No matter how much I ponder, I know that soon, I will be moving on to a new chapter of my life. I do not know what I will be doing or where I will be. It is a mix feeling of excitement and uncertainties.

It is exactly how I felt 2 years ago when choosing a country to work in. I was filled with anticipation, hopes and enthusiasm.

Whenever I look out of the window, I feel the urge of dashing out and flying to a far far land where I could endeavour to reveal new experiences and purposes.

One day, it just struck me that IT could be the reason why I have been travelling intensively since beginning of this year. I just have to be somewhere at least once a month. I don’t mind to travel in Bangkok or Vietnam for a day and fly back the very same day. I insanely told my mom that I wanted to have breakfast in Myanmar and dinner in Bangkok.

I laugh at myself for being so ‘desperate’.

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Update: One more thing…my students called me “CHER”. Not a short for CHERRY but a short for TEA-CHER. =)

I have been “spotted” recently for speaking like this..

1. “Tank-chiu” for thank you

2. “Sto-be-lly” for strawberry

3. Instead of “Huh?” or “Pardon?”, I said “See-mee?” (hokkien for ‘what?’)

4. WALAU!!! (many many times)

5. Cool ‘sia‘…!

6. “Co-rour” for colour

7. I start most of my sentences with “You know ‘ah’..”

8. I use malay words in my sentence daily. Eg. Kena, wayang, kalang-kabok (actually is kelam-kabut, means chaotic, confused or obscure)

9. “Act blur”

10. “Blur like sotong” ->I still don’t quite understand the relation between blur and sotong

11. “Sianz” man..(yes, it’s ‘sian’ with a ‘z’. It means bored or tired in hokkien)

12. Kena ‘owned‘. (it’s the gamer’s lingo. It means being defeated. My students said “kena owned by teacher” when I commented (mostly negative) about their work.

13. “Sur-o-not?” (Sure?)

14. I end my sentence with ‘leh‘ most of the time.

15. Oh, and ‘singaporeanised‘ is definitely a new word for me!

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From Nine news (australia):
“Virtual reality world Second Life has become a hub for pedophiles where users can have sex with child characters..”

“But this is not illegal in Australia, because it is seen as an activity carried out between two consenting adults which does not involve real children.”

“”My concern is that when that person steps out of the fantasy world, they actually bring that fantasy with them to the real world,” Jim Gamble of UK Child Exploitation Centre said.”

Read more here.

I have been studying about Second Life since my first post about using Second Life as a learning tool. And I am extremely horrified as I read this news today. Come and think of it, everything is possible now in Second Life!

Some may said it is just a game, and it is just a matter of turning ON or OFF the computer. However, it doesn’t seem as simple. As what Jim said that people bring their fantasy with them to the real world, and that, is worrying!

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