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All these weeks, I’ve been coughing like crazy since Chinese new year. On and off, I will have nose bleed or flu. It was a terrible feeling especially when I need to study for prelims and exams in the midst of studying, I went for a job interview and had reunion dinner after that. It was 23 feb and the reunion dinner started very late. We started around 9pm as we were waiting for da ge’s gf to knock off from work.

During my work, I got to know that one of my boy, Isaiah is leaving the school. Though he does not belong to the class that I’m in charge, he is someone who leaves a very great impression. If you have been following my blog/tweets, you should have known that Isaiah is a boy who came to hug me on my first day of work. He was crying desperately and when he found me, he kept hugging me and didn’t want to go back to his class. Since then, every morning when he saw me, he will greet me with his cheerful smile. And sometimes, he will look for me, crying. I can’t bear him leaving. but I know that he is going to somewhere better.

Then last Saturday, 27 feb after service, went to Pan Pacific Hotel for family dinner to celebrate my big aunt’s 60th bday. Played with my nephew and cousins. Let’s take a look at the food:

After the dinner, I felt burdened and wasn’t feeling great. Took some time to digest and I just find that it just too hard to accept. My close friends should know what happen.

God, give me strength and courage.

Photo Credit: www.rockfordschools.org

Blame it on my service provider for the unexpected intrusion of the hacker. Now, I can only blog about my work experience based on my memory and twitter.

Day35 of work(29 Jan): It was Jie Ni’s 3yrsold birthday and Zhi Ling’s last day in the childcare. I bought them crayons on my own expense and gave it to them. We sang birthday song for Jie Ni. Normally the birthday kid will bring a cake and we will have the cake cutting session etc. But Jie Ni didnt get her cake. So, we showed the kids the picture of a cake and asked them to imagine that we are feeding them the cake. Haha, one of the kids asked me to open my mouth so that she can give me the cake.

Day39 of work (5 Feb): When I reached the doorstep of my childcare centre, the kids shouted uniformly “Good Afternoon Teacher Jassy”. So sweet. They brighten up my Friday and gave a good ending for the week. I took care of the K1 class and read stories to them. After story-telling, I let the children to play toys. In the class, there are some naughty kids. Some “KPOs” kids came and told me “Teacher, naughty children cannot play toys okay? Don’t let Jing Chong and Janiel play”. Then, Issac called me “Teacher Jassy Teacher Jassy, I built a submarine. You come and take a look.” He grabbed my hands and pulled me to a corner to see his ’submarine’. After that, I went back to my own seat and played with the kids. Then, Issac called me again “Teacher Jassy Teacher Jassy, I built a house. Take a look.” So, he grabbed my hands to a corner and showed me his masterpiece.

Day40 of work (8 Feb):Took the K1 class. Read the story ‘The Little Mermaid”. But the ending of the story is different from what I used to know. Haha..The ending is the prince marrying another princess and little mermaid died and rose up to the heaven.

Day41 of work (9 Feb): Normally, we will bring the kids to the playground for outdoor but since its the CNY week, we brought our kids out to the market to take a look at the pasar malam. We looked at flowers, Nian Gao, Pomelo, and anything that is related to chinese new year.

Day42 of work (10 Feb): Normally when it’s outdoor time, there will be two teachers in the class. But on 10 Feb, I went outdoor alone with another four kids.

On the way to school (11 Feb): On my way to school, I saw my k2 kid Garreth and my k1 kid Geraldine. When they saw me, they greeted me “Good morning Teacher Jassy” even though I’m not going to work.

Day43 of work (12 Feb): Took the K1 and playgroup class. I read stories to my kids. After some time, my kid asked me “Teacher, how come your voice so strange?”. Haha.. It was then I realised that my voice sounded worse than what I excepted. Chinese new year has not started and I’m already down with sore throat :s . Anyway, my k2 kid Shawn gave me a pair of mandarin oranges. Sweet

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

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.

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.

16 December 2009 (Wednesday)
Day 12 at work (830-1030am)

Double Happiness at work! Tell you in a bit. Woke up at 745am getting ready to go for work. Went to my playgroup class. There were four-five of them as the rest of the kids were learning the dance steps for the xmas party this saturday. So, I taught the rest “Fruits”. Then, drew the fruits on the whiteboard, asked the kids to choose their favorite fruits and wrote their name beside it. Remember Isaiah, the little boy I mentioned on my previous post? I think he got a good memory to remember me. haha.. He was running around the centre to look for me. Then i told him “Isaiah, are you a good boy? good boy doesnt run around and good boy goes to his class. you good boy right? Go to your class okay?” Then he nodded his head and ran back to his class. After some time, he came back crying and wanted me to hug him. So I asked him what happened. He said his teacher doesnt like him. So i told him “Isaiah, why teacher angry with you? you naughty right? thats why teacher dont like you”. Then he nodded his head. Haha..then i told him “you must be a good boy okay? listen to your teacher”. Then he ran back.

Then, I continued to teach my playgroup class about Fruits. This k2 boy came and told me “Teacher Jassy, you look very pretty today.” haha. i was like “huh? where got pretty? I dressed the same way I usually do”. So I asked him how come I’m pretty. Then he pointed to my colourful necklace. “There..your beads necklace”. Happy man.

Then after that, another k1 girl came to me. Without saying anything, Myra passed me this pebble. I asked her “Is this for me? Why you give me?”. She said that she picked this up for me the previous day at the beach. OMG!! SHE IS SUPER SWEET CAN?! This is because I only brought her class out twice to the outdoors. Didnt teach her anything at all and yet she gave me a pebble. I took a closer look.. The pebble has a heart shape. OMG!! My heart melted. Though people may think that it is a pebble. To me, it’s more than a pebble. It’s pebble filled with love from a student to her teacher.

After work, went school. After that, went Bugis to practise PnW. Then met the rest at Bugis Junction. Frankly speaking, I’m super not in a good mood. Or can I say I was pissed? Had shepherding before that, then now unit. Oh gosh, I think I really very bad-tempered nowadays, that I wasnt very loving towards people in my caregroup. Last week one, then now another more.

After cg, went back home with Shawn.

17 December 2009 (Thursday)

I woke up after a bad dream. It’s really very real. So I msged to that person I dreamed of and told him what happened in the dream. OMG! It’s really real especially I just had my cg the night before. My frustration in real life went into my dreams.

After class, daddy came to my sch and we went to Westmall to recontract our phone plans. Waited for donkey years for my queue number to flash on the monitor. After the long waiting, I finally got my IPHONE 3GS 32Gb!! Iphone plus screen protector plus handphone pouch cost me $158!! Traded-in my Sony Ericsson K850i. Then had dinner with daddy at Koufu before heading back home.

Anyway, did I mention that my house now is in a mess? We are trying to clear some junks from the storeroom. While my family members are trying to clear the storeroom, I’m actually took in what they discarded. Can say that I’m sentimental cos some things cannot be thrown away. They were part of my memories.

Not only my house is in a mess, i’m in a mess too. I dont want bad news to keep coming my way. two bad news came back to back. Through your eyes, I know that you are lying to me. You dont even dare to look at me straight to them me. how long do you want to bluff me? how many lies you want to tell?

I need nobody. leave me alone.

18 December 2009 (Friday)
Day 13 at work (1530-1730pm)

Just came back from work. I got a slice of cake from the birthday girl, Ericia. She is four years old this year. And also I got to know that two of my colleagues are 22 years old. Today took the K2 class. Told them stories like little mermaid and little red riding hood. When I told them I want to tell stories, they were disappointed. Haha.. All they want is to play. Then after that, played with them. And the kids are very cute. They fought just to hold hands with me. Interesting right? Playing with kids is always enjoyable.