Fixed itself apparently.
I turned on my PS3 today and it failed.
NOT A HAPPY GIRL NOW!
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ETA gif from wired.com because one can be amused even in the crappiest of situations.
Today, I was in a much better mood, partly thanks to this video below and the lovely people of camelot_love on LJ. And of course …
So Zod can fly but Clark cannot. The last two episodes left me feeling kind of meh. Even Lois couldn’t excite me. And S9 started out so well too but oh well, one should never expect much from Smallville. Chloe is still getting on my nerves. Tess is interesting but such an enigma and Oliver, well, he looks good shirtless. Someone said that he was better off reading Blackest Night. Probably. I’m awaiting the trades but I have high hopes. So far, I’m only minorly spoiled.
I’m suddenly feeling somewhat down. Not sure why exactly. Hopefully the Arsenal game coming up will cheer me up. Although, I have to admit, I doubt it will. Perhaps I should go beat up some people in Tekken.
FFVIII should be out in a couple of weeks or so. Quite excited but seeing how I cannot even find the time to finish up Dragon Age, I don’t see how I’m going to finish it. But I will. Definitely.
Work has been more of a drag than usual. I still enjoy quite a bit of it but I’m getting restless plus certain things are making me reconsider my career choice. On one hand, I like teaching in a classroom and being involved in school events. On the other, it takes a lot out of me. Also, this year I have a difficult class and it’s really making my days in school horrible. I’m not even sure why, seeing they aren’t actually the first difficult class I have ever had. It’s just that usually the class and I develop some sort of rapport which makes going in and dealing with their nonsense bearable. This year, the class and I simply do not get along. I guess we lack chemistry or something. I know for one thing that they purposely make life difficult for me and it’s been frustrating.
because even I get tired of staring at Merlin all the time.
So I come back from a lovely holiday in Jakarta (DUCK! HAR GOW!) and I find this in my mailbox.
Life is good! Too pleased to blog about IRs or rental apartments now.
My colleague is thinking of quitting the profession. It gives her more grief than joy. I can understand where she is coming from – being dumped with (extra) duties you aren’t particularly interested in is a pain. And sometimes these (extra) non-teaching duties can become so overwhelming, your actual teaching duties end up taking a back-seat. Or all this leaks into your teaching duties and you can no longer find joy in teaching anymore. Let’s not forget the stress involved as well.
Of course, these aren’t actually extra duties. According to our job profile, we are expected to be involved in research, community work, projects to boost the school’s image and organising national examinations among others. You know, no one told me all these when I first started teaching. I don’t think they tell the new teachers now either which would explain why some are so shell-shocked at the amount of work when they finally qualify as a full-fledged teacher. In fact, there are a lot of things NIE never tells you. So if you are a new or soon-to-be new teacher, these are probably some things you should know about teaching in Singapore.
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Nothing is more annoying than to receive spam because people either
(a) are INCAPABLE of reading comprehension of emails.
(b) are INCAPABLE of following simple instructions.
Please, just read your emails. Please.
ETA: Ok this is just ridiculous. STOP SPAMMING ME TO TELL OTHERS TO STOP SPAMMING! This does not make sense. On any level! ARGHHH.
ETA2: I sat down and counted – 95 replies to the initial “spamming-in-error” emails despite being told by the higher-ups NOT TO REPLY. I weep for our future.
Heard this song used on a fanvid of Merlin. I love it. So tempted to buy her album now.
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