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  • Television Updates

    New season of my favourite series has finally started! I’m so excited to watch Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Elementary again. I also found another series and started watching again some series I had left behind. I may add another series to my watch list based on Velentina’s recommendation. Here they are, the series I’m currently watching, just started watching again, and just added to the watch list.

    Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.


    Have I told you that I’m a huge fan of Marvel? Well, my love for Marvel isn’t as big as mine for Agent Coulson. In this season, he is Director Coulson. And with the Avengers: Age of Ultron coming up, I’m really curious about the future of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the new director. In the first six episodes, this show deals with how S.H.I.E.L.D. struggles to rebuild itself and erase the terrorist label plastered over it. Skye’s father also has made several appearances. I think Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has too many mysteries. Usually, it’s not a good thing for series. (I mean, look at Heroes that got cancelled after four seasons.) Well, either that or I’m just a stubborn girl who wants to know everything right now.

    Elementary


    I’m so disappointed with the season premiere of Elementary. The reason why Sherlock is back in New York isn’t appealing for me. The case is very interesting, though. Also, I love Joan’s clothes I want to steal her wardrobe.

    Resurrection


    I found this series while getting lost in Wikipedia. I decided to give it a try and instantly fell in love with the first season. It’s about a small town in USA that turned upside down (not literally) after several people come back after being dead for years. I got disappointed with the second season’s first episode, though. After all the tension in the first season finale, the resolution that the second season’s first episode gave is very lame. It gets quite boring in the latest episode, but I’m going to keep watching for my curiosity.

    Avatar: The Legend of Korra


    I’m an avid fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the animated series, not the live action), so when I found out about its sequel, I was really excited. I watched the first season and grew to hate the new avatar: a stubborn teenage girl from the Southern Water Tribe. I stopped watching after the first season ended. But when two weeks ago I found out that a) Zuko is still alive, and b) Toph is still alive too!, I decided to give the series another try. Halfway through the second season, I almost gave up once again due to how much I hate Korra, but I kept watching. I must say that the third season is quite good. I am yet to watch the fourth season, but I will.

    Downton Abbey


    I also gave this period drama another try, and man was I not wrong. The fourth season is as good as the previous ones. I have only watched two episodes, but the whole season is on my (binge) watch list.

    How to Get Away with Murder


    According to Wikipedia, How to Get Away with Murder is a legal drama. Velentina recommended it to me, but I haven’t started watching. According to her, I’m going to like it because it is similar to Sherlock. I’m not really convinced that anyone can create a series as good as Sherlock, but we shall see.

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    Bonus point: who’s excited for Marvel’s Agent Carter?

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  • See You Next Year, October!


    Well, excuse me while I’m cleaning up the dust on this blog.

    October came and passed by like a blink of an eye. It was nice. I had my birthday and it was on Sunday, so I could have a small date with Afief. It was no biggie; we only went to the mall, but felt so special. Well, to be totally honest, any day spent with him is special. He gave me an ukulele as a gift. I love it so much! So far I’ve learnt to play three songs with standard chords. More to come, of course 😉

    Now that it’s November, it means that our big day is less than two months away. I’ve found myself even more distressed, but I haven’t cried yet at all! This is totally something. Also, it seems like we’ve found a place to live after the big day, plus we’ve booked our tickets and hotel rooms for our honeymoon. It’s all so exciting.

    I’ve loved November and all its rain so far, but I just can’t wait for it to be over already. Sorry, November. But I know you’ll understand.

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  • On Teaching and Being a Teacher


    I have mixed feelings about teaching. Since I was a kid, I had always wanted to be a teacher. I often played school with my friends, with me being the teacher and my friends as the students. My mum taught me basic math since I was 3, so when I turned 7 I was already better at math than my friends; so naturally, I taught them math in our “class”. I really enjoyed playing teacher. Whenever grown ups asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said “A teacher!” with confidence.

    After graduating from English education programme and getting my degree in teaching, I still had mixed feelings about whether I wanted to be a teacher or not. Turned out, I no longer enjoyed teaching as much as I did back when I was 7. College has taught me that being a teacher is not a simple task. Teaching deals with social interactions (e.g. teaching in front of the class, communicating personally with the students, facing the parents, etc.) and paperworks (e.g. lesson planning, grading students’ works, creating and grading tests, writing reports, etc.), both at which I am not good at all. If you really know me, you know that I am socially awkward and a bad procrastinator. I’m not a suitable person to be a teacher.

    And it was clearly shown! I resigned from a teaching job after just two months of employment. Then I got another teaching job at a high school and then I yet again felt frustated. I complained a lot. I took even the smallest things as signs that I had to resign and got another job somewhere else. I saw it like the whole sky was covered with dark clouds and I couldn’t see the silver linings.

    Since I’ve just started on August and I felt like it was wrong if I resigned in the middle of the semester, I decided to stay. At least just for this semester. I thought I’d resign at the end of the semester. I felt that the momentum would be right because at the same time, I’m getting married.

    Perhaps that decision was the best I’ve ever taken, because as the days go by, I started to enjoy being a teacher at this school. I love the students. I love being the authority figure during the teaching activity. I enjoy grading their tests (I procrastinate every now and then, but when I am grading them, I really enjoy it). I’ve grown to be used to my schedule. And while I still need to work on my social skill when it comes to interacting with (older) fellow teachers, I’ve managed to reduce my anxiety and started talking to several teachers. I still keep my mouth shut most of the time, but I am not as awkward as I used to be and I’ve grown to care less about what others might think about me as long as I’m not bugging them profesionally. I’ve grown up a lot since the first time I stepped in to that teachers’ room. It’s not too much if I say that I’m proud of myself, isn’t it?

    I still don’t know if I will resign at the end of the semester or not. I’m going to move out of my parents’ house anyway, so I may live far from the school. It hasn’t been settled yet, so I’m still open for other options. But as for now, I think I’m going to survive.

  • Weekend Links


    This week I’ve been feeling lazier than usual. I’ve postponed a lot of things, especially school related stuffs (like grading my students’ tests). And that is why this weekend links consist only five links. Sorry. But here they are:

    • Have you seen this post I reblogged to my Tumblr? It’s hilarious!
    • I did myself a huge favour and downloaded the first issue of the new Thor. I personally think it’s promising. So does this article.
    • I saw Annabelle yesterday and it wiped out all my dreams of living in an apartment. But Kaylah brings them back by sharing her apartment’s living room in her blog.
    • Kaelah has the best mug collection ever. She inspires me to start my own collection as soon as I get my own kitchen (in less than 100 days!)
    • Chelsea just beat Arsenal 2-0 in the London derby. This also happened.
    Have a happy weekend!

  • Oh hello there, October!


    There are less than 100 days left in 2014. Have you reached your new year’s resolution(s)? Me neither, my friend. Me neither.

    Yes, I finished my final paper and graduated. Yes, I got a job. Plus, I got engaged (not really a resolution. Haha). But I still feel kind of empty. While I do love my students, I don’t think I’ll hold onto my teaching job for too long. For the past month, I’ve been thinking of resigning at least three times. I’ve started thinking that there must be something wrong with me, because this isn’t the first time that I don’t feel like staying in a job that I’ve had for less than three months. My business is growing, and I can’t seem to split my focus into two branches. I keep forgetting things. I once forgot to inform a tutor about a change in her schedule and it ended up conflicting with other tutor’s schedule. Should I keep my teaching job or should I resign to focus on my business? That is a question of which I must find the answer.

    Anyway… October! It’s my month, yay! I will turn 23 this month and I’m feeling all the feels. I’m excited to be 23, but I also hate being 23. I’m old! Where did my teenage years go? Haha. But perhaps my birthday this year would be different since now I’m engaged*. That’s not a hint for my fiance, but if he took it as one, I wouldn’t mind :p. What a year, 2014!

    *So sorry for mentioning the word “engaged”. Each day I become more and more of an annoying blogger. I promise to tone it down a bit.

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