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!!

Timeout with friends...

i met up with my teacher friends again this week. this time, it was a lunch gathering. we were at the hawker centre near ChompChomp. well, now we feel that we have each other should anything happen to anyone of us. Who said teaching was easy? a lot of stress! Dealing with kids is never easy!! :D but that is what keeps us going. 

Too bad, Man U lost again... if was the ref's problem... ganja!!! Chelsea lost too, which din make me so depressed.... Liverpool are playing today!! :(

importance of language!

Well, the importance of language is underestimated. people think as long as one can understand what another is saying, communication is taking place and that is all they need. well, fair enough. i used to think like that. but coming to singapore actually changed my perception about English language. 

I used  to hate the language because of my teachers. i always felt people who speak a good english boast around. There are a lot of them back in my hometown. some of them are my relatives. so i hated english... :D

Now, i realised that English language is very important. for an instance, u might have the best idea in the world or u have found something new from ur research; but if u can't present it well, it's no use. To present them, u need the language. 

so people, dun take english language for granted. master it!!

Man Utd 2-0 Inter Milan

I told myself that I have to watch this match. This would be my first Champions League match for the season. So i set my alarm at 3.30am. However, i could not sleep. I woke up at 2.45am thinking that i have nowhere to watch. Actually, in my dreams, the coffee shop that i use to go was closed. I tried downloading some software to stream the channel. My hopes were fading. Only then i realised why am i even trying to watch online in the first place. I haven't even gone to the coffee shop yet!!! :P

So i quickly freshened up myself to go out. Then it struck my mind that what if the match goes into extra-time? penalties? do i have enough time to come back and to get ready to school? No i don't. haha :D. i took my shower and gotten ready for school. just that the route i took was not to school but to the coffee shop. I looked a bit over-dressed. Dressed like an office guy at 4am in the morning and watching football in a coffee shop. :P

by the time i reached the coffee shop, it was already 1-0. Simply means, there would not be any extra time. Sharkz. but the game was good. Man U was attacking all the time and they missed quite a few chances. Inter Milan had their chances too. Mourinho looked devastated after the final whistle. Actually, he looked like that throughout the match.

The referee blew the final whistle and it was 5.30 am. I had like 1 hour plus to my normal going to school time. so i came back, resting while blogging now. haha :D. Life is good....

English champion beat Italian Champion by 2 goals to nil. Well done Man U!!! Glory, glory, Man United.......

we need a break...

teachers, after spending the whole week planning and conducting lessons, need a break at the end of it. Well, we make sure that we meet every friday to have a chat and share our frustrations, jokes, anger, etc. This is just to make sure that we have each other to laugh and cry together. 

being a teacher is not easy as it looks. the level of stress we face everyday is enormous. i salute those teachers who are in the service for more than 5 years.

some pictures of us having some fun: