=(

Mum has been sick for a week. She keeps feeling unwell for bad digestive system and poor appetite. Then she has been off from her work for a week, until her ladyboss nearly want to fire her.

She went to see a doctor. But till now still does not get better. Her friends said that she looks yellowish and pale. And they suspect maybe it's the problem with the liver. So I suggest a full medical check-up if she is still not getting better.

I am tied with my work now. Cannot afford the time to go home. Sigh...

Hope that the problem is not that serious and she will get well soon.

=|

Life in KL with only bread and jam SUCK!!!

I miss the home-cooked meals...

See!

I cooked six different dishes last Tuesday at home.

Back

Back in KL again. The bus I took should leave Kluang at 11.00am but because of a punctured tyre, it finally left the bus station at 11.45am. Maybe I should be thankful that the tyre did not puncture on highway.

Work is done 70%. Had all the necessary materials printed out and photocopied just now. It should not be a problem to teach on Monday.

Just another five more weeks to go. Miss Chai, you really have to ganbatte~!

Hair cut

I have finally gone for a hair cut, after so many times of me saying to do so.

(A-hem… Am I really THAT busy?)

Went to this N Saloon located near Johbase. I have heard about it from Esther and also my mum’s lady boss. It seems to be quite a nice one, since there are two people recommend it to me.

Frankly, that is a pretty nice saloon. The hairdressers are nice as well. Think that I will just say “sayonara” to Shann which has become more and more expensive now.

I cut 3 inches of my very long hair. I planned to cut it short (I mean REALLY short!) but convocation will be in September. I will look funny in the hat if my hair is short then.

The hairdresser had my hair nicely blown and cut. I have natural slightly curly hair. And the nice hairstyle just changes its shape after I washed my hair in the night.



Maybe I need a re-bonding? But I don’t really like to have my hair processed with the chemicals. I prefer to have natural hair la….

But it looks a bit funny now, if I do not handle it nicely.

Ggrrrrrr… Maybe I should just botakkan myself =p

Ahhhhhh!!!!

Woke up this evening realised that I have forgotten to renew the books that I have borrowed from the library!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I remembered it yesterday afternoon but it ended up that I forgot about it at night!! When I finally remembered it now, it's already too late!!!

A fine is for sure. But the library is not opening tomorrow. It is opened in weekdays only. And I plan to go home on Sunday.

Do I have to wait until Monday??

Sigh...

My new room

It has been a week since I moved into this new room of mine.

My new room


The view from my window.
Pretty nice, with a lot of trees =)

Has been getting used with the new environment. It is strange that I did not go into the wrong room. I have been living in the previous room for almost 4 years. It has become a habit for me to take a left turn after coming out from the lift. But I met no difficulties to take a right turn now after come out from lift.

It's Sunday, a very hot Sunday. Ironed my clothes this morning and cleaned the room. There are some cockroaches in the room. Well, the room is actually very messy and dusty when I first moved in. That's why I chose to move in immediately on that Friday since the new roommates are not in the room that day and I can take my time to clean the room.

So it is actually better now after I cleaned the ceiling fan+lamps, dusty wall+ceiling, dirty shower room+toilet, and messy space behind the door. Bought some naphtalene to get rid of "siu keong" as well.

I am glad that I can get used with the new environment now, and changing it into a better one =)

It's Saturday ^^

Went out for the whole day =p

Took bus U85 to Pasar Seni. Went to Pudu as WF wanted to buy her ticket for next weekend. Had brunch at KFC before we went to Mydin for shopping. Went to Mid Valley too before we came back to MC. It was 10am when we went out and 8pm when we back to MC. And with the new bus fare system, I only spent RM2 for my transportation today after being to so many places!

Bought a Polo wallet for my dad since Fathers' Day is coming soon. Its original price is RM109.90.

(If you know me well then you will sure know that I will never buy such expensive thing.)

I bought it with a 70% discount. I just love sales~! Especially a GREAT one =)

His birthday is in July. Mum told me to buy him a watch as his watch is already old. Ya, I have notived it too. But I need to save up some money to buy one for him. Is RM200 enough to buy a good watch? Or maybe I need more money to get a good one?

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Posting form has been a headache for me. I need to apply for posting from the Ministry of Education so that they will allocate me to teach in secondary school after I have graduated. I am given four choices of state which I can go for my service.

But, I only want to stay in my dearly Tanah Besar Johor. So, rather than just write the states, I write the districts as well. First choice is of course my beloved Kluang aka bat town. Then Segamat, Johor Bahru and Batu Pahat.

Reason is needed for my choices. I wrote there, "Supaya dapat berkhidmat untuk pendidikan dan menjaga ibu bapa yang telah melanjut usia pada masa yang sama."

(So that I can contribute for education and take care of my aging parents at the same time.)

Duh! The former is really a crappy one!

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Legs are in pain now after walking out there for the whole day.

Eyes are so sleepy now since I did not have good sleep for these two days.

Saturday is over soon =(

The same wish AGAIN.

I WISH THAT IT WILL BE SATURDAY FOREVER!!!

When can this dream comes true??

Sigh... I am crazy...

教师节

时间过得好快，才刚刚觉得星期一很令人讨厌，一下子就已经是星期三了！

又是一个下雨的早晨，撑伞站在路边截德士可真的不是什么愉快的经验。今天还蛮清闲的，只有一堂代课，和一堂数学，学生们还没考完试，我只是进去课室负责监考，老实说，这其实是挺浪费时间的。

去吃早餐的时候，食堂大娘给老师们送上教师节礼物，我原以为是什么蛋糕，打开来才发现是很精致的tarts，能够收到教师节礼物，还真是挺开心的 =) 另外还有老师买了蛋糕在办公室里分享，今天真是吃了好多东西。

现在还是考试周，学校里的教师节庆祝仪式要等到下个星期五才举行，到时候好像有表演之类的，老师们还说好了要穿上青色的衣服，那天应该会很热闹吧！

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批改了我那班中一学生的数学考卷，四十题选择题，最高分者答对了三十七题，最糟糕的竟然只答对了五题。我原本已为她们的程度应该是中等，但是看到如此悬殊的差距，看来我还真的是有一点高估了这班学生。

明天会批改数学试卷二，我想，应该会更加惨不忍睹吧！幸好我的心脏还算强壮，不然的话，我怕我会无法承受这样的打击……

Daily life

It's bored in school, as I have been reading and making notes of electrochemistry for the whole day. Invigilation of students when they are having exam is even more boring. Sigh... I hope that the exam will last longer (then I will not have to teach!) but at the same time I hope that it will end soon (so that I can have other things to do).

Copying notes from reference book.
The owner does not allow me to have her book photocopied =/


Making holes on objective answer sheet.
I will mark the paper of my Form 1M students tomorrow.

It's batik day. I do not have any batik so I wore baju kurung to school today. Looked so Malay-ish. Actually it is quite convenient as I can walk in big paces and sit whatever pose I want =p But it is quite hot and sometimes I might get tripped down by the long skirt.

Another day is over. Time to continue with my preparation for class teaching.


* Edited @ 11pm *

I sprained my backbone this noon in shower room =(

I heard a clear and loud "crack" while I bent over to clean the toilet bowl.
(Okie... not THAT loud actually. But I just can hear and feel it.)

It's still hurt now, even though I lied on bed to rest and sleep for the evening.

I am aging...

Weekend @ Home

Moved to the new room on Friday. Spent the evening to clean the room (as the current roommates seem do not have time for so) and arrange my things.

Did not plan to go home at first but... It's mothers' day. I think that I should go back even if just for a meal together. So, forget about my work and chores, and I packed something to be bring back home. A BIG bag of it!

Slept at the upper deck of the double-decker. It is quite hot but I was still able to sleep well as I was just too tired.

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Woke up early in the morning and rushed to Pudu. Had my shoes mended by a cobbler before I went to buy bus ticket. It took only 3 hours to reach Kluang!!! Thanks to the very smooth traffic, and speeding-driver =p

CY and James met me at Kluang bus station. We went to The Wan Restaurant a.k.a 湾仔茶餐厅 in Kluang Parade.

Well, this is a newly-opened restaurant. It actually looks very much like Kim Gary, I mean its renovation, staff's uniform and also food! But... The food there just aren't so nice.

The menu is ok. I had a glass of milk tea and a bowl of Nissin noodles. The milk tea is too sweet. The noodles is soaked in a BIG bowl of soup. The chicken luncheon meat is cut into thick pieces. The egg is not fried well too. Sigh... There is still roomssssssssssss for improvement for this restaurant.

My bro WeeSiong came met us after a while. Then we jalan-jalan a while in the shopping mall. Hmm... There are still plenty of empty shop lots. I wonder if it will end up like Plaza Bintang which is deserted now or not...

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Spent the evening at home cooking and playing hide-and-seek with the kids. The kids are really LOUSY at hiding. Kakaka...


I got you boys!!!

HowFei is clever enough to hide himself in my cupboard but... He left his feet outside and I caught him easily.

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Had dinner together with my family at home. WeeSiong bought fried chickens from KFC as well.

(Too busy with eating until I did not take any photo!!!)

Parents went out for to watch a karaoke contest after that. I was able to take some photos of my mum before she went out. She was in the uniform (pink color kebaya blouse) of some society. Nice pose, right?

Did not go out yamcha as told no one that I was home (except CY). I stayed home with brothers and we watched Saw III together. A very disgusting movie indeed. I had to hug my bolster while watching it as most of scenes are just too bloody violent.

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Back to KL by 1pm bus. It rained heavily all the way back.

My short weekend has come to an end. It's Monday again. Sigh....

Still the same wish as last week: I wish it will be Saturday forever!!!

Move!

My towel if fulled with the smell today!!!! =(

Arggghhhhh.....

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Went to the office this afternoon right after I back from school to settle the room changing thing. I will be able to move into the room tomorrow.

So... I am not going home tomorrow. I have to move my things to the new room, take some time to unpack, arrange my things and also clean the room.

I also need to start doing the preparation for my Chemistry teaching on 21st of May. I thought I can do it next week but I forget that I need to mark Maths paper, both objective and subjective paper.

Well, it will be holiday soon. TWO WEEKS OF HOLIDAY!!!! I will go home then =)

Just hope that there won't be anything need me to go back to school during the holiday.



p/s: Stef, if you see this.

I put your and Joan's things in my friend's room in fifth floor for the time being. My new room has no place since there are three people staying in it, including me.

So, if you want to take your things, can you come on weekend? Or weekdays after 2pm? Let me know when you have decided.

Move?

Move, or not to move?

Kennice's room is already taken by another girl. However I am given some other choices. I went to see the girls in the room(s) this noon. I could only meet one girl in one of the rooms. She is moving out soon while her roommate went back to hometown (Sabah) already. And I am not sure that whether the other girl will stay long or not. If they will move out soon, there is actually no point for me to move since there will be great possibilities that I will be given another two Indian roommates.

What to do? I think I need to confirm again with the girls in that room.

Okie... Will go to talk to her now.


* edited @ 10pm *

Talked to the girl already. She will move out end of this month while the other girl will stay for another year.

So, I think that this is the solution. I will choose this room. Tomorrow I'll go to the office to settle it. Friday I'll go home. So... Think that I will move to that room next week.

Settled!

KFC Day

It's Tuesday, and Tuesday is KFC day =)

Pampered myself with a meal from KFC as late lunch with WF, since we have passed the first week of our teaching practice successfully.

Pn. Yeap (one of the school teacher) is so kind and offered us a ride back home just now. She said that actually we should take the initiative to ask the teachers for a free ride since many of them will pass by Jalan Universiti.

Mmm... Indeed I have thought about that before. But... We are new there and do not actually have the chance to know all of the teachers yet.

About my roommates... I back to my room this noon. The room is smelly... Actually it's some very strong smell of jasmine flowers. Maybe it smells nice to some people but I really cannot tahan the smell like that. And I don't know who moved my things in toilet and removed the shower curtain as well. Sigh... I don't think that I can tolerate with all of these.

Well, I went to make an application for room change. I applied to move to Kennice's room since ML has checked out and her place is vacant. The person-in-charge was not in when I went to make the request just now. The other girl asked me to fill in the form first and go again tomorrow.

Hope that my application will be approved.

Sunday morning

So sad to realise that it is Sunday when I woke up this morning. I really wish it will be Saturday forever...

Crappy, crappy, crappy...

Cleaned my room after I did not do so for two weeks =p Then I rearranged my things to allocate a place for my printer. My table is still messy. I need to think of a way out to make it not so messy. Mmm... Throw away some useless things maybe?


So much of hair!! All swept out from my room!


New place allocated for the printer.

Ironed my clothes after that. What a boring Sunday morning with ondly doing house chores!!!

Going to do my lesson plans later. Well, I have done evrything actually. But after I entered the class on Friday, I think that I need to amend something.

Luckily it is exam week, otherwise I will really have a lot of things to do.

Spent big money

Spent big money today =(

Went to MidValley this afternoon to buy something. Erm... It has been quite some time since I last went there...

Bought a Canon Pixma iP1700 at RM159, and also its refill at RM11. I used to pay to ML and used her printer to print out my assignments in the past. Now I need to print lesson plans everyday. It will be more convenient for me to own one.

Then did some grocery shopping. A beautiful Saturday just passed like that.

How I wish that it will be Saturday forever~~~

It's Friday

I am so happy to announce that, it's Friday =)

There is one interesting thing with the school. There are always interruptions on electricity. It can happen for 3 or 4 times in a day! It is said that the school is old and so there are quite a lot of problems with the facilities and so on.

Photo on right: Staff room without electricity.

Start teaching the Form 1 class today. They are indeed quite weak, but generally they are still okay since they show the willingness to learn.

There are 19 Malay, 10 Chinese and 6 Indian students in the class. Many of them have problem in understanding English. So I have to repeat and explain slowly in very simple language so that they can understand what is being taught.

The girls like to switch places too! Actually there is a seating map of the class and they should sit according to the seats which have been fixed. Pn. Chiam mentioned about this to me before. I told the class that in next lessons, if I ever know who switches her place with another, I will keep calling the girl's name and let her answer all of the questions in that lesson. Hope that this trick will work.

Even though I was told by Pn. Chiam to be strict to them, but that is really not my style. I hope can be a friend or big sister to them. I need more time to know more about them. Hope that they will cooperate with me.

Had a relief class for Form 4T, which I will be teaching them for Chemistry. They had their Biology exam and I was there to invigilate them. When the exam ended and I had collected all of the answer sheets, two girls curiously came to me and asked, "Are you the teacher that will teach us Chemistry?"

"Yes," I nodded. The girls smiled and walked away. They seem to be nice students. I mean everyone of them in Form 1 Mawar and Form 4 Teratai.

Well, I believe that actually there is an angel living inside everyone. If I treat them nicely, sincerely; they will be able to feel that.

I have to work hard, to let them learn in an easier and more effective way.

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There was a teachers' meeting after school. My friends and I were formally introduced to the other teachers. The meeting is about the sport's day, school fees, teachers' club annual fees, exam weeks, teacher's presence in any extra activities, bla bla bla... It lasted for 2 hours from 12.30pm to 2.30pm. Phew~~~ What a tiring meeting...

Actually we the trainees are not really involved in the school activities. But, since we are also part of the school staff, so it is actually better for us to take the initiative to be a part in the school and be ready to contribute if there are things that we can help.

So, I am ready to be given tasks.

(But please don't ask me to dance or perform during teachers' day celebration or sport's day la...)

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Back to MC at 3pm. Went to campus after that to meet my supervisor, Prof. Wong. He bought WF and I drinks when we had a chat at our faculty cafe. Well, he is a nice man, totally different from the impression that he left to me when I took his Linear Algebra last year.

Had a light moment chatting with him regarding our work in school. He had also determined the dates which he will be going to the school to supervise us.

I also went to see my academic advisor (who has actually NEVER advise me anything) to get his signature for some graduation procedures. Then went to the admin office for some paperwork.

Felt extraordinarry-tired after a long day of spending much time in school and walking so much in campus.

TGIF~~~

天不作美

Was planning to go out for late dinner cum supper with Mona just now. BUT, it rained heavily all of sudden when we were about to go out. Downpour like that... How to enjoy mamak?

Sigh... 天不作美...... So we cancelled the date. And I came back to my room, to eat my bread =(

Dusty fan

Ceiling fan, before and after clean =p

开工大吉！

看到上面四个字，就可以理解我今天在学校度过了很不错的第一天 =)

校长、副校长、学务主任、科任老师和其他的老师都很友善和热心，忙着为我们解说学生的状况、为我们安排座位、带我们去实验室参观、介绍我们给实验室的助理认识。

我暂时不必开始教书，星期五才正式开始进课室教学。明天和后天是公共假期，可以好好地做一下我的教学计划。

希望接下来的日子也会一切顺利！

Fri Nite

Went out for late dinner cum supper with my beloved lao da Raymond and LitCheng just now. WanLing had some other things to do and was unable to join us =(

Murni BIG fans Raymond did not go to Murni this time!!! We went to A&W at Taman Jaya. Hmm... I love rootbeer and curly fries from A&W~~!

Will go home later in the morning. Brother has reached home from Singapore. Looking forward to be at home.

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Good luck for Joan and Stef for their final exams. Work hard, girls~!

CY, jia you~! All the best for the coming exam. Don't think too much oo...