a place where she always goes

Monday, May 17, 2004

blogging in notepad again. as usual. seated in front of my computer, with my atlas open, and trying to come up with last minute worksheets to occupy my sec one geog classes for tmr and wed since im not supposed to return them their papers yet until thurs morn when there is combined going through of papers as per level. and i still have one class of acad free writing not marked. oh wells. mark it later when i go for PCP meeting and tmr morning.

coundown: 9 more working days. after that i am free until dont know when before uni life starts. which is starting to get a little scary. and i started scouting around for notes, and textbooks. thank goodness the jurong east library is opening on the 5th of june. i can then plant myself there to study. whee. it looks similar to the woodlands regional library, my favourite hangout place. and since jurong entertainment centre is just beside, i can easily pop there for lunch or something. think i might get real bored in the june hols and july all the way until term starts. i mean, smu doesnt have camps for students to participate in, so i guess i'll just hafta bum around by myself while the rest of the nus and ntu students enjoy their lives at camps and make new friends. which can turn out to be a tough job. making new friends.

i mean, in sec school, i had jps friends together going to rgs. same goes for hwachong, when my clique all came to hc together. and it helped alot when i saw venus in my future class, and when i wasnt all that close to ruoling. but now i havent heard a single soul who's going smu accountancy. not a single soul. smu business, yes. plenty. but accountancy? no way. i mean, more of them are going to ntu. personal preference la. i have no right to launch a lambasting attack on them so yeah, there you go. so i start the process of making new friends. making new friends. i chew on the term, and it tastes kinda sour, bitter. how, is the question. yet nobody can teach one how to make friends. you plaster a cheesy smile on your face, walk up to people and say 'hi', people would look at you as though you're putting on a fake attitude. but you keep to yourself, and wait for people to approach you, you're waiting for eternity. oh wells. i dont know which category i fall under. i wont go up and say a bubbly cheery 'hi' but i would try to start a conversation. so how now? yeah i know what people will say, let nature take its own course and see what happens along the way. yeah i'll wait and see. as usual.

oh sigh. i dont know what sort of format should my post exams worksheets should be like. haii. i dont feel like coming up with one. but i still have one more week of lessons, plus this week. i cant play games with them all right. when i say games, i mean in class games.

i wanna go on a vacation. but nobody to go with. oh wells. dunno where to go also. i wanna go on a cruise. yeah. a cruise. with an arcade that has daytona. for me to race. and see the beautiful sunrise and sunsets. and enjoy the vast oceans. fine i can happily dream on because there's absolutely nobody to go with me. how boring life can get sometimes. boring with the capital B. maybe i should go look for jobs again? but i wanna study. get my bum in the library, and i think you might find me at the novels section instead of the research section. oh wells. come to think about it, if smu is really going to only start school in late august (which was what i heard) i dont mind going back to teach, provided they still want me back and have a vacancy for me. yeah. i really dont mind. as in. i like the short hours and flexibility of teaching. i like interacting with the students, and teaching them, trying to make the take in as much information as possible. and im happy and glad that some of them improved. by quite abit as well. especially that engyeow. he passed with flying colours for his midyear, when he failed like shit for his first common test. not that the rest of the class did splendid, bu still. oh wells. it's the school's decision, not mine. and in any case, yuan shin daniel and wanting wont be around anymore too. they would be shipped off to the lands of NIE far west. away from the school. hmm.

i miss seeing my friends. but i guess, that's the way with working life. you take some, you lose some. it's always the case.