The Office

2007-11-17T23:44:29Z

Last week I started getting hooked watching "The Office" episodes with Nam ! I must say I've never felt so incredibly addicted to any TV show like this before. It used to be Jeopardy, then the Daily Show , then The Myth Busters, then Every Body Loves Raymond, then Scrubs and now "The Office" .. It's something that makes us laugh together as a family and most definitely creates some well cherished memories in the years to come...

Work remains a mixture of hope and despair, depending on what angle one looks at, and I find it rather comforting knowing that these bad days too shall pass...I'd just take it one day at a time and do the best I can in "enlightening and making a difference" on the students' lives... Chocolates help, certainly, but humor and direct, sincere messages of concern for their progresses and prospects in the future seem to touch them more than anything else...

V,N and I saw "Dan in Real Life" and "American Gangster". ...They were both incredible movies, in different aspects. I'd watch those again, anytime!

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2007-11-04T07:19:00Z

It's rather both sad and amusing that I only started to do this now that my children are almost all grown up and "one third" out of the nest... All of a sudden, after having the privilege of viewing my daughter's journal (Thanks so much splinter-end) and trying to post a few comments to her entries, the idea of having a live journal seems like a pretty efficient way to communicate and reflect on things so we could kind of know what's going on in each other's lives. I certainly hope that it will help maintain my most cherished, sacred contacts with my children. Life goes by so fast and memories of my children fill my days and dreams, enabling me to go on like never before. The present is consisted of numerous challenges but to me, just as precious since I'm still alive and well, generally speaking, and no one knows what will bring tomorrow...I just hope I don't make too many mistakes or repeat old ones with regards to my most beloved ones

I planned on numerous lessons/ test/labs today and it was a rather quiet and relaxing weekend even though I'm so sick and tired of all the politics and bureaucracy with the administration/ the district and all the lip services they do so shamelessly day in day out....I kept focusing on my children, the students who are eager to learn, and most of all, the sacred image of my mom silently, tirelessly and courageously worked and provided us all the best possible opportunities against all odds.... The unwavering faith in "cause and effect" theory also helps maintain my sanity.

I hope and pray that my children will be courageous, wise, kind but most of all happy, wherever they might be and doing whatever they might choose to so that I can, when the time comes, rest in peace that I have done an acceptable job in raising them to be as humanely decent as possible.

I pray too that Q. wouldn't be so sad and upset because I couldn't change the flight for her to go home earlies this Thanksgiving... It hurts so much to know how disappointed my precious girl was and I wished so feverishly I could hold her and comfort her like I used to when she was still around (she's always been such a mama's girl....) .If she could only read my thoughts and understand how I feel right now, I think she would be somewhat less upset.....sigh

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The Office

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