Wednesday, June 27, 2007

First Sight Feel, the Strongest

Title: First Sight Feel, the Strongest

At the centre of the paths, he met his first. Perhaps it was meant to be. Never could he ever have met her, if not for the gentle knock the girl had with him when they both started treading from 2 opposite directions. The guy was concentrating on the book he was reading while the girl, eyes were on hand-held mirror and focused on doing her hair with the other hand. The knock came when both were at the intersection of the paths. The young man immediately apologised with the use of the japanese word "Sumimasen" as he looked into the girl's face. Unknowingly, they were locked in a short 5 seconds stare with one another. Realising the stare was too long, the girl gently replied, "it is alright" and tried to look for her hair-clip.

"Sorry, allow me," the young man offered the girl a helping hand. Simple as the job was to pick a fallen hair-clip from the ground. For the young man, he beared not the sight to have the girl making the slightest effort to bend and retrieve her item as she was tidying her hair.

He knew at once, she was not any girl. In his mind, he was struck - by a meteor of love. But why meteor? For all his life - 20years on earth, he has not fallen for anyone at all. Now that he found one, a potential one, it was rare.

"Thank you," the girl replied to his kind gesture. But before the girl could take a second step away from the spot where they met and conversed the first time, the young man probed a question, "Erm, may i know your name?" That effected the girl to make a 180degrees turn and answered, "Vel, Vel San". The next moment when the young man wanted to make short self-introduction, Vel had already left by saying "I need to rush. See you" and rushed off. For all the young man could say, in his mumbles, "I am Teht". Poor guy, there in the north-west direction, his love-at-first-sight girl left as he looked on.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Misled

Title: Misled

If you were to refer back to the previous post on " Mindset and Goal needed in One", i have made a big mistake. I have simply misled you.

Below is extract from last post:
They are from 20June - 24June. So that would be from Monday to Friday, 9am - 11am on Monday, Thursday and Friday while for Tuesday and Wednesday, 2pm-4pm.

How on earth would anyone have exams in June? haha. What a silly error committed. To do a correction, the exams are in August.

Thanks to Guan Zhu, i was alerted of it.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Mindset and Goal needed in ONE

Title: Mindset and Goal needed in ONE

So fast, it is already nearing the end of another month - June. Time seems to be racing and i need to be fast to catch up with whatever i need to do. Just only yesterday, i have already checked my tentative exam timetables. They are from 20June - 24June. So that would be from Monday to Friday, 9am - 11am on Monday, Thursday and Friday while for Tuesday and Wednesday, 2pm-4pm. It really made me feel alert that my exams are here soon and i need to reduce or at worst, cut off from going out too often. I need to settle down very soon. I still remember that I had 4 exams last semester and did not do well. This had some bad impact on me. But this time round, they are 5 to deal with and i really need to make my score (GPA) worth the effort i put in. Effort, focus are very much needed now. I need to, at least feel the readiness in me to take exams soon.

I think for me, i should be mentally prepared and get into right mindset by Monday, 25 June. So by then, there should be 2 main tasks for me - first to get my studies back on track and finish projects successfully, the other would be to get my tutees to perform well academically.

Every now and then, i would be in a daze thinking of something else, even when friends were talking to me. I even had to double check what they said previously. It was not that i did not want to listen to them but just somehow, i could not get myself focused as some other thoughts have dominated my mind. Well, in description, it would be like a piece of blurred glass blocks the vision of the conversation topic that i am at with any parties. I could not hear them at all and every word spoken would be as good as passing by my brain and not processed. I am getting into some 'daze' syndrome. To some extent, i am having something close to mood swings but not exactly that.

A short description of a 'daze' syndrome, written in a poem:

Seems as though calm waters,
but within it stirs a raging tsunami beneath.
As such, translation of inner feelings brings about a distracted one.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

The 'Extra' ones

Title: The 'Extra' ones

The arrival of the hamsters certainly adds some life to the house. My mum used to dislike the idea of having pet in the house. But I guess the pets were given by someone she knows that's why she has much resistance to it and on top of that, it could be that she has been seeing the hamsters and dog while working for such long time that an acceptance is achieved. What's more, my dad who used to rear a dog certainly welcomes the hamsters. My brother has played with them when he was free.

Playing with the hamsters takes some skills and practices, i am sure. Each moment that i spent on looking at it, i thought it was worth while. In some part of my memory, the hamsters were pictured taking a big yawn. Mind you, it is not most beautiful scene that you would like as the 2 protruding teeth were threatening (imagine it bites you with that). I am not trying to scare any potential hamster-owners but i think it would not bite you unnecessarily.

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Short Tips:

Qns: Why would a hamster bite you?

Ans: It might be because that it did not get accustomed to your smell and you have already attempted to carry it in your hands. A safe way would be to let the hamster do a short sniff/investigation of your hand. After that, it would be better to handle it.


Qns: Other than that, what should you know about it?

Ans: As the hamster is poor in vision, it relies heavily on its sense of smell. No cold food allowed for it.
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So there were times, the hamsters would try to compete with each other for the use of the exercise wheel. For instance, when the female one is at work, the male would force its way into way the wheel whilst stopping the exercise and pushed the female to the outside of the small-sized wheel.

Most of the time, they would be sleeping and could really sleep for a long time.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Invasion?

Title: Invasion?

Currently, there are 4 under one roof, in my house. But it will not be the case anymore when tomorrow arrives. The number of occupants in my house will shoot to 6. I just can't wait for them to arrive. They are HAMSTERS. They will 'invade' officially on 21 June.

Let's have some quizzes on hamsters:

Qns: What do you know about hamsters?
Ans: When a baby hamster or rather a batch of baby hamsters is born, stay away from them. This is so as when the smell of another indivdual once found on the baby, the adult hamster (even it is the hamster mother) will finish ( or consume) it.

Qns: Anything else about hamsters?
Ans: Nope. I just hope that the 2 living organisms would not end up corpses.

So where are all these 2 hamsters - 1 male, 1 female - going to come from? In short, the source i am getting the pets. haha. Well, no buying. Instead, i will be given by my tuitee. Cool. I just could not help but feel excited.

However, sometimes, when high hopes/excitement placed over an object/event/animal/human may sometimes end up in great disappointment. I would say 'no' to that and pray hard that all will be well. I see the hamsters as a way to relax. Let's hope that the hamsters i am going to receive don't bite.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

16 June 2007

Title: 16 June 2007

Today is special. It would mean alot to long-time friend, Michelle. Michelle, Cynthia, Guan Zhu, Han Xiang and i went out together to celebrate Michelle's birthday.

So how exactly did the places we visited which i am going to reveal, use to celebrate her birthday? All thanks to the demanding Michelle and her disclosed wishes. So we went to Bay Street 21 at IMM then Haagen Daz, Vivocity just to fulfil the silly girl's simple and attainable wishes (still well within our means which i am glad as we could see these wishes turned reality).

The day started off when i gave Han Xiang morning call at 9.10am. The whole conversation was like:

Me: Hello, Han Xiang. You woke already? ( still sleepy and called while lying on the bed)
HX: Ya. I thought i smsed you already. I sms you, "I wake up le". Maybe i forgot to send it to you ( sounded as though he was very awake and woke up long ago)
Me: Oh ok. See you later.

At 10.28am, i reached Boon Lay Station where i saw Guan Zhu first. We were just 2minutes away from the arranged meeting time. Then i called Han Xiang. I was told immediately, he just woke up. I was like, "huh!" I thought he would reach the meeting place before i did. Hightlight in this case was that a sleeping person, in subconscious state, still could tell me he smsed me and the precise content of his message. How amazing it was! haha.

About 10.35am or so, we met up with Michelle and Cynthia. In fact, i thought all of us looked lethargic. Very simply it was that all of us had relatively pale look with tired eyes. Before we met Han Xiang and had our meal at Bay Street 21, we went walking around in IMM. We went to the open area where there was a kids' playground with the water feature. Moreover, Cynthia had actually wanted to join in the fun with the kids. Too bad she did not as there was no back-up outfit and i think that there was a staff guarding the place so that no one in the specified age group was allowed to play.

Meal time: I ordered a fish & chip. It was my first time eating at that place. So when the meal began, Han Xiang and Guan Zhu asked me a crucial question: "Do you eat carrots?" When i signalled "Dozo" ( in japanese, meaning go ahead), my untouched dish was then filled with more and more orange colored sticks, with stingy few long beans. haha. Then i grumbled, Cynthia and i who eat carrots are wearing glasses while Han Xiang and Michelle were the opposite case. Ironic.

Actually i was quite quiet when on the bus to Vivocity as i was thinking hard on the pressing matters on hand. I just couldn't help it.

At Vivocity, Michelle was not in the known that we were going to Haagen Daz. When we were at the outside of Haagen Daz the first time, Cynthia commented it was too early to have ice-cream as we just had our meal. Then we went to Toy 'R' Us. We saw the latest toys and so on. We meddled with some toys. I even gave personal comment on which toy guns were of better grade, using my past experience in playing toy guns. Michelle was trying to be funny by making it such that the stuff toy dog that she came by, was clinging onto her. Then she commented to us, "看, 这只狗在抱住我 ( look, the dog is clinging onto me) ”. I felt "cold" instantly. During our walk around the shopping centre, we were conversing in our "powderful" Japanese language. Then it was like, "hai" (means yes) and the next word to follow it would be "moitchido" (means again). I think we were influenced by our Japanese teacher who always said these 2 words together. Guan Zhu, Michelle and i still like our classics, "Ojyama Gomi ( means nuisance rubbish)". haha. Hey 2 of you, you are "Anata wa ojyma gomi".

At Haagen Daz, we had a fondue with brownies. The fondue was good and so good that i suddenly became 'normal' and talked rubbish. After first few mouthful of the chocolate fondue, i became verbally active and described the fondue that caused the stirred emotions in me, “纯纯遇上爱 (met love innocently)”. Soon, i could see Han Xiang was already like "huh, what did you say?". I was elated while eating the chocolate especially. My love for chocolate just deepened, didn't it?

Then there was once, abit of chocolate was on my lip. Then i looked at Cynthia and mimiced a seducer, so i pushed our my tongue slightly with its tip wiping the chocolate neatly. Apparently, nothing happened. She did not notice it when i asked her if she saw what i did. When eating, Guan Zhu twice consecutively touched my spectacle as he was reaching for its targeted ice-cream. For Michelle, I would insist that she dirtied the chocolate fondue with the vanilla ice-cream while dipping and said that she finished dirtying our portion and would use the other thought-to-be-less-polluted chocolate fondue as the clay-pot of chocolate fondue was divided into 2 portions.

Nearing the end of the meal, i took out my Japanese note and Guan Zhu, Michelle and i were trying to practise what we learnt last lesson. So i would confirm with them some pronounciations as i was not good in rememebering it. Guan Zhu or Michelle or both would always call me "假日本人" (fake Japanese). Michelle saw lighted candle like the design of a scented candle. So we took it out under the mini-claypot of chocolate fondue. Together with it was 2 slices of leftover bananas to compensate the loss of a cake. Then it was the classic song- birthday song. Michelle blew off the candle after wishing. I just hope that everyone enjoyed themselves today.

Happy Birthday, 孙女。Happy 19!

recent thoughts

Title: recent thoughts

if you have many things running in your mind, what would you do? I have been weighed down by the matters i need to handle. They have been so bad that they even entered my dreams. That's why these few days, i have been wanting more than ever to let time passes quickly. I want to be at the end of the road that i am treading on now which means, reach my goal soon.

I wish well that time really can solve my problems successfully.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Kid's Tuition Passion

Title: Kid's Tuition Passion

I had a 2nd tuition session with my new student on thursday, 14 June. It was my first to teach a primary school kid, exlcuding the one i had for voluntary work previously.

I would say that the tuition with younger kids needs some patience. Perhaps i already have the must-have quality since i love interacting with kids alot. Maybe it was the motivation to help my student to do better for her exams that interests me in this tuition, more than just monetary gains that i enjoy. Since I am given the responsibility, i am obliged to make sure she wastes no time in attending my tuition sessions and that she gains alot instead. At times during the tuition, i would try to be more encouraging and speak more at her level ( which is quite important since i am used to teaching secondary student and i teach at that level).

Recounting the tuition: once she is done with her question, she would then wait for me to get back to her. Or gently and with some calculated force, she would slide the book on the table to my vision field, right under my head facing down on the table occasionally. So when i asked if she knows what to do or specifically how she got the answer, she would shake her head and smile at me innocently. With just little more effort put in in response to my question, she would whisper "i don't know".

Well, i just wish that she can improve in her studies.

Now i am thinking of joining a children organisation, maybe those types that can organise activities for children or just interacting with the kids but no voluntary tuition, please. I just hope that this kind of organisation can fall right before me now. I want to get busy, outside school and to know more people.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Mirror of love

Title: Mirror of love

Prayed all her night for the one, so did he.
First impression brought about her attention, so had it to him.

Her initial flush gave her away, so did he.
Brief introduction thrilled her, so had it to him.

Time brought her closer to him, so did he.
Occasional letdown when she blew cold and hot, so had it to him.

Against logic she was discouraged, so did he.
Her intuition told of otherwise, so had it to him.

Moments of truth saw her love cemented, so did he.
Truly, Prince in her life appeared, so had his Princess.


I just wonder how many of you have experienced the cycle mentioned above. For me, it is one of the most innocent way to fall in love, don't you agree? Simple. Like a destined pair, they knew from the start they were meant for each other. Through intuition, they were already together even before they put a tag on each other, "attached". Beautiful, as good as a fairy tale told.

Monday, June 4, 2007

My Devotion, Dedication, Concentration and Anxiety

Title: My Devotion, Dedication, Concentration and Anxiety

Devotion+ Dedication+Concentration+Anxiety = ?

What do you get out of the above equation? This particular equation relates to the qualities that an individual has when he is focused on the task and is determined to make the grade. In fact, the equation will produce the ultimate product - SUCCESS. Personally, i feel that if i ever possess such qualities together, there would always be an aura of confidence around me. However, this phenomena would happen once or twice a year. Really need to cherish it. Apparently, this has not happened to me this year. When this really strikes me, i would be as though i am possessed and everything i touch just turns gold.