Oxymoron In The Tropics

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I've been a school administrator for 6 months now and I'm discovering things. I like teaching young people. I like bringing these young people into a computer lab and seeing their eyes light up. Even if it's so clearly a rare event in their lives. (Hmm, the administrator in me is scribbling notes.) I like showing them stuff like how to throw their voice and hearing an improvement in some kids' presentations. I like sitting in school resource centres. I like debates, dramas, aerobics before class, march pasts..etc. I like the Friday potluck brunches in the teachers' staffroom. I like looking at what a school has and doesn't have and figuring out how to make things better. I like the hurly-burly of life in school. I don't like meetings (if they come at least twice a week and it's been thrice the past few weeks). I don't like scolding people. Adults or youngsters. I prefer the buddy-buddy approach but sometimes instant action is required. I don'...

Today I dragged myself home... it's a Saturday and I had to go to work. It's for 'Meet The Parents' day (report cards..sigh) and also a PTA meeting. I hate meetings... unless I'm chairing it. And if I chair it, the meeting can be done within half an hour because I normally prepare everything ahead of time and the meeting is just for distribution and coordination of duties. Hmm, that shows what kinda meetings I chair. A former boss of mine used to say that if the meeting takes longer than 45 minutes, it's not a meeting. And if so, then food must be provided. But I've had the misfortune to attend THREE-DAY meetings and in self-defense, I bought a PDA and a bluetooth keyboard. That meant I could type my executive report during the meeting itself. And if the meeting degenerates into a fruitless slanging match or an unproductive rally (where an issue gets volleyed left and right), I could open an e-book and switch off. I've completed whole reports in M...

Ah, the foot-in-mouth disease... I've had it so often, my immune system should be immune from it. Sadly, no-one seems to have created a vaccine for it. However friends consolingly tell me that it's okay, everyone suffers from it. BUT no-one suffers quite the same as the one who is going through it THIS-VERY-MOMENT and RIGHT-NOW. According to the powers-that-are (in certain professions), this disease is especially common among Sagittarians. The Chinese say that it is also the special purview of those born in the Year of the Monkey. Guess what? I'm a Sagittarian born in the Year of the Monkey. Talk about a double-whammy... Whenever I suffer an attack, I apologize profusely (and in the process, I seem to make things worse) and try to make amends. Then I go home and squirm some more. Sometimes I even wake up in the middle of the night to think about it. Squirm squirm squirm... Eeeeeuuuuuuuuuu.......

This sort of thing tickles my funny bone... 'cos sometimes they are so right and yet can be so wrong! I suppose if you really do your chart properly, it can be useful but it's sad if you take everything as gospel truth.

I visited a friend's blog and got into a slight wrangle with him over superheroines.  In one post , he said and I quote, how many super heroes do you know who are women, anyway? Ya, earth-shaking issue, I can tell. Anyway, he got me scooting down memory lane and metaphorically digging into old boxes.  Again. I used to be so addicted to the Marvel and DC universes that I HAD to write the stories for myself because I couldn't wait for the next installment.  My friends used to shake their heads at the sight of me scribbling in a book.  I must've have filled up at least 20 exercise books!  I was crazy about the New Teen Titans then - Robin, Starfire, Wonder Girl, Changeling, Raven and Cyborg. The X-Men?  Piffle.  They were old hat to me. I chewed my baby teeth on them...literally.  My grandpa and uncle brought comics home long before they were fashionable.  When my uncle left to study in the UK, he locked them up in a huge box with ...

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