So many exciting plans

Holy molly…I almost forgot I have a blog to maintain @.@

Life’s been good, busily filled with work, time with family, time with Darling, time with friends

Work’s still good, though I’m beginning to understand more and more about the stress my colleagues go through, I understand why they complain about certain students, I get why they are always stump in finding a better solution to motivate certain students

I just collected my students’ very first assignment, and that itself gives me stress. Being a student, I only read my own work, and sometimes the work of my few close friends. I never knew students could produce such a funny variety of essay and effort. OMG just thinking about how to give them marks already drives me up the wall!

My grandma came down for about a month, so I had been trying to spend as much time at home as i could, to accompany her. So even though I’ve started working, I still come back home for dinner as much as i can, and I spend weekends with family as much as I can decline my friends’ invitations. But now, she has went back to Taiping, so really, omg im so excited about upcoming plans!

Last night I went to Rakuzen, Chulan Square to celebrate Kel’s birthday! Yes that woman is back from US! For good! Erm, long kinda short-term good, boleh paham kah? She’ll be working in M’sia for a few yrs, before continuing her Masters overseas. She has been studying in US for the past 2 yrs, and been traveling here there everywhere, that I go green with envy just thinking of the super small portion of traveling I myself had done T.T

Well, nvm, my oversea holidays will come when I personally can afford it, when i can plan my holidays on my own accord! In the meantime, I went for Leadership camp with Foundation students the past Friday til Sunday, and it was good! Lecturers (Jasamine and myself) got a tree house to ourselves, so i had my own cosy room. Although cosy means 4 walls, with thin mattresses, no fan, and lots of mosquitoes, i was very contented. Its a great feeling, that familiar one-with-nature feeling that i used to get when i go on Boys’ Brigade camps. The times when i lie on the tar road, looking up at the night starry sky with the campfire crackling beside me, or the time when I was on my own in the pitch dark jungle, just listening to the wind, mosquitoes and cengkerik.

Even a nicer feeling was to know that my sense of adventurousness and my agility with obstacle course and challenging outdoor activities had not died off! Although its been 3 to 4 yrs since i had last camped (used to be at least once, usually twice a year, from Form 2 til Form 5), i was glad that I did not complain about mosquitoes and crawling in the mud or hiking in the sun. Huahuahua…i wont turn princessey in just a few passive years ok…

Apparently the camp that i went to, Earth Camp under Nomad Adventure Sdn Bhd, was the same camp that the BB ppl went just a week earlier! And to make things a bigger coincidence, I bumped into Isaiah Kee, my ex-BB fellow member, at the campsite! Of all places to bump into man!! Anyways, we went into Gua Tempurung, and hiked for 4 hours on their most challenging routes, which include crawling on our knees and elbows. Then we went for white water rafting down Sg Kampar, which was super amazing! I didn’t fall off my raft at all, except, when pulled down by a student =.= We also went on high rope course on our last day, but they had 3 different courses, and 2 of them were built on natural landscape like rocks and cliffs, instead of the typical flat green land.

What’s coming up next? Well, I’ve got dinner with Keith tomorrow, and dinner with Dear’s family on Fri. There’s Taman Negara trip in July, and Bali trip in August, and very greedily eyeing a Melbourne trip too!

Mel’s my colleague now; she’s working as Unicef research coordinator in HELP’s Psych Dept. But I’m thankful I’m in HMC Dept lolz

Oh, my bro’s got himself a new Myvi, so yes, i can upgrade to Avanza now! So long, ye ol’ faithful same-age-as-me Toyota Corolla which had been loyally serving me the past many yrs. It feels so much more comfortable driving without feeling the sense of irritation that super hot super stuffy car causes

How i wish life would stay this way for a long, long time….