daronloo

it took me exactly a couple of weeks to realize what my students were capable of. well i did have a presumption of their writing level before i entered class, but i guess this week really confirmed all my doubts. just revamped the whole course outline. at this point i really don't know what to expect from my news writing class. i'm finally teaching an international group this semester - composition 1. those students scare me. the other day, i sort of 'swore' in my class. i was giving them a test, and i told them that i don't like cheaters and they get an instant F from me, i said it like this, "I don't mind effing you." Two students laughed. only two understood what effing means. I shouldn't have said it, i know. but it just shows that out of my 31 students, probably only these 2 know how to use english in a cultural context. my piano exam is in about a month. i've been playing the songs for so many years i really hope i pass, with fl...

recently purchased a camera... here are some pictures which the camera took low light mode miniature effect fish eye effect normal portrait mode A BIG SHOUT OUT TO MY GAL SWITZERLYNA IN SO CAL....REMEMBER!!! GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN.

my blog posts are so randomly far apart from each other that all the post titles are "hellos." confessions yet again, teachers - we have so much to do (a truthful claim mind you) but we, like our students procrastinate too. i must say i took over three months to finally take a peek at an intensive course i taught back in my homeland (guess what i'm teaching one more in a couple of weeks... but i'll get the grading done on time this time around). i turned 24 a couple of weeks back... had some friends over. it was sad - sad that i had to spend an hour thinking of who to invite... i want to think that i have many friends, but it seems like as the years go by, they all leave to venture out of MC/AIU, out of Thailand! just a few of us remain here - those who spend years completing (probably because of procrastinating) but also those who decide to relocate and find employment in this beautiful land of smiles (I am a prime example). the party was a blast though... and i...

confessions of a teacher i have procrastinated work yet to be marked (since May) i'm tired and overworked. yesterday, some of us teachers from the department went out for a community service teaching english to adults who never completed highschool. we arrived at the hall, waiting to receive instructions such as where we will be teaching our particular language skill... nothing for the first hour. they told us that the students would have breaks in between, but they didn't tell us when to stop and when to start... there was a schedule faxed to us, but everyone was doing stuff according to their own time. i enjoyed the food they gave to us though, at every break. my first scone wasn't that great - it had crab sticks in it. so much for telling them we were all vegetarians. back to marking :) Jessica Simpson flip flops!! California has such weird & nice things.

i was supposed to refill my phone today for my internet package, which i did. unfortunately, unbeknown to the fact that my internet package got canceled, i ended up topping up too much for nothing. i called dtac and asked them "why didn't you notify me that this particular package got canceled?" no response. Can you register me with another package. many responses. so now i have a lot of calling credit which i have no use for. thank goodness it expires march next year. anyone wants me to call them? :)

never for a second think that you have an extra second to spare... i canceled all my piano lessons today and had them postponed to thursday, needed a few hours to breath through the stress of QA, editing two newsletters, choir practice, piano practice. my mom got my rooms new curtains, very classic look compared to my trashy room LOL yuck can't wait for the weekend, will be at a beachhhhhh!!! woohooo!

I can proudly say that I did not PURCHASE anything for MYSELF after my one-night trip to Bangkok. We had a little gathering at Amy's superb serviced apartment yesterday evening. Half the evening there was spent at the pool with pals Deanna and Chervie. It's funny how people let go of themselves after a certain point in time. Some let go after marriage, some after a particular age. It's like, "Oh, I'm married, I don't have to care how I look. I'm married..." It's almost August. Funny how time flies. The first semester will be over soon. I'll be turning 24 in about 5 weeks. I'll be 24! What did you do at your 24th birthday?