I had fun today. Comparing myself back to last year when alan and myself got a shady deal - wearing this lime-green polo-tee and having to become the fatigue party: the team of macho men in tight tees who you can summon to clear rubbish, get u drinks or clear your table. This year, the CP3s had to man the Frog Jump game stall. It was fun. Hot though but the thing I was most pleased with is that EVERY single person in my cat class went. I was suspecting that Kenneth might find an excuse to run off, Melvin, Watson & Wilson won't show and Fabiola might be too tired to come. Was really pleasantly surprised when all came and all helped out even if it was for a short while. Thanks a million to those like Wayne & MarkC who helped out even though they didn't need to. Ed & Peter, thanks for ur dedication n big heart for helping out so long. I liked it cos this year, the kids ran the show lah and I could just slack at the back :)
Had a gd time walking about n all too.
*side track*
have to tell you guys a pick-up line that came to my mind yest. I tried tripping one of the girls in my cat class cos she was suaning me then it occured to me.
First I try to trip the girl. Then she'll prob ask, "why did you do that???" Then I say, "Cos I want you to fall for me!" :D and give a goofy grin (the kind Maurice is great at).
The prob with this was that I verbalised it to my cat class kids and now they insist that I'm trying to get Cheryl to fall for me. Oh man, my mistake, my mistake.
*back to funfair*
Went home rather tired but had to stay awake so that I could reach church by 430pm for the procession rehearsal. The statue which my cat class kids had to carry was heavy man; my arms were trembling when Anthony and myself shifted it. I'm quite proud that all 8 of them - Dion, Sudi, Darry, Charles, Averil, Bern, Cherlyn & Cheryl - managed to pull it off. Saw them struggling but in the end they managed to pull thru. heh. Mass was good and overall, it was a good day. Good Day.
Had dinner at KFC in Compasspoint with 6 of them and chatted for awhile, n let the guys show me some magic card tricks. Then escorted Sudi, Charles, Cherlyn & Cheryl to grab a cab. All 4 of them squeezed at the back :)
Interacting with them, talking to them, hanging out with them made me think about myself when I was their age. When I attended catechism. Sadly, I don't rem ANYone in my class. I was shy back then; talking to girls was something like a last resort thing and I could never be myself when with them. I wish I were more sociable and outspoken then. Maybe I would have made more frens, maybe I would have been more popular, maybe I would have more female frens, maybe. Then I think about the other ppl in my class, about the quieter ones. The ones who are as shy as, if not more shy than I was back then. I guess that's the reason why i try to include them all the time. I know how they feel? And it's a good thing cos once you've been there you know how it feels and you'll want to make them feel comfortable, that they're important and include them in the things u do. Sometimes, things can get dominated by the more prominent ppl in the class n the rest are left out. I guess tt's why I was shy in the past. Just glad that I'm close to the kids. Gonna make an effort to reach out to the rest. k tired sia~ next week will be intensive research. tt's my promise to myself. here's to 100 years of Mugging - NUS!!!
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my gosh!
only u can come up with such pickup lines! hahahaa!!
i noe wat u mean.. i was oso shy in cat class.. (actually oso half-asleep) well, u are inspiring me to be cat class teacher. but maybe will do tat only aft i leave CSS!
-from the paparazzi who takes nice, InTeresTinG photos- ;)
shld really release it on my blog! hahahaa!!
I am so with you on being friendly with the shy people, cuz I'm totally the same. I'm so reserved with people I don't know, but off my rocker with my friends, but in a class of strangers I find myself talking more to the quieter people cuz I know what it's like to feel left out, and u wanna be a nice person and make them feel included, no? it could also be that u're threatened by the more outspoken people and u feel comfortable and assured with the quieter people and hence u're more comfortable with them. that's just my 2cents worth.
On a separate note, WHAT DO U MEAN IN E PREVIOUS POST BOUT GIRLS NOT BEING GUYS' EQUAL IN DRIVING??!?~! I'm a hotarse driver, ask angie, she can vouch for me. In fact, not to tout my own horn, I think i'm as good a driver as any given guy, maybe better than some. Bring it on sista, anyday ehehehe Also, may I add that I believe in equality between both sexes, but it's just common courtesy to hold the door for the next person, regardless of gender. And those girls who expect guys to open their doors ALL e time should just be shot. You have arms, use them. But not all girls are like that, only a small minority, I hope, and they should be exterminated ehehe cuz they tarnish the good name of womankind! (spoken from the point of view of a feminist who refuses to be called a feminist cuz of all the darn connotations that go along with it)
Jon: wait till I get discriminating pics of U...be afraid...be VERY afraid!! :D
dyseluxon: heyhey nice of you to drop by again...haha it looks like you leave me no choice but to challenge you to a duel on wheels...well maybe in the past I would have done that but the present me wouldn't...I'll just sit in the passenger seat then :)
agree with you on the politeness in opening doors regardless of gender etc. think that shd be the way.
haha and the moment you mentioned that you were a closet feminist you stopped being one cos you're come into the open :p
keep the fire going, kindle it with care... btw, it's not very hard to find paparazzi-standard photos of jon la. heh.
Hey guy... glad u have fun... hee... see teaching cat class is not that bad lah... it has its fun side right... hee... next yr i wun miss all this fun... =)
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