Been a busy week.

The week beginning 23rd June was a rather busy week for me. I was down with many things to do that week but mainly I juggled with my 'new' job, played host to my foreign guests and helped out with Murni's wedding, which took place that same weekend.

Below are some pictures and notes for you to see and read. Feel free to check them out.

Picture on the left shows a part of my flat. Just like other parts of my home, this area has some new furniture added to it too. Almost every week in June in fact, Kenji and I went to Ikea, a furniture mall, to purchase some new furniture to do up the rather empty flat. We decided to furnish our home because we wanted our home to look 'alright' especially because we knew Kenji's mum, Keiko-san, and her friend, Miho-san, would be staying with us in their 1-week visit here in Singapore sometime during the end of the month. Also, we wanted the extra room that we have to turn into a 'proper' guest room. So on 23rd June, I did some last bits of furnishing and cleaning up of my home before Keiko-san and Miho-san arrived the following day.


A bouquet of flowers from Kenji to me on my birthday. That day, my parents, Murni, Kenji, Keiko-san, Miho-san and me went for brekky somewhere close to my place. Soon after brekky though I had to leave for work whilst Keiko-san and Miho-san went to the zoo, and Murni went to play host to her African guests. I knew it was a pity I couldn't stay and hang out with the rest much longer. Nevertheless it was good that I managed to squeeze a bit of my time to be with those few good people on my birthday.


In school: some work for the pupils to do at home. I would love to give them a whole load more (of work) actually. But unfortunately I knew I would have little time and energy to mark them when they're returned to me the following week. So the above's a good amount I think.


Rather tough juggling between work and showing my guests around during the week days. But I managed it almost every other day that week so it was good! Picture above shows late dinner at Lau Pa Sat with Keiko-san and Miho-san who didn't mind traveling all the way to Raffles Place just to meet up and dine with Kenji who finished work at 9-ish that night.


On Saturday morning, Miho-san, Keiko-san, Kenji and me (behind the camera) went to an Open House carried out by the school I am currently teaching in. The Open House was a public event with exhibitions, food and games, which the school had to attract parents who have pre-school children to come and check the school out. According to the school, they hoped that with the Open House, parents would consider putting their children in the school later. Anyways picture above shows Miho-san, Keiko-san and Kenji checking out some things on the cupboards outside a classroom that were put on display during the school's Open House. I hope they all had fun at the school that day.

This is Murni with two of her former Madrasah students at her wedding. Murni is my elder sister who just got married last week. She is married to an African-Filipino (groom not in pic unfortunately) whom she met whilst studying in Perth. On that Sunday Murni appeared prettier than usual I thought. I liked her especially in the wedding dress she wore in the picture above. That same night after the wedding, Kenji and I went to the airport to see Keiko-san and Miho-san off.

This week, however, was a gradual slow down of the previous week. So this week saw me doing far less things than the past week but I was still busy nevertheless. This week I caught up with some of work's accumulated tasks such as marking of students' work and making lesson plans. I also met up with some old friends, relatives and even siblings (as they were scheduled to leave for Perth on Friday night). And I had the suddenly-too-many-airport 'visits' within a few days this week as I struggled between cleaning up of home whilst going through a terrible cold. Well, well, wasn't that just as busy as the previous week? You tell me.