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Day 57 and 58 at work

Day 57 at work – 30 March 2010

It was my second last day of work, but my kids simply did not give me a break. They became monsters running around the classroom. The monsters didnt pop out all at one go. In psychology, we learned this term called “minority influence”. This is really applicable to my situation. I have this little “leader” who “evolved” from a cute boy to some kind of screaming monster, making funny faces. Slowly, his actions influenced the rest of his friends around him and they started to follow the “leader”.

Day 58 at work – 31 march 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIR! My best partner back in my high school time. We worked together as angklung sectional leader and kulintang sectional leader respectively.

It was the last day of my work before taking a two month’s break for my exams. Instead of taking care of my own playgroup kids, I had to take over the K2 class. Taught them “He is”, “She is”, “They are” and “I am”. When I called each student one by one to the whiteboard to form sentences using the above, they were able to form it. And the k2 girls in my class were very cute. I don’t understand why they will want to crowd behind me to give me massage. I was at the same level with them after sitting on the stool. So the girls gathered around me – massage neck, leg. I did not exploit or misuse my authority okay? I just could not understand why they did that.

Before going off from work, I went back to my own playgroup class and hugged every single babies. I cant forget the smiles on their cute and sweet faces. After hugging the playgroup babies, I went to the K1 class to hug them or give them a hi-5. And guessed what? I banged my back on the table. It was not due to my clumsiness or stupidity but was because when I squatted down and hugged one kid, the others came and started to hug me all together. Duh? I wasn’t able to balance myself thus knocking my back to the table. My kids are just “over friendly”!

I’ve took a few photos of my kids and uploaded them on my facebook. You can check it out too. Aww.. I think I will miss my kids. But I think I will still pop by my childcare centre to say Hi to the kids.

After work, went to school to crash my friend’s poa revision class. But we could not get in since we do not belong to the class and the staff was stationed outside the lecture room. In the end, I went to the library to study. Saw my secondary school friend, benjamin in the library. I managed to sneak into the lecture room during the break after the staff went off. So in the end, I only managed to listen to the second half of the lecture. After class, daddy came to school to fetch me home.

When I’m just too lazy to blog..

Twitter will be a good place to know my daily updates:

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.

Day 32 to Day 43 of work

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

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.

Day 12 and 13 with the kids

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.

Day 10 & 11 with the kids

14 December 2009 (Monday)
Day 10 at work (330-545pm)

As usual, I got my psychology lesson in the morning. I was super tired and having my usual blues. While walking to the station, I saw the k2 girl who cried last friday. She was walking with her maid and she could recognise me! Initially she could not recognise me because I looked different from my usual work attire/style. But then, she realized it was me and started to smile and wave good bye to me. Her smile just shoo my blues away! After my psychology class, went back home for lunch before going to work.

When I reached my childcare centre, some k1 and k2 kids were still having their high tea. When they saw me, they were very excited and kept greeting me. So sweet.. They brightened my mood the very beginning. The last time I saw my two years old kids were 5 days ago. Damn long right? It’s because last friday I was unable to join their class. I was excited to see them.

When Monique saw me, she ran towards me and hugged me. Then, I saw a very big bruise on her left cheek. My heart really aches when I saw it. So I asked her what happened, she told me “baby bite me”. Oh gosh.. my mood dropped again when I saw another of my kids got bruise on her face too. At that point of time, I feel like crying. But I had to continue to teach them. Taught them about facial expressions and emotions – happy, sad, worried, angry, lost. Then played toys with them. After a while, some kids were called to the music room. So I played with the rest of the kids outside. All the teachers was in the music room learning the dance steps for the upcoming christmas party. The childcare centre became a little bit out of hand(HAVOC!) as I was the only teacher outside, taking care of kids from the playgroup, nursery, k1 and k2. But it also gave me a chance to know other kids from the different group. And now, they know my name and keep calling me.

15 December 2009 (Tuesday)
Day 11 at work (830-130pm)
When I reached the childcare centre, the kids (from all groups) were practising the dance steps for the upcoming christmas party. Some kids started to stream in to the childcare centre. For kids from playgroup and nursery, I got to bring them over to the shelves to put their bags down.

Think I mentioned before that on my first day of work about a little boy who hugged me hard when his teacher wanted to bring him to the class and that he hugged me tight tight? Yes, I got to interact with this boy again. His name is Isaiah.  So when Isaiah came in today, I brought Isaiah to the shelves to put his bag down and brought him to the music room. When I wanted to walk away, he followed me. So I told him to stay in the room and learn the dance steps. He started to grab my hands and forbid me to go away. Haha..

Normally if I’m working in the morning, I will need to bring my 2 yr old kids to playground. But today, I was told to help in the nursery class. ISAIAH IS IN THE CLASS TOO!! He was soo happy to see me. Then played with him and the other kids. The difference between this nursery group and with my playgroup kids is that kids of the nursery group are more mischievous, violent and noisy. and my dear Isaiah kept looking for me- crying. Had to hug him, pat him.

I prefer my playgroup kids – cuter, adorable and much obedient. Then something big happened to one of the boys. His classmates bite his face. OMG!! See? This is what I mean by mischievous. Poor boy got really big bruise mark on his face.

Helped the kids blow-dry their face after their shower, tied pretty girls’ hair. Lunch time and I was still attached to the nursery group. Isaiah reserved a seat for me. Haha.. cute right?

After lunch, was nap time. Patted Isaiah to sleep and I went back to my playgroup to check out my kids. Monique was crying very hard. She ran towards me when she saw me. Used quite some time to calm her down and patted her to sleep.

Alrightx, tml (woops, i mean later..), I’m gonna see them again. :excited: I’m not looking forward to the long day (will be awake from 7am to 11plus) but am looking forward to see the kids!

Happy birthday LBD!

121209 was a special day for a special someone. It’s my LBD – Ms Claris Tan turning to 21! (Dear, everything I want to say is in the sms already. Muacks you a thousand)Last saturday after service, went to meet up with the replicas Xx and Pok at Taka. Then we headed down to Downtown East. When we reached there, paparazzi was there too. Camera flash lights here and there. Can you imagine you’ve got three DSLR cameras focusing on you?

Leong, Tze Kiat and Rubin then came and joined us. Joked a lot. When you have jokers around you, there’s no way you can control your laughter. The night was beautiful with plentiful of stars. If only I have no wedding lunch on the next time, I would have stayed overnight at the chalet. Took the train back home. When I reached my stop, I realised that my vision was blurred and got some problem in walking back home. Not sure what happened but started to see stars.

The next day, 13 december was my sec sch friend – Yifong’s wedding. waited for zhanming to come and fetch me. Saw some old friends and teachers. Guess what? The official photographer of the wedding was my sec sch teacher. He was the one who took my photo when I was sec2 at Istana while I was doing my SJAB duties. He was the one who printed out my photo and started to show the teachers. OMG!! and now, that A4-sized photo is on display on my kitchen’s wall. If you’ve been to my house, you should have seen that. My mum lar..wants to display it in the kitchen. Can you imagine how pai seh am I when my friends or my brothers’ friends come to my house and see the photo? Gosh, and I’m gonna feel ashamed again on 25 dec when my brother’s friends are coming. After the wedding lunch, took the car back. Luckily got car cos was quite tired already.

Anyway, I’ve already made up my mind and made a choice on certain issues. I sought advice from my friends on issues that I’m unable to make decision. So my friends that I should draw lot.

Check it out @ my twitterstatus:

1. my friends told me to draw lot on things that I cant decide. I drew. then sth happened and confirmed that this is a right choice. 7:57 AM Dec 13th from TweetDeck
2. I’m down to two choices and I chose the former 8:12 AM Dec 14th from TweetDeck
3. even if people dont agree with the choice I made, this is what I want, where I want to go 8:14 AM Dec 14th from TweetDeck

yup yup..so this is my decision..

Day 8 & 9 with the kids

On 8 December after my work, went back home for lunch and waited for MJ to come. it’s been a long time.. she came to my house to learn html codes. frankly speaking, I’m not  very good in teaching people about html codes as I self-learn them and not good at explaining why certain things work this way.

9 December 2009 (Wednesday)
Day 8 at work (730-1100am)

Normally if I got class on that day, I will only need to work for two hours. Every wednesday, I will have class in the afternoon and so I will need to work from 830-1030am. But I got to work from 730-1100am due to manpower shortage. In the morning when I reached the childcare centre, I welcomed the kids, facilitated them in their quiet time reading. Then, brought them to wash their hands before having their breakfast. For breakfast, they had bread with strawberry jam. Then, brought my 2 yr old kids to their classroom. Taught them to sing english songs and then brought them out to the playground. There were 8 kids and 2 teachers(including me). Frankly speaking, it’s very tiring to bring 2 yr old kids to the playground. you must be very very careful when they climb up the kind of stairs that’s made of ropes. Then walked around the neighbourhood before sending back to the centre.

By right after bringing the 2 yrs old kids back from outdoor, I will need to bring the K1 students to go outdoor. But since there was only one teacher in the playgroup class, I stayed with them all the way and helped until 11am.

Then, after work, rushed back home to pack my bag etc and ran for my class. Luckily I was just right on time. After class, got shepherding, then went to Wilkie Edge’s Starbucks to do my marketing mindmaps while waiting for the rest of the cg members to come. Had our dinner together and then went back home.

10 December 2009 (Thursday)
It was a day when they started to fight. you know who I’m referring to? We led, they followed. Although the price of the Iphone itself will not drop, I’m looking forward to the kinds of phone plans they are giving. Now, Singtel is giving the 12GB broadband for the cheapest iFlexi ones.

And do u know what happened in the morning? I was going to my next lesson at 12pm after the one in the morning. After putting my bag in the lecture room, I took out my wallet and.. SHIT! Where’s my handphone?!!? Ran back to the previous lecture room and it was lying ON THE LECTURE TABLE!!! It’s not underneath the table but ON THE TABLE!! Luckily I realised it fast. If not, my phone will be gone for good. Losing a phone just like that aint a good reason to get a new one. My current phone is worth $100 okay? Wow.. really thank God that I found my phone.

11 December 2009 (Friday)
Day 9 at work (330-530pm)

It’s a super long day for me. Had class in the morning from 830-1130am. Then came home to have lunch. Took a nap until 3pm to get ready for work. Today, I was told to take care of the K2 kids. They had their high tea – waffles and herbal drink. I got a cup of herbal drink from the auntie too! K2 kids are much more independent and you will understand what they are talking about (unlike baby talk ). Read Three Little Pigs to them, then played toys, puzzles with them. When my 2 yr old kids saw me, they were very excited and followed me, especially Monique, Charlene and Zhi Ling…HAHA..Cute right? but sadly, I cant join them. Gosh, I miss them okay?! Have not been seeing them for one day. There’s this k2 girl kept crying when her maid came as she didnt want to go home. It’s kinda funny. My 2 yr old kids always cry to want to go home. But k2 kids cry because they dont want to go home.

After work, went back home again, packed my bag and went to school for my marketing makeup lesson. 7-10pm in school is tormenting! While people have their TGIF evening, I was trapped in school for a three hours lecture! Counted down to 10pm and ran out of the lecture room with my friend. Then went back home.. 5 stars in the sky.