Men and Women

Teachers at St Raphael by far had been enjoying the tranquility of the school as the Sec 4s are busy with their exams. This gave the teachers more time to interact over our hot coffee/tea and char siew paus.

Looking at the Life Section of the Strait Times today, there was this very interesting discussion in the staffroom this morning. And it is about how women dress. The discussion stemmed from the Strait Times Life Section where there were many celebrities in their fashionable fashions. Interesting different people have different perception about beauty and being attractive. For the benefit of those with no newspapers/ don;t read the newspapers/ don't know what a newspaper is, I shall risk getting sued by the newspapers to display the pictures on my blog.
(PS now that the authorities are so alert when it come to all these things like censorship/copyright, please tell me if this offend anyone or infringe any copyright and I shall remove it immediately)

The question posed was: "There are all together 6 photos. Decide for yourself which one is the most attractive" Again the word" attractive" is very subjective.

The pictures are shown below:

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Picture2


Picture3


Picture4


Picture5


Picture6


Which one did you choose? Guess which one did most of the teachers choose? Guess which one most of the male teachers choose?

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Unsurprisingly, no female choose Picture no.5 and that happens to be the picture that most male staff choose. Interestingly that is how men and women perceive things. A female teacher commented that this is rather slutty but in my opinion it is outright sexy. Hm... and of course to prove that I was "right" in my perception about the different perception of men., I started to do the "boliao" thing and ask the teachers to take a poll. And being the frank teacher (as always to voice out my comments, it seems that I made the unwittingly comments of my references and were given "dirty looks" a-la-chek-ko-peh. It seems that men's concept of good dress sense is quite different from women.

Well that is just a really boliao survey to cap a boring day of marking...

决 定 用 华 文 来 抒 发 我 的 心 情, 可 能 是 因 为 改 了 太 多 英 文 密 密 麻 麻 的 考 卷.

有 人 说, 我 的 华 文 比 我 的 英 文 好. 我 听 了 很 自 豪, 我 毕 竟 也 是 中 文 学 会" 出 生" 的. 哈 哈!

中 四 生 的 考 试 也 快 结 束 了, 这 也 意 味 这 我 的 逍 遥 日 即 将 结 束. 还 有 那 么 多 东 西 要 改... 老 师 的 烦 恼!

My conversation with God

As I suspected, GOD got on the internet craze. Now you can talk to him any time you want !!Check this out ! ------------------> This way to GOD.

Don't mention it

9-5

A week had amost passed. My holidays are coming to an end.

In case you are wondering where I was for the past week, not appearing in my second home... School. I was in another place which I have been calling home for the past week, at the British Council, having my dissertation lessons. the class was interesting, they were talking about rendering the strange familiar when it come to dissertation. I came back having even morre questions in my head, really rendering the familiar strange... Such philosophical perception.

Dissertation seminar tomorrow, and I am expected to "defend" my work tomorrow.. Let's hope the lecturers will be kind with their words and of course lenient with their "quextions" (BTW the british did pronounce the word this way... so technically I am not wrong)

Classes start from 9 and end at 5. After the information overload, i have been having difficulties concentrating.. on other things. I am tired, I need a break..

Any way I am watching the TCS 8 drama, an emotional scene when there is a family scene at the beach. Chen Han Wei and Michelle whoever were having this discussion of having another kid, to save their present one... so family so warm.. so government propaganda....

And that's my nonsensical ramblings...

My 2 cents worth on Teachers' Day

It is always the case that the Secondary Fours will always miss the Teachers' Day because it will be in the middle of their prelims. With the majority of my classes from Sec 4, I was expecting a "lean spell" when it come to presents and accolades. But then again like what the standard line that all teachers will said... we don;t need anything, just do well, be a good person and blaa blaa blaa. But again don't all teachers say so. We really mean it *eyes twinkling....*

It was nice that the girls came back.. in their jc uniforms, bringing flowers, bringing cards. It was a great feeling, to see them coming back and knowing that they are back to show their appreciation to the teachers, the very those who were scolding them to get their work done, to work harder and of course to pull their sock up literally and figuratively. But IJ teachers always have a special place in IJ girls. Dont they?

The dinner at the Elizabeth Hotel was an enjoyable one. The teachers let their hair down and some also let their clothes down in some of the ridiculous games that we were playing. And a teacher got thrown in the pool by a "scheming" parent. But we really enjoyed ourselves. A parent gave such a beautiful speech about her two daughters and how the teachers in IJ had helped them. It was a moving speech and it almost got me to tears. In fact teaching itself is such a rewarding job that we sometimes lose ourselves in it. But it was a great feeling.

Anyway I was going to blog about the gift I got. I finally managed to bring some back and these are just a selection of them.



A card from a lovely girl. Thanks for the beautiful card and of course the beautiful CD. I love the music. Just a short private message: Yes Genevive, I do have my reasons and I know that it would be difficult for you people to understand.. But I know that you will understand one day, maybe after the "O"s?



From a couple of girls from Sec 3/2. Thanks for the lovely card and of course for the rest fo the girls , thanks for the chocolate biscuits, the brownies and of course the lovely model ship



As a tyrant of 4/4, my form class decidd to get me a belt with all the top evil leaders. Cool belt though, but whether I am cool enough to pull it off is another issue all the way and thanks for the subway sandwich.. :)



From a scholar, Xuan Thu of 4/1. Lovely card, the bookworm look alittle bit like me though...



And of course the most offending present I got in my 5 years in IJ. actually I was okay about it. but the teachers who saw the gift were extremely offended FOR me. Maybe I was really telling the students too much crap. Maybe I should really cut down .. Yah that will really be bullshit...



3 silly sweet girls did this mega card-cum-scrapbook. And it really got me crying.. which in fact defy the whole purpose fo this extremely humourous card. But then thanks Fel, Mel and of course Celine who took time to do this when they should be studying for their exams. It is by far the most touching gift I got. thanks again.


There were many many gifts ( actually not many gifts) But thank you all so much for the gifts. If I miss you people in the thanks, that mean I am thanking you from the bottom of my heart without telling the world :P

• Tricia and Sarah of RMUN who made that lovely cheesecake for me.
• Sec 4/7 for the wonderful CD, and thank Gen for doing it for the class
• The RMUN girls for doing that wonderful gesture.
• Jess for the cute doggie hp holder
• Ann Marie for the nice card
• Ha Thu with that pretty hand made card
• Yvonne Tan of 4/2 for the lovely stalk of flower, thanks 4/2
• my 4/3 2003 girls who came back to talk to me AND
• all the girls who send me sms-es of gratitude.

5 years ago I came to IJ, resentful of the fact I have to be here, but 5 years later, I had nothing but wonderful memories of IJ. Thanks!

The Ego One

Reason For Coming Back: First Entry

I woke up this morning at 10am and decided, among many other things, that I shall blog. Again. Actually, I was awake much earlier, but just couldn’t drag myself out of bed. But never mind.

I was going to write a long entry explaining what exactly is ‘my reason for coming back’, but the reason is quite simple actually. So I’m going to spend most of this entry talking about myself instead

I like spontaneity and I act on impulse. Really I act on impulse... when I decided in the morning what I am going to have for breakfast to the point of what prelim questions I am going to divulge accidently tell...

I sometimes do something for no apparent reason, simply because I feel like doing it and I don’t want to spend the rest of my life wondering ‘why didn’t I do that?’. But that also means I sometimes do certain things I end up regretting, like how I recently regretted trying that stupid thrill ride in Bangkok and still end up having nightmares over and over again after all these years.

I broke hearts and had my heart broken, on more than one occasion. The latter started early, when my primary school English relief teacher told me that even though she finds me the cutest eight-year old in the world, we couldn’t get married. I also understand that many of the fans girls were traumatised/agonised/brutalised/victimised/horrified/mystified/crucified by my irresponsible action of closing the blog without giving at least one week notice for them to save the verry farny entries to be used for their exams... ( anyway now you got another chance)

I don’t like people who are serious all the time. Nor do I like people who jokes all the time. There’s a time to be serious and a time for jokes, but some people just mixes the two up. I also realize that I’m guilty of that at times too, so yah, sometimes I don’t really like myself. But anyway I am pretty upset with a present I got for teacher day which gave me the license to bullshit... In the first place, it clearly show a lack of respect and secondly when did I ever bullshit... ??

I enjoy making people laugh, because when they do, I laugh too. I’m even ok with the fact that they are laughing at me sometimes most of the time because I’m not a person who is serious all the time. Just dont call me a joker..

I love giving surprises, and I love being surprised. Because smiles usually accompany surprises, and I love it when people smiles. Well actually to laugh it really out will be good, ask Melissa and Felicia from 4/8 and of course Celine from 4/4... Anyway I definitely wasn’t smiling when I recently received that ‘surprising’ amount for my tax assessment.

I don’t ever want to break another heart again.

And I think that is a very good reason for coming back.

Signed
The EGO One