Last Saturday (06 Feb 10), went to Ying Jie’s 21st bday. I met Ying Jie 15+ years ago in my drama club. We used to be very close sisters back then.

Met Jinxuan and xiaojun at Bugis and we went down to pebble bay. I enjoyed the music by the live band D’fusion. I only left the party around 1115pm. Luckily, there was still train service back home.

I went home with kinda heavy heart because of what I saw. I kept asking God what I can do. I felt weak and useless. There wasn’t anything I can do. As I asked God, tears started to flow out.

Yesterday during service’s pnw, I broke down again. I told God “God, you know my situation. God, I need more courage from you. Tell me what I can do, teach and show me the way you want me to go. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.”

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Blame it on my service provider for the unexpected intrusion of the hacker. Now, I can only blog about my work experience based on my memory and twitter.

Day35 of work(29 Jan): It was Jie Ni’s 3yrsold birthday and Zhi Ling’s last day in the childcare. I bought them crayons on my own expense and gave it to them. We sang birthday song for Jie Ni. Normally the birthday kid will bring a cake and we will have the cake cutting session etc. But Jie Ni didnt get her cake. So, we showed the kids the picture of a cake and asked them to imagine that we are feeding them the cake. Haha, one of the kids asked me to open my mouth so that she can give me the cake.

Day39 of work (5 Feb): When I reached the doorstep of my childcare centre, the kids shouted uniformly “Good Afternoon Teacher Jassy”. So sweet. They brighten up my Friday and gave a good ending for the week. I took care of the K1 class and read stories to them. After story-telling, I let the children to play toys. In the class, there are some naughty kids. Some “KPOs” kids came and told me “Teacher, naughty children cannot play toys okay? Don’t let Jing Chong and Janiel play”. Then, Issac called me “Teacher Jassy Teacher Jassy, I built a submarine. You come and take a look.” He grabbed my hands and pulled me to a corner to see his ’submarine’. After that, I went back to my own seat and played with the kids. Then, Issac called me again “Teacher Jassy Teacher Jassy, I built a house. Take a look.” So, he grabbed my hands to a corner and showed me his masterpiece.

Day40 of work (8 Feb):Took the K1 class. Read the story ‘The Little Mermaid”. But the ending of the story is different from what I used to know. Haha..The ending is the prince marrying another princess and little mermaid died and rose up to the heaven.

Day41 of work (9 Feb): Normally, we will bring the kids to the playground for outdoor but since its the CNY week, we brought our kids out to the market to take a look at the pasar malam. We looked at flowers, Nian Gao, Pomelo, and anything that is related to chinese new year.

Day42 of work (10 Feb): Normally when it’s outdoor time, there will be two teachers in the class. But on 10 Feb, I went outdoor alone with another four kids.

On the way to school (11 Feb): On my way to school, I saw my k2 kid Garreth and my k1 kid Geraldine. When they saw me, they greeted me “Good morning Teacher Jassy” even though I’m not going to work.

Day43 of work (12 Feb): Took the K1 and playgroup class. I read stories to my kids. After some time, my kid asked me “Teacher, how come your voice so strange?”. Haha.. It was then I realised that my voice sounded worse than what I excepted. Chinese new year has not started and I’m already down with sore throat :s . Anyway, my k2 kid Shawn gave me a pair of mandarin oranges. Sweet

A tweet that I tweeted at Asrida’s 21st party on 24 Jan 2010: How do you know U r a successful leader(senior)? It is when your member(junior) invites u to her bday party and there’s only yourself and another senior.

Truly, I’m really very touched to be invited to my cca junior’s birthday party. It is some thing when your junior only invited two senior – yourself and another senior. Shirley and I were invited to Asrida’s 21st and we were chatting how privileged we are. My cca, MIAKE is a place where I found my true friends. They went through ups and downs with me and accompanied me throughout my high school days. I will never forget how blessed I am to be in this family, to be the Angklung Sectional Leader. I’m still being remembered by people who were once under my leadership. For those who just know me, maybe you can take a look at this.

If you’ve been following me for the past three years, you would know that baking pineapple tarts is an annual thing for me. Without fail, I baked it again this year.

On Saturday (23 Jan), my cousin came and fetch me to buy the ingredients for the pineapple tarts. It tested my physical ability to carry 8kg of pineapple filling. We got items like pineapple filling, flour, icing sugar, eggs. The ingredients and steps are the same like the previous years.

Let’s take a look at some photos I took.

One thing that’s different this year was we used another method – the emulsification method for two of our batches. Normally, we will use the rub-in method. Guess how many did we made? 200+!!

We started around 11am and ended around 8pm. After that, I played with my nieces. They are so cute.

On 31st Jan, I made my pineapple tarts again with my mum at home. We also tried new item- Peanut Cookies.

Peanut Cookies

Fried Peanuts (grinded finely) : 500g
Plain Flour (sifted) : 500g
Fine Sugar : 400g
Peanut Oil : 500g

Method:

1. Mix grinded peanut, plain flour, fine sugar, in a big mixing bowl
2. Slowly mix in peanut oil till form into a soft dough
3. Form into small balls, place onto a greased baking sheet, and glaze with beaten eggs
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for about 25 mins till golden. Remove, leave to cool before storing.

Credit: http://fenyingrecipe.blogspot.com

Dear Readers, if you’ve been logging in to my website for the last two weeks, you would know that my website was hacked. It wasn’t due to my weak password I have for my system but it’s actually my service provider’s.

On Sunday (24 Jan), I was surfing my web and found out that it was hacked. I gave my service provider a call to alert him the problem. It was only then restored three weeks later. Can you understand how frustrated I am when I can’t blog and anything related to my blog? So I got to pester my service provider again and again to get the blog restored.

And now after 3 weeks, my blog is finally back. Luckily all my blog entries are not deleted and still in the system. I will be back to blogging soon.. Too many backdated entries. So, please e patient to me.

UPDATED as at 13 Feb: 3 new blog entries uploaded.

On thursday (21 Jan 09), I had my classes from morning to afternoon. And you know what? My jayfeelalike was sitting behind me during poa lesson.. Haha.. Normally during poa class, I will sleep, doze off. But amazingly, I didn’t sleep during lesson. Was super attentive like never before.

After school, went back home since I had a badminton game in the evening. Went down with my da ge and parents. A lot of running here and there at the courts. Haha, but I like it. That day, I wasnt in a great mood and so I vented it out through playing badminton. After playing for two hours, mum and dad went back home and I followed my da ge and his friends for supper at tpy. I had a plate of Hokkien Mee, and shared a plate of rojak and chicken with the rest. I shouldnt eat that much cause all the sweat and fats that I burned out was absorbed back through the food.

After supper, went back home.