Happy Birthday to Me....

Hee....my colleagues are just soooo sooooo sooooo sweet....they planned a little surprise for me today during lunch....hee....sigh....I love surprises! kekeke....n not only surprises, I love fooooood! kekeke....they know me so well ne....food + surprise...awwww....nothing beats it....I think I need to put my bf in their care for training lessons! kekeke....he sux when it comes to surprises....just take today for eg...I asked him where he's going aft work, he says Katong....then I say for wat ne? He tells me straight that he's buying me a highly recommended chocolate cake from there....duuuuuuuuuuuh.....there goes my surprise on the actual day.....arggghhhhhhhh.....

Anyway, here are the photos....


oooooh......wat's that ne....



oooooooooh....It's a whole basket of snacks & tibits and a lovely handwritten card for me....awwww....so touched ne!!!



Hee....go back office me still cant get my hands & eyes off my snacks! whaahhaa....so yummy.....sluurrrp! kekeke



heee....wanna see close up of my snacks?







Look at all the goodies....OMG OMG OMG!!!


Thank you sooooooo much, gals & baka & bear!!!! *HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGZ*

Garden Fest 06

Over the weekend, my dd sponsored me to a photo-taking session - The Singapore Garden Festival priced at $12 for adults...Venue - Suntec Convention Hall 4 & 6. I was pretty skeptical about the show as we have seen the flower displays in Sentosa and frankly speaking, it's not that spectacular but it's free lah....haha...so no complaints. So when my dd ask me to go with him to the Garden Fest, I was like nagging him....Are you sure its worth the $12? I can eat a Jack's Place Lunchie with that money u noe...waaah...got yummy soup with garlic bread, main course, dessert and tea ahhh....haha....n then he tickled me....bleh....

Anyway, we met up with another couple fren for the displays and surprisingly, it's better than I expected...while, come to think of it, I wasn't expecting much either wat....keke....Well, due to the huge space that Suntec Convention offers, the displays were pretty huge and grand. I wouldn't say it's worth $12 but I did enjoy going through and marvelling at each display.


On the left is the first display we saw that features a futuristic kinda image, titled a New World. On the right is us under a display that looks like the shimmering fireworks that we saw during the Singapore Fireworks Fest. Ooooh....I love fireworks! keke....



This is a cute little display of 2 love-struck grasshoppers staring into each other's eyes around a ball of roses...awww...okay, I made that up! muahahaha....




I was particularly impressed with this display as it really takes me into a whole different world. It is shaped like a dome made from dried leaves with a very natural kinda feeling, at the same time pretty out of this world. This display aims to advocate an awareness in our natural world and what the world will look like if humans continue to ignore the "signs" and continue harming the environment. Very strong message successfully brought across in this display.


This cactus damn cutie right? hee hee...




okays, I shall end this entry with a paparrazi shot of my camera-shy couple frens and final photo taken with my dd....hee hee...my camera sux...coz the lightings in the hall was pretty dim and it's really difficult to shoot with a pns (point & shoot) camera....sigh....

Sensitive Issue ahead...

Hmm...here I am again..."wasting" my previous sleeping time to do assignments AGAIN! Sobz...

Assignment Topic: Discuss one thing you would like to include in a preschool that has not been applied now in Spore preschools. Well, my topic is to discuss abt including the issue of gay/lesbian(GL) to preschoolers (4-6yrs old children).

*Sensitive topic....so pls do not read on if you feel uncomfortable with GL issues*

Oh boi...I have been doing my research and asking ard my friends and colleagues who have young kids of their own if they support or oppose to the above move. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed that 99% told me a straight "No" and this topic is soooo sensitive that, trust me, some ended up pretty agitated! kekeke....dats cool as this would allow me to think abt the issues and problems that I might face in real life when these are the parents of my students...I can feel the HEAT right there and then, man! kekkee....interesting.....

Many problems that popped up include - the child is too young to understand this issue, the parents will question if the teacher is GL, will the children be made to think that GL are right, will this clash with religious teachings and morals & values...etc etc...right to the point that parents will think the school is agreeing with GL and thus cultivating young children to mislead themselves into becoming GL in future.

However, my point is...if I am a teacher and say in 10yrs time whereby spore might legalise GL marriage and thus there might be a GL couple who can now adopt/have children of their own, where does these children come in? Will the society be taught to alienate them (the child of GL parents) or should we cultivate an open mind to accept them for who there are but at the same time, taught to hold our own beliefs and thinking. If I'm a Catholic who do not believe in GL, can we teach our child to accept GL for who they are but hold on to our belief that GL is something I would not turn to? Afterall, GL does exist in our world. So, wat better way than for schools to introduce them to this existence rather than having them finding out abt ir in a misguided way when they chance upon it in future?

Sometimes, by allowing oneself to be involved in too much of one thing tends to shut our minds to others. Just like if man have never travelled, we will not allow ourselves to think that the world is round. Afterall, our world will still be wat we think it is without the existence of technology...