Miss Liyana's TLRH (erm..The Little Red Hen)

It's already Friday and I just got back from work after a long tiring day at a school's performance
Im just so dead tired.
3 rehersals.

2 performance.
3 Different Primary Schools.
All in a four days! (in my recess week!!)

Well, complaints and grumblings aside, I actually achieve to prepare 90 kids for a part of two school production. BraVO!

Miss Liyana is in charge of The Little Red Hen in two schools!

Do you know the story, story, story?

Do you know the story of the Little Red Hen?

Little Red Hen, Little Red Hen,

So much to do when would it end?

Little Red Hen, Little Red Hen,

She got no help from her lazy friends!

Getting ready. 45 kids dolled up in 25 mins! yes, thanks to the HUGE brush!!

Rehearsing their finale song before they get on stage!!

One Good Luck Snapshot before the Performance

Joining the rest of their schoolmates in the hall with the Parents!

YAY!

The initial plan for the recess week was to complete my Assignment, clean and paint my room and help mum bake the kuih for Raya.

Guess what? I can practically cancelled this "To-do" List and categorise this as "Things that were not done this week" List instead!

Ive certainly learnt alot throughout this entire week

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Like how cultured a school that includes prayers as part of an assembly can be..

How a big school with a myraid of resources would not be as conducive when the teachers are just unmotivated themselves.

How unreasonable parents can be when it comes to purchasing the needs of the students like for just 8dollars for a performance t-shirt but not mind speanding on their iphone and LVs.

How you'd tell the cab driver that you are trainee teacher when they ask for your occupation and they'd go on and on complaining about the education system and what are teachers doing when everyone in the class has private tuition?

yup.. all that in 4 days. .

I also realized that it is difficult to stick to the Perfectionist Me when I have to handle 45 kids at one go!

While some of them makes you wonder why do you even think being a teacher, there are others that make you realize you're cut for it! ( the latter usually comes when you least expect, well.. while the former all the time!!)

These happy things include my favourite cheeky and naughty monkeys!



And at the end of the day, they are not trying to bag an emmy so.. just let them have fun!

As much as I complain and grumble( it's only natural!), I must admit that Im glad to be doing Speech and Drama classes part-time before my actual teaching practice because Ive learnt to handle so many kinds of worst-case scenario, improvisation and you know what... Im VERY sure there is so so so so so much more for me to learn!

meanwhile, the painting of the room is postponed to next Raya i guess..

and i better just stick to what Im good at:just eating Raya munchies and guessing what it is called after taken the hundredth bite!

and.. TAADAAA

I guess it only takes one prank from you to turn my frown upside down!

Your trademark is my smile.

Unstable

I never knew how vulnerable and unstable I can be... ( "Now she knows!"-friends/people who knows me!)

Reflection for this Raya

Yipee.. It's the much anticipated RECESS WEEK! and it's like a week before Raya! How nicely well planned the schedule is for us celebrating Raya!

Here I am blasting out Raya songs to get me into the festive mood coz i'm just so lazy to get my royal ass to clean my cluttered room! I cant even remember how many 847218719 times i cleaned my room but yet it is still in a mess.

Cluttered and random; i found a pair of goggles in my dressing table drawer! E gawddd..

Then, it hit me;
The mess in my room reflects the mess in my life.
yes, cluttered and random.

Well.. if you have noticed.. no updates about the Boyfriend..
Things have been pretty much complicated lately.. no, no not the one you indicate on Friendster. Jokes aside, cut the chase, all I can say
We're just waiting for the right time.
Time changes people.

i admit my past was kinda, okie, not kinda... more like VERY colourful... but that was my past isnt it? i left them for good... even if it or they catch up with me now, i have nothing to fear, coz i'm clean... n no, i won't go back... coz if i do, i have nothing to gain but everything to lose... n i choose to believe i m a pretty smart girl... - credits to lenny! :)

Likewise, I feel the same way.. after i revive my past last year, it just proves to be even disasterous.

I'm not getting all emo, but i learnt that it's not about being a bigger person or burying the past, The past is the past for a reason.
I learnt it the hard way last year right before Hari raya. It was more like the Christmas jingle, " Last Raya, I gave you my heart, the very next day you throw away" (If he is reading this, I would like to let him know that i appreciate that he totally disappear in my life.)
For I am happy to be with someone who is sincere now, even if it is complicated or not.

Ive been pretty much in my little hole, with the people that matters and that is enough for me.
I used to be that Social Butterfly who tries to please everyone but i guess my job is done.
Ive toned down..
yeah, like the saying "Priorities changes.."
I have no hard feelings or whatsoever towards these people, but I just hope that my decision of letting the past be the past be respected. Life goes on.

Let me be happy, the monday blues chaser that you can count on. Let's not make things complicated and the world will be a better place. I am grateful for the people who tried to advise me in life, to be a better person( crudely "Grow UP!") and that includes those not part of my tiny social circle now. Thanks for the memories.

Back to cleaning my closet!

P.s: My MSN's giving me so much problem and im just too lazy to download it again! hah

Docu Movie for The Blonde

Went to watch this movie yesterday and I must say it's REVOLUTIONARY. uh huh.. That's the word to use for such a big ambition by a big nation. I can recall some of the phrases that was used by the Crazy teacher, Li Yang who authoritatively the people in China in a mass lecture of millions i must say. There was this joke that if every person in China were to spit, Singapore would drown! anyways, the teaching of English language to the Chinese were to literally shove it down their throat like a bitter cough concoction since they were constantly reminded of the importance of English and the opportunities it promises.

There was this part of the movie that somehow moved me, when the people got so discouraged by the complexities of the English language and the rules governed such as grammar and pronunciation, the Educator, Li Yang actually made them all, all millions of them in a huge ass field to close their eyes and pledge, to recall their illiterate parents who have thier future depending on them, how they'd be left behind if they were not to tame their tongue to adopt the english language and how by learning this language will improve their standard of living and that of the country. He continued to tap on their filial piety and sense of rooted to China- without doubt we see hear that a country with a rich heritage and legacy runs deep such that they only need to be reminded and not to forcefully and artificially instill in them. To me, that was priceless.

I guess watching them learn English was the hilarious part of the show, the wrong uses of English and the atrocious spelling, something that we ARE guilty of too.

The Interesting Part:

It was interesting that prior the Olympics, it was a nation wide campaign to pick up English, to the extent where only cab drivers who pass the English proficiency test are allowed to drive during that period and out of the thousands that applied to volunteer to act as guides to patrol along roads to help the foreigners get around, only 200 made it. They were hardworking and hospitable people who took all the efforts to perpare for this event.

The Not So Interesting Part:

I wasnt any of the millions who actually catch the Olympics, not even through the live broadcast and shamefully, not even when TV Mobile was showing it. nyah nyah nyah My Bad..

anyway, just to share:
ever realize how something never occured to you until the subject/thing is relevant to you. like you never did care about GST package until you can actually qualify for it?
hah.. ok.. that's one personal example i must add!

so i was grabbing some pastry to break my fast at Sun Moulin at Isetan.
since the whole world seem to just left the office, everyone was grabbing FOOD, so that explains the long queue. I find that i was stepping forward with every pulse that i take and obviously i was very pleased with their service, so after paying at the counter where the Manager was at the cash register,

Manager: So sorry for the wait.
Me: Oh it's ok *smiles*
After packaging and paying and he hand over to me the plastic,
Me: Thank you for being so effecient.

Ok. I dunno why but
1. maybe it was too noisy for him to hear what I said
2. he was having a long day

But he had this peculiar look on his face, something like the expression you had when someone just passed a sarcastic remark in your face.

Me: feels awkward and scurried away wishing that I could have just said a

PLAIN SIMPLE

T.H.A.N.K Y.O.U.

That is SOOO Pragmatics! ( a module in Linguistic I'm currently struggling with.. as seen from the above example!)

a month back, when i was M.I.A, I went to catch Hungry Ghost as well.

It's kinda too late for me to rattle all about it coz it's already sometime back. But in a nutshell, I must say I can finally stop dismissing the Getai show and understanding why so many things just isnt the same during this period of time especially when my Night Owl Chinese khakis will be so "pantang" about everything , like coming home early! hah!

Rather than drawing henna, playing chapteh/weave ketupat and Chinese calligraphy , isnt the idea of screening such shows be more practical since people fear or condemned what they dont know and dont understand. I mean these are more REAL issues and something that promotes understanding right? I do enjoy the performance and play dress up but why not make it practical at the same time.

ok..

I aint turning into some square and dorky person, I did catch " Forgetting Sarah Marshall" HAh!

My Conclusion on that one:

1.Honeymoon to Hawaii is a MUST

2. Blondes, especially with no sense of taste in men's clothes are not worth your tears!

3. There are such things as Happy Tissues and Sad Tissues. ( Thy shall not elaborate on this!)

the three silly insignificants that bugged me today!

number 1. Why cant the lecturers put in a little more effort in their lessons/delivery..
I guess that's why they call them lecturers and not teachers..

number2. I cant remember where I was exactly, neither did I remember where I heard this from.. but it sure bugs me..

"You can call me Beautiful. That's beautiful with the double L"

which mean FULL as in FULL of herself..


what i felt like telling her was

"How about Beautiful with the double O, BeautiFOOL?"

Urrgghhh!

number3. I saw this shirt on SGFlea and I went "I NEED THIS SHIRT!"

So i IMMEDIATELY contact the seller.. and guess whatttt.. she forgot to update and it's ALREADY SOLD!!! arrggghhhh..

I went to the Forever 21 webbie and nope.. this shirt is outta stock! Arrgghh

Like i said.. all this insignificants to bug me on a Monday!