The First Lesson

As what I told you in my previous post that I started my class this evening. It’s my 1st class. I was initially nervous but when the time getting nearer and nearer, I started to feel contented and steady inside. I know I was settled down.

So, fine. I got everything ready in hand and went to the class after my dinner (I even watched a little bit of the Hong Kong episodes –“宫心计”before I left home, hee-hee). I reached there about ten minutes before the class started. None of my students was coming yet. I had a little chat with the clerk, Jasmine before I went into the class. She told me that I didn’t have to bother anything except teaching the students. She would take over all the admin and registration stuff for me. Oh, this was brilliant! Honestly, I don’t really like to handle all the piddling little stuff. Believe me; they would sometimes get you truly piss off, especially when you deal with the parents. The headmistress told me that some of the parents terribly fell behind with the tuition fee and they only settled it after two months. Some of the cases are, they even ran away without settled the balance. Goodness. This is ridiculous, as though they are real frauds. Oh, shame on them.

After that, I went into the class and got myself ready for the new challenge. I took out the reference booklet, scribbled some notes on the whiteboard while waiting for the students. I even started to imagine how I was going to start my first speech, how to convey the lesson and anything.

The time slipped away bit by bit. None of them was showing their appearance yet. Jasmine knocked on the door and softly pushed the door open. She said,” Jenny, I think there is something wrong in between. I just called to one of the students and she said nobody told her that she is having class tonight.” WHAT!!!??? “Let’s talk to the headmistress since she is the one who deal with them,” she added. “Ok,” I replied.

We both talked to the headmistress over the phone and it eventually turned out that there was a little misunderstanding in between the headmistress and the students. She kept apologized to me about the mess tonight. Oh, well. I was fine. To be honest, I didn’t get any furious at all, instead, a little lucky sense was sparkling inside. May be behind my mind I was thinking that I could just go back and continue my Hong Kong episodes tonight. Oh, bad naughty Jen.

So at the end, my first class tonight was actually called off. Or, I should say it’s being postponed to next Wednesday. Hee-haw!

Will it be easy to be a good tutor?

Honestly, I don't know. I'm going to start my new part-time career very soon. I will be a Form1 English tutor starting exactly from this coming Wednesday. Gosh. My heart is thumping hard these few days as though I was going to attend an interview. I'm not sure if I’m really over-excited or nervous or because of less of confidence. Perhaps either one. After all, this is my first class. People will get nervous every when their first time, don't they? So am I.

I don't know how it's going to be with my first lesson. With my new students. With all the stranger faces and environment.

Oh yes. What should I do when in the class? What kind of material should I prepare for them? I need something or... anything that would arouse their interest of learning English and let them fall in love with my lesson. I should find a way to get them involved and enjoyed my teaching. This isn’t sounded easy at all. Anyway, it’s a big challenge and I will take it.

But, will they listen to me? Will they afraid me? Will they respect me as their tutor? Or may be they don't care either. May be this is actually their parents ideas to send them here. What they want is to get home as quick as possible, to turn on the telly and watch the programs, to stick to their MSN or Facebook or anything after all these few boring hours in tuition center. Goodness. What kind of all this bloody thought I have! I shouldn't upset myself, not even before the class starts.

Look at the bright side, may be there are students really come over for some after-school supplementary learning in order to improve the weakness in their current study. They would appreciate the chance. I should assist them by giving them whatever helps in their study just like what my teachers did for me when I was a schoolgirl. Oh, this is getting exciting.

I will start my class from 7.45pm to 9.45pm on every Wednesday evening. Yes, it's going to be a two hours lesson. I will be a tutor; I think this would be an incredible job. I hope I won't screw or mess it up by the end. Bless me. *fingers-crossed*

Little world of nature

It has been a few busiest ever months and I could hardly find some time to stick to my computer and update my blog. Oh, Jesus. This is bad. Tell you what, this would become even worse after this month - I would be almost fully tied up by my new schedule starting from next coming month onward. Oh, why? Hmm-hmm-hmm. I will tell you in my next post.

I took these few pictures when the trip to Tanjung Piai in September. No special reason to capture them in sight. Well, there are indeed for fun.

Don't-Miss-It Event of The Season - Bon Odori 2009

看了标题，我不多说了。来！2009年日本夏日盆舞祭，来跟我一起参与其盛吧。。。


摊位走透透。。。
因为好奇，所以我就问问那位salesman这些用禾制成的杯、碟，还有筷子究竟可以耐多久。他告诉我说五年以内是没有问题的，只要别把它们拿去烧就可以了。是吗？不置可否。
要吃纯日本传统手工的Mochi（看那位黑皮肤大叔pounding mochi in an usu）吗？还是想试一试用纸和铁线＂钓＂水球？
这是由一群国际日本高中生，在导师的带领下所呈现的Soran Dance。我上网查询了一些关于这Soran Dance的资料，原来它是源自日本早期Hokkaidō渔民们的传统民族歌谣。Soran歌词的字里行间，无不透露着渔民们在捕鱼时高昂亢奋地汹涌情绪，仿佛激励大家不畏前方的艰巨，誓要凭着无比的勇气勇往直前。
跳的人澎湃，看的人震撼。
自从两年前开始接触了这项盛举之后，接二连三的这几年我都没错过。因此当中有几位小娃娃我几乎年年都遇到。
接下来的就是众所期待地（贴切一点，是我最期待的）Bon Odori Dance了，这也是我每年最喜欢的项目。不过除了日本人之外，今年来参与这个group dance的华人已越来越少了。反之，却有很多的友族同胞穿着Yukata来跳这大和民族舞，有些甚至还戴着Tudung（整体看来有点怪怪的）。Not to be offending啦。不过，我还是觉得他们并不太适合穿Yukata啰。
嘻，我被分到一粒紫色会飞的气球。
不过还没拿在手上多久就因为白线松了（我都来不及把它给抓住），然后连good-bye都没说一声，就迫不及待＂擅自＂飞走了。好气哦！
这是年年都不可缺的＂鼓舞＂。
由主席还有其他委员会的成员们一起举行＂放球＂仪式－象征各民族们的和睦共处。
其实我比较enjoy五彩缤纷地气球冲向云霄的那一刻。越飞越高，在蔚蓝地天际下好像一颗颗的smarties candy。哈，不好意思，我又嘴馋了。
宽柔中小学的小弟弟小妹妹们为大家呈现一场＂扯铃＂表演。
为他们的努力来点掌声吧！
马来西亚的民族舞蹈。
到处拍拍。。。
StarWar真人秀？！
Left:每一年我都会遇到这位总是含羞答答地日本小姑娘。这一次我又忍不住走上前和她来个近距离的合照。She is a loving girl, isn't she?
Right: 无意中让我们遇到了另一个超可爱地小娃娃，还有她那很像张宇的daddy。这个小娃娃长得还挺精的，小小的脸蛋儿上有双圆溜溜、会说话地眼睛。逗趣得不得了！


第二场Bon Odori Dance。（At 7.30pm)
Hubby无意中拍到的滑稽镜头。 我们在那里待到8pm后，就跑去Crystal Crown Hotel里头的Kirishima Shuzou Japanese Restaurant吃晚餐了。
好累、好热，又好饿。

要扮可爱就趁现在。（哈！有够自恋的。）
享受我的Chawan Mushi... Hmm, yummy-yummy!
左边的是hubby点的Ishiyaki Goya Chanpura (stone grilled bitter gourd with egg)，而右边的则是我最爱的Ishiyaki Zaru Ramen。噢，我肚子好饿。好了，不说了。我要去大块垛颐一番了！Bye-bye！！

Bowling Time

I like the feeling of smashing and speeding. Of course I don't do speeding on the road. It's completely dangerous. Instead, I go for sports. I get these two fantastic feelings over the sports that I really like. Squash and basketball are my favorite sports and adding to these, bowling has just turned into one of them too.

My hubby is the main one who bring me to this bowling sport. Ok. Honestly, I had ever played bowling about million ages ago. But I did quite badly with that because I didn't get a proper guidance from somebody who has experience. My bowling ball just kept whirling swiftly into the trenches no matter how I threw it. I was quite fed up with my skill and I thought I didn't get any bowling sense, and therefore I didn't continue again ever after that awful experience.

In order to arouse my interest in bowling again, my hubby kept persuading and encouraging me to come over with him together in the weekend. Well. I like sports, so why didn't I give myself another chance again. If I could get my hubby to teach me and learn the technique adequately, may be I could do better beyond what I ever expected.

We had these before we proceeded to the bowling game this afternoon.


This is me, a novice bowler. I’m holding a grade 8 bowling ball.


My hubby’s show time. I like the way he shot the ball – always keep straight towards the targeted pin (my ones are always either roll off-course or producing a lousy BANANA-trend of rolling at the end). He could do a few effective strikes in each round. This is what I’m aiming now.



Tell you what, this had been my third time there and also the moment I got this highest mark ever in my previous record. Well, I know 86 is not something to smug of, it’s not even getting to 150 the pass mark yet, but I just can't keep myself from great exhilaration as though I had won a big lottery. I hardly get this mark. It could be the highest marks I could ever get in million years. Woo-ha-ha.



Basically I just changed a litte bit of the way I used to throw the bowling ball. My hubby commented that the way I threw the bowling ball was like something out-of-control. Haha. I just didn't care.

I kept my right arm slightly bent at the elbow, made a very quick but smooth move, almost running, meantime spared all my energy at my arm. Retracted my arm behind my body, like cradling and then arced the bowling ball from back to front and released it at full power. It rolled extremely fast at an almost straight direction on the flat wooden surface towards my targeted pin at 3rd position and finally knocked down as many pins as it could by the end. Do you know, when you release the big bowling ball with your full energy and by the time it hits on the 10 pins and they all scatter fiercely up and down, left and right, the feeling is kind of WOO. It's an absolutely great feeling.

Tired? Let's had our afternoon tea at StarBucks.

Exciting Weekend

There are a few people having their birthday in this month. Therefore, their closest friends - HH Tai, Gwen and Marion were suggesting inviting a few friends to come out and have some fun together. I was invited as well.

This is me, sweetie Jen. * wink*
Get myself ready in some soft make-up and a casual nice outfit – short-sleeved white shirt from MNG and Levi’s straight cut jeans and coming with a charming gold colour mini handbag from Padini. I tied my hair to a side with a crystal stars ornaments hair band and put on with a brown plaid hat from TopShop. Wow. Overall, I was like going to a party. Hee-hee.

We had been to the RedBox (karaoke) for three hours this afternoon. It’s entirely my favorite session. Then, we carried on with movie “Surrogates” at TGV cinema. And finally, chose the Secret Recipe for our dinners, or even perhaps some snacks before our real dinner.

Here are the three October babies – Marion, KS Leong and LinLin (from left to right).

I took only two slices of yummy walnut cheese cakes as my snack and a glass of healthy green apple celery juice.

Some group pictures of overall.
Say cheers...
(back, from left to right: LinLin, Gwen, KS Leong, sweetie Jen, and Marion.)
(front, from left to right: Terence, BK Wong, Low, and Poron.)

(back, from left to right: Gwen)
(front, from left to right: HH Tai, BK Wong, Low, and Poron.)

祝我亲爱的家人、朋友以及网友们，中秋节快乐！

今天是中秋节，你们会怎么庆祝呢？我呀。打算待一会儿吃过晚餐后和hubby一起去提灯笼散步。不过外头一直都下着绵绵细雨，已经下了一整天都没停过了。哎呀呀！我真的很想玩灯笼哩。

我很喜欢这粒薄荷口味的月饼哦。喜欢那种入口清凉地感觉。Hmm... Yummy-yummy!


大概十点钟，屋外的小雨终于停了。
放灯笼的时刻来了！来看看两个童心未泯的kidults。哈～

My Birthday in Lunar Calender （农历八月十三）

Besides the D90 from my hubby, the Mickey Prime from my buddies, and the lovely birthday cake, I’ve received another birthday gift which is also my first ever basketball in my life from BK. Oh, my dear friend, thanks ever so much! Thanks for getting me a new basketball which I desired for long too. That’s really great! ^^v

I promise that I would practice hard with my new basketball so that I could play like a speedy wind (as you wish) in the team someday. Bless me. Yeah!!



Oh yes, today is my birthday again. It’s in fact my lunar birthday. Zillion thanks to my dearest parents and my little brother for wishing me over the phone just now. It makes me feeling glad and deeply touched as though you all were just next to me and greeting me. Oh... I start to miss my dearest family again. I miss the moment when we all sit together around the dining table, mum and dad had cooked loads of delicious food for us and we all celebrated my birthday together. It’s the most precious time ever for me.

My birthday on 29 September 2009

I wake up this early morning, feeling refreshed and contented. It's my birthday today. That's my big day. I was born today 27 years ago. Yohoo... to myself and to my beloved parents as well. Thanks for bringing me to the world and let me be one of the Nguang family. It's my pleasure, hand on my heart.

6.45am...
I've received a few birthday greeting SMS from my buddies Marcy and BK in the morning. They even reach me before 7am. Wow, how nice. However, I’m still eagerly waiting for someone to greet me. The blessing words from my hubby. It's just so important to me. No special reason. It's like you always wish to get something from someone you love even a few very simple words when every significant moment, and so am I. I'm sure he hasn't forgotten about my great day. He was too tired last night and I should give him some times. So I wait.

8.30am onward...
Subsequently, there are a few messages coming in, from my dearest sis, friends, and the shopping stores where i've registered my detail before. No response from my hubby yet.

9.30am...
I check my handset on and off, and I still got nothing of what I longing for.

10.30am...
I'm feeling a bit resolved because...I've got the birthday greeting from my hubby in the end. He apologizes to me about the belated greeting and he promise to bring me to RedBox (karaoke) tonight. Yoo-hoo! I'm glad to hear that.

One thing that has disappointed me most is, the new receptionist didn't dedicate the birthday speech and play the song(each employee would get once every year as long as anyone's birthday is falling on weekday) for me. She gives the reason she was too busy and accidentally forgotten about this. How on earth could she forget about such an important thing. Does she know that this is sometimes what people would care about, especially on their big day? She doesn't do her job well. She bloody cow. This has truly upset me. I'm feeling completely and utterly sad. That's a real let down.

At 11am, the lousy receptionist is finally sending me the dedication. I don't know why she did so since she had missed the session earlier. May be someone thought this is not fair to me and made some complaint to HR. To be honest, it does comfort me a teeny bit. However, I didn't feel any high excitement as earlier sparkling inside my body anymore. It's too late. It's all over.

11.30am...
But then, I receive the two warmest greeting emails from KC and Poron. With a few sweetest ever words and a picture of lovely cute bear holding a love shaped red pillow with the "Happy Birthday" reading in front. All these start to cheer me up again. I think they must be hearing the dedication from that bloody receptionist just now. Anyway, my happiness is gradually glowing back again.

2.30pm...
I continuously get many birthday wishes from my colleagues. Thanks HH Tan, Pauline, HH Tai, Siva, KP Phang and many others too.

4.10pm...
Do you know what have the entire Test members bought for me just now? It’s a cake. A sweet creamy birthday cake with loads of my favorite strawberries on top and inside and come along with their lovely birthday song. Wow. I'm really enjoyed it. 4.30pm...
I've actually bought a used LG KU380 from James Poon last week and he just get the handset and all it's accessories to me today. However, he only knows that today is my birthday a minute ago. BK makes a joke on him that he should give that LG handset for free, as a birthday gift to me. He was worried. Well, after all it's just a joke. I will still pay him the agreed amount by the end.

5.30pm...
Oh, finally it's time to knock off! It's time to go home to get myself ready. Because, as what I mentioned earlier, my hubby will be coming in to JB tonight and bringing me to RedBox in order to celebrate my birthday. It's the time I’ve been waiting long for the whole day today. It's gonna be a fantastic night to me. Bless me! Cheers.

My dreamed Mickey Prime

Oh my God. Oh Jesus. Oh no. Look! They have got me my dreamed Mickey Prime, as my coming birthday gift. Goodness. This is the awesome piece which I saw in an outlet in Singapore Plaza. However, I didn’t buy it at that moment as it actually costs a bomb. But you know what; I desperately desire to have it with me. I so wished that I could never have thought of my budget at all. I really wanted it the first time I saw it. It's limited edition from Disney Japan.
Whatsoever, it’s now on my hand. It’s with me. It’s all mine now. Really. I can’t keep myself from giggling and almost jumping up and down once I received it from Low. I’m immensely excited tonight. Yeah. My dearest buddies (Low, Marcy & Hui Yan) had been coming out a great plan behind me; they contacted my hubby (he is staying in Singapore) secretly, asking him for the idea and helping them to get the piece. Oh, wickies! But I like it. Ha-ha.
Thanks Low, Marcy and Hui Yan once again. A zillion times of gratitude for what you all have done for me. As well as to my beloved hubby. Hand on my heart, you all are truly so thoughtful and lovely! *wink*

Mickey Prime driven by a small Mickey figurine on top.
Mickey Prime, protecting you from Megatron and every Disney villains alike. ^^"
The overall transformation is incredibly simple. The Mickey figure on the top is hidden while in the trailer mode, there is another Mickey coming out and driving the truck. Boo-boo...