wah how come today's news is having a field day with the nation's hottest mp? haha. yes yes we know he's handsome. i wonder if it's just tt they've run out of newsworthy footage. it's just occured to me also tt over the years, the news on tv has become less and less focussed on reports on car accidents, murders and crimes in general and more concerned with economics, health concerns and overseas political dramas. i guess it's cos we're slowly trying to be more "global" or watever. but i still think they shouldn't neglect the importance of being vigilant against crime. i mean, we don't have to be all "oooooh-terrorist! ooooh-our youth are a mis-guided, stoned, gun-totting lot! ooooooh-don't eat fastfood!" like they are in the US, but i don't think we should limit all our crime reports and warnings to Crime Watch. i never know when they show tt anyways..

oh eh, spore day was yesterday (or today?). wonder if karin went cos i totally forgot to tell her bout it.

:: Never Tear Us Apart - inxs

i have a fantastic idea for a cover of this song. but i can't play my this new rhythm and sing at the same time. gonna have to get the guys to do the playing tmr so i cna figure out a nice way to sing it. porblem is getting them to understand wat style i want since i'm not exactly the best at guitar demos.
marcus wants to do here it goes again. we'll see how that goes. hah.

in other news Grammar Express is like the best fucking book around. super brilliant genius, these esl text writers.

à demain.

i love my zehzeh. she's so clever and she's so funny. and she's like no other and is prob half the reason why i'm as weird as i am. i came back with parents frm church and she was all slouched on the sofa. i sat on the chair beside her and then i realised she was still in her work clothes.

-eh zehzeh. why you never bathe yet? (yah, i'm an esl teacher cos my angmoh is dman power)

she turns to look at me and says with a straight face
-One of life's mysteries.
-ah?
-one of those questions tt will never be answered.


WTF. haha i love my zehzeh. last week we went to swensons cos mummy had some vouchers and when we were leaving after dinner, we walked past the looong queue of pple waiting for a table and zehzeh raised her arm, and moved her open hand at them and then towards the restaurant. she did this several times in the span of 10 secs, while audibly articulating: "deet.. deeet.. deet!"

-ah? wat you doing?
-'Diner Dash'. haha. (some retarded iphone game she's been addicted to)
-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAA.............

and the funniest part was she did it right in the pple's faces. and she looked so pleased with herself. fucking hilarious.

haha i'm feeling damn fucking laku of late. and it's getting really hard not to feel so smug bout it. i returned a missed call from an unknown number during lunchtime today and when the ringing stopped, i heard an Allo, and i was like uh oh on doit parler francais encore.. i think i should start brushing up my horrible french. cos it was ok for the first 1o mins but then when she started talking real quick bout the details of my lessons, i kind of freaked.

so anyway, seems like my ad has been attracting a good amount of attention at the lfs and this is a real boon for me in the long run but a bit of a bitch to deal with now since as of last week, i had 3 students (totalling 7 hrs of lessons a week) and then over the weekend, tt number more than doubled so after easter, i'll be starting 5 new students (which comes up to roughly an additional 3-6 hours a week). how crazy. i'm so fucking ridiculously blessed. thanks God. now i have to just figure out how i'm going to manage my time and all the lesson planning. and i'm thinking of upgrading my library membership to an executive one (or watever they call it) so tt i can borrow more than the stupid 4-book quota allows.

oh, my teaching practice session went pretty fantastic today cept for one or two bits. (ya, ya... get over it..) haha. sorry ah, just tt... shiok sendiri lah.

but you know, i always get worried when i'm this high up. ive always been afraid of tall places..

i was just thinking bout godma last night cos i suddenly remembered tt i hadn't gone to the old folks home with her to sing to the residents for a really long time. and i felt a bit bad. but now i have tuition on wed mornings so i really can't do it. meh. but anyway, i just received one of those inspirational email things from her and one of the statements in it was (of course, accompanied by some cherubic baby's face, inserted to make you feel inspired or watever): The best vitamin for making friends..... B1

HAHAHA. i think tt's a pretty clever one, no? took me a while to get it. oh well. cute. haha. B1.... hahaa.

oh the benefits of still looking like an adolescent... haha. i'm alone at home and the doorbell rings. the young man smiles: hi are your parents home? ..blablahblah home insurance blablah recent burglary in the area.. pass this brochure to your parents and ask them if they're interested. blablahblah.. we'll come back again... how do i address your parents?

haha. tt didn't take much effort. i got rid of pesky insurance agents simply by having a face tt says "i can't make legally binding decision without my parents' consent". of course, i can imagine the countless situations in which this will work against me but for right now, it's quite funny. on second thought, it might also be the fact tt it's 5 in the evening and i'm at home. but then i could've been a hsewife (which WOULD be legally possible...). and it's also funny cos tt insurance guy could've easily been younger than me. haha. it's funny how much pple assume. maybe i should've told them sorry i can't talk right now, i gotta go pick my son from sch. haha.



i feel exceedingly cool when i like what i'm wearing. it's not tt i didn't already know this, but my good mood on wed seemed to affirm this really strongly and so i had to write it dwn. i guess i was happy also cos my little french boy's mother very proudly told me after tuition tt he had gotten back his report card and he got the highest mark in his eng class. come to think of it, i duno whether she meant he topped the class or tt the highest grade on the card came frm eng. but watever it was, she was really happy and so was he. and then i thought tt it was prob the reason why he'd been so much more talkative during the lesson. i'm so proud of him, my little french kid {:oD i think it really helps tt his parents have a fantastic attitude towards learning eng and going out often to explore spore. and it helps tt they don't have a car so they're forced to take public transport and he gets exposed to more pple than the average expat kid would be. so anyway, in other semi-fantastic news, une madame a vu ma petite annonce au LFS et elle voudrait que je donne des cours à ses 2 gars. chuis pas certaine si je pourrai me débrouiller; g bcp de responsabilité... celta, les autres étudiants, vox, l'église, mon groupe musical qui n'a pas encore un nom.. mais enfin, je l'ai dit d'accord. 70/h pour les deux... je souhaite qu'on habite pas trop loin des autres.

:: Hope You're Happy Now - the sounds

argh!!! these damn fucktastic nordic bands. sometimes i wonder what i'd be like if i were born in scandinavia. anyway i'm loving the sounds now.

oh it's tt earth hour day now, is it? hah. oops. i know it's not tt hour yet but i feel a bit bad still. oh well.

today's jam was fun. i was so excited to jam after not having seen the guys for two weeks that i burst into the studio and, before even putting anything down, shouted: "HALLO! long time no see!!!" haha. i was so happy, beaming like a fool. and we did surprisingly well despite not having practised much and with loo playing without notes. kudos to us {:oD

:: Queen of Apology - the sounds

i'm back on the chain gang.

:: rock and roll - the sounds

as if the next 10 weeks aren't going to already kill me, i've agreed to jam with julius and his friends on a for-fun basis. this is one of their choices. love it. LOTS. {:o) me and the boys should do this too.

"Something sweet and something strong
Seems like love no longer can turn me on
Like the girls in suits and those pretty boys
I gave my heart to rock'n'roll."

mm how titillating.

no more sleeping at 3am. no more waking up after lunchtime. life is going to be quite different for the next 2 months at least. busybusybusy. i hope i don't get anymore new students till after i'm done with this cos i don't think i can handle anymore. i like keeping busy but being suddenly inundated with work and deadlines is not really fun at all. i like learning new things though.

and jamming is still my favourite distraction.

oh ya, perth was good. it was quick but good. like.... i'm trying to think of an analogy..... i can't. oh well. when i come up with one then. didn't manage to meet up with some of my perthlings; hopefully they will come to spore in the future and i can do tt tour guide thing i love doing. i don't like how pple say things like i'm the kind of person they'd imagine would want to migrate to perth. look, just cos i'm unsingaporean in a lot of ways, doesn't mean i don't feel like i belong here more than anywhere else in the world. i love my country for fuck's sake. it's funny.. i find it's the same for loo. he prob seems to pple like the kind of person who'd have more fun in perth but he's not gonna move anyway cos he knows well tt he's gonna miss it here.


i went to the chiro this morning to fix my foot which i had fucked up in perth just by walking a whole day in havaianas. it's not really something healthy pple can imagine possible - fucking up a foot just by wearing flipflops? absolute poppycock! unfortunately i am of (what zac calls) poor constitution and having to choose between health and convenience/style/comfort is one very big pickle i am condemned to be stuck in for the rest of my life. why am i talking so funny? stupid period. want to laugh also difficult. tsk.

would it mean anything if you knew what i'm left imagining in my mind in my mind would you go would you go kiss the rain.

jamming this sunday- yay! gig on easter morning- yay! but cheam will be away- booo. so timmy might be playing for us- yay! in the weeks following the gig, we'll try and build up our acoustic repertoire and maybe start writing originals- yay! i've probably already said it before, but this whole band thing is making me so happy. who needs a bf when you've got a band. hah.

every activity i had today (sat) has exceeded my expectations in terms of enjoyment and satisfaction.

i went for tuition without properly planning my lesson this morning but it went pretty well anyways and i feel like my little french boy is more outspoken in eng now so tt's really good. then i went to little india for voxcam prac and -other than slipping off the pavement onto racecourse rd and bruising and scraping my pasty white freshly-waxed legs and clumsy hands in the process- the pre and post of practice and the practice itself went pretty good. i actually managed to remember lots of my parts. i owe to a miracle + the hour of practice i managed to squeeze in before the actual sectionals. so all in all, it was pretty fulfilling and encouraging too, knowing tt i've still got some potential left where choral music is concerned. nothing beats a good music-making session (and yes, i do mean this in every sense it can be taken. heh). then met up with old rcy friends after 8 yrs of not being in contact. it was ok at first and then awkward and then ok and then it got better as i started to get comfortable in my spot of the couch in the ktv room. honestly, i don't like karaoke much. but there were several redeeming moments in those 4 hours (well it was four hrs... if there wasn't anything good bout it, tt would've been a fucking shitload of time wasted, wouldn't it).

so ya. today wasn't so bad and i guess tt's good. it could've been lots worse. i got an aching hand and a bruised knee and a scraped leg but i think i'll still be able to pull off a dress for my convo, so it's all good.