On Eagles' Wings

I am ashamed. It's been.........five months since my last post. FIVE MONTHS! :O I'm so sorry my dear blog for having neglected you. Jangan merajuk ya? ;) I was thinking what I should blog about and it suddenly struck me! On the 23rd of October, I officially graduated from UKM! :D I don't have my pictures with me. They're all in my computer at the moment. (I'm typing this in my Materials class in the faculty computer lab. Oops, Dr. Hope you don't mind :p) But I promise will try to upload the pictures and blog about my PROUD moment soon! :) Let's hope I can begin blogging regularly again. Stay tuned! ;)

Have you missed me? :D It's been ages! So much has happened that I can't even begin to describe everything from where I last left off. @.@ I've been diligently updating on the Other Blog , though. So hopefully, once my practical is over, I'll be able to pick out certain highlights from there and blog about it here :) As it is, I don't have time to leisurely blog about what happens in school here. At least, not in how I'd like it to be. It'll take time and thought. Which I can't really afford on a normal school night :P (Do I sound like I've regressed 10 years and have a curfew? xD) Anyway, it's the mid-year holidays now. I've got a precious two weeks......well, less than that now, since it's already Tuesday. @.@ I've been catching up on all my favourite channels on Youtube (since in UKM, I can't really load videos in my room. It just doesn't load at all! :/) and my favourite bloggers :D It feels good to just.....br...

It's been a while. Don't worry. Just because I'm MIA here doesn't mean my students have formed a revolution against me, abducted me and then tortured me beyond my sanity and then later chopped me up into pieces and dumped my body (or what's left of it) into the nearby big longkang  for making them do ten journal entries during the holidays and some 20-items of subject-verb agreement and past tense verb forms. All I've been doing is just savouring my one-week break from school. :) Honestly, I do feel that we teachers damn well deserve our school holidays. So, shut it, you jealous 9-to-5 office people! It's not like our holidays are completely free. Wanna know what I've been doing? Well, besides watching Fringe episodes lar . I've been writing my daily reflections online for each teaching day in school, writing about what I've done with both my classes, the activities I carried out, evaluating my own teaching and class management. (If...

I've just survived a week in school. Honest to God, I don't know how I'm going to survive four months. I'm falling apart, breaking down every few days, stressed out of my mind! I don't know how my dad, and other teachers, can do this every day for the past 30 years. I don't know if I even want to, now. Q has been rather good to me this week. No problems, except for a little creaking and cranking when I turn right, sometimes. @.@ Thank God. Finally, a photo of my baby! :D SMK PP 14(1) is a school with a Malay population of 99.99% (thereabouts. I don't know the exact number). While I don't really have any real problem with that, it has, however, severely limited my wardrobe choices . There is only one single non-Muslim female teacher, who happens to be the Ketua Bidang Bahasa  (Head of Language Department) and every single day (for the past week I've been observing her) she wears a baju kurung . Nothing that doesn't completely cover...

Jessie sent me a message on FB Chat exclaiming, "She's engaged!" Seeing as we've reached the age where a lot of our peers are tying the knot, getting engaged etc. I couldn't figure out who she meant. "WHO WHO WHO????" I asked. She sent me a link on Youtube , and.....what a pleasant surprise it was! Sonia, of the lovely musical Korean-Australian duo Jayesslee, is engaged! :D To who? Andy, their cameraman and photographer! I'd always been a fan of the twins and their beautiful lilting voices, and admired them for their strong Christian faith as well. But I got another surprise when I found out that their engagement shoot was done by none other than Jenny Sun , a wedding photographer I greatly admire too! The photos --as always when it comes to Jenny's work--are beautiful and awe-inspiring! I always love how she manages to capture the most wonderful moments between a couple, even if it's just his hand around her waist, her head on h...

I was so grouchy and grumpy waking up at slightly before 7.00am this morning. Makes me wonder how I'm going to be able to wake up at 5.00am every weekday morning to go to school. >.< I was absolutely delighted that the Officer at the Putrajaya Education Department, Pn. Khairul Bariyah gave a pretty simple briefing that did not last for hours and revolved around the same darn thing which could have been said and done with in 15 minutes. I like her. She was warm and had a friendly face, and had a knack for putting people at ease :) Unfortunately, the only advice she wanted to give us was to "be careful". Why? Because many of the children who go to these schools in Putrajaya are sons/daughters of Somebodies. Maybe not the Menteri's  kids, but possibly the Menteri's   driver's  kids--okay, maybe they're sons/daughters of People-who-think-they-are-Somebodies. Anyway, she kept trying to make us feel better--which makes me wonder if things aren't ...

Oh man, my legs are aching from hours of walking around town today! (Sign of old age, really. T.T) Had breakfast as early as 8.00 this morning, cos we had plenty of things to do for the day :) And who knew that I would miss pak cik's   nasi lemak  this much? ;) Walked over to the Faculty (I did not  miss this place!) to settle some academic-related things and get my result slip. (Did I mention that I got 3As and 1A- last semester? A bit disappointed with the A-, but oh well. I am very grateful :D) Then off for our mini road trip to SMK Putrajaya Precinct 14(1)! I'd only come through here once, and that was with my parents driving. I drove this time, to familiarize myself with the route I'd be travelling every weekday for the next four months plus. @.@ Took a few wrong turns here and there, but with friends, it just becomes part of the adventure! xD All in all, not too difficult a route; takes about 15 minutes to get to the school with clear traffic. Hope there are n...

While I know this is going to be short-lived, I have to say, I'm glad to be back in UKM :) Maybe the excitement+anticipation of a new term does that to you. Fools you into thinking you're happy to be back until you aren't. =.= Kidding. Drove to Bangi this morning with no problems. Except for one incident where I nearly missed the turning to exit the roundabout and I made a sharp left. I think my mum must have died a little right then. She was already hitting the imaginary brakes when I was going at 100 km/h on the highway. (Is that really too fast? @.@) Moved to a new residential college for this term, Aminuddin Baki. Which means that in my four years here, I'll have stayed in 3 different colleges--KTHO, KIY, and now KAB. KTHO's single rooms and washrooms are still the best, KIY will be remembered for its monkeys , and only one day here and I'm guessing I'll remember KAB for its lack of parking spaces. T.T I'm dreading thinking about agonizing o...

Been busy packing all day. I thought I was pretty much done, or at least half-done. But when I looked at my list again, I realized I'd barely scratched the surface. =.= Now that I'm finally done and all the bags are neatly haphazardly piled on top of each other in my room, I see only 30% of my floor space.  (Well, in all fairness, my room is rather small to begin with. But still.)  I don't understand it.  Every semester during this biannual routine, I tell myself I'm gonna bring less stuff. But every. single. time. I still bring back a lot of stuff! @.@ Anyway. Washed the car for the first time in years. And yes, in both senses. 1) My first time washing a car in years, and 2) The first time this car is getting washed in (about 2?) years! Well, I am taking the car up to uni next, no OMG it's actually this semester. I need it to travel daily to and from school now that I'm starting my teaching practicum in Putrajaya, a 20-minute drive from my hostel. So...

A lot of the time, I feel out of place. I used to struggle with that feeling, several months back. And I tell you, I really struggled. I fought bouts of depression, felt emotional all the time. I'd hardly join in in conversations, only occasionally laughing at the jokes that I was supposed to laugh at, then going back to my silent room to cry silently. The hardest part was pretending that everything was alright, putting on a fake smile every day. The only person I let see how I really felt was my bf. And he had a tough time figuring out how to deal with an overly-sensitive, emotional, blubbering puddle of tears who seemed like she had PMS 24/7. Loneliness, it turns out, is a pain in the butt. It was really hard holding it out in uni. It was especially hard when this horribly depressing feeling was there when you were with the people closest to you. It was hard to express because, how do you explain to those people you care about, and who care about you, that they...