Ostrich-cised

The ostrich is blog ready. Helped XL set up his blog and taught him
how to do some minor editing for upkeeping purposes. And so, the finagling
is good to go. There was this description in his blog that I posted, but he didn't like
it and deleted it. Well...to preserve that piece of art for posterity, I'll post it here
where he can't delete it. *nyah*

To hear the voice of ostrich
to know the meaning of
Finagling,

Why 'finagling' you may ask? Well...go to Microsoft Word, type in his name and
do the spell check. The most recommended word is finagling, though God knows
what that means...dictionary wasn't very enlightening.

Go visit it at xianglong83.blogspot.com yeah?

Today didn't exactly start off well. 10 minutes into the 1st lesson, I was suddenly
struck by a stomach ache. I struggled against the delibilating pain to teach, but
by the last 10 minutes, I was in so much discomfort that my legs felt weak...you
know how it goes when you have a stomach ache...it took everything I had to
refrain from rushing out of the classroom to raid the toilet. So for the last 10
minutes, I basically let the class run amok...some of the students were in front
writing their answers on the board like I told them to. Others were doodling...

When the bell rang, I just picked up my stuff and headed straight for the gents.
On the way however, I was acostted by Siew Ling who wished me good luck for
my observation. Dunno if she thought I was rude coz I simply acknowledged with
a curt nod and rushed into the toilet, where the porcelain white throne awaited.

The observation went mostly as planned. Made some last minute changes to the
lesson plan on the advice of my mentor Ms Irene. I got plenty of support from
Siew Ling, Elyn and Jennifer...the latter sent me an email with a lesson plan
attached as guidance..I just didn't use it coz it was too last minute for a change
of template. Got some encouragement from Ray and Eusri as well. Ah well...I
don't know how well or badly I fared. No indication as the principal and Mrs Poh
did an excellent job keeping their faces straight.

Met her today. Spent quality time together and talked till she fell asleep with
her head on my shoulder, which was....dangerously sweet. Ended up oversleeping.
When she woke me up, my brain snapped from the super drowsy, restful deep
sleep state to an entirely alert state...not the usual gradual waking up process we
normally enjoy. Moments later, my vision swam and it felt like my vision was
being constricted from the sides. My brain felt like it was in a vice...had that kinda
feeling in the head you get when you wanna emulate the merlion...but only in the
head. My stomach didn't feel like turning itself inside out.

Sent her to the tuition kid's place. Initially thought I'd be just on time or a few
minutes late since we overslept. But reached there with 15 minutes to spare.
Didn't know I actually went that fast...but I enjoyed the ride as always.

Crystal asked me to be her tutor. But she only wants it on weekends. Dunno if
I wanna sacrifice my rest day to go teach her science or not. Or maybe I'll pass
her to XL.


Hooked dad onto FFX. Yaay...no more frozen orb sounds...
Riding hard, fast, safely AND taking a few corners.