Shopping Spree..

After months of whinning about irresponsible people, I finally found an extremely responsible colleague, J. Though J is not my mentor, I'm assisting her as a co-form teacher of the class of angels. Initially, I was extremely terrified of her. She has this really fierce look on her face and does not smile at all when she's handling her duties. But after a while, she began to open up to me and vice versa. She was not so terrifying after all. I managed to learn a lot from her for the past 1.5 months just being around her even though it's a mere 15 minutes per day. Things that I learnt: how to be fierce when necessary, how to get the class to listen to the teacher when the students are in a hyper-active mood, how to handle difficult students, and most importantly, how to be firm and yet caring towards the class. I not only picked up tips on how to handle students. I also observed how she deals with irritating and irresponsible colleagues. What I admire most about her is her work attitude. She performs her work with no complaints and makes sure she does her work properly. But sometimes, she can get overly kancheong that I've to tell her to relax as I would help her and not put on a disappearing act. And on the last day of school, we actually found out that we can't stand the same colleague, who always has the tendency to eat snake. Whatever it is, J has been a great inspiration to me. I'm glad to be given the opportunity to work with her.

Now that school is out for the kids, I'm effectively on a holiday mood even though I still have to report back to school till mid-November. Since I'm paid, I'm not complaining. To celebrate the end of my teaching stint for this year, I rewarded myself with the purchase of Rog's racket (exactly the same model this time) and the most expensive tickets to David Tao's concert. Really pleased with my buys. For the cost of $232, it came with Rog's racket, an N-code Wilson T-shirt, an N-code Wilson cap, 3 Wilson tennis balls, 1 gigantic Wilson tennis bag, free stringing and 2 cans of drinks. As for David Tao's concert, despite paying for the most expensive tickets, I didn't manage to get hold of very front row seats. Reason? I only knew of the existence of his concert a few days ago when the tickets have been going on sale since 10th October. I'm pretty sure I read the newspapers faithfully everyday. I'm not sure why the media did so little in publicizing his concert. I only knew of it when I accidentally tuned into 93.3FM and heard David Tao talking about this upcoming concert.

I have absolutely no regrets 'splurging' my money this way. After all, it's not every day that such deals come along. Furthermore, how often does one's favourite singer stages a concert in one's country? The last concert I watched was 3 years ago, staged by Lee Hom. It's about a time I witnessed another concert.