Yoz sisters! As Chinese New Year is coming, shall we have a gathering? And our Da-Jie's birthday is coming too! How's the plan??!

.. jIa ..

Alright, enough of complaints from my previous post. On a happier note, the only thing that prevents me from going into depression mode on thurs and fri is the thought of getting my pay on sat and going to Sushi Tei for a great meal again! Pictures to replace words now.









Whats with getting my pay without indulging in woman's favourite hobby? My loots of the day:

Besides my form class, i still have to take 2 P1 classes for Social Studies, P6-D plus half of P6-F for Health Ed and Social Studies. Alright, sounds normal tilll now. But! e "abnormal" part comes when all the D-classes in the school are e low ability students. Alright, still acceptable. But wait! E worse has yet to come. The blow came when I saw e words "P6-F" on my timetable sheet!


The only thing going on in my mind was "Why am I so unlucky!". Well, not that i discriminate against them, but rather i have no confidence at all teaching an EM3 class. And these classes normally consist of those big-sized boys who can talk so loudly and perhaps, talk back at you. That, against a small-sized young teacher who is still learning to project my voice in the classroom and has not received any official training in teaching at all. Still, i told myself not to be bias against them, it may not be as bad as i thought.

Then, thurs came when i went to that class for the first time. True enough, they dun really care who is this person standing in front of them, trying to shout out every single word on top of all their chit-chatting. Perhaps the only time when they get a little quieter was when i told them my "life story". From taking my PSLE till how i got into uni. Since that was the last period, i gotta bring them down to dismiss them. That was the ultimate. They were all over the place and nobody bothers to look at this stupid teacher trying to tell them to line up in twos. N stupid me brought them walk through the route that passes by the HOD office. And one HOD passes by. Shrugs. I swear i'm never going to bring them walk that route from next week onwards. I was so exhausted by this period and i have to go to my 2-Faith class straightaway after this. So much so that i gotta tell all of them to be good boys and girls for at least e first 2 periods cos my throat hurts n i'm losing my voice.

Then Friday came. I'm so gonna dread Friday for this half a year cos i got 2 freaking periods with them! I gotta say the 6-D pupils were generally ok. They were willing to pay attention to listen when i teach. So the culprits were the 6-F pupils. They were sitting at the back and talking so loudly as though it was a marketplace. So whenever i ask a question, i gotta repeat for god-knows-how-many-times cos all of them will be going "Har teacher what you say???" Nobody knows how i heaved such a HUGE sign of relief when i walked out of the class. Can you imagine this is only week 1???

I'm so gonna dread thurdays and fridays every week from now till June. Every single teacher on hearing that i'm teaching that EM3 class gave me the "Oh-my-god-you-are-so-damn-suay-and-luckily-i-am-not-the-suay-one" look. I'm in desperate need of a mic before i lose my voice every thurs and fri. Anyone who knows where to buy that please come and tell me. You will be my saviour!

Well, today lessons started. So far so good...though some of them are beginning to show their true colours. These kids can talk and talk non-stop n every now n then i've to stop the lesson for them. I'm gonna be stricter with them from now on! Anyway had a great Saturday cause my sis treated my mum n I to Sushi Tei! (Well, she ought to since she received 2.5 months of bonus and had just finished repaying her tuition fees loan!)

Alright, let the pictures do the talking!



A great dessert to end off a great meal. (though we were all too full by then) I heart Sushi Tei. The food is good and the ambience is great. No wonder Fann Wong and her sweetheart Lee always patronize the outlet at Paragon heh.

The good news is...I've set my mind to patronize Sushi Tei again this Sat! Hee cause Sat is the 12th...which means Sat is payday! At least there's something for me to look forward to now throughout the draggy week. =)

After the great meal was shopping time! My loots of the day include:
1) Body Shop Strawberry Polish and Strawberry Shower Gel. I'm so gonna smell strawberry-ish.

2) Body Shop Grapeseed Glossing Serum

3) Body Shop guava shade of lipstick. (I was coax to buy this cause my mum insisted that I'll look good in that shade "^_^)

4) Body Shop Neck Gel

The above 4 cant really be counted as my loots cause my sis paid for them all. Long story as to why we brought so many products even though initially my sis only wanted to buy the neck gel. Thats the "trouble" of having their Rewards Card. Hee but i'm not complaining here cause I get to use all of these products also! =)

5) Espirit 3quarts jeans and a T-shirt. (Worth the buy since its the Sale period and my sis is a member with them. That means i get additional 20% off e items. =)


6) No discount for these but its essential. Having to stand for 3/4 of the day means i've to get a pair of really "good" shoes. In the end i brought 2 pairs. Urps. Hope they will make my money well-spent.

Shopping makes me, or rather all girls happy. But, its back to square one on Sunday cause i've to type my ERB. In short, lesson plans for the whole week and its compulsory cause it has to be submitted to the P to check. So in reality, teachers only get 1 day of rest every week. N this is for people like me who has a relatively lighter load. Imagine those HODs or teachers heavily involved in other projects. Hee like i told wc, i dun wish to climb up that ladder or sit in the HOD room one day cause that would mean endless piles of work and stress. My ultimate aim is to be a small fry whereby "my existence can be felt but it wouldn't hurt when i'm non-existent". (If u get what i'm saying heh) Did i heard people calling me "胸无大志”? Haha

Anyway back to ERB. Its been 2 months since i wrote my ERB and i just couldn't get my momentum back. I sat in front of my computer since 12pm and i only finished typing my ERB at 630pm when in the past i can finish it in 2 hours time. Half the time, i was busy surfing net. Opps. On a more positive note, it also meant that i'm really cracking my brains as to how to make my lessons more lively and interesting right? Excuses....excuses! "^_^

So in the end, could only meet wc for dinner.

The weather was great. Cool and breezy. Followed by a not-so-nice dinner at...

His food was great...


But not mine...

Ending off with wc's picture of the week.

He insists its a masterpiece. As compared to my version of it...

You be the judge. =)

Hee okie day 2 was better since i din do as much talking and my kids can really take good care of their buddies well. Except for this particular boy, keefe, who refuses to buy anything to eat n my poor boy, Aalden, got to chase keefe around n couldn't have his food cause the rule is - P2 pupils must wait for the P1s to buy their food before they can start eating their own food. So in the end i got to ask Aalden to go eat his food while i bring keefe around, asking him repeatedly, "What do u want to eat? Nasi lemak? fishball noodles? fried rice? fries? mee rebus? biscuits?....." Luckily, before i can tell him to juz sit down n drink his plain water, his mother came. 6 more days of asking "keefe, what do u want to eat?" at 315pm everyday from now.

After that, finally got my 3 periods of break. So as i was resting, i took pics of my workstation before it gets more messy as the term goes by.





Alright thats all folks. Will try to take some pics of my classroom to show u guys next time. =) N its Friday tmr! =)

*****yUn*****

hey ple!

I guess that i am always so late in my post. haha... well.. better late than never.. it's amazing how jiahui managed to portray the blog as feminine yet with a feisty punch to it. great job sister! =) anyway... with regards to your darn neighbours, u shd gather all ur other neighbours to write a petition and post it to the town council, i tink it shd work much better than a solo effort on ur own? hahaaha...if not, mayb u can try taking ur pots and pans and clank clank* outside ur neighbour's apartment.. beat the noise with more noise?! hahah... not too sure if it will have a reverse effect yeah.

Oh well... anyway.. zinc and wanyi.. the concert sounds pretty smashing! glad u guys had fun though having gone thru all that trouble to get to the venue and all. heh. it's though i am not a fan of that fish, i m sure i will go bonkers and as high as u guys did if it's my ah lun concert! pity i din manage to get my hands on his upcoming one! poutz*

anyway... happie new year ! i spent my entire day tidying up my room and i painted the house! eh... well... it's just a fraction of A wall but... it's a tiring job man! hated the fact that depsite i spent hours on the darn wall.. the painting still looks uneven... but not to blame me... it's the darn roller's fault.. apparently the coats of paint have decided to dry up and form an additional layer such that it becomes uneven now. pukez! dunno if i can complete painting before cny! sigh... any ideas how i can paint the wall, other than to engage a professional painter? hahaha...

btw, how do i let my fonts turn out in orange?

Happy New Year to all! Hope u guys had great fun for the past few days...unlike poor me...=(

Since last thurs, yours truly have been preparing for the start of school on 2nd Jan.
Chores include:
1) Decorating class notice boards n classrooms to create a "conducive environment" for the students when they come back to school (quoting my P, Mrs xxxx)

2) SHIFTING the class tables to my desired layout. Good exercise indeed cause i really sweat like hell shifting all the 40 tables and chairs all by myself. Perfect. But a worthy point to note was that I'm sharing my classroom w P4-Faith and e form t. is non other than the HOD of Sc. Prior to that I din have much contact w her n she seems like a really "dao" person as all the rest of the HxOxDs are. But it turned out that she was a really nice person, even allowing me to shift all the tables in any manner/layout that i want. Thank God for that cos its really difficult to come to a compromise with a class that have 40pupils compared to my 30 pupils.

3) Preparing the classrooms like pasting all the different symbols in the class. Lets see, there is

• "Show me Faith" corner for showcasing their work
• "Faith in Need" corner for putting extra stationery sets there in case any of these blur kids din bring their pencil cases. Act as a "Lost n Found" corner also b4 everyone starts telling me "Miss Huang i cannot find my pencil/ruler/eraser/colour pencil/glue/scissors!"
  
• "Faith are Bookworm" corner to act as a mini-library in the class (which i had another good exercise sticking all the boxes together to form a bookshelf)
• "Faith Winners" list to showcase all the award winners for the month n term
• Preparing containers for each group to sharpen their pencils instead of everyone crowding at the dustbin
  

4)Cracking my "already-not-alot-but-you-still-wanna-squeeze-my-limited
-creative-brain-juices-out-of-me" to think of a theme to decorate the Maths Dept notice board. When e level-head of Maths (LH) who happens to be my reporting officer also told me that I've to do it by this Fri, my mind juz went blank cos i've absolutely no idea how to go about doing it. Luckily, i've a bf who has nothing but plenty of creative juices in his brain. So with his help after I contributed the main theme of making a "calculator-liked" chart since this year the P5s are having a new syllabus that is inclusive of calculators, we managed to finish it off.

So when did we do that? Tata...on a New Year's Eve night! After he came over to my house to have bbq, we retreated into my room n started working on it. Yes, no prizes for guessing it correctly... we countdown to 2008 while doing that sxxxxx chart! How pathetic is my way of celebrating a new year. Well, guess i can take comfort from the fact that the chart was a pretty good job done n I pin it up on the notice board the first thing i went to school today.

5) New Year's day- spent at home n facing the computer screen for 6hrs straight doing up my welcome ppt/classroom matters ppt

6)Today=First day of school

• busy photocopying pupil's profile form/attendance sheet/committee members application form
• talking n talking non-stop n standing n standing till feet hurt since there's no lessons for the first 3 days of school n we have to be with e class for the whole day
  
• Making sure my P2 kids take good care of their P1 buddies during recess=walking around the full-of-anxious-parents-canteen for half an hour
• chasing after god knows how many bus drivers who kept referring me to another person for that 1 bus driver to remind him to remember to fetch my girl to school tmr cos her parents came n complained that the bus din came to fetch her daughter to school today

7) 3/1/2008

• IP induction meeting at 930am. Preparing for all the knives/arrows that will be shooting at us tmr by the HODs/LH/SH when we analyse last year SA2 results.
  

Alright. Time check: 1215am. That will explains y i need to go off now. I want my weekends!

****yUn****