Folks, Miss Loi presents to you the following tragic scenes from The Temple – scenes reminiscent of students struggling to make their way to school in some flooded Third-World country.
During a freak shower at around half-past four yesterday, rainwater burst through the roof of The Temple, which you’d probably guessed by now is situated at the top floor of some building.
It happened at the time when the 3pm joss sticks session was coming to an end, when a student went to the toilet to “fix her hair”, and ended up getting her hair “fixed” by the shower on her way back to the classroom.
It was also the time when students began arriving for the 5pm joss sticks session, most of whom went absolutely berserk at the chance of playing in the rain indoors for the very first (and probably last) time ever in their lives.
Indeed, one student was even observed to be “dead serious” as she solemnly took pictures of the entire proceedings. This is the same student whom “dead serious” were the last words one would ever use to describe her in class.
Thankfully, apart from a few moldy carpets nothing of importance was lost to the flood. However Miss Loi rues the irreversible damage done to The Temple’s treasured ema board that contained the priceless O-Level wishes of her 2007 students.
Ironically it’s probably a good time to introduce the new Temple Annexe, which is the room the girls disappeared into in the second video, which was fortunately unaffected by the flooding. This has been Miss Loi’s main classroom for quite some time now, but she didn’t blog about it yet as she wanted to wait till the grand signage is put up … well …
In any case, all parents and students have been informed. From the bottom of her heart, Miss Loi is really sorry to all that were affected by what happened. But at the same time, she’s touched and grateful for all the support that kept the joss sticks burning and allowed lessons to continue yesterday and today.
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But that’s not the end of it.
When she walked back to her car, she found that the open-air car park had been flooded as well, with floodwaters soaking the entire floorboard of her car! And now all the textbooks, worksheets and stationery inside the car are wet!
Wah office flooded! Now car also flooded! What a dramatic day with the rain! What a ‘Good’ Friday weekend!
Maybe she should just go find someplace and cry. 😥 😥 😥 😥 😥
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wah piang, world class construction takes a beating? Time to get some legal eagle in to strike where it matters.
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Wow hope you can get some compensation for your damage. After all, it *IS* a place of your business, and not having serviceable business premises could allow you to sue for "loss of income" or some other business-related issues if you wanted to.
Also, you should have used Vimeo instead of Youtube.
Then the full impact of the whole scene would be felt. Youtube gives you sucky resolution. Vimeo allows your video to be viewed in High Definition 🙂
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Fat4, yeah world-class construction indeed. But to be honest, the rain yesterday was rather ... freaky. The rain lasted just under an hour and it was bright sunshine prior to this. 🙁
FoxTwo, doubt that Vimeo will be able to take advantage of the 'high quality' of the original videos. Wee you looking for some clues in the videos???
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Wah lau eh! I feel for you. 🙁
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Eh did you get a chance for a free shower? Maybe there should be water insurance..haha
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Anything I can offer to help Miss Loi?
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Hai-Ren: Thanks. Miss Loi feels for herself too. Sigh.
Soup: Already having bad hair days, dun wanna ruin it further.
Cris: Know anyone that can clean and sanitize car floorings? Still thinking of whether to 'rewrite' those ruined students' wishes. Such a waste don't you think? 🙁
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Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry to read about this. Hope you can get things cleaned up and back to business as soon as possible!
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Precious, thanks for your wishes.
As mentioned, there's a new Annexe at the place which escaped the 'flood' - so thankfully Jφss Sticks will not be extinguished and lessons will still go on as usual.
Gotta get those carpets changed though.
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Naw, just trying to pull people away from sucky Youtube and onto Vimeo. We've started a mini-ping.sg there too... a few of us already have accounts there and lotta videos.
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I'll ask around.. 🙂
its not worth the efforts rewriting it out. Next time probably invest in a mini laminating machine to laminate all the wishes lor.. Besides, I bet at tour requests, your students are willing to write any amount of wishes for you! Haha..
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Oh my gosh! The damages look bad. The building management will have to do something about the roof and also compensate for the damages and lost of income too. Hope you've got insurance coverage for the business.
Hope the rainy days are over.
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Poor thing. *Hugs* I do hope your woes will be over soon~
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Somehow the first thought that came to mind was diving!
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FoxTwo: Oh really? Maybe this is a good reason to invest in a video cam.
Cris: Umm ... Miss Loi is just a maths tutor, not a psychology tutor who can control the minds of students!
Claud: Yes, hence the long discussion that took place this morning. Oh and meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering over Novena again, much to the apprehension of everyone at the office ...
*Hugs back nicole* So far, this seems to be a year of woes ... with traffic fines and what not. *Goes and buy 4D of office unit #, car #, traffic fine serial # etc.*
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Arzhou: At this depth you should be able to get at least a 3-hour bottom time!
P.S. Sorry, don't know why the spam filter's been pretty strict lately.
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Wah! huat ah! Water means 'Wealth flowing towards you'. You got a flood! huat ah! huat ah!
er... didn't mean to 'make merry on your misery'. Have to look on the bright side mah... no fatality mah.... nothing is irreplaceable in your centre or car. Work harder to pay for the damage lor. What to do!
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See lah see lah ... die die must wait to go JB to wash your hair izzit!?
Now even TeeGong also cannot Tahan the smell of your hair, 'decided' to wash them for you.
Better burn more jossstick with the size of a tree trunk kind, and 48 boxes of hell money, don't anyhow prey prey
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maybe water will help miss loi wash away all her bad luck for 2008.
look on the bright side lol!
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ECL & Blabberer: One of you said water brings in wealth. Another said water washes away bad luck. So hopefully it will do both this time.
In any case, you're right - must always look on the bright side.
HUAT AH!!!
Hey Ah Bengz, just because Miss Loi always go JB to do her hair doesn't mean she's handicapped to the point she can't wash her own hair at home okay!
*searching for tree trunk-size cane to cane Ah Bengz*
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Looks really jia lat leh~ There goes the ikea furnitures...and drying of books...
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Wah.. got ah beng complain my hair washing techniques ah? I win prize one okay? best in JB, Singapore and some say Malacca too.
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Bypasser: Surprisingly no Ikea furniture was lost to this flood. But meanwhile the books-drying goes on 🙁
Fat4: Since when you become Miss Loi's personal 洗发妹?!
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HAHA the video was ohsofunny! (especially that ahemm unknown person sitting on the table and shaking her legs) HAHA. anyway, hope everything is alright now 😀 BUT I WANT ANOTHER FREAK RAIN TO CRASH YOUR ROOF THEN WE CAN PLAY WITH WATER AND GET SOAKED!
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Wow Charlene that's a very wicked wish there. If it comes true, all of you can shake your legs and play all day in the water but NO MORE CUTTLEFISH FOR YOU!!!
BTW, the carpets have been 'refreshed' and dried and now the classroom smells like some aromatherapy chamber 😉
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HAHA, MY (very delicious)CUTTLEFISHHHH!!! awman, but i still want it to flood again then play with WATER. talk about immature =X HAHA! and i don't wanna have test tmr! WHY WHY WHY. HAHAHA:D
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w00ts. >.<
LOL.
elo~
cuttlefiishhh.... [=