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Anybody missed me? Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been too busy with my work, music and neverending personal life. Where do I start? Let's see.....

Relief teaching:
Teaching these ghetto kids are truly challenging. They are actually a smart bunch but their laziness and poor guidance offsets their ability to strive in their academic fields. Adopting my unique style of teaching has allowed me to see some progress and surprised many teachers and staff from the school. Apparently, I was told that, the number of English teachers who have taught and left in these 2 classes, 3/6 and 3/7, is the highest in the school. The HOD Miss Yap and VP, Mrs Mano, came to see me personally and asked me how come the class has been nice to me. Lol. Beats me. I'm firm and fierce in class but yet, I know how to draw the line between the respect that I need to give to them as students. When any of the students try to be funny with me, I'll make sure, he'll either be the laughing stock of the class or the student who will be asked the most number of questions. I'll do that until he shuts up and don't dare to open his voice unnecessarily anymore. Thus far, the number has drasticly decreased after I've managed to pin down all the troublemakers on the first day of class.

I've been called Michelle Platini in school. WTH! All because of my hair. Crapz. Rumours also spreads fast. Lol. Words have been going round that me and Nad are a couple. PUHLEASEEELAHHHH, pair me up with someone better can? LOL! Nad hates it when I always repeat the story to her. Currently, I'm learning sign language with Cikgu Ismail's wife who is the resource teacher over there. There are many hearing impaired students who studies in the school, so these resources teachers facilitate their learning by translating what was said by their teachers. So for now, I've been practicing with the hearing impaired students themselves during the free period. A great bunch of students who are so expressive in thier conversations. I can't wait to sign with them on Monday.

Hmm... Next. Music:
I've been performing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 2 weeks in a row for Orchard Jam; an event organised to raise funds for the Children's Cancer Foundation. That was the most awesome event that I've ever did anywhere and anytime. Met great soundman and musicians alike. People like Daniel, Lee's lil brother, Syltra, the youngest female busker at only 15 in age and 5th Avenue, an acoustic duo. I've had people sitting down along the pavements of Paragon and requesting their favourite songs at 10pm. How cool is that? I even went down to perform for the Arts Cafe at Esplanade Library, courtesy of Johnathan who runs the program there. Managed to chat up with Chris, founder of Music for Movement, Sherlyn from The Unexpected band and Richard who owns a graphic design company. Fun bunch, just talked about originals and the daily occurance of life.

Next, Royale:
We performed for Orchard Jam too and my god, the reception was truly encouraging. Played our 5 originals, on top of some covers for a good 1 set. The next day, we were invited to play at the Arts Cafe which was formerly the Old Parliament House. I swear, the architecture both in and out, made me really excited. I'm a sucker for colonial architecture. We might be performing there again, but not as a guest but as our OWN show. The organiser wants to organise a show just for us. I really don't know how or when but certainly for sure, we're not going to do it anytime soon. We need more materials before we can ever embark on such a high scale project.

What else... Life:
I had the chance to witness Stage It's play, The Sword Has 2 Edges. Great acting I must say to the performers. I truly enjoyed myself. Kudos to Stage It. Hmmm... Malik's cousin came down all the way from Indonesia, Solo. She managed to catch Royale's performance and I brought her to the Singapore Mandai Zoo with Malik. Both of them loved the trip. Slept over at Malik's house before sending her to the airport at 6am in the morning. Her grandmother already made me promise her to visit Solo. Not that I don't want to go but I'm just tied up with school and the funds are just not enough. That's all. I would really love to go back to Solo and stay there for a week or two. The culture I long to breathe. Missing it already.

Crying tongues that tears the voice
Happy skin that speaks volume
You walk to search
You ask to rest
The serenity is what I crave
Because I want to wake up
With a smile on my face

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