Hello I have moved to tingmythoughts.blogspot.com!

Thanks for reading :D

haven't updated in a long time!

okay my polaroid camera is here! And it looks exactly as what the advertisement shows.

Took a picture of it (:



love it so much :D

took a polaroid with Char



I LOVE POLAROIDS <3333333333333

Anyway on saturday I had my Stage 2 basic korean lessons. Lessons are getting much harder now. I am learning korean expressions in past tense and present tense. But I am motivated to learn korean well!! Wanna go korea one day, hopefully can meet SHINee lol! And converse with them. Haha fat hopes~~~

My piano teacher says I have improved in my playing! Yay i feel so happy cos I have been stagnant for the past few months esp recently resuming lessons after A levels. Hope can take my grade 8 practical as well as theory soon. (:

AND SUNDAY WAS MY LAST LESSON AT CELINE JESSANDRA :(
Okay those who know me well know that I am not the type that would go and learn dancing. But after spending three months at the dance school. I have grown to like dance, haha maybe because it provides and avenue for me to exercise xD BUT IT REALLY FEELS GOOD!
Waiting for SHINEE combo and the next available lucifer class!

Korean music wave is coming!
But the performing list is not confirmed yet :/
SHINee are yall coming!
Please tell me soon cos I need to book tickets!
Omg can't wait!
Been saving up for the big day.

Thanks to my friend whose sis-in-law works at moe, I got another relief teaching job at yishun junior college.

But this time, I will be teaching Biology!

I was assigned two H2 classes and one H1 class, will be taking them for tutorials and practicals.

I am kinda excited but nervous at the same time because I am not sure whether i will be up to it. My bio wasn't even satisfactory in HC..barely scraping a pass in the block tests. Hmm just hope that i won't mislead the students and teach them wrong stuff oops.

So right now, I have lots to revision to do!

I got lost on the way to yjc...it's frustrating. I went onto bus 169 and was supposed to alight at the 4th stop, I counted wrongly and ended up at some SAF air base super ulu! Then I crossed the road and waited for 169 again. Nevermind that the bus comes such infrequent timings, the best thing was just as it came, the bus driver drove so quickly that when i looked up it was gone in a flash, didn't even have the time to flag it D: wasted one hour zzz. And so from my house in bedok, I took about 2 hours to reach the school. When I reached the school, I had a new problem. I didn't know how to enter the school! I couldn't find the sch gate omg. Walked one entire round.

When I finally finally reached the school after so much trials and tribulations I was so so so relieved! I hope it doesn't happen again on tuesday when I start work!

Whee I get my own desk and laptop in yjc to do my work! And I don't have to report early for assembly (: Can come as and when there's lesson and go off once I am done :D

After the interview, I went down to nex mall to meet mj and linli! OMG I haven't seen mj since december last year! Miss her so much!!!

Dined at Laksamia, then went to the rooftop library and borrowed comics.Then we went to the pet shop to look at dogs (: They're so adorable! But i don't think I will be able to look after one, it's a huge responsibility! Since mj was complaining that she haven't exercised for a long time, we went to the arcade for a workout, playing the basketball shooting game. I played until my arms ached! Shows how unfit I am. I was dumbstrucked when I saw the pair next to us playing the game so effortlessly and their score is like four times of ours! So embarassing lah. Haha we were panting and heaving all the way and our balls flew out of the station so many times!

We need to practice man! Who's game for basketball? The more the merrier!

Finally, we end the day off with dessert! mango tango :D

SWEET (:

After struggling for so long and seeking much of my friends' opinions, I have decided on a polaroid camera! :D

Which was my first choice to began with. Haha.

Well blame it on myself for doing such extensive research on photography when all I wanted was to find the best deal on polaroid camera and films. So much research and information actually impairs my judgement. I saw lomo/toy cameras and got a little fickle-minded. So I guess sometimes acting on impulse/gut feelings is good (:

So far I think Gmarket has the best deal :D

Initially I wanted to get the pink instax mini 7 which costs $100, then I SAW THE HELLO KITTY INSTAX MINI 7s. Limited edition!! I had to shell out an additional 55 bucks for it. :P I am an absolute fan of hello kitty haha.

I totally fell in love with it. Love at first sight!!

Was in much dilemma over the choice of colours for awhile, between white and choco. Both are just so pretty. I decided on the choco one in the end. Omg if only I could have both haha. So greedy! xD

In the end, i checked out the online shopping cart with purchases totalling $190, which includes the Hello Kiltty Instax Mini 7s and 3 boxes of hello kitty character instax mini films :DDDDD

I just burnt a large hole in my pocket but I LIKE!

Can't wait for it to be shipped all the way from Korea. Shall wait patiently (:

Online shopping sucess!!

Isn't this a darling? :D

I am gonna get my hands on this someday! :D

okay time to revive my dyinggggggg blog.

9 weeks of internship at pei hwa has ended!

Oh wells i guess it's a bitter sweet thing. 9 weeks is neither v long nor short. Just when I have just began to form meaningful relationships w my students and it all ends. I wished I could have a proper ending w my students. It ended so abruptly after camp. I have always wanted to give a farewell speech, sorta. To tell my students how much I enjoyed teaching them. Really, and thanks for listening even though I was boring at times and when lessons were dry. Ah :( one 遗憾 I have in this internship is not being able to teach 3N2, which was one of the classes I was supposed to teach during the internship and as a result, I don't really know the students well. 3N2 although a noisy class, would have been an interesting bunch to teach. (: But at least I did one relief class for 3N2 which was quite a disastrous attempt :X ah i rather not mention it.

For me, I take quite long to warm up to people I guess. At first I didn't know how to "communicate" with my students. Haha as they say there's some 代沟, cos I think I am like 4-6 years older than most of them. Gosh I am old!!
But one thing's for sure, kpop is a great ice-breaker (:
Anyway, i am really glad I got posted to a neighbourhood school :DDDDD
Neighbourhood school rocks okay!! :D

Gosh I miss teaching.

It didn't help that some of the classes I got were really quiet at first. Like awkward silence. I kept answering my own questions in class and it seemed really silly! haha. I have to resort to calling names. Okay i understand the students' mentality lah, given that I was a student not so long ago...whenever the teacher used to ask questions in class I would be like " no no no no please don't call me!! * looks down and away from the teacher" I guess that's how the students felt. But as time passes the students warm up to you and learn to make jokes haha :D

I have learnt alot from the internship. I guess teaching in front of 40 odd students in 2 classes have made me a more confident person. A little more confident heheh cos it's like public speaking. When I first taught, I was reallyyyy nervous omg. But you gradually get used to it and slowly get the hang of it. It's not bad I guess, all 90 plus eyeballs looking up at you. I get so used to it that sometimes I just blabber on in class without thinking and realise that I have been repeating the same points over and over again. Haha. And I totally 开声 from all the shouting during relief classes, especially to the naughty ones. I hate scolding classes and I try my best not to do that. It's bad for my image lol. xD But after those experience, I realised my voice can be quite loud, something which I never knew I was quite capable of haha (: But I like relief classes, cos you never know which class you're gonna get. I like surprises and uncertainties.

The sec 3 overseas camp was a decision I never regret making. Well I guess I could have stayed local w Angie. I felt a little lonely when i went to pahang alone without her :( I really missed her alot and felt quite depressed during the initial stages of camp. But I guess that's all part and parcel of learning and venturing out of your comfort zone. I admit I was afraid of the responsibilities that was bestowed upon me, of being responsible for the safety of the kids. I couldn't very much take care of myself already according to my mum, given the state of how messy my room is. I was a little intimidated of being the only intern amongst the many senior teachers who all knew each other, I worried about not being able to mix with them. But it wasn't too bad :D I love how the teachers who joke w me and include me in their conversations, as well as being concerned for my well-being, like offering to take over me for sentry duty so that I could sleep. This experience also allowed me to take a closer peek at what the teaching career really entails.

3E1 was a really great class (: they totally showed another side of them during camp, they are not quiet! That's for sure (: Stay bonded kay! I really wanna thank some of the girls esp for accompanying me throughout the camp and talking to me so I won't feel so lonely :D you guys are really lovely! And thank you for helping me take my food and drinks during camp and reserving a seat for me beside you guys :D Haha so touched (: All the ice-breaker games and team activities allowed me to build more rapport with the students. If only the camp happened earlier, then I wouldn't have been talking to the walls during lesson time haha. I guess if I had never gone for the camp, i wouldn't have known 3E1 better and it would have just been restricted to lessons, which I admit, by the last lesson, i have only known a few names, very few names. By the end of camp, i memorised each and everyone's names.

My entire 9 weeks of experience cannot be put into mere words and into this single blog post. But all I have to say is that it has been great knowing and meeting all of you. Each and every single one of you who have crossed my path in pei hwa, be it the teacher mentors ms lee, mdm ong and mrs koh, classes whom I've taught, 3E1 and 3E3, students from relief classes and my dear fellow intern Angie! My internship wouldn't have been the same without any of you.

I don't know if I would be able to return to Pei Hwa anytime soon.

So I guess it's farewell for now.

It's funny how I am actually writing to nobody cos I don't think anyone will chance upon this well hidden blog, esp my students haha. But nevertheless I just wanna express some of the feelings I had about this internship.

As one teacher once said, " Teaching is an art, not a science", I guess my experience of 2 months plus can't make me a fantastic teacher overtime. Teaching is a skill that has to be honed. Should I become a teacher one day, I hope to be a teacher that cares and is able to build meaningful relationships with the students. And as one teacher quipped "And you know you have succeeded if the student calls you from across the street one day because you have been a fantastic teacher" (:

Watched under the hawthorn tree by Zhang yimou with xy! (:

it's not a popular mainstream movie, seeing that it's only shown in two cinemas and at weird timings. 225pm at vivo and 920pm at yishun gv.

We decided to go with the 225pm timing!

Rushed to vivo after school. Packed some food and rushed to the cinema. Oh wells we were ten minutes late but I guess the movie just started so it was okay (:

There were so few people in the cinema! So it was kinda awkward opening my plastic bag and taking out my bread.

Anyway, i definitely would recommend people to go and watch this! I think this is one of the rare kind of movies that we would ever see in the market. It's not your usual type of hollywood movie or highly commercialised ones. It's very innocent, sweet and tugged at my heartstring! However, I felt that the male lead was so perfect that I find it kinda unbelievable myself too.

I was so touched I cried three times. Lol. I didn't dare to sniff too loud cos there were so little people in the theater and it was very obvious!

Let the trailer speaks for itself (:

Been so busy nowadays that I hardly post here anymore.

Not that anybody reads also hahaha. xD

alot alot of thing happened but I can't list them all cos I can't rmb D:

okay just the highlights :D

Me, Char, jolynn and jingyu went to join the Safra PK challenge at Square 2 mall. First time singing in front of so many people at the shoppping mall! Haha quite scary but I guess teaching these few months have helped to relieve stage fright. A little. Ha!

Jolynn uploaded the videos initially, but I decided it was horrendous and made it private to prevent further embarrassment heheh ;D one of the teachers in pei hwa saw and commented to me in sch that I was v brave to sing infront of such a huge crowd. Lol! I got a shock that she actually managed to view the video before I made it private.

Then went to cherntze's hse for sleepover. I didn't exactly slept over at her hse. Heh ;D watched forrest gump for an hr or so and left for korean class! Damn sad, I could only communicate w them through my videocam cos my parents refused to send me to ct's hse. :( next time kay! I wanna play bridge with yall!

Korean class is getting more difficult and confusing :/ hmm but i will persevere! I wanna korean keyboard sticker to type korean words! :D

I realise i go for so many classes, piano, korean and dance! But I enjoy them all so it's okay.

Yup learning korean hip-hop at Celine jessandra on Sundays! 5 lessons soo far. A great avenue to exercise! I think my sense of rhythm and feel is getting better. Lol xD Can't wait for SHINee's lucifer dance! Anw our dance is recorded on youtube under celinejessandradance i think. It's weird to see myself dancing.

haha but i am considering to move on to the next level :D fun!

2 busy and hectic weeks at Pei Hwa Sec.

These two weeks have been an eye-opener for me.

I really learnt alot, from my teaching supervisors and students alike.

Although there was the initial culture shock, I managed to settle in quite well. (:

Sometimes, we need to look beyond the surface and at what's beneath.

Sometimes, it just takes a simple pat on the back, a smile or word of encouragement.

Every student is special in their own ways (: nevermind the differing academic abilities.

I love my express, N(A) and N(T) classes all the same :D

Teaching internship training at NUS sci fac! (:

oops went into the wrong class, but the instructor was nice enough to let me stay on heh.

Realised quite alot of ppl i know are in the internship! :D nice!

Teaching is definitely not easy. But I will try. (:

Will be teaching Chem and Math at Pei Hwa Sec!

Hope I get a well-behaved class...

OCIP grp 2 outing today! with qiuhan, linzhuo, mingyu, han song and yang tao

hahaha after many unsucessful attempts at arranging, we finally got one! (:

went to Cathay to eat at astons :D then watched Tron. I didn't know what Tron was about before. It was a better show than I expected haha. The only bad thing about the movie was that the cinema was freezing! Brrrrrrr. I should have brought a jacket :/

Tron is like GP (?) lol. Cos there were like ethics, science, technology and clones....yeah that sort of stuff haha.

After the movie, me and qiuhan left the guys and went shopping!

Looked at alot of clothes and accessories plus the very ex scrapbook making shop at plaza sing. One conclusion we got: must marry a rich guy next time haha.

Bought a white blouse at Hypnosis :D heheh couldn't help it. My mum's nagging at me cos I overspent for clothes. But it's for work, mum! :P

thought I could utilise my old $20 party world ktv voucher and happily went to sing K with huiyi.

turned out that we needed to spent above $40 bucks for the discount.

But I looked at the voucher thoroughly and they said no purchase required! HMPH. So I persistently asked and pestered the counter personnel haha. But in the end I was still rejected.

Oh wells. Party world ktv is more affordable than Kbox (:

each person only $10.40 during happy hour. Can sing for 4 hours, with free tidbits and one free drink (: quite value-for-money. Shall ask the rest to sing with me next time! :D

The room is so much bigger and spacious than teo heng's! haha. And the songs are easier to find! But teo heng has a bigger selection of korean songs! I was disappointed to see that Hello and Replay by SHINee are not available at partyworld :( And Hello was the only korean song i practised lol xD ARGH. Next time. Next time we go to a ktv that has Hello kay!!

And so for four hours, we sang whatever song we knew haha. We even resorted to singing the theme song for the tv show AI hahaha xD too desperate for songs lol.

Because we wanted to sing hello so much, we softly sang it on the mrt and bus on the way home! haha. SHINee ftw :D

Watching Hello Baby SNSD!!! Love kyungsan :))))))))))

Thank God.

the college reception called to say i got the HC diploma.

Turns out my CCA record was incomplete.

I thought I didn't get it.

Happy :D

anw i love my new blogskin alot :)))) SHINee.

I am gonna learn korean soon, probably at the Singapore Korean Sch. Now the problem is to find money lol.

Christmas this year had been fun, with relatives from m'sia visiting (:

love shopping with hoong, she's like a year older than me and we clicked off really well together :D

chatted alot about stuff in m'sia and s'pore, really interesting yeah. She's really funny and bubbly.

Bought quite alot clothes during xmas haha. For work as well as leisure. i don't know but it feels like I am spending alot of my "future" money. Oh mans.

Oh probably gonna work with jolynn during weekends at gongcha bubble tea shop!

and I am taking my grade 8 exam after a long hiatus cos of A levels! Haven't practised for a long long time :(

a day of excitement!

After forest adventure in the morning and lunch at Tampines 1, we rushed home to change and met up at Nex mall for Secret Santa xD

Annual Secret santa with huiyi, amanda, meng jiao, zi hui and linli! :D

My santee was Amanda! haha. I didn't know who my santa was though :/ (duh)

my present for my santee was like huge. It took me really long to find a plastic bag big enough to contain the present lol.

Luckily she's a SHINee fan too! makes it easier to prepare a present. ;D

I had fun making the board :) my first attempt lol. My bro commented that it looked like a fan board. All the better haha. Next time amanda can use it for fan meet-and-greet sessions :D

The thing was she liked Key the most so I found 3 pics of him. tada!!! Haiz my fav Onew had to be relegated to the corner and has the smallest pic cos Amanda doesn't like him xD

We were supposed to meet at 6pm but many were late, so me and hui yi shopped for a while.

Had dinner at Siam kitchen. Food was okayy but portions were quite small..

Then it was time to reveal Secret Santa!!

Turned out that Amanda was my Santa as well! Lol what a surprise xD Yay glad she liked the gift I prepared. I got a soft toy bear. Naming it MR ONEW hahahaha

went forest adventure in the morning with zi hui, lin li, meng jiao at bedok reservoir!

2 hours of very strenous activity!

Flying fox, climbing, ladders, bridges, swings, nets, trapezes and giant zip lines.

Went on half the extreme track cos it was just too tiring..

It was pretty much self-service. We had to hook on the harness, pulley on the safety line on our own. So we were responsible for our own safety. I was like" what happens if it came loose" Scaryyyy.

But overall, it was pretty safe if you followed instructions carefully :D and fun!

too bad we weren't allowed to bring cameras up.

My favourite part is the tarzan swing :))))) free-fall from a really tall height and lending on a vertical net. Even though zip line was fun i didn't like it very much because i kept landing awkwardly in the sand pit and hit my head several times after I landed. BUT. The scenery you get while flying across bedok reservoir is breathtaking! :D 4 zip lines in all. Enough to make up for the lack of it during OAC in sec 3 lol.

pretty much looks like this ;D heh