term 2 week 10 day 5

and this marks the end of the last school day in semester 1 (in the singaporean K-10 schooling calendar). most, if not all, schools are having teachers meeting parents (under names like parent-teacher-conference, meet-parents-session) either f2f, online, or hybrid.

and something in my shirt pocket that had accompanied me for the past 144 days (100 days if we exclude sat, sun, & public holidays) reminded me of the end of the time passed during daily teaching/lessons:

even week seen here in an odd-even-10-day timetable

and while looking at it, i countdown to 10 days to a new timetable greeting me 🖖🏼

also to capture this day are two excerpts from M. Housel’s book The Psychology of Money, on happiness:

joy = control in life
having a strong sense of controlling one’s life beats anything else in life

and hopefully my new timetable will afford me the sense of control in life 🖖🏼