week 2 of the school term..

week 2 of the sch term.. was quite an "adventure" for me. not many pple knew about this incident. rather, alomst the whole of chiltern house teachers know, and my whole eduplay dept knew abt it. and my own friends, only my parents, sisters, wenyao, and Jon chon knew about it. anyway, as i was saying, after a whole day's work, i was pretty tired and shacked. so as usual, i was walking thru the underpass, at 2 plus, coming 3pm in the afternoon, to make my way down to PS to meet yee and wenyao for dinner and movie. wenyao wanted to celebrate our bday. so since for the past few days, i was so busy, we had to wait till monday, 12th Jan'09. so what happened was, as i was making my way to the bus stop at amber hotel, as i was walking thru the underpass as i'd always did, just as i make a turn to the last flight of stairs to my left, i saw a young chap, prolly in his early or mid 20-s standing by the flight of stairs and leaning against the wall. the first thought that came to my mind, who and why is he standing there? who's he waiting for? why wait for pple at such weird place? questions just bombard my mind in lightning speed. and before i knew it, i saw smth that was hanging out of his pants. *slaps forehead* (I AM SO NOT WILLING TO WRITE ABOUT THIS BUT HAD NO CHOICE. WANNA WARN THE GIRLS OUT THERE TO BE CAREFUL WHEN WALKING ALONE IN SUCH PLACES, EVEN IN SINGAPORE) it was his.. *ahem* u know.. dick. YUCK! i was SHOCKED! then i quickly walked a distant away from him and shouted in his face, "****!" and quickly make haste and walk off. MY GOD! i was so afraid tt he would come after me. thou i always say i can protect myself since i'd learned martial arts before, but at that point of time, i cant even think properly! i was like shivering! and was in a state of shock! in broad daylight! this happened! to me!!!! *DISGUSTED*. thou i know for sure that this fellow is DEFINITELY MENTALLY UNSOUND, but! oh god. i really dun want to think about it. as soon as i got out of that place, and when my phone's reception came back, i dialled the first number that was on my last dialled list. and so i called Jon chon. i was at the verge of crying aldr. but after listnening to me, he told me he would get back to me after he'd cleared his stuff. (he was working at the point of time). but thank god. not long after, he called back. and he comforted me and chatted with me all the way till i went to meet yee and wenyao at PS and the Cathay respectively. i was so grateful for them. thou yee tried to make a joke out of it, and tt point of time, wenyao also didnt say much, cuz after that, that very night, wenyao called to ask if i'm alright after that incident. cuz he said, at the point of time when i told him when we met him at the cinema, it didnt sink in that it was tt serious a thing that happened to me. so ya. it was very sweet of wenyao to call later that night. and then we chatted till about 11 plus, then i went to bed. i tell u.. the next morning, when i had to go thru that underpass again, i was VERY SCARED. i slowed down alot before walking down the stairs to make sure that there was no one there, and RAN ACROSS the underpass and slowed down again to make sure there was no one standing there at that flight of stairs before making my way up towards my centre. after the whole thing, i was like, phew! and thank god for protecting me throughout. I prayed very hard before entering the underpass and getting out of it. so these few days, both Jon and Nat, rather, wenyao, called me in the morning to chat with me as i make my way to work. and it really helps. and both Rino and Claire would ask me to either wait for them to finish class and we make our way out to the bus stop tog, so that i will not be alone. I am so thankful and grateful for such wonderful colleages and friends. till now, thou i am still quite afraid and will tend to hold on very tightly whatever that is in my hands while before, throughout and after i'd passed the underpass. but i REALLY thank God for protecting me throughout the whole incident. and the very next day after that incident happened, mum called me on my hp to check and see if i was safe and sound in school aldy. the first question she asked me was, "need to report to the police?" then i told her. i might. i shall see when i have the time, and who to go with me to make the report. didnt want to drag too long thou. and she suggested i tell my aunty, dad's sis, who's a part time police officer abt it. then i said NO! if she knows, it'll mean tt the whole family will know. NO WAY! will i want the family to know. especially i know that some of my not very nice relatives will say nasty things to us. anyway, now that everything's back to normal, i'm just glad that from now on, i will NEVER take for granted the safety i'd experienced the past 22 years of my life here, living in singapore.

anyway, yesterday, in the morning, when Claire came into class, this was wad she told me, "Chuiting, today, you're going to do the magic box. ok?" i was like.. what?! i tried to negotiate with her and that whether can i do funpasses instead.. but she said no. well, it's for my own good lah.. so i did lor. first class was erm.. a disaster to me. cuz after so long, the last time i did magic box, or even ran certain segments of the class when i was understudying Zita, it'd been so long since. so after the feedback from Claire, who was very encouraging, i did magic box segment during the 2nd class as well. this time, to me, it was a success! i could recall how i did it in Zita's class last time. and i was able to get the children's attention. clap! clap! clap! heh.. so Claire also announced to both the classes tt i will be training in class, and so for the whole term, i will be running certain parts of the class with her. so ya. i didnt dare think much, thou i know promotion's nearing. but, i dun want to pin too high hopes either. so this is week 2 of my sch term for u. :)

oh yes! and yesterday, wenyao came over to my place to jam with san and I. we all met up after work at hougang interchange (except wenyao. he applied leave) to have dinner, before making our way down to our house. so we sure had lots of fun jamming tog. 2 guitarists (wenyao and myself) and 2 keyboardists (san and wenyao.. lol). and yup. we played a few songs. and then, wenyao left at 10 plus. however, when i walked him down, we chatted for about an hour at an open space area near my place before he made his way back home. yup yup. and i tell u, wenyao's super good in both keyboard and guitar can?! yes, he's the friend of mine who own 3 taylor guitars. :) just FYI. :) ciao!