gaps

homage- updates of past three months!

- got MY piano darling! kawai XO, rich base tones, 132, wooden keys, springy. but goes out of tune easily. i wonder why...

- treated my first class 1n3 to fruit tarts chng tng and orange freeze, and i got much more in return: miss ong, we're from 1n3 these food are for you! S & S almost cried looking at this, albeit the imperfect grammar

- threats and indifference from naughty classes, last min taking over classes teaching a topic i used to hate given only 20min prep, sudden da feng chui revision with 2ns for three weeks b4 their final lap

- first pang of loss- happened when i was informed of the rearrangement stated above. old classes were scraped. the only thing i coulthink of was all the promises i made to the kids have all become empty, esp to n3. felt like a baby whose favourite toy was snatched from, and now left stranded. anger welled from within, indignant at the seemingly insignifance of myself. wanted to escape from within the fences- hah, the furthest i dared venture was the tiny garden. well, change is the only constant Ong. since then, can pull myself out of student-teacher attachment better. life just moves on, with new teachers and students all the time

- got my first teachers day gifts: football mug, a plush heart (i suspect it comes with a bear), a small paper bouquet

- ben has flown to imperial for studies, finally, after much fuss over his visa. pple miss him

- the numerous farewell dinners for said person above, all false alarms =)

- know my newscafe gang much better: m the lamb, tif the bold, jud the hot mum, cari the worrisome, andr the princess, sien the mellow, ql the queen. will miss the days of lunch and bitching

- been to nyp for 5 times i bet- for lihom's concert, the science challenge; to science centre 4 times- dna workshop, questa presentation

- going into a cca as Tic. first time i went met a student who was crying her heart out. that was the closest i felt to being a counsellor

A large part of time was spent brooding, over the unfairness of things, deciding which path to take at junctures, recovering from backache sorethroat stomachache heartache, bitching with the girls. Thought of koining the navy on one impulsive occasion. Still not sure this is the way i want things, but will just go with the flow. haha. suddenly reminded of the lunch with andrew. please ask me to stop if i'm tempted to go along