Spread your wings...

Friends

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:16:00 +0000

Some friends are just not worth keeping...regardless of the time shared once before...

Happy birthday to me~

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:32:00 +0000

Yet another year has passed, and it is that time of the year whereby you will start to think of your accomplishments from the previous year.

I would say that fate has been kind to me, for blessing me with numerous experiences that left me with many, many beautiful memories... inclusive of tears and laughter, of course.

I have accomplished well in my work. Witnessing 'old' teachers leaving and 'new' teachers entering. Overcame difficulties that were presented to me.

I have traveled to my favourite country; Japan. Seen the lovely sakura blossoms, shopped till I dare not look at my recipts... seen the snow, tasted ethic Japanese meals, experienced the Japan culture. And missed Singapore...

I have satisfied my shopping cravings. Spending money, irregardlessly.

I am in health. And I hope that I will never feel or go through 'that' experience again.

I am spending days with my loved ones. Life is fleeting...I'm not ready to say goodbye.

I am enjoying my life... making decisions and being responsible for them.

I am being myself. Don't expect me to change all my colours for anyone.

Looking back.

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:48:00 +0000

Decided to read some of my blog posts. After reading, I discovered that they do really help to bring back memories that were fading from my mind.

Openhouse on the 20th June 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Mommy...it's OVER!!! After weeks or even months of preparation, it's finally over and done with. Went to the centre at 7am to do some last minute decorating, and just as soon as the clock strikes 1pm, everything (most of the things) was taken down. A truly eventful day which I really enjoyed, especially when I was decorating the class. Many, many thanks to my lovely darlings. Without them I would not have had many beautiful art pieces to display. Feel so proud of them!!

The table toys area

My maths area.

My library area

My block area

My other displays around the room and on the floor. Still got some other displays not photographed.

Really adore the display on transportation over at Bay one.

Day 1 and Day 2: Flights- Tokyo- Osaka

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:37:00 +0000

Spent the night of Day 1 on flight and the morning of Day 2 on flight as well. Finally reached Osaka and begin our touring.

All the tired faced pictures and pictures of the Sakura.

Photo shot @ Tired and Sakura

Day 3: Osaka- Nara- Kyoto- Nagoya

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:49:00 +0000

Fed the deers at the Nara deer park...one of the deer took a bite out of my scarf and halter top. And I was scolding the deers like I'm scolding my little ones. "No! NO! WAIT!" Lol...

Went to the Todaiji Temple with big Buddha statues. There's this one which is believed that if, for example: if you have back ache, you touch the back of the statue and then your back, the backache will then be gone. I tried to touch lor...but stupid lah...the back of the statue was too high and blocked by the wall!

There's also a hole at the pillar that if one is able to crawl through will have succession in the things they do.

We then went to the Kimono fashion show...I only like the last Kimono, the rest looks so plain...

Oh ya...we also went up another temple at Kyoto that has the famous love stones...I tried to walk lor...and almost went down the stairs at the other end.. quite entertaining to watch the others trying to walk from one end to the other while closing the eyes.

Photo shot @ Kyoto Kimono fashion show

Photo shot @ Nara deer park, and temples

Hotel stay at Hyatt Regency

Day 4: Bullet train- Peace park- Mt Fuji- Oshinohakai Village

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:30:00 +0000

Lol...we ran to catch the bullet train, made our way to Peace park...climbing up the slope was totally worth it. The views are magnificent, especially the view that has the Mt Fuji. Went up Mt Fuji 5th station, damn cold lor wah lau...mailed a wooden block back home...still hafen receive it. Play with the snow~ Lol everybody had a memorable time there...definitely memorable!!! Next we went to the Oshinohakai Village which was practically deserted when we reached there since everyone went home early. Very ancient looking place with lotsa flies flying around. And the toilet was disgusting, can smell the stench from outside le!!!

Photo shot @ Bullet Train- Peace park- Mt Fuji- Oshinohakai Village

Hotel stay at some Onsen hotel that has a great view of the lake. And we were made to wear the Yukata for dinner and group photo. Dun like this hotel...very eerie...

Day 5: Onsen- Shin Yokohama- Tokyo

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:09:00 +0000

Checking out of the onsen hotel and setting off to visit the Ramen Museum... didn't get to try any of the ramen there and the whole setting of the place strongly reminds me of old Chinatown wo... we also stopped by a food mall which totally appeals to my starving stomach!

Photo shot @ Onsen- Ramen Museum

After Ramen Museum we went to Asakusa Kannon Temple, the one with a lot of lanterns de. There also got a shopping street!!! And it was raining all day...super sian lor. My shopping trip was cut short! After that we went to the red light district. Can actually see lots of young men pulling in potential customers.

Photo shot @ Asakusa Kannon temple- Shinjuku

Hotel stay at Sunshine city Prince hotel

Day 6: Disneyland

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:04:00 +0000

It's a wonderful world where dreams come true~ Welcome to the Disney's world of Magic: DISNEYLAND!!!!

Totally siao lor...got more than 200+ photos just on Disneyland... and my camera almost died on me during the Disney's parade!!~ Wah lau, almost got a heart attack lor!

Photo shots @ Tokyo Disneyland part.1

@ Tokyo Disneyland part.2

@ Tokyo Disneyland part. Minnie oh! Minnie

@ Tokyo Disneyland part.3

@ Tokyo Disneyland PARADE

Hotel stay at Narita port hotel

Last day: Narita to Singapore

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:57:00 +0000

A new set of clothes, and leaving the hotel room in a mess! We are READY TO GO HOME!!! Of coz not forgetting last minute shopping at the AEON shopping mall and the Narita airport + Changi airport wo~

Photo shots @ Narita to Singapore

Unpacking the luggage

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Introducing the luggage...which I had no choice but to wake my mom up in the middle of the night to help me carry them back home.

And all the items unloaded...lol

The Minnie's hat hair clip. I saw the Japanese ppl wearing it at Disneyland, it's so cute. So cannot resist...bought one for my cousin.

And not forgetting the Disneyland's cookies. The packaging is nice, and they taste nice as well. Yum!

Gift package for Joey's baby girl. What's inside? Well, kimonos for babies.

Four bags to add to my bag collection. Lol, I've ppl in the tour group asking me if I had bought another bag again.

Perfume from Gucci and a sunglasses. Perfume bought in Singapore at the Changi airport and the sunglasses from Aeon shopping mall in Japan.

Some Japanese goodies from Narita airport and powdered green tea. Very...heavy to carry around during shopping trip.

Bought 2 sets of fancl products. The salesgirl actually said that one person is only entitled to one each. But if we're buying for our friend, then we are allowed to buy more than 1. In that case, of course I would say that I'm buying for my 'many' friends lor!

Some very kawaii soft toys as my next week's teaching aides. Can you guess what theme I will be touching on?

Shoes and more shoes that I managed to find before heading to the Narita Airport. So heng arh!!!

4 sets of chopsticks with pretty images.

Cute Japanese girl doll.

Still haven't finish shopping yet!!! Will definitely go back to Japan again to continue my shopping spree!~

See you next week!!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:26:00 +0000

See you next week!!!~ Bye Singapore and hello to Japan!!

currently blogging at the airport... so sleepy..haiz.

One more day

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:20:00 +0000

One more day to go before I'm setting off for Japan...hopefully all things would end well...~

Advance Bday celebration at the Centre

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Had my bday celebration yesterday at the Centre, and I must say that the cupcakes look really lovely!!! But I still can't figure out what happened to one of my boxes of cupcakes that I had placed aside on my counter...It went MISSING!!!

However, I was quite vexed with the delivery service provided by Bakerzin! I had ordered 3 different cakes from them, and had chosen the delivery time slot to be from 12- 3pm. They had arrived with TWO cakes at around 2.30pm and the third cake had only arrived around 5!!! And the delivery person had said that there should be cutting knives included, but they were not! Had sent a feedback regarding this matter, and hope that they can provide me with an explanation.

Anyway!! Here are some pics!!!

The Desire cake for the K2 class. Their teacher had snagged a dark chocolate rose and replaced it with a white chocolate rose on the cake before I even took a photo!!! Now, it doesn't look as pretty as it should had been...hmpf. But this was the cake that had made me go WOW when I opened the box. It just looked so lovely and it was really tasty.

Next, the cupcakes for my K1 class~ 24 standard sized cupcakes and 120 mini cupcakes to bring home to. And goodness wo, the parents thought that the minis were fake and could not be eaten. I can assure you that they were really tasty, not dry and not wet. And they are 100% edible. (Unlike the dough lollipop that I had done with the children last week.)

Some pics of my Darlings eating the cuppies~

The bring home minis that the parents thought that they were inedible.

And this Sweet Pleasure was the cake that I had ordered for the teacher along with the Chocolate Amer. How can I describe it? Had comments that it tasted great, sweet and that the chocolate smelt heavenly.

And, finally the cake that came late, the chocolate amer that my teachers had not tasted! And I had to bring it back to my place so as not to waste it. Will be cutting a portion and bringing it back to the centre later for the teachers who are on Saturday duties.

离别

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:38:00 +0000

离别是伤感的。

Briefing

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:09:00 +0000

Just came back from the SA tour briefing...and we finally got the chance to meet our group members~ After seeing them....I'm kinda put out wo!!! Look around, look around also didn't see any people near our age de!! Mostly are couples or families. Haiz...hopefully the trip will not be dull with them around...bleahx

Shopping for cakes and pastries

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Went shopping for cakes and pastries last weekend for 27th of March (Friday). All because of my grandmother who had insisted that I do some celebrating for my birthday this year. Since I did not want to celebrate it with my relatives... I decided to celebrate it with all my other children and teachers. And I seriously hoped that I had not gotten the delivery date wrong (Cross fingers)...if not, countless hungry children and teachers are going to come after me!!!

Tried the apple tart and the egg tart from Mayson Bakery. They didn't really appeal to my taste buds.

Next, were the cakes from Bakerzin. Didn't really appreciate the strawberry and oreo cheesecake, but I rather like the chocolate Amer and the cute boxes!!!

Tried the donuts from Donut empire...not really a fan for donuts but was willing to give it a try. The shop smelt so sweet that I almost got a headache. Haiz, had wanted to order from them because it seemed that they were the only one who had the delivery service. Wanted to order donuts for the 2 N2 classes, but didn't order from them in the end because my senior teacher told me that someone from the baby class is going to celebrate his birthday on the 27th as well. So I'm going to top up my orders for the mini cupcakes to 120 so that they will be enough for the 2 N2 classes. Not gonna give any treats to the 2 baby classes.

More photos will be up by the 29th of March (Sunday).

A rollarcoaster week

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:15:00 +0000

A true rollarcoaster week...all the ups and downs...and the end result is either my heart will leap out or my mind will shut down...and personally I think my mind had shut down temporary for yesterday!!! I can't believe I forgot to pass a form to the parents!!! ARGH!

Cheated or not?

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Cheated or not? Or more like being played the fool .... current mood is totally confused...

On the 10 of April 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:20:00 +0000

On the 10 of April 2009...WE ARE GOING TO JAPAN!!!! WOOHOO~~~

P.S...still waiting for the excitement to set in...

Currently listening to:

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Currently listening to some old songs

Pretty boy by M2M

Don't say you love me by M2M

Angels brought me here by Carrie Underwood

If only tears could bring you back by :

Idiots

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:46:00 +0000

Some people are idiots...not that they are intellectually challenged, but rather in terms of their behaviours. And that makes them bigger idiots than the actual idiots!!!

Stomach flu

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:46:00 +0000

What the hell...I'm down with a bout of stomach flu...Tasteless meals for the day...haiz

What should teachers wear?

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:36:00 +0000

What should teachers wear to work??

What should a childcare teacher wear to work???

Had gotten a feedback from a survey form that the parent said that teachers should have a dress code of no t-shirts and no bermudas.

Of course cannot wear bermudas and shorts lah, but no t- shirt??

Then...what are we supposed to be wearing for work???

My newest snack for in between meals~

noreply@blogger.com (Ruby) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:27:00 +0000

My newest snack for in between meals~

Sunrise pitted prunes!!!!

Yum!!!

Introduced by one of the grandparents at my centre.