How to blog ‘wisely’

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Do you know that one can get sued for slander by blogging about the ‘wrong’ and abusive stuff about a person? In my free time, i did some googling and i came across websites of students blogging badly about their lecturers or teachers — brainlessly. They go to the extent of placing the teacher’s face, full name etc on the blog. I could easily use this as evidence against the blogger if i want.

What’s worst is, these students actually put their real faces on the blog , together with the school name and their classes. I am not going to name those students here though, if they happen to stumble upon this blog, they should know who they are.

Whatever things you have placed onto the net, it will eventually surface out in the search results; especially if the key words used are common. We teachers do read public blogs too.

As a blogger myself since i was a student, i do censor what i really write in my blog. If you have noticed by now. I kept all personal and touchy stuff in my private blog where it’s only viewable by my close friends.

Let me give you some tips on how to ‘bitch‘ without getting yourself into big trouble; especially if you are those who feel better after sharing and writing it down:

1. Lock up the entry and make it visible to only your good buddies. You can swear or bitch whatever you can in there. However, do watch your words too. Anything that is listed on the net is still not-so private. Best is to take them offline.

2. Do not reveal your real name and face on the blog if you don’t want people to find out who you really are. And especially if you want to write terrible negative comments about the people around you. Well, unless you want attention and don’t mind being a net whore. But strangely enough, people who do this tends to get a lot of attention from other bloggers. I loved reading bloggers flaming one another. it’s so entertaining and it drives traffic too

3. Leave out the company or the victim’s real identity. Instead, drop subtle hints on who the victim is. The victim will definitely react if he/she finds your blog entry description familiar. :X But by then, you could simply deny that you are referring to him/her, since no names are mentioned.

Last but not least, the best way to deal with your problem and anger is to speak to the ‘victims’ personally. We teachers are human beings after all, and can never be perfect. We do appreciate feedback from others too.

Life can never be perfect.

De Coder’s Cafe

Do you enjoy playing board games with friends? Then i am sure you have not missed the popular board game cafes in Singapore. Heard of the Mind Cafe and the Settler’s Cafe?

This evening, my two buddies and I decided to hunt for another board game cafe called the De Coder’s Cafe. I only heard about this place from my school’s monthly e-bulletin promotions. I myself have personally went to the old Oasis Board game Cafe along liang sia street some years back, but I doubt it’s there anymore.

What I love about this cafe is, the food is nice and their service is good. The place is kinda cramp and noisy today due to its good business. In order to secure a good place, I would suggest that you make a reservation before going down.

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Sunday at Home

It feels so good to be at home today. I hardly had the time to do my own personal work ’seriously’ since school reopened. And today, after releasing my students’ grades online early in the morning,  i make it a point NOT to check the school email nor do anything that’s school work related.

True enough, this little diversion has allowed me to focus on my personal tasks. I completed quite a number of things today:

1. Blog

2. Iron my clothes (more than usual)

3. Whipped up a simple lunch with hubby

4. Made jelly (a simple task but took me so long to squeeze sometime out of my forever tight schedule)

5. Make nice tea and have a relaxing afternoon reading my new book (will review about it when i finish)

Wooo, i really have a relaxing day at home. But the weather’s kind of irritating, don’t you think so? The temperature stood at 31 degrees the whole afternoon.

Eye of the Beholder

How would you feel if you wake up one day and find yourself seeing the world in a different way? You stare at the people along the streets and you can ’see’ and ‘feel’ impending dangers, happiness of people you don’t even know personally. Would you warn them?

How would you feel if you have the power to summon the spirits of the people you once loved but could no longer be with you on earth?

If i am the one being asked the above two questions, i would definitely feel very disturbed.  Just like how the characters in the book, the woman called Greek and her son Joshua feel. It’s good to have those special psychic gifts but it can get scary if you could see sightings which nobody else could see. You could ended up being responsible for the lives of the close ones around you.

Of course if you could summon the good spirits, they may be able to provide good leads to you in solving crimes by tracking down wanted criminals. Or they may even warn you that the BIG boss is dropping by your cubicle today.

This is a very good book, and it keeps me reading till the end. You might want to grab a copy of Eye of the Beholder. But let me warn you, for people with wonderful imagination like myself, it could give you the creeps if you read it at night.

My Viwawa badges

I was amazed to know how cute the badges are. I even saw badges for loses also. Don’t be fooled by the badges though. Behind the cutey face, there’s actually a highly skilled player, especially for the Big2.5. I can’t play Big for nuts so how can i actually gotten myself 10 wins?

*giggles*

However, i can proudly say that the 10 wins for Sushido are won by me personally. Thanks to a colleague who taught me the right way of playing it. I find the guide in Viwawa disgusting, and if you don’t know the game in real life, it’s really impossible to play it well just by reading their almost negligible introduction.

I am looking for 3 other players to ‘teach’ me Wahjong Classic. If any of you don’t mind playing with a complete Wahjong nut here, please add me at yuki79, and we can have a little Wahjong session.

Gotcha!

Upon opening my mailbox today, i was greeted by a shocking email stating that i had been nominated to take part in a mock audit today. My mind went blank, and my eyes focused on the word ‘MOCK‘. Oh i see, it’s just a mock, so i don’t have to worry.

In the past, i used to audit people. But now, the roles have changed. Frankly speaking, it’s not a nice thing to be audited.

For this mock audit, we were given a set of notes to read and understand. I spent 45 minutes on the notes and managed to finish the last page before the stipulated audit time. While i was flipping through the slides, i saw a very old photo of mine (see left). I was pretty shock to see myself staring at me from the PowerPoint slides.

I racked my brain juices hard to recall the day when this photo was taken. Oh yes, it was taken on one of our school’s anniversary dinner. We were queuing up patiently to sign our attendance and to collect our door gift. But why on earth do i look up and smile so happily into the IP camera? Oh my gosh! I can’t even remember what door gift i’ve gotten.

If not for the notes that i had to read, i don’t even know my picture was used! What a day.

Ice Station

It’s really hard to find books of my taste recently. J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series has swept me off my feet in the recent years. Next is Robin Cook. His medical series has been my all time favourite, followed by Michael Crichton’s medical series. *Ah, these books really make me regret for not studying harder for a medical course in Uni.

Of recent years, i got exposed to more authors and i fell in love with Matthew Reilly’s Scarecrow series. Though i wasn’t really interested in navy or the army life, Reilly has made these characters come alive in his pages without boring me to death. Rather, his books kept me glued to the words and descriptions page after page.

In his book series, I came to know about the fictitious Lieutenant Shane Schofield from the US Marines and his team of loyal members. He is a brave character who really cares for his team regardless of the danger he himself is facing. He makes sure that all his team members are safe before moving on to other ventures. I was impressed by his leadership qualities and his team mates’ undying loyalty to him, even in the face of death. This is something which i can learn from him.

If you have a chance, go grab one of his books and i am sure you will not be disappointed.

lazy weekends

Nothing can be more bored and dry than to do work over the weekends, but there’s nothing we educators can do especially when we are involved in crafting curriculum. Most of the time in school were spent on meetings, lunches, grading and classes. Nothing ‘concrete’ was ever done.

On weekends especially SUNDAYs, I usually seek solace at my little working area in my home in between meals. I know some of you will be raising your eyebrows, thinking that this is merely a dining table!

Well, i get the most inspirations while sitting at this desk, and better still, i don’t need to move around when i am hungry or thirsty. Everything is in front of me. If only time will just stop here for now.

The world just falls apart in front of me this semester. Everything is going hay-wire, everyone seemed overloaded and nothing I do seems right. I find myself forgetting things easily nowadays. Perhaps i got too many things at hand? Even a simple task of merely assigning students to supervisors is peppered with students withdrawing, ending deferment and so on. I have a nice admin assisting me in doing this, but then….if anything goes wrong, my head will roll first right?

Aww…. If only this semester will come to an end soon.

Viwawa

I cant play games for nuts. Most of the times, my hands and the brain doesn’t seemed to be able to coordinate well and i ended up losing in all the games that i played. A friend of mine introduced me to this game called Viwawa. The name of the website is catchy, because the ‘wawa’ means ‘little doll’ in Chinese. So this caught me, and i signed up an account with it last night.

As i am feeling particularly stressed up this week; especially with all the classes and drafting of module curriculum, i decided to give this online site a try.

Much to my disappointment, all the games required the use of the BRAIN. There are practically no brainless games in the list. So in the end, i spent my time playing Sushi Do and MatchIT. MatchIT is the worst and i can safely conclude that my memory is in fact failing me. I did well for the 4×4 matrix but done horribly for the 8×8 memory matrix. No matter how many times the cards are turn, i just cant seemed to remember anyone of them!

Well of course i will log in more often now and then for a game or two. If anyone of you are keen to play with me, do drop me an email to arrange a time.

This is my wawa and IGN

Herbal Shampoo & Green tea Body shampoo

I am a great fan of Melaleuca products, that’s why I am one of the preferred customers (PC) of the company. Attracted by the natural ingredients used in all the products, i’ve decided to convert most of my household products to those environmental friendly ones.

The two products as shown above are highly recommended and are loved by my friends who have used them before.

The bottle on the right is the Herbal Shampoo. It has a high concentration of pure Melaleuca Oil and it moisturizes dry brittle hair and itchy scalp.  The hair smells nice after washing too. I haven’t really tried this product but had been getting quite a few bottles for my friends and colleagues.

I am currently using the product on the right. It’s called the Green Tea Body Shampoo. As the name suggest, the main ingredient is green tea and Melaleuca oil. It makes my skin soft and nice to the touch. I will post more interesting products here for your reference.