'Hello... have you seen my voice?'
sigh.. i m losing my voice .. dun know why.. i tink i caught a flu bug, since i m like having blocked nose and the sorts.. but somehow it does not feel like a flu..
anywayzzzzz... ytd gave the class 3/2 their mock CA1 english paper.. and got ppl do so badly loh.. sighz.. the whole night i was like feeling so F-ed.. haha.. so today when i came to school, i was like asking around and the teachers were like saying 'dun worry... its a hard paper... ' i was so happy when i heard that loh.. lolz.. at least that means they got hope in doing well for their eng paper..
btw did i mention before.. zul is very very ridiculous!!!!!
=)
ok.. anyway since i m like losing my voice, later for classes i will b giving them another CA1 english paper to do.. give my voice a rest...
thnx to all the ppl whu gave all the different medicine and all that.. haha.. so nice of them..
funny thing was i did not think of taking mc yet.. sheesh.. i guess i really view the kids as being quite important.. afterall to be frank if the kids do well.. i will look good too..
next week is the reckoning week liao... hoping for the best..
lolz.. 100% band 1!!
=)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
deep in the cold office of the school
hehe.. finally after a very long time, like 2 months, i got my lap top loan from the school. now at least i can do some IT work during my free time or at least log onto to MSN when i m free.
lolz
so now i m blogging ... in the office.. within 6 more mins i will have to go up to teach. will be giving the kids a CA1 english paper to do, and tmr need to return to them to go through. sigh so rushed. so go home tonite got to do alot of marking... haha
i do hope the class will do well in the CA1
anyway i m very worried abt my class. they r 3/2 .. second best class, and according to the other teachers they r suppose to get band 1 .. all of them.. omg lah.. how can all of them get band 1? i seriously dun know. of course the thing i asked myself is whether am i doing a good job. i personally think they wun b able to get 100% band 1 as a class... but all should b getting band 1 and 2 ... but then.. sigh.. dun know if i m aiming too low...
either way.. i do hope no one fails
anyway the other bigger worry is the english CA1, i know my class is good in maths.. but for english.. well i dun know lah... haha english is always hard to gauge.
argh!...
oh well.. bell just ring.. got to go....
lolz
so now i m blogging ... in the office.. within 6 more mins i will have to go up to teach. will be giving the kids a CA1 english paper to do, and tmr need to return to them to go through. sigh so rushed. so go home tonite got to do alot of marking... haha
i do hope the class will do well in the CA1
anyway i m very worried abt my class. they r 3/2 .. second best class, and according to the other teachers they r suppose to get band 1 .. all of them.. omg lah.. how can all of them get band 1? i seriously dun know. of course the thing i asked myself is whether am i doing a good job. i personally think they wun b able to get 100% band 1 as a class... but all should b getting band 1 and 2 ... but then.. sigh.. dun know if i m aiming too low...
either way.. i do hope no one fails
anyway the other bigger worry is the english CA1, i know my class is good in maths.. but for english.. well i dun know lah... haha english is always hard to gauge.
argh!...
oh well.. bell just ring.. got to go....
Monday, February 23, 2009
The silver lining...
Its Monday.. haha gosh.. the start of the wk again
This is also week 8.. the week b4 week 9... and wads so special about week9? Week 9 is the CA1 week.. so week8 is like some spamming of revision and last minute squeezing in of knowledge..
afterall.. knowledge is power
anyway.. so rush rush.. got to give them mock test papers... then need to go thru somemore.. wah lau .. seriously.. haha
and i m personally quite worried for the kids... i m of course scared tat they will not do well and tat would equate to me actually not teaching well enough. sigh!
oh on the other hand, today i watched another soccer match.. very nice and thrilling sia. ok a little fyi, DZPS lost a critical game so now we are just playing for 5th or 6th position. yes 5th position has no medals but like what the coach say must lose with pride... so although we r fighting for 5th position also must put in our best.
so anyway DZPS was going against Princess Elizabeth Pri. and both sch r obviously dying to win. we scored the first goal and then thru a penalty kick Princess scored their first goal... now by then there was only like a few minutes left. so basically all the DZ teachers, including myself, were like shouting like dogs... telling the boys to do or die trying...
and suddenly it was like a surge of energy went thru out boys.
like bloodlust like that...
and they were trying for every single ball, challenging the opponent. It was desperate i tell you, because even if we drawed wit Princess, we would hav lost coz of the pt system. so anyway it was thrilling.. haha
and ...
and......
at like the last minute or so...
DZPS actually scored ... lolz..
so in the end we won..
haha i cant imagine i would get excited over a soccer game.. but yar seeing the boys play.. i m quite happy.
pity they did not play that well in the previous games.. thats the only regret...
This is also week 8.. the week b4 week 9... and wads so special about week9? Week 9 is the CA1 week.. so week8 is like some spamming of revision and last minute squeezing in of knowledge..
afterall.. knowledge is power
anyway.. so rush rush.. got to give them mock test papers... then need to go thru somemore.. wah lau .. seriously.. haha
and i m personally quite worried for the kids... i m of course scared tat they will not do well and tat would equate to me actually not teaching well enough. sigh!
oh on the other hand, today i watched another soccer match.. very nice and thrilling sia. ok a little fyi, DZPS lost a critical game so now we are just playing for 5th or 6th position. yes 5th position has no medals but like what the coach say must lose with pride... so although we r fighting for 5th position also must put in our best.
so anyway DZPS was going against Princess Elizabeth Pri. and both sch r obviously dying to win. we scored the first goal and then thru a penalty kick Princess scored their first goal... now by then there was only like a few minutes left. so basically all the DZ teachers, including myself, were like shouting like dogs... telling the boys to do or die trying...
and suddenly it was like a surge of energy went thru out boys.
like bloodlust like that...
and they were trying for every single ball, challenging the opponent. It was desperate i tell you, because even if we drawed wit Princess, we would hav lost coz of the pt system. so anyway it was thrilling.. haha
and ...
and......
at like the last minute or so...
DZPS actually scored ... lolz..
so in the end we won..
haha i cant imagine i would get excited over a soccer game.. but yar seeing the boys play.. i m quite happy.
pity they did not play that well in the previous games.. thats the only regret...
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Wad wad wad WAD?@!
Wad an interesting week i must say.. haha
first of all.. finally the class 3/2 is getting it tgt, personally i feel happy wit myself.. i have managed to merge the both classes in terms of lessons in a short of period of 1 wk.. thnk the heavens.
i was getting worried coz CA1 is coming up.. and it is very important i get both classes on the same track. anyway so yar, also i managed to control the class too.. and that always makes me feel happy.. haha..
now i always have a wave of helpers coming to help me carry things.. quite cute i must say.
anywayz.. last friday was Scout's founder day... and although i am no longer a venture scout.. i am a scout teacher in charge.. so the rest of the scouting teachers were telling me it wld b quite cool to wear my uniform. at first i din wanna wear, since the pants is huge.. but in the end i was like wth lah.. and i wore it lolz..
naturally comments flew.. most of them good =)
it was an interesting feeling seeing the scouts doing the scout pledge.. reminds me of how sji scouts used to do it too... like i said to kl its interesting to b on the 'other' side now..
so friday came n gone.. many irritating things happened .. i shant say more.. suffice to say it has nothing to do with the kids.. but the others .. sigh
oh.. on friday also the senior soccer team of DZ lost to Fu Hua Pri.. we were errr trashed i tink.. personally i feel our attacking was fine.. since there were times when we actually breached their defenses only to b stopped by the goalkeeper whose artillery kicks were rather deadly..
sadly our own goalkeeper.. was well not so gd lah.. and of course when our defenses were overwhelmed.. well lets just say he din manage to catch the ball.. so well bottom line we lost. and gosh! the boys were crying.. felt quite sad for them too.. although i m not their soccer teacher but i know how it feels to lose.. lolz.. horrible feeling..
but kids being kids.. within a few minutes they were playing with each other in the field.. hmmm.. haha
so friday went.. and saturday came.. and i went to Unity Pri for some Scouts Founder's day games day .. we decided to take shifts.. so i got the last one.. 2pm to 5pm.. at first i tot it wld b weird.. but it turned out to b quite fun.. the teachers there were funny and sociable.. and they were very interested in me when i told them i used to b a venture scout from sji.. haha..
and yes some of the scouters knew the ppl from sji too.. haha
after chatting for a while wit the teachers.. i went to find the DZ team.. lolz.. those kids are very gd and nice.. haha .. they know how to behave well, unlike other schools who were so naughty.. lolz!
followed them thru some of the games.. taught them a few tricks.. haha..
in the end.. Dazhong team got 3rd out of like 8 schools.. and dun forget some schools sent more than 1 team ar.. also also i must say this ar..
DZ team only got 5 ppl.... yet they managed to defeat teams of 8 and more.. and of better schools.. truly shows there r underdogs around.. lol..
i dun know why... but i feel proud of them all.. lolz
the bus ride back was interesting too.. since the kids were like talking so much.. haha.. they r really nice .. i was like 'selling' sji to one of the p6 kid.. gosh cant believe i was doing that.. haha
anyway.. some of the kids were even nice enough to walk me to the bus stop when we reached DZ.. now that really touched my heart
haha!
*smiles
first of all.. finally the class 3/2 is getting it tgt, personally i feel happy wit myself.. i have managed to merge the both classes in terms of lessons in a short of period of 1 wk.. thnk the heavens.
i was getting worried coz CA1 is coming up.. and it is very important i get both classes on the same track. anyway so yar, also i managed to control the class too.. and that always makes me feel happy.. haha..
now i always have a wave of helpers coming to help me carry things.. quite cute i must say.
anywayz.. last friday was Scout's founder day... and although i am no longer a venture scout.. i am a scout teacher in charge.. so the rest of the scouting teachers were telling me it wld b quite cool to wear my uniform. at first i din wanna wear, since the pants is huge.. but in the end i was like wth lah.. and i wore it lolz..
naturally comments flew.. most of them good =)
it was an interesting feeling seeing the scouts doing the scout pledge.. reminds me of how sji scouts used to do it too... like i said to kl its interesting to b on the 'other' side now..
so friday came n gone.. many irritating things happened .. i shant say more.. suffice to say it has nothing to do with the kids.. but the others .. sigh
oh.. on friday also the senior soccer team of DZ lost to Fu Hua Pri.. we were errr trashed i tink.. personally i feel our attacking was fine.. since there were times when we actually breached their defenses only to b stopped by the goalkeeper whose artillery kicks were rather deadly..
sadly our own goalkeeper.. was well not so gd lah.. and of course when our defenses were overwhelmed.. well lets just say he din manage to catch the ball.. so well bottom line we lost. and gosh! the boys were crying.. felt quite sad for them too.. although i m not their soccer teacher but i know how it feels to lose.. lolz.. horrible feeling..
but kids being kids.. within a few minutes they were playing with each other in the field.. hmmm.. haha
so friday went.. and saturday came.. and i went to Unity Pri for some Scouts Founder's day games day .. we decided to take shifts.. so i got the last one.. 2pm to 5pm.. at first i tot it wld b weird.. but it turned out to b quite fun.. the teachers there were funny and sociable.. and they were very interested in me when i told them i used to b a venture scout from sji.. haha..
and yes some of the scouters knew the ppl from sji too.. haha
after chatting for a while wit the teachers.. i went to find the DZ team.. lolz.. those kids are very gd and nice.. haha .. they know how to behave well, unlike other schools who were so naughty.. lolz!
followed them thru some of the games.. taught them a few tricks.. haha..
in the end.. Dazhong team got 3rd out of like 8 schools.. and dun forget some schools sent more than 1 team ar.. also also i must say this ar..
DZ team only got 5 ppl.... yet they managed to defeat teams of 8 and more.. and of better schools.. truly shows there r underdogs around.. lol..
i dun know why... but i feel proud of them all.. lolz
the bus ride back was interesting too.. since the kids were like talking so much.. haha.. they r really nice .. i was like 'selling' sji to one of the p6 kid.. gosh cant believe i was doing that.. haha
anyway.. some of the kids were even nice enough to walk me to the bus stop when we reached DZ.. now that really touched my heart
haha!
*smiles
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Another Contact Time meeting
heyo!
i m once again attending the contact time meeting for all teachers.. yes wit shamini.. she likes to see her name on this blog =P ..
zul as usual has managed to escape again, coz of soccer matches. quite irritating ;)
anyway... i was thinking just now why is teacher's meeting called contact time.. hmmm u see when u r bored, the mind thinks alot.. ok random.. *yawns mentally
the person talking now is rather boring... of course i cant say much or else will get into trouble heheh.
suffice to say.. ppl r either marking hws... or just staring into thin air =)
oh oh.. the principal and vice principal is not in the meeting, so everyone is hoping they can leave eariler. haha!
i m currently eating sour grapes to stay awake.. haha..
gosh! the person drawing so horrible... oh yar its some comic lesson..zzzz
ok lah... stop blogging for now.. sham is fallin asleep liao.. ha!
zul i hate u! =)
i m once again attending the contact time meeting for all teachers.. yes wit shamini.. she likes to see her name on this blog =P ..
zul as usual has managed to escape again, coz of soccer matches. quite irritating ;)
anyway... i was thinking just now why is teacher's meeting called contact time.. hmmm u see when u r bored, the mind thinks alot.. ok random.. *yawns mentally
the person talking now is rather boring... of course i cant say much or else will get into trouble heheh.
suffice to say.. ppl r either marking hws... or just staring into thin air =)
oh oh.. the principal and vice principal is not in the meeting, so everyone is hoping they can leave eariler. haha!
i m currently eating sour grapes to stay awake.. haha..
gosh! the person drawing so horrible... oh yar its some comic lesson..zzzz
ok lah... stop blogging for now.. sham is fallin asleep liao.. ha!
zul i hate u! =)
Monday, February 16, 2009
Aiyahhhhhh
today was the day of many changes in DZ.. haha
well first up i m now taking over the whole of 3/2. yup sham has gone over to a primary 1 class and she is quite wrathful about it.
i m also feeling quite screwed since suddenly i hav 29 little devils instead of 14. haha and the irritating thing is since the 2 halves of the class were being taught different things, now i have to waste precious time 'merging' the 2 halves of the class. Not to mention winning the hearts of the other half of the unknown 3/2.
Sigh!
and as usual, lessons plans are being thrown out of the window again. i dun know, it can get quite irritating u know, prepare finish everything and now all have to change, but i guess as teachers we must be flexible. i shall take this as an learning exp.
on another note, i m worried i m unable to finish the eng syllabus by CA1, so with this class merger, i really dun know how i am going to do it. seriously got to 'merge' the class and then quickly get on wit lessons.
gogogogogo!
sometimes i just wish the school gives us a bit more preparation time. haha
anyway.... one more thing... for 5 weeks now, i m going to be temporarily loaned to the school band (omg!) .. coz apparently band needs teachers while scouts dun need.. so for 5 weeks i m going over to band.. sheesh man!
even CCA also dun let go =(
i rmbered our TPP lecturer once said "other ppl's job is 8-5, they go off work and that's it. your job is 8-1, but when you go off work, you got tons of work to do.. marking.. setting paper.. CCA... your job never ends."
and of course that comes the most famous advice to all new teachers "dun give out your handphone number to your students!"
AIYAH!!!!
well first up i m now taking over the whole of 3/2. yup sham has gone over to a primary 1 class and she is quite wrathful about it.
i m also feeling quite screwed since suddenly i hav 29 little devils instead of 14. haha and the irritating thing is since the 2 halves of the class were being taught different things, now i have to waste precious time 'merging' the 2 halves of the class. Not to mention winning the hearts of the other half of the unknown 3/2.
Sigh!
and as usual, lessons plans are being thrown out of the window again. i dun know, it can get quite irritating u know, prepare finish everything and now all have to change, but i guess as teachers we must be flexible. i shall take this as an learning exp.
on another note, i m worried i m unable to finish the eng syllabus by CA1, so with this class merger, i really dun know how i am going to do it. seriously got to 'merge' the class and then quickly get on wit lessons.
gogogogogo!
sometimes i just wish the school gives us a bit more preparation time. haha
anyway.... one more thing... for 5 weeks now, i m going to be temporarily loaned to the school band (omg!) .. coz apparently band needs teachers while scouts dun need.. so for 5 weeks i m going over to band.. sheesh man!
even CCA also dun let go =(
i rmbered our TPP lecturer once said "other ppl's job is 8-5, they go off work and that's it. your job is 8-1, but when you go off work, you got tons of work to do.. marking.. setting paper.. CCA... your job never ends."
and of course that comes the most famous advice to all new teachers "dun give out your handphone number to your students!"
AIYAH!!!!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Of many small dragon dumplings...
yesterday evening went to holland village to eat this steamboat buffet with unlimited flow of xiao long bao with the army guys..
haha..
it was only like 24bucks.. and u get to eat as many small dragon dumplings as u want.. lolz. of course after a while, the dumplings can get quite grossed esp after sitting at one corner for quite sometime. lolz.
apparently if u let the dumplings sit too long in their basket.. their soup inside the dumpling will dry up.. and of course then it would not be that nice. However, although it was a buffet and we expected the dumplings to be of a lower standard, the shocking thing was that the dumplings actually tasted as gd as any other 'paid' dumplings.. lolz.. looks like crystal jade really upholds its name.
even more shocking is they will change your dirty plates for new ones, without even you having to ask them. now thats service.. haha.. oh oh and the refill of drinks is also very frequent, they have ppl walking around with jars of drinks, sometimes you dun even need to call them and they will come to you.
good service...
so for a lower 20plus buffet.. it is not bad.. oh the steamboat is also quite decent lah.. no seafood naturally, but theres a 100g of fresh prawns for each person.. which is about 3 prawns per person. And the prawns are really fresh loh.. haha.. big n succulent too.. haha
good food, good topics to talk about, good prices and good company....
now thats are truly nice outing..
the topics talked about were quite funny lah.. with junior telling us about 36SCE.. and seniors saying all about their lives.. working in the admin side.. teaching in school.. giving tuition.. and the sorts..
thank god got no whining ;)
oh btw if your really wanna go for this crystal jade buffet.. its better to book first because the amount of people there is like omg-ish.. it starts at 830pm and ends at 1am.. haha..
be warned though... booked already still need to wait for like 20mins.. coz well.. its that popular. =)
haha..
it was only like 24bucks.. and u get to eat as many small dragon dumplings as u want.. lolz. of course after a while, the dumplings can get quite grossed esp after sitting at one corner for quite sometime. lolz.
apparently if u let the dumplings sit too long in their basket.. their soup inside the dumpling will dry up.. and of course then it would not be that nice. However, although it was a buffet and we expected the dumplings to be of a lower standard, the shocking thing was that the dumplings actually tasted as gd as any other 'paid' dumplings.. lolz.. looks like crystal jade really upholds its name.
even more shocking is they will change your dirty plates for new ones, without even you having to ask them. now thats service.. haha.. oh oh and the refill of drinks is also very frequent, they have ppl walking around with jars of drinks, sometimes you dun even need to call them and they will come to you.
good service...
so for a lower 20plus buffet.. it is not bad.. oh the steamboat is also quite decent lah.. no seafood naturally, but theres a 100g of fresh prawns for each person.. which is about 3 prawns per person. And the prawns are really fresh loh.. haha.. big n succulent too.. haha
good food, good topics to talk about, good prices and good company....
now thats are truly nice outing..
the topics talked about were quite funny lah.. with junior telling us about 36SCE.. and seniors saying all about their lives.. working in the admin side.. teaching in school.. giving tuition.. and the sorts..
thank god got no whining ;)
oh btw if your really wanna go for this crystal jade buffet.. its better to book first because the amount of people there is like omg-ish.. it starts at 830pm and ends at 1am.. haha..
be warned though... booked already still need to wait for like 20mins.. coz well.. its that popular. =)
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The 'Adventure' Camp
ok world.. haa i m back.. lolz
from monday to wednesday, dazhong pri was having a P4-5 Camp ar the MOE Diary Farm Adventure Camp, which is of course at Diary Farm that area.
in fact its like opps one of the entrance of Diary Farm. anyway, as much as i wanted to go for the camp, i could not stay for the whole 3 days. reason being that i m not a pri4 or 5 form teacher, i m a p3 form teacher so naturally i got to look after my class and cant go for the whole thing loh.
which got me quite depressed because i really want to go out n see the sun again.. haha
but thank the higher-ups.. on the contact time meeting in the week before the camp itself. Ms Gwi informed me that i would be going on tuesday, one whole day, doing dragon boating. lolz.
quite cool ar..
of course the thought came to mind how the hell are primary school kids going to row a dragon boat, afterall when i was in cjc and we had dragon boating... things din go tat well.. lolz.. but nonetheless i was excited to go and come on lah.. can get away from school.. of course happy lah =P
the trade off so to speak was that on monday n wednesday i have to take the classes of other teachers whu r going for courses or for the camp itself. therefore i had to give up my form class back to sham.. which is quite omg-ish.. coz i actually planned alot of things for them to do.. interesting things too..
but as what mrs mine said "welcome to the real world, it happens..."
so chaos reigned on monday, since the admin side also told me abt the taking over of classes in the morning of monday!!!!!.. so rush here n rush there.. printing worksheets for my class so tat they wun rot during sham's relief sessions lolz.. and also rushing to the different relief classes..
oh oh.. and i finally took a p6 class.. HORRIBLE sia.. lolz.. quite the weird kids, damm rude. so i had to shout at them, bring down their ego but saying that my p3 class can behave better than them (which is quite true).. and put on a very very strict face. of course the loud voice helped... see short ppl like me always gets underestimated.
well feel my wrath... =)
lolz anyway i went out of pt.. so yar come tuesday i went straight to Diary Farm Adventure Camp, reaching there at like 815am.. felt good because can wake up abit later.. lolz.. met zul who kindly brought me into the camp. Now the DB was at Kallang so we had to wait for the chartered buses to come first. while waiting i explored the campsite wit zul loh..
as usual zul was soaking up his fan club's energies.. lolz. while i was just walking around. generally the camp is very small, compared to saribum scout camp or even OBS camp.. lolz just a few clusters of building and thats it. The bunks of the camp staff, including teachers, are so-so.. something akin to SAF bunks... but theres an air-con room wit tv n the sorts which was quite nice.. haha..
so after exploring.. we had our share of bitching wit the teachers.. and they r 10years older than us.. lolz!.. quite fun really.. quite enlightening too.. for obvious reasons i cant say what we gossiped abt lah .. ;)
now.. off we went to Kallang to the Singapore Dragon Boating Association.. where we dragon boated.. haha.. it has been quite sometime since i had the sun in my face.. and felt tat sore feeling in my arms n shoulders so it was gd!
lolz.. most of the kids were good sports, splashing water when 'enemy' dragon boats passed by.. and rowing with gusto when racing.. of course there were some really really whiny kids, who sometimes remind of some ppl =P. these kids really whine like dun know wad.. haha. water splashed into their eyes.. they wil cry n cry... row abit then say tired.. say tired nvm leh.. the worst thing is they left their paddle in the water, slowing ppl down.. omg lah!
baby sia... and they r p5 ar.. so its quite bad...
i still stand by the thought that parents nowadays do pamper their kids abit too much...
oh wellz..
overall.. i had a fun workout.. though felt quite depressed after going to DB, coz the dragon boaters there do look very very big.. lolz.. tall also lah.. so hmmm.. cant really see myself there.. =(
anyway.. there was a comment made by one of the dragon boaters there.. male dragon boater btw..
dragon boater: Oh my.. they are so cute (referring to DZ kids).. so small.. so cute
when we heard that.. this was our respond
Us: wait till you teach them... *smiles
haha..
anyway i went away from DB wit a slight tan so i m a happy man.. lolz..
oh later in the night was a campfire.. but theres not much to talk abt it.. except that it went quite horribly.. was boring.. and basically the kids were sleeping alrdy.. and those parents.. haha its like controlling a mob..
they are so determined to see their kids.. a human barricade also cant stop them.. for reasons unknown, we, the new teachers, were the barricade.. n we had to explain to the parents why they cant see their kids yet.. thnk goodness no parents forced their way and were unreasonable..one did comment i was very young.. dun know whether to beam or sulk.. haha
********
anyway throughout my short stay in the camp.. i had experiences of kids crying and begging for home.. this caused me to think and rmber if i was like that in p5.. memories seem to serve me that i went for camps in p5 n 6.. and yes i did miss home.. and yes i cried in my sleep once or twice.. but nvr had i cried to a leader or teacher and begged them to let me go home.. hmmm
neither did mummy dearest encourage me to go home...
are kids this days really that pampered.. hmm i wonder...
from monday to wednesday, dazhong pri was having a P4-5 Camp ar the MOE Diary Farm Adventure Camp, which is of course at Diary Farm that area.
in fact its like opps one of the entrance of Diary Farm. anyway, as much as i wanted to go for the camp, i could not stay for the whole 3 days. reason being that i m not a pri4 or 5 form teacher, i m a p3 form teacher so naturally i got to look after my class and cant go for the whole thing loh.
which got me quite depressed because i really want to go out n see the sun again.. haha
but thank the higher-ups.. on the contact time meeting in the week before the camp itself. Ms Gwi informed me that i would be going on tuesday, one whole day, doing dragon boating. lolz.
quite cool ar..
of course the thought came to mind how the hell are primary school kids going to row a dragon boat, afterall when i was in cjc and we had dragon boating... things din go tat well.. lolz.. but nonetheless i was excited to go and come on lah.. can get away from school.. of course happy lah =P
the trade off so to speak was that on monday n wednesday i have to take the classes of other teachers whu r going for courses or for the camp itself. therefore i had to give up my form class back to sham.. which is quite omg-ish.. coz i actually planned alot of things for them to do.. interesting things too..
but as what mrs mine said "welcome to the real world, it happens..."
so chaos reigned on monday, since the admin side also told me abt the taking over of classes in the morning of monday!!!!!.. so rush here n rush there.. printing worksheets for my class so tat they wun rot during sham's relief sessions lolz.. and also rushing to the different relief classes..
oh oh.. and i finally took a p6 class.. HORRIBLE sia.. lolz.. quite the weird kids, damm rude. so i had to shout at them, bring down their ego but saying that my p3 class can behave better than them (which is quite true).. and put on a very very strict face. of course the loud voice helped... see short ppl like me always gets underestimated.
well feel my wrath... =)
lolz anyway i went out of pt.. so yar come tuesday i went straight to Diary Farm Adventure Camp, reaching there at like 815am.. felt good because can wake up abit later.. lolz.. met zul who kindly brought me into the camp. Now the DB was at Kallang so we had to wait for the chartered buses to come first. while waiting i explored the campsite wit zul loh..
as usual zul was soaking up his fan club's energies.. lolz. while i was just walking around. generally the camp is very small, compared to saribum scout camp or even OBS camp.. lolz just a few clusters of building and thats it. The bunks of the camp staff, including teachers, are so-so.. something akin to SAF bunks... but theres an air-con room wit tv n the sorts which was quite nice.. haha..
so after exploring.. we had our share of bitching wit the teachers.. and they r 10years older than us.. lolz!.. quite fun really.. quite enlightening too.. for obvious reasons i cant say what we gossiped abt lah .. ;)
now.. off we went to Kallang to the Singapore Dragon Boating Association.. where we dragon boated.. haha.. it has been quite sometime since i had the sun in my face.. and felt tat sore feeling in my arms n shoulders so it was gd!
lolz.. most of the kids were good sports, splashing water when 'enemy' dragon boats passed by.. and rowing with gusto when racing.. of course there were some really really whiny kids, who sometimes remind of some ppl =P. these kids really whine like dun know wad.. haha. water splashed into their eyes.. they wil cry n cry... row abit then say tired.. say tired nvm leh.. the worst thing is they left their paddle in the water, slowing ppl down.. omg lah!
baby sia... and they r p5 ar.. so its quite bad...
i still stand by the thought that parents nowadays do pamper their kids abit too much...
oh wellz..
overall.. i had a fun workout.. though felt quite depressed after going to DB, coz the dragon boaters there do look very very big.. lolz.. tall also lah.. so hmmm.. cant really see myself there.. =(
anyway.. there was a comment made by one of the dragon boaters there.. male dragon boater btw..
dragon boater: Oh my.. they are so cute (referring to DZ kids).. so small.. so cute
when we heard that.. this was our respond
Us: wait till you teach them... *smiles
haha..
anyway i went away from DB wit a slight tan so i m a happy man.. lolz..
oh later in the night was a campfire.. but theres not much to talk abt it.. except that it went quite horribly.. was boring.. and basically the kids were sleeping alrdy.. and those parents.. haha its like controlling a mob..
they are so determined to see their kids.. a human barricade also cant stop them.. for reasons unknown, we, the new teachers, were the barricade.. n we had to explain to the parents why they cant see their kids yet.. thnk goodness no parents forced their way and were unreasonable..one did comment i was very young.. dun know whether to beam or sulk.. haha
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anyway throughout my short stay in the camp.. i had experiences of kids crying and begging for home.. this caused me to think and rmber if i was like that in p5.. memories seem to serve me that i went for camps in p5 n 6.. and yes i did miss home.. and yes i cried in my sleep once or twice.. but nvr had i cried to a leader or teacher and begged them to let me go home.. hmmm
neither did mummy dearest encourage me to go home...
are kids this days really that pampered.. hmm i wonder...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
hello from the meeting..
hehe.. i am now blogging from the contact meeting rm..
its quite boring to b frank.. haha the principal is talking and he is not making much sense. =.=
anyway, today is dazhong's senior soccer's team 2nd match and it is currently going on at our DZ field.. lolz.. yup all the teachers r in meeting n our sch's team is playing.. sigh tot it was quite ridiculous.
oh wellz..
hopefully the school will win..
haha and oh btw.. the principal is still talking n talking n talking...
oh oh.. the news just came in... DZ soccer team scored 2 goals liao... haha the opponent sch which is Nayang pri din score a single goal yet.. =)
n the principal is still talking..... and there is still one more presentation to sit thru..
sheesh!
ok better stop typing.. haha ppl looking at me liao,,, and sham is being rude,, she keep staring at me.. =P
she just called me 'stupid' =(
HA!
its quite boring to b frank.. haha the principal is talking and he is not making much sense. =.=
anyway, today is dazhong's senior soccer's team 2nd match and it is currently going on at our DZ field.. lolz.. yup all the teachers r in meeting n our sch's team is playing.. sigh tot it was quite ridiculous.
oh wellz..
hopefully the school will win..
haha and oh btw.. the principal is still talking n talking n talking...
oh oh.. the news just came in... DZ soccer team scored 2 goals liao... haha the opponent sch which is Nayang pri din score a single goal yet.. =)
n the principal is still talking..... and there is still one more presentation to sit thru..
sheesh!
ok better stop typing.. haha ppl looking at me liao,,, and sham is being rude,, she keep staring at me.. =P
she just called me 'stupid' =(
HA!
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