A nice date: 01-11-11

According to gynae & ultrascan, my expected due date is on 04-11-11. Everyone who knows about this say that I should hold on till 11-11-11. Darling & I are more realistic, we reckon that 01-11-11 is also a good date: easy to remember & we can also combine his full moon party with our birthday celebration!

Anyway, Reuben decided to see the world on 11-10-11, 3 weeks earlier than my edd:)

Gooooo NOBEL!!

Tuesday night, I can't sleep casue Sports Day is on Wednesday. I was worry the banners are ready, runners are not prepare, whether the weather will be nice etc

Anyway, I am so proud of the fellow NOBELLIANs (both staff & students), especially the "fighting" spirit that we have even though we started off at the last position after the pre-events.
Winning the 1st price for House Spirit & overall 2nd for Sports Day* , all of us has done our best & we are happy with the results.
* I jumped up from my seat when I hear the result, my colleagues have to remind me that I am pregnant
* Students are equally excited that my vice captain wanted to carry me to run around the track

We will work towards the Overall House Challenge 2011:) May the BEST HOUSE win!!

Happy Teachers Day!!

Surprise Visit

Today, Elaine (my ex-student, Nobel's ex-captain) came back to school even though her scheduled is so packed. She just came back from her months long missionary trip in South Africa & will be flying off tomorrow to Hong Kong to further her studies in medicine.

I am so happy for her & proud to be her teacher. At such young age, Elaine has experienced so much & see so much & contribute so much to the society. She is very clear of what she wants & continuously works towards her goal. How I hope my children is like her! In fact, I treat her like my daughter!!

Elaine, all the best!!
I will surely keep in touch with you & hope that 1 day I will be invited to your graduation, wedding ceremony etc etc.

The Perfect Name

I bet all parents have the same issue regarding naming their children. Besides having good meaning, we must also make sure that the name doesn't sounds funny if pronounce it in different language/dialect..

I used to joke to my students that I will name my kids:
1. Fan Ta Stic - testicle??
2. Fan Ta Sy - you prefer teh-si than kopi-si?
3. Fan Ta Sia - huge prawn in manadrin

So, what name should we give to our baby?

Happy Anniversary

Darling sent me a sms from Bangkok this morning, so sweet of him:)
On the other hands, I have totally forgotten that we officially tied the knot (ROM) on 20-07-2007:(

Anyway, I am so happy today because:
1. it is my wedding anniversary
2. Joseph (my colleague) has an additional family member, a daughter at noon
3. I drove Chan Lye (my colleague cum neighbour) & family to hosptial around 11pm as his wife was in labour pain. Their daughter see the world at 1am

Wonder how darling & I will react when it is my turn?!

Emo...

Family is in KL
Darling is away for business
I am down with flu - high temperature, headache, bodyache, eyes sore

Luckily, I have a bunch of supportive colleagues & good "neighbours"
They accompany me to doctor, buy me breakfast, cook me dinner, call me from time to time to check on me etc:)

School Holiday = Rest??

I need to rest..
I really need to rest my body and mind...

But, why there is still so much work to complete during school holiday??
Becasue school holiday is for students not for teachers:(

Exam will be over soon..

My girls are taking their last paper - chemistry. They say this is a killing paper. Anyway, to show them my moral support & to shower them with love, I made them breakfast when they have morning paper. Also, I will be bring them to The Line, Shangri-La for lunch later!!

Let's Party

Last Saturday, Xora, Alvin & Raymond (darling's MBA buddies) came over for a gathering with 2 objectives - visit darling after his back injury a week ago & watch the election result.

Xora & Alvin brought roast chicken & smoked duck from Cold Storage, Raymond brought sparkling juice & plenty of chips while I made them my signature desert - fake birdnest aka waterchestnut desert.

We had lots of fun from 8:30pm till 3:00am!! I love hosting party, having family & friends around, although I hate the cleaning up after that. Darling said we should aim to have our own restaurant on day, so that there is a place for our family & friends to catch up with us -- free food & no need to clean up!!

Darling is recovering

Thank you for all your care and concern, darling is getting better. He can now walk slowly, get up from bed without any help, but can't bent yet. He went to the doctor and took an x-ray, hopefully in a few more days the report will give us positive news:)

As the TCM said he can't eat chicken, sour, spicy & cold stuff, I have been cooking dinner for the past few days. I enjoy cooking nice food for my family & friends; I hate the washing though. If one day I decided to be a full time housewife, I will sign up for cooking & baking courses in order to horn my skills.

Hostel Life - GOOD!!

We went to driving range this morning as darling has not been practising his golf for many weeks and he needs to swing more as he will soon head to a proper golf course. Darling planned to hit at least 100 balls while my goal is to finish writing 6 classes of subject remarks.

While I am still writing remarks for my first class, darling claimed that he twisted his back. Initially I thought it is nothing serious as darling can still do some stretching, so I continued with my work. A few minutes after that, I realise that darling is sweating heavily & his facial expression told me that he is in great pain. Darling told me he was feeling a bit dizzy & can't sit. At that moment, I really don't know what to do & how to help him!!

As usual, the first person/couple that come into my mind, is the super helpful & reliable - Mr & Mrs Wong.
I sms Mrs wong who was in church to inform her about this so that she can tell me where is the nearest & trustworthy sinsei that we can visit. They not only gave me the sinsei contact details, they also came to my apartment with a wheelchair, drive us to the sinsei, bought us lunch & accompany us throughout the whole session which took about 2+hours!!

I enjoy staying in baording..

I enjoy the small talk with my students...

I enjoy having dinner with 300+ students & staff....
I enjoy having so many people around me, constaly showing care & concern to everyone....

Thank you Mr & Mrs Wong!! Thank you boarding!!

p.s. hope that darling will recover soon. he is feeling better, he can't bend or run but he can walk slowly

1st trip of the year - SARAWAK

We will be spending our Easter weekends in Sarawak. Besides some sight seeing (& hopefully some shopping), we will also meet up with darling's friend who he has been keeping in touch but has not seen each other for more than 10 years.

Compare to the time when we were in UK, we travelled so often due to the affordable air ticket and flexible working schedule. I really miss those time!!

Golf

So far, Darling has attended 4 sessions and he is getting better. The instructor claimed that he performs better whenever I am around (I miss his 3rd session due to boarding duty). Maybe becasue I will "act" like a teacher and correct him. Anyway, he needs more practise, I think 200 balls per week is not sufficient. During my 1st visit, I saw plenty of kids playing. I was amazed with their skills and patience. Actually, golf is not that expensive and worth to let the kids to try. If there is any opportunity, I shall let my kids to try, if he/she/they fancy, I am fine with them taking up this hobby so that he/she/they can spend some quality time with dad while I spend my 'quality' time at home sleeping..hehehe!!

Control Myself

Maybe I should learn tai chi or chi gong or yoga as I need to learn to control my emotion better

Or maybe I should lower my standard as not everyone see the same thing as me

Wonder when I will reach the stage where I won't react with any nonsense that anyone* give me??

*my level of tolerance for kids is much higher, I believe this is God's gift

Mum always tease me that I will for sure die of heart attack as I will get agitate easily.

Home Alone

Life without hubby is so boring...

Holiday without hubby is so awful...

I spent most of my time either with work or hubby, now both are not around, I am so LOST!!

Pity me, won't be spending much time with hubby due to his pack flying schedule:(

Need a break!!

Weeks of preparation for House Carnival 2011 and not forgetting my core business aka teaching, I knock out last weekends!!

House Carnival ended so well on Friday, at noon, I brought my girls out to sing out their lungs in K - Suite, Iluma. Age is really catching up, my girls were full of energy and enjoyed the singing session so well although some of them didn't sleep much for the past 2 days due to house carnival, while me I doozed off (just a short while)..

Darling was so amazed that I slept from 830pm till 830am the next day!! My boss said this is the sign of entering 30s.... Anyway, I have a good rest over the weekends and I can work slowly this week as it is term break!!

Finally, is all over!!

Is not perfect, but we have fun:)
Thank you for all the help you gave!!

Stress!! Stress

So many things to settle before I am going away...
I really hate it!!

Nobel will Rock 2011

Orientation 2011 is AMAZING!!
We ended it with a "cool" Campfire (in an air conditioning hall due to wet weather)

Thanks to a huge groups of my beloved stduents and of course my lovely colleagues:)
We make it happen, again!!

Although everyone is very tiring (not enough time to sleep or eat), some of us lost our voice (yup, me too) but we have plenty of fun!!

Keep it up, dude!!
Looking forward to the AWESOME year ahead...

Fairy Godmother

On 31 Dec 2010, we had a special dinner at Spice Peranakan where both Savannah and I said "Yes, I do" in front of Evangeline and Andy (Savannah's parents), Mr and Mrs Wong (the witnesses), of course my beloved darling too!!

Yup, I'm now officially a mother of a 7 years old princess:)

By the way, what must a Godmother do?