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Riida requested for fishing gear
Aiba requested for scuba diving gear
Sho requested for DJ mixer
Jun requested for a white posh sofa
Nino requested for games.....
Wakaka...omg...like aren't those items soooo them?!
omedetou Arashi-chan...minna cho saigou desu! cleared everything...went agst the odds...worked together and cleared everything...
Jun...ur memory of the Beatles..wooohooo! help to score the gold ^ ^!
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coz they are just entertainingly cute! poor dear! here...sho and nino wasn't the centre of attention at all...aiba..a lil urusei..which gave him away...totally!
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how weird can life get?
Very!
Why do I say that?
Because of the things that happened yesterday and today.
Basically the school competed in the finals of the hockey match yesterday and it was against RI..muahaha! that elite school!
And guess what?! We Won!!!!
Woohoooo...note how happy I am despite me complaining and hating the school
Anyway, we won and it was a close match...
I nearly lost my voice coz yesterday my voice was already strained from speaking loudly in class...and then now a match is on.
Actually I din want to go but they put up the announcement that all teachers should go...and we being at the bottom of the chain, have to go no matter what coz eyes are watching and the tongues are wagging.
But in the morning with the boys wearing their number 2 uniform, they all look like jailbirds and I was laughing to myself about the aptness of the whole idea (they are really acting like some convicts anyway..so how apt can that get)
So, tired as we are, we went and it was a close fight, we were leading in the first half with 3 -1 but in the 2nd half, they came back and in the end it was 4-3...super close...we were like literally counting down the minutes...but basically I shouted and screamed like I was playing..wakaka, sorry, I cannot resist a good match, no matter what!
So, being tired, went back home in the evening...and I was entering the lift at my block...then guess what?!
Haha! Someone wanted to go in, so i stopped the door lift from closing and bam, I saw the Saints' number 2 uniform....
in my head, i was going Yabai!
And guess what happens next?
IT WAS MY OWN STUDENT!
Basically he was also shocked and both of us throughout the ride, we were going omg omg omg omg...not much words, just omg!
Haha, serious! even me!
And i asked him, how come I dun see him since he lives like in the same block and like 2 floors below me...and he was like I dun noe..and continued saying omg!
Basically we have lived with each other for so long( me for 10 yrs while him for 6 yrs ) and we have never met each other!
But basically, I said to him, "ok, I will pretend that I did not see anything"
So when the ride was over, seriously the longest ride through 8 floors for me!, he quickly went out and I was screaming after him, "Don't forget your homework!"
Haha, sorry lar, natural reaction...need to say it...and of course, he din hand in today...grrr, will hunt him down...
Omg, super awkward this morning!
Was trying to act normal BUT, boys being boys, news travel fast and the whole class knew....and they were kind of teasing him about it...But I ignored coz I'm not concerned about knowing where they live...unless of course I want to complain...haha, and today, he despite not doing his work, he was awake..wakaka, usually he's sleeping, but today, he's awake...haha, I dunno, maybe he's more cautious now coz the trump card is with me....
Omg, seriously, this is the 2nd time it has happened. When I was in another school for a month because of the Enhanced School Experience program, the kids that I taught, 2 of them were my sister's ex-classmates and one of them lived in the next block and our mothers knew each other...
Now in this school, one student lives in the same block and another student of mine knows my friend and hence will definitely know my sister and brother since they go to the same tuition under my friend's father...and the father is a close family friend...omg...really lar..things are just so weird funny!
Oh btw, coz the kids won yesterday, today is half-day! Yay for me, coz I was too shagged yesterday that I din have time to prepare my lessons...and just nice the half day does not cover the classes that I din prepare for! Though I still need to stay back coz the kids requested for extra lessons and well, I need to get things done...at least, I can breathe more easily...yay!
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that when I am stressed out, i sleep, or I want to sleep
right now, I want to sleep
but whenever I sleep, I have nightmares...
no scary monsters...just that unsettling feeling that I get that makes me feel being pushed to a corner
what is happening to me?
genki ja nai desu...
and it scares me that I don't smile as often as I used to...
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I'm beginning to like this boy more and more...like really like him...but not enough to replace arashi. but he is really worthy of that pace he has in the law school...i mean just look at the way he ponders over names...how intellectual can he sound? very!
and I saw the MS performance today on Animax...i mean tt boy is damn kakkoi...and with the falling rain on him...hotness, esp when he sleeked his hair back or wipe the water off his face...was squealing all the way!
oh oh oh...can i say smthg...i cannot help but notice tt during tt performance, P's ehem is quite big..haha, very obvious..and the only thg tt hides it is tt big scarf ard him..maybe tt's why he used the scarf...coz it was damn obvious...really! dun blame me for noticing...it's just tt after our boys' umm, exposing news and P's being obvious...it just shows...wakaka!
thanks to riicichan from news_jpop lj for the translations
#23: Myojo 2008-05 - Name
[In English]
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet:
This is from Shakespeare's work "Romeo and Juliet", a famous saying by Juliet.
"A
name, what's that? Even if we call the rose with a different name, the
beautiful smell stays the same." (Translation by Katô Shigeaki)
My name is Katô Shigeaki. The members, the staff and the fans all call me "Shige", my classmates from middle school call me "Katô". But among my friends, there are just a couple of them who call me "Shige-chan". There's is actually a reason for this.
It was around the time when I was in the fourth year of primary school, when we moved from Ôsaka to Yokohama. I was introduced to my new classmates as transfer student. The teacher said, "This is your new friend, Katô Shigeaki-kun. Everyone, please welcome him warmly ne.", and the usual proceedings followed. And then of course I was told, "So, Katô-kun, introduce yourself ne." Even though I usually didn't get out more than, "I am Katô Shigeaki. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu." for some reason I said, "I'm Katô Shigeaki from Ôsaka. Please call me 'Shige-chan'." Iya, thinking of that now makes me feel embarrassed. I mean, honestly, Shige-chan. But there was a reason why I said that.
Until then, I had only been called by my surname "Katô", but I really admired being called by one's given name. But the only one who called me "Shige" back then were my parents, and since it would feel as if my parents called me when my friends would call me that, I somehow disliked being called "Shige" by my friends. That's why I ended up saying this in front of the class. Afterwards, having forced the people who would become my friends to call me "Shige-chan", if they had called me "Shige", I'd probably have fought them, "What are you saying, I'm Shige-chan!"
Thinking back on it now, it was a stupid thing to care about, but if nothing else that was my resistance. It wasn't as if I hated my own name, I rather like it, but I felt a kind of unfairness about the name given to me at the time I was born. Why am I Katô Shigeaki? Surely, there's a deeper meaning to the name "Shigeaki". But why can't I decide about my name myself? Thinking like this, I thought that I wanted at least to decide my nickname by myself. Well, it wasn't that great a nickname, it just proves I had no sense.
But, meeting a lot of people lately, I sometimes meet people who decide their nicknames themselves and introduce themselves as such. Just recently, when I asked someone after her name, the answer that came back was "Joanna". Of course, this person was Japanese inside out. I thought to myself, how impossible, but then I realized something important.
Names don't matter. It's not important whether you're given a name or a nickname. Like Juliet said before, the wonderful fragrance or beauty does not change. Whether I'm "Shige" or "Katô" or "Shige-chan" or "Joanna", I am who I am. That's why everyone can call me whatever they like. Just by calling me something, I'm happy.
To the saying quoted above, there's a continuation. I wonder if Juliet felt the same way I do.
[In English]
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.
"That's why Romeo-sama would be Romeo-sama, even if he weren't called Romeo."
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ok...this post and then i go off to do my teaching package...watched the HYD report on tv and kyaaaaaa! he looks damn HOT...really the EPITOMY of hotness for me...i dun care if anyone says he is not or he looks gay or wateva...except mayb i'll just go up to the person and smack tt person hard..wakaka!
anyway, i want it to be shown in Singapore! GV, Cathay, Eng Wah! Listening or not?!!
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I love Arashi...coz even when I am angry or frustrated, all they need to do is be themselves and bam, i am cured...wakaka!
saw the press conference for himitsu and my god! our boys...damn kinky lar!
using the unzipping of the pants as promo..wakaka! I love that idea...i mean really, whoever tot of this idea, i salute you! ok, not coz of the hentai nature of the whole concept (which is another reason but not the main reason) but the whole concept of peeking into the inner private part of oneself tt's often being shielded by the outer self...just like the ehem part being shielded by the pants.....
I wanna get that zip part...wanna analyse it carefully...wakaka! and i wonder, what's in the compartment? a secret that Arashi will share?
And the top half..omg, Jun jus had to make me excited...the way he was shushing away...damn hot...wanna lick those lips n tt finger! he always jus had to make things sexy-fied!!
AND the press conference...Sho and Jun kind of took the stage again..haha, explaining the concept of the promotion...wakaka! typical, these 2 'leaders'...and Riida! I lvoe his hair, for his butai deshou?...I love the hair..really...very gangster like...and it's loverly!
so right now..ahaha, lemme jus smile and think H tots all the way..wakaka, lucky i only haf one lesson today, which is the last period..keke, if not, yabai!
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I am damn pissed right now! Like bloody want smack his face! he's such a bloody jerk that i just feel like he's out to get me or something. like i'm the sacrificial lamb or something.
My supervisor came again to bloody deliver my evaluation form and look at my work file
And he was ranting again; explaining again to me how i sucked at lesson preparation and because i din prepare my lessons well, I got all the problems that occurred during my observation.in my head, i was like, damn lar, i know my mistakes already, do you need to harp on it, making it sound like I din bother at ALL. Like HEY, i did bother ok, I spent like a bloody day and a half, thinking through on how to do and package the whole lesson and here you are implying that I did not bother at all?!
Then he looked at my work file, and bam, he shot me down again. Said that I din do enought on the concept column and that is where the problem lies. FYI, I have been thought that on the concept column, it's more of the main concept or content that you want to teach but for this big a-hole of a s.o.b, he wants like a mini-summary of your powerpoint slides/lesson for that period of time. like f*ed-up lar, bloody hell, he's so f*ed up anal about all this, why din he tell us earlier what he really wants?! I mean he bloody have to realise that we come from diff disciplines and each discipline have their own way of doing things and expectations. You can't bring me down just coz your expectations is different from mine. You can tell me but not shoot me down. And that time when I handed in the lesson plan to u, why din you tell me all these bloody details? you only ask me to think through of what I really want to teach them and all, the bloody Essential Questions and Essential Understanding. Oh which by the way, your version is blooody different from what I have been thought! Basically it's like shooting me down face front in my face when there were many opportunities for you to tell me nicely...bloody hell!
Such a bloody anal bastard who's so f*ing full of himself! I know my other two frens under him will kind of do better since I've been complaining and telling them what he expects, so they are like trying to beef up and make changes to theirs. I mean, I dun care abt this...it's better for them also...I mean I know I should care about myself but it cannot be helped, I'm the first one to be slaughtered so definitely, I will have the most bruises and slits as compared to the rest. I just feel fed up with all this...I mean at first, I was really thinking and even admitting that yeah, there are points that i need to improve and all...but the more he gives his feedback and his remarks, the more I feel bloody defensive and just thinking what a f*ed jerk this person is...i mean u keep talking about helping me to develop and all, but is this the way to do so? not telling me earlier and only when I am being observed? sheeeesh!
Posted at 09:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)
Basically I screwed up in my observation today real bad
Made every mistake possible and the ones that I was very concerned and fear that I will make
He said that I am not going to score high for this observation, which is duh for me, considering he shot me down in every aspect. And he said he expects a lot more from me in the next(which is the last) observation.
And I am not blaming him...because I think I did screw up in every aspect. instructions were not clear, concepts for the lesson not clear and hence, i had classroom management issues and the way i conducted the lesson was poor.
I guess I was too focused on the whole idea of making it into a student-centred learning lesson that I did not think about the big picture, the big concept that I was driving home. And apparently, my lesson is too simple for them and hence, they do not feel challenged and therefore they start to create noise and be restless.
I dunno, I mean I am not going to cry or anything, just that I am frustrated with myself for not doing the best that I can. Urgh, why can't NIE just be more flexible and not expect every lesson for observation to have the student-centred learning element. Can't I just teach with me at the front and giving the answers? Like the whole thing is boggling me and bugging me coz what I learnt in NIE is different from his expectations and requirements and hence it looks like as though I am a failure kid. And the f*ing problem is that he did not really go into detail of his expectations of certain aspects and hence when he starts going on about my lesson plan being too vague and not detailed and how every thing must have an explanation...I suddenly feel like omg, I really have to change whatever it is I have learnt in NIE and relearn everything...
Like hell....whatever, I am so going to press on and do my best....will try to improve and hopefully fair well...i mean I dun care about a distinction. I just want to pass and get the hell out of this school...seriously...
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