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Happy 2012!

January 1, 2012December 29, 2011 sweet surrender 2 Comments

Happy 2012 from Sweet Surrender!

I welcomed 2012 at Incheon International Airport. First time welcoming a new year in the airport instead of at home or with my family. All these while I thought I’ll be welcoming 2012 in Adelaide, the place I called home now and with someone special but instead in a foreign land which I will be staying for 3 weeks as an exchange student getting “cultured”, in the airport some more and very much single ;p I’ve never thought of being in Korea. This is not even in my plan or in my dream. Life is getting exciting indeed.

Achieved most of the things I wanted to achieve last year. Only failure was in the relationship part, lots of ups and downs, all very short-lived. So this year, my very first new year’s resolution in my entire life, “Get into a REAL relationship with the right person”.

Happy new year everyone! I might come back with new look 😉 Thinking of getting my haircut here. We’ll see… It’s getting too long already and I’m not willing to pay so much to get it cut in Australia because getting a haircut in Australia equals to about 3-4 haircuts back home which is also equivalent to 2 to 3 years worth of haircuts for me as I only cut my hair either once or twice a year.

Till then… Have a great 2012! Updates now will be from the Land of Kimchi! 😉

Bulletin Board, Getting Cultured - Busan, Going Places, Me, myself and I, Personal Events

New Category – Practical Life

September 12, 2010September 12, 2010 sweet surrender No Comments

Note: If you found this post because you wanted to look for Montessori teaching approach, then I have to disappoint you as I’m not a Montessori practitioner.

Hi people! This is the new category for my blog, Practical Life. This new category will be where I share my experience as a student teacher. Yeah! You read it right! Irene, a teacher?!?! Believe it or not?!?! Surrounded by children below 6 years old! OH DEAR!

Starting tomorrow until 13th November, I will be doing my internship at a local kindergarten. Not going to tell you where ;p In fact, I kind of dreading this practical but what to do… I have to do it to be able to graduate. I hope I will still be in one piece by the end of the practical. Must not fall sick.

Gonna be very busy these two months, might not be able to do a daily post by then. Can no longer sleep late and wake up late. Dread to wake up at the ungodly hour(at least for me, before 6am -.-“) too. Back home have to complete all the paper works related to it, then have to work, do my assignments, and do IELTS revision else semester exam revision(in October, no exam break some more! Crazy…). I don’t have that much time because one whole morning will be gone!

Even though I always wake up late, 9 or 10am, I will do my revision for exam right after I wake up. Then in the afternoon, I will do my works and assignments until 12-1am. Now… Morning totally gone! Then at night have to sleep early(before 11pm, would be better at 10pm but it’s too early) else I will be a zombie and cannot perform well. Have to be in very tip top condition especially dealing with children! Very energy and mentally draining!

Aiyoyo… It’s like going back to work after 5 years of “rest”. Something totally different from what I’ve been doing, everything start from scratch. No pay also. Worst, I’m not the kind that like to work under people and dread the routine of going back and forth to work. That explains why I prefer to work from home and be my own boss.

Look at the bright side, it’s only 8 weeks, time will fly very very fast(I hope…). Hopefully I will be able to get the hang of this new “job” as soon as possible. Have to teach, have to do observation, and have to help around. Would be dead tired in the afternoon, wonder how to work, do assignments, and revision by then?

Two crazy and busy months… Here I come.

Bulletin Board, Practical Life

Test Post from New Server

August 3, 2010August 4, 2010 sweet surrender No Comments

This is a test post from new server. Finally got everything moved to the new server. Bandwidth overshot last month in the old server.

There was an issue with my blog this morning and afternoon. It wasn’t stable. The down time was horrible, the down time was long compare to the up time. It was up for few minutes and then down for more than 15 minutes, on and off. So frustrating. It’s hard to do anything.

It seems to stabilize now but extremely slow. Hmm… I hope I can get this post out.

Actually I wanted to do a podcast but due to some unforeseen circumstances I had to give up. Maybe I’ll try tomorrow hehehe…

I’ve been pretty occupied lately, will be like this until IELTS and semester exam are over. Seriously, it’s not easy studying IELTS, I’ve been practicing and studying a lot. I do every single exercise that I came across, dig tutorials from You Tube and search engine. I didn’t even study this hard for my semester exams ;p

That’s all for now. Time to call it a night. Good night!t

Bulletin Board, Randomness

Happy 2010

January 1, 2010January 1, 2010 sweet surrender 6 Comments

It’s a new year now! I started off the year by meeting up with some ex-schoolmates for lunch. Now back at home facing the computer, home alone. ;p No plan to do anything. Spend time playing games and online. I have many games pending and many magazines pending to read. Hehehe…

Resolutions anyone? I don’t have any. I don’t think I have any, just random ones which changes over the time. Just hoping this year will be a better year and hoping that some issues can be resolved. I really can’t take my mind off you sigh…

Last year was quite sucky most of the time. Nevertheless, due to those sucky experiences, I learned many new things and rediscover myself.

In few more days, I’ll be going to KL for a short holiday with my parents. Supposed to be a family trip but my bro has to report himself for the national service this Sunday so he won’t be going with us. I’m trying to plan the trip and it’s not easy. I’m not familiar with KL public transport unlike Singapore. Usually when I was there, there were people that will drive me around but not this time. So we’re on our own and I’m going to play tourist guide *LOL* Tourist guide that knows nothing ;p

Going there to shop I guess… Nothing much. Since the plan is visiting most of the major shopping malls ;p Won’t be shopping much too, just some clothes for CNY I guess. *SHRUG* At least, I won’t be spending much this trip as my parent are paying for it ;p

Lastly, wishing all of you a happy 2010 and may you have a great year ahead!

Bulletin Board, From My Angle, Randomness

Merry Christmas 2009

December 24, 2009December 25, 2009 sweet surrender 2 Comments

Merry Christmas everyone! Have fun! Enjoy your holiday! Don’t drink and drive.

Didn’t venture out a lot lately, only went to few places and managed to take some photos of the Christmas decorations around town. Just to share with you…

Boulevard.