I love my class. I am really blessed to be their teacher. Each bright mind, each adoring face, each innocent heart, each cheeky personality, each hardworking character touches me on a daily basis. I want to give to them as much as I can with the rest of the time I have with them. Each of them is a blessing to me.

Thank you kids! You are God’s gift to me this year. Happy Children’s Day! May you all grow up to be a greater blessing to people you meet. I LOVE YOU 3G!

I am back to using 6100! My student stared in disblief! "Cher, this phone got no video, no camera, no bluetooth you know!" "I know!" I said with a grin. My less-than-one-year-old V3(NUS) died on me. Actually it’s the screen that blacked out. I remember my brother said that flip phones tend to expire prematuredly. So my kind tuition kid lent me her Nokia 6100. It kinda simplified my life using a gadget for the sole purpose it was created for. I.e. calling and texting.

Surprisingly, and refreshingly, I no longer surf the net for the coolest phone to buy, or the coolest accessory to add to the existing phone. Instead, I found myself in a state of contentment. When I first saw this phone, I was transitting in HK airport. It was the coolest Nokia phone then. The sleekest and it’s got colour too! And it cost a hefty S$1000!! My student is willing to let me have hers for $30! I am taking it of course! It was afterall my dream phone years back!

A simple phone definitely has simplified my phone usage, and thus simplified my need for the coolest, smallest, fastest gadget.

Simplicity is sweet!

Louie Giglio, in The Air I Breathe,

"God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Every ocean wave. The starry host of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, "I am here." … He wants you to know that the incredible desire for worship rooted deep inside your heart was crafted for Him…

…that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist.

No wonder the whole world is filled with worshippers. Every last one of us has been created with a searching soul, designed that way by God so that (as Augustine expressed it) our hearts are restless until they find rest in Him."

Saw this quote on a friend’s tee which tickled me!

"Love means nothing in tennis!" I wonder what’s the link…

Tennis course is getting fun especially with the smash! Next thing to do is to add Sharapova’s aggressive HHAAIIIIYEEEEERRR!! during the serve! CONGRATULATIONS MARIA SHARAPOVA for winning the US Open!!

I have 2 pimples that won’t go away. The more Oxy I used the bigger they grew! Then one day, this bus with the Oxy ad drove past. The ad said "Use Oxy. Clears all pimples!" No leh! Mine are like ripening leh!

I inherited this book from Novi and Ken’s garage sale, titled, "Words on Strength and Peseverance". I particularly like this quote,

In the depth of winter, I finally learnt that within me there lay an invincible summer.

~~Albert Camus