hmmmm

the hot sun...

a long road.....

2 heavy legs.....



and


the aches after.....
but with a sense of achievement...


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left sat n sun before sch reopens.. haha.. much work to b done now..
now is the time... push on!

The Water Expedition

Last saturday which was the 14th of march, the teachers of Dazhong pri sch (well some of us) went on a kayaking trip..

haha.. how cool is that? a bunch of teachers going for a kayaking trip.. now now.. i know many of your r like thinking teachers r saggish ppl who just mark n mark... but no loh.. the grp of us that went to pasir ris park to kayak were of many many different age grp.. there were the under 25s(me).. the above 25 but not yet 30... the 30plus... and the 'dun wan to say age' grp.. haha

also majority of the teachers there were female.. hmm wonder why.. anyway.. to b frank, i was surprised at how active the teachers, i was expecting to see all young teachers joining but turned out not all of them were young.. really really admire those older teachers whu went for the kayaking..

i hope when i m at that age.. i will b just as active.. lolz

anyway the day started at like 9plus.. drove daddy's car to bukit gombak to park it at his car.. then waited for Emm and Shen Chin to arrive in their car to fetch me.. we concluded that its a waste of fuel to have 2 cars going to the same place.. so car arrived n Emm with her gps system. took us wo event to the pasir ris park.. lolz

by the time we reached paris ris park was like 930am liao.. meeting time is 10am. but of course ppl were late n wad not loh.. so shen chin was like humouring us wit his very lame jokes.. i tink its a malaysian thing.. lolz.. haha

dun b angry kl...

so when everyone was there liao..both old, young n unknowns.. it was like 1020am.. lolz.. we were late liao loh.. but whu cares. haha

went to meet up wit the Paddle Culture person.. put down our names n wad not.. ppl commenting that 'wah.. why got so young ppl one? 88 year one' haha yar it is weird to b the youngest there... so better fade into the oblivion..

so then was this very irritating briefing.. where ppl wun even listening to the guy.. basically he just went on n on.. gosh!... n he was saying all the ridiculous things loh.. completely no link one.. and we were like bitching abt him discreetly in one corner.. hehe

finally it was kayaking time.. hehe i got a single kayak.. happy happy.. now gwi was like saying why i so anti social loh.. but i m really dun like doubles loh.. haha all my doubles exp hav been very very horrible .. rmber phuket trip... haha.. anyway single more fun.. more control.. haha

so paddle paddle.. while paddling ppl r like bitching.. shouting.. talking.. shen chin n Emm were like super slow.. haha.. Jeslyn(god ma) was crying to rest.. but still trying... haha.. gwi n her partner sook peng were like the fastest pair.. n mr yan(the other single kayak) was like paddling abit, then sagging, then paddling.. haha.. i tried it later n found out.. yar actually wo paddling the kayak will also move due to the helping current..

the paddling was fun.. for everyone.. haha.. quite an exp too.. the river in pulau ubin was a killer.. since the current though helping us was abit strong.. so ppl cld not make change course fast enough.. haha we had ppl flying into fishing boats.. or ppl fighting with the mangrove trees.. haha.. gwi n sook peng actually capsized.. lolz.. coz both of them leaned to the same side to dodge a tree.. n thus they capszied.. haha..

funny...

on the return trip.. the seas became rather choppy.. coz we cld see it was going to rain liao.. haha.. quite fun.. very exciting.. coz the waves were like lifting my kayak up.. haha.. and i tink becoz of the choppy water.. our formation of kayak was like spreading like dun know wad like that.. until everyone was like super far apart.. and the guides din do anything.. tsk tsk

we stopped at a Kelong at the half way mark.. thats when i realised i m stil super sucked at balancing loh.. haha had difficulty balancing on the kayaking to go up the kelong.. had super scare when walking on very narrow planks of kelong.. again had difficulty going into the kayak from the kelong.. haha

my legs were seriously vibrating ar.. gosh!

thankfully all of us reached shore b4 the heavy rain came.. haha lucky lucky...
aha funnny thing happened when bathing. apparently shen chin n I took so long to bathe, all the gals were rdy liao. lolz.. kena bitched by them.. but oh well wad to do 'got image to maintain mah...'

haha

dinner at IMM was fun.. gwi was on high.. taking photos.. very very random photos..
nvr knew i wld hav so much fun with teachers.. lolz

after the whole thing i still had to go home to drive the car to fetch my dad at rochor place.. gosh where i got lost n had to do parellel parking.. sheesh..

that story i wun write here.. it boils my blood.. haha

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oh wellz.. i must say here though... becoz of the kayaking thing. i din go for my class outing.. n i m probably been pmsed at this moment.. sry to all .. =)

hmm i make it up to u k.. i so so promise i will got for audrea's dance concert...
ps dun b angry =)
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for the rest.. do look out at fb.. haha
hopefully the kayaking n IMM photos will b out soon.. lolz

The meeting of my life

last friday was a most wonderful time for teachers of dazhong pri...


ha!


it was the parents teachers meeting.. or called Parents' Night.. lolz

anyway its like a start of the year briefing for the parents... not really a real parent teacher meeting.. but come on lah, the parents did not come all the way to sch just to hear u give them a briefing...


they wan to talk to u one on one.. grilled u until u become extremely crispy.. haha


thank the heavens.. my parents were quite nice.. then again my students r not really the problematic ones.. there r naughty ones, irritating ones.. but no attitude problems one.. which is good.. phew..


anyway.. some parents do make some quite big demands.. haha but then again i guess being a parent that wad u do.. afterall i understand their worries for their kids..


which parents do not want their kids to do well.. haha..


the meeting went well generally.. thing was the parents do hav alot of qns.. lolz.. n so the meeting was dragged for quite long time... haha felt so sry for some of the parents whu had to wait so long.. nonetheless none of them pmsed me which is thnk you thnk you!


and so far i got no parents insulting me... phew!..


most actually said i looked very young... i do hope they reserved their judgement for a while.. haha..

the next big worry now is mid year exams.. afterall the mid year exam or SA1 is recorded in record books.. so gosh... and if my kids do not improve i will die... the parents will rain fire on me... they definitely F-ed me like nobody's business.. so of course i m quite worried...

since my kids can sometimes b so so arrogant... haha..
i do hope when the SA1 comes... their grades better improve.. haha.. if not seriously ar.. gosh josh!

but oh wellz.. no pt in worrying for something thats happening in 3 mths times.. i shall concentrate on the task at hand.. which is to teach the kids the new topics for the 2nd term...

so wish me luck.. hehe

oh gosh....

totally. seriously. bad luck.

haha thats i will describe ytd meeting wit cw.. so many things not working loh.. damm irritating ..

seriously f.y.i the roads in orhard... in the city is a mad rush... a very screwed up F-fest!

thank god i survived... quite scary actually coz i was feeling damm tired n was like losing focus.. lolz

and the next most irritating thing is my home pc is suddenly acting up... i tink it going to die soon.. sigh.. knowing mummy, she wld probably get me to pay some.. sigh.. i just hope its not all... and i really wanna get someone to extract the files stuck in the old com out... coz there r so many impt files in the old pc.. photos.. letters.. things..

argh!

oh well.. in abt less than 3 hours theres going to b the Parent Teacher Meeting.. gosh..
and all the teachers r like sharing their horror stories .. OH NO!

but but on the bright side.. i am going for kayaking wit the teachers of dazhong!.. LOLZ..
can u imagine that? teachers going kayaking?!?!?!?!

haha... well it will either be extremely fun or quite awkward.. lolz..
we just see... haha

hmmm but then theres class outing... hmmm hmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmm

i got a feeling chase might scold me very very very soon =P

hey shoo... hey shoo!

heyo world..

haha.. i m back once again..

anyway now i m blogging from the staff room.. since there seem to b no time at home lolz..
the irony...

ok anywayz.. i had my first parent meeting session with one parent.. lolz i had the butterflies in my stomach when i did it.. haha felt quite nervous before meeting the parent.. but she turned out to b nice lah

thing is when i first opened my mouth, i used english to speak (obviously...) but turned out the parent or rather mother can only speak chinese.. of course i mentally slapped myself coz afterall the kid is from China so hence the mother shld b from China.. haha

but u see, the reason why i tot she cld speak english was that when we made the arrangement to meet up, an english-speaking person spoke to me, naturally i assumed that person was the mother.. turned out that person was actually the mother's lady boss.. ha!

anyway the session went well, except the occasional times when i was trying to find the right chinese words to use.. haha.. thankfully the mother was understanding n din insult my butchering of the chinese language.. hha

like i told ppl.. i spoke more chinese in that one session wit her than in an entire year.. lolz!

ok lah.. the mother was supportive of the kid.. supportive of me too.. she even praised me.. i know i know got some ppl will say she is sucking up but i choose to believe she meant wad she said.. after all she dun seem to b that kind of person..

and u know lah... some people can b so so obvious..

oh wellz.. i do hope all the next few parent meeting sessions will b that smooth sailing.. the next one is on friday.. friday night.. lolz when i got to meet like 20 parents of my kids. gosh

hopefully no one scolds me ar.. i was advised its better not to b too frank to the parents.. frank yes but being too direct can set off some very very 'protective' parents..

haha.. well like i said.. time to turn on the charms..

*gives smiles

and then there were SEVEN ...

well well well.. today was indeed a day of days.. haha

the sji old gang outings of late were getting rather degenerative... haha either they have too few ppl where theres alot of talking.. or too many ppl where talking is so boring.. haha

so today was very different indeed.. haha

instead of the usual 4 ppl (ed, kl, cw n me)...

we had ppl from like from the far side of spore - gerald... we had our very long lost fren - jeremy how.. and even the high grand tall bitch - tengyi came.. haha

so we had 7 ppl... wow

and so there were Seven...

it was fun.. n different.. we actually played lan.. lolz.. and ty even left later than usual... playing Left 4 Dead.. cool game.. funny funny.. with screaming ppl... n blur zombies... n of course flaming molotoks... haha

most of the time the fire fucks us... then the zombies.. =P

oh wellz.. it has been a long time since we met up wit so many ppl.. i do hope its not the last ar..
*hint hint.. esp that tengyi... haha =)

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ok now i better start on my error analysis of the CA1 papers.. gosh.. and to think the marking part of the papers is the easy part.. the error analysis is so gosh gosh sheesh.. haha
work work.. busy busy

goooood morning..

sheesh.. i got to wake up eariler today just to switch on my computer to receive an email..

sigh...

so irritating loh..

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anyway i marked finish my class 3/2 eng CA1 papers liao...

hmmm.. only 1 person got band1.. most got band2...
gosh.. i tink i expected too much from them..

oh wellz.. no pt worrying abt that now... just got to concentrate on maths now..

come to think of it.. i got to see their parents soon...

NOOOOOooooooOOOO

now to turn on the charms liao.. haha

ok here we go...

alright ar.. after resting for 2 days.. i tink i rdy to use my voice again.. yes it sounds less than normal but at least now i can talk..

note to self: dun shout.. just talk loud..

anyway the coming week is CA1.. haha.. bet alot of teachers r stressing up now.. me included.

i just marked my class 2nd mock CA1 English paper and well yes most of them improved... but out of so many of them.. only 1 got band1 which means he scored 85 marks n above.. sigh.. the rest scored btwn band2 - band3...

ok lah.. most scored band2..

but then ... they r supposed to b the 2nd best class.. and like wad 3/1 teachers lay hua said to me.. "your class should b aiming to score band1 while mine must aim to score above 91marks" aiyo!

i can only hope that the mock english papers r harder.. well almost all the eng teachers r saying that the mock papers r harder.. so oh wellz. hopefully thats the case loh

i really really want my kids to do well..

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anyway.. sometimes i also wonder if i expect too much from them.. i hope not lah.. hahah

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on another note... u know when u were in primary school, usually after doing an exam paper and u have like damm alot of time left. you have alrdy checked your paper like 100000 times and u still got lots of time left. now u r a primary school kid, u wun just wan to drop your head down on the table and rest, so in order to amuse yourself. u start to play .....

play with wad?

play with pencils, pens, eraser.. haha... rmber rmber? esp the boys, will take the pens and pencils and imagine they r rockets or big space ships.. and then they will have their own private space battles.. haha... and sometimes even got sound effect.. haha... some even better will have such strong imagination that they will 'build' a catapult using ruler n erasers.. haha.. and imagine they r fighting some siege.. lolz..

so cute lah.. to see all these kids trying to amuse themselves while waiting for the time to pass by...

of course they should b using the time to check n check their work...
but they r kids afterall..

i really think its damm cute.. haha.. and to think we all used to do that... when we were so so so young..


so young...