Alvis’s Private World~A peek into the past, present & future!

Hi all, its been some time again since I update anything here. Got tons of pics to upload actually, but as the days pass by, I began to procrastinate and hence…nothing much here lol…i guess I will “die” at the hands of “procrastination” if I slack even more.

Okay, alot of events happened in June. Whats past was past. Be it happy or sad, I’ll forget it in due time. Oh ya, just have to say THANKS to my buddies who celebrated my bday with me. U know who u r =)

Today is the start of my ESE as per my topic. Whats there to experience anyway, since I have alr done my contract teaching for half a yr? 1st day, not a very pleasant experience for me. Sweat like hell nobody’s business lidat, reached school at 605am, reported to indoor sports hall at 615am, den started to wear N95 mask, gloves, and as if that is not hot enuff, the humid weather had to add on to it, den P walked over, requesting us to don on the protective suit! wah! buay tahan man… argh~!~!~!~ sweat even more! hahahahahaha… hmm this “unhappy” moment, not worth to tok abt it so much hehe =) i finally heaved a sigh of relief after taking everything off (excluding my clothings of cos lol).

Then theres this AYG torch relay thingy coming to HS. Lots of shoutings and cheerings gg on here and there. Din participate much cos i was busy photocopying materials for lessons. Then while i was printing halfway, Mrs Gibson brought in the new trainee teachers and introduced us to them, wow! a whopping 9 of them~ haha… ok will slowly get to know them =)

Alrite, shall stop here. Got other things to do. Im still stuck at 1 math question on vectors. argh~!~!~ i hate vectors man!

As per the topic, ytd was an eventful day for me as it was my first time talking to so many parents and juggling between my 2 classes was no joke at all! To tell the truth, 2 of the parents freaked me out!! i think daniel and ning will know who! esp ning… she witnessed the whole thing… anyway not so gd to grumble too much abt parents during blogging, but then overall, thru this parent-teacher interaction, i have gained alot of insights and knowledge about my students’ family background, and their behaviour outside and at home. Of course all these are confi stuff =x so i shall only keep it to myself.

Finally finished the whole thing by abt 845pm, went back staff room to settle some admin stuff den left for home. Thats all for ytd.

As for today, this morning woke up. Daniel msg me that he has gotten his NIE admission package and asked me if i have received it. I said i did not, but den feeling the excitement, i went down to check my letter box 3 hrs later (cos i know the postman comes ard this time =}). Ok saw my package… rode down to peninsular plaza to buy some clothes before heading off to loyang beach to relax. On the way, i stopped by at changi village to buy nasi lemak. Since i was only parking for a while, i did not put any coupon. to my HORROR, i saw a parking ticket on my fuel tank! OMG! swayness to the max! haiz… ok next, at the beach, i slowly opened up my package to see the contents inside. got some forms that r needed to be sent back to NIE..but wth? muz send back by this fri? haiz hurriedly rush back to fill in the particulars and went hg mall to have it delivered immediately. =(

Okie, for the next few days, my programme will be quite packed. Tmr (Thurs), morning will be meeting 3 of the students’ parents as they couldnt make it on Tue, then followed by HS family day whr we will go to Kallang Leisure Park to have a fun filled evening, im so looking forward to it.

On fri, morning will be meeting another parent, den after that i will submit the maths files to my HOD for checking. In the afternn, i will proceed off to give tuition until 6pm. In the evening, will meet up with my sec gang at UOB plaza for dinner, den maybe ktv after that =) szehui say got mystery guest, i can roughly guess is either shuyi, tongseng, eileen, lihua or kevin. but i think most likely is kevin. if i guess correctly i will make the girls to come and look at my blog for proof! hahaha…

ok as for sat, morning as usual will be dedicated to my scouts, afternn will be meeting yiwen for “high tea” lol…at nite meeting uni gang for dinner =)

For sunday, will be meeting ray alex and mangalee for dinner cum ktv… should be la at liang court. It will be so much fun this week. Haiz next wk will be a boring one. =( everyday i will have to find things to do liao.

Hurray! After months of preparation for this trial, it finally concluded… but of cos not all things ended well. For eg some students complained about being disqualified at a certain station by a teacher becos they were caught cheating and getting answers from their friends from other groups. And my class 1A2 had to wait till 12 noon for their bus when the rest left the mall at 1135am…

-_-|||…luckily got Serina’s help, if not i will really collapse there as this class is also difficult to handle. Ok i only took 3 pictures to share with u pple. The first pic was the station which im taking charge, using the clinometer as a tool to measure the angle of elevation. The 2nd/3rd pics were my class 1A2…aiyah some are camera shy so they “dogded” my view lol…

Have been with HS for 5 months now. All I can say is that teaching has made me a more mature individual in the office and at the same time, brings out the childishness in me back in the classroom. I’m glad to have very gd colleagues, Daniel, Pohning, as well as Doreen. The 4 of us are like superglue, must be together everytime haha. Abt the childish part, I guess I must have got influenced by my students’ pathetic jokes that I’ve no choice but to play along with them.

I love both my classes 2A0 and 2A2, as well as my co-teaching class 2T1 and 3E1, my beloved form class 1E3 and my Sec 5NA Maths remedial class…oh not to forget my scouts too!  I simply adore and love to be in the company with these young kids, made me reminiscing the past with my secondary school classmates… those were the days…

I think i can consider myself a very emo person, cos im very easily affected by the mood of the pple ard me. What they did can really influence my mood for the rest of the day. For example, recently 1 of my students was caught for truancy. I walked past him and asked him: “ZQ, why did u play truant the last time? U dont like attending my lessons is it? And dun think I dunno what u did outside eh… (referring to some illegal things which i shant mention here)”. He denied at first, but afterwards came and clarify with me how I knew abt it. I just gave him a nonchalent look and asked him to reflect on his wrongdoings. I will talk to him after the exams. The truth is actually, I din know he did all that. I merely spoke with my experiences at the Boys Home cuz the boys who play truant also did all these stuff. And this truth really hurt me alot becos this incident had totally changed my gd impression of him. He is just 13… Though 2A2 is really very noisy and naughty and times, they will still give me their due respect. At least they treat me better than their form teacher. But I told them that their form teacher has also tried very hard to engage them, they juz bochap (heck care). I dunno if I should be happy that they treat me better or not, but I have long regarded them as my younger sisters and brothers. Whatever wrong they did, I will still forgive them as long as they know their fault. Just like the other time, when Aron broke the window and I caught him red-handed. He apologized for his actions, and me, being EMO again, felt very bad for shouting and screaming at him for 15 min until the whole school was looking at us.

There was another time when 2 gurls were hurling abuse at one another. Both cried, and hid in the toilet refusing to come out. I could rem that was a Thurs, cos thats my 2 periods of lessons with them. Im supposed to have 1hr10min of lessons worth, and in the end only 15 min was productive, the rest of the time I was either trying to make the class quiet or pacifying the 2 gers to get out of the toilet and return back to the class. I almost wanted to “cry” in my heart, cuz im very soft when i see gers cry. After the lesson, the 2 gers came to apologize to me individually for disrupting my lesson. I told them that its alrite and I understood their situation(some bgr problem la). I think 2A2 has indeed changed me alot. =|

In 2 days time will be their Math exam Paper 2, i really hope they will do well. And that I have something gd to say during the “Meet the parents” session in June. Frankly speaking, I have already given all the help I can. Its up to them whether they want to put in the effort. I can juz pray quietly… And also the Sec 1NA, gd luck to them, cuz their Math exam papers were also set by me. And juz got the gd news that they have performed really well this time. Congrats to Daniel (he is their Math teacher)! Hope that they can maintain this standard for Paper 2 tmr as well.

All in all, teaching has made me look at a lot of things from a different perspective. My objective in teaching is not just abt teaching and imparting knowledge to the students, but also to develop their moral values. But what i’ve seen has made me very demoralised and confused abt whether I shld continue. Maybe i shld give myself more time and see how as time progresses…