A good football match....

I have always been playing football with Jason and his friends. we actually participated in a tournament and yesterday afternoon was the first game. We were against this experienced team (they looked older than us) and 2 goals up in the beginning of the second half. 

however, i think we slacked! and we were tired as well!! no match fitness. our opponent staged a remarkable come back, scoring 3 goals; the last goal in the dying minutes. i truly admire their fighting spirit. they did not give up and tried till the last minute. something for us to learn. anything can happen until the final whistle is blown. 

we have to get ready for our next match. just to have fun playing and try to win matches. so far, we have 0 points!!

Evening of Music, Dance and Drama...

Last wednesday, i went to Victoria Hall to watch EMDD performance by KC girls. Michael invited me as he is a teacher there. It was a weekday night, so i was a bit reluctant at first. but then, to show my support, i agreed to attend.

i made the right choice. the performance was awesome. i din know KC girls are so talented. even the teachers are ganja talented. :D i enjoyed the performance from the beginning till the end. good show!! came back after 11 but i had a good time. 

Mini 4e1 Gathering

today, i met up with my ex-4e1 students at east coast park. i'm very happy that everyone got into either JC or Poly. cool!! nothing more that a teacher can ask!! All da best!!

The week...

i was very down from monday through wednesday... 

but on thursday early morning, i watched the game between man u and porto which man u won. that really gave me the confidence of making the impossible possible. i was rejuvenated!!! with the confidence, i conducted the Chem lesson on CSI. it went well!! My CT was impressed.

Later, Dr. Hoh asked me to be prepared for all lessons as the moderator might come anytime. i prepared as usual. On friday, Dr. Tan Aik Ling came to school. i was so happy to see her. she's a wonderful teacher. i really enjoyed her classes at NIE. 

After her observation, i felt very relieved. my class was good, though they were noisy at times.

i met my friends again this week. everyone's fine and can't wait to go back to NIE. haha :D the week has turned out to be a good one for me!! i have to work harder and keep improving!!

Feeling down....

the week has been bad for me... maybe because of my lessons... maybe coz my students did not understand the lesson... well, now is not the time to give up and giving up is just not me!! i have to work harder and hope that students will understand things that i introduce!

a few of them today made my day. i was totally down until i met this group of students who said that please continue to teach us! those simple words from them really motivated me. what does a teacher want? teachers are working so hard to plan lessons, make sure students get the best all the time and what do they get in return? more money??? nope! it is the satisfaction that we get when students nod after learning something. or the phrase, yes, now i understand!! these are the things which keep us going everyday!! 

CSI 2...

well, my second CSI did not go as well as the first CSI. I tried giving the case first without going through the syllabus as the students have gone through digestive system in secondary 2. haha :D the students are still the same. Who on earth would still remember what he/she has studied last year?? wrong assumption!!!

Lesson to learn. next time, i will be more careful!! i just din wanna repeat the same thing that they have studied last year. so i tried new things. it's ok. hopefully, students learned something today on decision making, group work, thought process and/or data analysis. hopefully they learned something... i did!!

back to lesson planning!! must plan lesson that more engaging!! games, maybe!!!

a busy weekend!!

this week, my friends are i decided to take a break from gathering. everyone is busy now. lesson observations, assessments, bla bla bla. i think this is the time when everyone is dead busy and having observations at the same time. even i'm working during the weekends. oh my god!!! 

preparing for lessons is never easy. usually, we don't appreciate any lessons. we go into the class, listen to the teacher, do the homework he/she gives and the cycle repeats. Most of us don't really know how much of time and effort the teacher put in to prepare a lesson. it's crazy. well, only a teacher knows another teacher's feelings!!

i still met up with Michael for supper on friday night. we had a good chat. then on sat evening, i met Ding Li and Cheryl. all of us are surviving at the moment. Things are getting tougher, it seems. To be honest, i must be very lucky to be in this school with the teachers. some of the senior teachers in other schools are just unbelievable!! demanding us to do things that they can't even think of!! ganja!!

but, i know, after practicum, when we all look back, it would be a wonderful and meaningful experience. 

April fool!

i'm currently teaching my sec 3 students both pure bio and pure chem. on Wednesday, co-incidentally, i had chem after bio. Bio class is in the lab while chem class is in the classroom. 

After the bio class, some students stayed back and asked me questions. i was delighted to see their enthusiasm in knowing more about enzymes. i answered almost all the question. i asked them to go back to class as i was supposed to enter their class for chem. after packing up, i rushed to the class. and to my surprise, it was not my students sitting in the class. It was the correct class with different students!!

The whole class played a prank on me. well, after sometime, i asked the class to go back. i asked them to tell my class students that i was very angry. hehe :P

when my students came back from the other class, i did not smile. they were told that i was very angry. i started the class straight away and i could see the shock in my students' eyes. i continued and they were very quiet. and to add to the effect, i slammed the door. :D well, i wonder who got fooled!!