Saturday, April 28, 2007
School's gonna end le... Monday shall be the day i will say bye-bye to the kids for the last time, scream at them for the last time and walk them out of the school gate for the last time... I have mixed feelings about leaving them though... On one hand, i guess it's good that i would not destroy my throat, but come to think of it, i will miss them... Expecially my P1 kids who seem adorable even when they are naughty and playful... But well, kids should be like this in the first place i guess...
It has indeed been an enriching experience for me, to feel what my teachers must have felt when i talked in class, when i refused to do my work, when they have to call my parents to complain... Or how irritated they must have felt when i threw a paper aeroplane, when i catch spiders and play with it in class and many other mischievious stuff... Haha... Perhaps it's really karma that i got one of the infamous class in school... Well, good luck to their next teacher!
Well, at least i will be starting my new job on Wednesday, so i won't join the unemployed list... Let's hope this job is challenging and exciting... But it may be a government-linked job. Yucks.
I guess i will still be screaming at the kids come Monday... And perhaps hear a few more ridiculous comments and name-calling... Like this skinny boy who fought with his friend who called him fatty bomb bomb. Best of all was this war of WTH-names war....
Boy 1: U stupid botak-head
Boy 2: U idiot jelly-bean
Boy 1: U silky girl ah!
Boy 2: U bra-maker ah!
And then they fought.... Haha....
Haha... I hope i remember to bring my camera on Monday!
It has indeed been an enriching experience for me, to feel what my teachers must have felt when i talked in class, when i refused to do my work, when they have to call my parents to complain... Or how irritated they must have felt when i threw a paper aeroplane, when i catch spiders and play with it in class and many other mischievious stuff... Haha... Perhaps it's really karma that i got one of the infamous class in school... Well, good luck to their next teacher!
Well, at least i will be starting my new job on Wednesday, so i won't join the unemployed list... Let's hope this job is challenging and exciting... But it may be a government-linked job. Yucks.
I guess i will still be screaming at the kids come Monday... And perhaps hear a few more ridiculous comments and name-calling... Like this skinny boy who fought with his friend who called him fatty bomb bomb. Best of all was this war of WTH-names war....
Boy 1: U stupid botak-head
Boy 2: U idiot jelly-bean
Boy 1: U silky girl ah!
Boy 2: U bra-maker ah!
And then they fought.... Haha....
Haha... I hope i remember to bring my camera on Monday!
Monday, April 16, 2007
Woohoo!!! Just played badminton with the school team kids! They are so energetic, which kinda makes me feel old when i am with them... They are really good, and i can say that their technique is even better than mine! What they lack is strength which they will have in a few years ' time... And that's when i think they will win me hands down... Haha...
Had a photo-taking session with the entire school's teachers today... Initially i din join them, and then Mr Chng came up and said i am included too! Haha... It's so strange taking a photo with all my teachers! 10 years ago, i am in a class photo with my teacher, and now i am inside an all-teachers' photo! Haha... Time flies... And i guess i will have to take a photo with my class as the Form Teacher! I just dun feel rite coz i am just a relief teacher...
The school is gonna take a drastic move... They are gonna remove all the naughty boys from my class and separate them to another class with another teacher taking them! Yay! Then i can truly enjoy teaching the kids who really want to study and listen... But i kinda feel bad that it has to come to this... Perhaps i am really an incapable teacher... Can't handle 41 kids! Well, 3 more weeks to go! Gambatte yo!
Had a photo-taking session with the entire school's teachers today... Initially i din join them, and then Mr Chng came up and said i am included too! Haha... It's so strange taking a photo with all my teachers! 10 years ago, i am in a class photo with my teacher, and now i am inside an all-teachers' photo! Haha... Time flies... And i guess i will have to take a photo with my class as the Form Teacher! I just dun feel rite coz i am just a relief teacher...
The school is gonna take a drastic move... They are gonna remove all the naughty boys from my class and separate them to another class with another teacher taking them! Yay! Then i can truly enjoy teaching the kids who really want to study and listen... But i kinda feel bad that it has to come to this... Perhaps i am really an incapable teacher... Can't handle 41 kids! Well, 3 more weeks to go! Gambatte yo!
Thursday, April 05, 2007
The past week has been truly dramatic... And it's not because it's Good Friday tomorrow or something... U might wonder why am i blogging at this time while i should be in school... Well, i will come to that part later...
Ever heard of students being punished by teachers and the latters were suspended/sacked? Think Nan Chiau High? Couple of years ago, thier school made headlines when their principal tapped the book on a female student's head and received a complaint from the parent to MOE for assault... That's downright dumb. Seriously, the MOE guidelines are not protecting the teachers at all... It's been giving the kids too much freedom, with no deterrence to unruly behaviour and worse, scant respect for teachers....
I was taking this P5 EM3 class for Social Studies... Now, most people always have some kind of prejudice, a strong stigma for EM3 kids... I tried my best to teach them, but they showed NIL interest in Spore's diplomacy with other countries and those propaganda saying our government is the best in the world, etc... Well, if i had a choice, i wouldn't teach them all these stuff! On Tuesday, things were ugly. There's this errant schoolboy, a perpetual troublemaker, who got splashed water on his shirt by another boy... In retaliation, he spilled his water back, and in the process splashed onto my pants! I shouted," What's the meaning of this?! I told you to stop right?" Now, i guess he went crazy... He started to hurl vulgarities, and i had to keep my temper in check. And he wanted to splash more water, so i had to grab him and lead him away! And then he tried to STRANGLE me! OMG! He clasped his hands around my neck, and i had to look at him sternly in the eyes and said, "Let go." before he went back to his seat and hurl more vulgarities. Thank goodness i did not hit back, or else i would have lost my job...
Well, actually 3 things raced thru my mind when he tried to strangle me. But these are things that told me to be rational and not to hit back. Firstly, he's only 11, despite his size and looks of a gangster. Secondly, i would have lost my job. And lastly, it's not worth dirtying my hands and ruining my future because of him. I am so glad i didn't hit back. Well, i can't say the same if this happened outside school... Now, that's a totally different matter... We have to remember what the army taught us!
Subsequently, i informed his form teacher and he suggested we call his dad... And Mr. Lock told me that the reason why he's like this is because his father is a gangster! WTF. And when i met his dad, he really looks like a drug lord / loanshark! Haha... He's like LiXiang, but twice the size with a belly nudged between his upper body and thighs... And he's bald... Well, i am not surprised...
And in my form class, i got hit by a flying recorder when i tried to protect one of my students when his friend tried to fling a file at him! The recorder flew out of the file and i got hit on the collarbone! Sianz.... What's wrong with them!!!!!!!
And the best thing? The reason why i am sitting at him at this hour now? It's because the school told me that i need not come for Sports' Day, which is today! "Relief teachers need not come for Sports' Day" I am definitely gonna check whether the other relief teachers turn up! I was pretty upset yesterday when they told me that. After doing so much for the kids, painstakingly painting their flag with Melvin till 3am, and they deny me of seeing our masterpiece at the main event!? I was absolutely gutted... It feel like i have been given a slap in the face for the things that i have done. Well, i guess the school doesn't really know how to show appreciation... Perhaps it's time i give up and move on. I truly understand what my teachers must have felt when i was still a student... I owe them a big apology, especially my P5/6 teacher, who had to call my mum almost everyday coz i refused to do my homework... Thinking back, when we were kids, we really do not appreciate what our teachers have done for us... I shall say sorry to her one day...
I know i take things for granted sometimes, which is one of my flaws... But after this incident, i truly understand what it means by not being appreciated at all for the things that you have done... For all my friends, if you had ever feel unappreciated for a favour that you have done for me, i am truly sorry. And a BIG THANK YOU to you too, from the bottom of my heart.
Ever heard of students being punished by teachers and the latters were suspended/sacked? Think Nan Chiau High? Couple of years ago, thier school made headlines when their principal tapped the book on a female student's head and received a complaint from the parent to MOE for assault... That's downright dumb. Seriously, the MOE guidelines are not protecting the teachers at all... It's been giving the kids too much freedom, with no deterrence to unruly behaviour and worse, scant respect for teachers....
I was taking this P5 EM3 class for Social Studies... Now, most people always have some kind of prejudice, a strong stigma for EM3 kids... I tried my best to teach them, but they showed NIL interest in Spore's diplomacy with other countries and those propaganda saying our government is the best in the world, etc... Well, if i had a choice, i wouldn't teach them all these stuff! On Tuesday, things were ugly. There's this errant schoolboy, a perpetual troublemaker, who got splashed water on his shirt by another boy... In retaliation, he spilled his water back, and in the process splashed onto my pants! I shouted," What's the meaning of this?! I told you to stop right?" Now, i guess he went crazy... He started to hurl vulgarities, and i had to keep my temper in check. And he wanted to splash more water, so i had to grab him and lead him away! And then he tried to STRANGLE me! OMG! He clasped his hands around my neck, and i had to look at him sternly in the eyes and said, "Let go." before he went back to his seat and hurl more vulgarities. Thank goodness i did not hit back, or else i would have lost my job...
Well, actually 3 things raced thru my mind when he tried to strangle me. But these are things that told me to be rational and not to hit back. Firstly, he's only 11, despite his size and looks of a gangster. Secondly, i would have lost my job. And lastly, it's not worth dirtying my hands and ruining my future because of him. I am so glad i didn't hit back. Well, i can't say the same if this happened outside school... Now, that's a totally different matter... We have to remember what the army taught us!
Subsequently, i informed his form teacher and he suggested we call his dad... And Mr. Lock told me that the reason why he's like this is because his father is a gangster! WTF. And when i met his dad, he really looks like a drug lord / loanshark! Haha... He's like LiXiang, but twice the size with a belly nudged between his upper body and thighs... And he's bald... Well, i am not surprised...
And in my form class, i got hit by a flying recorder when i tried to protect one of my students when his friend tried to fling a file at him! The recorder flew out of the file and i got hit on the collarbone! Sianz.... What's wrong with them!!!!!!!
And the best thing? The reason why i am sitting at him at this hour now? It's because the school told me that i need not come for Sports' Day, which is today! "Relief teachers need not come for Sports' Day" I am definitely gonna check whether the other relief teachers turn up! I was pretty upset yesterday when they told me that. After doing so much for the kids, painstakingly painting their flag with Melvin till 3am, and they deny me of seeing our masterpiece at the main event!? I was absolutely gutted... It feel like i have been given a slap in the face for the things that i have done. Well, i guess the school doesn't really know how to show appreciation... Perhaps it's time i give up and move on. I truly understand what my teachers must have felt when i was still a student... I owe them a big apology, especially my P5/6 teacher, who had to call my mum almost everyday coz i refused to do my homework... Thinking back, when we were kids, we really do not appreciate what our teachers have done for us... I shall say sorry to her one day...
I know i take things for granted sometimes, which is one of my flaws... But after this incident, i truly understand what it means by not being appreciated at all for the things that you have done... For all my friends, if you had ever feel unappreciated for a favour that you have done for me, i am truly sorry. And a BIG THANK YOU to you too, from the bottom of my heart.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Tsukaremashita ne... Gotta start work in a couple of hours time... And slept at 3am plus this morning coz me and Melvin was rushing to do my class banner for the Sports Day... Haiz....
These kids are getting worse as the days go by... I wonder how long i will last... Haha... I was so pissed off last Friday that i did an illegal thing - kept them back for recess for 15mins... Firstly, these kids had no interest in the class banner at all. A class banner that is meant to be done by STUDENTS! Damn! I wanted to give the kids some say in their class flag, and gave them slogans to choose from, but 80% of the class were playing among themselves while i was screaming in front of the class! That was the final straw. I erased everything on the board and juz continued normal lessons...
And then there was an attempted murder incident... A boy poked his friend in the stomach with a sharp pointed wooden ruler and the victim was crying his head off.... Haiz... And i told the "murderer" that if his friend had died, his dad will go to jail... WTF...
And nearing recess time, i locked all the doors... I asked the boys, "Who thinks that he deserve to go for recess? If you have the guts and u think u have been good, stand up now!" A few good boys stood up, but what irked me was that some super-duper naughty troublemakers had the effrontery to stand up too!!! WTH! I let the good boys out and asked one of the troublemakers, "So tell me what have u done today?" He kept silent with his head down... And i lectured down for 15 minutes, on how unappreciative are they and how they treat their teachers... I was so furious that i nearly cried while scolding them la... Haiz... I wonder why am i doing so much for these kids. Seriously, they dun deserve it. But what to do, they are KIDS. Kodomo, Chlildren. Xiao Hai Zi. Haiz...
And after recess, i realized that i had wasted my breath on them... And the victim started wailing again... I dun noe whether to pity him or to scold him, coz he's a perpetual troublemaker too... I brought him down to the office to call his mum and i have to explain to her why this incident happened during my class... Damn... Handling touchy parents is worse than handling troublesome customers lo...
I was damn pissed off with SBS yesterday... That stupid 325 bus took half an hour to come la! WTF! Seriously, if u had seen this SBS bus which has this slogan, "Going all the way with you for the first date". that's utter nonsense. For me it would be "Going all the way with you to ruin your first date" And thanks to SBS, i was late. Haiz... Lucky she was late too... But still, i was later than her... So paiseh la... Damn SBS... If they are gonna raise their freaking fares again this year with such poor service, i only have two words for them. Fuck you.
Okie... Gonna get ready for Waraku le... And Melvin, i think we have done too good a job for the class flag for those brats. Damn.
These kids are getting worse as the days go by... I wonder how long i will last... Haha... I was so pissed off last Friday that i did an illegal thing - kept them back for recess for 15mins... Firstly, these kids had no interest in the class banner at all. A class banner that is meant to be done by STUDENTS! Damn! I wanted to give the kids some say in their class flag, and gave them slogans to choose from, but 80% of the class were playing among themselves while i was screaming in front of the class! That was the final straw. I erased everything on the board and juz continued normal lessons...
And then there was an attempted murder incident... A boy poked his friend in the stomach with a sharp pointed wooden ruler and the victim was crying his head off.... Haiz... And i told the "murderer" that if his friend had died, his dad will go to jail... WTF...
And nearing recess time, i locked all the doors... I asked the boys, "Who thinks that he deserve to go for recess? If you have the guts and u think u have been good, stand up now!" A few good boys stood up, but what irked me was that some super-duper naughty troublemakers had the effrontery to stand up too!!! WTH! I let the good boys out and asked one of the troublemakers, "So tell me what have u done today?" He kept silent with his head down... And i lectured down for 15 minutes, on how unappreciative are they and how they treat their teachers... I was so furious that i nearly cried while scolding them la... Haiz... I wonder why am i doing so much for these kids. Seriously, they dun deserve it. But what to do, they are KIDS. Kodomo, Chlildren. Xiao Hai Zi. Haiz...
And after recess, i realized that i had wasted my breath on them... And the victim started wailing again... I dun noe whether to pity him or to scold him, coz he's a perpetual troublemaker too... I brought him down to the office to call his mum and i have to explain to her why this incident happened during my class... Damn... Handling touchy parents is worse than handling troublesome customers lo...
I was damn pissed off with SBS yesterday... That stupid 325 bus took half an hour to come la! WTF! Seriously, if u had seen this SBS bus which has this slogan, "Going all the way with you for the first date". that's utter nonsense. For me it would be "Going all the way with you to ruin your first date" And thanks to SBS, i was late. Haiz... Lucky she was late too... But still, i was later than her... So paiseh la... Damn SBS... If they are gonna raise their freaking fares again this year with such poor service, i only have two words for them. Fuck you.
Okie... Gonna get ready for Waraku le... And Melvin, i think we have done too good a job for the class flag for those brats. Damn.
