oh ok.... this is how my sister Junko look like during her race.. haha both our hair were messy...! dun care take photos can le! do we look alike! after her race.. i am so proud of her.. people always say she is the Mini sumiko... haha and me in Ryan's car... Faizal's is the driver... he just gotten his license yesterday! haha and he was driving at 70kmph... for the first time ! he was super happy and excited!just look at how tensed he is... the owner of the car, Ryan was sitting beside him and guiding him... all of us were super quiet and serious in the car! haha and finally , I cut my hair... this week only... me in the staff room...the room behind me is where i work... and presenting to u my hair.. cut already but haven dyed black...

and an artiste picture of my pile of worksheets i am marking... looking at how black my hair is now too.. a bit not used to it too.. but my colleagues say i look so much more decent and more like a teacher now without the brown hair...and me on my sofa at home... trying to act as a super fierce girl...

on Saturday, i had an interschool biathlon... I met Sunny at Clementi INterchange and he biked me down... wah he really controlled his speed of biking... reduced a lot already... i guess Angela must have taught him road safety! haha anyway both Sunny and me were not planning to push a lot for this race.. we just wanted to finish it cool and easy... and yeah he finished 1st for his category, and me too 1st for my category... guess sometimes when u have lesser pressure, u can perform better.. and i realised something, I can no longer fall in the tertiary category... must always go under open and corporate category now... think tat made me realise that I really am NO LONGER a STUDENT...and after the race Sunny biked me back to clementi..., we were carrying a lot of barang barang.. the prizes for the day... oh man.. the bike was so heavy I wonder how he every biked plus with this heavy weight me on top! skillful biker....

after that, I went to meet Junko and her friend Rachel at orchard... i introduced them this part time job, give out balloons and sell some promotion for some bottles of milk.. 7 bucks per hour.. they had to wear white hot shorts and t shirt... it was quite nice seeing them working for the first time ... yeah...and we went for our facial treatment which i had won at Tiong Bahru plaza...was painful but then the lady refused to remove my oil glands on my face.. so angry with her.. think this is some type of sales strategy, so that u will come back and buy the package again...and in the room, i took some photos...

and after that on Sunday i went to Mount Faber to support my MR25 members for their their 10km race... finally i am at a race but not racing.. shocked a lot of runners.. but i guess i have followed the instructions of my coach quite well... keep away from excesive races so that i will not be injured so easily...when I reached there, my club's president saw me... and asked me to do the tabulation of results.. and so yeah... i became the marshall as well as the tabulator... ahah it was fun and enriching! nice man... and yeah i tabulated the results out very quickly with no frills at all.. it was nice working with all the uncles there... now the photos of my club members doing their warm down...

oh and after that I went to clementi swimming pool to do my usual swim... 100 laps.. and i ended up suntanning there.. and i became red and dark ... haah and After that I went home to do some marking and then head out with mum and grandma to meet Yuko, Junko and Bro at where Yuko worked... at raffles place... she works at New balance at raffles place... we were out to celebrate bro's 24th bdae...and we ended up eating at a Jap restaurant just behind New Balance... my mum treated us! haha...Yuko and me!

my grandma and me...

and my mum and bro...

and Junko wanted this photo taken...

and i took another picture with Yuko again...and she ate my share of noodles.. i ended up eating only a small bowl of Unagi rice...

and then we went home not long after dinner...i am so tired... i went to bed!

and good night friends!

hhaah i finally can upload some photos... oh for my friends who dunno yet... i cut a new hairstyle... basically because my hair is already damaged due to the rebonding, perm and swimming... its very ugly.. and i finally had the courage to cut it... and it is like erm... same length but then the fringe is above the eye brow.. haha i think u will laugh when u see the following pictures... dun be shocked.. my students say I look younger with this hairstyle and look cute... haha super stupid la the hairstyle.. waiting for it to grow longer so that i can cut better nicer hair!before i cut...

and after... Presenting to you my student... called Augustine who is the best PE monitor... he will even do PE duty even when he is not on duty.. everyday he will just skip recess to do his PE duty.. i am super impressed...

and then when i was home and talking rubbish with JUnko... talking about her race coming up... before we both went for a haircut...

and then I brought SS for swimming lesson at Clementi Swimming pool...we took some pictures there too!

and during the P 5 camp... i was super bored when it started to pour... so i spent my time reading books there...

and this is a picture of all the students at the P 5 camp... I am the last person in the line... can see right...so many teachers... i am the youngest! hoohoo ! and there is faizal, my classmate... the only malay teacher there.. super joker guy!

and these are pictures of myself before I went for a haircut... must cherish my hair man.. haha and i think i look super different from who the Sumiko u all know...and then i took a super ugly photo... aiyoh... dunno why it turned out like this...

haha ok enough of the days of nonsense!

about my sister Junko Tan

I passed my Life-saving 1,2,3 exam last week... and currently taking my Bronze medallion course now.. hoping to complete it by 1.5 months time so that i can be in time for my life saving competition as well as to take a swimming coaching course coming up... really wanna be a swimming instructor.. a licensed one...

I went to watch Junko, my yougest sister . race in a cross country event this wednesday... called the inter-school cross country race... and yeah... she is the cross country captain of Jurong Sec School... i am so proud of her...
when she finished her PSLE... she did not score well and she was posted to Yuan Ching Sec... and lucky i got her pulled in to Jurong Sec... even when her aggregate fell so much below the acceptable grade.. she only scored 204 but the requirement was 228 and above... so when she entered the school using track and field.. I was worried sick... and things became worst when she was placed in the best class... she had so much pressure...

I sent her for tuition class.. encouraged her a lot... told her to try and balance out both studies and cca... but then she failed all subjects , almost 7-8 of them during sec one.. she only passed chinese... then when in sec 2... she flunkked her chinese, science, maths and history.... only passed eng and art...

Junko is so similar to me... both good in sports but not talented in studies.. we have to study like mad to get good grades.. and after getting good grades, we forget whatever we have studied... its like trying to memorise and then spit everything out and then once it goes out, we have nothing to keep in our brains haha...
but she called me yesterday at 1 pm to ask me whether I was going down to watch her race which starts at 4 :10pm... i was still contemptating... i had lifesaving training at 7 pm at toa payoh and had to colect my INterschool biathlon race pack at novena before that... do i have the time to go down... or would i have to miss my lifesaving training...

not long before i got the answer... my family is definitely more important... i can not attend the lifesaving course... and what i have to do is to read up more.. put in more effort to catch up... though i was CPR trained and that training was CPR training, i guess refreshing of memory plays an important role as well..

I did not regret going down to watch her race.. i met my secondary school coach-Mr Samat, met my first coach, Sim Ann Eng... and met a few friends.. but most importantly, i was able to see junko running... though i could only see her start, and see her run the last 100m after her gruelling 3.2km... i guess thats a lot for her... to give her a hug before her race, and to say "you are good!" with the thumbs up showing her after her race... to see her smile.. its more than enough... what more can i expect...

Junko has since improved in her studies.. she recently just topped the level in Mathematics and Physics and Chemistry... i guess a lot of these goes to her hard work... Though i really want to go out to give tuition and earn some extra cash.. but i guess tuitioning my own family members are so much more important and fruitful.. its not only about tuitioning.... its about the time spent with them... so I rather spend time guiding JD's nephew and Junko ... ahha and i just set a day every week to tuition junko.... all the way to her exams... even planned to bring her out for tuition at vivocity or somewhere this week...

sometimes when I grow up... i see so much more responsibilities that i have to undertake...its not easy. when i moved home from hostel, i used to complain everyday, why aren't my sister folding the clothes, why are they not doing this, why not doing that? why everything i must do?
but all these nitty gritty things make me look like a smaller person... I have since learn to do things myself and not complain.. really , complaining helps nothing, it just makes me more angrier... sometimes when i complete these tasks, i look back and i smile when i know my family members will have a more easier time if i had done these things for them... people got to give and take... thats what make a person learn!

looking forward to brother moving home in May. though he will also be working everyday in Navy, but to get together is not an easy thing...sometimes you just want to see each other but then you just cant find a common time! How to when bro stays in hall, i stay at home but have so many activities, yuko is working at new balance full time... junko is always out with her bf and out at training or studying... mum is working from morning to night... everytime we are home, either the others are asleep or they are just too busy doing their own things... so 24hrs is never enough for us... now i just cherish the time i have with my family members... like this Sunday we are FINALLY going out to celebrate Bro's birthday... its just a simple 1 hour dinner, during Yuko's dinner break at Raffles City... but then i feel it means a lot... especially when we do not gather much.. maybe once in 3-4 months...

but i am happy that my family is so independent... and i just introduced junko her temp job this week... happy .. really happy that she can learn to earn her own money... sometimes her classmate says i sound and act like her mum... ahah yeah its kinda true.. i support her since she was young... sometimes I can go without food, she cannot. i will make sure she eats the best, and have the best... but i will never tolerate her nonsense... like her hp.. i bouught it for her when she was P6... and have since changed 3 hps for her... but she appreciates whatever i am doing... she will never have any danger befall upon her... this is how much I love her.... my sister, Junko Tan Sok Tin...

i wrote this entry because while i was on the bus yesterday... i heard a 16 year old girl complaining about her sister..nonstop to friend... says that her sister touch her things, always cause her to be scolded by her parents..dun show concern for her... and in my heart i feel like telling this girl...have you every showed concern for your sister in the first place... you dunno how to cherish your sister... wait till one day you dun have a chance to cherish her, you will then regret... it might be too late...so start loving them now...hating is something difficult.. loving is something so much more easier... in a family, there are different personalities... clashes happen because people do things diffferently....its like the outside world...you choose which one you wanna do.. hate or love....its up to you...

take care friends...

9th april...2007

wah... I really miss my karkis.... where are Lao Da, Zhiyong and Xueyuan!
i HAVE been soooo sooo busy till I neglect my blog... actually I really dun have the time to blog these days...
the previous week Have been the same...

Monday: Teaching end at 1:30 pm... do work in school until 3 plus then go swimming till 5-6 pm... after that I reach back home, do somw marking then sleep... till next day...

Tuesday: Teaching till 130pm... track and field training with my students from 3pm to 5 pm... then go for life saving training at Toa Payoh Swimming pool... 6pm-9pm.. then reach home at 11 pm... sleep till next day...

Wednesday: Teaching till 1:00pm... Staff meeting from 1:30 pm to 4:00pm... then go swimming from 4:30 to 6pm... then go back do marking and lesson planning and fall asleep...

Thursday: Teaching till 1:00pm... Bring students for swimming enrichment classes from 2:00pm to 4pm... then come back to school... go NYP to run or go back home to run... till about 7 pm... do marking and lesson planning and then sleep...

Friday: Teach till 1:30 pm...track and field training with my students from 3pm to 5pm... then go swimming from 6 pm to 8 pm... and then sleep...

I perpetually have no time for myself... want to have some time to run also dun have. everyday I reach home, my legs and body feel so tired, i just want to sit on my bed and finish up my work and sleep. By the time I finished my marking and lesson planning, I have only enough energy to sleep haha... Initially I thought to myself "shit, I have not been running... will put on weight ... surely"... but to my surprise... I lost weight instead... becoming skinnier I also dunno why.... maybe because have not been eating well...

Last week I was crossing the road to the coffeeshop opposite my house to get some food... and I saw a man sitting on a wheelchair... he was handicapped... without a pair of legs... he was trying to hail for a cab...and that instant, I went over to offer my help...I said "hi! hailing for a cab? Let me help you?"

It was Good friday... and there were minimal available cabs on that day... almost all the cabs that went by were hired... we waited patiently... and we chatted... and i realised how much a cheerful man was he...he was filled with love, patience, tolerance... and then I suddenly feel a sense of guilt... He do not have a pair of legs... and yet he is so cheerful and can be so easily approacheable... and i realise that I do not even cherish my legs that much... always complaining this and that... what have i becomed? I used to always complain about a lot of things, but i seldom look at the other angle of the picture and appreciate the good parts of it...when I have such a good pair of legs, its given to me, granted to me... and i made a waste out of it... I did not cherish them... I gave up running previously... 4 months of not training... made a big difference in my stamina and speed... I dropped... badly... and i decided... i need to cherish whatever I have, to bring my Coach's hope to higher levels... to bring myself to a higher level... not let anybody down... and I decided... I want to pick back running again... not only just because I wanna lose more weight, but also because I am Sumiko, the runner, the biathlete, the triathlete...

NO TIME is not a reason, it is an excuse.. time is something I can plan... something I can manage...so I must make sure that if I really want to take back running, I must so something about it... its about EFFORT... it's not only about individual, but also about a team... about a team of friends who have been supporting me so much so far...

I probably would been a little less hot tempered these days... learn what is called patience... and probably I have started to read a book ... in chinese called "learn how to be not so irritating".... the book costs 10 bucks... obviously bought by him la not me... I have a sudden interest to read such books these days..I even started going to Buddhist Lodge to pray, and have some quiet time to myself... and visit the library there... sitting there to read books... really made me realise how quiet I can actually be...

sometimes when I sit at home, I feel so bored... I even finished watching "wo he jiang shi yo ge yue hui"... i have a date with vampire ... series two and three... and I really miss having a proper meal... with friends... these days I dun even have any time to sit down and eat properly. Breakfast is usually water or a piece of bread... then lunch will be either at 3 pm or at 6 pm... a small bowl of noodles.. and dinner is usually nothing... looking forward to the day when I can have a good and simple meal and talk whole day with the three buddies....or go shopping with Trixy...

Last week I finally had a chance to go JB with Serene and Xiawei... i very sotong! I have never been to JB to eat seafood... that was my first time... as usual we drove up.. and then they brought me to this place called Sentosa... in JB la... to eat.. we ordered a lot of food... BUT I can't eat all of them! I can't take chilli and so I gave up some of the good food.. but i enjoyed te cray fish the most! nice nice.. but what I ate there was only crayfish and sweet and sour fish and black pepper crabs... i Din eat anything else... ahah...wen back to Singapore... and vomitted because my stomach was not used to the food! wasted... everytime eat good food will vomit... maybe my stomach is telling me I can only eat cheap food! haha:)

now I am back in school... typing reports and lesson planning and I really wanna sleep! yesterday I can't sleep well... drank coffee at 1 am... stupid me la... haha...and eventually only fell asleep at 4 am.. woke up at 630 am... so today I am going to knock off early and go back to sleep.. then go swimming and running and then go California Fitness Gym! this week only need to teach for Mon and Tues and then we do not need to teach Wed to friday because I will be bringing my Primary 5 students to Adventure centre camp... and I will be dark and tanned again by then I HOPE!

Tomorrow will upload the entry on my brother's performance...!