Teachers' Day rox...

妙手仁心？？酷吧。。。

Dancing pals giving "hearty" smiles

This is me now, and also ten years ago.

Dancing kings and queens, Grease style.

Thoughts...

Guess this post is a little overdue (ugh my old and rheumatic keyboard makes for terrible typing at a rapid pace)...

Jus need to put this down on record. Backtrack a bit to one week ago...
As it is with the end of Term 3, was feeling rather dreadful about not being able to keep up with the stuff around me, so had never imagined that I would spend the last day of school before term break being immersed in total...fun. I so need to supplement this post with pics but have none with me currently (would need to get from colleagues). Anyway it was really cool as that was the first (and possibly the only) time that I would take on three different identities in a day. It was like one massive dress-up party for moi...visited the 1950s first, as part of a Grease! dance ensemble for the concert item. Had spent hours coaching my very sporting colleagues, and just felt so gratified that the dance turned out great on stage. Thought there was some terrific dancing by everyone, and of course the reception by the students was deafening. In rare bouts of narcissism some of them actually watched the video recording of the performance for about five times straight while we were back in the staff room. Am just glad to be a part of this event that gave us so much laughter and fun, uniting the math and science teachers.

Straight after the dance, scrambled to change into school uniform (yes that's right - but it's not mine) and receive incredulously flabbergasted looks from everybody coz I looked totally like a fifteen or sixteen year old while togged out in the familiar white shirt with the metal buttons and the navy blue skirt with its pleats. Posed on stage with a few other ex-students-turned-teachers, to raise funds for charity as part of this year 5 project but at the end of it I really wonder how much money they managed to collect - there wasn't much organisation. Afterwards went on mad photo-taking spree with Mich - till the batt in the camera died.

Then came night for the inaugural Teachers' Day dinner. Theme was "Black and White", and decided to be more minimalist this year after last year's extravagant Potter affair with rented costumes and what not. One of us had came up with the brilliant suggestion of dressing up as doctors, so we grabbed a few lab coats and stethoscopes from the Bio lab (conveniently), and viola - it was ER and Grey's anatomy ruling the day (not that there was much competition).

Was so thankful when the day ended - it was like a very unexpected present from God - good clean fun.

Weekend was spent at the catechists' retreat. Didn't really know what to expect, nor did I expect much, admittedly, but was great that I had some insights during the reflection time, and also got to know several more fellow catechists (more peeps to say hi to in church hah). Nice to be part of community.

Then it was a course at the Science centre on Mon and Tue, and remedial classes on Wed and Thur, which translates to waking up early. every. single. freakin'. day. Tried to compensate for that by sleeping till 11 am this morning, but was rudely awoken at 9 am by yelping doggie from unknown household. Said doggie actually yelped for the entire day, and for a while in the morning was sharing airtime with crying baby - so it was like...gahh. Discussed briefly with the piggy about possible murder of doggie by enraged neighbour and subsequent whodunnit murder mystery in the block. There are reasons why I infinitely prefer cats.