only 5 of us at the mep sushi buffet today... hahaha as usual pohning wasn't there. kk and i were really out of ideas for the belated christmas gift exchange... bought fruit-flavoured shower gels! how pathetic. hmmm... we didn't mind if we got our own gifts in the end. went shopping with emz before the buffet cos she hadn't bought her gift... hahaha both kk and i thought the romantic europe calendar was a better choice but we agreed that the winnie the pooh one was good too. too bad it went to gerald, poor emz!

after buffet emz, kk, gerald and i watched phantom of the opera... it's great! except... the speaker at the bugis cinema spoilt most of the music. quite hilarious at first... whenever the actresses sang, they sounded like they had something stuck in their throat. for the phantom it wasn't that obvious except for the high notes. still enjoyed it i guess... i loved all the songs with dark harmony ;)

hehe... so happy after tuition today. the little boy is soooo ADORABLE!!!! and he didn't fall asleep today... managed to get through 10 qns each of maths and english. an improvement i think, at least he answered most of the maths questions correctly by himself this time. still had to trick him into reading... he's so reluctant i guess cos he's quite horrendous in english. looking forward to wednesday! just hope he'll remain like that or become better... then i'll look forword to every lesson i have with him. hahaha i just got so elated when i discovered that he's really got an inquisitive mind, except that he's not interested in the mainstream subjects. he was so engrossed with his dinosaur book! and had so many stories to tell about some dinosaur show or cartoon he watched! hahaha and kept pointing to the pictures and asking which dinosaur eats humans. last week i promised him that we'd draw pictures after lesson but i didn't have time so he kept pestering me to draw today. told him that if we could finish the 20 qns before lesson ends then we can draw... hahaha that's probably why we were more productive! he was so excited and quickly asked what we were going to draw and made me promise again. in the end we each copied a picture of a dinosaur from his book. so fun! =)

i'm dead... feel like a walking zombie all over again just like i'm still in school. if not for the pay, which is actually quite miserable, i wouldn't be bothered to do the paper work! what crappy things we do just because of stupid lazy parents who'll definitely complain if their children's particulars are messed up... even if they made a mess of the form and we've to make it acceptable for the machine. everyday is a routine... get to work, keep glancing at the clock from time to time and hoping lunchtime comes soon... hahaha and time to knock off of course!

left at 3.30 today... well actually 3.55, but since it's hourly pay... count as 3.30 lor. went down to kawai again. sounded like i wanted to die, was nervous even though i don't know why. adeline already heard me play yesterday so it's no kick playing in front of her and miss ching hears me every week... maybe it's just that at the exam venue i get quite freaked. can't play really soft there, if i control to much the notes won't sound and if i try to relax it'll be too loud! but heck, i'm going to use the una corda... guess it's better than sounding loud when u want it to be soft. i felt quite retarded on the piano when playing running passages... the notes seem to sound later than my fingers going into the keys. and the room was dry, my playing was not resonant at all... messed up lots of places. the usual... since when don't i mess up. i'm really waiting for that day to come man.

after all that, went to the little boy's house... my goodness, he's a headache! super lethargic, restless, fidgety, lazy... wonder how long i can bear with it. even if i can, i don't think lessons are very productive. after all the hoaxing and crap, we only completed 12 mcq maths questions and one compre. getting him to read the compre was a real test of patience... after the first paragraph, he just got so restless... took a long long time to finish the passage. and he didn't even pay attention at all, can tell cos when he answered the questions he just randomly picks the answers... like "one?" wrong "two?" wrong! why two?! ... and after explaining the correct answer, he still has that blur look on his face, while nodding when u ask whether he understands. but i still think he's quite a bright boy, just too lazy to think and guess he doesn't have the right attitude towards school work. his elder brother was quite different, saw him doing his own revision in his room... sigh... how do u get such little children interested in things that used to bore u when u were their age?!

wow... life's even more hectic than it was in tj. that's a surprise! ok, it used to be only school and home but it was still hectic in the sense that there was just too little time to do the many things i needed or wanted to do. now it's more of having a super packed schedule almost everyday, and every single activity is taxing. i'm growing old...

today was the longest day in the office... after the little sleep i got after grad nite yesterday, couldn't help feeling super sleepy at work. luckily sometimes when someone complains about an irritating caller i get some entertainment... and when i get really tired i move around abit. hope tomorrow will be better!

got quite a shock when i reached home after work... i was totally sian diao like i always am after work, eating some things before going down to anchorpoint to try the kawai piano. and... i got a call from some weird tuition centre that i don't even remember registering at, asking if i want to teach tuition at night. couldn't quite believe it at first cos the picky parents usually don't want people who only have their A levels. but i supposed it was some ulu tuition centre i called last november... was desperately trying to work during the hols then. the greater shock was that, the woman said, can u start tomorrow? i went... huh? so fast? but i never taught before. and guess what, she told me to tell the mother that i'm a full time tutor with teaching experience! what cheaterbugs! well i'm going, but i'm not going to cheat them... i'm not lying about being a full time tutor with teaching experience. what crap, do they think the parents can't tell whether i'm experienced? i bet once i sit down with the boy they can tell. and i suspect the boy is very naughty... cos before she hung up she reminded me that i must be very strict with the boy. bleargh... i dun care, i'm not obliged to tutor him man. i'll just tell them to find someone else if i can't handle him.