43rd birthday... and still counting...

while im here, i wished Singapore a Happy 43rd birthday in advance! 国泰民安，欣欣向荣。

i also wanted to wish Alvah a happy 12th birthday! its always that great to be able to celebrate your own birthday with your country! last time to call u a boy, next year u will be moving on as a teen-ager!

i will take this opportunity to wish everyone the best of luck from 9th August onwards. esp my pupils in 6/4. at the end of last year, i was afraid i would not be following u all up from 5/4. i felt so uptight, that i would request for it if the P assign me to teach another class. so at the beginning of the year, i wished everyone to have good luck for the whole year. and i would want to make the wish again, i wanted to give it more strength this time.

there are always highs and lows in life... they come and go. when the 'high' gets to a climax, one would get so focused and think about it everyday, every moment. so when it ended, everything comes toppling down like dominoes... suddenly a goal in life is done, or finished, whatsoever u called it. it may not end as what u might have wanted, but its part and parcel of life.

跌倒了，再爬起来。

the immediate goal now just in front of us is the final exams. everyone has to start the engine again, and focus on the road, because the earlier goal has been completed, the next one has already started. we have to move on to this immediate goal...

不要在同一个地方再跌倒。

we will move on together. no matter what problems we face on this path, there are your family and friends around u. u will not be alone.

happy birthday to ......