陈DOROTHY

(Get Well Soon cards from my students when I was ill the other day.)
I wish I can write what I feel towards work adequately, at the moment it's just this insane mess of feeling tired-challenged-glad-sillyhappy-blessed. After being taken out of the "get-to-school by 0730" for many years, waking up to do that has been fairly painful. :p But it helps much when I'm with my direct colleagues and students, a day never goes by without big laughs and something new to learn from all of them. :)

ahh, better get to writing my student updates or I won't have time for my design deadlines...

Being caught up with the hustle and bustle of school's reopening, I carelessly left my year-old plus iphone in the staffroom earlier today. I don't really know what has become of it, there's still a dial tone when I call it, but none have seen it or handed it over to the respective parties. I'm actually quite sure that it's not in the school compound anymore, because i went back after dinner at 9pm, armed with Leon's hp, full of hope to see it light up and vibrate in the dark silence, but I saw and heard nothing.

Hence, I am now uncontactable through the hp, don't worry if your numbers are in it, my iphone's set on automatic lock, so they can't access it unless they know my most most intimate password. At this moment, I don't exactly know what to make of this situation. I just personally found it a little disappointing to not only know that it was not found in a staff-access only area, but these are staff from my school, and my school's not quite ordinary. But yeaps, there are all sorts of people in this place and that is something I've learnt to be mindful about.

Even though I was feeling calm, it was quite an internal struggle keeping a smile up in school today. I prayed hard, and after all the searching, I just knew it was all in His hands, I can't do much. At the end of the day, it's still my bad right. Anyways, I will figure something out after I stop hearing the dial tone. :(

I had a bad dream about wedding dresses last night. :/
Usually, I would forget my dreams the morning after, but this one was particularly vivid.

Leon and I were in a beautiful cream coloured bridal studio looking for a dress. And as how dreams usually don't make sense, this was the only studio left opened in Singapore. As the shop owner drew back the curtains to reveal the dresses, my heart skipped a beat. To my horror and disbelief, the only dresses that were available there were these huge poofy ruffled gowns, with a mish mash of lace, in an awful awful set of neon colours. We actually turned the place upside down but nothing was in taste. And then I woke up feeling just visually sick.

I don't really know why this came about since I'm not particularly stressed about the wedding preparations. Knowing the wedding we both want, I don't really think my preparations will be very stressful either. Hopefully, this dream will be the last of this kind of dreams and not not be realised yeah? Heh :p

"Bear with me one moment.."
Drew the above during lunch yesterday, i know it has been ages since I've last posted but things have been so packed. So really, do bear with me, I'll get things up and running real soon!

What's new with me? Well, I've been working for about a little more than a month now, it's hectic, but all's still well. :) I've also taken big step in my service to Him, all I know now is that I'm not ready for much yet, He's still teaching me. And then there's the wedding preparation, it seems that planning a simple one is more complex than I thought. Some stuff has cropped up in the family as well, but as I said before, all's still well.

That aside, I really think I should learn to drive real soon,
day after day, there seems to be more reasons to drive.
I really don't mind riding a bicycle if the distance is reasonable,
but bicycles get rob of their wheels and seats in Singapore, which is very sad.

Before assembly as I was walking into school, a student ran towards me squealing, "Miss Dorothy! Miss Dorothy! I want to show you something!", his two hands were clutching a matchbox. I asked him what was it, peering cautiously at the box. I noticed that some holes were made in it, which means it couldn't be anything good. :/ Beaming, he went flung it opened, "Tadahhh! A Cockroachh!!", he then went away laughing, "Scare all the new teachers!"