in the morning, i had old chang kee puffs for bfast. cos sumone went an extra mile to make me smile. heh. tho i didnt quite smile.

in the afternoon, i did quite a lot before knocking off. such a satisfied feeling. its not always, and i mean RARE that i get to do a significant amount of work after school. theres always this and that.. but today, i was peacefully left alone to do loads of marking. so so happy. i marked SEVEN stacks of worksheets! is that an accomplishment or what! and i even managed to record the marks both in hard and soft copy tau! *three stars for me*

had postmortem of my lesson observation. *grinz* =)

in the evening, we had a meaningful talk. promises were made. and we plan to keep them. *smiles*

not really luking forward to tmr. super duper long day.

gona help khai with her berkats this sat. gosh. one more week. weeweet.

i went to central to do a few things.. bought my POP..hahaha.. deposit some money..update the bank book.. and spent a good 15 mins at my all time favourite BIG bookshop looking thru 501 MUST-SEE WONDERS OF THE WORLD!

gosh.. among the 501, i think i have been to like 10?? haha. so i have 491 more places to go. hahahaha. yah rite. ok lemme see.. there was the 12 apostles, cradle mountain, lake lucern, swiss alps, blue mountain, waimangu volcanic village, lake tapau, matterhorn and a couple more that i cant remember. I am just really surprised that they dont have Egypt in the book! how can they miss the Pyramids and white desert!! Nad said that i should write in to the author and recommend the White Desert. So then the author got to change the title to 502!heh.

oh well, that kinda made me really want a holiday this year. In 2006, i was motivated by my dec trip to tasmania and melbourne. in 2007, i was motivated by my Bangkok and Egypt trip. In 2008.. i have no holiday plans!!! oh my god. thats bad!!

my colleague asked "wats ur plans for march holidays?" and i kept quiet. started thinking. "gosh! no plans!! how come i am not thinking of holidays! freaky!"

it was my dream to go europe before i settle down. and.. from the looks of it, i wont be able to fulfil that dream! thanks to my super packo june holidays! and dec hols is kinda out cos its winter and i wld prolly be busy doing preps. heh. how cow..

this is week 9. so fast. week 10 is almost non existent cos the whole school has things gg on. and then the march holidays. maybe i shd start planning. its only 7 days. not much to plan. maybe i should use the time to start surveying around..*urgh* so lazy..

two more weeks to khai's big day. we all cant wait!!

woohoo! i just came back from khairun's hen party!! soooo best.. hehehe.. i like! i think i was the most excited for it. heh. or at least i showed the most excitement. it was really fun and we all had such a great time together!

khai was pleasantly surprised! thanks to amir, her fiancee, everything went smoothly! we set up the room with candles and balloons.. so romantic tau!! khai was blindfolded all the way from east coast to her room in Pasir Ris! and the look on her face when she opened her eyes was priceless!! hehehe. i'm so proud of my gfs and amir! for putting it all together! we are really efficient planners! from travelling to now hen parties! and we decided to keep the party hats for upcoming hen parties! hahahaha. one whole reban of ayams. *winks*

oh by the way..our hen party had no dancers or watsoever that you are thinking ok! Ours was clean fun! girl fun! we had pizzas and baked cupcakes. PRETTY CUPCAKES!! so syiok! we had such a hilarious time baking them. everyone got one big heart shape cupcake with their own personalised frosting! and we all agreed sara's was the nicest. but sara said mine's really pretty! hahaha. the cupcakes were yummy and sweeeeettttttt... so gorgeous we didnt wana eat it. hahaha. after the cupcakes, we had our question game! hahaha. poor khairun got bombarded with exciting questions! But her answers were so boring lah! such safe and textbook answers!!

after the spicy questioning game, we kinda shifted to the more serious stuffz about marriage and all.. shared our thots abt some stuffz.. hehe. but nothing too cheem cos none of us is married YET.

we stayed up and chit chatted till 5 am..and all of us knocked out till morning. I rushed back home for my cuzzins wedding. so much to do this weekend!

cant wait for tomorrow!

was watching this show on tv. so sweet lah the guy confessed his feelings. haiz. nyiut nyiut nyiut.

its been great.

was looking through mas and kima's wedding pics.. felt a tad emotional for a while..my friends for over ten years...shared their good and bad times.. and now they are happily settled down with their Mr Right.. how nice kan.. hehe.. but they are total opposites.. mas had so many chapters.. while kima had like basically only one. one long chapter with a happy fairy tale 'ending'. but either way, they have started a new life now. life as a DUO. hehe.

was watching kpak bing bing. i think its a great show. addressing real issues yet in the most entertaining way. najib ali is a genius. the topic discussed today was on challenges of a marriage. and what the uztadz said is so true. the first challenge newly weds face is to get used to each other's differences. accomodating to each other. that both the guy and girl are from different families with different backgrounds and different lifestyles. its not easy to have two different systems trying to unite as one. and like wat najib asked.. how do you find the similarities amidst the differences..

cos i think most of the time, as humans, we tend to focus on the differences between us and our partners and we complain so much about it.. and in doing so we overlook our similarities which could be our strength..

should we have expectations? according to the experts, yes! its normal and allright to have expectations cos it kinda acts as a guide for the partner to make us happy. i mean we need to know what the other party expects of us so that we know what to do rite.. and its imp to do know what to do cos what we do or dont do can make someone happy or sad..

there were two couples who mentioned about the challenges parents face in bringing up their children...i think parenting is an extremely tough job. coming from a career which moulds the future nation.. i must say that i take my hats off parents who have successfully educate their children to become someone with character and succeed in life in every way that they define it. i've been brought up with a lot lot lot of love, care and attention and i hope to be able to do the same when i do have my own family. insyallah.

so knowledge is very imp in preparing oneself to overcome the challenges in a marriage. Knowledge brings awareness and creates a sense of responsibility. and the best is to have knowledge based on religious grounds. hehe. seeeee.. tho i watched tv, i made sure it was super worthwhile. hehe. *claps*

anways, theres more than 10000 applicants for the bimthly sale of flats. how pathetic. super slim chance now. haiz. so little land for so many people. hehe.

and i miss you every single day. do you know this?

we went house visiting yesterday. coincidentally it fell on a special date. a simple yet nice way to spend the saturday. i feel a tad closer. which is good!

so round one is over. hehe. and there should be many more rounds coming up. *winks*
insyallah.

my life has changed a little. ever since my lap top crashed, i have less 'homework'. now i have other things to look forward to. its not just about work work and work. tho work is still important and will always be, theres other things thats making me happier. i feel like my life is more balanced now. i've slowly adapted to the demands of my job and hence can manage my time better. i have more time for everything else that matters in my life. and i feel good about it. weekends feel more like weekends as compared to last year. but i know there will be the 'peak' season whereby i will be drowned by work but thats normal. every job has its peak and offpeak seasons. hehe.

and i've also learnt to find time to enjoy some simple pleasures of life. like some fresh air after work. mini chill outs with gfs whenever possible. just really trying to get myself to start exercising. been a long time. i need some push. hint hint.

so many people applied for the bimthly sale of flats. haiz. slim chance already! can only pray hard for it.

going to TM later with mum cos need to find heels. heels has become more important now! if you know wat i mean.. hahaha.

met up with xuefen and nad for a while. lucky xuefen is gg germany tomorrow. heh. have a safe trip girl and pleeeeaaassseeee try to make it fr the outing when u come back k. had a good chat and laff with the two of them. the tampines girls. hehe.

looked thru egypt pics in syidahs frenster. cant believe i really went there. i miss it so much. i feel grateful for having the chance to see other parts of the world. syidah had some 'old' pics.. made me realise how long i have been frens with her.. since sec 1. tts like 11 years now..

and how time flies..khai, syidah and mas had been with me since sec 1..reny since jc and the rest of my darling angels.. i met them in uni..tho we are all working now and slowly one by one is getting married, we are still there for each other. we all put in effort to meet up, hang out, keep each other in the loop and keep the beautiful friendship going. i dun have THAT many friends. but my dearest girls makes up for the numbers cos they are really special and i dont knw wat i wld do without them.

and having been to melbourne, tasmania and egypt with some of them, it really makes my youth more memorable and meaningful. like i'd wana share all my stories with my kids one day..tho now i am sharing it wit my students.. hehe.

and i wonder how it will be when khai is already married. geez. if khai junior comes along it will be a brand new experience for all of us! our first friend first child. hahaha.

the three things that makes my world: my family, my biscuit and my eight darling gfs.

cant wait for the 22nd girls.
cant wait for may 09 dear.

today i found a confidential letter in my dip tray. and its the pay increment confirmation! yayness!! alhamdulillah!

cant wait for march and april! hehehe. someone is sooooo lucky to get annual increment before the revised increment. hehe. *rolls eyes cheekily*

today is the very much overrated valentines day. my students asked for sweets and i told them that i am sweet enuff. hahaha. and i am the biggest sweet they can ever have. hahaha. watever. just kidding :P but i like their response. heh.

in high spirits today cos tomorrow is HALF day! yay! thanks to the good O Level results of the 2007 batch! weeweet.

i love the breeze
i love the warmth
i love every second of my greatest simple pleasure
it rejuvenates me
it assures me
its my secret solace

the cny break is coming to an end. a few more hours to the start of school again. feeling the bluez rite now. geez. wonder if i am the only one feeling this way.

its such a boring day today. work and more work. was feeling pretty excited about stuffz the past few days. but sumhow the feeling kinda faded away. maybe i got too excited too soon. premature enthusiasm.

think i'm back to normal mode. think of normal things. talk of normal stuffz. normal is fine. its just not as fun.

i was surfing on holiday destinations (what i always do to kill boredome) and i am falling in love with...

1) NORWAY!!!
2) Banyan Tree Resorts (the one at Maldives really make me wana)
3) Spain
4) Grand Canyon, Arizona
5) Canada

i really wana go Norway. gorgeous nyer.

the past few days had been full of girl talk and my own thinking through of stuffz.

had a good talk with reny about the What IFs in life. Me and Reny are two thinking machines. Thinking seems to be our default mode. and that sux big time. cos we think too much. But reny did share some meaningful thots on the What IFs. theres just too many what ifs. but whats the meaning of thinking about the IFs cos it didnt happen that way anyway. Whats the point of questioning why certain things happened cos it already happened. Reny is gg thru a grieving process and as she does, she learns a lot of things which she shared with me. We both agreed that we want someone who isnt there with us only during happy times but to also be by our sides when we are at our lowest. and when u say I LOVE YOU, just how much do you actually love the person..

me and reny were discussing about the diff types of men we have come across..

- the 'smart' one who makes us look and feel stupid
- the sweet talker who's full of honeyed words
- the persistant one who mite appear desperate at times
- the over confident one who seems so pretentious and full of ego
- the patient one who takes all our shit but still lack of some 'essential criteria'
- the temperamental one
- the manipulative one
- the BORING one
- the PIOUS one
- the one who doesnt praise (every girl needs to be praised..why men just dont get this simple rule?)

hehe. maybe thats why our lives is a tad complicated. theres just too many different kinds out there. hehehe. and what nad said is true.. if we can need sooooo long just to choose the right pair of shoes, what more when we wana choose the man whom we gona spend the rest of our lives with!! Of cos we would think damn much cos we want the BEST. amd i think we have every right to do that. hehe. but one thing i've learnt, theres no PERFECT match. and i mean PERFECT. so its a matter of how we can live with the differences. some differences are way off. some differences are worth adapting to.

had a meaningful talk with kima too. gosh.. my dear childhood fren is happily married with the love of her life. i'm so envious!! in a good way of cos.. sumhow talking to her inspired me.. hehehe. i'm just really really happy for her cos she has gotten the happiness she deserves. She gave me some useful advice and survival tips. thanks girl. i totally appreciate your views.

was supposed to meet mas and khai and syidah for WOMENs talk..but too bad i cldnt make it. thanks to being sorta grounded. boo. well anyways, it did me good cos i had so much time to myself to think about stuffz.

i got down to listing the things i wanted for my wedding and plan a timeline on when to do what. kima said i'm so organised and its a good thing! so, huge pat for me! now i'm thinking of the financial part. thinking on how i should go about it.

there seems to be so much to think about. hahaha. but oklah...seems quite exciting.

i've assigned roles to some of my frens for the wedding preps..
nad - media surveyor (helps me to surf the net for weddings stuffz since she is always online with me!)
khai and fa - advisor (since they have gone thru the experience)
xuefen - the one who will knock sense into me (cos she is sooo practical she will have to make sure i dun get swayed by temptations)
reny - the insider (since she knows what goes on backstage, she wld be able to give me some 'under table' info)
baya - maybe my food taster? (not sure yet cos i think catering will be under my mum's charge)
euni and syidah - help me look thru mags? (i know syidah is always free at work.. but euni is always bz.. so its ok if she cant..)

and everyone is welcomed to follow me go survey around. i definitely will need some girl companion at times!

the CNY break has been a good break so far. cos i have been at home most of the time. slept. marked. and now its saturday. going to do some work. supposed to go to khai's place later but i feel sooo damn lazy can.. boo! and gosh talk abt khai..my bestie is gona be married in a mths time!!! exciting kan. lucky girl. dapat hubby. dapat rumah. hehe.

ok i think i have blogged enuff. gona do some work now. i so wana savour every second of this break. cos once monday comes, everythings gona be on bullet train mode. its gona be week 7!! so fast! gosh.

ok peepz. till my next free time.