SP2 Feb 08

It has always been my habit to create a picture with their names written, so that 10,20, or even 50 years down the i could still recall who they are.My 4th full batch of student training officially ended today. They are none other than Singapore Polytechnic Group 2 (SP2 as i always called them). I would say that this batch of training is truly very very memorable and special to me in the following ways:



It takes alot of fate for 2 persons to meet, and to know each other. i do believe that my class and I were fated to meet....., reali fated to meet. I did tell them that i was not their originally assigned form trainer 3 mths ago. My original assignment was to take ITE training for 10 weeks; It was due to some internal reshuffling of manpower that i was swapped to take SP2. Dunno whether to consider them unlucky or the other way round that they got me to teach them...lol. Considering the fact that i am labelled by the entire cohort to be the most unapproachable and the fiercest trainer once again and one student actually commented that i was their fear factor, while we were chatting casually on msn; and the phrases they used to impersonate me were again the famous "Whats so funny?? Why you laugh??? Why you yawn with sound... etc????"




This batch of students had also been unfortunate --- since they had never heard my true voice at all since the 1st day they step into our compound. As i was still down with my sinus cough, and also the voice loss after the chinese new year. So throughout their 6 weeks stay, they had never see the mic off my face, as i could only speak with the help of the mic.




I had also openly defied the doctor's orders to 'shut up' for 1 week in order for my voice to recover. perhaps i asked for it myself, till one fine day i reali totally lost my voice, and it was then i needed to ask my colleague to help me teach my class on that particular day. Even during the shift work week when i was ordered to 'shut up' by the doc again, I still had no choice but to continue working due to the shortage of manpower, as it would be so bad of me if i were to sabotage my fellow colleagues last minute to cover my duties for me. But it's a pity that the students gotta bear with my super sexy voice thruout their shift work, and many of them ended up having to become my personal parrots ---- to help me repeat what i said to the whole class.




I remembered my colleagues ever asked me whether it's worth it to hang on at the expense of my own health. I hesistated. I have to be honest that the aptitude of this group is less superior as compared to their seniors i took last year, that's why i had to make sure i personally 'push them harder'. At the end of the day, after knowing that they had done much relatively well in their final exams and that their hard work and diligence paid off, i was convinced that it's worth it.

Since i was unable to eat packed, heaty food then, i had to carry my big rice cooker at home on every shift day to boil my home cooked soup, ranging from water cress, winter melon, sweet corn to baby bittergourd pork rib soups. i was flattered that they found my soup fragrant, but too bad no student had the chance to taste them ---- lol, i would always do my signature 'satisfied from eating delicious food look' to 'khek' them, but it always ended up in lots of laughter though.

Perhaps that was the reason y they decided to give me a miso water cress soup recipe in the card they made for me. Million Thanks for the soft toy and the card made too! Check out the contents inside:

Thanks so much for the card and gifts one again, even though my eyesight was put to a tough test trying to figure out the wordings marked with the golden/ silver ink.

The graduation ceremony was overall a success, with brilliant performances put up by the students, of course the ceremony had the emotional moments too: colleagues were touched to tears, trainees shedding tears of joy, etc. I do feel extremely happy for the award winner who made it all the way from ITE to poly. She had displayed the correct determination and the attitude to succeed, and she definitely is an excellent example for all to follow -- to perservere and neva give up. I had a hard time deciding who to award the excellence award to. i had 3 candidates in mind, and each of them tops each of the 3 assessment criteria. eventually, the one with the highest overall score was chosen, and dramatically, the gap between their scores is less than 1%! So you could imagine how close their scores were.

I sincerely wish them all the best in their future endeavours and their final semester in school, and hopefully they will not forget the teachings and values i imparted to them......Here are some more of the class photos:

A9

The title of this post describes my current state now. You'll soon find out y and wat it means.

This CNY is the worst CNY i had in my entire life so far.

Considering the fact that i had been sick since day 2 of CNY, which is already nearly 2 weeks, and i am still unwell.

The powerful influenza virus i've gotten then was believed to be spread from my dad....as he was the 1st person to get it, followed by myself, my sister, brother in law and niece....all down with fever on the 2nd day of cny. considering the fact that i had a flu vaccine half a year ago, and getting down with influenza still says how strong the virus was......

Apparently the virus + voice strain from work + sinus = complications, and i had almost completely lost my voice for the past few days.

i swear that i had not eaten a single 柑, and oni tried half a slice of 肉干 for the entire CNY.

I had unknowingly undergone a very successful weight lost regime as my last weight taken on sunday had indicated that i had lost 1 more kg over the past week, and in total i had lost 8 kg over the past 5 months and i weigh only 61 kg now, with a BMI of 20.6 ...so ladies....do you envy me???

I believed it was due to the jab i had yesterday that today i started to have a bit of voice back, but it's oni about 5% of my normal amplitude and capacity...hahahah. but compared to yesterday, when i reali had no voice for normal conversations, and i called myself an A9 -- translate to hokkien directly to get the literal meaning... The doc was thankful that i wasn't a smoker --- he commented that things would have been worse if i am one...

The feeling to fall sick for so long is terrible -- considering the medicine i had been taking had caused me to feel so lousy, lethargic that it affected my work and studies. the amount of money i spent on the medications had amounted to close to $300......

Nonetheless, i do see some positive side out of this time frame, that is to know that I am still loved -- by many people. herbal tea from xy, and strange herbs made by my dad (horrible taste and i dun even know wat they were), terrible herb by my aunt (horribly bitter with strong after taste that last for hours!!!!), organic food from the cleaners at office, honey from colleagues, and not forgetting comforting words from some students to sincerely want me to quickly get back into shape so that i could raise my voice at them once again.

I do want to get well asap. I miss singing along with my guitar, and at the ktv, also feeling energetic to play sports and to study. Hopefully after i 拜太岁 on monday, heaven will be kind to me and to all who need to listen to my voice that i can recover quickly and bless me with good health.

Will i get back my voice tmr? I will be going on shift for 4 days over the next 5 days......

P.S: PC still yet to be fixed back --- so angry with the supplier which delayed for more than 4 weeks already after promising to return after 3 weeks.... juz called them up today to scold them with my 5% voice....



Recommend to you all this nice Hokkien song, with subtitles. One of the sentence describes my plight now: 一字一句拢是托磨。。。lol

依恋

Heard of an unpleasant thing over the past week, that one of our coursemate belonging to the same batch of Chem Eng NUS 2006 graduated had a relapse of lymphomia, a type of blood cancer which he was first diagnosed back in 2006. Though i had never been aquainted with him, and i actually haf little idea how he looked like, but i felt sympathetic towards his plight, and touched by the love his family had given him, and the support given by his friends in search of a suitable bone marrow donor. Unfortunately i was blatantly rejected by the NUH nurse when i called to want to register as a donor as i was still ill......from my chronic cough..in fact i juz went for an X-ray of the chest and face today in investigation for the actual reasons causing me to cough persistently since late Sep 07. Who knows i might be treating my friends CURRY CHICKEN, FRIED BEE HOON, & KONG BA BAO (扣肉包) very soon????? zzzzzzzzz......


I seriously think it's worthwhile posting this song here. The singer is none other than 蔡淳佳， the singer of 陪我看日出. Something about her is that we were both from the same secondary school, and i can't remember whether i've mentioned this before that we ever competed in the school's talentime back in 1994....when i was in secondary one when my voice haven even break. Of course i was trashed flat in the finals as she won everyone convincingly (if i won her i would haf also been a singer.....). Apparently after that she remembered me as the youngest boy in the talentime finals. Anyway i think after 14 years she would have forgotten this boyboy then already. But that's beside the point. I happened to listen this song for 3 times over the radio before i finally found out the title and singer of the song. Coincidently, all 3 times i heard the song were all during 3-4-5am dat kind of timing, i apparently woke up in the middle of the night by the melody, but i could hardly remember anything about the song as i was only 'half awake', until the 3rd time when i decided to get up from bed to record the melody on my phone so that i could source for the song online from the lyrics. Also when i told my friend that i oni heard this song over the radio during mid night, dat was his comment:

PS : "这就叫所谓的支持本地音乐"

Can u sense the sarcasm behind his words????

The song sounded like a lullaby, and maybe it's the timing when i was exposed to the song, i find it extremely soothing and pleasant. Though it's not a typical type of catchy song. the melody simple, very simple with little climax. but perhaps that's the good part of it.


歌曲名:依恋

歌手:蔡淳佳

依恋坐在我旁边 厚厚的想念 随月光蔓延

依恋跟在你身边 看你的笑脸 吻你的唇边

如果爱是坐秋千 你就是我的原点

依恋是一叠昨天 你给的抱歉 多想没听见

依恋是一条天线 只收到从前 回忆的画面

没有你会怎么演 那些你说的永远

依恋就让它依恋 已经拥有过你一段时间

或许分开是一种 所谓的成全

爱我会放在心里面有些事不会有期限

依恋是一条天线 只收到从前 回忆的画面

没有你会怎么演 那些你说的永远

依恋就让它依恋 已经拥有过你一段时间

或许分开是一种 所谓的成全

爱我会放在心里面有些事不会有期限

依恋坐在我旁边 厚厚的想念随月光蔓延

依恋跟在你身边 看你的笑脸吻你的唇边

如果爱是坐秋千 你就是我的原点

没有你会怎么演 那些你说的永远

It was only a few moments ago when i found out that the song was of french origin! I think the original version is juz as good, even though i can't figure out a single bit of its lyrics. Check it out:

PS: PC, and handphone still down.