Maybe I Could Be A Celebrity After All

This week was another week of makan-meetings. But I didn't survive as well as I did the previous time this happened.

Monday: I had lunch with my colleagues at Pizza Hut. Really, J8 is getting boring; the choices are too few and what makes it worse is that the Indian Muslim stall at the Food Court has been replaced! There's nothing Halal left there. Racists... Any-who, lunch with them was almost a no-show. I had to be very passive-aggressive with them to get them to leave the school and all it's bad karma and rejuvenate for the week. Operative word: aggressive. But they were thankful for it and I'm glad we all managed to find time out of school to chill and be far far away from work.

Tuesday: Mona took me out for lunch, partly because she wanted to thank me for getting her a gift for her birthday and she wanted some girl-time. It was great spending time with her. She's like a big sister to me and I'm her slightly annoying yet still loved by all little sister. Again, J8 has nothing so it was Swenson's and we bumped into colleagues there! They were having dessert while marking :p Such sad sad lives we lead.

Thursday: I had dinner with the IT guys. Yes, I have officially made my mark as a geek and I have been spending a considerable amount of time with them. We headed down to Thai Express at J8 and wolfed down our meals. We were starving! I like spending time with them as they have the inside scoop to the school and they are in the know of the latest gossips. It's fascinating, really. Gay, but still, fascinating. Heh.

Friday: Woo-hoo! First out-of-J8 outing! Darron, Amanda and I headed down to Serangoon Gardens for dessert and munchies. It was lovely to chill and just talk a whole load of crap and to not think about school. I'm devastated the Coffee Bean outlet is no longer there though.

So that was another week of my celebrity life. Unfortunately, on Saturday, I was too shagged and was feeling a little down to join my cousin for some RnR (aka major shopping spree).

It's funny how when I've just decided to move on professionally, I seem to be getting closer to my colleagues. That's going to make the parting even harder. Oh well.

NE Show 2010

The NE show sucked ass. This is my first so I'm not making a comparison but as a stand-alone event, it was terrible! I hated that they pop-ified all the traditional songs and killed the patriotism that I used to feel. They had the mobiles and they made it look like it was Chingay instead of a National Day Parade. The only fascinating thing about the event was the flypast! Even the videos that they showed were badly done... it was of Singaporeans f-ing up the pledge!?

The weather was good though.

I spent the majority of the time chatting with the boys, eating their snacks (which they offered!) and pasting the tattoos on them. The funniest bit was when I got trapped when I was returning to my seat and the boys decided to embarrass me by singing to me out loud! The gaps in between the rows of seats are very narrow forcing you to almost walk along the path like it's a tightrope. But with the funpacks and the boys own bags, it was like leaping over hurdles. At one point, this kid from choir, grabbed my hand and started singing Sing A Song for Singapore - the theme song for this year's NDP. Then the 2 rows of classes turned to me to see what the commotion was and... they joined in!! So now I had 2 classes belting out the chorus to me at the top of their voices *blush* One kid even changed the lyrics to Sing A Song to Ms Parveen. I wanted to die. There were other schools present too.

But yea. That's my take home of the parade. I bonded with the boys instead of the nation.

I Can't Be A Celebrity

I'm very surprised I survived this week and can live to tell the tale.

I spent my Monday night working on a Stress video... yes, the irony. But I am very proud of it. I hope the boys enjoy it! And I hope I get the recognition for it too.

Tuesday: I had dinner with Serena near Mustafa as she was craving for Indian food. Heh. I love her so much! She has so much life and warmth about her, that meeting her always perks me up. She's leaving the country soon... for a guy! I think that is both brave and romantic, something which I'm pretty sure I would never ever do. That's what I love most about her. She has this if I don't try, I will never know attitude. How cool is that? The days at IJTP were memorable because of her.

Wednesday: I had dinner with Ismadi at my usual 2 pit stops at Arab Street. It is always awesome to meet up with my NIE bff. Heh. We can't stop talking about Star Wars or his travels. He brings out the adventurous geek in me.

Thursday: I had dinner with David at Thai Express and then we proceeded onto my favourite dessert stall. Hey, any moment with The Best Friend is awesome. He's trying to convince me to a Scrubs addict but I'm like meh... It can't beat How I Met Your Mother and it definitely can't even be half as funny as The Big Bang Theory. We shall see...

Friday: I had basketball CCA till 4pm then I met Aqil for dinner at Ichiban Sushi. It was really good that I met him. We had such a fantastic talk and I'm so much saner after it. The next few days, thinking about could-have-been is going to kill me. I'm deeply bummed out by what happened. But oh well, we move on.

In a nutshell, I had Indian, Turkish, Thai & Japanese cuisine all in a week. God, I'm such a glutton!

Gah. I should get ready. I'm taking the P5 boys for the NE show. I'm only excited because this is my first NE show and I'm going with the Goodness boys!! *blush*

Oh Happy Day!

From the looks of it, I can safely say that today was a success! The Fashion Show was well-received and the boys really got involved in the voting much to the delight and amusement of the teachers. The food ran out and a number of boys came up to me to tell me that this was the best recess that they have ever had *beams*

Ahhh... I'm so glad RHD is over for us and I can finally breathe a little bit more. It's back to reality and to catching up with my back-logged marking.

It was madness, yet there is a sense of emptiness now that I have fewer things on my plate. Not that I'm complaining *wink-wink*

On a side note, I had to do 3 videos within this month! I SHOULD make a profession out of it.

Meats and Sweets

Today was spectacular. Well, after school was spectacular, not during. We didn't have Contact Time (Yippee!) but we were told to organise our own interest groups. A colleague and I needed to head down to the Concourse to get some traditional games for RHD and the rest of them wanted to eat. So I suggested for us to make our way to Arab Street since I had plans to go to the Concourse. We coined that, our "Learning More About Arab Culture" interest group. Yea. We are so full of it!!

I absolutely love this place, Amirah's Grill. They know how to prepare their meats. Every meat dish served has been absolutely delicious and the portions are sufficient to fill you up, but not too much. I love their lamb dishes the best but I would avoid the saffron rice. If you're a meat-lover like I am, you must go to this joint.

Not sure if you can see from the pic, but this place is also Egyptian-themed! And Nefertiti is on the entrance as well as on their business cards!! Mere coincidence that I absolutely love this place! True story.

For dessert, I took my colleagues 2 shops down the row for some good old-fashioned baklava and apple tea. I love the ambience and the decor at Alaturka. That was THE life that we were having right at that moment and I'm glad they enjoyed the places I recommended. It's totally an Indian thing to want to feed and satisfy the masses!

I never tried any of their main dishes as I solely reserved this spot for my desserts. Amanda was hungry so we shared a dish. This minced lamb and beef with Turkish bread was extremely delicious. It was like chomping into a really well-herbed hamburger. It made me recall the scene from HIMYM where Marshall was on the search for the Best Burger in New York. As I was savouring each bite, I felt as if everything about me was in slow motion. Another true story.

So there you have it. A very satisfied bunch of women who love their meats and sweets.

D-Day

The months of preparation have finally come to an end. Tomorrow is CHS Family cum Homecoming Day. My favourite-est event of the year and also by far, the most exhausting to organise. It is exhausting both mentally and physically. I love it for the most part because I get to see my current boys and ex-boys and well, that's basically why I love the event so much *grin*.

I will be shagged by the time I get home tomorrow which will be late LATE, way too late for an after school event. Oh well.

Ich Liebe Dich Paul!!

I'm so tickled by all these fluff news pieces about Paul the Octopus. Seriously, in this day and age, we are relying on a mussel-obsessed octopus to predict talent-based matches? I'm not bought over. Then again 100% accuracy... that is something...

I did say that I didn't have any upsets this year over the WC but Germany not getting into the finals is a major blow for me. Indeed they are young but they had so much promise. Well, I guess I have to wait for 2014 then. They should be in top form by then.

I wonder what plans there are for Paul... sashimi anyone?

World Cup Fever

This year's World Cup is bloody fantastic!

There have not been any major upsets for me. I mean it did bum me out when Brazil went out after losing to Netherlands but the Brazilian side was a terrible team. Yes, they had flair and amazing footwork on the field. But when it came to crunch time, they could not perform. It looked as though they did not have enough practice on their set pieces and they were fumbling around, unsure of who's where. The only plus-side to the Brazilian team is that they can always out-score you. You score 2, they'll score 4. Somehow they'll manage it. But the modal is "can" - meaning ability. Unfortunately for them, as much as they pushed forward, they could not make it through the Dutch defence.

It was good that France backed out in the group stages else they would have been slaughtered in the preliminaries. It was very evident that they threw especially the last game away. Their coach is a terrible coach and it is a wise decision from him to leave after their disappointing performance.

I've never supported England so I shan't say much here. I never really thought they were anything fantastic. Unless you're watching the older matches, then they are indeed a sight on the field.

My prediction is a Germany vs Netherlands finals. That would be a match to stay up for! Both teams have scored brilliant goals and they have made it through by sheer skill unlike some which was by sheer luck *cough-Argentina-cough*. Like seriously, Argentina had to beat Greece, Nigeria and Korea Republic? Woah. So tough. Pppfffttt. If they had some real competition, I'm positive they wouldn't have made it that far.

I'm not so familiar with the Netherlands' players but they do seem like a strong well-put together team and they have been getting stronger and stronger after each match. Then again, I can say the same for Germany. It is beautiful, watching the Germans play. They've a tight formation and they don't seem to lose on their set pieces. Plus, they have such precision in their shots and passing. I liken them to robots. Hahahah... I am SO excited! I can't wait!!

Starhub - First Bangla Channel In Singapore

You won't believe what I received in my inbox this morning. It infuriated me and further proved that the world is full of morons.

First Bangla Channel in Singapore. Seriously? This is how you want to advertise the channel? Are you out of your mind?! Bangla is the official language of Bangladesh and Bengali but do they not know that the word is more commonly used as a racial slur / insult. I can't wait till it blows up in the forums. Then we shall see how Starhub does damage control.