Teachers' Day

From this year onwards Teachers' Day will not fall on 1 Sept but the first friday of every September. Therefore this year's Teachers' Day is on 2nd of Sept instead. Due to various events, the school has decided to celebrate Teachers' Day on 31st Aug instead and had our Teachers' Day dinner on 1 Sept. Quite a few pupils came back on the 1st, but due to the fact that I need to go home to get prepared for the dinner which was at Expo, I didn't manage to meet up with a whole lot of them. This was also the first year where my Joy 6 (2003) didn't come to visit me. Of course, I wouldn't mind a bit cos they were busy with either NS or teritary studies. Those who came back are mostly from my Pe 6. I'm also grateful that I get some Teachers' Day presents despite the fact that I had told them not to buy anything, but if they want, cards or red pens will be good. And I did get many red pens that can last me for a year, I think. :)

This year's Teachers' Day dinner was rather sad as well, as Ms K will be gone from next year onwards. We had a great time joking and laughing during the dinner and I know I'll certainly miss her laughers.

My lovely Kite!

I finally bought a kite! I have always wanted to get a simple and nice kite so that I can fly it at the Marina Barrage. I still remembered we saw some kites at Changi Village some time ago. Even though I kept saying I wanted to buy one but somehow I just didn't get it then. The chance came when we went expo and saw someone selling kites at the bazaar sale. I wanted a simple kite, so I choose a pink ghost kite. I bought the strings and LED as well. The kite cost $20 but after getting the strings and LED, it's around $50! As I didn't bring enough cash, part of it was sponsored by dearer than dearest. ^^

On the same day we bought the kite, we decided to go and test it out. We went to an open field that is near his house and we began trying. The wind wasn't strong and sometimes we can get the kite up, sometimes we couldn't. It's alright. However, one problem which I encountered was that the string was entangled whenever it was in my hands. I felt quite bad for having to cut the strings away and also having him untying the knots for me each and everytime.

Last week, we went town and so we decided to go Marina Barrage to fly our kite! It was around 930pm and wow, there were so many beautiful and colorful kites up in the sky! I kinda regret buying a simple ghost kite! We took out our kite and clipped the LEDs on. Due to the strong wind, our kite was up in the sky in no time. It was fun!

It was a great night. However, it'll be good too, if we could sit down, picnic, have a drink, chit-chat while looking at our kite..... Well, hope there's a next time and we shall do that!

Swimming

Started to learn swimming last week. It was quite fun! Had been wanting to learn swimming but was too lazy to get an instructor. It was when I was at Phuket and I fell in love with beach resorts, I began to feel that I should start learning swimming. Another reason would be while we were island hopping in Phuket, lee and chia went open sea snorkeling and I was alone at the beach. I did enjoy myself at the beach but somehow it would be fun if I could snorkel with them as well. It was especially so when I did kinda snorkel in shallow water along the beach and it was really fun seeing the fishes swimming around you.

My swimming instructor is a very nice lady. She has been a swimming instructor for more than 10 years and she is very patient. I'm glad to have Mdm Foo with me to learn swimming as well, so lessons are more fun and not so scary. So far, we learnt how to breathe in water and also floating. I can float now! :DDD I really look hope to master swimming soon so that I could go swimming in the pool with my kakis some day! :)

A pair of new eyes : )
Eagle eyes! : )