Sunday, January 28, 2007
@1:59 AM
THE LIONS ARE ROARING
I just watched the match on tv but I'm no less a fan of our LIONS team! Congrats guys! You deserve the victory albeit through the penalty. You fought hard and you won it fair and square. And I must claim Lionel Lewis as the ultimate superhero saving the last ball in the penalty kickout.
Now who wants to watch the finals with me?! Raise up your hands!
Eerr actually I don't know where the match will be held. But if it it home ground then I'm not missing it for anything else. I want to be dressed in red, be part of the Kallang wave and cheer till my voice go hoarse for the LIONS!
OLE.. OLE .. OLE OLE...
Actually I'm still in the midst of my marking.
It just seems neverending. Started before the match, did it through the match and hours after the match, I'm still not done and over with it! And looking at the some pupils' working is so not consoling! Made me fuming mad!! I really wish I can put all my 39 pupils in the front row. Yes right under my nose so that I can monitor their work closely.
And besides marking, I still have a long list of things to do before the weekend comes to an end. I so look forward to the weekends each time but I never to have enough time in my hands to catch up with work. Let's not even talk about catching up with sleep and rest. Must be bad time management on my side.
I need another long holiday to rejuvinate and recharge myself..... Will it ever come? As far as I know, it's not anywhere around the corner :(.
Monday, January 22, 2007
@11:30 PM
NEXT IN LINE
Lesson ob over... now time to focus on the Science Symposium competition.Only a few days left... ya I know we've been given this assignment since the holidays.But we've only managed to meet up with the kids when school reopens and teachers have been so so busy.
Well I'm just hoping and praying for the best, with Azi's friends' help, hopefully we can work something out. *I should have asked for their help much earlier....Didn't know they are so into rap and hip hop.Haven't had my post-conference for the lesson ob yet. For tonight, I just don't want to think about it. Looks like the books which I brought home to mark will still remain in the same state in my bag.
I just want to sleep......................................
Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
And I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream at the top of my lungs
What's going on?
And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?
ooh, ooh ooh
and I try, oh my god do I try
I try all the time, in this institution
And I pray, oh my god do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution
And so I cry sometimes
When I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream at the top of my lungs
What's going on?
And I say, hey hey hey hey
I said hey, what's going on?
Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
Sunday, January 21, 2007
@12:05 AM
ZOMBIFIED
I've settled my CA1 paper...Yay! It's still undergoing many rounds of vetting. I just hope there won't be much editting to be done.
Currently I am slogging for Monday's observation by the VP and my RO. I hope the kids are cooperative esp my pets like Iman (oohh please don't go singing out loud like you always do!), Junwei and Yiming ( please cooperate during the group work) and John ( don't interrupt always but raise up your hands when you wish to speak ya).
I'm still in a dilemma whether to do up a powerpoint. You see, my classroom projector screen has totally came down. Thanks to one girl (not from my class) who went berserk and violent last Thursday and pulled down the whole thing (well that's what I heard happened). Poor Kat had to suffer MANY scratches and bruises trying to suppress her from attacking the other pupils.
What more do teachers got to put up with just to continue doing what we enjoy? People set high expectations yet they bind us with so many constraints. We get assessed by the quality results we produce in class, by the awards we win for the school. But is that really all that matters? Who is to blame for the deteriorating morale of the younger generations? Why are the pupils now not like how I used to be when I was one? I shall not put my opinions in print.... there's not much use rattling about it here. I don't think those who are not in the service will understand much either.
All they see is that... lucky teachers work half the day and get to enjoy long holidays!! Yeah you're welcome to take over my place for a month and we'll see what's really in store.
But yet, I prefer to think of the joy I derive from the job. Not everyday is a bad day. I've just got to think positively and think of my sole purpose joining this line.
This is my life. It's my 24/7 job.
By the way back to my observation, let's just do a good one on our first two periods this Monday ok 3D?
After that Miss Azah has to shift her attention to the Science Symposium competition. It hasn't progressed much and there's a lot to be done. We are left with only a week more and I forsee staying back in school everyday and burning my next weekend.
Hopefully after that, I have a little space to breathe. At least to keep up with my mounting markings. Oh no I've got to come up with better strategies and lesson plans so that I can cope with the markings.
Monday, January 08, 2007
@11:39 PM
WISHING FOR LIMITLESS ENERGY
I would much like to put many things in the record; first week of school with my darlings, my piling deadlines, Nana's beautiful wedding whereby I got to meet up with long-lost friends, my upcoming observation by the VP, the preparations for the Science Symposium ... yadayadayada......
But somehow, the tiredness from work is deterring me from spending much more time infront of the computer, not to blog at least. Sitting in front of the screen for hours trying to set my P3 Ca1 Science paper (which is due end of this week arrggh!) has already taken a toil on my backbones and my weary eyes.
School has been ay okay. Being in the afternoon session, time seems to pass by fast. I can be all energetic and hyper during lessons (being influenced by the limitless energy of the pupils), but once the final bell goes and I'm back in the staffroom, away from the pupils and trying to pack, that I suddenly feel all the aching muscles and so drained of energy.
Then I wish, home is right where my exclusive corner in the staffroom is...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
@10:59 PM
READY..... GET SET....... GO!!
Like it or not, ready or not, I have to be back on the run again.
A fresh beginning with new set of tasks and challenges set. School has not even begun, but many deadlines have been laid ahead for me. So I've got to be mentally prepared to be on the go throughout the year.
So....
No more sleeping and waking up as and when I like,
no more lazing around at home switching channels and leisurely reading story books
( I'm gona miss having the luxury of reading terribly),
no more planning for holidays....
I've got to put a stop to all these for the moment coz I've got another race to run and I don't plan to be lagging behind.
Miss Azah's all set to face her darlings tomorrow. Do pray that her sanity remains intact along with her zeal and zest.
*Hhmm seems like one of my plans for this year has to be put on hold first since I am in the afternoon session. Really hope the school will grant me the permission to do it next year!
