Busy Busy Me

goodness.. im so busy right at this moment that i just decide to snap out of reality and blog a lil..




I'm so busy that Kylie Minogue's 25th November 2008 Concert reminded me that i'll be turning 21 in less than a month! ( not as excited as i was 5 months back!) \





Updates that makes me wanna just fast forward to get it OVER and done with!..WTH!


Well.. I have countless rehersals for the next two weeks to prepare for 4 performances!


St Andrew's, Xinghua and Bukit Timah Primary!


This is really interesting cuz collegues of mine would just ask me, " You are seriously gonna make this your full time job?"


And I just go speechless since Im left breathless by some of those monkeys!!





Projects..


Man...


Some people are better of as friends, i mean acquaintance and NOT groupmates.


I'll just be politically correct to just put on a shirt that says " I have enough friends already."





Examssss... Urgghhh...


I know i shouldnt be complaining cuz i only have 4 papers but all 4 are just so effin demanding CAN?





Updates that makes me wanna smile like the guy in the SunKist Advertisement!



More work means more pay to fund my Aussie getaway come this Feb! Woohoo.. Then, I'll so called have my well-deserved break!

Well, even though my job's gonna be mentally, physically and emotionally demanding, I'd be ensured a job for 4 years upon graduation. Now, that i'm entering the Working Life, The issue of recession is REAL indeed.

Look at the above ad! I was a little frustrated that the snow ski class is fully booked! *Bleah*

But amusingly, I got a call to be reminded to turn up at 8.30 this Saturday! ahah!! I hope it's fun coz it sounds fun already!! yay Yay YAY!

Silly me, i was one of the early birds who signed up with my Gym Buddy, Stelllaaaaaaaaa!! HAHAHa.

yes, i know... Little things amuse little minds!( i heard you!)

After this trial snow ski session, i'll head to the esplanade for AVENUE Q!! Yipeee.. As to spark the birthday month thingy going on, he even got VIP tickets!!!

This is getting so good that i totally forgot about the hours of rehersals and exams!

The morning Prata breakfast with Stella n Nic at Alif's at Gombak should be a weekly thing! :) I'm a sucka for the Cheap Good Food idea and the overwhelmingly Melayu feeling!

Sunday will be.. DUH... MUGGING DAY! Starbucks.. here i come!

oh Damn. gtg.

Thursday, Friday pass me by quick for me to welcome the weekends!

Women-ly Weekend

Ah.. 11 and 12 oct was a Celebrating Women Weekend for me.:)

The Saturday.

As you can tell by my squinting eyes, it was the early morning sun where Lala, my gym khaki and I hit Ngee Ann City for our Hi-Lo, KickBoxing and StretchFit exercise routine together with about 16438217381273761 Women to celebrate Women's Day out! The highlight would have been the BellyBlitz class right after all the Cardio which made me slip nicely into my Kebaya later that afternoon!

The earlier event was a Mother and child duo exercise routine which i find really cute! ( goodness, my shrinking vocabulary!)

When the winner was teased as to how did he end up in a women's event, the little boy said " Coz I love Women!" ahah.. Aint that Adorable!

Wont mind having some of these Romeo in my class when I start teaching!

12 Oct- Vaginal Monologue by Eve Ensler (R-18)

Eve Ensler’s celebrated groundbreaking play was given a local flavour by director Loretta Chen, produced by Zebra Crossing.

The monologues are basically a series of short skits telling different stories of women - of love, of sex, betrayal, relationships, empowerment, femininity. Well, he watched the original play in New York and told me all about it and I was as excited when i heard that the play was coming to Sg and given a local twist. ( Thankfully, for a newbie in the Art Scene, i was able to relate to it!)

I was moved by certain skits like that of Hair which involves an Indian woman's torment after her Brazilian Wax so as to save her marriage since her husband found hair to be unpalatable? (what a word!) Another interesting piece was Because He Liked to Look At It which is a nostalgic account of a traditional and conservative woman's sexual awakening who finds it such a taboo that each time she refers to her vagina, she would held her fingers to make a "V"sign! aha.. CLASSIC! Not to forget, The Coochie Snorcher that could, how the experience of an older woman that was shared to a young traumatized girl who was sexually abused in her early years was that able to find pleasure and love being a woman again! A female dominatrix account of giving up her job as a lawyer and find her job giving women pleasure HER Pleasure. A Malay Transsexual( definitely based on a true story!) sharing which left me dumbstruck intially but hell, i came out of the theatre much enriched and conscious.

A great finale on childbirth and tribute to Mothers defintely left an impression and will be ingrained in the audiences' mind for a long,long time.

meanwhile, as the Raya mood is slipping away.. here I am signing off.

Aidilfitri 08'

What can I say.. i feel like Raya this year just pass me by like a Formula 1/ezlink( touch and go)
I was feeling sorry for my cousin who had to bring his econs notes to all the house visiting and the younger ones who were dead tired and have to go to school the next day. The timing this year for Hari Raya, isnt student friendly at all, i must say.

For once, I wasnt even so hyped up on what to wear especially when my brother realized his baju kurung was too short only on the morning of Raya! ( which, even my mom the seamstress cant do much to help!)

I didnt panic or anything( It's a miracle I tell you!!) and went to the closet to pick out something from yearssss back... to be exact 6 years back!

Heez.. i can still fit into a kebaya which i wore when i was 15!

Hari Raya 2002 at Grandma's Place


See! i even wore it for my Sec 4 Racial Harmony Day( gosh i miss my sec 4 buddiess!)

Finally, a shot taken just yesterday, 1st October 2008. At the EXACT same spot taken in 2002!

In a kiddy candid way, this shows the element in Hari Raya that touches me alot.

Seeking Forgiveness.

This year Raya was all about forgiving.. After all the emotional drama that went in the family since my grandfather was admitted to the hospital and given his condition now, we are greatful to still be a close-knit family.

The Haji Yusof's

(sadly, 4 more members were not in the picture)

To all celebrating Hari Raya, I wish you a Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin

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