Happy Chinese New Year!

I'm still in the education industry. Just wondering what and where all of you are pursuing aspects of life at this stage. Hope all are keeping well and happy! Can't believe it, but it's going to be another new Lunar New Year. We're all getting older, but not necessary more jaded, I hope! :)

To another year of well-lived life! Cheers!

Nightingales

My mother was hospitalised again recently, and my encounters with nurses, doctors and health caregivers once again affirmed my view that these individuals really make or break patients' road to recovery. If I had not taken the road to teaching, I think that I might have pursued nursing. The vocation might involve lots of ubpleasant physical tasks, . . . but think of all the opportunities you have to bring comfort, ease anxieties and uplift spirits.

School's out

Ten weeks of the school term went by relatively okay. Students are getting more trying and hyper, I reckon, thanks to the new-age instant info-overload and weird food they are ingesting these days. SIGH! This dinosaur here is feeling kind of tired more easily. Yes, tired BUT not out yet!! Thank God for the one-week break! And I guess, if you look at things from a positive perspective, meeting challenges constructively does keep one on-the-toes and renewed. Hmm . . . however when things get a trifling frustrating, I do wonder if indeed the world were to end in 2010, what would all our rat-race and frenetic chasing of largely material pursuits amount to. . . Japan's big earthquake and tsunami did make me wonder if I am ready to 'go' without any regrets when my time comes. What about you?

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Happy New Year everyone! May you have a super-fabulicious year ahead at your poly, uni, the army or whatever! Economy's looking up, so go work on your quality of life, relationships, leisure, now that settling problems with the basics of living is out of the way. Haha! Pardon my being hyper. The full workload of a new academic year is thankfully right now kicking in at a still tolerable pace.

I read the good news about the Singapore employment scene this year: jobs chasing after people, especially in the service sector! Good for us job-seekers, but I guess bad news for the tow-kays out there! Pray for a win-win situation for all, and that the economic melt-down that we all went throught just a while ago will not be repeated any time ever.

So, Dong Xi FaCai, all! May you be happy, healthy and hearty in the Year of the Rabbit!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all! Here's wishing you all a most joyous time of the year with loved ones, partaking in worthwhile pursuits together that will add to quality in your lives! I just received my best present this season -- a clean bill of health from my doctor after a most depressing phase. This calls for much thanksgiving and rejoicing!

And you think you want to act

Whew! Two whole days of takes under the hot sun at a playground and then in an apartment. And at least one more day of shooting to make up for lost sunshine hours and rainy weather --- all towards a mere 5-minute film showing! Now, I'm going to look at movies - good, mediocre and bad - with a different eye! No joke. Acting, directing, cinematography, scripting and all are tough work!! But being involved in the daughter's coursework was fun, and I get to interact with young minds. Having the sons and other daughter as fellow actors/actresses/calafares made for unusual but good bonding time.

Mum's day out

Brought my mother out to get her hair cut and permed today. One of those mother-daughter moment that I enjoy very much. At my age, she still treats me like her precious kid daughter. And I do so appreciate her!

December's here again. That time of the year with plenty of festivities in the air. School's out and exams over. WOOT! Go have some wicked family time, people!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!