The last 5 days have been so filled with activities from going to Aquaria KLCC with my great form 6 friends to rushing through kindy lessons and church things that I've been too tired to blog. All my free time has been spent mostly in sleep. Every now and then - when waiting for my ride to come, for example - I'd imagine out a new developement or character for the Maggy Donut adventures, but when actually sitting in front of my computer I'd find that I was just too sleepy to write a good story.

    I don't know why I've been so sleepy lately. My body keeps telling me, 'Rest, rest!" when really, what have I done that requires rest? It's not like I have a hectic schedule. Just a well-filled one.  And my body keeps telling me to take sugar, but I think that's just the way I'm built.

     Here are some snapshots of the week gone by (and some photos of yummy Penang food like I promised):

     Oh. My Gmini needs to be installed on this computer for me to use it. My brother just totally cleaned out the computer and installed Windows Xp. So no pics.

    Drool over the Penang food some other time?

Thanks for reading,
Jenna

That's right, Teacher Jenna went trigger-happy today. Aren't these photos adorable? My cute little edulings. (e-dju-lings) Today I snapped lots and lots of photos, 110 in total, of all sorts of things, and everyone I spent time with. Why? Because...

      I now own a Canon Powershot A580! I bought it before BSF class yesterday. James was nice enough to bring me to Low Yat to look at cameras. I had either a Canon Powershot or Canon Ixus in mind, and when I stepped onto the camera floor, I saw... a Canon Promotion going on! We went over, and after eliminating the Ixus because of price (over RM1000) and the lesser Canon Powershot (forgot what model, yes James, what a girl) because it was too basic, I chose the Canon Powershot A580. My canonling! It came with lots of free accessories, and overall it was a great deal. Thank you James for being my camera consultant.

      And so I went nuts with the canonling today. Took photos of all the kids (and no matter what they do, they still turn out so adorable!). A few kids were camera-shy, which was cute. Try to pick out which 3 I'm talking about. (2 girls, 1 boy) Haha. Obviously the ones flashing peace signs and making faces aren't camera-shy at all! 

      By the way, James, (if you're even reading this) I had a good time in Low Yat (so surprising) and at KFC. Thanks again.

      I could go on about the Canonling, but I won't because I don't want to bore you.

     So let's talk about Penang. I'll be going there tomorrow with my parents and fat Teddy-dog to visit my relatives. I won't be back 'till Sunday. I'm going to bring a thick book, my mp4 player, and my camera so I'll have things to do.

      I just reread that last sentence: I'm going to bring a thick book, my mp4 player and my camera so I'll have things to do. I can't believe I said that. I'm such a city kid! I shouldn't have to bring those things so I can enjoy myself in Penang! What happened to walks? Sight-seeing? Talking with my aunts and cousins? Oh no! I've been conditioned (conditioned! A word associated with psychology which I rarely ever use) to find pleasure in gadgets and material things!

      And do you know I'm bringing 2 chargers to Penang? 2! I used to not have to bring any! This is terrible.

      But it's not going to stop me from bringing them anyway. I know better than to leave all this behind because I'll probably end up watching Chinese dramas on TV or lying on the bed, staring at the fan going round and round and round...

      And having the Teddy-dog as a footrest in the car can only entertain me for so long...

See you in a week!
Jenna

p.s. Sunday's youth project went well, praise God.
p.s.2 watched Hercules in Vicki's house.

     I don't know if you've noticed that everytime there's a slideshow on my blog there's a long interval of time before the next post. (And notice the music?) Well, that's because I like slideshows so much that I want to keep them on the top of my blog for as long as possible. Unfortunately by doing so for too long, less and less people visit my page since there's nothing new.

      And so I've decided to blog a little about the 2 class fish, Kiki and CC. They are small tiger bard fishes that are even now - I hope - swimming in a little fish tank on my desk in kindy. As you can tell, the children named them. Every morning, one of the children gets to feed them, and every afternoon after school I empty out the dirty water and refill the tank. I'm becoming quite attached to them. Kiki is a bully, and chases CC around the tank. Since there's no way of disciplining the fish, I can only frown above the water. That's the problem with fish. You can't train or pet them. You just feed, clean, feed, clean, watch.

      What shall I say next? Well, in this one week I've been having a bit of trouble with the kids, who seem to have gotten naughtier since I returned. Everyday I have to scold some of them for disturbing their friends, or running around, or not paying attention. I hope that this is just a phase and that the power of removing stickers will not be diluted by overuse. If I have not stickers, what have I?

      Other things: I'm working on a project for youth that's starting this Sunday, and need all the prayers I can get. Also I'm looking forward to dinner with my form 6 classmates this Saturday. Besides that, I bought the 1st and 3rd book of the Cosmic Trilogy by CS Lewis yesterday, and am looking for the 2nd one.

     And that's about it for now!

Off to cut caterpillars and play "Who's got the Biggest Brain?",
Jenna