we walked together side by side yesterday.
a distance between us.
but we talked.
about the SARS.
about iraq.
about our students.












then i woke up. it's juz a dream. 8B

in the midst of the SARS worry, i received this sms:

Doctor advice anything to do with SARS, pls stay at home,
don't wear SARi, SARong...
dont drink SARSi,
don't eat SARdine and
don't SARbo your frens!

very creative indeed...heh.

skools will be closed tomorrow till april 6 becos of the Sars infection. teachers will have to burn their june holidays...since it will affect the teaching schedules. and i wonder if there's mendaki tuition this saturday....hope not cos i need a break...been sleeping at 2am for a week already and i really need to catch up some sleep.

on a lighter note, xuan2 accepted my storyboard for the demoreel. gonna start tomorrow...not today cos i got to do the esculpture webby. polytechnics, ite and universities were not included in the holiday list....haizzz. so tomorrow, i'll still be trudging to skool. hope it's gonna be ok here soon...will this be like in Stephen King's book, "The stand", where nearly the entire world was infected and killed by a flu virus? 8B

i was a bit drowsy this morning...and even forgot to bring my harddisk to skool. went shooting and shopping with kak rosi yesterday at orchard rd and tampines. well, isz tried to surprise me yesterday...but failed! cos i saw her b4 she sneaked up on me. :P

i slept at 1:30am yesterday cos i tried to bore kak rosi to sleep by sms'ing her. she kept telling me she's nervous for de driving test and she cant sleep....poor gal. she was entertained instead...by some juicy late nite stories. 8B but Alhamdulillah...kak rosi passed her driving test juz now....weehoooo! i got my own drebar. hehehee. me and isz were so inspired that we're gonna register for our advance theory test this wednesday...

anyway thanx to kak rosi, isz and yanni for de prezzies. my dear students even did some cards for me last saturday....so sweeettt. i dunno why but i seem to see lots of munkeys *wif de recent fusion crap* and receiving them for my berfday dis yr. ^_^

budak2 tgh stresss... ... pesal pimple bawah scarf agaknya. 8B

i havent paid my fonebills for the last 2 mths...and another one has come. 8B im currently broke...photography has been kept to a minimum. i hope i can get some monies from the freelance projects by next week. heh. dat will lift my burden. mum's been pestering me to pay the bills before they "rocket" sky-high. i remembered when i didnt pay my bills for several months, i got this letter that i have to pay $400 (!!!) within 2 weeks. dat was like 4 years ago...but it was a lesson well-learnt. hehe.

and becos im broke...i'm selling my beloved JVC camcorder. eh...i'm selling it because it's underutilised. i got a digital camcorder @ home. 8B

there's this guy who boldly told me that some girls are having a crush on him even though he's already engaged. he also prefers being chased than chasing after the girls he like. he muz be thinking that he's the handsome'st guy ever existed. urgh.

yesterday i downloaded a huge compilation of m.nasir and hijjaz songs. been listening to too much junk nowadays...my ears need a "healthier" kind of food. 8B wif all the rush around me, i dun tink loud music helps.

ustazah kamariah didnt come yesterday but another ustazah replaced her for our hadith class. i wouldnt have known she was an ustazah cos she was young..well, in her 20s. but age really doesnt matter when it comes to presenting da'wah. i didnt even fall asleep for a single minute the whole 2hours i was there. instead i was fascinated by her...it's juz the way that she present her stuffs. i guess singapore need not invite ustaz/ustazahs from overseas. not to say that they werent good, but wat's lacking in our own ustaz/ustazahs?

and see wat boredom did to us...

im not going to write about my crush. boring subject arr...anyway i thot mdm B was gonna be angry with me for not handing the attendance folder to her last week. but to my surprise, she smiled and gave a slight tap on my shoulder and told me to hand it at the end of class. how sweet! me and kak haz talked a bit about skool, work and marriage during our short break...she's a good conversationalist...one of those grownups whom i can discussed stuffs with.

right now im still online...doing my portfolio site. i should be finishing my portfolio site tonite. i think im going to scrape that game idea off my personal project. im going to do something i'd never ever do after i graduate. but what? i got barely 3 weeks to complete. production got to start next week! dammit! everything's getting out of control nearing the Day. i juz wish omeery is here with me. 8|

nourza.com is back in business...after successfully upgrading the OS with winXp. weehoooo! everything's running smoothly now....gonna upload several stuffs recommended by my iT consultant, omeery. got home quite late yesterday after discussing some web matters with a potential client. and got up very early today to 'tour' raffles place for the eSculpture webby. me and huiQi. 8B so many things to do tonite. updating the lesson plans for my mTs class, do as much as possible for my portfolio site, redo the concept for demoreel, etc...etc...

im depressed. mr peesee refused to budge last nite and i fixed it till 1 in the morning. actually the pc is already sick...the system's crawling when i opened up only one application. so i reformatted but it cant recognise my external harddisk. so i spent another hour this morning...reformatting again. and was late for skool for an hour! mebbe later i'll try partioning the main harddisk and hope that somehow it can detect my harddisk. haizz...the perils of a pc crash.

toots didnt realise she was staring into blank space when i tap her on her back. heh. she's been figuring out how the search script work. and me being the so-called art director for this project need to come up with "that look" for the project. haizzz...omeery is on leave and kak rosi is busy. so i dun have anyone to disturb. i have nothing more interesting more to say. goodnite.

mdm B is doing her job as the supervisor of the ctr im tutoring well....and im beginning to like her a lot. she's like my mum. heh. mdm B scolded one of the boys in my class for wearing green socks to class.

"did you juz go to a soccer practise?" "errr, no"
"then...wanna be michael jackson?" the kid shook his head. at this point, i really wanna laugh loud...what does green socks have to do with michael jackson? i thot he wore white ones? lol.

i am always looking forward to my classes on saturday cos i think this is one of the best i've ever tutored. not because the rest are sucky...but we bonded easily and everyone's like my lil bros and sis. and everyone's so responsive and eager to participate in class. and not to mention, that cute guy (i know im too old for dis but im having a crush on him...err...since last yr) who's teaching the same level as i am. at least there's something to talk about when we meet. :)

yay...gonna see her today. missed her...dunno why. but i have so many things to tell her...

not knowing the thoughts or reasons behind a silence can be frustrating. to be quiet is something that everybody has the right to. closing urself is necessary to restrain that beast that muz be caged. but doubts lingered, emotions are frayed, exhaustion is all too easily accomplished when we keep too quiet. mebbe it works as a healing process.

but it does help us to understand the mistakes we have made and prepare ourselves so that we never make those mistakes again. everyone can only learn from history otherwise it is doomed to repeat itself and without looking back, there is no history...everythin's stagnant - like the pancake stuck to the surface of a non-stick pan.

i dun gush over handfones. my samsung fone is enuff to make and receive dat call anywhere around singapore. it's small, light and attractive looking too...imo. but this has got me drooling. bluetooth-enabled, mms, attachable camera wif flash...wow!

ive gotten over bejeweled and now addicted to monopoly on my palm. ive never won anything against the computer...but it sure is exciting. and helpful in keeping my mind away from skoolwork. i got so much work to do that i don't even know what to start now. i thought i should complete the website yesterday when i got home but amin came. i juz cant be bothered to think about work he comes.

production for the eSculpture website starts next week. i have to design the splash page, main, route pages...and dunno wat else. i hope the client will like de design layout...but since omeery likes it, im already happy. he's my design advisor.

our everyday conversation would be about what should we do after graduation. isz will be going to mMu. toots will probably work....and marry her yus. hehe. ratz will probably go to some lasalle course. yanni...probably will work like me...and save up enuff money to go for our studies together. i got so many things to do after graduation. but i need to get that driving license first. that's top of my list.

i cant help it but she is driving me and toots cranki'er by the minute. toots gave her a verbal lashin juz now...and she was quiet. yesterday was meeting day cos we had meetings for almost 3/4 of the day. boringggg.

and yeah, one more thing.........im NOT related to him. pls remember dat and dun juz say out loud dat dier tuh matair akuuuuuuu. *hmmPh*