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Friday, January 27, 2006

haha, yea, i'm finally back after what seems like a thousand years. i can say i haven been blogging bcos of a lot of reasons; one, like i've mentioned earlier, i'm still sick but much much beta den last week already; two, it is real tiring and demanding to be a teacher even though i'm only a relief so not much energy left to blog; three, by the time i reach home there is only time for me to bath, eat, catch a bit of tv and then slp so i haven been gg online either. :P four, so much has happened to every single day of my life for e past few weeks it'll take weeks for me to type them down so sian diao liaoz, heez. haha, so now, making full use of e long cny hols tt i finally arrive at, i'll blog as much about what has happened as possible ba.

teaching! haha, despite all e ups and downs, i'm still enthusiastic bout teaching thou it's inevitable tt i'll complain out loud quite many times. :P it gives u a strong sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when u see good works of ur students or improvements in attitude/work. i'm teaching three different groups of students so i get quite a rich experience from teaching them. haha, e 3 grps of students are all different in their very own way, but still lovable in their very own way once again. let's start with e hcl class, althou they weren't responsive in class when i needed them to, they were a great bunch of students as i dun ever have to worry bout them not handing hw automatically. mayb cos i got a great chi rep for e class whom i think is e best chi rep i can ever get, she is jus so sweet, thoughtful, trustable and responsible!!! oh man, e best gal i can ever have for a chi rep. ;) thou they a bit too quiet, i can sense a gradual warming up to me in class as time pass by which is comforting. :)

then there is e more problematic express chi class, got some with a bit attitude problem but all in all not very serious which i'm very thankful for. one big problem i face in tt class is tt they always like to talk in english blatantly suring my class like i'm invisible! thus i was pissed and gave them a piece of my mind after which e situation improved. haha, tt class qt cute in e sense tt they're more responsive in a nonsensical way. hahaha. i really hope to be able to pass on my passion for chinese in this class as there are quite a number who really dun like chinese de. if i'm able to do tt during e period i'm in anderson, i'll b real proud of myself liaoz, hehehe.

lastly, e most noisy and problematic class, e N(T) class. haiz, they're very noisy, playful, inattentive, restless and troublesome. almost everytime after lesson with them will have headache one. haha, but they're still able to be controlled as they're only in sec1. but they're also a good batch of students in e sense tt they're very responsive and helpful. just pray tt i can come up with sth to stop them from talking unnecessarily during lessons and not handing up hw punctually, if not i'll go crazy teaching them lohz, haha.. also, very sad and bad to say tt til now, i haven been able to link all e faces of my students to their names as yet! ah.. feel so guilty, failed e 1st step of being a good teacher in my opinion. nvm, i shall give myself to e end of january to rmb their names!!! hopefully my brain capacity doesnt fail me..

marking student's work is really highly energy consuming as i have to struggle at times to read e student's handwriting or to figure out wat he/she is trying to say/express exactly. i especially hate marking chinese compos and compres! sooo horrible!!! always forcing myself to move on from one para to another/from one qn to another.. haiz.. i guess tt's e worst part of teaching ba. most torturous, but still can handle. :) i like being a lower sec teacher as his/her main motive is to stir e student's interest in tt particular subject to motivate him/her to continue pursuing tt subject when he/she moves on in his/her education life. haha, i like it when i find outside but interesting chinese materials for them to read! it gets me so excited! haha, and it feels best when u know tt e students actually like e materials and would want u to cont photocopying! hahaha. even thou i get paper cuts from printin all those stuff, it is worth it in e end! haha. :P btw, i also like pasting stickers on my students work when they do well!!! haha, so fun!!! haha, i know its childish but it adds colour to life ma, lohz. haha, i also try to write as much comments as possible to encourage them on, but tt takes a lot of extra time so can only try my best to lohz. ;)

starting to feel increasingly attached to e students and teachers there.. they're all so nice.. afraid to think of e day when i have to leave all of them once again.. my students.. my jnrs.. my teachers.. my friends.. oh man.. haiz.. nvm.. shall stop thinking bout those and enjoy every single day of my teaching career!!! :) all take care and happy chinese new year~~~!!!!!

5:10 PM

Thursday, January 19, 2006

i know it has been a real long time since i last blogged.. i am so sorry.. hmmm.. but its really not my fault as i have been struggling hard to make myself recover from e worst illness i ever have since sec1 and at e same time trying to mark finish all my student's work on time.. haiz.. nvm, i'll def update again when i'm fine and well~!!! =) to all out there, not to worry cos i'm not dying as yet. =P

9:58 PM

Sunday, January 15, 2006

saturday at night went to my dad's friend's dad's house to experience and watch sth spritual. it is actually an annual event but happens that in e past e day always falls on weekdays so i nvr go as next day still got school and e ritual will last all e way beyond midnight de. it was an eye-opener for me as i watched for e 1st time in my life someone being possessed by the gods that i believe existed in e sky above. it was quite scary also as i watched tt uncle getting possessed by one spirit after another through out the one hour, there were altogether 10 different gods that went onto his body during this duration. but at e same time i feel blessed to be able to witness something so sacred happening up close. some may put it off as crap and lie but i strongly believe that it does happen as those people are people my family knows personally.

after e thing, went into one of e rooms to look after e little kids present!!! haha, had a little war game using balloons with them and it was quite crazy when all of us were laughing and shouting. haha, e kids were real cute!!! haha, i really love kids!!! hahaha, there was one who even kissed me goodbye on my cheek when i left lohz, sooooooo cute! hahaha. my life has been real bustling and fun! haha, so good~!!! =D

9:52 PM

after a night of craze, i've to wake up early again cos its anderson cca openhouse! haha, i've decided to wear back my st.john uniform which i haven wore for more than 2 yrs to help out. haha, oh man, i really regret my choice as i kept getting suan-ed and niao-ed by my anderson jnrs.. :( they so bad!!! they so evil!!! keep niao-ing and suan-ing me.. haiz.. me ah, a snr hoh, always kana niao-ed and suan-ed one.. haiz.. poor me.. at hwa chong also lidat, at anderson also lidat.. hahaha, guess i too good liaoz, lohz. :P haha, it was real fun being back among my anderson jnrs too~!!! oh man, how i miss them!!! they were my 1st batch of jnrs and one of e best i can ever get despite e fact tt they keep bullying me la, heez. i was telling them if they keep niao-ing/suan-ing me den i dun go help them out but go back hwa chong help out instead liaoz. haha, cos my hwa chong jnrs treat me beta. hahaha. ;) ok la, e cca openhouse went on rather smoothly and it was another new experience as i attended e cca openhouse as a teacher. haha, most of my students were shocked and couldn't recognise me in my brigade. haha, they thought i was a student! haha, meaning that i still looked very young, heez. :P a lot of my teachers forgot for a moment i've become a teacher in anderson when they saw me back in my brigade lohz, heez. hahaha, all in all, i've enjoyed myself thoroughly for another day~! =)

9:38 PM

it was e hwa chong orientation campfire again on friday!!! haha, how could i ever miss out such an event of my previous school? went back hwachong after teaching at anderson wearing anderson pinnafold!!! haha, it has been a real long time since i last wore it and i've to say it feels really weird, haha. and e pinnafold is still as long meaning i haven grown any taller, sobz. haha, anyway, went back and in e end got lots of exclamation when people see me back in my sec sch uniform. haha, i guess i do look different in sec sch uniform once again ba, haha, but it was very fun!!! hahaha. i guess i really miss my class a lot and being with them again was real fun! it was all laughter and enjoyment, oh man, i really miss being in hwa chong liaoz. we were all joking about our tagboard jokes and also hailing's teaching experience, laughing so much that i guess all of us stomachache liaoz, hahaha. also, we met our jnrs too~!!! 05 n 06 de! haha, it was real fun being w jnrs too~!!! haha, and all e dances and songs.. oh man.. it was pure bliss back in hwa chong doing all those stuff. after everything, went to bukit timah food centre to eat supper tgt w our grand snr zhihan also. haha, i duno how to describe and also lazy to describe but all in all, it was great! haha, when on my way home, saw terence on bus and we chatted all e way back to yishun. haha, great to meet fellow peixinians around~ i feel great~!!! =D

9:18 PM

haha, a long time seems to have passed since i last blogged. haha, probably because so much has happened ba. my life has been bustling with activities!!! haha, i'm teaching in school, preparing for anderson sec's cny concert, teaching tuition and lastly also running back to hwa chong to help out at huang cheng. with regards to my teaching in anderson, til now, i'm doing fine and enjoying myself in this new occupation of mine. haha, it is a dream come true for me! haha, it was an experience in itself to go back to your alma mater and become collegues with your teachers! haha, it is like you talk to them on a different level already ya? in the past, it was student-teacher r/s. now, it has become collegue r/s. haha, it does feels weird but also feels rather encouraging as you now work hand in hand with them to make the school a better place.

i am teaching chinese for sec1 3 different streams, higher chinese, express chinese and also chinese for the normal technical. haha, so all in all i have 3 classes. i also teach innovative project work to one of e sec1 classes and it was rather interesting to hear the sec1s speak up of their idea, heez, some of them are really cute!!! haha. :P teaching chinese for 3 different streams i can say was an eye-opener for me as i get to compare the different standards among e 3 different grps of students. of cos, the best students will be in the class taking higher chinese and the weaker students being those in N(T). even though they are different in their standards, i try to give all 3 grps of students equal opportunities to learn as i really dowan to discriminate any grp of them. they are jus sec1, i believe if their interests is aroused in e subject, they can do pretty well de. haha, of cos, there are some classes that are harder to handle. other den the higher chinese class, e other 2 are harder to control as e students are very good at self-entertaining instead of listening to e teacher talking. i could still handle them all thanks to my 1st-man command-shouting training when i was in anderson st-john ambulance brigade. :P don't worry, they are still manageable except during times when my throat is not very good ba, heez. ;)

have started marking my student's work and i can say i write a lot of stuff on their books and paste a lot of stickers!!! hahaha, their books all look so childish liaoz, and its all my fault sia, heez. :P but when i was a student, i really hope tt my teacher has e time to do such acts so u guess students nowadays will also appreciate my effort, and hopefully like chinese more as time passes ba, haha. ;) i also started attending meetings and doing all e other non-teaching stuff that are req'd of teachers in school. seriously, after being a teacher for a week, i've learnt how hard it actually is to be a teacher. and i've learnt to hold my teachers in higher respect now that i'm gg thru what they're gg thru. it won't be easy being a teacher but i'll learn to deal with it in stride de cos i love being around school, cca and students. :)

8:29 PM

Monday, January 09, 2006

hahahahaha, my 1st day teachg @ anderson finally came today!!! hahaha, oh man, i was so excited and nervous tt i cldn't slp e prev nite la!!! and hoh, durg morng assembly b4 e lesson starts, i was feelg so uneasy w all e butterflies in my stomach i thot i'll b fallg sick!!! haha, can't believe how much teachg a sec1 class chinese can do such things to me la, i dun rmb feelg tt bad for my a's even lohz. haha, but i'm real glad and fortunate tt e class was pretty gd and obedient, and w/i my control. i was jus feelg pretty guilty tt i'm not able to rmb their names and faces as yet.. so sry.. i give myself 1 week to familarise w them thou.. cos i know how bad students will actually feel when e tchr doesn't recognise him/her personally by their names de. haha, e lessons went on smoothly and i can even say i enjoyed myself while teachg!!! haha. feel really lucky except for my feet! argh.. today had e most no. of blisters on both my legs and i've also used the most no. of plasters on my feet.. so painful sia.. e skin is like rubbed off liaoz den every step i took in tt irritatg n dsigustg pair of court shoes was real torture and pain.. sob sob.. now have to wait for my feet to recover slowly and painfully liaoz.. shall nvr ever wear court shoes even again if i can help it!!! disastrous!

after which, i'm back to hwa chong as per usual to watch e auditions. haha, it was real funny today as i've found a jnr from peixin pri sch tt can really act! haha, and when he was being tested to see if he makes e mark for emcee, he used poor and innocent me standing quietly at one side as an example for his bra adver la!!! oh man, i laughed so hard tt my cheek muscle went cramp! ouch, heez. :P haha, it may sound exaggeratg but i can't help but feel proud of him as he is after all my fellow pexinians!! hahaha. ;)

den when e whole thing ended, e ppl started gatherg and leavg e sch for dinner. i was lookg very forward to eating dinner w all of them de, but in e end i chose to take e bus 852 back home on an empty stomach. actuali not hungry also so nvr eat nvm, heez. cos e whole grp of them decided to split into 2 grps, 1 grp being e 73ppl and e other grp being e huang cheng ppl. haha, being unable to make a decision as to whether i shld join which grp w/o doing any harm to anyone at all, i decided to leave. hmmm.. i just hope tt nex time i wont hav to make such hard choices ever again.. if there's once more, i'll still chose to leave de.. haha.. call me coward or what ba, but tt's xinyu for u. if i hav to choose btwn my class n huang cheng cca mates, i'll most prob choose my class as i've been thru more time and events w them. but if i hav to choose btwn my class and huang cheng jnrs, both grp of ppl are my jnrs, all e same. no choice for me at all except to escape. haha.. tts me.. all in all, teaching rox~!!! +)

9:39 PM

Friday, January 06, 2006

i went back to hwa chong on thursday and friday as they were having auditions of the actors/actresses/emcees. i was really excited on thursday when i was on e bus 74 to hwa chong, it was e 1st time gg back as a graduated student for e yr. e feeling is very mixed.. i also dunno how to describe exactly.. one part of me misses hwa chong and everything related exclusive of academic like mad.. and e other part of me thoroughly enjoys being free from all those and gg back as snr position.. haha, i can only say it feels good to be back and see all my loving hwa chong jnrs after e hols. i always nvr fail to feel welcomed and loved and cared whenever i go back, thank u every single one of them for making all e trips back so worthwhile, sweet and meaningful!!! haha, i think i'll really miss all of u when huang cheng ends and there's no longer a reason for me to be back often. haha.. hope tt day doesnt come tt soon? but anyway, i'll enjoy it as much as i can. to all e j2s now, jia you for huang cheng wo~!!! i want to watch a very good show of huang cheng ye yun 2006, dun disappoint me!!! haha, paiseh, i'm not stressing u all but jus give in ur best ya? i'll b able to feel it when i see it de! haha, everyone must try and help out as much as they can, dun be too calculative, then huang cheng can really b a great success. also, to those not gg to cont, at least go back often and volunteer help ya? in huang cheng, every single person counts no matter what post u hold or which grp u're in, hope all of u will get tis pt and not try to shun from helping out. cos if i find out, i'll be haunting u all down!!! ;) hahaha. :P lastly, take care and enjoy ur last jc yr while u still can. mug hard, play hard. :)

10:51 PM

on thursday, 5th of jan, our class decided to go geylang eat smelly toufu and den go jalan jalan after tt to sort of send off those guys gg ns. but in e end onli 9 of us turned up la, i.e. me, pow, hoohoo, jieying, weikiat, john, lowlow, fangyi and chopin. e smelly toufu was really quite smelly, beta den those i've eaten in chengdu and taiwan. as we've all not have dinner, we decided to eat there. but hoh, the other dishes there quite expensive and the portions relatively small so in e end spend quite a lot of money there eating only a little. haha, basically we're just eating for e taste and experience and not to fill our stomach la. so after which we decided to go eat sth mroe filling, beancurd. actually we wanted to go to e famous stall to eat de, but we found out that it was too far from where we're to walk there as e smelly toufu is at lorong 41 and e famous beancurd is at lorong single digit de. so we compromised and went to another shop to eat instead as some of us cannot stay out late as next day still got work on.

actually for this trip, nothing very interesting happened until we went to e beancurd stall cos there's an interesting auntie there. haha, she very lame also lohz. she started by saying "happy new yr pull ur ear" to chopin that made us all very amused. she proceeded to say that chopin was e most handsome among all e guys tt went and rejected chopin's offer to work at her shop cos of tt. haha, it was real funny. then e auntie went on to guess e age of all of us gals, saying jieying and pow looked underage lohz. haha, it was real funny crapping ard w e auntie and some of us were laughing so hard i think our stomach hurts after tt. haha, i'm glad i went for e outing as it was an experience to go geylang area w friends even though we didn't see what we intended to see, heez. :P one sad thing may be tt none of us brought camera to take down tt moment for memory purposes. nvm, i'm sure there'll b more chances in e future! ;)

10:29 PM

Thursday, January 05, 2006

sch has started and i no longer needs to wear sch uni and take public tpt to sch liaoz.. tt feeling is weird and e realization saddening.. haiz.. this may sound qian4 bian3 but i'm missing sch life now!!! haha, i think a lot of ppl of my batch will hav e same sentiments as me de. haha, of cos not e academic part la, i mean e times during breaks, ccas, after sch and at class benches.. haiz.. but i guess we've to learn to let go now ba. we've to learn to grow up, we're no longer students like we used to be.. haha.. quite sad to grow up actually.. but i guess it won't be tt bad for me as i'll be gg back to anderson sec to teach, i'll still be seeing all my jnrs ard, still be able to feel young and no nd to face all e dirty politics out there i hope. haha, at least i can still have this paradise for 6-7 mths before i proceed to university, whether local or overseas. haha, sch has reopened, meanin my mum has to go back to e drink stall and work again. haha, and since i've basically nth to do yet(sec1 having orientation this week, teaching only starts next week) i decided to be filial and go back to help out.

haha, actually it has been a long long long time since i went back to help. i've nvr went back to help out since i was sec3 ba, meaning it has been 4 yrs since i last sold drinks to students in peixin.. haha, time really passes very quickly. when i go back on tue, i've to keep asking my mum where all e stuff are placed and how to do all e things as it has been really long for me. gg back brings back all e sweet and fun memories of my days in primary sch and seeing all e cute pri 1 students really brought lots of smiles to my faces! haha, they're like so cute la! oh man, i'm gg to show e paedophilic side of me liaoz. for most of them, it is like e 1st time they ever bought any stuff by themselves. haha, in e end a lot of them jus throw u all e money/coins they have in their wallet/purse to ur hands la!!! hahaha, so cute! they'll look at u w those blur faces when u tell them e cost of e drinks la, oh man, its really cute!!! oh man, then a lot of them so small size/chubby that u can't help smile at them when they look at u!!! hahaha, it was really fun gg back to help. but hoh, also got e not so good side as i've to pack all e drinks in e fridge. so i've to use lots of strength to carry e cartons of drinks out and then pack them all in. it is real tiring but seeing e end pdt, e fridge w all e drinks lined up nicely, i also hav a sense of accomplishment! hahaha, then also la, me careless careless de, in e end keep hurting myself by cutting from e metal parts of machinery or friction wounds from opening too many bottled drinks lohz. but all in all, it was great to be back seeing all e teachers that used to teach me long long long time ago, haha, i enjoyed myself!!! :)

1:49 PM

Sunday, January 01, 2006

got 6th sense gathering, haha, but only 4 ppl turned up.. haiz.. what is 6th sense? haha, it was e grp name of my grp for hwa chong chi soc drama camp 2003. i was e organiser but i've to say i failed.. haiz.. in e end either not free, sick or just no longer able to be contacted. haha, so e 4 of us ate lunch @ fish&co and then chatted for a long time, we were there from one plus til four plus. partly also because we were waiting for weilin to come back frm her lessons. haha, it was really very nice and warming to get tgt after such a long time, although my wallet got another big hole again. when we were leaving, it was raining so we decided to take a underpass not knowing where it'll lead us to. in e end it lead us back to ard fish&co again! haha, then while we were in e underpass, e rain got heavier!!! hahaha, so in e end, e 4 of us were really 落汤鸡 liaoz. haha, we even took a picture when we reach dhoby ghaut mrt station to serve as a memory of our trip. haha, it was also a nice way to end e yr for e 4 of us as it'll b e last time to get drenched in e yr 2005. ;) haha, so tt was my new yr's eve programme as i din go countdown but i managed to chat with him!!! haha, it was really the best way i can ever think of to end my year wo~ heez. :P i also got a new pair of specs, nice leh, heez. will be wearing it everyday nex yr to suit my teacher's image sia~~~ :)

12:16 PM

After daoju chalet went on back to anderson for e staff meetg tt'll take place for e whole day, waited for yunli to arrive before e both of us go in to start orientatg ourselves to e sch. due to e fact tt i'll sweat a lot&my feet is still sore w all e injuries, i was wearg e black pants w huangcheng tee and slippers when i reach e bus-stop outside anderson. so while waiting for yunli i changed into e court shoes&also drank a can of coffee to prev myself frm falling aslp during e meetg as i've only slpt for an hr e nite b4. den we went into e sch and i changed into formal attire b4 gg to look for e teacher to bring us to our desk in e teachers room where we'll b sittg nex yr. haha, i've to say it feels both weird&heart-warming to be back in anderson as a relief teacher. suddenly, u're on par w all e teachers tt hav taught u b4 tt's y it feels weird. but as u see all e familiar faces smilg back at u and welcomg u to b part of them, it feels heart-warmg!!! haha, we got our tables and then went on to attend e meetg.

e meetg was really long, from 8.30am all e way til 4.30pm. i sit until my butt very pain lohz. then for e 2nd part after lunch, even after drinkg another can of coffee, i cldn't keep myself awake liaoz. then yunli have left cos she got sth on den left me among all e teachers. after e whole meetg, i got e timetable, e orientation booklet and e discipline guide, also my textbooks!!! haha, i'll be teaching chinese&IPW next yr. but e thing is tt i'll b teaching 3 classes and all e streams are diff, got HCL, CL&CL for N(T) also. all 3 classes diff syllabus lohz, haha, i got lots of things to do liaoz. now also brainstorming hard on how to deal w students etc. haha, really looking very much forward to teaching nex yr!!! haha, i'll be ms tan from 6/1/05 onwards wo, heez. :P :P :P

11:50 AM

after my job training, i went to the daoju chalet!!! haha, so nice to meet up with all the daoju people after such a long time. haha, really miss them a lot, especially those that never joined back the 2nd year, like karen&weeleong&those that left after 1st 3 mths aka huaming. also nice to see the juniors even though not many of them came but it was fun nevertheless.

the daoju chalet was at aloha loyang and it was one of e pool terrace~!!! just beside the pool wo~ it was near the entrance of the whole aloha loyang too~! then there are 2 storeys with 4 rooms!!! oh man, it was just cool! haha, at the chalet, we started doing those stuff that happens at every chalet, play cards, play mahjong, bbq, watch tv etc. haha, when i say watch tv, it means watching spongebob squarepants cartoon, haha, lame hoh? after the bbq, the whole lot of us decided to chiong the jacuzzi which was really very shiok!!! then go to the pool which was really very cold!! haha, had a lot of fun playing around with water. in the end me, nicholas and linmin chose to stay on in the jacuzzi pool when the others chose to go back to chalet. haha, e 3 of us jus slack around in e pool chatting and playing with the jet system. we stayed in the jacuzzi for around 1 hour before coming up to bathe, heez, lazy to go back too fast. :P after that we lazed around at the chalet and played sian diao mahjong, haha, really sian diao, can fall aslp while playing de. then there was once when me, kaijie, zhixuan and jiching played then both me and kaijie doing shi2 san1 yao1 and he succeeded before i managed to get all e tiles la!!! haha, it was real fun for that round.

after e mahjong, me, weekuan and all e j1s went for a walk to the playground at pasir ris park. initially, we got a rather ugly shock as we felt another hostile group trying to follow us? then we chose to be safe den sorry so walked into downtown east. then found that there was no easier route to e park so we went to take e path beside the beach but was more cautious. haha, nicholas was like saying his hp already keyed in 999 liaoz, his finger is just waiting above e green button in case sth really happens. haha, then we were like saying all of us can't do e same if not e line too busy den happy new yr liaoz, haha. upon reaching e park, we played w e tower, e swing and e ufo which is so much fun!!! haha, all our sleepiness were chased away liaoz. then we started the long walk back and upon reaching, i was really tired so decided to go and slp in e room. but turns out e air-con was damn cold and i was shivering so much i came out of e room and went to slp by lying my head on e table at e common area hugging tightly to the blanket. slept only for while before me and kaijie have to leave as the both of us got staff meeting at the schools well be teaching next year. as there were no bus services available at all, we have to walk all e way frm aloha loyang to pasir ris mrt station.

oh ya, at e chalet saw zzyo, ywc, jingyi, chengwee&chinhao! haha, the 5 of them came to pasir ris to camp by the beach before they go in ns. haha, then zzyo&ywc came over to our chalet to bath as they were feeling sticky. and in e middle of e nite zzyo&chengwee came over to our chalet again as they cldn't stand being in e camp liaoz. haha, e chalet was really lotsa fun!!! i was actually not in a good mood but being back with e daoju ppl brought my mood back to happy le! thx kaijie for organising and all e others for all e preparations and buying!!! daoju rox~ ;)

11:25 AM