Teach everyday till you die 2

April and May are now "Pei will not sleep" months. TP sucks your soul out and turns your hair white.

My photography skills are lacking...

Rui repaint ver with Re-Ment puppy. I want try my hand at repainting and customising some Pinky St figures, any one have spare parts they wanna sell? :P

Strawberry Tea

I hate teaching. I want to be a writer. But I suck at writing. I don't know how to write. :s

I don't actually like any of the photos I took today.

Sacchin and Sacchin repaint release. I guess they could be twins or something :P


Table and chairs from Sylvanian Families, Green leaf plate from Megahouse, everything else from Re-Ment. I like Re-Ment.


The tea inside the cup is removable.


Hmm, this picture reminds me that I have to paint the little flowers on the table white or somekind of creamy colour. Brown is too plain, and the picture of the table on the original packaging had white flowers...

Phew

Awful memory is right. Turns out I hadn't lost any of my students' work like I thought I did, half the class just left them on the wrong table, that's why I hadn't received anything. :/

Wanted to take more photos today as it was nice and bright but decided a nap was more interesting.

In other news, there are too many toys I want and too little money to buy them with. At the moment I want this table and chair set so I can repaint it.


Image taken from here.

I love low-quality or broken toys that I can fix up. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and I feel that customising something makes it truly mine, something that no one else has. Well, if anyone has old Sylvanian Families or just general doll house furniture, tell me :P I may decide to buy it off you if it's the right size.

I also took the personality test linked in Muaz's blog, and it's eerily accurate. Except for the first bit. And the being reasonable and giving good advice part :P You can try out the test here.

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Your view on yourself:
You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

More ladybugs

Ladybug, ladybug, ladybug invasion~



Aya: What the heck...they all came after I baked these ladybug cookies! Hey, you two on the leaf--these cookies are mine! *looks up* Oi, you! Stop mucking around and help me get rid of them!

I am an awful teacher

I think I may have lost some, if not half of 4A's essays. Either that or half the class didn't pass them up. The problem is, I can't remember a lot of things. Also, my HOD found two of the essays I accidentally left in admin while signing out or in. She also told me this fact when I was talking to my CT. Terrible. I am slowly any good impressions I may have made on them due to a combination of my own laziness and carelessness. And my awful, awful memory. I cant remember things very well :(

Urgh, what am I going to do? I really hope I haven't lost any of 4A's essays *cries*

Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home

This is actualy a miniature sugar bowl from Megahouse's Forest Teaset miniatures series. The top bug is a removable cap. It comes wth two tiny plastic sugar lumps! This was the only photo that came out okay in today's photoshoot. All the ones featuring to full tea set were pretty unsatisfactory.

A little background: The Forest Teaset is Megahouse's last miniatures set--they decided it was not profitable enough. Too bad really, they make so few sets and they always get sold out really fast. Their sets are wonderful looking, quite on par with Re-Ment's miniatures.

Thursday was one of those days...

...where almost everything that could go wrong did. First thing that happened wasa that Greg booked the projector for use during the last two perods just before I could. He told me that he might not need it and to see im during break to confirm. Bugger. My whole lesson was based on a video on my laptop.

The next thing that happned involved relieving a teacher who was sick. Now, I don't mind helping her out, but due to my horrible lack of preparation I was desperately trying to finish some of the stuff I had to do for my lessons after break. One of these things was taping newspapers together to cover up 4A's curtainless classroom so I could use the projector.

Oh well, I decided to finish what I needed to do in 3J, the class I was to relieve for her. In my infinite wisdom decided to let this class have a 'free' period where they did not have to do anything as long as they did not make too much noise. Some of the boys decided to sit on the ground at the back of the class. I didn't tell them to get up, because, hey, they were just chatting, right? No harm done if they just wanted to sit on the disgusting floor and chat right? Wrong. The principal came in and asked me if I had asked them to sit on the floor. Er... no (I just hadn't told them to get up) She then to the boys out of the class and scolded them for what seemed like a good 10 minutes. Uh boy...

I also found out that the newspaper coverings I had made were too small for the windows. And that there were 8 windows in each class, not 4. I spent the relief class using up all the newspapers I had to make the coverings bigger. I couldn't finish my lesson plans either.

After break was the start of 4E's periods. I orignally wanted to finish modelling essay preparatory work for them in the first half hour and leave the next half hour for them to start their essays. I ended up modelling for the next 40 minutes or so and helping most of the students do their essay preparatory work for the rest of the period. I think only one or two of them actually started any real writing. Also, 5 boys came in 15 minutes late. I did not know what to do with these people. :(

Class management is going down the drain. I could get along with the class during the first few periods, and then my CT decided he could leave me alone with them nstead of watching from the back. That was the day I got quite cross with them. Uh boy, big mistake. One of the boys told me that I was cute when I was angry. I think getting angry with them actually accelerated their bad behaviour. Now they are always loud, noisy, they sing in class (what is it with noisy kids and singing?) and rap out tunes on the tables. Sometimes I have to scream at the top of my voice just to be heard. Then they tell me to calm down. I think a different strategy may be in order for this lot...

After this class was 4A, the class I wanted to use the projector in. Greg had given me the go ahead with the projector during break. Yay, right? when I got to class, I realized there was no electricity. I ended up asking all 27 of my students to gather around the laptop to watch the clip instead. Good thing I have a big screen.

After school, my eyes leaked in front of my 4E CT. *face palms* Shiiiit.

Oh well, I guess it could be worse. It probably will get worse, but meh, one day at a time. A good chunk of it was my fault anyway, at least I know some things can be prevented next time.

Teach everyday till you die

TP = repeated cycles of exhaustion and freaking out

I don't have time to do anything else anymore, the other half of my dollhouse is lying in pieces in a box. I also wanted to drybrush the wicker furniture to make it a tad more realistic and less toyish, but I'm afraid I'll ruin it. That shit was expensive yo. Meh, not like I have time now anyway.

New Pinky House Pics

I've sort of finished half the house. There are a few things missing still, like the front door and a proper ceiling instead of that ugly thing where you can see all the lines. And curtains. Haven't got time to sew proper curtains. Anyway here are the pics:

The living room.


Yuki: "Care for a spot of tea?"


Radish with a gardening mag. One of her hobbies is gardening :D


Radish's back


Becks reading to Rui in the bedroom. Probably some dry history text. It's not shown here but Rui's expression doesn't look too happy. All the books in the shelf have "Sylvania" written on the covers. I aim to change that eventually.


View of the bedroom + bathroom. Wish I could show a higher res version of the pic but the width of the blog is on the small side for that.

I hate teaching so much.

I hate teaching. I don't enjoy it at all. I had thought I might in the past, because when I tutored kids, there were at times, flashes of time where I did enjoy it (although, overall I really hate tutoring too). Well, now here I am, and hating every second. I hate children, I hate interacting with them and feeling their judgemental eyes on me. The though of having to do this for the rest of my life is positively appalling.

I hate this world and I am just so sick of it.

In other news, I finished half of my dollhouse or kinda--the door and the ceilings aren't done but that half has been wallpapered with scrapbook paper. I meant to take pictures today but it bloody rained after being so freaking hot on the field. Rain means that it's cloudy, and clouds mean that there isn't as much light as I would have liked. I rely on natural light for my pics as I don't have any lamps so no pictures today.

*freaks*

Warrrgh Sue!!! I don't know how to teach writing, reading or summarizing!!!

Here have some Pinkies:
The thing Sakura's holding's supposed to be toast from the Rei Eva set btw. Doesn't look very much like toast from this angle... Should have taken a pic from another angle.



Rei: Wait... are you eating my toast?
Sakura: Um... I like toast.

I got my camera back! XD

Got my camera back earlier than I thought I would. I left it in my aunt's house at Miri. Thought I'd have to wait at least 3-4 weeks for someone who's going to Miri to bring it back.

House update:


Estimate is at 80% done. I still need to seal it with an overcoat so paint doesn't come off so easily, touch up bits and redo others. I also have to measure the place for wallpaper. And man, do the painted pieces give out fumes. ugh. I hope it dies down eventually.

Blargh, I dont want to go to TP later. Stupid TP. I bet the students will stomp on me and Sue will go wargh at my lesson plans.

Gong Xi Fa Chai! XD

Yay, Happy New Year! IT's cow year now!

My mother cooked a lot of stuff for CNY eve dinner. Too bad there were only 4 of us this year, we used to have more people. But one relative retired and left Brunei, a cousin got married and another went overseas to study. Their parents are still here but they decided to go on a trip this year, so it's only my immediate family and I for dinner. So quiet this year...



In no particular order: stir fried veggies, prawns in oyster sauce, noodles cooked with meat and shitake mushrooms, Chinese sausage cooked with leek and fried egg, something I don't know the name of, a thick, sticky soup made up of shitake mushrooms, eggs, and carrots, fried chicken, mushroom stuffed with meat served with brocolli and red peppers, hard boiled eggs fried with tofu and spring onions and homemade soybean milk XD I was so bloated after tha :9.

Next is house updates:
These are all for my big house. My little house is on hiatus until I can get some pink paint. Anyway, the big house is easier to paint, since it's in pieces and all.


I've painted the walls, and all that's needed is paint for the windows.


Here are the floors. I want to create a stone like texture for the grey parts. I tried Saturday night, but I'm no good at it ;_; It sucked big time. Looks like I'll have to wipe that off and try again *sigh*

Radish explores a rock pool

Thanks for emailing me the Radish pics Ai Li!

I took Radish out to Tasek Lama on Tuesday for a photoshoot. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera's memory card. I borrowed Ai Li's camera and took a few shots of Radish in a rock pool, but they all came out blurry except this one. I suck at taking pics with Ai Li's camera ;_;



I've also made more progress on both my big and little house, and the little one is very almost complete. But there's still some more tedious covering and spraying to do before it's finally done. In comparision, progress on the big house is moving very quickly. I've sprayed the floors with a combination of black, red and brown and I'm pretty pleased with the effect. The brown paint I got from the one modelling supplies shop I know of today and man, it was costly! $9 for a really teeny weeny can! (pics later).

I also got rained on after exiting the shop due to a miscommunication between Mur and I. I entered the shop through the backdoor, and by the time I got the paint, it had started to rain very heavily and the backdoor was locked. From his car, I thought Mur was signalling for me to go out and around the building to the car, but what he meant was really for me to wait for him out front. I ended up circling the entire building in the heavy downpour. X(

I was also looking for another can of pink paint. Too bad Hotmart's upper levels were closed due to the blackout.

Cowboy Bepop Hollywood Movie

Keanu Reeves is planning to play Sipke Spiegel in the planned Hollywood live action Cowboy Bepop movie. BWAHAHAHAHA!

More info from an interview with Mr. Reeves here.

In other news, all I've been doing today is prime and cover parts of the big house up with tape. I'd been meaning to touch up the pink house with acrylics, but that freaking tape covering is taking so long. I'm doing one of the last pieces and I've been at it since 7 or 8 and it's 1:30 now!

Also, a bird crapped on one of my primed pieces.

My Pinkies seem to be doing more work than me

There was too much rain and strong wind today to so much of anything except take pictures of pinkies. So here they are! I named the WF2008 Pinky Beck, as her head is actually of the same mold as the Wild Arms Rebecca Pinky (Beck, Becky, get it? lol :V), just with diffently painted eyes. Anyway, here are Moe and Beck, getting ready to do more painting! Beck, of course having dragged the clueless Moe into this.


Moe: "Why am I here?"
Beck: "To help me paint this house, of course!"
Moe: "Erm, yeah...right. Whatever..."



Moe: "I think you're using the wrong paint."
Beck: "Aww, crap..."



Beck: "Doo di doo doo doo~"


With the interior done (for now) Beck moves on to the outside. Moe is nowhere to be seen.

Beck: "Behold my mighty brush! I don't need anyone else! With this I can accomplish anything!"





And let's just leave Beck to paint the rest of the house by herself.

Below is all that I managed to do today, because of the aforementioned wind and rain (shakes fist at weather). I only primed the floor of my large house. It's a bootleg of the Sylvanian Families Willow Hall without working lights.



Not shown here is the piece I thought was dry and put on newspaper. So I managed to get newspaper stuck to my stuff AGAIN. Ugh, live and learn...

Pinky Painting

Mur sent me home after finding out Shakespearian Studies class was cancelled (and after we did some misc. school stuff which included me getting a new green form and losing $2 in the process) and I resumed work on my house. Little WF2008 Pinky decided to help me out XD. Haven't named her yet, but then I'm not really in the habit of naming my Pinkies. Only a few lucky ones :P

I had to reprime and respray a few parts, and after finishing the thing, I took off the covering paper and tape:


I think it looks good, but there are a few areas to correct. Like where the tape took off some of the paint:


And where I accidentally put the not-entirely-dried bottom front of the house on some newspaper with dried pink paint on it...


Haiz, more things to do before the house is finally finished...

QuikClean Nail polish remover!

This item here is a lifesaver. Yesterday afternoon I opened a brand new sealed can of white paint. The nozzle was leaky, but I still sprayed my doll house with it and left it to dry. The result was a too thick coat of paint that dried with cracks. X( My normal paint thinner dissolves plastic because of the acetone, so that was out. I found this nail polish remover in Hua Ho, Kiulap. Non-acetone, it contains isoprophyl alcohol instead and it doesn't dissolve the plastic! XD

Here's my house after using 1/2 the bottle and a good amount of cotton swabs.

Inside:


Front:



















Side:
























I'm going to put more primer on and respray those parts tomorrow, provided I wake up on time. Ugh, in other news, I lost my green form. Arrrgh, I hope I don't get fined T_T

I spent too much time on this...

I should be sleeping. But I decided to stay up and put a new layout on the blog instead. Taken from a site credited on the right, I edited a few things. Nothing much. This is really just a test post to see if my posts show up properly.