Category Archives: Life Experience

March 12, 2011

Mists are only pretty in prose and poetry– also posted in Myself, Rant, Teaching Life, Travel

Once upon a time, one of the best medicines for me was writing. When I was sad, the pages of my diary would be filled from left to right, top to bottom. When I started blogging in 2000, I began to keep electronic diaries. Some were stored in the form of HTML pages, which I [...]

December 23, 2010

Custom Unique URLs for Blogspot & Tumblr– also posted in Nerdy and Geeky

2011 is the time to be unique. Starting from next year, many things would start afresh. New mobile numbers would start with 011 followed by 8 long trail of numbers. We have new KSSR for primary kids, among other things, but I’m not going to crap about primary or secondary education in this entry. I [...]

November 18, 2010

Of Teaching, Placement & Bureaucracy– also posted in Education, Myself, Rant

WARNING: Proceed reading this rant only if you’re matured, aware of some socio-political issues in Malaysia, and non-judgemental. Reading this with closed minds will get you nowhere. Comments like ‘Sabar, sabar’ and anything political will be disregarded
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My degree years are finally, finally, over. It was a long journey, but I made it. I’m 23, and I’m done [...]

October 5, 2010

Nothing is pretty under direct sunlight– also posted in Musing

With my darling school kiddos ♥
My practicum ends in three days. It seems like yesterday I had a bout of denial about going to school and teaching for real. It was a long road full of challenges but also a lot of fun. When you see the children’s faces lighting up in amusement at [...]

June 9, 2010

Sorting Memories & Walking on a puff of air– also posted in Musing, Myself

I thought the most flattering thing a girl could ever receive from a guy on his confession is a bouquet of red roses. Apparently, I was wrong. Being presented with a ring that carries so many of a person’s hope and feelings defeats all other thoughts I may have had. Maybe I was dumbstrucked by [...]