Some things change, some stay the same

Well its the start of a new week again albeit much shorter as Bedok View is a holding school for elections so they are forcing us out on Wednesday and Thursday which is bad timing as we are rushing through revision for exams.

The weekend was hectic and I find myself becoming slower and easily tired which I hate as I am always on the go. Edward and I bought almost everything that our little girl will need and its hitting me that my life will never be the same again. I can never come home, have a great long shower and plonk myself in front of my tv for the evening for a long long time to come.

Yet when I enter the house and see that bags and bags of clothes, bottles, quilts and cupboards, cot and pram, I realise that life is constant change and this has to be one of the most positive in our lives. So I will embrace it, I will stumble along the way but I will learn.

Its nice to know however that somethings never change. My students. They just finished big projects for my classes and these kids - usually so unmotivated and bored with life produced great work and attitude and I am so proud of all of them! I am so strict with them and they are punished all the time but I know they love my lessons and they will do their best.

So enjoy the pictures of my classes - English and History. I spent the most time with them in the entire week and I can safely say that every single day is different.

It runs in the family!

Was just thinking about how genes run in the family. Are we truly original people like we think we are or in the end are will we turn out like our parents and grandparents - mannerisms, habits, states of mind, the people that we marry...the list goes on. I shake my legs exactly like my dad, talk loudly like my dad, shop like my dad, worry like my mum, shop like my mum and I married a guy just like my dad!

Here are pictures of my nan and my grandpa when they were young and the many offspring that have emerged from that! Those two small rascals are Roger and my mother!

Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives!

All right it has been a really long time since my last post but I am glad that it generated so much conversation from the old girls of Opera Estate Convent (no pun intended!)

The week is going by like crazy and I can't believe that its already wednesday! With the growing heaviness, I am encountering backaches, foot cramps and swelling of feet. All I want to do is sleep but I seem to be having difficulty sleeping at night. My days are filled with students, students and more students, lesson planning, meetings, courses, CCA, remedials, setting of exams and registering the whole school for O levels! If this baby is not as on the go as I am, I am going to be very surprised!

The weekend was no different - Em, Di, Marc and Ross came over for dinner and we had a wonderful time chatting and laughing. The dessert has to be mentioned because my simple request for my aunties to bring dessert became a generous helping of cream caramel, 4 tubs of ben and jerry's ice cream - chocolate, strawberry, strawberry cheesecake and vanilla, accompanied with butterscotch dressing, cherries, chocolate rice, whipped cream and fresh bananas. It was just the kind of thing that I knew they would do and it was wonderful!

Jamie (me lil sis boyfriend) also came down this weekend ready to start his new life at Ngee Ann Poly. So we met up with him, had steaks and mash at my parents place and was presented with a surprise from him and tuff! A baby traveller bag that can take diapers, bottles, towels and even a place to change the baby! In all the compartments there were also clothes for the baby. I was so touched because we told tuff not to buy it but she did anyway! Thanks tuff!