tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57818222011-07-08T17:53:21.769+08:00Hmmm...first time I trying out a Blog...feels too old to be doing this. All the guys I know who blog are teenagers. Well anyway let it not be said I don't try to keep up with the times. :pMadPoetnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781822.post-3975540525636057702009-10-25T23:20:00.000+08:002010-01-08T01:35:49.985+08:00

The second installment of the 4-month back-lock.Sun 4 Oct I went to service and had cell group at Niwa Sushi. I've been buying salmon belly sashimi every time I'm at Niwa, but I think the only major dissatisfaction I have with the place is that the fridge is not cold enough. I think sashimi should be kept colder. Anyway, in the evening, I went down to Kaki Bukit to practise at the circuit.

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I was tempted to make this the longest post ever with 4 months' worth, but I decided not to, because every time I save as draft, the next time I log in, each line spacing doubles, and I have to waste time deleting. So I guess I'd pay off in monthly installments. Fri 4 SepI was so overwhelmed with work that I could only eat within the school, and today's chicken rice sucked totally. The rice was

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Tue 18 AugIt was a dreadfully long day in school. Other than the usual lessons, consultation and other work, I had to man the research centre till the school closed for the students to revise there. The year 2 tutors took turns to stay behind so as to look after the place as well as provide consultation to the students there. I was dead beat by the time it was over...but was re-energized when I

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Here's the second installment. I finally caught up with my blogging once more. Life had been way too hectic for my taste.Mon 27 JulThis week I have no driving lesson scheduled, so I stayed in school to do work and wait for my wife. For lunch, we went out to Bedok interchange to eat, but the hawker centre was closed for washing. We popped over to the coffee shop opposite the old Princess cinema

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Wow, it's been more than a month since I have blogged. The reason is that I have been really busy. The remedial training takes up plenty of time and exhausts my energy. Here's the first installment of the missing blog posts.Mon 6 JulI went to school almost as usual today - almost, because I was dressed in army uniform. I was due to return to camp for a mobilization briefing. Fortunately, I have

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Mon 29 JunI managed to settle some work that came with the start of the term, and left relatively early for driving lessons at 3.30 pm. Today was my first time at the circuit, and I found it quite fun. Of course, it wasn't as stressful for me since I was learning auto, as my wife was quick to point out the agonizing control of gear and clutch in the S-curve and Z-curve and whatever else.My wife

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Once in a while, I get this nagging inspiration to write a certain thing. So this one is for all my students/friends who have just or yet to acquire a credit card.Make Credit Cards Work For You!A layman’s guide to credit cards by Low Kian Seh.Despite reports of soaring bank debts and bankruptcy due to credit card debts, in all seriousness I have to say that credit cards are wonderful and only

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Tue 23 JunI had a heavy breakfast at MacDonalds', and spent the rest of the day with Jadon.Sometimes I have weird ideas - conspiracy theories to be precise. I was just wondering: what if SARS and H1N1 are experimental biological weapons? Maybe there is some terrorist organization, or pharmaceutical company (which developed a vaccine), or some military organization out there that developed this

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I went back to school today for consultation with a student, and to finish up some administrative work. After I was done, I went to meet my wife for lunch at Spaghedies. The dory I had was quite good, especially the mushroom sauce. I liked my wife's lasagne too, but she actually preferred Pizza Hut's one, which I find too much of a mash of everything. The lasagne here was well-textured, and you

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Tue 16 JunMy wife and I spent the whole day at my in-laws' place. There at least is some free time during the holidays for us to spend quality time with Jadon, and for that, I am extremely grateful.Wed 17 JunI had breakfast with my wife at 216 market and ate my usual you mian before heading down for my driving lessons. My instructor made me end the lesson opposite the driving centre so that I

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Thu 11 JunMy wife went to school first for the last part of her camp, and I went around noon time to continue my Infocomm Club camp. Before I went to school, my wife gave me a call to tell me that she got into a minor car accident. Apparently when she was turning into the college compound, the car behind her still moved and collided into our Honda Jazz's rear. At least the lady at fault was

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Wed 10 JunI went back to school early today because the Infocomm Club (I'm one of the teachers in charge) was going to camp overnight for today and tomorrow. I went to draw the necessary keys from the Operations Manager first, and then went to do some work in the office. After running to and fro a little to settle some issues that cropped up, I went to Parkway Parade with my wife for lunch and to

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I finally have time to blog, so be prepared for (probably) the longest blog post on this blog so far!Sat 9 MayI brought my mum out with me and my wife to Downtown East for lunch at Sakura Restaurant. My mum doesn't quite like foreign cuisine, so at least there's ample choice for her. What I didn't expect was that the restaurant was fully booked for Mothers' Day! We were the first customers there

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I wonder if there are still people following this blog, but I guess I will only have time to blog every couple of weeks, or three, thereabouts.Wed 22 AprWe were going to have a long day today, so we made a long way trip down to Beach Rd for lunch. Finally, I had the delicious char kway teow that I've been wanting to eat for quite a while, and I topped it off with Ah Balling glutinous rice balls

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Whoa. Another long post of about two weeks' worth.Wed 8 AprA few of us felt so exhausted by work that we drove out to Old Airport Rd for lunch today. I had a bowl of prawn noodles and fishball noodles, and that felt terrific. Bwahaha. That was a necessary good meal because in the afternoon, I had a really, really long meeting.Thu 9 AprI ended school earlier than my wife today, so using that extra

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Sun 22 MarI had service as usual, but today I decided to give my boys a treat, since the performance bonus had come in. I brought them to Canton Kitchen at Eastpoint, which I recalled had quite good food, and I thought it would be nice to eat something different, so I ordered a 6-course meal which had sharks' fin and cereal soft shell crab. The bill was higher than I initially projected, but

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I think this is the longest lapse in blogging for me thus far. Here's a 3-week post! (Don't worry, the two weeks of reservist will be condensed.)Wed 25 FebIt was a really long day today because the Infocomm Club had started its first training session. I hung around to check on the students, and only left after everything was taken care of.Thu 26 FebIt was just one long day in school. There were

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Sun 15 FebMy wife and I somehow made it to service in time, eating breakfast on the go. A new boy joined me today, and it looks like it's a permanent arrangement. So now my boys number a grand total of five. After service, we had a brief cell at the coffee shop at Simei. Interestingly enough, after the opening of Piccolo, which serves decent pasta, the coffee shop has yet another addition, which

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Thu 5 FebIt was a long day, as usual for Thursdays. The highlight of the day was when my colleague pulled me along to Siglap with him and a few others for lunch at the Yong Tau Hoo place. The food was good, but the ingredients I picked were all sent to be deep-fried (even quails' eggs!) except for the vegetables. I had an extra bowl of noodles in addition.I think I am going down the path of fat

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Thu 29 JanIt was a quiet day for me. Today, the timetable was running on Monday's schedule, which was shorter for me than the typical Thursday, so I had no complaints. I met my wife at White Sands for dinner, and we ate at Manhattan Fish Market.Fri 30 JanAfter school, we headed down to my in-laws' place to shift the base of the cot down, since Jadon now is active and able to flip with ease. I was

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Thu 22 JanThursday is apparently still my longest day, just like last year. Ok, maybe a slight improvement over last year. I finally met my TA1 class today, and they seem like they will be a fun bunch to teach. More importantly, I hope they are a teachable lot.After school, I headed over to my mother-in-law's place to meet my wife. Before that, I detoured to Hair de Vogue to get a haircut for

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Tue 20 JanI had a relatively short day today after settling my lessons. Originally I wanted to rush home to see Jadon, but I needed to prepare something for tomorrow, and I knew that it would be quite unlikely to do it at home. Even when Jadon isn't sick, he is generally wide awake from evening to night, and we usually play with him. Now that he is sick, he requires even more attention.Anyway, I

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Wed 14 JanToday was a bad, bad day. During lunch I went over with my colleagues to the coffee shop with the Big D's. A guy approached me and asked me if I wanted to eat zi char, and listed down some dishes that the stall has, so my colleague and I ordered mui fan, and it turned out to be vegetarian zi char! The guy did not mention at all, so I felt swindled. Deciding to make the lunch a bit

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Mon 12 JanIt was the first day of school today. There was only one scheduled lesson, and it was civics with my new class. I inherited the form class from my wife, along with her chemistry classes. The only thing I didn't like about this arrangement is that I only get a year to spend with them since they are year 2 already.My Old Airport Road gang realized that we no longer have a common long

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Mon 5 JanFearing that my old computer may be dying a slow (motherboard) death due to the malfunction of the PCI slot, I decided to go assemble a new media PC to link up to the new 40-inch LCD in my bedroom to play movies and other media, especially anime from my other computer streamed over the wireless network. I messaged ZH to ask him if he was game, and sure enough, he would always not mind

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Wed 31 DecIt's the end of 2008, and another year has gone by. In all seriousness, I no longer see the thrills in countdowns. Maybe I'm starting to feel old, but at the moment the year changes, I guess I just want to be with my loved ones, and most probably not squeezed to death in some crowded place filled with the stench of sweat. Anyway, I suspect most people at the countdowns must be youths

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Wed 24 DecIt was a surprisingly quiet Christmas eve today. I was expecting that my mahjong kakis might have wanted a mahjong session, but I guess they had other programmes. So I spent it on fruitful activities, i.e. taking care of Jadon, playing with him, and of course, playing on Xbox 360. I couldn't resist buying Fable II, so I've been on it since. Anyway, Jadon now is very fun to play with.

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Wed 17 DecToday was spent purely doing chores. We vacuumed the place, use the powerful beater to clean the couches in the living room, and use a steamer (don't know what to call it) to sterilize the couches as well. Sometimes we lay baby on the day-bed of the couch, so it had better be clean.A funny thing happened today. When I was renewing my Pet Lovers' Centre membership, my card was traced to

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Wed 10 DecA quiet day spent at home doing work remotely, helping to look after Jadon, and watching anime.Thu 11 DecToday I went with my wife to Bedok. She was going to Adonis to do a facial, and she pulled me along. Just to make things clear, she hardly goes to beauty salons. In fact, her package with Adonis had stretched for donkey years, averaging perhaps 1 visit a year. Anyway, she wanted to

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Fri 5 DecYes, it's the last day of the last elective of the Masters' course! Now all that stands between me and graduation after a gruelling two and a half years are the last assignment of this module and the dissertation of my research, which still needs major work. My partner (and colleague) decided to start work on our final slides today itself in the three hours set aside to prepare for the

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Mon 1 DecI had to make a trip back to school today to settle next year's budget for the Media Resource Unit, and to discuss something with my vice-principal regarding the big-project-that-will-eat-up-my-dec-hols. My wife also had to go back to settle the budget for her club, so we headed off together, detouring to Burger King for a late breakfast. We were so full from the breakfast that we

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Thu 27 NovToday is the second day of the module at Teachers' Network. I was anticipating boredom based on the first lesson, but there were two hands-on sessions to try out two new system/software so that made the lesson much more palatable. For lunch my colleagues and I ended up eating at the Cafeteria because we were supposed to faciliate the afternoon session, and we didn't want to be late. The

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Sun 23 NovI went to service as usual, and after service, we had a big meeting for the kids. My boys, Collin's boys, and my wife's girls were planning for the end of the year Christmas party for their friends, so we were acting as advisors for them. They needed quite a bit of guidance to get going, but after that, it became a fun process watching them iron out the nitty-gritty, with some help, of

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Wed 19 NovToday was a stay-at-home day, managing helping to take care of Jadon, and doing school work. I think for this holidays, I'll be working all the way through, whether I have to return to school or work remotely from home. But the fruits of my labour should be visible by next January.Anyway, I chanced across this awesome video.I believe that it is a matter of time they upsize this, and

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Instead of ranting and raving my complaints, I thought it might be more calming (and creatively amusing) to spoof a song that feels somewhat related to my frustration. So I present to you Neighbourhood, modified from Space's original song lyrics. Sing along, if you know the song.NEIGHBOURHOODWho lives in a house like this?Who lives in a house like this?In number 37 there lives a nice old manWho

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Thu 13 NovToday was Good Neighbour's Day! We were supposed to stick on a sticker and go to our void decks at 7.15 pm and pray for our blocks with whoever else sticks on the sticker, and this movement is a collaboration across churches. When I went down, I saw nobody. Not accepting the apparent possibility that I'm the only person in one of the Love Singapore churches living in this area, I

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I just saw this video on TalkingCock.com, and it is hilarious. Actually I come across many funny videos routinely, but I just had to share this one. It is a spoof on Matrix movie (quite well-done one at that), and a direct dig at Microsoft.

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Sun 9 NovI went down to Expo earlier today because I thought I was doing usher duty. In the end, there turned out to be some form of miscommunication, and I wasn't down for duty. So I had to abandon two of my boys and G12 brother Eric. With the spare time, I had a good chat with my network pastor, talking about babies and hamsters. After service, I had a brief cell group at Hall 9, and also

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Tue 4 NovIt was back to school for more marking. I actually managed to complete all the marking by 2+ pm, so I was the first to finish. I decided not to break my arm, so I left the transferring of the comments to the actual Assessment Instruments to another day. I was feeling a bit worse, so I thought I would give myself a two-day break and return on Friday. Anyway, I still needed to consult my

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Thu 30 OctToday proved to be a very long day. I was in school early in the morning to go through Project Work standardization meeting for Written Report marking. After marking SPA for a good four years, the notion of standardization and moderation is already second nature. But it still is exceedingly time-consuming. Fortunately, the session ended punctually, and I was heading down to ACJC with my

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Sat 25 OctI had my handphone close to me when I went to sleep last night, all the while hoping and praying that I wouldn't see any sms from Junhui.It came anyway.At 2 am I woke up to help feed the baby, and the sms came in, and announced what I thought might happen soon. My spiritual son's mother had passed away at about 1 am in the morning. Of course, from a faith perspective, that would be a

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Tue 21 OctI was waiting for the content from my vice-principal so as to finish the final touchup on the slides he needed, but he had to delay it till the afternoon. As a result, I found myself momentarily free in the morning. That didn't last long however, and I went to help my colleague move into positions and set up the new computers at one IT lab. So I was a coolie with my colleague for about

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I have written two poems so far in my life for two persons dear to me who had passed away. One was for my father, and the other was for my paternal grandfather. I didn't expect to be writing another one today, and more so, for someone so young. The news brought shock for a good few hours first before the sorrow kicked in, and then reflection. I think now that I have become a father, the pain of

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Sat 18 OctToday was spent entirely at home, helping to look after Jadon, and stealing forty winks whenever I could. I never realized how exhausted I was till I hit the bed and took several short naps spread throughout the day.Sun 19 OctI went for first service by myself in the morning. I needed to be home early so that my mother-in-law can go to celebrate her mother's birthday. Today's preacher

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I haven't been blogging not because of Jadon sapping up time, but because I had been working on a powerpoint presentation for my college leaders. Since it was meant for an audience comprising HODs and beyond, I spent quite a lot of time souping it up to look highly professional. That took up several evenings and nights in a row. I am the powerpoint man!Mon 13 OctIt was the farewell concert today.

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I woke up early today because Jadon was acting up a bit. I took the time before lunch to complete a webpage to display Jadon's pictures, and it is now ready. Click here to check it out. I will expand the album once I have more photographs. So now the main website has a little baby on the couch in the Living Room.Today was a quiet day in church because only one of my boys was with me. After

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It's picture time! This is the series which my wife captured on her handphone (so the resolution isn't too good), but captured different expressions of baby. Let's start with my favourite which I shall title, "Whoa!" because that looked like what he was saying, with a cheeky look and one raised eyebrow.The next one should be titled "Attitude". He got this zhuai gangsta look, with a sideward

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I woke up relatively early today to bring Jadon to his pediatrician visit. Today was supposed to be the first Hepatitis B jab. I booked a taxi because we were running late and made our way down to Eastshore Hospital. Fortunately, he got hungry before we left the house, so we did not need to go through the hassle of making formula milk outside for him, or my wife to breastfeed him. Baby is now 3.8

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I thought I could be blogging as frequently as I used to long ago, looking at the past month. I doubt that could be maintained. I realized why I could manage to do so lately, and that was primarily because my mother-in-law stayed in with us during confinement month to help out, so I actually had some time. Now that Jadon is one month old, she only helps out till evening, so when I am home, I will

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Sun 5 OctIt was a hectic day. Today was Jadon's full month celebration! I'll upload pictures another time though; I had no time to properly filter through them.I was woken up early by the caterer, who came to set up the tables first. We hired Neo Garden, and the food proved to be quite good, especially the curry chicken. A whole stream of guests arrived from 10.30 am all the way till about 3 pm.

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Thu 2 OctToday was an eventful day. It began with a SPA (school-based practical assessment) course in the morning at Teachers' Network, which was to preempt us for next year's SPA changes. The changes appear to be a two-edged sword; I can see the benefits of the changes, but also some working issues that would surely arise. Anyway, change is inevitable, so no point moping about it. The highlight

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Time for some pictures again!First, a heartfelt thanks to some friends who sent Jadon presents by delivery when they won't be able to attend his full month. First nicely wrapped present comes from Elaine, my wife's good friend's cousin, who actually took the trouble to come down to our place from the far west by cab to teach my wife and colleague about breastfeeding, and still sent us a little

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Mon 29 SepToday turned out to be a long and tiring day. I started the day before assembly with invigilation of the TA1 maths paper, which took up to 10 am, and that went straight into a lecture, during which I was going through the part of the Prelims question that I marked. After that, my fellow Old Airport Road pilgrim wanted to go eat something nicer (but not at Old Airport Road), so I

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Sat 27 SepToday was a lively day. Four of my wife's aunts came over to see Jadon, and they hung around to watch tv and chit-chat. My mum won some money in today's 4D with one of the numbers she 'deduced' from the baby's full month. Now this was a landmark event, although the winnings were meagre, because she very rarely wins anything at all. Hence she attributed good fortune with Jadon, so baby

MadPoetnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781822.post-33271491839689750962008-09-26T21:30:00.002+08:002008-09-26T21:44:42.769+08:00

After hearing my colleague mentioned a cheap server hosting that is available, I decided to finally take the plunge. I subscribed to the server hosting, and got myself a domain name. I had always felt uncomfortable borrowing server space from my friend on his benruth.com, and furthermore, my website had gradually evolved to a sprawl of many mini-sites. If I wanted room for further expansion, I

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Time for a few pictures!Here's Jadon posing as a kissing fish! I think he really likes mouthing the letter "O"...This shot has him looking like he's in really serious contemplation. The last one is yet another contented-smiling-in-sleep shot.

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Wed 24 SepToday was nothing short of utterly exhausting. I only had one lesson in the morning, but following that was one long meeting on a big project, a quick lunch followed by the usual staff conference. Immediately following that, there was another meeting with this guy who we pilot-tested a new LMS for the TA programme. The software was not bad, but most importantly they were willing to

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Poor baby was sick today. Yesterday he was regurgitating his milk, and today he ran a fever. My wife and mother-in-law brought him to the pediatrician for a checkup, but by the time he reached the clinic, his fever had subsided from 37.7 degrees Celsius to 37.2. The doctor said that it was probably colic, which seems to be a very common ailment for infants. Only when I was home did I see Jadon

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I have been talking with some students, and a couple of friends, and I realized something. Many people seem to slog for inappropriate reasons.I have been asking the students I teach what they plan to do in the future - job, career, aspirations - and most were clueless. So many replied that they will try to do well for the exams first, and then see where they can go. To me, that is quite sad,

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Sat 20 SepI stayed at home the whole day to help out with the baby here and there, and made my way down to Suntec Convention Centre to take a look at the Gaming Convention Asia. Actually I have a colleague's wedding dinner at Marina Mandarin in the evening, so I deliberately set off about an hour earlier to go check it out.It was quite disappointing. I think the main purpose of the GCA must be

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Thu 18 SepI went back to school and marked in my typical flurry, and finished all the marking by 9+ am, way ahead of everyone. My colleague called my marking speed "abnormal" and "obscene", which I take to be compliments. Bwahaha. I settled some administrative tasks, and met two groups of TA1 students for consultations.In the afternoon, I went to meet a Zaobao journalist for an interview with my

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Mon 15 SepI was so glad I completed my marking on Friday, so today I could concentrate on my TA1 lessons. I think I finally see more of the TA1 students getting serious (and anxious) about the upcoming Promotional Exams, and it ought to be a good sign. In fact, they were so concerned that many separate groups booked me for this week for consultation. I met one group after class today actually,

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Time for some pictures! This one's taken on Day 7 when he was smiling and trying to play. The next one's taken on Day 10 when he was sound asleep (as babies tend to be).This one was when he was wide awake after being bathed. The last one was when he was smiling to himself in his sleep. He must be dreaming of milk or something.

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Thu 11 SepIt's also a good thing that I took leave today. I managed to change Jadon's diapers all by myself today! Usually, it is a team effort with my wife, or my mother-in-law does it single-handedly. After helping out with the baby in the morning, I brought Jadon down to East Shore Hospital with my mother-in-law to the pediatrician for his first checkup. Thank God his mild jaundice disappeared

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It was a splendid choice to take leave today, because I really made myself useful today around the house, and managed to escort my wife to the gynae for a checkup. Nowadays there are quite a few indirect costs incurred, especially cabfare. I wonder if increasing the baby bonus would have much of an effect. I blogged earlier that it may help tip the balance of those already wavering on the

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I'd always held the view that sorrow made a far better muse than joy, and hence most of my poems written in the past were not joyous ones. But I think poems are inspired by experiences, just that most of the time the bad ones are usually more striking than the good ones.I suppose it takes one huge experience like childbirth to awake this poet's slumbering writing streak once more. Here are two

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Now I know why my male colleagues whose wives just gave birth all returned to school looking like pandas and semi-zonked out. I hit the bed essentially at 1.45 am, after settling the laundry (since I was the most able person in the house to run up and down) and helping to settle the baby down, but most of the hard work was done by my mother-in-law and my wife. At 3 am I woke up to help with the

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It's amazing how babies reflect absolute serenity and innocence when they sleep.Not so when they start crying though. Haha. The most focused time during a human being's life must be when he is a baby. There are only three things in his lifestyle: eat (drink milk), poop (and pee), and sleep. It is easy to appear serene when these are the only things you are concerned about, isn't it? When we grow

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A new chapter of my life has been unveiled, and his name is Jadon. As of 10.08 am on 6th September 2008, I have crossed the threshold into fatherhood.The whole process was quite inconspicuous at first. On Friday, my wife and I were still going around shopping for some last few items that we need for the baby. She had been getting some passing cramps since yesterday, and today it had yet to

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Ooops, a 14-day post. I guess I couldn't find the time to blog this week because of incessant gaming. Bwahaha.Fri 22 AugAfter school, I met my wife and we went down to Ikea together. We had to do some shopping for some odds and ends for the house and for baby. We had dinner there, and even went to Giant to search for some things that we needed.Sat 23 AugToday was massive housecleaning plus

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Mad Mothers Madness has won the day.I don't quite believe it, but indeed the power of the people and the internet has triumphed over bureaucracy and protocol. The government actually backdated the baby package to Aug 17 to benefit the said Mad Mothers, and in the official news, the government spokesperson actually credited the change to petitions from all these mothers-to-be. Looking on the

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I think there are more angry Singaporeans than I initially thought. I was reading the REACH forums, which is a platform the government collects feedback, and in the span of a day of the official announcement, there are now 19 pages of posts by upset people asking the government to review the implementation date. I mean, there has to be a cut-off date for implementation, and I think everyone

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I was listening to the National Day Rally initially just to hear news on the upcoming modified baby package, since it is now of utmost relevance to me. I have to admit that PM Lee is quite a charismatic speaker because of his sense of humour, and I actually sat through the whole rally to listen to his many illustrations. It was certainly not an easy task to deliver speeches standing for about 3

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First and foremost, a shoutout to the Singapore Golden Girls: Congratulations! Even though they were up against formiddable opponents (world ranking 6th, 7th and 9th against China's world ranking 1st, 2nd and 5th), they put up a valiant attempt to contest for the gold. I don't think I'm very patriotic, but when I see the national flag being raised at the victory celebration, I think I can feel

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Wed 30 JulToday was a long, drawn-out day for me. I had to rush some urgent mass printing in the morning, and went to my usual class, except that today my class had to be filmed. I was working together with two colleagues, coordinating with a vendor to do an update on the college's existing corporate video. One colleague was to be featured in it to give the teacher's perspective, and it was all

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Fri 25 JulI deliberately ended my day in school punctually, and dropped my work so as to accompany my wife to the gynae. Baby was healthy, thank God! After the checkup, we made our way to Ikea Tampines. We wanted to buy a cheap cupboard to put the baby stuff like diapers and all, and some other bits and pieces. In the end, my wife tried and fell in love with a reclining armchair that we saw. My

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Wed 23 JulToday became a short day because of some miscommunication between departments, and the Chem department thought we had to cancel our protected time slot today because of NAPFA (can't remember the acronym by now) for half the cohort. There was also, surprisingly, no staff conference, so I left early. It was only till much later that I heard that it was a miscommunication and the protected

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Wed 16 JulToday was a day of meetings. I had a few short meetings with some colleagues, and later on, after the usual staff conference, there was still a SEM (School Excellence Model) meeting, and this time round, I was involved in one of the teams for one criterion. Sigh. I think ever since I got a promotion at the start of the year, and got one (miserable) roughly $200 increment, I had been

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Tuesdays are supposed to be short days for me, but today ended up agonizingly long. I had the joy of a slow breakfast, but other than that, I was buried in all kinds of work not related to chemistry. Originally I had planned to go home early to do some chores like scrubbing the toilet, washing clothes, and etc, but my colleague asked for my help because a vendor didn't show up as previously

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So much for resolve. Six days have gone by since my statement of wanting to blog more often...Wed 9 JulI met my principal for lunch to discuss the progress and what needed to be done for my card game, and I was glad that she offered her full support, especially in the area of taking over some of the tricky administration and protocols that I had little knowledge in. Subsequently, she requested

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I will try blogging a bit more frequently so that I do not blog the equivalent of an essay (my last post was about 2000 words...)Today was a fairly relaxed day for me, and that was good because I was so exhausted that I fell asleep working halfway at my laptop for almost an hour. I hope I didn't snore. Anyway, other than that, I managed to finish a bit of work and met a couple of students for

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Tue 1 JulI used today to settle a whole bunch of financial matters with my school bursar, which took up a really long time, aside from some other administrative tasks. I had the wild idea to play mahjong with my colleagues but that fell through miserably as the people who do play mahjong all had late days, and I wanted to be home early enough to have dinner with my wife and keep her company since

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Sat 21 JunWe had some free time today so we headed down to OG to look for more baby stuff. With the Great Singapore Sale, some of the baby items there were genuinely cheaper than many places outside, so we bought many miscellaneous items, like a raincover for the pram, more baby clothes for 0 to 6 months and etc.So far that my wife has been pregnant, we still seldom see people giving up seats for

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Oh no, a 12-day post. I was procrastinating happily a bit too much...Tue 10 JunIt was a quiet day of rest, involving playing games and watching anime. My wife and I only went out of the house to go to Downtown East to have dinner at Mr Chicken Rice.Wed 11 JunWe borrowed One Night with the King from a colleague because my wife was going to show the movie to her cell group girls. I was playing it

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Sat 31 MayI woke up early in the morning, and gave blood brudder Junzhong a morning call, only to find that he was still asleep. I quickly called Shaofeng, who came down to pick me up, and we went on our merry way to Yuren's place. We set off from the happy groom's place early in the morning, and ended up too early, so some of the brothers went for breakfast before we went to get tortured by the

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Thu 22 MayI had a typical long day in school, but at least we went on our uplifting pilgrimage to Old Airport Road. Today I wasn't adventurous and stuck to old favourites because I didn't feel like roaming around.In the evening, we headed down to Suntec City to do some window shopping, and I bought Evangelion: 1.0, which is a movie version of one of the earliest anime I have. We headed down to

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The weather lately has been quite unbearable. I guess this would be as close as I can get to imagining what 'fire and brimstone' might feel like.Wed 14 MayToday was another long day by virtue of the College Day rehearsal. Thankfully most things were settled cleanly by the time it ended. I went over to my in-laws' place for dinner, and quickly went home to continue doing work. The end of Term 2

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Thu 8 MayThe weekly pilgrimage to Old Airport Rd hawker centre brought me to yet a new stall. There's a fish soup stall (I forgot the name though) that has quite a few newspaper cuttings, so I went to try it. It is delicious! The soup base is thick, and has the right amount of condensed (or is it evaporated?) milk in it. I personally don't really like thick bee hoon, but the soup stock was so

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Wed 30 AprI had a typical day, and I had to wait for my wife to finish the hustings of the PDP she was in charge of before we headed down to Marine Parade for dinner. I tried out this ramen noodle stall at the hawker centre, and it was not bad, with well-fried pork ribs, but the soup tasted a tad too salty. We then went for our Cluster Meeting at Touch Centre that our tribe pastors together

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Thu 24 AprMy colleagues and I went on our weekly pilgrimage to Old Airport Road hawker centre for lunch. After so many visits and trying to eat different things each time, I still have not exhausted my options for food from a stall that has a newspaper article or other about it. This time round, I went for the stall that sells the fusion food (I can't remember the name unfortunately) at the back

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Mon 14 Apr - Thu 17 AprNothing much happened during these four days. All I remember of these days were that I was rushing work, then going home to nap, and continue to work late into the night to finish my Masters' course assignment. Oh yeah, I had to play Lost Odyssey for about half an hour each night before I sleep to maintain some sanity.Fri 18 AprToday was yet another long day. After lessons

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Thu 3 AprMy colleagues and I went on our weekly pilgrimage to Old Airport Road for lunch. This week, I tried the Whitley Rd Prawn Noodles. Man, that is the best Prawn Noodles I have had so far. Hmm maybe the Beach Rd Prawn Noodles is comparable, but anyway, the soup base was so thick and flavourful that I would have asked for more soup if I could. The prawns were fresh and juicy and the pork ribs

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At the beginning of the year, I was asking God about His purpose for me here, because I had tried to excel as Senior Pastor said we should, and I did not receive any promotion in position. Although I reasoned that it was because there was no direct vacancy available, still, some part of me felt restless, and God had assured me that He was in control. And He had to give me the same Word twice to

MadPoetnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781822.post-40571478367298850032008-03-30T23:49:00.002+08:002008-03-31T10:16:58.650+08:00

Hmm the previous post was the 888th post of the blog! Woohoo! Didn't know I've blogged this much already. I think I'm the only one left still blogging out of all my friends who started around the same time.Mon 24 MarMonday is the longest day of the week for me, especially since it starts first period in the day, and ends last period of the day, and inbetween, I cover almost half of my whole

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Sun 16 MarI went to service as usual, and had cell group after service. These days the sermons really pack quite a punch, and it always feels like the rhema Word of God resonates with what I myself am hearing from God.Mon 17 MarA half-day was declared during morning assembly in celebration of the hard work for last year's 'A' level results. My wife and I immediately seized this opportunity to go

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Sun 9 MarI couldn't go to service because we had to check in at around 10+ am. My wife came to send me off after service, and she had to leave before service ended to be on time. We took a SIA flight over to KL's airport, and took an hour journey by mini-van over to Multiara Crown Plaza Hotel where we were going to stay for the next four nights. I wasn't quite expecting this quality, but it is a

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Tue 3 MarMy short day on Tuesday was reinstated when the new timetable came out, but unfortunately, I had a scheduled meeting at 4.30 pm! I was stuck in school all the way till then, but I decided to clear much of my work in advance in the meantime so that it wasn't a fruitless wait. Heh.Wed 4 MarI had a long day in school, followed by a meeting which took a while. I was supposed to go to Leaders

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Fri 29 FebIt was a long day at school, followed by the Masters' tutorial. Now he gives us yet another assignment on top of the 3000-word essay and group presentation, and it is to write a lesson plan for how to use Cooperative Learning in class. All the students were almost up-in-arms about it, and I intend to wage war the next lesson. Provided results are not out that very same day, in which

MadPoetnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781822.post-69454987821836163942008-02-28T22:17:00.003+08:002008-02-29T00:18:05.050+08:00

Fri 22 FebEvery Fri when I head to the Masters' tutorial, I am reminded of a Latin phrase. Diem perdidi. It simply means "another day wasted". I think that is quite self-explanatory. It is sad to be attending a course where you feel like you can't learn anything useful. It may not be entirely the fault of the lecturer, and possibly it is due to the content being more tailored to either very young

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19 Feb 08After school, I headed down to Tampines with my wife to do some shopping. My shaver charger unit has broken down, and I wasn't sure if it was the power cable or the cleaning & charging unit that was spoilt. In the end, I opted to buy a new shaver which uses a similar charger unit so that my current shaver doesn't go to waste. The whole thing costed a whopping $300+, but herein lies the

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