End of teaching stint.

At least for my 4B, 4K and 3G, that is. I still have another lab for 3E later, but that's Elsie's class, so.. I just go in and jalan around while waiting for Yiwen to come lol. I must say Mr Tan is rather fortunate to have 3 cheeky-but-does-work classes.. I just hope I did not 誤人子弟 too much. =.=

And it's rather weird to address Thomas as Mr Goh, lol. =.=

K, rambling, just have nothing to do while waiting for the 11am lab which means I'm probably gonna bathe in sweat once again because the weather is JUST too sweltering hot these days, being in lab and especially when the lab requires balancing and hence fans are all off is simply torturous.

Dozing off!

有驚無喜

Went back to TJ today with half a mind of chatting with Mr Ng. A look at the extension numbers depressed me: He's no longer teaching in TJ! A quick run down of the list and the general office's board told me that none of my teachers are in TJ already except for Faye Tan and Kitty Tan.. Bah! Mr Ng's gone!!! Boos. I never thought that there will be a day in which he'll retire -.-

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Today's the first day which I had classes all day, for most lab classes for sec3s had ended and I originally had 2 lessons today with the sec4s as well. Was rather confused bout 3 pin plugs the entire day, -.- and the many explanations did not exactly make it much better.. I shall just stick to one version and hope I don't contradict myself when I readdress the question. Lol. Afterall, I still suck at physics. =.= I finally found 4B to be a little endearing, because I don't usually teach the class even though it's my form class. Mr Lee does, and that's why interaction with the class was minimal. But today's encounter in the canteen made me feel that they really took me as a form teacher, even albeit only for 2 weeks. :) I will miss threatening to confiscate their phones and being accused of aiming at one particular person and asking why the 3B guy is always walking around the school and going "cher"-ing, lol.

No no I'm not sadistic. It's part of the classes' humour and interaction. (:

Star Awards 2009

This is the first star awards that I've watched since 2006, I think. That is if I did watch the 2006 one in the first place, because 2007 I was in Switz and 2008's was pushed to 2009. It's a rather enjoyable bitching process about who is pretty and who's not, who should get the awards and who should not. 

I was particularly glad that Guo Liang and Joanne Peh got their awards, because I thought they deserved it, especially Guo Liang!!! The way they gave out the title cards were also rather innovative, I like! But Chen Mei Feng was =.= so bimbotic!! Ethan =D

Ok, I've wasted enough time on tv shows today, it's time I get down to doing some of the Physics questions that I'm supposed to go through in class tomorrow. 

Maxed out

I think sleeping 5-6 hours a day and having activities the entire day is finally taking its toll on me.. Even though I could keep myself awake during classes and tuition, I guess a sleep debt is really a sleep debt.

Yesterday was a totally knocked out day. Haha. Just spent most of my time in the car dozing off. -.- Really couldn't keep my eyes open late.. Guess that's a negative for earning some $$. But sakae was fun enough, especially Minchao and his "I won't dio the open number again!"

And I thought I could sleep in today since there's absolutely nothing going on for me, and my dad woke me up at 9plus to go for breakfast. I only slept 6 hours again!!

Maybe I should sleep a little earlier today. Hahahaha. Tomorrow's a good day with Yiwen and Clement coming to school to visit me!! :D

Wants!

I ate my mango tart! It was heaven. I ate caramel banana tart too! That was not bad either. That brings my tarts up to a total of 5 tried. :)

I want to eat popeye's!

I want to jalan around!

I want to use up my vouchers!

I want to do a lot of things!

All before the end of next week. Because after next week, I'm not so sure I have time anymore..

I want to stay with relief teaching in AHS ):

I suddenly remembered why I didn't like AHS so much a while back.

It felt so damn weird today during assembly, when I was taking over the duties of Mr Mok (They invited Teo Ser Luck for assembly) when they started standing up, and sprouting words out that I felt unfamiliar. There was the lyrics on ppt, but.. It just didn't feel the same.

My beautiful lyrics:

浩荡嵯峨气象雄 黉舍峙，狮岛中

圣洁公义道之宗 肇锡佳名号圣公

咨爾多士慎磨砻 维上帝 临汝躬

春弦夏誦莫从容 干云之木自青葱

进德修业树风声 三教就四德成

永为基督之精兵 永为邦国之干城

The stuff shown on ppt:

浩荡圣中气象雄 如鹰展翅岛中

圣洁公义我尊崇 远近嘉名号圣公

治学立业须谦恭 师友爱乐融融

把握今天勤用功 创造锦绣之前程

进德修业树校风 向着标杆力冲

永为基督之精兵 永为邦国之忠臣

Couldn't bring myself to sing the unfamiliar words out. That aside, I still love the chinese pledge! It makes the pledge seem very elegant (:

Took over a lab class today. Ms Elsie didn't know there was supposed to be lab for 3G today, so I ended up being the only person in the entire lab shouting over 31 loud monkeys. Luckily I did the lab with the other class yesterday already -.-

That aside, I'm really rather happy in AHS now. Loads of teachers to talk to, and I don't know what made me go up to a teacher (who apparently just came not long ago) during lunch today and sit down and chat with her. Guess it's the familiar atmosphere lowering my normal apprehensiveness.

I should make use of the break time tomorrow to mug mug mug mug mug. Exam on friday, and I feel like there's nothing in my head!!

And I realized, relief teaching in the morning and going for tuition in the afternoon is such a tempting route to go, lol because relief teaching has no workload, and then after tuition the nights are still free! And after calculation, there's a decent take home pay. Okok stop dreaming. That's not likely to happen.

Congrats to AHSCO for maintaining (didn't know they got gold in 2007, lol), and to AICO for attaining gold. Even though they are giving out golds like freebies this year.. And gwh-s are like topless5 for $1.38.

Bah ok I'm rambling nonsense. Time to study then scoot off to bed.

Day1

started off with 118 steps. But it was rather fab.

Hahaha, I can't believe everyone still recognizes me. -.- And even the batch, within a split second, no less. I'm amazed. And one of them was like, you're from my form class! My only reply was, oh really?

Omg my memory really sucks.

I totally survived lab, because well, I probably were estimating A level SPA standards when I was worrying bout it. -.- The questions were really fundamental, and the mistakes they made showed inexperience, lol.

But I can't believe I got lost twice today to the same venue.

Haha. More lab tomorrow. And more free time tomorrow. :)

AHS <3

I went back to AHS today!

And it was such an amazing trip, I was smiling madly to myself all the way from the school to Bugis.

I went back, because the school admin called me a couple of days ago and asked me if I wanted to relief teach Physics for the upper secondary for the next couple of weeks. I was groggy that time when they called, and after hearing the word Physics, my only and immediate reaction was: I've never taught Physics before.

After some thinking, I thought I could cope with it, and called back to tell them that I wanted to accept it. In short, after some communication and other communication and some uncertainty, I was to see the teacher who was on ICT to brief me on what's to be taught. So I met the teacher at 1.01pm today? I was freaking late for about a minute BECAUSE I graduated too long ago and didn't know that the side gates are closed. Hence, I had to take a big detour to get to the main gate, which, I conveniently forgot to sign out after that because by that time the side gates were opened alr -.-

The teacher took me upstairs to the staffroom which I've been to before because I did go back a few times after the renovations have fully finished. After telling me what's to be done, he brought me around for an introduction to the teachers I'll be working with for the next couple of weeks. During the short trip around, I met like about 5 teachers on the way, and all of them recognized me!!! He first took me to see Mr Tam, who, of course, was my Physics teacher back in sec4.. I'm amazed that he recognized me as an ex student, even though I doubt he knew which batch I graduated from.. Lol. After that, Mr Tan took me to see a few more Physics teachers who i'll be assisting in labs or classes (PHYSICS LAB SPA ZOMG I totally felt like killing myself for forgetting bout the SPA factor. I think my lab skills are cui-ed).

On the way, met Mrs Lim, THE Higher Chinese teacher (and it happened to be her birthday today!) THE CO in charge, Ms Chan and Ms Chan (lol) and a few others. Ms Chan (chemistry) could recognize me, but I'm more surprised that Ms Chan (SS) could actually see me, point at me and went, "old student!" when I don't even remember being very active in her class. o.o Actually, I'm kind of amazed that all the teachers somehow remembered me, because I didn't really recall being very outspoken or whatever during AHS days -.-

And then I met Thomas Goh!!!! Totally amazing.

Then, Mr Tan showed me to the lab area, and we went back downstairs to the general office to collect my pass, photocopy my certs and stuff. Kudos to the school admin for helping me clarify with MOE about the discrepancy in the pay. I think Cathryn is very nice to me (:

After the admin stuff were settled, I went back to the staffroom. Met Mr Yao on the way and even though he doesn't recognize me as an ex student (because he's never taught me before), I had a kick out of looking at him stare at my less-than-school-skirt-length skirt but unable to lash out at me because I'm not a current student. Lols. Went back to the staffroom with the intention of finding Thomas to chit chat abit because it's really been so long since I last saw him! I couldn't find him at his table, then I walked over to Mrs Lim's table to chit chat with her :D The moment she saw me, she pointed at a calendar on her table. It took me 5 seconds to recognize that that was the calendar we gave her on Teachers' Day 2002!!!!!!!!!!

Like, OMG that thing hasn't fallen apart yet!! And it's amazing that she actually kept it all these while.. 6 years passed by le leh!!!!!!!! All she said was, you never changed at all, so you're recognizable. Faints. Haha. It only took her a second to figure out that I was in 4C 2002.. Mrs Lim sure has some amazing memory!!!!! I totally <3 her. Heh. Here's to being AMath rep for 2002 and being recognizable until now =D

I had a fun time catching up with her, and she even remembered class monitor as Yogi, and that he studies in Australia, when I don't even know! In turn, I tried to tell her where all the others were, though my information isn't exactly complete.. Lol. Finally decided to stop disturbing her when I saw Thomas pop back into the staffroom, and went over to find him. Turned out that he's actually been teaching in AHS for 1plus years!! And chemistry, no less. Hahaha. Had another round of catching up, and I'm looking forward to the la-kopi times we can have for the next 2 weeks, even though for the next week, my timetable would be quite packed. Lol.

Left the school at 2plus, feeling very happy and satisfied. I hope I can survive Physics, SPA included. Lol.