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Facing me is the Singapore Flag.

It's passion and drive that brings this flag up. I am beginning to love Singapore more because it brings me pride.
It's amazing how I made my way to Sports School everyday to teach the little ones.
I must say it is an experience teaching 20 over kids in a class. Now that if YMCA and other places gives me about 6-8 kids, i feel weird. See, I said it's good. It challenges my soul and body.
It was challenging and yes my brain need to think of ways to teach a whole bunch quick and fast. They only have a crash course of 8 lessons, thus to keep them moving in the water requires some planning.

Other coaches may slack, but I told myself I will not, because these kids are here to learn and I jolly well make sure i impart something to them. At least that's all i can do as a good coach.

Over here, there are lots of good swimmers, I see them swim their buterfly, amazing, I see the synchronized swimmers do their stunts in the water, putting up a good show dancing and twirling around with the music, it is a good experience, favour with the peole here is earned and jollly well do well and you get rewarded.

There are basically 3 group of students that i teach:

1. Primary 3 Kids who are generally short and attention span is short. They are still very young and ignorant about the surrounding. I don't really enjoy teaching this age group especiallly at Sports School because they can't reach the ground! I have to carry them across one by one, which is physically tiring.

2. Secondary school kids who are growing up. They are very shy and don't want the boys to see them in their swimming costume. It's just quite funny to see such a sight, esp first day of class.

3. Child-care kids, 4-5 years old. Ultra cute, I have to sing and dance with them and they get very excited over the slightlest thing.

Nuggets here and there everyday, keeping my days as a swimming instructor interesting. I am loving it! :)

Hi to the world that i have kinda lost touch.



I am glad I spoke; I have no idea what gave me the courage.
It has been good and I am praying about it.
Give me some time, Give us some time.
Give me some space, We'll see how things turn out.
Till then, ♥

I was at the gym with Diana few days back and we were just wondering which is the proper way to land our feet so that we can be injury-free.

Some mistakes noted:
1. Bouncing up and down too much
2. Over striding
3. Not using their hamstrings enough
4. Landing on feet too heavily
5. Breaking action on landing
6. Not using arms
7. Twist midriff side to side while running
8. The head and upper body are bent forward
9. Jogging slower than you could walk!



The foot should strike the surface with the ball of the foot, in a dorsiflexed position (with toes pointing forward not downwards) otherwise this creates a" breaking" motion.

The heel doesn't touch the ground.

The foot on landing on the surface should be "light" not heavy, it then "grips and scrapes" the surface.

Now that you know how to go about running properly, go do it now.
Don't slacken, I just went jogging this evening. It feels amazing! :D

I bring praise report telling you, my fellow readers that i am officially working at Sports School and YMCA. Of which, I am happier at YMCA.

Sports School has a nice environment just that it's a tad too far and the sechdule they give is crappy. 1 hour a class and a long break and another 1 or 2 hours. It's kinda sickening but what to do. They are also a little rigid with their rules so it's quite irritating.

I have no complains for YMCA. Like it alot, the kids there are more adorable. Except perhaps the Jam i faced when i return home. It is good, i like the little kids, VERY CUTE!

Running around like a true mad woman, i have been travelling quite abit, thus i have been visiting the petrol kiosk quite a bit. Every other week it's about $50 just on the disel and not adding all my parking fees. I do feel the pinch, so If you can understand, kindly be nice. It's all from my own pocket.

I have been avoiding from many issues in life.
I am confused and I do not want to face it.
I escape and I don't want to talk about that.
I know I have to settle down and do something but yet, I am reluctant.
Okay for now, leave me alone and I'll be fine.

A trip that's worth some brain cells.

SKIING
We were utterly destroyed and dissapointed like you cannot imagined. That was the higlight of the trip. Well, it was called off there and then.The path was not ready due to the change in weather in China as a whole as well as the breakdown of the cable car.
As such, we did some hard-core trekking and went back city for the night, still feeling dissapointed, we paid quite a huge sum for the transporataion itself and it took us a good 8 hours just to transport ourselves there and back.

We decided to try again since we could go again[with little hope] a day before we head back home.(Singapore)
Thank God, on Sunday they called and said that the skiing path is open!
We head off Xiling Ski Resort on the Monday morning, keeping our fingers cross that nothing would go wrong during our 4 hours journey there.

While we were on the way, the tyre punctured. There and then, we were told to get off the vehicle so that the driver could do the nessecary. Right there and then, IT SNOW-ed!!

Let me repeat it snow-ed. WE WERE ALL JUMPING FOR JOY!SUPER HAPPY!
It was our first time seeing snow, no longer touching the snow that was left down previously. It was snowing heavily, one of the heaviest snow this season.
REJOICE! It was all our virgin experience.

Lucky cousins, it's their first winter trip and they get to touch real snow.
Yeah, dats dat, the highlight.

period. back to my hectic and busy rachel chiam's world.
let out a big sigh and goodnight.

So far so good! :D
Everything was plan for last minute but all is good.
We really travelled ourselves and it feels good!
We stayed in a dom of 8 people, and bro and dad is in another room in Chengdu.

We have travelled all the way down to LeShan and Emei Shan.
Tiring as can be but loving the weather.
All of us look like dumpling. So many layers of clothings because it's so cold.

Camera is down because we drop it. Brother lost his camera while coming from the airport. So, It's kind of dissapointing!! NO MORE CAMERA! ARGH!

Okay, but all is good! :D
More happening things coming along the way!
Shopping, manicure and do my hair!! :)

Every girl should eventually get three things from her boyfriend --

a stuffed animal,
one of his sweatshirts or hoodie’s,
and a really pretty piece of jewelry.

The trip has finally arrived.
The long awaited trip.
The ski trip, my yong he dou jiang!
The fellowship of the saints.
The fellowship of the cousins, aunties and boyfriend.
So fun leh!! We're bunking into some backpackers INN! LOL!
So 8 doms, imagine the havoc we will have altogether!!

The bimbotic photo taking should start the moment we meet.
We have a mini-bus chartered to bring the troop of 10 from Jurong to Changi.
I am loving it! Share my joy!
B...cos it will be the last trip i'll be going at least for now.
Can't afford to go for another one any time soon.
Been missing out on lots of lesson with the kids.
HERE I GO!!

Unfortunately, Teddy D is too huge to be squash together with my stuff, so nope i am not bringing it along. :)

You have officially made me feel excluded.
Honestly, the saddest thing in a friendship is betrayal.
Talking about being vulnerable, I am sorry.
Please take back those words. I felt so betrayed.
You rejoiced at the sight of me being humiliated.
I was once so open to you,I told you everything. Everything and Anything.
Perhaps i should know you better before pouring everything out.
You saw the weakness of mine and i was open to share everything under the roof with you.
Right now, I absolutely hope that I no longer get to see you anymore.

I never know what you may have told them.
Hurt? Yes i am very hurt. You change so quickly, you befriended me so quickly and you betrayed me so quickly for the sake of fame. It's so fake to have the front that you are potraying. It was a grave mistake on my side. It's because of you, I have learn a lesson and now think twice before I allow anyone closer in my life.

Business is picking up.
In fact It's suddenly all coming to me because term has started!
I need to breathe. So busy! I have to squeese all the classes on sats before i leave on my jetplane on Sun 4am.

I have been looking forward to this trip for sooo Long!
Settled for the air ticket in the month of Oct or earlier!
So it's a WONG-CHIAM family of 10 going on a trip to China, Chengdu, 10 days.
Everything is not confirm because it's a "free-and-easy,chiong-all-you-can" trip!
I pray, I pray it'll snow!! Considering how cold it is over in China now!!
I'm bringing along my winter clothes, my scarf, mittens, and everything thick.
I am excited and i can't help but to scream!!! AHHH!!! SNOWY SNOW, here i come!!

Still thinking of either doing Skiing or Snowboarding. Both are as challenging, since it's a new place for me, kinda need to get use to it, plus i have a half paralysed knee.It falls ill everytime i enter somewhere uber cold. It gets frill and weak. Ok lah, it's because i injured it once. Not just on one side of the knee but both knees and my right ankle! Just very prone to injuries!I would love to try snowboarding since i have never tried. Wee Hoo, I AM SO SO SO EGGCITED!!!

randoms: Jin is back from BALI, She had so much fun, judging from the pics! I am so jealous. I am so gonna plan for a trip down to Bali or Desaru soon soon soon!! Calvin, come back from Taiwan soon!! So we can plan something. WEE~

It's just very fun bumming into many people at orchard on a X'mas Eve eve.
Just alot of people were there! I mean the fellowship was good. We really grow fat together. It was nice catching up with Steph and Aileen. :D
Darren suggested mamboing at zouk today but i was just reluctant to go.
Too messy and it's just a place you spend lots of money.

I spent so much. I go to ATM time after time. I used the ATM so often nowadays.
Gosh, I am spending more than what i am earning and it is a worrying factor.

A visit to the sports school today for interview.
Just roll eyes, establish swim school so what?! Just yaya papaya.
Pay like sesame seed like what Hui Hui quoted.
Tsk* Just a bad experience. Well, for now i shall humble myself and teach.
Argh! They just have to torture me to go there on a X'Mas day just to watch them teach!
Sickening.

It must be a season of giving. If the non-christians are giving, why are we as christians not giving? Owell, looking back, it's really kind of dissapointing.

But that's ok because people dissapoint. :)
I was shopping for presents for my swimming kids just now and i was really pretty happy seeing so many presents, although it's nothing fantastic, but i must say i had a great time buying stuff. Shoppping for candy canes and chocolates.

I have more to buy tomorrow! :) Got the cards and I'll be penning down my wishes.
Strikeforce Thanksgiving tomorrow! I am looking forward!

Felt that the previous post was a little on the negative end.
I believe i had a fruitful but lousy week.
When someone is tired, they really do all sorts of crazy things and they complain about almost everything.
I was tired and thus i was moody.

I browse through facebook and i got a little happy.
Eustacia says: Being nice to one another makes life better for everyone.
Aileen never fails to enlighten me with a BIG heart. I read her entries and she never fail to make me put a smile on my face. My noble best friend, i am so proud of u! Your vision, your dream. I applaud your courage. Keep going!

I ought to be more optimistic. :) Perhaps, it has been a while i lost touch of certain things. It's time to get back on track. I've been thinking far too much. Let's settle down. :D

There's really no perfection, so stop searching!

Argh! I really hate myself everytime i become very high,very cranky. Very I.
I know I offend people many a times with my not-so-nice comments.
Many a times, i don't mean it. I really regret after i said those words. I cant just eat back those words.

I try to stop, I try to hush myself and say nothing.
There's a saying: If you do not know what to say, say nothing.

On another note: Sometimes the one who are the closer to you may be the most crude and unedifying. They are the ones who may hurt you the most, without themself knowing.

Eat that humble pie and swallow it down, learn from mistakes and never do it again!
Ok period.

It's the craziest gadget I've ever gotten in my life. HTC Hero. Thank God Seraph and Alice helped me with getting to decide which gadget to get. Haha!
I'm not a vert tech-savy person so when Seraph tried to explain all this terms to me I was absolutely lost. But, after a night of battling i think I'm beginning to like this gadget.

It's pretty costly so i am going to make sure it's well taken care of.
Apart from complainning that my life now is pretty boring. Yeah, I'm working, but I am still not fully utilizing my time well and properly.

I had this new little gal Kristen, today. 2nd lesson with her and she's so cute! She would pretend to choke on the water and keep coughing to get all the attention from her mum. She would pretend to pant, so that i know that she's putting in effort and that she's tired. She does fake sneezing to indicate that she's cold.

She gets very distracted when she see other kids doing other things and her focus is just drifted away.Unlike the typical princess, she likes BLUE and she like pirates as compared to princesses outfit! She's so cool and she's so different. She'll grow up daring to be different.

Her mum was telling me she sent her to a christian kindergarten and little Kristen was told to be involve in a christmas play. Somehow she's convinced that she was born in a Manger and because she grew up in China, she said she was born in a manger in China. Hahah, she definately made my day!
How adorable!

What a happening day!

I did my online marketing for thy swimming. It is mostly on forums, I'm Kinda paranoid over getting weird phone calls from random people. Okay, lots of things are changing. Things are moving pretty quickly. Seriously, I do not know what to expect. Just too sudden. I didn't do well for praise today, just kinda dissapointed. I vow to practise every other song in future.

Polaroid made my day! :)

Honestly, every other year X'mas is as usual.
No, my family don't celebrate this occassion, but my dad will always buy a log cake without fail. No exchange or presents whats not.
But, that's okay! That's because this year is fun! We're going to celebrate our X'mas with not just our family but with my cousins and aunty!! With the real snow!!

In less than 1 month, I'll be flying again!!This time to ski and to really create a snowman! I'm so looking forward to this trip! We are staying at the ski resort, and that means that it's going to be a white white belated x'mas!! :) SO HAPPY!

Wee~! I was with Aileen today at Orchard Road, Very random last minute outing. But we're always very spontaneous, and that makes us the best of best! HAHA! She was busy snapping away, while i am busy posing all the nonsensical pose.(Peeping at Santarina's Skirt)

Sit around and watch the world go pass is always our past time. So, we did the usual but was highly irritated by the smoke. Okay, to end now, dad came n pick us up, so home we go.
Okay, I'm just lazy, updating for the sake of updating.

To end off: I LOVE FESTIVE SEASON!!! this year, i'll be pretty lonely for X'mas cos AIleen going overseas ah!!! N i dun wan to go party wit HIM!! gdnight.

There's a saying that says you reap what you sow.
In order not to get hurt, you don't go around hurting other people.
I must say i hate it and what good does it do for me?
If i am force to and have absolutely say 10% feelings for you,
It will probably not last and perhas you might even be more hurt than you are now!

So, what should i do the reduce the hurt?
I've learn my lesson. It's torturing but Honestly, i don't think it'll ever work out.
period.

Great! I'm back! Everybody says it feels weird, feels lost. I have officially put on another 2kg. It must be all the KFCs, Grill chicken, Lucky Burger and yada yada.

It was a pretty fun trip with altogether 7 students, 2 teachers, 1 social worker and 4 strikeforce members! Highlight of the trip: Ang Kor Wat, CLC, Visit to their local University.

There were just so many students we met who were there to do community work. Reason for us being there is so that we could help the students. This school is called: Catch-Up School. They do 2 grades in 1 year when the rest do 1 grade in 1 year. These are childrens that are basically sex-abused, used for drug trafficing, picked up on the streets and whatever you can think of.

Definately not too friendly when the little ones came and met us, whoever excited in their eyes. It was a 14 day trip and we taught them everyday in school, so mon-fri was left in school and sat n sundays were free days for us!

So it's very much lots of work! :D Last day was a very tearful day, the kids starting crying because it was our very last day. It's such a painful sight. But we have to go, we have to go. Probably we'll go again in future! :D Cambodia is such a beautiful place, the people are very warm and that's all we can ask for! :D

I have officially ended my day. There were just so many things to be done.
So many things that i have to do before i leave, sms the parents, finish up with the work undone, pass down information, change money, pack my stuff, I got everything done only at 12am today.
The things that are expected of us makes me feel so stress also, In Fact, I'm a little busy to really sit down and prepare for this trip.
I need to be farmiliarised with the sequence and there's a certain level of standard that is expected, so no fooling around.There's work to be done to impact the cambodians. Alright, a heavy burrden that I'm bringing with.

Today marks the last day in AIA, It was not as bad as i imagined because not many was there! So there's nothing much i can emo over. It was truly a great experience working with Daries and Ai Ning with the assistance of Gin sometimes. I learn alot about life over there. Apart from the mundane administration. I know i have to move on, thats why i took the courage and really move on from this job. I was really holding my tears back before i left that place, that office,that boss, that unfinished work. Now i know how Gladys really felt when she left,I wanted to call her to talk to her but i know i would start my emo going, she cried buckets, yes she did and the boss gave her a cheque. HAHAH!!! Yup, I made and gave Daries his card,i dare not look at him because i know the tap will start running. But yeah, there's always more to come. I believe it's just the beginning, a stepping stone. God is good! Greater things are yet to come when i return.

It's truly indeed more blessed to give then to recieve. I gave my time, my effort and i reap a great deal of joy.

HE called me again today, I really want to tell him stop calling, stop pestering me, We can be friends and that's that.

Leaving on a JET-STAR plane in 5 hours time, celebrating my birthday in Cambodia, how exciting. This year's celebration is such a disaster, I cannot deny, I leaving for a good break. Cheer me on! :D