Hello! Meet the new gym bunny! Because of the hefty investment I made into boosting my already exceptional fitness, I find myself visiting the PURE Fitness Gym Centre more and more these days. I love the fitness classes that include bodycombat, body attack, trx blast, rpm etc. I tell you the intensity of these classes is no less than that of my usual regime of swimming + running! Let's see if the efforts are all worthwhile at next week's biathlon!
And my visits to PURE have also boosted my Itunes song list! Hur Hur Hur....VALUE FOR MONEY!
I have also found the perfect reason to buy myself a pair of shoes for gym purposes. I do need one by the way. My previous pair was worn out and the sole was rather frictionless and I found myself skidding inside the gym's studio! I scoured various sporting outlets for good buys, trying to take advantage of the pre-cny sales but nothing caught my eye until I decided to lower my expectations and give Hougang Mall's Sports-Link a chance. I actually found this Adidas cross-trainer (can be used outdoors and indoors) beautifully on display and to make the visit even more worthwhile, it was on discount! I paid $83++ for it! BELOW A $100!
Moral of the story being: Sometimes, neighbourhood malls do have hidden treasures!
One fine day I just had this thought in my head i.e. everyone deserves a little perk me up once in a while. The context being I just gave my form class a lashing for taking advantage of my gracious extension for their deadline. After that, I figured they must be feeling some sort of guilt and being students, such behaviors are to be expected. I was once like that. To show that I can move on, I decided to give them some "perk me ups".
It so happened that it was nearing CNY and it would be nice to give them a little gift instead of the boring angpows with the 'golden chocolate coin'. Together with Carmen, we hit Daiso and did some remarkable damage to the stationary section and the total bill came up to $80 exactly. Not too bad considering it is just $2 per student! A reasonable amount to put in an angpow. What went into each pkt:
1) A highlighter (the kind where is dual-side)
2) Eraser in the shape of a milk carton (my favourite!!!)
3) Origami paper as memo pad or itself
4) Paper clips
5) Key chain (in the shape of animals)
We sat at The Society Cafe @ PS and laid out the goodies on the table, drawing curious looks from passers-by. We took just 35mins to pack everything into a pretty looking goodie package for my kiddos and there was this immense sense of satisfaction just by looking at them.
I gave myself a little pat for the good job done.
The kids love it and I was glad it marked a good start for them for the rest of that week.
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