Tag Marathon (KORANG DERA AKU!!!!)

Yeah I was busy and my jaw dropped when I received not 1 - but... 4!!!! Seriously - siapla Bangbil, huhuhu. And those who are being tagged back, blame it on my brother, hahahaha.

Here goes.

Tag No. 1 - Here in My Home (From Bangbil)



Instruction
1. Make an entry with the title "Here in My Home"
2. Include in the entry:
-video clip of Here in My Home OR the mp3 (it doesn't hv to play automatically)
Get the video clip code from You Tube. Click on the youtube -the link to the website: http://www.malaysianartistesforunity.info/
3. Tag 5 people
-CurXku sayang
-Along
-Intan
-Zamose
-Anem

Tag no.2 - From Bangbil

Instructions: Remove ONE question from below, and add in your personal question, make it a total of 20 questions, then tag 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. Do you believe in love at first sight?
I always believe in 'Don't judge a book by it's cover'

2. Have you ever felt stupid? Why?
This morning - The pakcik and makcik that I have been conversing with since early this year at the mini-stadium was my former STMI 1 headmaster - and I didn't know it until he said he taught there. What's worse, he knows my parents and my older siblings and I always called his son who was my classmate (behind his backlah) 'Ali Setan'

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
My room

4. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
- I got too many dreams and you want me to put just 1?

5. If you can travel through time WITHOUT changing anything. Where would u go & why?
- To Camelot during King Arthur's era - To know whether he was just a myth or a living legend

6. If the weather is too hot, where will u go to make urself cooler?
In front of my fan la, hehehe

7. If you win $1 million, what would you do?
Spend some, invest some, save some - all things covered

8. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
You'd better ask my fiancee what happened to him, hehehehe

9. Who are the top five people in the world you would wish to meet?
none

10. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
bak kata emak - kuat iman, jaga solat and all that, hehehehe

11. Which type of cars I love the most?
Kancil, hahahaha - I save a lot on petrol and service

12. Which do you prefer from your other half? hug? or a kiss?
Trick question. Ask after my nuptials, ngehehehe

13. If you have faults, would you rather the people around you point out to you or would you rather they keep quiet?
Quiet = ignorance, point out and not being mean at the same time = improvement

14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
Happiness and peace at heart

15. Are you a shopaholic or not?
Not a compulsive shopaholic - always within my budget

16. What peeves you the most?
A really dirty and smelly restroom with an unflushed and 'something-swimming-in-it' toilet

17. If you have a chance, which part of your character you would like to change?
Be more of a risk-taker

18. What makes you feel disappointed?
Being lied at

19. If given a chance, do you want to see your future?
No - reminds me too much of the consequences in Shakespeare's Macbeth

20. Would you still be friend your best friend whom had betrayed your trust?
Lesson of 5 balls - friend = glass. Once nicked or broken, you will never get the perfect glass ball back.

and this tag goes to:
-CurX (Sorry dear, hehehe)
-Along
-Intan
-Anem
-Zamose
-Sue Mail

Tag No. 3 - Bangbil

~8 random facts about me
Ni dah pernah buat

~8 things that scare me
1- Lori balak (Thanks to Final Destination 2)
2- Not seeing in the dark
3- The unknown
4- Broken down car in the middle of the night, in the middle of no where
5- Japanese, Indonesian and Thai horror movies
6- Gore stuff
7- Being unhealthy - not the biasa punya but the long term effect of not taking care of health
8- Tape worm - its yucky and way too darn long

~8 random musics at the moment
Ni dijawab dalam tag no.4 di bawah ^_^

~8 words i say the most
Ni pun sama

~8 things/people i treasure the most
Ni pun sama

~8 things as your wishlist
1- Contentment
2- Great family
3- Good friends
4- No global warming, hehe
5- Health
6- Kesejahteraan dunia dan akhirat (ikut Bangbil)
7- Comfortable
8- Stability

~8 'first time' things i ever did
1- First time run away: 1988 - cabut dari kelas mengaji sebab nak tgk Moero Attack! Ada hati nak balik jalan kaki dari sekolah
2- First movie tengok kat wayang: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
3- First time kerja: 2004 lepas abis degree
4- First time duduk jauh dari family: 1994 - masuk KTAM JB
5- First time nampak fiancee: Wedding room-mate IPSM
6- First time beli kaset: 1993 - Kaset Roxette, Joyride
7- First time masak: 1992 - arwah Atuk suruh
8- First time kena rotan: 1990 sebab tak siap h/work, ingat compare bekas libasan dengan kawan sebab dapat pangkat 'sergeant' kat betis

~8 person to do this
Tak cukup 8 la tapinye
-CurX (Sorry dear, hehehe)
-Along
-Intan
-Anem
-Zamose
-Sue Mail

Tag No.4 - Bangbil

1) What is the most important thing in your life?
Family and friends

2) What is the last thing that you bought with your own money?
A pair of new shoes

3) Where do you wish to get married?
The venue is unimportant as long as the nuptials are smooth

4) How old do you think you will be permanently owned by your love?
Love does not equal to owning someone

5) Are you in love?
Yes

6) Where was the last restaurant you had dinner?
At Stulang for a very very late dinner - courtesy to the girl's night out with my cousins

7) Name the latest book that you bought?
Hmmm... I bought 4 but you want to name 1?

8) What is your full name?
My full name - Nadiah (my own name without my dad's)

9) Do you prefer your mother or father?
No preference, I love both

10) Name a person that you really wish to meet in real life for the first time.
Real life? As in a fantasy character to real life? Jean Grey, hahahaha

11) Christina or Britney?
Christina, classy

12) Do you do your own laundry?
Rotate with my mak, hehehe

13) The most exciting place you want to go?
Book Expo (yeah yeah, I'm the proverbial bookworm)

14) Hugs or kisses?
Both, hahahahaha

15) Point out 5 things about the person who tagged you.
Bangbil
1) Bossy
2) Won't let me drive his car - unless it's an emergency
3) Jiwang karat, hahaha
4) Afraid of frogs
5) Loves his toys, hehehehe

16)8 things I am passionate about:
*not in any particular order*
1) Family
2) Friends
3) Books
4) Shoes (I'm crazy about them)
5) Being prepared
6) Singing in my car
7) Burning calories on weekends
8) Maintaining my newly developed ab line - susah weyyyy nak dapat - do 70 reps of double sit ups twice on weekends and buat ab crunch smpi pensan daily

17)8 things I say too often:
*not in any particular order*
1) Stand up
2) Sit down
3) Take out your book
4) Yang ada nama duduk, yang tak ada, diri
5) Siapa tak siap tak dapat chocolate
(What can I do? I am a teacher after all, hahahaha)
6) Internet bangang!!!!
7) Shoot! (tune die macam cakap sh*t)
8) Senyap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18) 8 books I've read recently:
Dang.... well... here goes, for the past week,
1) Linda Howard's Mr Perfect (baca time tukar timing belt)
2) James Patterson's Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (For the gazillion time)
Those two okay lagi nak tulis publicly but then, the rest....
3) Diana Palmer's Evan
4) Lynne Graham's Emerald Mistress
5) Lucy Monroe's Housekeeper to the Millionnaire
6) Lauren Dane's Fire and Rain
7) Diana Palmer's Lawless
8) Christine Rimmer's Mercury Rising
And yes, so I read tons of romance, now you know.

19)8 songs I could listen to over and over again:
*not in any particular order*
1) Everything - Lifehouse
2) Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
3) Yes/No - Arashi
4) Pikanchi Double - Arashi
5) My Immortal - Evanescence
6) Mr Brightside - The Killers
7) Adiemus - Adiemus
8) I Believe - Blessid Union of Souls

20)8 things I learned last year:
2007
*not in any particular order*
1) People are not who they seem to be
2) Education loans are costly, so janganla amik PTPTN untuk anak. Invest for education fee
3) Once you tasted keropok lekor in Terengganu, you will rant a lot when you eat keropok from other places.
4) Those who compare and look too much at other people's life are not peaceful inside.
5) Sometimes, we do have to be cruel to be kind
6) Lotsa cows wandering around unattended in Besut
7) If your car's timing belt is broken, you can't even turn on your car
8) Some people could be too narrow minded

-8 people to tag:-
Tak cukup 8 la tapinye, again
-CurX (Sorry dear, again, hehehe)
-Along
-Intan
-Anem
-Zamose
-Sue Mail

Tag No. 5 (the final one)- Zamose

1 minit yang lalu, apa anda buat
Answering the darned tags

1 hari yang lalu, apa anda buat
Duty untuk Anugerah Seri Asrama Gemilang peringkat Negeri

1 hari lagi apa anda akan buat
Taip sijil bebudak kursus motivasi english

1 orang yang terakhir menelefon kamu
Hanis - tanya duty buat report

1 makanan yang baru dibeli
Tak beli makanan langsung harini. Semua sponsor pertandingan bagi

1 barang yang baru hilang
My hair band - asyik lupe letak mana aje, hehehe

1 cerita yang baru ditonton
Oprah Winfrey Show (cerita ke tu?)

1 hal terakhir yang digossipkan
hahaha, adela

1 kata yang ingin diluahkan
Woi! Aku lepak la jawab tag bebanyak!!!

1 buku yang sudah dibaca
Tengok tag atas

1 penyakit yang sering datang
Penyakit 'procrastinate', haha

1 keinginan
I'm too shy to put it up here, hehe


Okay, dah!!!!
Siap!!!!!
Cukup ah, takyah update blog sebulan, bwahahahaha

And the price soars!!!!!

Ron 97 petrol price was increased up to RM2.70 at midnight. That's 76 cents of increase and still, has Malaysia at the lowest petrol price in S.E.A. Makes me want to guffaw at the last election when some party promised to keep the petrol price at a low, lower than we had yesterday. I mean come on, we all know that the whole world is running low of petrol and with the increasing of the whole wide world's petrol price, there is no way the petrol price is going to stay at a minimum at all time. Talk about logic and common sense. When the demand is higher than the supply, of course the price will jack up. Unless people believe that petrol is one of the renewable energy sources which going to last forever. Wind, water, solar - now that's renewable energy sources. Even my year 5 pupils know that.

When fuel price soars, there is no way the goods price are going to stay at the same price. Heck, even a full tank Kancil with more or less 20l tank capacity is going to cost ><>20l of full tank - won't that make the price increase too?

If only the public transportation at my place is that efficient. Heck, we don't even have a bus that comes and go at my residential area. Short of riding a bicycle daily to work - which usually takes me about 15 minutes car ride, think how long will it take for me to cycle to school, haha. I would end up too sweaty in my baju kurung and would make me get another round of shower at the school's restroom. But then again, when there's a will there's a way - and my will is not strong enough for that - yet.

^_^

One day I was watching a TV programme - on which channel? I've forgotten but weirdly the commercials at that time was straight about babies - pregnant women, a family with houseful of kids and everything, babies here babies there (okay so maybe I was watching one of the learning channels). My lil bro was pointing it out that the whole commercial lines was so odd. I mean come on, the whole few minutes of commercials only on babies and pregnancies is rare.

Then I got a call from my sister in law saying...

I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT!!!!!!

Aunty Diah?

Cik Diah?

Mak Diah?

What is the name they call the third born kid? My siblings never had to use the name 'along', 'angah' and all that.

Hmmm.... I still have months to think what name I should use.

Anyway, alhamdulillah ^_^

p.s: I wonder where I can get that baby rattle and baby caps with pointy ears on it

Set Adrift On Memory Bliss

It's my brother's room turn for a spring cleaning. Since he took my desk away and place it in his room years ago, I got reunited with my old stuff, hurrah!!

Well, those are actually stuff that I know I have but I don't know where I put it.
So here are some of the stuff - dated mostly since my secondary school years - and yes I'm a sucker for mementos. In this case, most of them are correspondence letters from my friends throughout the years - though some of them are lost but hey, some of them are here.

My name tag and my ex-pet-sis' name tag that she gave me on my last day of school.

The letter that I faxed to 98.7fm to claim my prize for letter of the day for 'Say It With Music' slot. The original letter was filled with cartoon I drew and my cousin actually recorded the part when they announced the letter of the day part - only that I don't know where the heck I put the cassette. The song I requested for was Missing you by Gladys Knight, Brandy, Chaka Khan and Tamiya. To whom I requested it for, I may have some idea but I'm very sure that my buddies Along, Sue and Eena were among those.

My cassette collections, ranging from pop to rock - BSB, R.E.M, Def Leppard, Indecent Obsession, Boyzone, Garbage, Jim Brickman, Josh Groban, etc, etc.

I bought their cassettes, but at that time I also really really have to have their special edition CD esp that first album. The cassette I had only have 1 bonus track while the special edition had 3. Boy, listening back to them brings the smile on my face.

Remember the reign of Spice Girls in late 90s? I bought this with my friends and back in those day, I love it so much that I rarely use it. There's still half of it and to me, it is one of the best Impulse perfume spray scent ever. Wonder how much that will cost if I ever decided to sell it.

You got the 'Chronicles of Narnia', I got the 'Chronicles of Nadiah' from 1994 to... hmmm last time I wrote in it was in 2005 I think... 2 of those are black because I kinda remembered Belinda Carlisle's song - Little Black Book. Despite the hiding places from my oh-so-baik brothers, they still managed to read it. But I doubt that they read the brown book, hehehe.

So there it is, my memory lane. I still have to sort my photo album from the pictures I found, huhuhu.

Happy Mother's Day!!

Years ago when I was 16, I made a call to my mak from the hostel, asking her to open my drawers, to take out a specific white covered cassette and play it. On that year's Mother's Day. Honestly I did not know what to get her that year. Surprisingly she still remembers the song to this very day - even if she forgotten who sang it.

"Eh, ni lagu yang Diah suruh dengar la".

If you're wondering what song, this was it



HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERY MOTHER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!

p.s: Selamat Pengantin Baru to Aidah and Azzireen

Late 80s

Primary school began.
Tagging my brother wherever he may go playing.
Request for a younger sibling.
The I-forgot-to-do-my-homework routine.
Ramlah Ram wearing a white gown with huge red heart on it (or was it in the 90s?)
Michael Bolton with his huge hair and denims
Never ending music influence by my sister - which brings me to today's post. Because of her I love listening to Belinda Carlisle's songs!!!!



My all time favourite 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth'. Watching the clip back again... boy, the 'angkat-angkat- earth-ball' routine is sure something, hihihi.

Kids Say The Darnedest Thing

Kids do say the darnedest things. They're sincere, straight up and most of the time - tactless. Some are flattering, some are funny and some are just downright embarrassing.

I was teaching year 1 pupils writing and as usual had to call up few pupils who need special attention while doing it or they might not even do their exercise. If they did, they might write with lots of errors and ended up being totally messy.

There is this kid, always up to mischief and needs round the clock supervision or he will run out of the class and play around the teachers' car. So this was what he asked me today:-

Pupil: Cikgu, cikgu nak kereta apa? Nanti saya belikan untuk cikgu (Teacher, what car do you want? I'll buy it for you)
Me: Kenapa? (Why?)
Pupil: Kereta cikgu buruk sangat la, kesian saya tengok (Your car's so ugly that I sympathize you)
Me: ??

Vote! Vote!

On my bid to support my brother for his entry for the Kingston HyperX Girl contest, vote for his drawing here!!!! It closes on 20th May so cast your vote - You have to create a login username before voting btw. This is his version of Kingston HyperX Girl.


The contest is based on voting + judges decision, so, please vote.

I... got... the... urge!!

I was visiting my uncles and aunts in JB with my brother and I just can't fight the urge.

Of what?

Of watching Iron Man the second time!!!!



Iron Man is just pulling me back for more rounds - which my cousin totally agree and she keeps on drooling on Robert Downey Jr while my brother decided to go and watch it again, alone on Monday.

So far the movies that I merited more than just 1 visit at the cinema were 10 things I hate about you, LOTR trilogies, Pirates of the Caribbean - the Curse of the Black Pearl and Iron Man just adds up the list. Unlike others, Transformers did not merit in mine because I still have hang ups on Bumblebee being a Chevrolet Camaro and not a VW Bug.

Who knows, I might be going for a third round, ngiahahahaha

Orang Besi

Its Labour Day today so as planned I accompanied my friend to JB to buy her new mobile phone - and also to watch Iron Man.

You just can't imagine how I felt when the line at TGV Tebrau City was outpoured to the shop area, past the Baskin Robbins stall. The wait was excruciating and it was no surprise that the shows from 12pm to 3.45pm were all sold out. So we both decided to hunt for the phone there, had our lunch and head out to another cinema house at Pelangi Leisure Mall that was always, always never filled up to the max.

Boy, I was wrong.

Seems like every family in town decided to watch Iron Man there with their groups of kids so we managed to get separate good seats on different rows. If I thought that the kids were going to make lots of interrupting noise, I was wrong again. The kids behaved well and did not make any noise. It were the mothers who were busy being commentators without the urge of any of their kids *sighs*.

About the movie - It definitely worth our trip from Tebrau City to Leisure Mall. We can expect changes from the original comic but overall, it is a good movie. Some humour and lots of actions. We were both in awe of Robert Downey Jr, hehehe. Totally enjoyed the part when Pepper (Gwyneth) threw -not literally- catty Ms 'Brown' out by saying that she also 'take and throw out trashes' for Stark if needed. Oooh, score that.

Next attraction - Indiana Jones!!!!!!

Green yap

Earth Day was few days back on 23rd of April- whether you realize it or not and I urged my pupils to tune in Discovery and National Geographic channel for information and who knows the topic might pop up during Johor state level English Carnival which is the end of this month. HBO even aired 'An Inconvenient Truth' - the movie documentary on climate crisis by Al Gore and it was an eye opener. My younger brother who before this kept saying that the green house effect is just a myth people created was silenced. The earth is not getting any cooler at the rate of the carbon dioxide emission we are having now.

One of the part that saddens me was about the polar bear. Some of the polar bears were found dead. Drowned. Picture that. They are known for their ability to swim but due to the melting ice they have to swim for miles to the next icy surface that they could land on.

This is one of the snippets featured in the movie-documentary and Futurama


On Thursday I read an article in NST about a man who refused to use the disposable wooden chopstick that the masses of stalls are using and opted to carry his portable chopstick whenever he's eating out. He was given the weird look by his friends but his action was justified. That was his move to save the environment. Of course, wood = tree, which made me feel bad to forget to bring my chopstick to Sushi King yesterday.

Few months back, an aunt was applauding me for refusing more plastic bag at a well known bakery. She refused it too. It made me feel bad because her reason and my reason were totally different. She was on her move to cut her plastic bag usage while I... was actually dining in at the bakery with my sister and sister in law. Well you know how things go there, the more bread you buy, the more plastic bags you get. Then again I found myself still using and accepting more plastic bags from grocery stores X_X

One of the advantages of teaching science is that I could at least tell them about the environment. They were laughing when I told them about CFC from air cond and refrigerator but was not doing so the day after - thanks to the Self Access Centre at school. They were googling it after the lesson. We learned about renewable and non-renewable energy and from what I heard some was even being scolded when they told their moms to cover the pans and wok while cooking. Well that is one of the way to save natural gas. Of course la some are too strait laced that they were asking their mothers not to even lift the lid to stir the food. Kids. I can't imagine what will happen if I teach them about solar cooking.

A pupil was asking me if I am an environmentalist.
That certainly gave me a pause.
I don't recycle - I don't even know where the recycling centre is, I have loads of plastic bags at home and most of the trash at home is burnt at my backyard. The cans and bottles are thrown at the huge container managed by SWM.

What did I do to save the environment?
What do you do to save the environment?

It will go to our kids and grandchildren in the future.

p.s: It's my mom's birthday today!!

I Could Breathe!

Neti Pot.

What is a neti pot?
Well for an explanation, go ahead here. It is an ancient technique believed to relieve sinusitis and headache due to sinus. Of course la, I have sinus and nearly a month watching that particular episode which is last Tuesday, I went to buy a small pot. Well, its a set of creamer pot with 2 sugar containers that cost RM9. I'm doing it every morning and the change that I see is that I finally could breathe with 2 unblocked nostrils in the morning - usually I ended up breathing using 1 and spending my time blowing my nose nearly every morning, not to mention the morning sneeze. My brother, A'an is doing it too and I have to say, breathing using 2 nostrils is a novelty before. I'm loving my nostril pot, wahahaha.

Basikal Saya

Saya ada sebuah basikal. Basikal saya berwarna merah. Pada asalnya saya mahu membeli basikal yang berwarna hitam kerana rupanya amat bergaya. Tetapi basikal hitam itu mempunyai... (dang, what's the word for feature?) ciri-ciri yang kurang daripada basikal merah yang dipamerkan di hadapan kedai itu. Selain itu kos penyelenggaraan basikal hitam itu lagi tinggi dari basikal merah tersebut. Jadi akhirnya saya membuat keputusan untuk membeli basikal merah. Tetapi, beberapa hari kemudian, Dr. Oz di dalam rancangan 'Oprah Winfrey Show' menyatakan membawa basikal dengan tidak menggunakan tempat duduk yang khas boleh menjejaskan 'kesihatan' lelaki dan perempuan. Dang! Tak kisahlah. Sekali sekala tak salah kan?

p.s: Jika ada tersilap tatabahasa dan penggunaan bahasa, harap maaf :D

Aging gracefully

How many people around you that you know looks way younger than their real age? Well I know one and he looks young because he got the young genetic. Well, okay, he's my older brother who since I was in secondary school friends kept thinking him as my younger brother :P

All that aside,

I LOVE WATCHING OPRAH!!!

Before this, I did think anyone is turning old when and if they enjoy watching Oprah just proven how ignorant could I be. I learnt lots of thing watching Oprah, other than reading of course. Today, Oprah galore on Hallmark. If Starworld kept having Heroes marathon - which I found kind of tiring due to the outcome of the second season, a dose of Dr. Oz on Oprah opened my eyes.

Of course the show is about health, life, entertainment, information, books and many more. Do you know that you can do something for kids with autism? Or do you know that having a nose bidet using a neti pot could help you with sinus problems? Or doing a 'stamp test' could help in detecting E.D. problems? Or that swimming in the Amazon river could cause a type of fish swim into you and then grow in you and the only way to get it out is by surgery? I wouldn't know that.

Well most of the show today were about ageing. How you live your life would reflect how well you may age. The main reason people does not age gracefully is because of stress (who doesn't have them?), too much sugar in the diet, no exercising, smoking, drinking and lack of sleep. Well those are the points that I managed to catch up on. No problem for me in the smoking and drinking sector since I don't do any of them.

I know everyone wants to age gracefully and look younger than their calendar age. I know I want to be healthy when I am old so... I will try my best to:

1. Manage stress wisely - who says working with kids is easy?
   
2. Keep doing my exercise daily - The Swiss ball workout, weights, crunches (thanks to my fitness instructor cousin who kept on yapping me to do workout).
   
3. Eat healthily - Less red meat in my diet and less oil except olive oil, more vegetables and enough rice.
   
4. Get enough sleep - which is mostly from 9pm to 5am (that's 8 hours)

Since March this year, I'm starting this routine and still doing it, but as my cousin said, it's not getting slender being the goal. From researches that I read in the papers and online, being thin doesn't always mean being healthy and being fat doesn't always mean being unhealthy. The key here is being healthy and that's what I am trying to be.

p.s: Do you know that lifting weights could help you to prevent osteoporosis? More the reason for me to love my dumbbells, hehehe.

Triple Post

Hah, ambik tu, bertubi-tubi post, since god knows when will be the next time I post another one, hahaha. Anyway, just currently stuck with my current earworm - a song by both my favourite singers - Yuna Ito and Celine Dion - Anata ga iru kagiri. Since it's next to impossible to go to Celine Dion's concert in KL this April, watching youtube would be enough, huhuhu. Enjoy.

Tag superhero

1- Apa superpower idaman anda? Choose only one.
Telekinesis/psychokinesis.

2- Siapa superhero/watak yang mempengaruhi pilihan itu?
Jean Grey dalam X-men (although die ade power telekinesis & telepathy) Prue Halliwell dalam Charmed.

3- Kenapa superpower yang itu?
Sebab tengok macam cool aje power diorang. Senang nak ambil barang n manipulate form (and sometimes rasa nak lepuk aje mat rempit and driver-driver kereta yang cilok macam bagus kat tengah jalan tu, ngiahahaha)

4- Apakah kelemahan kamu? We're never b perfect right?
Forgetfulness, hehehehe.

5- Apakah nama superhero kamu?
Sebab Jean Grey guna nama sendiri (nama Marvel Girl takle popular sangat), guna nama sendiri ah. Time die kena rasuk aje baru jadi Phoenix. So kalau kena rasuk... versi Melayu, jadi 'Garuda' (mythical creature la tu kan?)

6- Motto superhero kamu pula?
"Orang baik selalu menang, walaupun orang jahat power macam mana pun"
-berkat dari tengok Ultraman zaman dulu. Time dah nak kalah tetibe datang pulak adik beradik otromen nak nolong, hihihihi.

survey SUPERHERO ni akan ditag kpd :
1-CurX- sebab kejap jadi betmen, kejap jadi zombie
2-Sue Mail - sebab baru sambung master (tak releven pun padahal, hahaha)
3-Za - alasan untuk update blog die, hahaha.

Manic Week

It had been a very hectic time since school started nearly 2 weeks ago and honestly this is the first time I could ever manage to sit still and not falling back to sleep like I did the past days. And of course the first time I went on reading blogs since the time I updated mine. Along with other English teachers at school, we were busy preparing our pupils for the Zone level English Carnival. On Friday, we had 'solat hajat' event from 6.30pm to 11.00 pm, and on Saturday I was given opportunity to become a judge for the Storytelling competition level 1 for Bandar Zone. Sunday, again, trained my pupil who represents the school for the storytelling competition level 2 in the Pekan Nenas Zone English Carnival.

This is her, the pupil that I trained for months with the aid of her mother who also happened to be a teacher in my school and other English teachers. And this was taken before the competition in the teacher's common room.

Many thanks also to my mom who helped me sewing the kain sampin and show me how to make the tengkolok. We got number 1 for Public Speaking Level 2 and Storytelling Level 2. I found myself enjoying the task of sewing the beads at the sleeve and pocket, making a fake beard and bedazzling a plain sandal to this:-

Yeah, yeah so I have to stick some more of that stuff before the district level competition this Saturday. Hope we can make it this district level since there's another round for the competition that calls for an impromptu storytelling. For an English non-speaker at home, that is going to be tough. Wish us luck!

Ta Ta Holiday

It was like the whole one week went through in a blink of an eye and tomorrow, school will start. Out of 10 days, 2 days was spent for year five night tuition which I changed to daytime, 2 days to train the 'girl-who-socked-the-boy-in-the-eye' for next week's storytelling competition (hope that she will win), 2 days for sewing the clothes for her (and it's still unfinished *gulp*), 1 day spent with my siblings and sister in law in JB, 1 day for Yus', my friend from school wedding along with lots of catching up with one of my best buddies Eena, 1 day visiting my friend, Ujai for her second child birth in Kulai with Yan and Qis and 1 day for doing the 1000 pieces jigsaw puzzle that I bought in a whim.

Wow, I really filled up my holiday.

Other than that, I managed to glue myself in front of the TV watching Oprah and on my colleague's recommendation I started watching 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader'. It was fun, since the game format was testing if the adult could answer questions from 1st grade to fifth grade subject and seemed like all the contestants used up all their cheats in the early round. Of course, the American syllabus is way up front than Malaysian and I couldn't help but sit back and say that I only learnt some of those lessons in secondary school when they already did in elementary school. And the question on the Dewey System? Heck I only learnt them in Resource Management class in the institute.

Well, here was the episode aired for this week in Star World. I can't help but grin when the guy kept on saying 'the' when clearly 'pledge of allegiance' did not have 'the' in it.



Now... if Malaysia have this version here, I'm sure the contestants would have a jolly time answering questions for 'kajian tempatan' and 'kemahiran hidup' since we only have those in the syllabus very recently, hehehe.

Socked!

The watcher strikes again.
This time, it happened in my classroom.

I was teaching in the lab and was checking on the kid's note-writing progress at the back. Suddenly a prefect tapped me and said someone had been punched. Of course la, I pivoted back up front the science lab and there I saw a boy, also a prefect crying silently, covering his right eye with his left hand and writing his notes with his right.

I asked him, who did the punching?
He was just silent and kept writing and more tears fell.
Some good friends on his lab table said a name and I was shocked.

It is the name of a girl, also a prefect but a head shorter than he is. I looked at the other table next to his and saw the girl shooting daggers at him. The girl was also tight lipped. She did not answer why she punched him but of course la, her friends was saying that the boy was jeering at her. Still water runs deep, wahahaha.

It was so comical that I was trying so hard at not laughing while reprimanding those two kids.

Yeehaa!!

Finally I finished downloading last week's music station. Both of my favourite bands were on it
Who?

Arashi and Backstreet Boys!!!!!!
*excited uchiwa movement*
Hahaha, my fangirl metre is running amok.
too bad, I only found Arashi's part on that MS episode. The only BSB clip on show on youtube was from their perf in Music Fighter.



*Runs back and plays the MS again*