2013

Looks like it is going to be a ritual once a year post... All I can say is that I am glad the year of the water snake is fast coming to an end.... Can't wait to usher in year of the snake... Hope the fortunes would be reversed and for the better.... Now let's see a quick recap of 2012... other than making A hospital my second home, there was Chiangmai and all its adventures... Can't believe that I have been on this little red dot for almost 3 years! Time sure flies when one is having the time of her life!

2012

Ah... This is month 2 of the leap year! Where has January disappeared to? All I know and care about is there aren't no more holidays till the end of term. So that means a whole month without a break or a long weekend or anything... But well such is life! I should seriously update my photos but that will take tons of time with all the strange shots of food, lines, and random shots that I have taken... My goal this year is to get a camera proper... Most of the random shots are being done on the trusty iPhone 4... Well the days just roll on by... Just keep rolling...

2011 or whats left of it

It is going to be September tomorrow! Where have the first 8 months of the year disappeared to? The old saying goes, time flies when one is having fun! I am not so sure about that .... But the time flies part is so true.

Well I have been out from under the curtain for a year now... so my commuter lifestyle has ceased to exist (honestly, I miss that to a certain extend!) But now I am flying southwards most of the holidays... So thats a slight change... back to the land of the long white cloud instead.. No complains there!

Food photos... hmmm... well.. in the by and by... There are now officially too many to choose from!

Anyway work calls and it is back to reality... but only for a day...

A long overdue update

There and Back Again

Hmmm... sounds like a Hobbits Tale in the making...

The past financial year has seen me on the aluminium tube more times that I would like to imagine... Some people think that it is the envy of them all to be in and out of the plane... But the reality is when it is only the middle of the month and I have travelled twice, I can actually tell you what movies are on that sector and that one has to resort to ordering a special meal for variety sake is quite tragict to say the least...

Well at least I can say that it is nice to be able to blog and have a "normal" tech lifestyle... Yet on the other hand, when one has not used it for so long, one seems to forget to miss it... Sad but true...

Will have to update the food blog pictures though... Dont know when that would be done... Ok I know... it will apppear in the second half of this year...

Shanghai has not seen a proper spring yet... I left it aat 5 degrees in the middle of April and hail falling... Hmmm.. think this poor old earth is tired and worn out....

Now back to what I was doing....

Chinese New Year

What!!! It is that time of year again??? No... But well the upside is I can use m blog and facebook to my heart's contend... the down side is having to plaster on a smile and nod and be nice.... I am counting down the months till the end of things in a way... I left a frozen Shanghai and instead swapped it for an over hot tropical retreat... LOL... and to think that some people want to lead a jet setting lifestyle... All I want is some sleep...

at the end of the day....

Another few and far between posting has begun.. It is hard to imagine life without you tube, blogging, Facebook, twitter, but hey when the chips are down life takes interesting turns... I am in the land of technical freedom at the moment and thought I better keeps things alive for the moment with a new blog... Especially as the year draws to a close.. . at times i wonder where all the time has gone to or where the year has disappeared to.... Some how it doesn't seem that long ago that we were welcoming 2009 in and now we are ushering it out with a vengeance.... life has been strange this year... the first half of the year was my previous academic year and the second half of the year is the present academic year... on top of that, I have been in Shanghai for a year and a half now... hmmm.... and o think most people thought I wouldn't make it and survive being in a non "western" country!

Anyway, time to hit the sack....

the long silence

Well.. I know... it has been the longest time since I have had the chance to update my blog... Life in Shanghai has been pretty busy... I am not the grnd commuter and am shuttling between campuses to conduct my lessons on top of climbing the stairs to go between Primary and ECE - as usual... life is pretty busy... But well can't complain.. everbody wants their pound of flesh... So here is mine...

It is the National Day holidays at the moment and I am busy cleaning out my room in Singapore and am preparing to become a turtle... carry my worldly goods on my back which will become my home... Not a great feeling but life is never perfect or totally fair so just dealing with it a day at the time...

My back is not totally comepletely healed and that has been proving a challenge where my work is concerened... as I cant bend anymore and it has been really painful to teach the little darlings... Hope to see the end of this tunnel...

Into a new adventure... Oh and it will not be as frequent an update once I get back to Shanghai as it is not the most convinient to get onto blogspot...

I am back!!!!

Can't believe that I have been out of the blogging action for such a long time... well this time has been beyond my human control... I have been left isolated from a lot of essential sites and this is one of them... But all is good... it is a really hot season and I can't wait for the weather to cool down a tad... so much so that I am absolutely not motivated to move out of the comfort of my home.. the mere thought of it and I would curl up on my sofa instead...

Hmmm good way to save money....

life...

Life has been pretty relaxing... so much so that I am wondering how I am going to get back into gear for work next week... Boo hoo hoo I can't believe that the holidays are coming to an end that quickly... How I wish it would be just a tad longer... But all good things must come to an end like it or not... oh well... till the next holidays...

living in the shadow of A(H1N1)

Mother to unborn child

People to people

What's next?

Better hold one's breathe when another person is coughing?

Don't think there is any escaping this new virus in that sense... Oh well keep on living and breathing while continuing to live a normal life...

Wonder whether it would transfer from human to animals though???

bark... bark...bark.... oink...oink... oink???

It is official

I have grown a couple of cm shorter than before my fall...

I am radioactive today due to a scan I had to do (nope I will not be glowing in the dark!)

In certan cases having a b;adder full is not a good look... It blocks the images of the scan...t hen again I had no sensation to answer any call.... being told that one's bladder is huge is not a great feeling either...

long silence

I know it has been a pretty long silence... Well nothing eventful has happened.. Been stuck at home some more and learning to wrok the core muscles in the back and abs... The simple things that we all take forgranted- like walking, standing, sitting, bending....

Oh and this is not written while in Shanghai as blogspot is down at the moment... 

okie back to bed....

Strange Happenings

Well... I have been stuck at home for the past week and a half!

But it being Mother's Day on Sunday got me the first outing in a trusty wheelchair (which Uncle Anthony had the honor of pushing- we were on the road for most of it as it was less bumpy than the footpath) and it felt like a child in a lolly shop... I was so excited and it was a lot of fun to get out of the house to have a meal and I admit I overstretched myself as I went to have hot chocolate as well... I was winded by the end of the night!

Physio on Monday was equally exciting outing wise (tragic but true!) and it felt good to be able to look at things from a sitting position.... It was exhausting working out at physio and am still attempting to learn to do the pelvic tilt properly... Not very good at that at all to say the least and it feels as if anything related to that motion is just about going down another path!

Showers are another highlight of the day! It is even more exciting when the notice for the stoppage of water is in worms and not circulated in all the letter boxes and is instead stuck on the notice board by the lift! So hey presto, I was happily starting my shower this morning and had just shampooed my hair... Tried to turn on the tap but there wasn't a drop of water! Yikes a head full of shampoo is not a good look even for me! So  had to resort to using the emergency bottle of mineral water to rise the shampoo out of my hair!

Wonder what is going to be next? Any ideas?

bed rest

I am officially on 2 weeks of bed rest! Have done 3 days already and it is driving me stir crazy! I am under house arrest and can't find a get out of jail free card or out of my restraining order... It is hard work to stay at home but I have not choice as I landed with a thump on my back over the weekend and fractured my T12 and L1... So rest and let the body heal is the order of the day.... 

All's well that ends well... Till next time.... 

Another Spring Issue

Pollen on West Lake in Hangzhou!

Seven Dwarfs

Dopey- I love this character to bits!

Grumpy- When I am overly tired and when I have had to teach for the longest time, I live up to this character... Well then again it doesn't take much now a days to feel this way some of the time... I guess having only a short break in the morning doesn't help the cause at all... That was what it was for me yesterday I had the lovely darling of K4 come for their visit and standing and squatting beside them doesn't help my knees...which leads me to...

Doc- I need one of those now...Is there a Doc in the house? With the new Swine flu floating around (What a name for a flu virus!) and Hand Foot and Mouth disease going round as well... What doesn't kill you makes you stronger so I have been told!

Happy- I can't wait for the weekend... Finally another long weekend in the making and I am going to do something or other... Like people say, "whatever floats your boat..." I need something to keep me in my happy spot

Bashful- LOL any comments here would be welcomed

Sneezy- Spring is the trigger for most people... The sufferers of hay fever and allergies! What a welcome to the warmer weather... It is a pretty sight but it brings on the suffering for many a people

Sleepy- That's what I feel right now! Then again that is how I always feel most of the time... There is never enough time to sleep! Some people were designed to be morning people and some people were not! I am definitely not a morning person at all! There is no doubt about that... I would give anything to put my alarm on snooze and keep sleeping till I absolutely have to get up and that means dragging myself out of bed!

All in all there is at least one of the 7 dwarfs in all of us!

Boing Boing Boing

Spring has finnaly arrived and this is my favourite season of all... 

My passion lies in the flowers...

Done!

The dreaded apprasial season is upon me once again... Guess it is not something I would ever get use to and it is at the end of the day just a part of life so to speak... The not so nice part of life... But it has to be done none the less...

I decided to use one of my best classes for it and had a pep talk with them before the session about what to say and how to behave. It was funny that there are 2 things that were taboo...The kids were on their best behavior when they walked into the class and they had the most angelic look on their face.

Matty walked into the class and he had his cheeky look on his face and he started "Can we... opps no!" as he saw that the "guest" was already in the classroom and he quickly sat down.. The class was so wonderful and it was a full on hour as usual but it was all good...

Now to wait patiently for the final report....

Time to enjoy the weekend!

Tadpole sitting

Right... I have a new profession....

I am officially a tadpole sitter!

Well not by choice but one little sweet Year 2 came in with her box of tadpoles and we talked about what they would grow up into and what they ate. Then she sweetly asked if I could look after them for her for this weekend as she is going away...

Me being me, did not have the heart to say no and now I am looking after tadpoles who are sitting in my room. (Hope none of them die or get cooked from the heat!)