Busy week

This whole week has been a very tiring week to begin with we had 2 days of staff conference held at the Swissotel Hotel ... 2 days full of suggestions and plannings but we also had 2 days of yummy and delicious meals:)


Photos below are some of the activities held on that day but of course the food are the most intetresting ones.....hahaha




Billy and me this morning .... he is getting naughtier each day but a loving cat to have .....

The view above from the 69th floor restaurant - 'Equinox'....

Our chocolate appreciation workshop ....olala...

the best durian pudding I have tasted ... so yummy

lunch at the peranakan restaurant....with me the vice principal Ms Kathleen Manley

my soup ... soto ayam

my muslim set .... lamb chop with sambal crayfish....sedap woo

the principal Mr Kerr Fulton-Peebles ......





lunch on first day @ the Swiss Cafe

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World Kindness Day

Today is world kindness day .... at school today I received a daisy from one of the teachers .. the daisy is token of friendship and be kind to your friends.

Cikgu Chin is different she said flowers 'akan layu' which is right and instead she gave a laminated pantun for keeps.

Thank you cikgu Chin you make my day:)

Can you trust them? ......

Can you trust these people to be your children teachers?....hahahaha ...... aunty nurse managed to snap their pictures on teachers day .... many faces many fashions and many many characters .... but above all they are the ones that nuture our young generations to be future leaders ... and be successful.

Here are some of the teachers @ ACSInternational ........




Ms Pat Symons Ms Bollywood wannabe ( teaches Economics) ..... I snap this picture behind our staff launch/pantry.

Eniko Kiss from Hungary teaches English .....

Ms Cheryl Seah and Mr Chin C K - Maths.....

3 sekawan baik ... Paul1- Music,Marissa- English and Paul2 - bridging teacher teaching English untuk anak2 dr Vietnam,China dan Indonesia bersediakan mereka untuk masuk yr5 for IB ...

OK..OK.. Paul2 won Mr Photogenic on that day .....

All concentrating with principal speech.... Pam in blue top teaches econs,Divya also econs and Mdm Koh teaching German language.

Far extreme David Cobb - English,Mr Karuna bridging teacher teaching pre secondary,Mr Olwande from Kenya - English,Hiromo teaching Japanese and Pat teaching Econs.






Dougal from NZ teaching biology,Jo MacDonald our school councellor also from NZ

hmm ..... cute kan Paul West and Adrian -English

Can you trust them with your children?

Paul Hannon and Marissa Janzs





Mr Hearty singing away ...... science teacher.

or you rather have faith in Cikgu Chin and aunty nurse ...... hahahaha

Actually nothing much to write just putting up pictures only ........

There are about 90 plus teachers but I can't snap all of them as we were seated far apart.

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The night I enjoyed so much ......

The grease musical was superb wish I can watch again but all tickets for the 3 nights sold out ... people been calling asking for tickets.The students were marvellous all their hard work of pratice paid off ... bravo to you girls and boys.




I was seated at a good angle so I managed to record some of the performance ... thats summer night above...

Special thanks goes to the Musical Director Paul West and Paul Hannon as Director of the grease musical.These 2 Pauls really work hard to bring this show to us inspite of their busy schedules in class they did it after school hours.

Mr Paul West our school music teacher and Mr Paul Hannon the school english language teacher who teaches bridging class to foreign students to master their english before they are put into main stream in yr 5 ...... kudos to both you ..... you did a good job ..... muahhhhh.
Infact there are 3 Pauls in the school all teachers besides these 2 Pauls the other is Paul Tham our maths teacher.

Here I am with Paul Hannon after the show ..... after 14 hrs in school I do look tired huh? .....
I couldn't snap a picture with Paul West as he was right infront conducting the orchestra and moreover after the show he was too busy talking with some parents and guests.




Lets swing everyone ..... in this video I managed to video Paul West conducting the orchestra.

There are few videos but will put another day .....

The show finally ended at 10.10pm and by time I got home was 11pm ......

New muslim stall

We have new muslim stall added to the school canteen since yesterday and only today I took a walk to see how's the response ..... a big crowd I guess its something different than the normal food they've been eating everyday.Besides kebabs they also have ramli burger and assorted prata cheese and sausages.As for price wise its ok affordable from $2.50 to $3.50....I am yet to try because by 4pm all gone.

After the noise I did and some others too here we are a new muslim stall not only catering for the muslim students and staff but also the other races.Anyway its only for 3 months after that maybe another different food.

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Little mosque on the prairie

A must watch ladies and gentlemen .......




Mas ask me to watch this when she mentioned this in her face book since I am unable to sleep here I am watching them and hope you'll enjoy it as much as me.

Yesterday I was pissed and screamed at someone over the phone and she is a real nasty staff I've come acrossed.She just joined us leass than half a year and 2 staff left under her.Yesterday was her temp staff last day and she asks for help till her new staff arrive and I am kind enough to cover for her on friday afternoon as she has to go somewhere with the senior teachers but in her email she details work for me to do!!!....Excuse me....I am not your staff I am kind enough to help you out .... she wasn't happy abt it then she called at almost 5pm and ask "if my coming to help is because she(my boss)trying to get rid of me?"....that was a straw and I screamed at her.Since she said such a comment I went straight to my boss and tell her what this bitch just said .... wow!new war started.... my boss march straight to the vice principal office and explod....verdict...aunty elle am not going to help her at all ................ good luck to her!!

For the record she is our librarian .... a bitchy person.


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Too much work too little time

Since tuesday I've been busy doing entries for new students again .... too much work going through their forms and as usual these foreign parents don't understand how to fill up the forms so I have to go back and forth .... nothing is complete some without parents particulars,no passport numbers,no parents occupation and the worst when you get parents from China and Taiwan who instead of writing in english they answered in chinese....pening saya.


Most important for me to screen is their medical and hmmm......always never declare..... sitting on an uncomfortable chair for 6-7 hrs is no joke my back really hurt and today I was very sleepy indeed.

As usual si anak korean Soo-Ji will come in to learn more english and chinese and today she came with another extra classmate .... and ask.....'aunty can snap our picture please?'

There the 3 girls on the bed with books and smiling for me.

Tomorrow I still have entries to do ... you be wondering school is coming to end of the year how come we get so many new students? well for international school actually new term starts in Sept...and most of these students are in bridging classes where they don't take end of the year exam.They have to learn english 6 periods daily before we can push them to mainstream class next year.

So much for today mata dah ngantok sebetul nya asal pagi tadi terjaga jam 3pagi lalu tak bolih nak tido balik jadi sehari ni asyik menguap aje lah kerja nya.....hahaha.

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Happy National Day Singapore

Happy 44th birthday Singapore will be celebrated tomorrow in all school here as it falls on sunday 9th August.

We are having a minister from the PM office to come and be with us on this special occassion ..... then after followed by a concert from the students.

At the same time the school is donating $10,000 to the Milk Fund for poor children to enjoy fresh milk in school.Now you see why the children been busy selling all those cookies and muffins etc as money collected from these sales are being donated to charity organisations.
Kudos to the students you did a good job.

The students and staff are given these coloured papers to write about the National Day ..... here are some thats on displayed ...... I was reading them at lunch time and most of them did well in wishing the best for Singapore eventhough there are foreigners.

There are some black sheeps too writing rubbish and one I saw from Zack (anak ADHD) hmm wrote about food instead!!!

If time permits I hope I can snap some pictures during the concert but now a days a bit difficult for me to move about so no promises.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Lazy sunday continue till now

Thats me in lazy mode to blog new happenings .......

The school is back to normal function now no more temperature taking in the morning and that means I don't have to come in early ( no pay back).....

Students have to bring their own themometers to check in class and so far I saw a few of them brought the ear scan ones .... I guess the parents can afford them.

I still get a few of them coming in with sorethroat and fever so off they go to see the doctor and stay away from school.

The canteen is getting worst now the muslim stall is catered in now from the main kitchen and I tell you its tasteless I brought it up few times ... let see if they going to do anything about it.The chicken chop too has shrunk in size.

Come friday I must to remember to wear white and red as we will be celebrating the National Day with guest of honour Mr Lim Swee Say, MP for Buona Vista and Minister in the PM’s Office.School ends at 3pm on friday and then its a long weekend with public holiday on monday .... yahooooooo:)

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Downtown East

125 of the our year 5 students went to the above place for a 2days 1 nite camp - an orientation on extended essays and economics studies to prepare themselves for the 2010 exam.Its the IB Residential camp organise by the school.

I was called to go to the camp at 2pm as 1 of the students was taken ill with high fever last nite and with the flu like symptoms.He was seen by the medical centre and sent off and to quarantine himself incase of H1N1.... hopefully its not:) ....

I left school at 2pm and took a cab and the journey itself took an hour .... the students were shocked to see aunty nurse arrival so they were explained why I was there and my task of taking their temperatures begins ..... 124 of them and plus 5 teachers ( ni semua cikgu2 matsalleh plus 1 local teacher).

I join them for tea-break and wow nice yummy finger picking food .... assorted sandwiches,samosa,onion rings and fruit tartlets...not bad huh for a camp and we were served in one of the many halls.It was a half hour break and back to more talks after that ..... I sat and listen to them explaining the nature of their subject which is very interesting.



This is the rooms where the students and teachers attending stayed for the night at the chalet .... I think next time who knows they may include a nurse in attendance ... hahaha .....

I stayed till 4pm and left them to listen to Pat Simmonds economic startegy to aim for good marks in the exam.





Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera with me otherwise there's plenty to snap ... like the above was at the entrance and they also have the wet wet world and more rides.


Ok this is all for now and back to my meditation again.

Yeahhhhhhhhh

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the school holiday begins and the next 5 weeks its going to be very quiet time in school except for those taking the exams and those coming back for extra classes esp the IGCSE and IB candidates.
Our school holiday at ACSInternational from 29th May till 5th July ...... hahaha .... happy..happy.


Today is parents meet teachers session from 8.30am till 6pm .... and prefects are ushers to the parents showing them where to go etc ..... fingers picking food are provided for parents all day.Soon after I arrived at 8.45am an unexpected injury happened ....


One prefect Mariska anak Indonesia fell from the staircase as she was coming down from the hall and one front tooth got dislodge and hanging ... it was a shock for her so you can imagine the cry and chaos ... and thank god her parents came yesterday for the meeting session and we brought her to their personal dentist at Mt Elizabeth Hospital and had it implanted straight away.Poor Mariska she won't be able to eat the next few days and she is supposed to lead the service trip to Jogja on Tuesday but looks like she is grounded now.She is lucky she didn't injure her pretty face.


Today once again we had makan2 lah .... just the other day we had lunch from the PSP .... SEKOLAH NI MMG TAK HABIS BAGI KITA MAKAN .......



mixed veges and mushrooms .........



fish dish and it taste like asam pindang ......

yam with mixed seafood and veg again ....

Fried chicken....

the first to finish soft shell crabs fried in batter .............

steam eggs with crab sticks ......

My plate of food - no vege ok ........... burp!...syukur alhamdulillah:)

I didn't get the chance to snap pictures of the dessert as everyone were crowding round the table then ......

happy weekend and holidaysssssssssss

It's going to rock tomorrow ....

As I said in my previous entry we were so busy today all day .... kudos to PSP those mothers really are wonderful they work from morning till late to organise the place ..... I will snap pictures tomorrow of the surrounding place the games and all if I have the time.




The 12 chinese zodiac animals I bought the other day for $10 and when I open them just now I realise I have 2 of same animal and no tiger uwaahhhh the tiger is me how can it goes missing...
nevermind I will ask them tomorrow if they have an extra tiger.



One of the main item tomorrow is clash of the bands ..... the students are taking part they form their rock group and will entertain us .... the best band win a prize and I heard people from the media will be present too .....

Jon from Taiwan and Reggie part of 5 will be performing too ..... this afternoon they had a rehearsal ....

One of the group senior boys doing their practise ................

And I have submitted someone's name too but he has to be flown in ........... special performance by .....

Will ................ keep it up Will soon you can team up with uncles Hassaan,Hafiz and Shafique ok .... we gonna rock it .. yeah!!