woven and spun
I titled the above as such coz for some reason dug out this cd I bought some time ago by Nichole Nordeman, which carried the same name. A nice change from Rihanna I must say =P I quite like the groove of her songs but her MTVs are in a class of their own. Instead of portraying a cliched storyline like what most do, hers are mainly video clips of herself in various states of undress, gyrating her body on the top of a car, in the rain, on the bed...and they have garnered millions of views on YouTube. Sex sells, sex sells indeed.
I don't feel like I'm about to turn 26 in a few months. It's like, physically and mentally, I'm still where I was in my early 20s. Actually I don't think I've changed physically since I was like eighteen (i.e. still skinny and long-limbed). I guess such thoughts come to me when I see friends moving on to the next phase of life - getting married, having kids, having to deal with new commitments...and can't help but feel like I'm on the slow track somehow. It has its advantages, like more freedom in a sense, to pursue my dreams (the perpetual "in" thing for youths and increasingly, older folks) unencumbered by other personal obligations.
When I took up teaching I thought that that meant I would be freed from lab work forever, and would only need to supervise students doing them. But as my luck would have it, I still find myself trialling experiments in the lab. Doing repetitive measurements and trying to optimise readings. Only this time round, I'm working with far less sophisticated secondary school lab equipment. Gosh.
Was in a terrible state of mind during almost the whole of Lent, mainly due to overwhelming number of responsibilities at work, and also..my escapist tendencies trying to find a way out of it all. One week break proved to be more exhausting than anything...but was really glad for the Easter break. Though it was just one more day, but I had the time to organise my frenzied thoughts and actually make plans for the rest of term. And of course to pray and get in touch with God again after being a bit lost in work...
A lot of interesting local and global news lately: the Mas Selamat fiasco (i visited the talkingcock.com website jus for the laughs), political upheavals in M'sia and Taiwan, black man vs white woman in a very curious political tug-of-war in the States, scary child-killing flu bug in Hong Kong, rising prices of everything everywhere...much to think and talk about.
Six more weeks of teaching before leech-infested level camp in m'sia with 300-odd 16 year olds, electives (means - no teaching) in week 10, and something to smile about - June holidays. Gotta really start writing that textbook..
And before I end off, just a note that I got promoted recently, along with several other colleagues. Am now GEO1A1 (whatever that means). Am not over the moon about it coz erh..it seems rather standard procedure to moi. I mean, it's the civil service, not to mention the education sector. Though they are trying to differentiate performance more by the new scheme (which I once again have some difficulty comprehending - or mebbe it's more like I understand as it is being explained but it completely slips my mind the next time I think about it). What's wrong with my neural connections when it comes to money I don't understand.
I don't feel like I'm about to turn 26 in a few months. It's like, physically and mentally, I'm still where I was in my early 20s. Actually I don't think I've changed physically since I was like eighteen (i.e. still skinny and long-limbed). I guess such thoughts come to me when I see friends moving on to the next phase of life - getting married, having kids, having to deal with new commitments...and can't help but feel like I'm on the slow track somehow. It has its advantages, like more freedom in a sense, to pursue my dreams (the perpetual "in" thing for youths and increasingly, older folks) unencumbered by other personal obligations.
When I took up teaching I thought that that meant I would be freed from lab work forever, and would only need to supervise students doing them. But as my luck would have it, I still find myself trialling experiments in the lab. Doing repetitive measurements and trying to optimise readings. Only this time round, I'm working with far less sophisticated secondary school lab equipment. Gosh.
Was in a terrible state of mind during almost the whole of Lent, mainly due to overwhelming number of responsibilities at work, and also..my escapist tendencies trying to find a way out of it all. One week break proved to be more exhausting than anything...but was really glad for the Easter break. Though it was just one more day, but I had the time to organise my frenzied thoughts and actually make plans for the rest of term. And of course to pray and get in touch with God again after being a bit lost in work...
A lot of interesting local and global news lately: the Mas Selamat fiasco (i visited the talkingcock.com website jus for the laughs), political upheavals in M'sia and Taiwan, black man vs white woman in a very curious political tug-of-war in the States, scary child-killing flu bug in Hong Kong, rising prices of everything everywhere...much to think and talk about.
Six more weeks of teaching before leech-infested level camp in m'sia with 300-odd 16 year olds, electives (means - no teaching) in week 10, and something to smile about - June holidays. Gotta really start writing that textbook..
And before I end off, just a note that I got promoted recently, along with several other colleagues. Am now GEO1A1 (whatever that means). Am not over the moon about it coz erh..it seems rather standard procedure to moi. I mean, it's the civil service, not to mention the education sector. Though they are trying to differentiate performance more by the new scheme (which I once again have some difficulty comprehending - or mebbe it's more like I understand as it is being explained but it completely slips my mind the next time I think about it). What's wrong with my neural connections when it comes to money I don't understand.
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