Midweek.

I’ve developed this latest knack of updating my journal in the day while I’m in office. To be honest, it’s more got to do with me being lazy while I’m at home in the evening. Sometimes I don’t even bother switching on my computer. Comparatively, I’m much more freer nowadays in school during the day. So since I don’t really have much to do, I might just as well use this time to update my little journal.

My job is still not looking up these few days – the examinations are over, and I’ve also finished marking the papers for the module that I’m teaching. Let’s just say that it wasn’t a particularly difficult job, partly because since I was co-teaching this module with another colleague, so he had marked about 60% of the papers, and I just have to do the other 40%. Another reason – well I guess after hearing me moan all the time, I don’t really need to say why the marking wasn’t difficult to do. If ever there is something that I feel more pleased about their answers, it’s that for one of the long questions that I’ve set, most of the kids did pretty well in it. That perhaps is the only good thing that I can derive from marking the papers.

Coming towards the end of my term here, I’m really beginning to think what the next path of my life should be. What lay in front of me are three visible paths – stay in this job, look for another in Hong Kong and return to Singapore. To be absolutely honest, returning to Singapore is still my last option because I still want to try here in Hong Kong. Now the choice would be between whether to stay in this job (provided I’m being offered another term). If I don’t get offered another term, I’ll still have to find another job no matter what. But now the issue is if I’m offered, would I stay around? Actually for me that’s kind of a hard question to answer. As much as I’m quite frustrated in this job, there are still occasional good things to take away from it. For example, my bunch of FD kids who are brighter and more hardworking are one of the positive things to take away from. I guess it’s a matter of hanging on to try to derive positive things from this job and bear with the frustrations (or better still, turn these frustrations into positives) or get out of this job to try to find something better. Honestly, as far as personal development is concerned. this job offers little. If there isn’t any extra curriculum projects that come along once in a while, it’s actually difficult to gain any form of personal development in terms of fulfilling my potential.

Let’s see what the future holds for me. And I think I really need to find something to do – like writing a proposal or something. And ya, since I haven’t been putting pictures lately, here’s some for your viewing pleasure:

The Charlie Brown Cafe in Dundas Street, Mong Kok – this one is a slightly bigger one than the other one in Mong Kok – and being a Snoopy fan I really love the place.

All these mobile phone accessories are all available for sale, and it’s probably a heaven for Snoopy fans. There are more Snoopy merchandise available in the cafe, and I think it’s just great to see all these cute little things.

Announcing the new addition to the England squad – KC Ferdinand!
(To be honest, that’s me in the new England shirt, costing $499 including the printing of name and number – a pretty decent deal I think).