but the sky will always darken

and people will leave one by one. let me walk with you once more.

how ironic that on the last day of school - today to be exact, this song is being played at 9:30am in the morning. i don't find this song to be particularly beautiful, just that the lyrics seem particularly pertinent and poignant for the moments that i always find myself in whenever i listen to it.

i'm contemplating whether to buy macdonalds for my entire class as a mini celebration and as a reward for them being such darlings - most of the time, anyway. this class will really be special to me, because unlike the amount of time that most teachers spent with the class, i spent more time with them, and i daresay that i know them all fairly well. two months with them from feb-april, and a long break in between when i left, mid april- end may when i returned. things that i did during the hiatus included going to bangkok (which i'll be going to again in early december) and the induction programme that saw us going back to boon lay for talks that for the life of me i can't remember, simply because whatever time we had, we spent on stoning, planning where to go and sms-ing. ah, and who could forget that lovely week (in June though) when i went to Genting, Colmar, KL and came back to singapore and promptly flew to taipei impromptu? but the lovely june holiday slid quietly away after that and i was soon buried knee high in work. by september you could say that i was dying to keep my nostrils above sea level. but anyway. it's all going to be over today. glorious.

i really will miss this class, for the times that they have seen me through. happy times in march and april, marking their tables and graphs worksheets on the MRT while half drunk and trying to keep my mind straight and sane, quiet days when i simply worked, taught, marked and went home. the dreaded thursday when i slept at 2am, woke at 8 for an art workshop (the other half of which i will attend this coming wednesday)and had the math HOD walk into my class halfway. i smiled ironically at the whiteboard while giving mental sums and everything went ok. they were so quiet and responsive at the right times that i loved them so much then. muahahaha.

so today's the last day of school for my darling p4s, and the prize presentations for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd in class, pupils with best conduct and best progress. my class has the most number of prize winners since 3 pupils tied at 3rd position, also 11 parents are coming, so maybe i have to mingle. or maybe not.
today will pass quickly, but hopefully not too fast. prize presentation starts at 4 plus and looks set to stretch towards the end of school.
tomorrow will be the prize presenations for p5s and p6s and the outstanding pupil award for the p6 pupils, one male, the other female.

friday is a short day and will end by 11. my plans for the day include going for a hair cut and shopping for that white dress that i need for the cousin's wedding. yes, the same cousin that i spoke about. and i feel like curling my hair, but i don't think so. maybe just thin it out so that it looks wavy.
maybe.

next week is filled up with work again, but it looks set to be easy going ahead. meetings on monday and tuesday, monday for the heavy academic stuff and tuesday for the non-exam stuff. wednesday- communications and craft workshop, and thursday is my volleyball training for 8 hours. will stay and tidy up my cubicle. ironically also the release of the psle results so i'll stay and do some k-po-ing, asking my 6a girls how they did.
and after that, goodbye school for a month. i swear i'm not going back unless i'm coerced to.

26th is the wedding, after which i am free to go to KL. and early december sees me in Bangkok, as said previously and after that, who knows? maybe phuket?

we'll see as we explore the vibrant possibilites of life. :)
today, life is good.