..the beads and p*sses of dumbo-no-more

to my teachers

Today i went to junyuan sec to complete my task.
i saw them getting into lines to do exercise- ACES day!
and suddenly i remembered today most school would celebrate TEACHERS' DAY.

oh doesn' this term sound 'o so familiar. When was the last time u wished a teacher a 'happy teachers' day'? When was the last time the class got together to buy your most beloved teacher a cake, a stalk of flower, perform for the staff an item or two on the wooden and highly collapsable stage in a non-conditioned hall with door shutter that goes clang clang when strong wind blows.

tmr's teachers' day. and there was a period of time when i celebrated it for the teachers.
and we enjoyed those days cos teachers seem so nice and smiley... cos there is no classes... there were laughters, sweet exchanges of gifts and cards.

Yes, there were teachers who are respectable and there are those who are totally crap.
I've met some of each type. Respectable ones really inspire; they guide and wish u the best..hoping days after we leave school, we will grow into a 有用的人。。a useful citizen.
While, there were those u really feel they should be shot straight in the head....

There are some teachers whom i like to mention, as a tribute...
Mdm Aida: my K2 teacher whom i still keep in touch. she appreciates me for keeping in touch wither her.


Mdm Z: my pri 1 teacher form teacher who gave me a chance to take charge of groups... and entrust me with duties and responsibilities and praising me with smiles on her face each time i did things rite...

张及元老师: my pri sch chinese teacher who dotes on me...maybe i hand in my work on time and does my work conscientiously. He must be in his late 60s by now. He used to invite me to his place at marine parade but i nv go. He was a very soft and motivational.

Mrs B.Thong: pri 2 form teacher. pri sch choir teacher i/c: she was known to be my god-ma. my 靠山...haha. she gave me chances to perform in school then. Encourager to me when i was kid and she is very lovable granny now.

Mdm Noorfizah: PRI 6 form teacher! who will forget her! she's the star of all our gathering. without her, the attendance's low. She got us to fold 4 stars b4 PSLE to indicate that we are aiming for the stars for our 4 subj! She, then, sticked them in a card and sent them to us b4 PSLE and remind us that we made the commitment to strive for the stars.


Mdm Ong: Sec sch choir i/c, MEP teacher: rather naggy and blur but never fail to inspire us with her wealth of knowledge. She saw me up. She thought i will act for a career. She believed in me- to contribute to DHS choir, to do well for MEP.

Mr Lau Chong Jin: He is one strict fellow. very insightful person whom i didn't know how to appreciate. Perhaps it was E-lit that made me dislike him then. What a pity. He would have been a wonderful old man to talk to.

Mrs Wadhwani: She was posted to Bedok Green as HOD or Principal..i forgot..She WAS SOLID. my hist teacher who taught us all how to enjoy the subject...taught us how to answer and tackle questions. She inspired many of my peers to take up teaching and study History and English. She is very conscientious and encouraging. I remembered doing a B3 for o lvl prelims and she knew i was upset and she spoke words of encouragement and yay! i got an A1!!!

Mdm Ting: She was not my Chinese teacher but as a typical 华校graduate and teacher...she advocate the use of chinese name for all my classmates... As a form teacher who took the class half way in Sec4, she got into action quick and that was how she motivated the lazy boys and smart girls to not rest on the laurels and continue to strive...

Ms Tan Jen Fee: I feared her. Her loud and screaky voice. SCary. but she loves us...very differently. She would be real sarcastic...but she meant well...and i realised that only half way thru sec4. B4 prelim... u know she was one teacher u can trust and learn from...inspiring! Oh ya, she mentioned schools needs professional social worker and counsellors...that made me continue to stay on in SW.


Mrs Chng: My GP teacher. Haha... i 'dated' her in outside regular class!!!! Woohoo... and i meant dating during REMEDIAL. my grasp of english was terok. Sentence structure, grammatical errors...non-insightful discussion... lack of breadth and depth...a typical lousy GP students. I had remedial for 2 yrs... (ripley! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!) At the end of the day, I respected her. She nv gave up on me. NEVER. She was a kind and motherly lady... She was one of pivotal characters whom i spoke to b4 deciding on majoring in SW. She said " It is tough being a teacher, but as a social worker, it is tougher. And it is greater too...Go for it if u think......." so sweet!


Thank you all.

posted by WILLIAM @ 12:56 PM 0 comments

leng kia...dragonettes

i cannot believe my eyes when i step into the study area of the central lib.
It is strangely filled with students with references and reading, laptops and calculators,...

on the second week of school.
dragon year babies...

it is war in the photcopying room, canteen and lib...

jit pai ko zhek ceng lagi jialat...
confirm bo za tao hor za wah eh tin nao...
ka wah ke o deng... confirm libu-ei bo wee ce...
toh low ma si leng kia...

wah... told u i'm amazed by what uni student can do these days...

posted by WILLIAM @ 1:52 AM 0 comments

literature

it just amazes me more and more what uni peers are capable of. from sensual dances at rag...to unbelievable forfeit and activities at orientation to articles in an official e-magazine sent to students...

pen is mightier than sword, as they...would know


Platonic Love - Beyond Body Physics



Written by 2 students from a certain uni

This is exactly the same issue that the movie When Harry met Sally was based on – can platonic love between men and women exist?
Simply put - can men and women be just friends?

Billy Crystal was of the opinion that if the woman is attractive, the man will always be thinking about a romantic engagement with her, while Meg Ryan adorably played the woman who vehemently believed that men and women could be just friends, only to eventually fall in love with her so-called friend. (title of e-mag) finally explores the friendly possibilities.

He says:
Boys will be boys, and men are also boys. For the less gentle sex, sexual gratification is NEVER off the cards. The pivot for a relationship between a man and woman (platonic or not) is always how attractive the man finds the woman. It’s very easy to have a platonic relationship with someone who resembles your mother and/or Charlize Theron in that serial killer movie (the name escapes me……see my point?), but try talking about having a platonic relationship with someone who looks like she was made to test your initial resolve, and it’s a different ball game altogether.

Now, there is no point being unequivocal about much in life. Exceptions do exist. For example, a friend’s girlfriend is always off the cards and so a platonic relationship might flourish in between the times you bury your face into a pillow and scream, “WHYYYYY did that *&%%^$ have to meet her first?”

Also, in cases where the protagonist is an honourable male whose heart belongs to another, platonic relationships might feed, like a fungus I might add. The point is, it is very rare for a man to keep his mind from wandering to the possibility of physical intimacy.

A playful pat, an angry slap, and an unconscious touch – these are all the things that can breakdown the resolve of the most strong-willed of men. To a single man, there exists no such thing as ‘platonic friendships’, only opportunities.

Why have a platonic friendship when we can have a sexual relationship? Why talk when we can touch? Why hit the gym when we can just hit the bed? Much more fun and much more (re)productive!

To a man, a platonic relationship with an attractive woman simply represents a failure, an everlasting reminder of the one that could not be seduced. A stepping stone you might say, to future success. May there never be another platonic friend. If we must be friends, let us be friends with benefits!

She says:
Ok, I’ve got to admit that with attractive men, it is hard to just be friends. Women are naturally very affectionate, otherwise known as touchy-feely. We’ll hug our friends, lie on their shoulder, hold their arm and in general, be comfortable with human touch. With our girlfriends, it's completely normal and everything is cool. But with our male friends, (yes, we do have male friends. We, unlike men, are not inclined to want to sleep with every man we meet) this touchy-feely habit sometimes changes things.

For instance, if we jokingly punch them only to collide into a well-muscled and toned set of abs, it’s pretty clear what we’ll be thinking about for the next couple of hours. It’s unlikely we’ll act on it, but from time to time, the thought of being “more than friends” will cross our mind. For most girls, we tend to categorize the boys in our life. There will always be some boys we meet that for various reasons (too immature, too silly, too superficial, too in love with someone else, too –insert any negative adjective-) we will NEVER be interested in dating, or going further than friends.

These are the boys we refer to as “not my type”. As long as the boy doesn’t fall in love with her and make things complicated, these male-female friendships can survive pretty well. It’s always platonic, brotherly-sisterly at most. Then there’s the other extreme category of boys who are totally your type from the get-go. For this bunch, girls will permanently be attracted to them; sometimes it’s a superficial physical thing, sometimes it goes beyond just looks. But whatever the reason, these are the boys that girls will never be able to be good friends with, at least not deep inside, simply because they keep pining for that “something more”.

But as in any spectrum, the trickiest part is the in-between category. Most boys in our life are unclassified. We occasionally feel spurts of great concern for them and worry on their behalf. But then we also know that nothing beyond friendship seems to be happening, yet the possibility never dies.

This is what makes such friendship a very confusing mix of platonic and romantic. The key to making a transition into either category on the extreme ends is very situational.

For instance, you’re having a crisis, say you just had a nasty break-up. The reaction of this boy is critical in deciding whether you fall head-over-heels for him, or whether he reminds you of a fatherly-figure instead. The more comfortable you get with sharing your private demons with this person, the more likely that your friendship becomes less and less platonic.

On the contrary, when the boy is having his crisis and you have to be there for him, sometimes him over-sharing his personal issues plants him firmly in the platonic category. There’s always a fine line between knowing someone very well (and it's still vaguely romantic) and knowing someone too well (that you are quite sure you don’t ever want to date someone like him).

The male-female friendship is a strange relationship, sometimes fraught with sexual tension, but mostly, sisterly tolerance for his stupidity.

The bottomline: there really is no clear-cut answer, because complicated creatures that we are, we can actually straddle both and self-delusionally ignore some of our own feelings too.

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posted by WILLIAM @ 2:46 AM 0 comments

WOMAD

Visit WOMAD website! and watch it promotional video and be mesmorised by the lovely melodies of world music! where music knows no boundary..where it transcend thru differences.
world of music and dance.
and they are coming to NUS UCC on wed evening!
free admission for me for sure!
woohoo!

posted by WILLIAM @ 2:38 AM 0 comments

when i thought i know how much i love you...then
there will be times when things happen, which then remind me that
i love you more than i think i do.

- public confession

posted by WILLIAM @ 1:41 AM 0 comments

do u know what i mean?

Do u know that the World is experiencing extreme weathers and calamities?
is this time of the year just a period of draughts, quakes, typhoons, eruptions, collapse of bridges.
Can this incidents be seen as just another of the time of the year?

Personally, i think not.
Look at the this!
in russia: temperature has reached a record high of 32.9 deg C in May
in china: drought in north, flood in south in June and July
in India, nepal and bangladesh: worst monsoon rains in 30 years
in australia: draught in parts of au. two cyclones hit its coasts within a week in march
in mozambique: worst flooding in hist in feb followed by cyclone
in south africa: in june,first significant snowfall since 1982
in uruguay: in may, worst flood occured since 1959
in sudan: unprecedented heavy rain
in germany: driest month on record in april, may saw its heaviest ever rain
in england and wales: wettest summer from may til july since 1789
in bulgaria: 45 degress C ... new high
in US: driest spring on record between mar and may

above are events, we hafen looked at the thousands of casualities, millions of cost... the and lingering health, economic, political and social hazard problems.

Every part of the world is affected by global warming.

then there is bridges collapsing in China in US.
no good.

the above are indicators ...............................
if u know what i mean

posted by WILLIAM @ 1:25 AM 0 comments

ˈtælənt

The below blog has only gotta do with me.not any of my readers.pls do not compare.

posted by WILLIAM @ 1:20 AM 0 comments

my genting trip... after a decade or more

as soon as i was able to gave thanks to God, it must be the short trip to Genting, before semester started on monday, during national day.
This yr's national day was also very special-like last yr, just that it was at the Marina Bay where the parade was held, where the fireworks had the scenic nightview of the bay...I had my well-derserved holiday.

posted by WILLIAM @ 11:35 PM 0 comments

my zoo trip

on the 1st aug, chek and i went to the SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN.
It was a transformation as compared to my last visit more than a decade ago (which explains why i need to ask the otter directions around the zoo).

My beloved thought of the idea of visiting the zoo...yea la..so spontaneous and i think it's a very very cool idea. i cannot upload the motion pictures...but i shall do the Lord's creation some justice by showing u guys the glamourous creatures that God had in mind during His Creation. from tiger to babirusa, swinging primates to one-leg standing flamingo...




u realise anything... all these animals pose with their faces tilting 45 degrees to their left... the fox, the guanaco... and the ...(i forgot)









as you can see, only the giraffe was cooperative.





well...my friends...visit the zoo. it'll be fun. yep... walk around the place yourself... esp for those who haven't been there for the longest time.

posted by WILLIAM @ 5:46 PM 0 comments

silly boy's rant

i understand why some bands decided to call it a quit and go separate ways.
i, now admire bands who, for the love of the music they make, stay tog as one for long...as long as decades.

sigh, i reckon those bands who disbanded must have been struggling with issues like equality in contributions in areas like vocals and instruments. issues with each other, with producers and managers and the paparazzi ...and off course the stress they have in studios... and not able to sound nice, unable to lock on, in tune, breathe well, enunciate properly, etc.

it's so hard to tell someone who have been working tremendously hard for it.
He has put in mammoth effort in the production, liaison, coordination.
blessed with skills and being so nice that whenever i feel speaking to him in private, i feel ashamed and minute.
the TRUTH is that he has something i dun have.
innovation, humility, gentleness..

gosh, then i thought it must have been done for the good of the team. must have been.
why am i in it in the first place? i wanna do something i like. i wanna use the talents i have.
or is it not a talent afterall. it's mediocre, a self-prophecised truth... afterall, i was 'consoled' on celebrity night.

wasn't told not to contunue what i had been doing until in there.
cannot think of what to do to better the situation.
told that he was not there to teach me how to sing.

the first time i heard myself over the system, i finally felt i had a part to play in it
in the end, i was just involved in 4 songs. INVOLVED...=parts, bits and pieces (haha..looks like i'm living up to the name of my blog!)
ya, i take the small parts... small parts in musicals (dhschoir, vjchoir), in areas that involves music and song...ah, even in worship ministry, i convinced myself that i'll stay as a background vocal...to harmonise...
now, i can't do it well. =(

i can think of reasons why i am involved only in little parts (in which i cannot even do it nicely, cleanly) and i start belittling myself - the results of not walking closely with Jesus.

i'm such a silly boy

posted by WILLIAM @ 2:03 AM 0 comments

long awaited updates

hi my readers,

it's been eon. and no complains and requests to update my blog means it is becoming obselete. am i right?
since the last time i posted an entry which was in the midst of my attachment, things have progressed pretty much.

Before I was down with tonsilitis AGAIN, my church had a celebrities night which i took part in as a contestant for a karaoke competition. sang 张学友’s 三天两夜。 got a consolation prize. my darling also took part...thought she did well too.
really hoping to get top 3..darn. certainly it was conspiracy. dun wanna say much here.
really, it was encouraging until when words of encouragement came from adults and friends, including chek. then again, i wonder if i'd deserved at least a third.

i thought of not participating in competition like that anymore.



so after tat day, i fell sick with super irritating tonsilitis which tortured me so much that i playing with the idea of an operation. but was informed by dear that it'll affect my vocal chords which i will live to regret. AND if anyone had noticed...my MSN nickname was " as long as i live, i wanna praise the Lord with the talents He has giventh me"... i couldn't bear to think i wouldn't be able to sing.

SHOOT ME!

bang.

this time i was given 10 days of antibiotic with several medicine (not for 10 days la). With me sick and out, i had only 3 days to complete my attachment report... 10 pages worth. siao!

with days of porridge and porridge for a few consecutive meals, i was treated to sharkfins, crabs (which i didn't eat), prawns, tofu, sweet and sour pork on one evening, and the day after, lunch was 大鱼大肉，大盘菜，面，鱼。。。church's anniversary at the turf club.

after that, i went to my fren's wedding dinner.. and off course the young adults at church had a flea market.
this market had proven to me that God outgives. It also proves Henry's right.
and that certainly leaves me with no comments other than he is blessed. He learns to give, only to know that God doesn't shortchange him and his family. Great man.
sorry man, 我办不到！On one hand, i thank and admire him for his spirit of free-giving and generosity and at the same time, i feel awkward, stressed and so undermined being who i am in where i positioned.

well meanwhile, i shouldn't continue ranting or else it'll bores u.
now that holiday has begun for me..., school is also around the corner. I am looking fwd to spending a great holiday with my dear at genting b4 school. and the above zoo trip which i went with chek was surely one of the highlights of my quick and virtually 'kosong' holiday.

woohoo...i've also completed my recording for first love.

posted by WILLIAM @ 1:33 AM 0 comments