Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I'm extremely exhausted.

The above mentioned are the three words that could sum up my current status. A quiz, an exam and three assignments that are dued within this week. Any minute now, I may explode.

Study while working definitely makes a perfect combination to power up experience and knowledge. However on the other hand, it's exhausting. But I can't complain. Unlike most of my course mates, I'm not a mother of four. My hats off to them who are CAPABLE to painstakingly work 9 to 5 at child care/kindergarten centres, then school 6 to 10 before heading back home to see their kids. My goodness. THAT is a huge load of sacrifice made. Other than these (super)women who keep me going, are my kids. They're the reason why tomorrow is valuable waking up for.

Okay I have to go shower (because I don't feel fresh), complete my first assignment (800-word essay), watch 90210 (because I just can't miss it), start on my second assignment (500-word essay), study for tomorrow's exam (3 BIG chunks of chapters from psychology and child development module) and sleep (if necessary).

OH MY GOSH. AFTER ALL THESE SHIZ I CAN THEN GO WATCH ECLIPSE WITH MY TWILIGHT COMPANION. O'RIGHT ON.
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7:44 PM

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

She's strong. And I salute her for that.

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4:43 PM

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Thank God for the June holidays. The not-so-good part is that I have to come back for work on the first and last week of June. Haha like those days I had to come back to school for extra classes. The purpose of me going back to work, is to discuss, plan, brainstorm, organise, review and prepare for the children's curriculum/activities/field trips/worksheets for their semester 3 and 4, along with the other teachers within our branch. (I'm still having a mild headache from these.) This week started off uneasy for me. Working with people whom I don't really know and myself being the only K1 teacher to represent my centre. It's tough. I'm the most junior there while the rest possess many many many years of experience. I need to reassure myself that I'm doing things correctly as told.

I'm actually impressed with myself. I'm working with the (most) tough(est) teachers so I'm constantly working under high level of pressure. (Senior teachers bleah.) They expect things to be prepared and done on the dot. And fair enough, I didn't disappoint. :) To be honest, I prefer their work performance. It really shows that working is a no joke. They're effin' systematic and able to progress from their execution in work. I've learnt a lot from this.

I'm blessed to have known Lalitha. She's my mentor. She is one of the most awesome person with a kind, happy soul I have ever met. She's the only one whom I can relate and laugh out loud with when the working environment is tensed and everyone else is too darn serious. She's like the guru in the social spectrum. She's expressive, creative, bubbly, friendly, lively and animated most of the time. She has worked with Julia Gabriel Centre as a drama teacher (which is my dream to be able to work there), provides enrichment classes for children specifically in creative writng and phonics and her major in drama has truly moulded her personality as a lively character with excellent command of English. Truth is, all drama people are like that. Like Melissa. (Except that she needs to be more expressive and loud in her movement and gestures, like her drama friends.)

Speaking about Melissa, I'm so happy for her. I salute her sister for being supportive too. She has come a very long way to find what really connects her inner self. She grabbed the opportunity and delivered very well, I must say. Congratulations again, Melissa! The other day when she finished her successful audition, I managed to go out with her drama friends and Firdous. It gave me a shock that one of her friends, Joash, is of a similar personality to Melvin, except that one is a jazz lover, the other is a rocker. Melissa and I had a good laugh about this. I got a free cup of Caramel Macchiato, thanks to Shahril, and all of us sat having great conversations for hours. Later, I reached home at 12.30 am. It felt like a teenager again. This was a day before I had the parents-teacher meeting. How cool is that?

Speaking about the parents-teacher meeting session, I just want to say that I'm touched. The parents can obviously tell that I'm too young to be their children's teacher. However, I felt so honoured that they're able to accept me. They've given me their trust to teach their children under my care. They told me their children love to go to school, love their friends and love their teacher. It made me cry. I take my fedora hat off to them. Finally. I have found my purpose in life.

I'm relieved I'm not going overseas with my colleagues next week. I don't want to waste my fours days of the holidays to hang out with people whom I've little known of. Haha. I need to spend more time with my family, my friends and myself actually. School is okay for now. Done with most of the assignments and quizzes. But currently my mind is in a state of confusion with the psychology module. In fact all of my classmates are. The lecturer himself too. Lol. When he cannot answer our question, he would go back home to search for it, then explain to us in our next lesson. Everytime.

The movie mothereffin' kicks ass. (I previously twittered over this due to my coarse language.)

Okay now TV time.

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7:58 PM

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I'm extremely exhausted.

The above mentioned are the three words that could sum up my current status. A quiz, an exam and three assignments that are dued within this week. Any minute now, I may explode.

Study while working definitely makes a perfect combination to power up experience and knowledge. However on the other hand, it's exhausting. But I can't complain. Unlike most of my course mates, I'm not a mother of four. My hats off to them who are CAPABLE to painstakingly work 9 to 5 at child care/kindergarten centres, then school 6 to 10 before heading back home to see their kids. My goodness. THAT is a huge load of sacrifice made. Other than these (super)women who keep me going, are my kids. They're the reason why tomorrow is valuable waking up for.

Okay I have to go shower (because I don't feel fresh), complete my first assignment (800-word essay), watch 90210 (because I just can't miss it), start on my second assignment (500-word essay), study for tomorrow's exam (3 BIG chunks of chapters from psychology and child development module) and sleep (if necessary).

OH MY GOSH. AFTER ALL THESE SHIZ I CAN THEN GO WATCH ECLIPSE WITH MY TWILIGHT COMPANION. O'RIGHT ON.
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7:44 PM

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

She's strong. And I salute her for that.

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4:43 PM

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Thank God for the June holidays. The not-so-good part is that I have to come back for work on the first and last week of June. Haha like those days I had to come back to school for extra classes. The purpose of me going back to work, is to discuss, plan, brainstorm, organise, review and prepare for the children's curriculum/activities/field trips/worksheets for their semester 3 and 4, along with the other teachers within our branch. (I'm still having a mild headache from these.) This week started off uneasy for me. Working with people whom I don't really know and myself being the only K1 teacher to represent my centre. It's tough. I'm the most junior there while the rest possess many many many years of experience. I need to reassure myself that I'm doing things correctly as told.

I'm actually impressed with myself. I'm working with the (most) tough(est) teachers so I'm constantly working under high level of pressure. (Senior teachers bleah.) They expect things to be prepared and done on the dot. And fair enough, I didn't disappoint. :) To be honest, I prefer their work performance. It really shows that working is a no joke. They're effin' systematic and able to progress from their execution in work. I've learnt a lot from this.

I'm blessed to have known Lalitha. She's my mentor. She is one of the most awesome person with a kind, happy soul I have ever met. She's the only one whom I can relate and laugh out loud with when the working environment is tensed and everyone else is too darn serious. She's like the guru in the social spectrum. She's expressive, creative, bubbly, friendly, lively and animated most of the time. She has worked with Julia Gabriel Centre as a drama teacher (which is my dream to be able to work there), provides enrichment classes for children specifically in creative writng and phonics and her major in drama has truly moulded her personality as a lively character with excellent command of English. Truth is, all drama people are like that. Like Melissa. (Except that she needs to be more expressive and loud in her movement and gestures, like her drama friends.)

Speaking about Melissa, I'm so happy for her. I salute her sister for being supportive too. She has come a very long way to find what really connects her inner self. She grabbed the opportunity and delivered very well, I must say. Congratulations again, Melissa! The other day when she finished her successful audition, I managed to go out with her drama friends and Firdous. It gave me a shock that one of her friends, Joash, is of a similar personality to Melvin, except that one is a jazz lover, the other is a rocker. Melissa and I had a good laugh about this. I got a free cup of Caramel Macchiato, thanks to Shahril, and all of us sat having great conversations for hours. Later, I reached home at 12.30 am. It felt like a teenager again. This was a day before I had the parents-teacher meeting. How cool is that?

Speaking about the parents-teacher meeting session, I just want to say that I'm touched. The parents can obviously tell that I'm too young to be their children's teacher. However, I felt so honoured that they're able to accept me. They've given me their trust to teach their children under my care. They told me their children love to go to school, love their friends and love their teacher. It made me cry. I take my fedora hat off to them. Finally. I have found my purpose in life.

I'm relieved I'm not going overseas with my colleagues next week. I don't want to waste my fours days of the holidays to hang out with people whom I've little known of. Haha. I need to spend more time with my family, my friends and myself actually. School is okay for now. Done with most of the assignments and quizzes. But currently my mind is in a state of confusion with the psychology module. In fact all of my classmates are. The lecturer himself too. Lol. When he cannot answer our question, he would go back home to search for it, then explain to us in our next lesson. Everytime.

The movie mothereffin' kicks ass. (I previously twittered over this due to my coarse language.)

Okay now TV time.

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7:58 PM