Wednesday, April 30, 2008

In school.

Am in school now. Just finished mass common marking for english. Irene came into the room and told me to be co-incharge of the science common marking next Tuesday. O.k lah. But I have to admit, I am abit excited. Have not been put in charge before.

Anyway, my class English results are very bad. 19 failures for main paper. Sigh. The kids are going to get a beating (figuratively of course). Tomorrow is May Day. It's going to be a holiday. I'm so excited. The holiday will start tonight for me.

Maybe I'll wash the car together with Adam. It is fun washing the car with him. Its more of who can get the other wet than we can wash the car. Have not really made plans for tomorrow but there are so many possible plans. My dad plan to go Kahang in Jb to visit our relatives there but I was thinking of going to Tg Pelepas for a seafood dinner. I wonder how it would turn up. One thing for sure, I don't think I want to spend the day sleeping. I'll take pictures for tomorrow. Sigh, it has been a long time taking pictures.

Monday, April 28, 2008

My shoulder hurts

Went to Jb on Sunday with my mom. Went in by second link. Was very smooth. Realise that I have to paf $20 for the toll fees, so we went to Giant at Skudai and I bought 400 ringgit worth of stuff. Then I managed to pump in more than 50 litres of shell v-power. I think the savings should cover it.

My friend has been pestering me to get the Ricoh GR2. I'd love to have it. But as at this moment, I don't think I've the money. I need to earn the money. The question now is how.
Maybe I should register for private tuition. Maybe that should work.

Just watched Beowulf on dvd. I think the animation is great. But I like the idea of young girls wanting to sooo readily get in the sack with the king! I mean, if young girls would want to get in the sack with me, I'd be sooooo flattered. Don't think I'd do it though, but harmless flirting is nice.

Heh heh.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Pictures from my A540

Some pictures from A540. Not bad for a $170 camera.
The first image is the top of the flagpole in my school.












The second image is the chair at the parents waiting area.


















The third image is a detail study of the chair.



















This image is taken outside the school. It is of a tree bark. Liked the pattern.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Camera

Just bought me a digital camera. Its an old model. Its canon a 540. Shot some pics but since I do not have a card reader, could not really see the image on screen. Will shoot more tomorrow.
Spec...Manual exposure, manual focus, 4x zoom and uses 2 AA battery. I thought the last one was a big plus. Bought it from a student, I think from RJC. Oh well.

Actually, I was poisoned by this close friend of mine. He told me about the fixed lens compact camera ricoh grd 2. I like the idea, but I don't think I'll want, er, sorry, need it now. Not when the price is more than 1k. But I WANT it. Its a fix lens for heaven's sake. Any photographer worth his salt, should know why having a fix lens is a BIG plus.

Its Friday today, and I'm meeting parents tomorrow. The whole of tomorrow. Sigh. Exams is next week and I sure am worried about the pupils. I hope they will pull through.

Price of petrol went up by 3 cents a litre now. So the price for Esso 92 octane is $2.083 per liter. How do I know? I just pumped $50 dollars. It'll be gone by Sunday night. Oh well, still beats taking the cab.

And speaking of taking the cab, I took one the other day. From Tampines to Sengkang. Cost me $11.00. That is around $1 per km. Wah! Super expensive.

Anyway, just like to share with you people, who accidentally stumble upon my website, my wife has just got promoted. As for me, still same-same. Still waiting for the news that I'll be accepted to UNISIM.

See yah!


Sunday, April 20, 2008

How I miss thee.

It has been such a long time, I took my camera out. I feel so depressed. I used to shoot for money and I thought I'd make my future out of it. But then practicality took over and I went into teaching, That was like 12 years ago. Now, i plan to quit teaching and concentrate to get a degree. Don't know why, but I think its is the right time for me to hit the books again. My wife, Su, holds a Masters and my son, Adam is going into Primary 1 next year.
But yeah, I still think having a degree is not the end all of anything, but I felt the urge to go for it. The same urge I felt when I sign up to teach. I just hope it would not take me some 12 years before I get a degree. Sigh.
Asked around and I've friends who dropped out of getting the degree. I've friends who, after they got the degree, got a pay cut. I've friends who took seven years to get the degree and then have a pay cut and yet I've friends who takes about 2 and a half years to get the degree, only to leave the teaching profession.
I love my son, my wife and my family. No way would I do something to harm them. I just hope that by quiting this seemingly very stable job, I would not take away anything from Adam.
So what's my plan, as it is, my cc bills are paid in full, my overdraft have been paid in full, finally and Su has just got promoted. I save around 150 bucks per month on interest alone. I saved some 40 dollars everytime I pump fuel at JB and I could go there twice a week, so that saves me some 320 per month. I plan to sign up for relief teaching, maybe that will add to my income and then I plan to give tuition. Adam goes to school from 1.45-4.45pm. Thus that will be my tuition time. I hope to have at least one per day. How much that will earn me I don't know. And since Adam is going into P1 next year, I could be saving as much as 100 per month. If everything goes well, I could let Risa go. If that happens, I'll be saving some 500 per month.
So many things I want to try. i want to be a taxi driver. I want to see how it is like. I'm sure I can do it. I want to learn more about the insurance industry, not to mention real estate. Not to earn money, but to learn. Maybe with Allah's blessing, I could provide a better life for Adam and Su.
But my long term plan would be to get the degree and work overseas. Imaging teaching in Langkawi. Only an hour plane ride from Singapore. That will be so cool. Maybe in Australia, in a farm, in a house. Maybe.
There, I did it, I'd cast my thoughts in stone, or at least in cyberspace. Now for me to chart my journey.
I've already applied for UNISIM. Its just a matter of time for me to hear from them. Su is very supportive although she is concern. I could tell, this was what her old man use to do. And she does not like what happened after. I love that woman. I'm so lucky. God help me if I ever hurt her.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Marantz amp

Just bough myself a used marantz amp pm 6100. Connected it to my 63se and output it through my Kef Q30 speakers. Played Peter Cincotti well, but lacklustre in nirvana mtv unplug.
Hoped to get a rotel biwire amp to connect it to my made in china m3i speakers...
Went to a shop, jenson audio at bedok north st 3. Nice guy. And met a couple of guys who, seems to me, audio freaks. I mean they are not freaky, just they seem so passionate about the music that it freaks me out! I guess, when I'm in their company, I'm the freak one out.
While I was there, they played some music on a mcintosh 225 or a 255 tube amp, connected it to a marantz space age looking cd player and out the music through these two 3-way speakers that literally blew my mind!
Sigh. Perhaps that is why my nirvana is no longer nirvana for me...