The wedding of the century....the making of history...all the more reason to watch it.
So I plopped myself in front of the tv; ordered pizza for dinner (just can't cook dinner and watch tv at the same time). No one else is particularly interested except me.
Dan asked; 'why are the women wearing funny hats?'
Well, I must say the excitement of this wedding is just not the same as when I watched Charles' and Diana's wedding. It seemed grander that time. I think it was much much grander. I was also more naive that time to believe in a fairy-tale wedding. Well look what happened to that fairy-tale.
As I watch the ceremony now; lots of stuff just pop into the mind. They are living together and she is already pregnant. Somehow this kind of spoils the sacredness of a wedding in the presence of God. That's how society is now. Will our own children conform to it?? God help them!!
The prayers, the vow.....how meaningful is it? Is it just a public display or meant from the bottom of their hearts?
In this modern era, many couples choose to omit the word 'obey' from their vows. Collosians 3:18 says Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord...
Well, submitting is obeying. Rather high order for modern women today but....when it is written in the Word of God; He has a reason for that. Who are we mere mortals to question Him?
Matthew 19:6 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Another strong command from God. As I sat and watched the service and the vows taken, commands such as this weigh heavily in my heart for it is quite easy to let lots of things to make a couple go asunder. I hope William and Kate are matured enough to want to protect their marriage at all cost and not crumble at the slightest provocation.
May they continue to live happily ever after even when the romance and excitement of a fairy tale wedding dies off and they are cumbered with half a dozen kids and whatever cumbersome stuff in a royal life. I'm sure they are as human as us and live normal lives like us with all the normal stress and tension of a normal family.
May the beauty of the wedding be reflected in their marriage too. God bless William and Kate.
(By the way, it's interesting to note that when God saved the Queen was sung, the Queen did not sing but the Duke of Edinburgh was sort of mouthing the words. Like Lyn says, how is the Queen to sing...God saves me????)
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
the Boscombe Valley Mystery
This is one of the literature books used by the Form One students. It is not a simplified version of the book but a fully illustrated version like a comic book!!! Such simplicity yet some students in the weaker class can't follow it fully if not explained in BM.
In my good classes; I get the students to act out chapter by chapter. Some of the girls are very creative and put a lot of effort in to make it interesting and fun. Here is one group and their props for the act.
Tess, Deena and Dharshana all dressed up for the roles of Watson, Holmes and Lestrade; I think.
Hehehe....they even drew a map to show where Ballarat is but unfortunately their Geography is a total mess!!!!! Had to go through the various places on the map with them and tell them how totally unrelated these places are to each other geographically.
Two bottles of beer!!!! How did they sneak these into school??
Look at this...the bottles of beer on the map. They are just miniatures.
In my good classes; I get the students to act out chapter by chapter. Some of the girls are very creative and put a lot of effort in to make it interesting and fun. Here is one group and their props for the act.
Tess, Deena and Dharshana all dressed up for the roles of Watson, Holmes and Lestrade; I think.
Hehehe....they even drew a map to show where Ballarat is but unfortunately their Geography is a total mess!!!!! Had to go through the various places on the map with them and tell them how totally unrelated these places are to each other geographically.
Two bottles of beer!!!! How did they sneak these into school??
Look at this...the bottles of beer on the map. They are just miniatures.
It's really fun teaching students who make effort to learn and participate. 1 Sigma is one of the best class that I'm teaching this year. I think I enjoy young teens better than the older teens who tend to be more judgmental of the teachers
racoon
Racoon came to our lives on 23.4.11. It was after much persuasion from Yeow that I finally agreed. Was really reluctant to take in a pet as I didn't want to love and be hurt again after that. After reading Yeow's persuasive and convincing mails, I decided to let Racoon into my life.
When I reached home from work on 23.4; he was already at home. I went straight to have a look at him. He jumped on me; hugged me and licked me all over my face. Well, what can I say? My heart just melted. He did the same to KC too.
Racoon is a spitz-husky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitz. He is very much a toy dog in a way but as we are not used to having pets in the house; we decided he has to stay out even though he loves to run in the house. We are training him to not sneak into the house behind our backs.
He has very soft and long fur. Tends to shed (which we didn't quite like as Jackie had the same problem). So far he is still not smelly...hopefully we can keep him that way; nice smelling.
As he is very friendly; we doubt he can be much of a watchdog. Probably just to keep us company and make lots of noise in the otherwise quiet garden.
He loves to go for car rides according to Yeow. So I was quite surprised when he climbed into the car and seated himself when I left the door open. I reversed the car a little as I wanted to have it washed. When I got out and asked him to get out too, he actually moved to the further end!!! Just like a kid who is not satisfied with a short ride.
He loves to lick our faces and be hugged. He loves to just push himself close to us. Well, how can we not such an affectionate dog???
Racoon on the grass. He loves the grass and rain. I think it's because it's cooling.
He loves to bite our hands (friendly bites).
Checking for fleas. A little while after he arrived, ticks started crawling all over the porch. Must have come out of the grass. We tackled the problem immediately. Today there are still a few on him but should be gone in a day or two. We bought the necessary stuff for getting rid of fleas from Dr EE the very next day.
The happy new owners of Racoon.
Yeow; the previous owner who is missing his 'baby'. Well he made the choice to let Racoon go...so he had better not regret as we are not returning Racoon to him!!!!!!!!
When I reached home from work on 23.4; he was already at home. I went straight to have a look at him. He jumped on me; hugged me and licked me all over my face. Well, what can I say? My heart just melted. He did the same to KC too.
Racoon is a spitz-husky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitz. He is very much a toy dog in a way but as we are not used to having pets in the house; we decided he has to stay out even though he loves to run in the house. We are training him to not sneak into the house behind our backs.
He has very soft and long fur. Tends to shed (which we didn't quite like as Jackie had the same problem). So far he is still not smelly...hopefully we can keep him that way; nice smelling.
As he is very friendly; we doubt he can be much of a watchdog. Probably just to keep us company and make lots of noise in the otherwise quiet garden.
He loves to go for car rides according to Yeow. So I was quite surprised when he climbed into the car and seated himself when I left the door open. I reversed the car a little as I wanted to have it washed. When I got out and asked him to get out too, he actually moved to the further end!!! Just like a kid who is not satisfied with a short ride.
He loves to lick our faces and be hugged. He loves to just push himself close to us. Well, how can we not such an affectionate dog???
Racoon on the grass. He loves the grass and rain. I think it's because it's cooling.
He loves to bite our hands (friendly bites).
Checking for fleas. A little while after he arrived, ticks started crawling all over the porch. Must have come out of the grass. We tackled the problem immediately. Today there are still a few on him but should be gone in a day or two. We bought the necessary stuff for getting rid of fleas from Dr EE the very next day.
The happy new owners of Racoon.
Yeow; the previous owner who is missing his 'baby'. Well he made the choice to let Racoon go...so he had better not regret as we are not returning Racoon to him!!!!!!!!
makeover!!
Had problem with my blogger the past few weeks. Something just went wrong and had to consult my IT consultant; Denise Ting Jean Win. She managed to solve it and now I have a totally new look!!!
Opened up n wah....so different. Will take me a while to get used to this new look.
Opened up n wah....so different. Will take me a while to get used to this new look.
Friday, April 22, 2011
meddling parents 2
She couldn't find her exercise book. I told her to re-do the exercises from day one if the book is not found. She complained to mummy. Mummy phoned school; said the daughter lent the book to the daughter of a prisoner and the girl lost it. She asked how can the school take in the child of a prisoner? Then she voiced her disagreement with my punishment. Sigh........either she leaves my class or I leave the class. Will not tolerate with such interferance anymore. Same girl with the dancing problem!!!
Monday, April 11, 2011
destressing with my iphone
The wonders of technology. I think that I'm quite techno-savvy now (a pat on my back) and am quite proud of it. Started with a laptop, then upgraded to an ipod touch and few months back KC gave me an iphone. It's great to be able to have technology at my fingertips....reading, taking pictures, checking mails, music, listening to sermons on the podcasts, journalling as I read my Bible..........Below are some pictures taken with my iphone while I was out of the house. 
Sunset from my back porch. It was a rare evening where I just felt peaceful and quiet. (had been most uptight lately). 
Went cycling with KC with the phone in my pocket and listening to some gospel songs. It was uphill and downhill; I spent most of my time pushing the bike....here KC had to push both bikes so that my hands are free to take pics. Another relaxing evening where we had made time to enjoy.....(being able to enjoy and relax has become an effort for me now; doesn't come easy and I treasure it when it comes). 
The advantage of being on higher ground....able to see the road below. Saw an accident. 
This is one path which we like to walk, jog and cycle. I've always wanted to bring my camera to capture the sight. That evening I did so with my iphone!! The state musuem which isn't impressive enough for the kids. When we first moved here, I brought Justine's kids and mine there. They were most unhappy and disappointed with it. 
Sunset from my back porch. It was a rare evening where I just felt peaceful and quiet. (had been most uptight lately). 
Went cycling with KC with the phone in my pocket and listening to some gospel songs. It was uphill and downhill; I spent most of my time pushing the bike....here KC had to push both bikes so that my hands are free to take pics. Another relaxing evening where we had made time to enjoy.....(being able to enjoy and relax has become an effort for me now; doesn't come easy and I treasure it when it comes). 
The advantage of being on higher ground....able to see the road below. Saw an accident. 
This is one path which we like to walk, jog and cycle. I've always wanted to bring my camera to capture the sight. That evening I did so with my iphone!! The state musuem which isn't impressive enough for the kids. When we first moved here, I brought Justine's kids and mine there. They were most unhappy and disappointed with it. 
A stolen moment with KC while waiting to pick up Lyn from tuition. We discovered that this valley has been converted to quite a beautiful park with a lake. The state government has spent quite a lot of our money to beautify this place. KC used to walk across this place on his way home to 7R. We would not have seen this had we not decide to make a detour and spent a few minutes just to relax.
curry laksa
Prices of goods have gone up by about 20% or so I believe. We were just lamenting in school how expensive a bowl of noodles is nowadays. So I was pleasantly surprised when I went to a kopitiam for breakfast and had a bowl of curry laksa for only RM3.50. It has enough of everything....fishball, meatball, taufupok, clams, taugeh.....No stinging and the taste was just nice!!! Somehow it feels good to be able to eat and know that the vendor has not stinged on the ingredients. Certain places, the soup is just so diluted. Unfortunately the coffee was not to my liking. I love kopi-kiam-c....it has only kopi. One factor that makes me keep returning to a kopitiam is its coffee. 
Delicious...cukup pedas, cukup rasa!!
Delicious...cukup pedas, cukup rasa!!
Friday, April 1, 2011
spying.....
Recently we had some motivational talk for the problematic students in school. It was conducted according to race (so much for 1Malaysia). As I am one of the AJK Sahsiah, I was asked to sit in the ceramah for the Malay students. My role was to listen to the ceramah for anything sensitive that should not be mentioned. It seems this is what the Education Department wants when there is such ceramah according to race that someone who is not of that race is to sit in to listen to it. Is this true in other states I wonder? Anyway....I didn't have the chance to sit in and listen to the whole ceramah as there was another more important meeting conducted by the Principal herself which I had to attend for my own good. I did visit the surau anyway to take pictures as I was also in charge of photography and documentation. It was my first time stepping into the surau and the girls were shocked to see me. I think if I had sat there throughout the ceramah they would be stunned. When I was there, the male speaker was talking about translucent clothing and how such immoral dressing is considered 'enemy' to the religion....hmm; I think it would had been interesting for me sitting on the floor with my tight skirt listening to him. I wonder what the other spies have to say for the Indian and Chinese ceramahs...
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