This post will be about work.
It seems the horoscope of this year is really accurate. Specifically about the busyness of work, the fatigue that follows thereafter and the health. So I will have to manage my health despite these.
Work had seen a big increase in of 30% in terms of teaching periods but obviously with much much lesser increase in pay. Still on a pay-cut... That is a push factor. This increase excludes the cca and the daily morning and dismissal 20+ minutes each. That's a lot of time. No wonder just within the first week but with no lessons, feel so tired already. Others seem to be in the same boat. Kinda like misery needs company and its a systemic thing cos it's the people whom perpetuate the system where other suffer... Hmm
My jade dragon is hidden at my table calendar, on the side of my table, pointing behind me. Plus the dragon tattoos are hidden inside facing both front and back. Hope it's powerful enough to deter certain crap in my direction.
I am trying to make certain resources before my own solo lessons starts and with the increased periods, might not have the energy and time to do so. Can just only do so much in advance though. Now I am kinda reaching my creative and responsible limit. Need to see how actual lessons go before I can adjust the lessons.
For now, all I wanna think about myself. About the courses I wanna take up, the cost n finances, of KM n the techniques, of guitar n the songs I'm trying to play.
Cos for the first week, I'm settling that sub-cca group thingy... A colleague thinks I'm being manipulated by this crafty student of mine. I had a more serious-toned talk with her about the impact of her actions. If I'm being manipulated, it matters not cos I did what I could to translate plans into actions instead of just saying no to ideas. If I'm being manipulated by this student, she is well-equipped with the skills for 'real-life' then. It's somewhat settled by now, except she didn't go and inform the colleague that she's switching cca though she's in his form class. He told me, he'll speak with her.
On another hand, though the colleagues who taught this current batch I'll be teaching tells me they are good generally, little problems unlike my previous cohort, I kinda reserve judgement until I see their real colors in actual lessons. Saw a couple of attitude-prob. See what happens then.
And unfortunately the previous cohort of mine are really not behaving well... The yaya-papayas of the level are not being trampled and controlled by the new bunch of colleagues n many in that level are rather new faces to them. Shake head at the appalling behaviors I've seen these few days.
Also a couple of my female ex-students, always seem so 'happy' to see me. Call me the by-now-usual 'cool' and 'best friend'... Man I thought things should kinda wear off by now. Maybe when they get more acquainted with their teachers, they'll stop missing their previous ones. It's kinda sad cos I do miss my students but I won't be part of their life this year. Then on another hand, I gotta restart again with another batch. Though they are pleasant thus far, I'm afraid, in a couple more years, I'll tire of knowing students and stuff cos commit too much. Kinda like the colleagues who come and go. That could be me going homophobic then.
So far nothing much really, except for KM which adds a level of excitement especially when we learn something new. On Monday I learnt about double-leg takedown and the defense of back break fall. Yesterday, had front break fall and roll. Today I rest cos I have to go to the Chinese sinseh and am nursing sore neck, shoulders and buttocks muscles. Really a good workout in that sense. I've started rejoining in the initial warm-up except I skip the touching the floor part. So far twice, my knees are ok, the usual sore going down the stairs but no pain, keeping fingers crossed.
It's just mid-week and I'm already quite tired. Think I need to manage my work and not stay back as best as I could. Just finish and go. I think sometimes just teaching on my own is less tiring but having to coordinate with colleagues for lessons is more timing and taxing. Sometimes I see HOW hard they have to work, so I take on more to help them clear and help out in their many mundane and kinda tedious work eg cut and paste pics on the student cards, paste names on vanguard signs. I believe 'many hands make light work' so helping them out can allow some to go back earlier. Their whole working culture, super long hours is really taxing. But I think they have to say 'enough is enough sometimes' but again it's not their way. Really is endure.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
CBD during rush hour to gloat?
I did what Tab n I always wanted to do during the hols. Woke up early, head to town with the rush hour crowd and watch them all rush by. Sorta.
I saw this express bus at a bus stop near my place, finally got a chance to take it. It cost $3.50 but in half an hour, I dropped off at Fullerton area. Could see the crowds of office workers n executives walking hurriedly about. I somewhat strolled around to orientate myself then head towards Golden Shoe Hawker, to retrace my steps as a temp. Dunno why, got asked for direction though there were others. Maybe cos I wasn't dressed in office attire, jeans, sport shoes, cap and a sporty jacket. Luckily I knew where that building was, cos just walked by it.
Went to Golden Shoe and looked through all the hawker stalls on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Can't find my favorite Bru coffee stall and noticed many have changed. Can't recognize any. Settled to eat Nasi Padang @ $3.50 and a teh-o kosong @ $0.60. Prices for meals have risen, last time was $2-$2.50. Now is mostly $3.50~
After eating, I went to that small indoor place behind OCBC building and found the good ole trusty Mr Teh Tarik. I saw Bru coffee but already had a coffee earlier. So I bought a Lime tea n a Ginger Lime. Man, the ginger lime is a strange combination, should have gone for teh halia... Chucked it after a bit and carried the Lime Tea around until all the ice melted and it became room temp (drank at home) and walked towards UOB building.
The sun was up and could feel the heat coming. Luckily I wore my cap. Took some photos here n there. Walked by the Fullerton, Esplanade area to hop on a bus home. Cos had KM later at night, most shops weren't open at the time and even for food, I already ate so no more space for anything.
I reached home and dabaoed roasted duck rice n pig stomach soup @ $5.50. Nice lunch with the Lime Tea.
KM was okay and after that, I ate at the Omar place again. This time I got the Crispy pork bento n their Magic Q Milk tea with 50% sugar @ $9.30. The pork is very lean yet crispy n nicely flavored. Nice dinner. The cubes they put in taste different from the pearls and also not sweet, to my liking.
I saw this express bus at a bus stop near my place, finally got a chance to take it. It cost $3.50 but in half an hour, I dropped off at Fullerton area. Could see the crowds of office workers n executives walking hurriedly about. I somewhat strolled around to orientate myself then head towards Golden Shoe Hawker, to retrace my steps as a temp. Dunno why, got asked for direction though there were others. Maybe cos I wasn't dressed in office attire, jeans, sport shoes, cap and a sporty jacket. Luckily I knew where that building was, cos just walked by it.
Went to Golden Shoe and looked through all the hawker stalls on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Can't find my favorite Bru coffee stall and noticed many have changed. Can't recognize any. Settled to eat Nasi Padang @ $3.50 and a teh-o kosong @ $0.60. Prices for meals have risen, last time was $2-$2.50. Now is mostly $3.50~
After eating, I went to that small indoor place behind OCBC building and found the good ole trusty Mr Teh Tarik. I saw Bru coffee but already had a coffee earlier. So I bought a Lime tea n a Ginger Lime. Man, the ginger lime is a strange combination, should have gone for teh halia... Chucked it after a bit and carried the Lime Tea around until all the ice melted and it became room temp (drank at home) and walked towards UOB building.
The sun was up and could feel the heat coming. Luckily I wore my cap. Took some photos here n there. Walked by the Fullerton, Esplanade area to hop on a bus home. Cos had KM later at night, most shops weren't open at the time and even for food, I already ate so no more space for anything.
I reached home and dabaoed roasted duck rice n pig stomach soup @ $5.50. Nice lunch with the Lime Tea.
KM was okay and after that, I ate at the Omar place again. This time I got the Crispy pork bento n their Magic Q Milk tea with 50% sugar @ $9.30. The pork is very lean yet crispy n nicely flavored. Nice dinner. The cubes they put in taste different from the pearls and also not sweet, to my liking.
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Weekend Gluttony
Hmm... I'll wait a bit before I step on the weighing scales. Think the amount of food I ate on Fri & Sat n even today are not used up yet...
Friday - I ate a large lor bee hoon, followed by an entire bag of chips, instant noodles with egg, a mini-baguette n chicken-in-a-cup n Viet drip coffee and my dinner was banana pancakes with bacon...
Sat - I ate a large lor bee hoon, followed by a linner @ Carousel with mom courtesy of my sis lucky draw prize. Ate 5 prawns, 28 slices of raw sashimi which were really fresh and thick (I don't mind eating specifically the sashimi next time for a weekday hi-tea buffet), 4 sushi, small slice of pate, bits of seafood salad, a big serving of sambal sotong (delicious), 2 fried fish, 2 bergedel, 2 servings of chicken kerbab meat n some onions n sauce n the wrap, a steamed small crab which didn't have much crabmeat as they stuffed different blended stuff into the shell, an egg and an entire plate filled with watermelon, papaya, green and orange honey-dew. Too full after that.
My mom had more sweet stuff. We walked around a bit to digest after the meal and later hopped on a cab home. I obviously didn't eat anything thereafter, except made myself a cup of thick Chinese tea.
Today, really stayed indoors. Ate a chocolate, followed by a big bowl of fried bee hoon n a bowl of rice with soup. Then made a Lamb brother and ate a box of durians (10+ seeds). Slept and dinner was a bowl of bee hoon and a bowl of rice.
That's quite a bit of food I am eating. The only good thing is that I have weaned myself off sweet drinks so not much extra consumed there and I tend towards meat and savory food instead of dessert. But think I need to eat more normally and not so indulgently... Also better do some exercise at home. That'll make me feel better I guess.
Friday - I ate a large lor bee hoon, followed by an entire bag of chips, instant noodles with egg, a mini-baguette n chicken-in-a-cup n Viet drip coffee and my dinner was banana pancakes with bacon...
Sat - I ate a large lor bee hoon, followed by a linner @ Carousel with mom courtesy of my sis lucky draw prize. Ate 5 prawns, 28 slices of raw sashimi which were really fresh and thick (I don't mind eating specifically the sashimi next time for a weekday hi-tea buffet), 4 sushi, small slice of pate, bits of seafood salad, a big serving of sambal sotong (delicious), 2 fried fish, 2 bergedel, 2 servings of chicken kerbab meat n some onions n sauce n the wrap, a steamed small crab which didn't have much crabmeat as they stuffed different blended stuff into the shell, an egg and an entire plate filled with watermelon, papaya, green and orange honey-dew. Too full after that.
My mom had more sweet stuff. We walked around a bit to digest after the meal and later hopped on a cab home. I obviously didn't eat anything thereafter, except made myself a cup of thick Chinese tea.
Today, really stayed indoors. Ate a chocolate, followed by a big bowl of fried bee hoon n a bowl of rice with soup. Then made a Lamb brother and ate a box of durians (10+ seeds). Slept and dinner was a bowl of bee hoon and a bowl of rice.
That's quite a bit of food I am eating. The only good thing is that I have weaned myself off sweet drinks so not much extra consumed there and I tend towards meat and savory food instead of dessert. But think I need to eat more normally and not so indulgently... Also better do some exercise at home. That'll make me feel better I guess.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
3rd week - stuff done n not done
Hmm in terms of very memorable or exciting things this week thus far,
Not much, except I finally learnt how to roll in KM. But before that, we did the break-fall, both hard and soft. Let's just say my brain felt shaken around cos when our shoulders and arms absorbed the impact, the brain shakes...
My rolling technique needs refining... Legs flopped to one side so I kept hitting one spot near my right hips which is wrong. Supposed to be the left side. But I kinda suffered for it cos that night, massaged my sore right hip area and pasted medicated plaster. Woke up the next day to immensely sore muscles on the shoulders, neck, all those parts used for the break-fall technique. Plus that sore spot on the hip. By today, 2nd day still the muscle aches haven't cleared up much.
In a sense, I'm glad this week I am going twice instead of thrice. Meeting Cyn n Tab for dinner on Friday instead of KM. think with be current sore muscles, it's a better choice.
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I have been fiddling with my Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE, loading in photos and also using my sister's laptop with Movie-Maker to rip the performance DVD & Choir competition into Media player files, saving and loading inside so that I can finally open them and watch them. Cos they are in different video file format, if I just drag n drop, won't open. But trying to separate out the video clips into the separate ones is a pain in the ass cos they are joined together... Took me many tries yet one of the video is giving me lots of grief. Want to load more files and even download music videos but those are for another time.
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Went for my biennial health check-up, did the usual, height/weight, took blood n urine, breast and stomach examination and I chose ECG (cos my dad had heart atk n mom is high blood pressure, extra risk) Cos didn't eat since 6pm the night before, by the time I was finished 11.30, starving and I ate KFC 3 piece crispy meal. I think next time, I should reduce to 2 piece (reminder to myself) cos by the second one, I was satisfied and almost full but finished all anyway.
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Went for KM yesterday and tio 360 defense, both top n bottom. It meant very sore forearms, on top of the sore shoulders, neck muscle aches, butt ache. So it's a wise decision to skip going on Friday. Last night I pasted medicated plasters on both forearms, macham like some sort of fashion statement... Of the bruised kind, I guess. The rest of the muscle aches are clearing up, so I'll be good as new by Monday. Next week is to hit 3 times. Good luck to me.
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Today went for a hair-cut, glad it's much cooler now with shorter and thinner hair than before. It's like my head feels lighter n my neck can breathe. Good thing about my highlights is that cos they are at the bottom layer, my top layer is black, so even if black hair grows out, it's covered by the top layer, so don't see the unsightly line of new hair. So even with a haircut, I looked almost the same as when I initially dyed it. Nice, I'll keep this for a while.
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Only a few things I haven't done with one more week of hols left. Maybe will be called back next week for meetings. I don't see the point of it but I guess it's just some sort of unhappiness cos we don have to go back but they have to. No point if everything is not in Eng. Oh we'll, lets hope not.
Need to check out the guitar school in Holland Village to enquire about guitar class. I think I have taken a long enough break from it. Wanna continue cos if not time just goes by so quickly and my skills are stagnant (though this period of time, cos of my cca, I found I have improved. Can teach chords, can play standing, can read and understand band scores, can tune by ear somewhat & improvise a bit of strumming patterns) I am grateful for vein inspired to pick it up again. My goals for guitar are very high, have lots to work on.
Go back to NUS to walky and eat the cheaper food, though outsiders are charged slightly more expensive. But the hot sunny weather is a deterrent to going out somedays cos its so scorchingly hot. Felt like melting even with an umbrella shielding me. Bleah... Some days hide at home until also sian, then head out towards 5pm but its kinda like a waste of an entire day, so wanna head out a bit earlier into the day.
Maybe I should wake up at my usual (which I did almost everyday...) then take a bus to town and watch people pass by in hurry while I walk leisurely, take breakfast leisurely. Sounds good.
Not much, except I finally learnt how to roll in KM. But before that, we did the break-fall, both hard and soft. Let's just say my brain felt shaken around cos when our shoulders and arms absorbed the impact, the brain shakes...
My rolling technique needs refining... Legs flopped to one side so I kept hitting one spot near my right hips which is wrong. Supposed to be the left side. But I kinda suffered for it cos that night, massaged my sore right hip area and pasted medicated plaster. Woke up the next day to immensely sore muscles on the shoulders, neck, all those parts used for the break-fall technique. Plus that sore spot on the hip. By today, 2nd day still the muscle aches haven't cleared up much.
In a sense, I'm glad this week I am going twice instead of thrice. Meeting Cyn n Tab for dinner on Friday instead of KM. think with be current sore muscles, it's a better choice.
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I have been fiddling with my Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE, loading in photos and also using my sister's laptop with Movie-Maker to rip the performance DVD & Choir competition into Media player files, saving and loading inside so that I can finally open them and watch them. Cos they are in different video file format, if I just drag n drop, won't open. But trying to separate out the video clips into the separate ones is a pain in the ass cos they are joined together... Took me many tries yet one of the video is giving me lots of grief. Want to load more files and even download music videos but those are for another time.
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Went for my biennial health check-up, did the usual, height/weight, took blood n urine, breast and stomach examination and I chose ECG (cos my dad had heart atk n mom is high blood pressure, extra risk) Cos didn't eat since 6pm the night before, by the time I was finished 11.30, starving and I ate KFC 3 piece crispy meal. I think next time, I should reduce to 2 piece (reminder to myself) cos by the second one, I was satisfied and almost full but finished all anyway.
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Went for KM yesterday and tio 360 defense, both top n bottom. It meant very sore forearms, on top of the sore shoulders, neck muscle aches, butt ache. So it's a wise decision to skip going on Friday. Last night I pasted medicated plasters on both forearms, macham like some sort of fashion statement... Of the bruised kind, I guess. The rest of the muscle aches are clearing up, so I'll be good as new by Monday. Next week is to hit 3 times. Good luck to me.
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Today went for a hair-cut, glad it's much cooler now with shorter and thinner hair than before. It's like my head feels lighter n my neck can breathe. Good thing about my highlights is that cos they are at the bottom layer, my top layer is black, so even if black hair grows out, it's covered by the top layer, so don't see the unsightly line of new hair. So even with a haircut, I looked almost the same as when I initially dyed it. Nice, I'll keep this for a while.
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Only a few things I haven't done with one more week of hols left. Maybe will be called back next week for meetings. I don't see the point of it but I guess it's just some sort of unhappiness cos we don have to go back but they have to. No point if everything is not in Eng. Oh we'll, lets hope not.
Need to check out the guitar school in Holland Village to enquire about guitar class. I think I have taken a long enough break from it. Wanna continue cos if not time just goes by so quickly and my skills are stagnant (though this period of time, cos of my cca, I found I have improved. Can teach chords, can play standing, can read and understand band scores, can tune by ear somewhat & improvise a bit of strumming patterns) I am grateful for vein inspired to pick it up again. My goals for guitar are very high, have lots to work on.
Go back to NUS to walky and eat the cheaper food, though outsiders are charged slightly more expensive. But the hot sunny weather is a deterrent to going out somedays cos its so scorchingly hot. Felt like melting even with an umbrella shielding me. Bleah... Some days hide at home until also sian, then head out towards 5pm but its kinda like a waste of an entire day, so wanna head out a bit earlier into the day.
Maybe I should wake up at my usual (which I did almost everyday...) then take a bus to town and watch people pass by in hurry while I walk leisurely, take breakfast leisurely. Sounds good.
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