End of Jun holidays! =(

K, 2 months since my last post! Term time gets too tiring and just wanna chill during hols hence my delayed updates. Kinda bad considering one of my resolutions was not to procrastinate! =( Anyway England is out at last after a dismal performance and just as well. Hope Brazil and Portugal go out also after I wasted a good Fri night with my army friends at Chijmes watching the most boring soccer match in my life!

Quick update - went to Penang for a short trip from 17th to 21st (which was during my bday also) - details in next post. Been attending this course since Tues (22nd) and lasts till this Fri so a really tragic end to my holidays. T_T Course has been fairly interesting though, except maybe for Tues' session which was on economics (rethinking singapore's economic growth strategies, fiscal policies), singapore's social challenges and social safety nets, racial and religious harmony in Singapore.

Wed - Learning Journey to Internal Security Department (ISD) Heritage Centre was very interesting! It was certainly an eye-opener to see/listen to some of the stuff on terrorism (all the various plots and attempts) and my favourite part was on espionage and finding out all the interesting cases that actually took place in Singapore! Always thought that such stuff was all in the movies but actually it's very real and the videos and stories of espionage were fascinating, likewise the cool design of the venue - the presenter opened up a secret room by twisting the air-con remote on the wall - how cool is that! =P

Went to SMU after that (which is where the rest of my course is held at) to listen to lectures on overview of security in Singapore. Very entertaining presenter which made an otherwise very dry topic more bearable.

Watched Glee at night and I love the show! It's sooooo funny and I love it cos it's about teaching, great singing and dancing - things that I enjoy doing and watching! =D

Thu - Today we went into Strategic Overview of Education Issues and it was interesting. My favourite part was the debate on an educational issue about a fictitious scenario ("All primary schools should go into single session immediately starting from 9am and ending at 5pm") which raised up a lot of interesting points and gave a lot of food for thought. Came up with an interesting argument/analogy regarding children playing in school and outside relating animals in zoos and in the open which entertained the groups. The debaters were also pretty funny so it was an enjoyable discussion! =)

Fri - Today we went into Educational Leadership and again it was another interesting day with activities to help us suss out the learning points from various case studies involving some of the principals and the issues they face as well as the decisions they made.

After that I went to ArtFriend to buy some stuff to make for the kids (wanted to make prizes for those who topped the CTs and also in preparation for those who top the MYE) before meeting my army friends at Chijmes to have dinner and watch the Brazil-Portugal match. Ended up at La Viva, some Spanish restaurant there and spent quite a bit there. Had 2 mocktails, 2 dishes (codfish - one of my fav - and seafood stew) and some finger food during the match which was BORING! Service wasn't great and we had to wait quite a while before we were served esp when we asked for ice water =( Food was just ok lah. Anyway, good to catch up with them since I've not met them after one of them flew to Australia to study Law and one of them got married recently so was asking him about his married life haha.

Sat - back to school for consultation with H1/H2 kids and spent a good 5.5 hours teaching. Draining but quite fun also. Sometimes you wonder what they've been doing when they ask some of the most basic questions but it always feels good when you see the kids being enlightened at the end of the day. Hopefully they can translate their learning into results though. But you can tell from the kind of questions asked whether they can make it for MYE already or not and I think there's prob a lot of work to do after MYE! =s

Had a quick lunch before going back home to rest and then going out again for dinner to celebrate my birthday (belated) as well as going for karoke at night. =)

Sun - Gymmed as usual but we had LJ along this time since he's back for holiday from Australia. Hilarious to hear him moan as he went through all the exercises. Funniest part was prob at the end when we were doing abs and we started out with crunches. At about 20 I told LJ we normally do to 100 and he burst out laughing cos it was so ridiculously painful haha. Spent a much longer time in gym before having lunch with Jon and treated him cos he helped train me to pass my IPPT (yes, I passed my last window!). Then I went to buy Toto for prob the 1st time in my life (can't recall buying before) cos Jon said it's $5.5m draw tmr so just thought I'd try my luck with $2 haha.

Got home and ended up napping till almost evening then had dinner and tried to do some work. Tonnes of stuff for me to do and I still have to go through the readings for my course tmr - xian! Oh well, better get back to them. Try to update tmr night!