. be resourceful
 
 
. wasted time
 
 
. sanity check
 
 
. carbon dating
 
 
. frozen time
 
 
12.5.04
woohoo!
day was super slack...
coz ms goh finally came back from a false alarm of dengue fever...
no need to take her klasses liaoz...
then wed is my free day...
so just sit at my desk...
mark papers...
study notes and tutorial...
while listening to my discman...
trying hard NOT to break out in off tune singing...
coz really...
those were my favourite songs...

three of us accompanied mr lam for breakfast...
he ponning GP lecture...
his treat coz we din have our wallets with us during morning assembly...
then we met mrs bong on the way up to the staff room...
so i accompanied her for her breakfast...
was surprised actually...
that she agreed when i offered to go to the canteen with her...
talked alot...
guess she is the kinda person...
who can make even the quietest person go on and on...
ended up talking to her alot the whole day...
where she would come over to mr sung's table to chat with me...
feels great to have such a sweet neighbour really...
telling me abt her son...
discussing what to name the next...
ate lunch with yiyuen...
chinese scholar i mentioned before...
she's cool actually...
we have our laughs...
and its quite amazing how we managed to click...
even better than the relationship between some of the permanent staff actually...
i realised when you're younger...
it's easier to make acquaintances...
even friends...
just the youthful open to new pple and things...
the "bring it on!" mentality...

physio today...
physiotherapist kinda gave up on me...
asked me to see another specialist coz she feels that it wasnt a sprain...
but something abt my muscles being unable to hold up a bone...
and the bone is outta place...
oh well...
din tell her that my second toe of my other foot is hurting like hell now...
really...
pain...
trying to decide whether i should go back TTSH for further treatment or otherwise...
it's almost a waste of time and taxpayers money...
the other pple (who really cant walk properly) deserve the treatment and time more...
feels as if i'm depriving them of that...
i look more like i'm working out at the gym than undergoing therapy...
rats!

took mrt to bishan...
then bought the necklace i saw yesterdae...
yesh yesh...
i couldnt stand it...
even though it was literally my last dollar...
really must dig for money in the bowl of coins for my meals liaoz...
either that or con more pple into treating me...
but cant leh...
wringed the pple ard me dry liaoz...
but its scary really...
see the older teachers...
when they open their wallet...
is like so many 50 dollar bills lor...
i mean dont they fear for their wallets???
and mr lam tells me that was his spare wallet...
me oni have that single pathetic red note...
which usually disappears within a day...
so sometimes i really dun feel that guilty when i con other teachers...
okok...
i feel bad...
i really DO!
so i guess before i leave MJC for good i would probably buy them a small something ya???
esp the ones who have been so sweet to me...

slept like a log on bus 88 home...
really all the way home from bishan...
was kinda afraid that i might miss my stop and end up back at MJC...
but i din...
been a long time since i last slept so soundly on a bus...
reminds me of the time in TK...
where the bus rides seem to take forever...
sleeping in bus is very shiok...
feeling of being able to sleep when you are tired...
eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty...

oni prb is...
i worry abt drooling like a pig while sleeping...
coz i alwaz do!
but oh well...
cant really help it...
really too tired...

quite weird actually...
had YC iCQing me..
quite out of character coz he usually doesnt...
and when i do msg him...
he would either give monosyllabic answers...
playing gunbound...
or start suaning every statement i make...
so asked him to convince me that he was YC...
and amazingly...
he remembers my favourite dessert at the library...
da apple crumble...
maybe coz he remembers how he alwayz suans me when it really ends up in crumbles after my first bite...

and the funny incidents when we studied together prior to the exams...
e.g. the waiter giving me two forks..."one for you 'boyfriend'..."
?!?!?!
my sis and bro coming to the library to peep at us...
thinking he's DA ONE...

actually...
i always wonder how badly i would have done if not for him...
asked him practically all the stupid questions anyone can think of...
stuff students would be paiseh to ask teacher coz of how stupid it'll make the student look...
i was really a terrible student...
so now...
when my students do test my patience with supposedly easy questions...
i remember how 'patient' YC was when i made even lamer mistakes...
minus the part where he starts getting sarcastic...
and i teach them from scratch...
every single thing i think they need to know...
actually...
YC and i were kinda at war after our first 3 mths in AJ...
i was such a b*tch...
we din talk to each other for months even though we were in the same klass...
i'm kinda glad that it blew out...
coz seriously...
he has been a very giving person throughout our mugging period...
and i thank the powers above for him as my study buddy...
he doesnt feel the same way though...
he prefers pretty girls as his study buddies though...
probably feels coerced to study with me...
=(

i miss my JC pals...
every single one of you...
plz dont ever walk outta my life...
we mugged, cried, laughed and been through the sh*ttiest mugging period together...
plz dont let it just fade away as forgotten memories...
miss you people alot...
esp the girls...
can we go out again soon?


----Stef stopped rambling at 20:30
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