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Archive for January, 2010

A Badminton Evening

On thursday (21 Jan 09), I had my classes from morning to afternoon. And you know what? My jayfeelalike was sitting behind me during poa lesson.. Haha.. Normally during poa class, I will sleep, doze off. But amazingly, I didn’t sleep during lesson. Was super attentive like never before.

After school, went back home since I had a badminton game in the evening. Went down with my da ge and parents. A lot of running here and there at the courts. Haha, but I like it. That day, I wasnt in a great mood and so I vented it out through playing badminton. After playing for two hours, mum and dad went back home and I followed my da ge and his friends for supper at tpy. I had a plate of Hokkien Mee, and shared a plate of rojak and chicken with the rest. I shouldnt eat that much cause all the sweat and fats that I burned out was absorbed back through the food.

After supper, went back home.

The kid and my water bottle

Day31 of work (22 Jan 2010)

It’s Friday again. I’m supposed to go to school for poa class but I didn’t. Was quite tired and also, it was raining. So, I stayed at home the whole day to write mindmaps for Marketing. Then, around 330pm, I went down for work.

The first thing I heard when I reached my childcare centre today was my kid,zhi ling screaming to me “teacher jassy..you didn’t bring your waterbottle home”. Haha.. You should look at her facial expression.. That pair of innocent eyes and the mouth.

Then, one of my kids celebrated her birthday. Not sure is it because they were waiting for me to come then have the birthday celebration. It’s because my kids normally have their teabreak at 3pm. But yesterday they started at 330pm, which is my usual working time.

Vivian is 3 years old now. I don’t understand why all kids’ birthday cake is Barney. Barney Barney and Barney. All my children loves cake. They eagerly waited for the cake to be served. They will eat with mouth wide open. Then, some will eat until the cream fully cover their mouth, chin..then, with hands full of cream, they will touch their shirt. :s so after some of my kids ate their cake, I started to eat mine. Everyone was eyeing on my cake and drooling. Haha..

After tea break, took some kids to clean their mouth and wash their hands. Everyone was fighting to hold my hands. Aiyo.. They were very sticky to me. I must really “train” them to learn to partner with their own friends. After that, taught my kids to read some words like crocodile, eagle, snake, elephant, monkey. When it was Charlene’s turn, she pronounced elephant as ‘elle-fant’, snake as ‘ssss..sss’ cause snake hiss. Haha..

I always like to work in the afternoon from 330pm to 530pm. Cause when I’m leaving from work, I will hug all my 2 years old kids then they will hug me back. :loves: Then on my way out if I see any kids, I will either hug them or give them hi5. Then yesterday when I’m leaving, I heard one of the K2 kid said ‘I like teacher Jassy’. Omg.. Sweet right? My kids are adorable. Can’t wait to see them again

My Day 28 at work

Did you notice that I have not been blogging about my work? Not much nice things for me to blog, that’s why I stopped. Really, I just want to keep these blog entries to be something that will remind me of the happy times at work and not the bad stuff.

When 2010 kicked in, I have more kids in my class – more like having crying babies in my class. As the kids are new to the environment, they tend to look for their mummies, daddies or aunties. They look at you like some monster and keep running away from you. I think the little children need this thing called “Trust”. They first must trust you in order for them to listen to you.

You really need to go down to the kids’ world and try to understand them. It’s really challenging this year. When the new kids start to cry, cant sit still, they influence those “old birds” in the class. Like if the new kids start to run around, the “old birds” will be influenced and run around. Class was chaotic.

This is what I observed about kids after 2 months here in my class.

Different types of kids
1) Obedient Kid – They really listen to you 100%.
2) Little Teacher Kid – Nah.. they are not teacher’s pet. Kids whom I described as “little teacher” are people who can help you control the class. They are like prefect of the class. One example is Jie Ni. When the kid is running around, I will ask Jie Ni to go to the kid to tell him to sit down. Cute right? She’s only 2+ years old.
3) Sticky Pad Kid – Sticky Pad kids are kids who will listen to you but will stick you like sticky pad. Wherever you go, they follow. They want your 100% attention. They can be cute but they can be a bit irritating sometime. For example, when the other kids are running around and I need to tell them off, Sticky Pad kids will grab your hand, hug you. It’s sort of like an obstruction to you especially there are kids who really need your attention.
4) “Big Bully” Kid – They are violent kids in the class. Tend to bully people. What will happen if two violent kids come together? They will “fight” with each other. Luckily my kids are not that violent to the extent that they will slap, punch each other.
5) Petty Kid – They are kids who will “dont friend” with you if you scold them. Sounds familiar? It’s a common term that we used when we were young. But the funny thing is that the kid who “dont friend” you will come come to hug you like mad(like sticky pad kids) after throwing their tantrum.

Last week, I had a really bad day at work. I really hate people to misunderstand me, and that’s why it made me moody. I think it affected my whole mood of teaching and everything didnt seem to run smoothly. Today during my psychology class, Iasked my friend for advice. I felt better after talking to her. And on my way back from school, God gave me this divine chance to meet Calyn on the bus. I started to tell her what I felt about my work and she really guided me and I felt much much better after that. I wanted to take the bus back home (like what I normally do) but then took the train back with Calyn. After our conversation, I found out that it is very important to take captive of every thought and not let our emotions to figure out things happening in our lives. We should lean on God’s understanding and not ours.

I humbly took in the words Calyn told me, and told myself to accept with an open heart to people who misunderstood me.

Before my work, I really prayed very hard very hard. I went to the childcare centre and kept reminding myself to be humble, teachable. My principal gave me an assignment to do. She wants me to give the kids intensive reading etc. So, I tried out the “experiment” with the first group of kids. After that, I got a chance to talk to one of the teachers to ask her what should I do when the class gets noisy, chaotic.

And.. I had a fall on my back. Cause one of my kids came when I was not aware and then came and hug me. He just ran towards me, banged and hugged me.. Gosh.. Can he be more gentle? :p

After work, told my principal that I need to take a break to prepare for my prelims and exams. The conclusion is that I’ll need to come back at least twice per day during my study break. I cannot entirely stop cause if i stop, it will be hard for me to bond with the kids again.

Alrightx, today is a brand new start of everything. Pray for me that I will always have a humble and teachable heart.

Stressful now..

Work is getting stressful..My kids are starting to be disobedient, jumping and running around the class. This year is kinda challenging especially there are more new kids in the class and with the same number of teachers attaching to the class. Kids cry to seek peoples’ attention. Kids tend to “not friend” you and the rest followed in this “rebellion”.

What I want is to sustain my joy in work and with the people who can assist me in this.

I had a bad day on friday that I just hope that the clock will tick faster so that I can knock off from work. My bad friday was compensated with a nice dream that I dreamt. I dreamed about Jay Chou and I sitting together on the bench taking photos.

Flyer in the dark

Again, it’s the Singapore Flyer in the dark. These photos were taken last Sunday (10 Jan 10) when I was back on the expressway heading to and from Changi Airport. While taking the photos of the flyer, I almost threw my phone out of the window. I had to grab tightly my phone to prevent it from flying off.

Singapore Flyer Snapshots 2

3 years has just passed and I’m still loving Singapore Flyer. On Sunday (3 Jan 2010) after sending er ge off to Cambodia, we drove back home along ECP. As usual I will either take out my phone or camera to snap some shots of the flyer. You can also check out my previous shots.

Conclude 2009!

Yes! It’s a brand new year.. “Goodbye 2009 and WOOHOO 2010!”

Gosh, I have not been blogging for two weeks. It’s not that I do not have the time but is just that I do not know what to blog. There were too many things happened during the christmas period – party after another. I have not been studying for the past 3 weeks. I switched myself to the party mode and just could not settle myself down to do my homework and revision.

24 December 2009 – Christmas Eve
Christmas service in the evening. Countdown and mini caroling at esplanade. Went home with er ge and took the night rider bus back. By right (according to the bus directory), the bus should stop outside my house but it went further, further and further. After getting confirmation from the bus driver, we found out that the bus no longer stop outside my house. So in the end, we alighted some distance away from my house and we took the cab home.

25 December 2009 – Christmas Day
Da ge’s friends came to our house for dinner and karaoke. Got to know that one of them likes Jay Chou. I showed her my collections – collectibles, albums, newspaper cuttings, posters etc. While the rest was karaoke-ING, I stared at my computer screen for the rest of the day to complete the “Video of the Year 2009” for my unit.

26 December 2009 – Unit Christmas Party
Met Sherlynn at PS to have our lunch at Mos Burger. Got our present for our gift exchange and went Daiso to get a mask for our performance later on. Went to Liyin’s house and we practiced the dance. Guess what dance did we perform?

Thanks Sher for being supportive. This is our first time dancing together right (apart from the ake dance)? I really enjoyed myself.

30 December 2009
KO-ed by the Flu+Headache+Fever monster. Triple blow. Wasnt feeling well when I was having my marketing class. Met liping for early dinner and shepherding. Then we went to RELC for the UniYA rehearsal. I simply wrapped myself with a jacket and a shawl around my neck. After rehearsal, took the car home.

31 December 2009 – Unit Thanksgiving party
Met the unit at TPY and we had our mini unit thanksgiving party. After that the rest went city hall to countdown and I went back home.