*the love and grace of God in my life..*

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

one more week before the new semester commences, and 9 out of 10 people in office would agree with me that this holiday is certainly not a holiday
(the remaining 1 belongs to the category of people who took leave and headed overseas for the entire 3 weeks!)
3 weeks of term break = 15 working days
out of which, 2-3 days were spent rushing all the grading and for module chairs, BOE reports.
clearing admin, IG camps, doing up slides for conference, materials for EEP lessons, coordination work for nationwide challenge in Nov etc..
and not forgetting, crafting problems for the new semester

semester starts on 3rd sept but i've to teach two batches of students on 1st and 2nd sept, 4 hours in the afternoon on both days
for the new semester, i've 3 facilitation days per week
2 new problems to craft, 1 minor problem to review, and 2 UT questions to set
of which, one problem is due 1st sept.

thinking about the deadline puts me off
this is going to be a difficult semester; it ends 30th jan 2009.

//posted by ivy @ 15:40//

Saturday, August 09, 2008

it's a tiring and so not productive weekend
a horror because of all weekends in the year, i've to be productive this weekend!

remaining tasks:
- UT marking (586 questions)
- slides for YE conference
- presentation materials for 1 hr ETDF lunchtime talk

service in the morning, followed by dance prac till 3pm and someone's farewell dinner in town till prob 8pm?
and i've got facilitation on mon.

great.
i'm so dead.

//posted by ivy @ 23:07//

Friday, August 08, 2008

i wanted to do my work
or rather, i needed to get some work done

but i'm really exhausted and i just need to rest
i've got no idea how to finish so many things over the weekend but for now, i know what my poor body needs.

it needs some nice pampering
it needs some nutritious food
it needs rest.

ridiculously tired.

i wish you're here, to give me a big fat hug
to hold me in your embrace,
and wait for me to drift off to sleep in your arms

good night.

//posted by ivy @ 23:28//

my poor blog is neglected when i'm busy but it's almost the first to be aware of any happenings in office because it's easily accessible at most times
like now.

here's a checklist of crazy stuff to complete either by mon or tues:
- grading for W65A (13 students)
- grading for W66G (16 students)
- UT marking (1350 questions)
- final slides for YE conference
- presentation materials for ETDF 1 hr talk

//posted by ivy @ 15:48//

Thursday, August 07, 2008

i was upset yesterday at work
someone who co-manages the module is one real selfish person, all he thinks of is his own self-interest. 16 weeks have been sufficient to see what he really is like being a co-person managing the module
disgusting.

i have to mark 3 questions for the last UT and i've till sunday to do so
hello. i've class today and tmr.
sat seems to be a public holiday, and sunday is.. a sunday!
why do they set deadline to be on sunday? are you going to pay me double to be marking on a public holiday and sunday?
disgusting.

on the other hand, i've some upcoming conference coming up
i've some tasks to do and all the person think of is when can we (the bunch of us doing stuff for him) submit the materials to him
let's take an example; one of us is sick and took MC for the day, informed all relevant parties about being on MC
sickie's boss replied "okie, take care yah? manage your own time well and if you can't finish, voice it out"
sickie's asst dir replied "aiyo, how come you got so much things to do? you can manage?"
and when it comes to this person, he simply replied "so when can you give me the materials to be submitted?"
disgusting.

gail and elena went to have happy food with me yesterday
dinner at tiong bahru; ate sukiyaki. yumz.

on tues,
lena, jane, jasmine, wee leng and i went mos burger for dinner then the whole lot of them (except wee leng) came over my new house to peep
so cool. i feel like a property agent.

alright.
got to start class.
9 people in class, currently.

//posted by ivy @ 08:30//

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

ivy doesn't want/like to do some of the things she's doing now
- preparing presentation slides for TDC manager for YE conference
- being overall-in-charge of ETDF
- cracking her brain to think of events to meet CE points target
- the need to rush to finish 3 DGs and UT grading by next tues night for end of semester
- crafting problems

on the contrary, ivy wants/likes to do some of the things that she's not doing now
- booking mini honeymoon to bali! =)
- thinking of ideas for wedding montage! =)
- taking plenty of fun shoots! =)

you see?
it's simple - i don't want to do work-related stuff; i want to do wedding-related stuff.
haha! =)

//posted by ivy @ 16:27//