I survived a very hectic week

Last week I was asked by the school authority to act as Penyelia Petang for a week since our Penyelia Petang went for his PTK course in Miri. Oh Boy!! it is a tough week for me because on top of looking after the overall discipline of the whole afternoon session, I still have my own full load of lessons to teach. I personally found that it is so much more difficult to control the students now then it was 4 years ago when I acted as Penyelia Petang for a year and half.

The most dreaded part is the afternoon assembly where all the students were to gather in the school stadium to read story books while waiting for the morning classes to dismiss since there is serious classroom shortage in our school .

The BIG problem is students nowadays love to shout and boo at every single comments and happenings around them . As a zero tolerance being, I just can't take those shouting and "booings". During those 4 days of assembly I did away with singing patriotic songs and even praying. I personally think that if there is no discipline: singing 1001 patriotic songs and praying 101 prayers is just down the drains. I prefer the students to sit down after reading and then dismiss them orderly class by class. On the first day, I warned them not to shout or boo while going out...One of the 2G students tried me by shouting on the way out, I caught him and walloped him up in front of his class and after that for 3 days he had to sit right in front of the stadium and then left the stadium together with me after assembly.

Second day another group of 2D boys tried me out by shouting loudly when they were outside the stadium. These group was caught and identified too and walloped up in their class right after assembly. Third day and fourth day the students knew that I really meant business and kept quiet and walked out of the stadium quietly and orderly after the assembly.

Last Monday there was this heavy rain after school hence on Tuesday a big group of students wore slippers to school on the excuse that their shoes are wet. As the school rules say that students should wear white shoes as part of their school uniform. I gave them 2 choices:

1. rang up their parents to send their white shoes over OR
2. leave the slippers in the staffroom to go bare footed for the day

I know it sounds a bit cruel but it works because the second day (even though it rains in Tuesday after school too) all came in white shoes and no more slippers!!

Over the years, I also found out that the best way to punish noisy and naughty class is to detain them after school ( of course we need to warn them first before detaining them) No need to detain them for long.. 5 - 10 minutes after school is enough to see the effects at least for the next few days or so...

Another interesting incident was, on Friday 2 students from 2F class came to report that one of the students in the class brought Game boy to school. I went in the class and asked the boys to surrender the Game Boy to me. He denied that that he had the Game boy. To Kingdom come he denied and denied . I searched his bag, his good friend's bag but couldn't find any Game Boy with him. At that time my mind was working fast...very fast on how to make him to surrender that Game Boy to me since the whole incident was happening in front of his class and I didn't want to give up searching.

Then it struck me to ask him to surrender to me then I will give him back next Monday ( after confiscating it for the weekend) then ta...ta straight away he said "true kah teacher ? "

And you know where he hid the Game Boy...in the front part of his school pants which he knew very well that I would never touch when I checked him...

Personally I really dread to deal with the overall discipline like this. it is not good for health especially my blood pressure and even the sugar level....I guess all these readings do go up super high when we are angry...but when orders come... we just have to obey and carry out our duties.....

The Must Read Nursery Rhymes before signing your option forms:

Tomorrow 21/6/2008 will be a great decision making day for me. We will be asked to make the final decision and signed the option form by ticking in the appropriate box below to decide for ourselves what age to retire:




So let's read this book before I tick in either the box marked 56 or 58??








































So I THINK I better tick 56 instead of 58?? What about YOU???

I can hear Joyce saying(((((((((((((((((Cherrrr..errrrrrrr))))) after reading this...hahaha
and Mary says haiyar these Lau Kok Kok people...

Thanks Mary for that email.

A Day They Will Never Forget

It was indeed a day to remember...

Their Wedding shoot at the famous 100-year-old Church of the Annunciation in Pengzhou, China.

Very early morning May 12, photographer Wang went about preparing to shoot
wedding pictures for a young couple, this was the test shot before the shoot...



Pengzhou is located in the Sichuan province. It was morning May 12, 2008.

And then it happened.... the earth quake! 7.8 on the Richter scale.



Bricks fall from the building during the earthquake, which turned Wang from a
wedding photographer into a journalist.

'Thank God we were only shooting from outside the church!' remarked a helper.

The stunned couple huddles together at the church ground during initial tremors.



'I shouted to people, 'Run! Run!'' said photographer Wang Qiang.
'The ground shook and we couldn't see anything in the dust.'



As the dust began to clear, the true extent of damage was only beginning to appear...

A cracked facade was all that remained of the 100-year-old Church of the
Annunciation after the quake.



Most of the church 'collapsed in 10 seconds,' said Wang,
who lives in Chengdu, capital of hard-hit Sichuan province.





Soon after the quake, the people at the seminary set out for a nearby village,
but residents warned them the route was blocked. 'We could still hear landslides,'
Wang wrote in an online account of the disaster. So they stayed overnight in a
tent and made it to the village the next day, thanks to help from a truck driver.

A scarf from a wedding dress lies forgotten in front of the seminary.



Wang said he thought the catastrophe should strengthen the bonds of
the couples who were there that day: 'Having gone through a life-and-death test,
they surely will clasp hands and grow old together.'

No one was harmed at the above location.

They'll sure have a unforgetable story to tell their children!


P/s Thanks Mary for sharing that thoughts with me.

A Sugar Free Shopper

Last Saturday I drove alone to Green Heights Mall since Senior Sim went to Bau for Sports Training





brand new Cold Storage Supermarket to look for some nice imported food for myself , but I was so disappointed cos the things there are Xtra xtra expensive and in the end i just bought 3 pizza bread for RM 2.99 ( special offer to attract customers) and roasted chicken @ RM 9.99. Other than that all the other things are very expensive indeed.
So after the weekend we went to The Spring to look for some more food. Ta...ta...I manage to get lots of sugar free food for myself
...See what I have bought:








This is a super new product, peanuts free peanut butter made from soy bean, not as nice as the original peanut butter but much healthier.

Read for yourself how healthy it is: if eat like this, can live up to 100 years old and by then all my contacts in my Handphone had all gone to another world and only left me here.....

What you will see most in Labuan.....

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So many that one of this got wrecked...just off the shore of Labuan

and some even landed on land:

So if you have nothing better to do while in Labuan , then just go ship-watching or diving to look for ship wreck .