This is now mine:
And I'm a very happy person, thanks for asking.

*EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Hehehe...

Another spring cleaning.... Groan

Yup, looking around at the masses of 'things' and the colonies of dustballs that were created in my room, I decided to unleash a holy act of god and sweep them all clean from my room.

After cleaning up the usual obvious mess on the floors and tables, I decided to start on a part of my room that had never been touched before. This was a particular shelf on my gray cabinet that I used for stationery and old toys, and I wanted to clear it out to make more space for my expanding collection of manga and books.


Good gravy god. What did I unleash?


For starters, you have to know one thing about my parents. Other parents bought home toys and stuff for their kids. My parents bought me stationery, because one, it was 'free' from the office, and two, because for practicality's sake, stationery was the one thing I, being in school, was always in need of.

So from Primary to Secondary to JC, my stationery needs were all fulfilled by my parents, except for some emergencies where I had to buy pens from the co-op, or where I wanted cute coloured pens. By the time I got to NUS, I received a lot of free stationery from all the orientation activities I was involved in, and I never had to buy stationery then.

So all my stationery just laid there, in that one shelf, until today, when I decided to clear it out. I wanted to reuse the stationery in nie, since a lot of it was unused and I didn't like to throw away good stuff.

And then I realised.......... Just how much stationery I had. Which was enough for me, Yenn, and possibly my entire hostel block. (^^!)

I uncovered, during my clearing-out:

- Almost 20-30 pens
- About 40 pencils [included in this number are 2 whole unopened boxes of 2Bs]
- About 15 highlighters [i think] of at least 3 different colours
- 1 box of binder clips
- 1 box of paper clips
- 3 packets of index tabs [those coloured stickers you paste on your pages]

And that was just the normal stationery stuff. (^^!) Here are some of the more 'exotic' stuff I found:

- Thin rolls of heavy duty tape
- A metre of raffia string
- A box of coloured chalk [some art set, long time ago]
- 15 small paintbrushes
- A [working] torchlight
- 2 leather [possibly fake] name card holders
- A old foundation holder [!!]
- 7 mousepads [and unfortunately, only one laptop]
- One old Magna Doodle and Ghost Writer set [anyone still remembers what they are??]
- One stack of old computer paper. The kind for dot matrix printers, with the perforated holes by the side

And also boxes and boxes of nice pens. You know, the kind that comes with its own holder and looks really expensive, like Parker? I think I counted almost 10 of those. (^^!)

So now, I'm packing whatever I can into a toolbox [yup, I have one of those too] to bring along to my hostel. I figure, with the amount of stationery, I could probably set up a sideline selling stationery to the rest of the block. hahahaha...

Way cool, the miseducators blog got tomorrowed! :)

I thought something was up when I saw 6 comments on my latest entry........

But aside from the pompous glee [my blog got tomorrowed! mwahahahahaha!] it was great to see the couple of comments and emails I got from other people, especially those who had been teaching, or those who were able to enter teaching.

And this is the purpose for which I created the Miseducators blog. So that I could 1] let off steam about my work. Haha, who doesn't? and 2] to also garner responses from others in teaching and 3] to let others know about the true face of teaching. [you think teachers just stand up in front of a class and talk? It's not that simple!]

So I sincerely hope I'll be able to keep this blog going. :) If nothing else, it'll become a form of occupational therapy for me.......

Cosfest 2005 - 10th July at Downtown East

So yea I know the Cosfest pics are late.... :P I got a Photoshop fit and tried to do some layouts on them.

Unfortunately, considering I brought home 64 photos from the Cosfest... It's taking a while. (^^!) Gomennasai......

Anyway, here are some of those I've done:





And a panoramic shot of everyone on stage:



Yea, THAT'S how many people turned up in costume.

For more, click on this very obvious link.

And it was a GREAT cosplay! There were tons of people turning up in costume, of AMAZING quality and design from anime, manga, games and J-rock! Not to mention the various artists' groups hawking their wares, like doujinshi [fanart] merchandise, like postcards, badges, and some really amazing posters. It was the closest anyone in Singapore could ever get to an Anime Convention. :) :) :)

I'll continue editing the photos and uploading them, so stay tuned hor! [i'll get there, i'll get there......]

My mentor teacher was on MC on Friday.

This Monday, she was also on MC and rumours I heard say that she may be on MC the entire week. Not to mention, my 2nd mentor was also sick.

So I had to relief 2 teachers' classes. And help my mentor mark some work after school.

I may just have been inadvertantly plunged into full-scale teaching.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ok, I'm done :p

But it was hard today, since I got another throat infection [my old lao mao ping, which I may have accidentally passed to Yenn. Oops] and I could barely raise my voice. Not to mention the boys today were havock.

I ended up buying a whistle from the Neko Pri. Bookshop to compensate for this. (^!) Which kinda worked, but was no substitute for good old fashioned ranting when scoldings had to be done.

Now I'm just drinking all the hot water and honey lime I can.

*Groan* Sore throats. A teacher's worse ailment. Ganbatte, yenn-san...

Goodmeat: IT'S NOT SPELT WEIFUN!!!! ARGH!!! THE TRAVESTY OF IT!!!

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Who bought the 8 Days with the Fantastic Four on the cover?

If you did, flip to the inside back cover, where there's an ad for Essence, a laundry detergent.

The ad shows, supposedly, a day in the life of a woman.

9am: Office. Woman is dressed in office wear, carrying a briefcase

1pm: Shopping. Woman is wearing black dress and carrying bags of shopping.

6pm: Yoga class. Here's where the layout gets a bit conky. A woman in a meditative lotus-whatever pose is meditating at the bottom of the picture.

10pm: Beauty sleep. And the woman is wearing a slinky bright red dress?

Here's why.

At 8pm, it's Dinner date with Ken.

And the corresponding picture has her dressed in a blue and white striped bra and panty set.

Now if that's what she's wearing for her dinner date with the guy, I really wonder what it is they'll be eating for dinner......... (^^!)

We now return to normal blogging...............

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On Friday night, the gals decided there wasn't anything chronically wrong with the DF when it came to relationships. *phew*

His only problem is that he's dumb. *huh?*

Let's post a question here to those who read my blog and who do not know me in real life.

Your boyfriend/girlfriend hardly calls you out. Doesn't call you on the phone to talk. Doesn't meet up unless you call him, except for some exceptions. Doesn't call you sweet nothings.

Is he a bad boyfriend?

He doesn't smoke. He doesn't drink or club. [which in my case, could constitute something of a slight disadvantage] He doesn't ogle other girls. He's a well-mannered, decent guy.

Except that he's not except a diehard romantic here. (^^!) Whoever coined the term 'stocism' certainly had him in mind.

So is he a bad boyfriend?

Ok, 'bad' is too strong a word.

Can we say that this guy 'cannot make it'?

Or is it that he doesn't know how to behave in a relationship, having never been in one?

Or is it now that he's gotten the goods, he doesn't need to put in the effort to keep the relationship going?

Or is he just, as Candle put it, just plain dumb? (^^!)

Personally, I'm inclined to go with the last one. :p

When I met up with him last night, I was talking to him about it, and what my friends said.

He says guys are just like that, and that all his friends are like that.

I said, not the guys my girlfriends know, apparently, and just how large is your sample size of friends anyway?

He admitted that it was one attached guy who acted like that towards his girlfriend, and that most of his other friends were single. *duh* To which I replied, there's a lesson for you here. (^^!)

Hmph. Hmph hmph hmph.

On the bright side though, if you were one of those who said that he just doesn't know how to behave in a relationship, I can only say, he and I, we're both learning.

And yea, he's learning. >)