.Monday, May 29, 2006 Y
'tis another day..
happy 100th anniversary to my blog!! haha 100th posts since the start, tt is. haha it's turning out to be a nice day aftr all. hope nth goes wrong aftrwards. muahaha.
today was my first tuition session with ming an. the pri 4 kid. he's quite a gd kid, actualli. quite cute. but then his math... reli leaves much to be desired.. i guess he's not dumb, he juz lacks the confidence it takes to do maths probs. and then when he can't do the probs becos there're juz too many figures on the paper, he either panics or he juz thinks to himself that he cannot do the sums. therefore, he can't seem to do even the simple multiplication by 2 digits or more sums. hm then again, i juz realised today how damn reliant i reli am on my calculator. haha oh well. if there's a calculator available, y not juz use it? anw it's 'legal' to use calculators at 19 years of age, not 10, like for the kiddo. haha might as well make things more convenient for myself lor. but becos i dun wanna make his feel left out, i used mental sums and written working myself, so it's kinda like working side by side. at first it was a bit frustrating la, i guess, when he shrugs his shoulders and doesnt know how to do simple sums. but aftr like an hour plus, he got the idea and actually did the sums correctly la. i was rather happy, actualli. haha a small sense of pride kicked in this morn. so yup, it's not such a bad job aftr all. besides, i expected the kid to be more naughty, like all boys are. haha but oh well, it's only the first lesson, so.. we'll see how it goes.
AND my hair's not sticking out in all directions. which is gd. v gd. i tied my hair today, for the first time since april, i think. yup. tt long. it felt so gd to haf it up though. muahaha. hm and even in a ponytail, my hair's STILL not sticking out in all possible directions. thankful for tt. :)
i finished another one of dean koontz's bks. this one's fantastic, i tell u. the first dean koontz bk which i've read so far that actually make me feel rather freaked out. it's called 'the funhouse'. here's the summary of the story:
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands... Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children - Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins...Because Amy is pregnant. And the carnival is coming back to town.Cool, rite?? the funhouse is actually part of the carnival. hm freaky i tell u. but definitely worth reading. next i'm moving on to the last dean koontz bk tt i borrowed frm the lib on my last trip there - it's called 'hideaway'. abt this man coming back to life aftr a near death experience and bringing 'something' back with him, changing both his and his wife's lives. freaky story too, i think. but as i said, worth it. definitely and no doubt abt his bks. next i wanna borrow 'the book of counted sorrows, by whoever it is.. some light-hearted bks (finally, yes) by sophie kinsella, bks by sidney sheldon (didnt manage to find her bks at national lib lei.. wat a joke) as well this bk (forgot the title but i noe it's a v v v thick bk) by leo tolstoy. hm it's smth abt adultery.. smth like.. 'the scarlet letter' by nathaniel hawthorne. hm tt bk's nice, too.
watched episode 7 of the korean drama 'my lovely sam soon'. haha some parts of the show reli quite funny la. laughed my head off. esp for the female lead. she's not exactly pretty. quite plump. weird mouth shape. stupid and dorky lking hairstyle. walks with no poise at all, not to mention her gross eating habits of stuffing lots of food in her mouth. can be super fierce when she wants to. age 30 and still not married. but she's damn funny. and her character's reli nice. juz tt a lot of guys (jerks tt they are) dun appreciate her for who she reli is inside. which is sad, really. 16 episodes in total. but worth watching la. the due date's 12 june 06. so might as well take my time to finish watching it, rite? :)
shir, if u're reading this, i'm wondering if u've finished watching the serial. if u haf.. PLS DUN TELL ME THE ENDING!! haha warning u before u reli do. anw, hope ur crossover works out. *fingers crossed* i'd want a room mate like u very very much. haha :P
ah.. jap lessons ltr. almost forgot abt it. need to go revise le. hope hitoshi-san doesnt cancel out on me today. heh. gonna have fun le! tata~ :)
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.=Satchel Paige=(what kind of a name is satchel, anw??)
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.=Anna Roosevelt=(imagine if her name were Anna Goosevelt instead. would anyone even take her words seriously?? sheesh)
