the aphrodisiac

Sunday, December 28, 2008

The 4th day of Christmas (:

Merrrrry Chrrristmas! It's not pass Xmas yet okay, there're 12 days of it so im well into the the fourth day only. Haha. And anyway, when have i ever posted on the actual day of things? :/

This post is actually made by some random photos on different occasions that i feel seem Christmasy. Hehs. On Christmas Eve, baby and i simple rested till late and went out to get a feel-good dvd to watch at home. We watched "What Happens In Vegas" (or sth like tt) by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher at his place. We ate junkfood and did brainless stuff then he cabbed me home (: Oh, not to mention, my girls called and ~~shouted~~ sang Christmas carols through my handphone. Lol. Christmas Day was spent sweetly and ended off with the boyfriend cycling me home. Hows that for a relaxing and stress-free holiday after all the tiring activities? (:

The eve of Christmas Eve was the 2nd day of our Staff training, which ended at Merchant Hotel for our company buffet dinner. Buffet again! I love buffets, i guess that's the time you realize i can eat A LOT. True, i cant eat much of a dish/meal BUT i can eat a lot of small portions of different food! Abit of everything = alot = a bloated but satisfied girl (:

Present i wrapped with 2 Tootsie roll pops on top for last minute gift exchange, Crazy people i work with every Friday at the Japanese Association (JA for short). Go trainers!

When Iza said Cheeky face, i thought she meant CHICKy (you know, like a chick) so i had that look on. Why would somebody suggest a chicky face out of nowher, you ask? i have no idea but it was the first thought in my mind la soo...

Tee-hee. i couldnt resist a solo vain shot taken by Nurul cause the pictures seemed very nice on her camera!

Then, the few of us who didnt feel like heading home yet decided to take a walk around Clarke Quay since it's such a lovely night (: We watched the Reverse Bungee and Swing thing go up thou i've watched it countless times. The guys working said that if we go up, he'll give us a 50% discount :/ but we didnt of course. Imagine where all the Buffet will go? eewl. But i would definitely want to try it in future with Victor! (:

And now randomly on to the next event sometime not too long ago...

I met some of the nra peeps for dinner at Fish&Co!

I went to delete some of my photos in my handphone without realizing i havent transferred them in. Oh well. The food was set aside from different set dinners for Yatie. Haha. We shared the biggest seafood platter plus fish&chips etc. We also had frozen strawberry margaritas which tasted horrible and dessert which was nice. I even requested the duo to sing "Wherever you'll go" by The Calling. Love the song! They were quite good actually, to sing the half rock kind of music. But the girls didnt like those. To each his/her own i guess! (:

Oh, and i watched the sneak preview of Twilight. HmmMMmm. It was okay only. The book was way better and i thought the book was slightly higher than mediocre too so... you do the math! I still want to get the remaining 3 series though, just to see if it gets better and worth raving about. ~~I think im liking Twilight only cause the boyfriend bought it for me.Maybe.~~ hehs.

Alright, back to Christmas! What's Christmas without a picture of Baby and I? He came to find me after our dinner to cab home together (: I love my family, & baby and FatFat. *hugs*

& i thought of this Christmas Song that i loved, from the time i watched The Grinch in hmm.. primary 6? and the little girl sang it. She's sooo adorable. and OMG?! i just realized she is Jenny Humprey in Gossip Girl la!!! It's like realizing Drew Berrymore was the lil girl from E.T. Wow. Watch it (:

After spending a friggin' long time copying the code by hand and it still doesnt work (cause for some reason the copypaste doesnt work properly on youtube; have you encoutnered this b4?), i gave up. Here's the link instead &*%^^T^(&% http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZi9f5CEq8

plus the link to the video of the lil girl singing it in the movie. Little Jenny Humprey! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqZU14kgOg This is a lil sad thou.

Where are you Christmas

Why can't I find you

Why have you gone away

Where is the laughter

You used to bring me

Why can't I hear music play

My world is changing

I'm rearranging

Does that mean Christmas changes too

Where are you Christmas

Do you remember

The one you used to know

I'm not the same one

See what the time's done

Is that why you have let me go

Christmas is here

Everywhere, oh

Christmas is here

If you care, oh

If there is love in your heart and your mind

You will feel like Christmas all the time

I feel you Christmas

I know I've found you

You never fade away

The joy of Christmas

Stays here inside us

Fills each and every heart with love

Where are you Christmas

Fill your heart with love

i made a wish upon the tree this christmas, Santa plesae make it come true.

it's 11:58 PM now

Monday, December 15, 2008

Twilight the movie + 22months

3 more days to Twilight opening in Singapore! tsk, other countries have already aired it for million times but we dont have it here yet :( Oh well, as long as it gets here huh? True to my book cover, Twilight is now a movie! I cant wait to see the words i read come into screen. And actually, the Edward Cullen i pictured in my mind looks nothing like Robert Pattinson in the movie; i kind of pictured him and Bella as younger teens, you know like a young boy and a young girl together (some of this image might have been influenced by another novel i read before called "I'm The King Of The Castle" because the protagonist was called Edmund Hooper and his character has pale skin, is different from others as well and he was young :x)... So maybe my wrong point of view was the reason i didnt feel as much for the book as others did? :/ Anyw, all the hype about Twilight has made me erm, hyped up about it as well.

BUT.

i seriously hate it when everyone goes gahgah over the same thing. It's like the whole world now is crazy over the book and gushing that you have to read it etc etc. I hate it even more when such people are secondary or just slightly older ones. pfft. Just last week, i heard a secondaryschoolygirly say (loudly) to her friend in the library "eh help me find TWILIGHT leh! i want to read..." and some other nonsensical things. Then both of them proceeded on talking and glancing (just a little) and books and finally left, with no book at all? I'm sure she must be very interested in the novel, dont 'cha think?

I wish Twilight hasnt become so talked about, i would then love it more. Haha. Just some silly thoughts of mine le. It's like how i like a new song when i first hear it, put it on my blog or sth, then few wks later.. Bam. You hear it over and over on radio, see it on every chart and worst, you hear some young sec sch hooligans blasting it on the bus. Hmm.. maybe im just annoyed by immature people. HAH. Anyway, now i want to get my hands on the whole series of Twilight and move on from this saga about the 1st part of the series. Just considering which size i should get? my first book from baby is the medium one (:

Here's the trailer! Take a peek, it looks really intriguing to me!

Okay. Hopefully i get to watch the movie soon. It's 230am now, i better go sleep if i want to get up on time for work tml. sigh. Last but rather importantly, the end of today marks the 22nd month for Mr Boyfriend and I. (only after editing the photo did i realize this wasnt the photo i wanted to use. dang.) Here's our bigS photo!

Happy anniversary baby. I love you for always being here for me. You're my wonderwall. "give me more loving that 've ever had" and "barely getting mad", im so glad i found you. i do love being around you (: It's almost a year after our Taiwan trip and you're right, the chua4 bing1 here just cannot compare. Hehs. Going to talk to you before i sleep. Night world, night baby and FatFat (happy 1 yr + 1 mth to you!).

it's 2:45 AM now

Monday, December 08, 2008

job satisfaction?

& i quote directly from a message, "you are too kind It's nice to see fun teachers like you else school is boring. Hope there are more teachers like u."

aww. I guess that's one of the best job satisfaction you can only get with working with children (apart from seeing the child grow and improve, and coming to school happily all because you're there). The sms comment touched my heart and made me stop in my footsteps on the way home. At that moment, i felt so proud of myself x)

Okay, you must probably be wondering what these have to do with e picture above. The bouquet of flowers was given to me from 2 kids and their parents. A week ago, we had our Adventure camp and i had to fetch these 2 sisters from their house to the campsite and back for 3 days (by cab of course!). At the end of the 3rd day, they received goodie bags and a certificate but the elder sister's bag did not have the goodies. So, i told the parent i would drop it off at the Tumbletots in cck (they're not from my centre, but the cck one) since i stay nearby. I wasnt able to do it cause by the time im off from work, the centre here would be closed. Then i thought, wth, i might as well bring it over to their house since i know where they stay. The mummy invited me up to their house because both the girls wanted to see me and tadah! they surprised me with the flowers. The sms was received after i left their house & messaged to thank her for the flowers as well as for having me over.

It's things like this that make a teacher feel appreciated, and parents like this that we love to see. How often do we let somebody know that we appreciate them or their efforts? How often do we look at the good points in a person as compared to pinpointing his/her flaws? At times, i really do feel lousy as a trainer/teacher when i know about things like for example, parents doubting our abilities or parents complaining. Not to mention the famous misconception that preschool educators wipe children's backsides and teach "apple orange" only. Hey! wiping children's backsides is sth to be respected of okay? (at least in my opinion) Nonetheless, the children still make it all worthwhile laa.

I guess I'm glad i got a job in this line instead of switching to a complete different industry. Im still with children, im still doing lesson plans and much more :/, but im a Trainer. I would love children to see me as whom they go to for fun, fun and fun! Alright, let me bring myself back before i go too far into this topic. Last Saturday (yesterday) was a fulfiling day for me. I dont know how to fully express my feelings regarding the comment made by the parent; it's a feeling that makes me look up at the sky and smile.

Here's more of my flowers (: In their original wrapping, then in a lil container i made in primary school. It has butterflies and hearts on it okay!

and here are the 2 sisters, Chiron and Chiral. Pardon the lousy picture taking because they were done in the cab when its moving. There's also little Joel (fetched by the other trainer) in the background.

and us together! Think the picture quality is really quite bad but im too busy+lazy to photoshop nowadays. Oh well.

I hope it's fine that im posting their pictures up here. I didnt send them to their parents because it's not a proper picture :/ Anyway, i meant for this entry to be a really short 2 sentence one but somehow i went on as usual (:

"you will be part of chiron and chiral's childhood memory..." Im sure they will stay in my memory too. Good night world (:

-everybody's home for the night. love.

it's 2:21 AM now

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