Happy New Year!

Knowing me, the likelihood of me putting up a post on the day when something happens is close to nil. I tend to forget after the big events and end up posting a huge mass of words that make people forget to read my blog.

Just to reiterate holiday greetings (because I miss them already)... 


I'm back at school since Monday. Today was the actual first day of school for kids, and people haven't changed one bit. ;)

One bit of news that was passed around today was that of a secondary 1 girl from our school having fallen off a roller coaster at the mall on Monday, undergoing surgery today. On another note, a lot of people did not sympathize with her, as she was reportedly "changing seats with her friend" on the curve while it was moving. It is also an amazing feat that she landed on the bumper cars grid while it was not electrified, otherwise this would be an obituary link.

Edit: I took out a sentence due to the fact that I don't think before I write.

Merry Vacation from Me!

I wish everyone a happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, hava a "Kwazy Kwanzaa" and all the other holidays going on at the same time. Yes, even Festivus(c).

I sent a number of people different sets of photo greetings. Hope you didn't find them too ugly...

A very considerate and thoughtful secondary 5 student, whose 4 or 5 other siblings also attend the school, brought me this cute gingerbread house. He said it was a tradition in his family for each of them to bring their homeroom teachers a gingerbread house. It was so touching I was almost in tears. :') 

Two Days Left..!

I have been working my butt off (or maybe not) with catching up with work. It is mostly figuring out what I am supposed to teach and where exactly we are supposed to be caught up to. I am most afraid of not being able to get everything done by the time exams come around, and not having taught material well enough. Secondly, I am still tearing my hair out at my wild and unruly secondary 4 combined science class (ie. both 416 and 436 physical science). What I am least concerned about is my bedtime. ... Besides, I can always catch up a bit with the hour long bus rides to and fro.

School is out on the 22nd, which means I have about 2 days of Christmas shopping to commence! Fortunately, I have 4 classes in total left to teach, and a talent show in the afternoon of the 22nd to judge.

Additionally, I am going to driving practice, and my third lesson will be tomorrow afternoon. I haven't driven into snowbanks yet, but it seems that this could be a headline within the next few days...

Non-Educational Time-Wasters

Would you know it? I'm also terrible at games.

Balloon Duel - The great NES game revived as a modern-day Flash tribute. Customizations galore!

Snopes - If you ever send me another chain letter, I will smash your heads in...to this web site, which details how useless thsoe emails are. This site mostly debunks many (if not most) urban legends.

I got so caught up in the customizations for Balloon Duel that I made an ugly sketch of my two characters, the girl Seamus (yes, I know that it's a boy's name), and little Naruto. It is possible to make a Naruto character! Yes!!! 

Educational Time-Wasters

Note that I am terrible at geography.

Geosense - Compete against others online or play on your own! Possible slow servers. This game is hard because the scores are calculated to how close you are to the city.
Geography Olympics - Represent your country (or mess up other people's countries) and compete up to 3 times a day! This game is not quite as hard as the above, because it only asks for the country. On the other hand, the controls are rather wonky.
If you really have no clue! This is where I started, and it makes for a reasonably good tutor. Now I know the differences between Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. If I can do it, you can too! Note that I still can't spell, and had to look up the names.

A Requested Wishlist

(Mind you, I'm not the one who wanted to write one in the first place. It's for certain parents-in-law-to-be. And I won't guarantee that the items will be anything serious.)

• A Smart Car! (Silver and blue)


• One of these cuties... if the company isn't just bsing us.


• This book, because I adore Jon Stewart, but not as much as Jorgh. He likes him more.


• The fantastic 102 episodes of the hard-to-come-by anime series, Kodomo no Omocha. Unfortunately it was just licensed by FUNimation and now probably sits on some dusty shelf in the back of an unfrequented room full of licensed anime that the network also won't air. (At least without dubbing.) Manga volumes are already out, but it just isn't the same. :(


• While I'm talking about anime, Excel Saga, or Chobits. Maybe GTO, but I might get disillusioned with teaching afterwards...


• An Athlon 64 system, or at least something that runs a movie properly.


• A certain band , and I don't mean music either. ;) Connected to this, also my wish to kill all furry pr0n.


• A lot of desk space.


• Socks. I hate white socks. I @#$%ing hate white socks.


• A new, happy apartment with no @#$%ing landlord.


• Decent hair.


• A way to deal with a jackass :P


• A mean gene!


• An agenda


• A clue.