butterflyy...

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Realised i missed out a photo of 02S1M (VJC)..sorry guys =P (thanks KK for mentioning it to me!)

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me and jasmine in the garden

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me and peixuan in the school garden, pretty place

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me and my mentor, Mrs Tan

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me and my colleagues in our cosy little staffroom

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me with the most playful girls

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Jamie, the hilarous class monitor

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reading ancient chinese books - act studious.

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act cute with fire extinguisher

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the most playful girls

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4H class with me and Mrs Tan

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My favourite class - 4H

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

thats the beautifully decorated tables. (the party was at Eurasian Coummunity Club, directly opposite president Nathan's house)

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me with the balloons again

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zanxuan and me

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Me, Tyler, Zanxuan

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Me with flower balloons

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21 July - At Tyler's 21st bday party (zanxuan's friend). Thats the black dress that Jolin and Esther gave me as bday present. Fits very well!

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Today was my last day at Dunman High School. I am quite sad actually.. I am just beginning to get to know my students better.. just beginning to have students greeting me in school, at bustop, on the bus etc.. But i have to go liao. Sad. I taught many sec4 classes.. so actually a lot of sec4 students recognize me.. So for the past few days many of them greeted me and some even stopped to chat with me... But the thing is, most of the time i only found them faintly familiar.. i have no idea which class he/she is from.. Haha.. Not that i have lousy memory ok.. I taught at least 5 classes i think... So thats nearly 200 students.. Teachers dun have superpower, cant expect me to remember every single face.. AHH. Thats why its so saddening! If i have more time with them i would remember more of them.. Anyway, the only class which i taught the most times and get along the best with is 4H, a DHP class.. which means they dun have O'Levels end of this year.. and maybe thats why i had more fun with them cos we did more interesting things rather than the usual revision i did with other classes.

I thoroughly enjoyed my very last lesson with 4H which was also my last lesson in Dunman...
I sort of gave them a surprise cos they thought i wun be coming in again... So when i walked into the class i had a rousing welcome of cheers and applause.. I felt like im a superstar.. Hahaha.. Thats why i just like this class.. they are a funky and cheerful bunch of students.. And im a biased teacher.. I only bought chocolates for this class.. Hehe.. Cant help it la... End up half of the lesson was spent on giving out chocolates and taking photos! Oopps.. Haha.. But we really had a lot of fun. I will miss them.

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Haha. I saw a girl from my favourite class 4H at the library today. She is the girl whom i notice the most and sort of like the most also.. Cos she has big eyes and a big smile.. So when i look at the class i always notice her goldfish eyes.. They are so big that it almost distracts me from looking at the rest of the class.. Haha.. Yah so i was saying i met her in the library.. She was waving vigorously at me.. luckily she never call me with her usual loud voice (cos its library).. I sort of talked to her for awhile la.. SO this is how it feels when students remember you and are comforatable with appraoching you.. Nice feeling.. And she is so adorable! Haha.. these days in Dunman i am beginning to think im becoming like a paedophile.. Hahaha.. My colleagues cant stand it when i tell them how cute the sec1 boys are and so on... Well.. perhaps when we get older and we see people (considerably) younger than us... its just natural to think that they are adorable or wad.. Probably cos we can no longer have that kind of child-like cute-ness anymore.. And probably thats how our grandparents used to feel when they hugged us and pinched our cheeks saying we are SO CUTEEEE.. How we hated that sometimes right.. Haha.. In time to come we will probably be like that too.. Its a natural instinct bah.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Now I am really an expert on the United Nations Organization. Not only have i looked through all the teacher's reference books for information on the UN, i've made a powerpoint on it, i've made an online video lesson on it, i've also taught this topic twice to 2 different classes.. Now i can memorise almost everything in my ppt slides already! Haha. Me the UN expert. Cool.

Today i really felt the tremendous satisfaction of teaching.
I taught that UN Mock Conference class (4H) again.. I gave them a lesson on the UN and then went through some source-based questions.. Cos it was the second time im teaching it in class.. I was already getting good at explaining the stuff.. so instead of just me talking and the students listening i manage to get them to interact with me.. Probably cos this class know nothing much about the UN beforehand.. they were very attentive and interested while i lectured... And some more my powerpoint is full of pictures and photos.. nice to look at, so nobody fell asleep.. Haha.. I made use of the pictures to ask them for responses and also asked them for opinions on certain recent issues associated with the UN, example SARS, bird flu, Iraq war, the North Korean nuclear weapons etc.. After this, i gave them feedback on the political cartoons which they drew last week.. I allowed the few groups which got the highest marks to present their work to the class.. This made them really happy.. and we had a good laugh at some of the things they drew.. At the end of the lesson my mentor told them that they might not see me again.. that sprouted a lot of commotion "Why WHY? You dont like us ah? We will miss you leh!" Hehee.. they say they will miss me leh... Actually i will miss them too.. they are such a fun-loving bunch of students.. What made me even more happy was my mentor's comment on my teaching.. she said i did very well cos i managed to engage the students in the lesson and most importantly i made the students like me.. She say thats the biggest challenge of being a teacher.. I felt a strong sense of satisfaction. I DID IT! Haha.. But i know i will not succeed all the time.. So I must work harder! =)

Oh btw.. You know Clara, that Dunman High girl in Campus Superstar? Yea.. i taught her class today too.. But i didnt notice her at all.. even until i picked out her name randomly from the class list to call to answer question.. It was only when she stood up and i saw her face then i realised. OOO... I said "You look SO familiar!" in a joking manner... the class laughed, and she smiled very sweetly at me.. Such an adorable girl. Haha..

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006