Spongebob as well as Happy Teacher's Day), for being such a crazy and (mostly) united and sporting and loving class. You guys really rock. I am SO dreading the end of 2009. :(

Labels: 3E5, lots of love and general mushiness, partee

(I will blog in due course about my interesting Friday, but first, a public service announcement.)

Tomorrow 3E5 is having a party at the Mayfair! Wei Jie is meeting lost/clueless people at Chinese Garden MRT at 445pm to shepherd them to the place. Jin Lun has also very helpfully put a map on the class blog so go check it out if you have no idea where the Mayfair is. People have already bought food and stuff, but if you want to bring some more, do let Boon Hock/Sumathi/Chun Heng know, because they're in charge for tomorrow.

Oh I hope someone's bringing music! Can't have a party without music! :D

I will be there late, about 6-plus. See you guys tomorrow! Class party! Wee~

Labels: 3E5, partee

Today during Lit in 2E5, Amanda Yip and Sheryl kept saying "Adam" so many times it sounded like a swear word. I asked if it was. Then they started saying, "Shut up or I'll Adam you!" and "What the Adam is going on?!" I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or amused. Amanda also enjoys writing things on tape and sticking them to her shirt. Today the strip read: Adam's Wife. I think there was another one but that was the most distracting one I could remember. I always get very scared of going into 2E5 now.

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The other day while I was discussing the essay with Yew Liang, Xinhui, Ai Poh, Jocelyn and Min Er, Joshua was playing with my phone. Sneakily he changed my ringtone to... (can you guess?)

Labels: 3E5, adam, birthdays, music videos I like

(This post is specially for 3E5, meaning non-3E5 people can still read it, but 3E5-ers have to actually do the work. Muahaha.)

Since Eugene mentioned e-learning which I have never tried before, and since today I am once again unable to be at remedial with 3E5, here's an online assignment that you need to start working on TODAY, during the time that we are supposed to be having EL remedial. I will be giving out the worksheets during SEL so presumably by the time you read this post you would have already received it. So here we go.

Instructions for EL E-Learning Remedial!

1. Go to the following website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/english/writing/discursive_writing_rev1.shtml

2. Read the Revision Bite on Discursive Writing. (See whether it's any different from what we did in class today.)

3. Read the essay in the accompanying worksheet I have given out.

4. Try out the test on the website. Note down on your worksheet what you get right and what you get wrong.

5. (This is the important one)
Start a draft essay for the following question:

"Television and movie stars determine the dress code and morals of teenagers." What are your views?

We will need these handwritten drafts tomorrow. If you want to have less work to do in class, your draft should be more or less a complete essay. It's part of your CA marks so let's all take this seriously and try very hard. :)

Labels: 3E5, e-learning

... now it's turning blueeeeeeee... IT'S TOO LATE TO APOLOGIIIIIISE, IT'S TOO LAAAAAAAATE...

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to demonstrate the use of connectors. (This, btw, is inspired by my summary-writing lesson with 3E5. Hema and PL, I owe you notes.)

1. The word Because
Used to elaborate an idea. Eg:

I don't like One Republic. I think they are whiny.

-will become-

I don't like One Republic because I think they are whiny.

2. The word But
Used to change the direction of an idea or train of thought.

The words Therefore, Thus and Hence
Used to make a conclusion about a particular fact, or to bring an explanation to an end. Eg:

Many of my readers might like One Republic, and may get offended that I call them whiny. I need to be honest in my blog. I will still state how I feel.

-will become-

Many of my readers might like One Republic, and may get offended that I call them whiny. But I need to be honest in my blog, therefore/thus/hence I will still state how I feel.

And that's the end of our EL lesson for today! :D

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3E5 did a lot better overall for this round of spelling. Surprising, since I think these words were slightly harder. Anyway 3E5, since I won't have time to do this in class, here are the answers and the definitions of the words. We have a vocab exercise on these words coming up, so make sure you know the meanings ya. :)

DETRIMENTAL (adj)
causing detriment; damaging; harmful.

IRREPRESSIBLE (adj)
incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable. (!!! Ai Poh does this still describe you?)

CUMBERSOME (adj)
burdensome; troublesome; unwieldy; clumsy.

PALATABLE (adj)
acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste, or to mind or feelings.

SCHIZOPHRENIC (adj)
describing a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.

PARAGON (n)
a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence.

REPRISE (n/v)
(in music) a repetition; to execute a repetition of or repeat.

EMBODIMENT (n)
a new personification of a familiar idea; a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; giving concrete form to an abstract concept; a person, being, or thing embodying a spirit, principle, abstraction, etc; incarnation.

VIRTUOUS (adj)
conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright; chaste.

DEPRIVATION (n)
the disadvantage that results from losing something; dispossession or loss; the act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

IRRESISTIBLE (adj)
incapable of being resisted or withstood; lovable, esp. calling forth feelings of protective love; enticing; tempting to possess.

VULNERABLE (adj)
capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon; open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc; (of a place) open to assault; difficult to defend.

PSYCHIATRIC (adj)
describing the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.

PARANOID (adj)
exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.

ANAL-RETENTIVE (adj/n)
having an anal character; a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc.

INADEQUATE (adj)
not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.

PAEDOPHILE (n)
an adult who is sexually attracted to children.

CLARITY (n)
clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity; the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye.

NUANCE (n)
a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.

INFANTILE (adj)
characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: immature, puerile, weak.

(All definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com!)

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3E5! Don't forget to do/bring the cloze passage!
2N4! Don't forget your Lit text!
2E5! I'm not going to sing on Monday!
2E8! I'm not going to sing on Monday! (Not like you asked, but I felt compelled to point it out)
2E6! Bring your brains on Monday pls! :D

But in the meantime, here's another one of my favourite videos on Youtube. Think Yew Liang and Co will appreciate this. Enjoy your Sunday people!

Labels: 3E5, grammar lesson, music videos I like, new words

Since the holiday ended and we came back to school, every class I step into will have someone telling me any number of the following statements:

Labels: 3E5, adam, derek, new words, pervy boy

... who made our class very quiet when he didn't come today. Boo! No Nicholas. Sad. Hope you come tomorrow! :)

OH. I forgot to do this on Saturday.

HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY LI KUANG! :D

Okay I wanted to upload the pictures that silly Joshua was taking with my camera just now (of the prefects practising their dance for Fri) but the camera died so I have to charge it. Had dessert with some of the gang after their practice. Lol Melvyn and his "Ooh! Vibrating!" Melvyn is so wrong. And NO Eugene I am NOT the pervy one ok. Hmph everything also blame me.

Oh I sang a bit of Simple Plan for 2E6. Simple Plan rocks! I would have for 2E8 but not sure if they would take it the right way. And Augustine... hai, I sing then Wei Jie say I noisy, you say I sing like .... =.=' Next time I won't sing liao. Hmph. Ungrateful accusing children.

Anyway I have nothing else to update for tonight. Tag replies tomorrow people! :)

Labels: 3E5, Nicholas Tei, pervyness

3E5's class motto: Touch or Be Touched

3E5's favourite song: It's OK To Be Gay!

3E5's favourite word: PERVY!

I think the photographers were a bit scared of our class just now. Yelling weird things and telling people to unzip their pants (obscene!), and wanting me to lie down so they can put their feet on me =.=' Oh but I can't wait for the photos to come out! :D

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Here's a bit of advertising on behalf of my sister.




















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Neurotic: See neurosis.

Neurosis: a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
Also: a relatively mild personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety or indecision and a degree of social or interpersonal maladjustment.

In other words, neurotic = siao. :) I still love Joshua!

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I am feeling better today than I was yesterday. The weekend is here! And because I'm feeling the way I'm feeling at the moment (ahem...) I'm listening to Bon Jovi. This was one of my favourite songs in Pri 5. (!!! Yes I'm old.)

In These Arms

You want commitment
Take a look into these eyes
They burn with a fire, just for you now
Until the end of time
I would do anything
I'd beg, I'd steal, I'd die
To have you in these arms tonight

Baby I want you l
Like the roses want the rain
You know I need you
Like a poet needs the pain
I would give anything
My blood my love my life
If you were in these arms tonight

I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

We stared at the sun
And we made a promise
A promise this world would never blind us
These are our words
Our words were our songs
Our songs are our prayers
These prayers keep me strong
It's what I believe
If you were in these arms tonight
If you were in these arms tonight

I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

Your clothes are still scattered all over our room
This old place still smells like your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
And there's nothing that I wouldn't do to be in your arms

And these were our words
They keep me strong

I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight

... sigh. :)

Labels: 3E5, advert, lyrics, new words

Eugene said very specifically not to blog about him today, so this post is not about him. :)

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The other day Liying asked me, "Ms Straaten why you emo?" and I was like x_x because I was really tired and crampy and irritable.

Today was worse. Today got bad from very early on. Then it steadily got worse... One by one things would happen on top of each other, until at 1120 when it was time for 3E5's lesson I was really ready to slaughter someone - anyone - with my bare hands. Poor things, I made them write essay. But I was stunned at how they couldn't answer the question... You know, I feel very bad whenever I hear how many tests and whatever strange remedial stuff they have to do, but then I feel worse when I realise there are so many things they don't know for English. And though I want to teach all these things, I don't know how much they want to listen. Sometimes it feels like I'm expected to be the joker teacher all the time, play only, no need to really study. After all how do you study English? You can't. You just keep using it over and over again. You read, you write, you speak, you listen. But, I ask you, (rant)

WHERE GOT TIME?
GOT THIS THING THAT THING SORRY MS STRAATEN WE GOT A LOT OF TESTS YOU KNOW

I KNOW LE! Then English how? Never mind la? Score distinction for everything and then fail English what's the point? (/rant)

Then I remember they really have A LOT of things to do and remember. And I feel really, really bad that English doesn't come as naturally to them as it does to me. :(

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So I was telling Yew Liang that I was in a bad mood later in the afternoon because someone scolded me for something that wasn't my fault. Raow. I was going to write about it but I think I should just let it go. I just need time to cool down and cool off, before I say a lot of things I cannot take back. Hahaha sendthisguytohell@hotmail.com.

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I can't decide which was worse:

1) People playing DOTA during CME
2) People inviting me to play DOTA with them
3) People playing Icy Tower during CME
4) People offering to teach me how to play Icy Tower
5) People demanding for my Friendster page
6) People demanding for my MSN
7) Erin and Joshua fighting over who gets the bigger page in the Underwear Diaries for today (one never wear this, one never zip that)
8) Eugene thinking that Freerice.com Vocab Level 14 is enough to beat me (it's not, my best level is 48)
9) People forgetting to turn off the computers (this was yesterday)
10) People forgetting to turn off aircon (this was today)... It's ok. Domestic Helper Ms Straaten was on hand to deal with it. -.="

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My friend googled "Ms Straaten" and found all my students' blogs. I am highly amused!

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Because I really need something to laugh at, I decided to go to this site where I watched the most hilarious video I've ever seen in my life. It totally doesn't make any sense and that's why I love it. It's called the Llama Song.



Llama Llama Duck! :D

Labels: 3E5, angst drip, music videos I like

Pervy Boy has a song called Stalker Girl. The chorus goes like this:

I would do anything to ruin my life
In exchange for you my precious prize
Don't you try to run away
There is no need to escape
That's the way I want it to be

I heard that Apple has her own stalker girl, even though she said that the girl has changed her mind and is now interested in someone else. I used to have one, in secondary school. But she was nice, she just really, REALLY liked hanging out with me. It was scary. And now I shall stop talking about it because I don't want to be reminded further.

Speaking of stalkers, the person/s who tag everywhere with the prefix 'not' and someone else's name, it's creepy and I don't like it, so please stop it. Please stop using my name, other people's names, everyone's name except your own. What's wrong with using your own? You ought to be proud of your own name.

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I feel like a Barbie doll, because there are so many different kinds of me.

There's Babysitter Ms Straaten! Comes with a burping blanket, kids' games and an endless supply of cartoon videos.

There's Domestic Helper Ms Straaten! Sweeps the classroom and picks up litter after her living-in-pigsty students.

There's Indefatigable (!) Marker Ms Straaten! Able to plow through stacks of essays, tests and badly-written worksheets with a single red pen.

There's Emo Ms Straaten! Accessories include black makeup, rings, a black electric guitar and a Simple Plan CD.

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Yew Liang has a very interesting catchphrase: "Your mother ah!" Either that or "Don't be a bird la!" I don't know why but I find it very funny. Now I cannot stop laughing.

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Oh there's Singfest on Saturday! Yes! I get to watch people like Travis and Newfound Glory (and Simple Plan? I think). Thank God people like Alicia Keys and One Republic are playing on a different day. Especially One Republic. Ugh. Whiny.

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This video is for Mag (aka Eugene - Mag is short for 'magnanimous', because he kept repeating "Never mind, I'm magnanimous," and Erin said it sounded like a superhero name so I'm calling him Mag).



TAG REPLIES!

Jiayi - Hello! I will link you soon. :)
2E6 - YES you people drive me mad sometimes.
not eugene - Obviously you are not Eugene, so who are you?
Melvyn - I didn't say who! You did!
Xinyi - Heh of course my English is profound. Good that you remembered the word! ;)
Ruifang - Yes I love my current class! But I miss JSS 3-5 as well. You guys are a funky bunch. :D
Juwina - Haha I'm trying to be "cool" with this blog but obviously I am not. LOL.
Jun De - Yay! The Sec 2s can watch!
Eugene - Ya I think I am fated to 3 and 5. Diao.
Joshua - Hahaha! I'm sorry. I just found out today who I really should be linking you with. Hee. And I want 8 Aug to come soon too!
Ai Poh - Ooh you got video cam? Haha it's okay dear, can use my idiot-proof camera instead. :D
Shafiqah - Hee yes my English has to be superb otherwise I will have nowhere to hide my face in front of you guys.
Valerie - I wish too! I have a picture of your class on my table at Yuhua. :) The one we took at the farewell party.
Xinhui - Sure you can!
Ai Poh - It's only the band section that I need to video. Haha and just the songs, not the bits in-between.
Faiz - Don't spam my cbox! Sobs.
not ms straaten - Don't use my name please. Even though you definitely aren't me.
Apple - *blush*
Peiling, Musarrat and Melvyn - I don't know whether to be flattered or disturbed that you visit my blog during lesson time :S
Erin - Can we keep the Underwear Diaries on the downlow please? And yes I know Melvyn is horny. All boys are horny by default. It's the Y-chromosome.
Fishball - Sorry to disappoint, but Outsiders is a normal movie. It's got Tom Cruise in it though. If you like that kind of thing. I don't. :S
Chilli - Yeah I think the Socs suck. But if you were one of them you'd think the Greasers sucked. Just the way the world works.
Lihui - Hello! And please! The Underwear Diaries! Downlow!
not ms straaten(2) - ....

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Oh and Sahil, Musarrat and Rahul, I found out what 'douche' really means. But this blog is PG so I can't put the definition here. Go figure =.='

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This is for 2N4, whom I was teaching Latin the other day.

Cool Latin Phrase To Use On Persons You Think Are Stupid:

si taquises philosiphus mansises

meaning: If you had kept your mouth shut we would have thought you were clever

LOL.

Labels: 3E5, Eugene Goh, Latin, music videos I like, stalker, Yew Liang

Maybe our class motto really should be "Touch or Be Touched". :P

Anyway to wish you guys a happy weekend, here's one of my favourite Chinese songs. It's very silly and I can only sing the chorus but I still like it. Hurray the weekend's here!

Labels: 3E5, music videos I like

Yesterday 3E5 had recess during English. =.=''' After that I spent 1.5 hours practicing for the oral exam with them, and enduring Eugene sitting beside me and talking complete rubbish throughout. What horrendous bore? What horrendous balls? What "balloons look like eggs, maybe they will hatch later"??? And to everything his response is, "Got wrong meh?!" *faints*

I did the oral exam with some people from 3E7. Interesting lot. Some of the guys were really nice and polite. The last one to sit for the exam helped me to rearrange the tables in 3T1 that were messed up by his classmates. I am so glad I will not have to do oral exam again anytime soon. I know people get very nervous and scared by oral examiners, but really, I think more often than not, the examiners are trying very hard not to die of boredom. Having to hear the same passage 14 times and ask the same questions 14 times is really taxing on the brain.

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After eating with Nicholas, Melvyn, Joshua, Eugene, Valencia, Shannon and Friend with the Black Specs (sorry I don't know his name), I went to Dunlop St in Little India for Pervy Boy's recording session. They're doing an EP now and I like to gatecrash whenever I'm allowed. I got to sing backup vocals on one of the tracks! Lol.

My cousin (plays rhythm guitar in the band) was bored and saw me marking 3E5's common test, so he took an extra copy and started doing all the questions. After proclaiming that he would get everything correct, he got very annoyed when I gave him 0 for certain questions (he forced me to mark for him!). Then he said, "What kind of teacher are you man? My answers are correct!" -.=

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Proof positive that Eugene is pervy:

1. Conversation with Melvyn and Lincoln about jamming -
Me: Is Friday night okay? Cos the rest of the week I cannot touch you already.
Melvyn: But you're going to right?
Me: .... I just realised how wrong that sounds.
Melvyn and Lincoln: *blur*
Eugene: .... Eeee that sounds very wrong!

2. Eugene is the only one who caught it.

Therefore Eugene = pervy.

Alternative proof positive:

1. Eugene is irritating me during the oral practice -
Eugene: (says some random rubbish that has nothing to do with anything)
Me: If you don't shut up I will carry your chair and throw you from the railing.
Eugene: You can carry the chair but you can't carry me.
Me: Want me to try?
Eugene: Don't touch me in public.
Me: Oh, but private can is it?
Eugene: We'll see about that. $20 not enough. (dissolves into laughing fit)
Me: ... Omg I have prostitutes in my class.
Eugene: (laughs until stomach pain)

2. Eugene offers to sell himself to me.

3. Only prostitutes, gigolos and really pervy deprived people do that.

Therefore Eugene = prostitute, Eugene = gigolo or Eugene = pervy
Since a) Eugene = student,
and b) student and prostitute/gigolo are mutually exclusive,

Therefore Eugene = pervy.

Yes! Yes! I'm a genius!

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Magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness.

I said I would put that in my blog so there it is. 3E5 beware the spelling fodder. :D

Oh yes, and I discovered yet another love triangle to add to my list: Joshua (Hiang Teck) and Valencia. Actually that's not a triangle, but I am mathematically challenged, so there.

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I don't like reading blogs that are very hard to understand. Like when people talk in code all the time and I can't figure out what they're talking about. It's irritating and makes me feel excluded. Then again, who says I need to read them right? :) There are simple answers to everything. My favourite is usually "People are stupid". Eg. Why are there so many wars going on in the world? "Cos people are stupid." Why can't they do what I asked them to? "Cos people are stupid." etc etc.

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Sigh next week there's Lit Common Test. 2E5, 2E6 and 2E8, jia you! Hope you have been reading the text otherwise you'll be lost at sea.

I am tired... And I have to do relief later... Sigh.

Labels: 3E5, EL oral, Eugene Goh, pervyness

Today I drifted away a little bit from a meeting I was attending (oops) and thought about all the bizarre love triangles/trapeziums/octagons that I have been hearing about in school. So far there's:

Melvyn loves Shannon
Melvyn loves Musarrat (??)
Melvyn loves me (he's a very loving guy)
I love Melvyn (not true)
Nicholas loves Davina
Yew Liang loves Peishan (?)

Then there are other things, like:

Apple likes to touch Eugene
Yew Liang likes to sit in Kamal's lap
Tu Yong likes to touch Cedric
Cedric likes to touch Tu Yong
Tu Yong likes to touch Desmond

... I can't bring myself to write of any more pervy exploits of 3E5. I am traumatised at the amount of frivolous touching that is occurring freely in class.

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And once more Songtao didn't come to school! I think he might be setting a record. Tomorrow must find out what is going on.

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In other news, 2E5 tried to make me sing again and almost failed. They didn't like Queen, so I shall not sing for them anymore. Hmph.

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I bought maps for my English classes. 3E5 stared at it like it was some contagious disease in print form. 2N4 was so excited about it it took about 7 guys to put it up on one side of the class. I like maps. I used to stare at the map of the world just to read all the weird exotic names that were there. My eyes would roam over Europe and Central Asia, find the tiny dot marked SINGAPORE and then fly over Australia and across the Pacific Ocean to America and South America. I bet no one who reads this blog will know where Novosibirsk is without needing to check Google. Or Addis Ababa. Or Eritrea, or the Ivory Coast, or Christmas Island, or Easter Island, or the Cape of Good Hope, or the Rhine, or the Adirondacks or Appalachians...

Sometimes I think the difference between me and a lot of other people is, where other people want to go away from here and never come back, or never go beyond what they are comfortable with, I wanted to go away in my head. I like being here, in Singapore, in my own life, but I don't like being here all the time. That's why I read.

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Just remembered that I wanted to blog about Monday's interesting performance. I do wish students in our school would cease to be so incredibly rude but there are some things in life that really require miracles, or at the very least brain surgery of some kind. I also wish that our hall sound system would undergo some kind of wonderful makeover because it sucks like total &*^(@#&. I couldn't hear anything during the prefects' skit, except Nicholas shouting about Bushy Bushy and people shouting at Eugene to shut up. Poor Eugene.

But the most entertaining part I found was the dance. Firstly Musarrat was dancing in those killer heels (I kept hoping she'd step on someone so the scream would ring to the end of the hall where I was sitting), secondly Melvyn was dancing with Musarrat and thirdly, that peew-peew sound effect in the middle of the thing was so retarded I was laughing like a moron at the back. I think Ms Lim thought I was mad (she was sitting next to me).

IT'S THE TIME TO DISCO!

Labels: 2E5, 3E5, love, maps, pervyness, racial harmony day

Sometime last week my sister brought home a kitten which someone had foisted on her. This being my first sister, who is married with 2 kids, she asked my parents if they could help look after it in the day (since no one's at home in their house during the day). Somehow it turned into my parents, my 2nd sister, her boyfriend and I taking turns to look after this small thing. It mewed constantly and kept rolling all over the place because it couldn't walk properly. I called it the Meep, because that's what it sounded like.

The Meep was kind of sick when it came - bad hind legs, bloated tummy, not eating well. Over the weekend it had toilet issues (it peed on my 2nd sister's shirt more than once). Last night it was very sick so they brought it to the vet, who didn't know what was wrong with it.

Today the Meep died.

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This is what I spent my weekend watching - my (2nd) sister's band playing at the Arts House for the COMPASS Musical Extravaganza (fancy name for bunch of unsigned people playing for their friends). I asked Melvyn today whether they needed a band for National Day Celebration but it looks unlikely. Check out the poll I added to my blog. Fill it out k. :)

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Thanks Desmond for my seating plan. :)

The continents have shifted in 3E5. I can tell several people are deeply unhappy to have to uproot from their favourite places, but I didn't rearrange everybody just to be evil. It helps to get chances to work with different people all the time - it makes you more versatile and adaptable. "AHA!" you say, "what if I DON'T want to be versatile and adaptable?" Well... your choice, really. But in the real world (and trust me, school doesn't count as "the real world"), you don't get to choose. So you might as well pick up the ability to produce some results even if you can't get along that well with the people around you.

That said, I am beginning to wonder if Eugene is plotting to kill me now... I had no idea Apple was so touchy-feely with the boys (!!!). :D Oh but it's Eugene, so I suppose it's understandable. LOL. Hopefully he does not feel emo and desperate enough to start slitting his wrists or something. Apple of my eye, Apple, please do keep your fingers to yourself okay ;)

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(A new section I have stolen from Xinwei.)

TAG REPLIES:
Sheryl: I refuse to dress as a hippo. Not even for the Mandai Zoo. Other people make better hippos than me. >.<
Kamal: You are MEAN. I am NOT short even when I'm wearing heels. I'm still taller than you without them. Hmph.
Eugene: Thanks dear. :)
Augustine: Maybe Kamal wishes he could wear heels too? :D Lol kidding.
Phantom: Thanks. I know ;)
Eunice: I'm glad you like Lit. I know Sathia is very adept at impersonating me. =.='
Wee: Who be you?
Xinhui: You're welcome! Hope your birthday was a good one. :)
2E6: Hello!
Manissa: Lol I didn't sing that for them la. I refuse to sing it lol.
Ruifang: Hi dear! Hope JSS 3-5 is having fun. At least Xinwei's blog always sounds like you are haha.
Valerie: Hullo! Don't let Xinwei bully you with the Benedict nonsense. Unless it's true? Hmm. :D
Fishball: Can you stop making me hungry please?
Xinhui(2): My blog is not a fish market!!! It's just one crazy person on my tagboard!!
Melvyn: Why you come here to talk to other people? I feel ignored. :(
2E6(2): How is Fishball being a pervert? Or do I not want to know?

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I think maybe there are some things in life we should stop trying to understand. It's a bit defeatist - like just giving up and giving in - but I think it's acceptance, and not resignation. We can't understand why those we care for pass away, but we accept that it happens. We can't understand why sometimes the people we love don't love us in return, but we can accept that it happens.

I feel bad that the Meep died. And I don't know why.

Labels: 3E5, meep, pervy boy

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