Eric Lee Tse Yew’s Blog

Its been half a year since i wrote in my blog…. sorry to disappoint readers who wants me to write abt my everyday life… hehe…but mainly when i write a blog entry, it is to write what i am feeling more than document my lifestyle.
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It had been an eventful half year for me. With a few ups and downs. When i feel down, i would tell myself: " Eric, dont let other people’s actions affect your feelings and mood, remember only you yourself have the power to control your feelings. Now pick yourself up, more wiser and aim forward for a brighter tomorrow. Whenever there is a DOWN, there will always be an UP. " 

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This really helped me get through tough times and i hope this will also help whoever reading it… be it students or friends… or even a passer by…. get through the DOWNS in life… To me, i would want to always think the glass is always half full… and not half empty… to always be optimistic…

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Maybe thats why you always see me smiling… i have problems too… just like everybody else.. but it what i do to help myself get over the problem or face the problem head on… and always have a positive attitude… will help me get over my problems…. i know its hard..easier said than done… but whenever i start feeling low again.. i would think of my motivating words… and feel better.. afterall we human beings need constant reminders

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I had a dream yesterday (dream as in vision and not a dream when i am asleep…lol)…..  Its: "To travel around the world with my gf/wife, shooting her/us in evey scenic spot available…. and look back at the pictures when we are old, huddling in a sofa and enjoying the slideshow playback on the TV."

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This also brought me back to my first gf… when we said we would hold hands whenever we walk outside… even when we are old… sad to say this will not happen with her.. but i would still want to be able to fulfill that dream

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I always felt that the lesser relationships i have, the better…. lesser sorrows to experience when breakup…. Everybody would want their first gf to be their wife… but as you grow older and wiser… you would realise there are a lot of factors in making up a relationship… factors like Give and take in a relationship, Willing to accept your partner as he/she is (unless the problem is one that you cant live with, then there’s no point holding on, cause you wouldnt want to quarrel everyday…lol…), Responsibility and Trust in a relationship, Communication… and the list goes on….For me, now i just leave it to Fate

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Eric. 10/07/07.

Today is the last day of my Teacher’s training at ITE HQ. Been an enjoyable 2 months and gonna miss my class of particpants.

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Now you wont believe they are teachers.. haha…

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My counseling group taking a pic before giving a counseling session to the "counselee" on the extreme left (who is actually a professional Counselor teaching us)

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My whole class posing with our "Mobiles - an object to represent how you are gonna teach students".

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I am not inside cause I am the one taking this pic.. hehe…

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This is my "Mobile" - SpongeBob and SquarePants. My first arts and craft object in a very long time since secondary school… Ask me if you wanna know why i create this as my motivation to teach students… hehe…

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Having lunch with a group of lovely ladies (teachers from my class) @ Amber West - Clementi… the food’s not bad (value 4 $$$) and the service is world-class !

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A coursemate with his mobile taken with a teacher of our course. (His identity has been masked for a purpose.:))

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Who says teachers lack creativity and cant have fun too?

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Now to take off my students cap and wear back my teacher’s (’Cher) hat. Miss teaching and joking with my students… now its back to teaching (and joking too of course!) with my students whom i didnt get to see the past 2 months… some of you guys who are readers of my blog too….. thanks for reading my blog the past year guys and gals!

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It was a great one year for me in 2006. I can say that I have gained much more this year than I have lost in e past 2 years.

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All the best in your future to the graduating class of EL0501A and EL0501B !!!

Gonna miss u guys and gals !!!

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Wishing you all (my readers, friends and students) a Merry Christmas and a Brand New Happy New Year 2007!

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And wish that I have more time to update this blog more often

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Eric. 29/12/06.

My Internet addictions are :

1) Friendster-ing

2) Clubsnap-ing

3) MSN-ing

4) Fotopic-ing

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Eric. 29/12/06

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Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding:

The new Internet addictions.

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Posted: 20 December 2006 1159 hrs

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PARIS: The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.

They include these:

- EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.

- BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody’s sake would be best kept private."

- CRACKBERRY: "The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother’s funeral." (A BlackBerry is a popular handheld device that can be used for phoning, emailing and web-browsing).

- GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."

- CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."

- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you’ve never met.

- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you’re an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).

- CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song "so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter." Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.

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Taken from CNA. 

Two minds, two roads.
One goal, one path.
Two hearts, One love.

                      Eric Lee.

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This is a poem I wrote (digitally inserted into the marriage coffee table book) for my cousin who got married last week on 17th Oct ‘06.

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I believe in fate and the road has already been laid out for 2 persons to be together.

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This is a sample of the coffeetable book I did for them. Was displayed in the ballroom lobby that nite

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Happy for you Couz!! All the best in the road you and Suyun have taken together

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Eric. 24/10/06

Its been a long time since I last posted in my blog…so I thought I would just pop by to say hi.

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Recently Teacher’s day just passed. My first time in my whole life celebrating it… how many people can have the honor of celebrating it in their life…. hehehe…

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Anyways I didnt expect anything on that day itself… but was pleasantly surprised when Class A students presented me with a Teacher’s Day card together with a slice of cake (price tag still on… wahhaha) Later on, Class B got 1 student gave me another Teacher’s Day card too.

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Although they also gave the rest of the module teachers the same stuff, but I am still very touched and happy. It does make me feel that I am somebody.. that makes a difference in the life’s of the students… One way or another…

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It is really not easy to teach here. You want to help the students, but they are not willing to let you help them. Sometimes it does get frustrating.. but I have learnt to laugh it off and continue trying to help them.

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Teaching is not always frustrating though, I had more good times than bad times.. I do have students that come more often when I teach compared to other teachers teach… thats more than enough to bring a smile to my face.. although they should go for all their classes… haha..

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Teaching is just 40% of the work I do… another 30% is admin matters… which a class advisor has lots of to do… and remaining 30% goes into projects I do for the school. Amazing eh…. Lecturer + Admin Staff + Project Manager into 1.

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I am still trying out this new job… wonder if I will be still at it in time to come.:)

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Thanks for reading this entry!

Eric. 12/9/06

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,

at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers,

at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,

and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

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Have the determination of a mirror. It never loses its

ability to reflect, even if it is broken into thousand pieces.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens: 

but often we look so long at the closed door that 

we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart. 

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Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more

it will elude you,  but if you turn your attention to other things,

it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.  But sometimes the

butterfly is sitting there all along, but you didnt notice it.

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When I quote others I do so in order to express

my own ideas more clearly. 

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Recently into Philosophy…. Hehe… Great quotes from great people.

Eric. 31/3/06

If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, i would choose using my last breath to say I love you…

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Loving you without any condtions and expectations… Unconditional love… but is this ever possible?

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Sometimes we walk into an impossible relationship when we know we will get burnt… but yet we still proceed… Just moments of happiness… humans… cant control emotions…. cant live without emotions…

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You learn to love, not by finding a perfect person but to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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What is love?   

Love of money? Love of looks? Or Love of tangible things?    

Is love tangible or intangible nowadays?

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Being single saves me the trouble from all these past questions. Hehe.

Just some food for thought ya

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Eric Lee 25/3/06.

Rather than love another, why not understand the other?

Rather than hang on to the past, why not bless each other?

Do not trap the person you love with your love.

Use your love to give him/her strength and allow him/her to soar.

If you are fated to be together, your hearts will be joined despite your being in two different lands, time or space.

When you truly love a person, his/her happiness would be as great as your own.

If another person is able to bring him/her greater happiness, you should give him/her your blessings and allow him/her to go.

I wish you happiness.

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Eric Lee. 03/03/06

Slam! The whole room was silent. Everybody looked at me…. in a different light for the first time…

Hahaha…. i must have shocked lots of students…

Mr Eric is not angry at all…. just know that sometimes he does need to enforce discipline in class and to make sure the class behaves after repeating warnings…. its because there is an official test going on and i wouldnt want to take the test paper of any student away and make that student lose face in class….

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For me, its very, very hard to get me angry unless its related to love…. hahaha…… For me, at work, is i try to make friends with everyone… I wouldnt want to have someone i dislike at work and have the pressure to constantly avoid the person in the office…. thats why…. MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR… is the motto i chose to adopt for my life.

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I dont quarrel with friends too. Heck, I just wanna lead a happy life… God has given us a life in a human body and I wouldnt want to spend half of it in pain or feeling unhappy…

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So be glad of the things you possess now and lead a happy and thus fulfilling life.

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Eric 18/2/06

Love is…

- taking buying dinner and taking a cab to her house when she said she havent eaten.

- seeing her for half an hour and going through 2 hours of travelling time from one end of the island to the other.

- giving in to whatever she wants (wrong)

- letting her win all arguements (wrong)

- trying to be the person she wants (wrong)

- writing a 12 page letter to win her back.

- standing in the rain…I did it b4 Jerry Yen…

- giving advice and helping her with whatever i could do.

- being there for her and helping her get back to a normal life after breaking up with her.

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- talking to her everyday without fail.

- being faithful.

- taking a plane over and see what can be done.

- walking in the hot sun for hours.

- staying 1 person in a motel room for 3 torturous days in a foreign land… feeling extremely low.

- forgetting her.

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- being happy with her on every outing.

- talking to her till early hours in the morning when next day I must work with less than 2 hours of sleep.

- reminding her to bring an umbrella if its gonna rain.

- giving advice to her to help her in her relationship.

- always being at a phonecall’s reach.

- thinking of excuses for her whenever she lets me down.

- love to know everything about her. Everything.

- trying not to expect anything in return… is a hard thing to do in life..

- staying up late waiting.

- letting go if there is only 1 hand to clap.

- wishing her all the best in my heart.

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Eric 18/2/06