so exhausted!

ahhh...i'm so tired. my jaws are hurting and my throat is slightly sore from 6+ hours of teaching.

6 STRAIGHT hours!

and there's a real reason why i'm so exhausted too. coz weekends are reeeeeeeeeeally hectic days for me. really.hectic.days.

for starters, i had class on saturday, but just a measly 2 hours with the kids. after that, was singing songs, honing my skills. there were some new songs in MS, so i was going through them, particularly zhuan shu tian shi and bei pan. hur hur....+5, +4 respectively, thank you very much. then i went to biao yi biao...sang all my coco lee and ah mei songs.

that's called practice, people. yes...i do practice. it doesn't just POP OUT like that, contrary to popular belief.

then after a couple of hours, tommy, doraemon and i decided to go down TPY to lend our support to the CSS-ers. we waited for about an hour coz by the time we reached, the singing ended already. anyway, to cut things short, congrats to zhengning, marcus and zi jie for getting through. i know nic is pretty disappointed but like i told everyone else who didn't make it through the 2nd round, it's not the end of the world lah. important thing is that you enjoy and learn from the process and NOT GIVE UP!

aiyoh, i don't like being so philosophical, and so i shall cease.

after that, i went town at around 8. walked a bit, and got tired, so i sat down at coffee bean at taka, sipped tea and wrote my journal. waited for the usual suspects to make their way down. the dear one was taking a nap after a particularly tiring flight. fast-forward again, we finally met at around 10+ at XIN WANG (argh!!!!) and our movie was WILD HOGS!! i must say, it was really enjoyable and we all laughed our socks off. hur hur...i wouldn't mind watching it again man.

BY THE TIME i got home, it was 2am already. i had to wash up and sleep coz in 6 hours time, i was UP again!

had to go pray to my maternal grandparents. it was hot! and crowded! and filled with the stinging smoke from the incense! and after that, i had to rush off to MS for class.

that was where the 6 hours of teaching came in. really ah, it's not easy teaching back-to-back for 6 straight hours. NO JOKE OK??? my back hurts, my shoulders are sore and my throat is over-worked. no complains lah coz i really enjoy doing it, but seriously, it's not easy.

LUCKILY, my day was made much better with the arrival of the dear one. he picked me up for dinner and we headed to lai lai for dinner. we had a bowl of 卤肉饭 each, 盐酥鸡, a bowl of dry beef noodles (mostly he ate it) and shared a bubble green tea. we are pigs!

okie...enough about me. just realised many people have been writing really angry posts, me included. we should just breathe and meditate and the world will be a much better place.

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right......................come one! we all need to vent once in a while, so it's ok to be angry and to write it all out. better out than in, i say. anyway, i figured out a really good way of venting too, and that's actually PHYSICALLY writing. that's why i have journals in my bag and around the room (and used to have one in the working place too). i write when i get pissed about something or somebody.

but the REAL key is to write things that will make you feel good about yourself. like 10 reasons why you're blessed, or 10 things that i have and others don't, or 10 things to be happy about...etc etc...you get my point huh? (i have this 'thing' with lists.)

but really, it feeeeeeeeels daaaaaaaaaaaamn gooooooooooooooood!!!

haha!

try it! (you don't actually have to post it. the act of writing a list is therapeutic enough.)

ooohhhmm......