The A to Z in the life of U.

We learn alphabets since we are small. We learn the grammatical theories on every languages. In U, this went off for no exceptions too. I found this on a website and decided to translate it and add/ change some terms with my own understanding for certain words, in the 4 years (as the information from that site is slightly outdated too)

Teachers (A poem about teachers)

Kringgggggg!
Selamat Pagi Cikgu!
Class, Good Morning, Sir!
Lao Shi Zao An! (老师早安)
Vanakkam.

Teachers.

They say, it is
a noble job with a modest pay.
As they service without delay,
to schools - far, far, far... away.
Ha, Ulu Bole?
Melinggan?
Long Pasia?
P1, P2, P3..
Hey! Don't forget the 10% from your basic pay!
BISP, dan tambang FREE... (BISP and transportation ticket is FREE)
bersyukur lah... banyak dah kena bagi. (Be grateful, already given a lot...)

erm... Thank You so much, MIE (LOL)

Teachers, are like Jack of all trades.
Managers, administrators, counselors, motivators, decorators, gardeners, friends,
just to name a few.

And...
Salesmen and saleswomen!
MLM of many kinds,
Promote products from A to Z,
Mau kain batik ada... (We have batik)
Minyak wangi pun ada... (Want perfume? We have it)
Macam macam ada! (You name it)
Buli bayar ansur-ansur bah! (Can pay by assurance)

Hei bro, mau trica juice? (Brother, want Trica Juice)
Barang bagus punya... (It's good thing you know...)
buli ba kalo ko... (OK 'bah if you).

But,
Unlike Jack,
still,
They are MASTERS of,
Pedagogy, Methodology, Psychology, Administration,
And... there is another one my friends.
HENTAM-LOGY!

Teachers,
are loaded with new stuffs.
New agendas,
New deals.
The agent of change, so to say.

LINUS, LINUS, LINUS!
Apa, Si Linus? Antah... macam blum datang lagi ba, (What, Linus? Don't know... like not arrived yet.)
Sana... di kantin ba. Minum Minum. (There... at the canteen, drinking.)

No, no, no!
Not that Linus!
Linus means,
Literasi dan Numerasi. (literation and numeration)
Salah satu program dalam sub NKRA. (one of the program in sub NKRA)
Atau, bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara.
By the year 2012,
Semua pelajar Tahun 3, (All year 3 students)
boleh membaca dan mengira. (Can read and count)

Jadi... (So)
Kalau ada yang belum pandai membaca dan mengira? (If there is still someone cannot read and count)
Habislah, habislah kamu! Habislah sekolah! (Then, finish, you are finished, the school are finished!)

But,
we, teachers,
firmly believe,
we can achieve the Mission and Vision of PPD and KPI of our schools.

Because,
We are physically strong,
We are emotionally stable,
We are spiritually blessed.
And,
We work unconditionally.

All for one.
One PPD,
One State,
One Nation.
And, one for all.
The almighty God in return,
with bless all of us.

GURU PEMBINA BANGSA NEGARA.




From PPD, and edited.

Planned, or outplanned?

A little bit of my rants.

This Friday we will be having a reflection at the school - Not sure if it is compulsory but might take a chance to go to the city as I have a lot of things to do, especially with my affairs about money and result.

Since there is something to do at the day, therefore everything for this week's lesson has well planned. I will be giving the students an exam and preparation on the role play as there are plenty of time, no?

Plan before the rain, 未雨绸缪, eh? I don't think it is working - or you may say it is predictable.

This is what has come out of expectation. The admin (lazy to mention) allows us to leave at Friday (well it oughta to, as we are not going for vacation) but we are required to leave after 10 - hey, the trip is taking like... 2 to 3 hours, and we need to attend the Saturday's event!

Let's say if I am moving at 10 that time, then I can do nothing, but waste money for just attending the reflection, and then go back and prepare for the next day's event. I planned to go to the admin office of my U (Fridays, and they are good on taking breaks, from 11 to 2.30, if I am correct?) to settle off everything in one go (changing the result is only valid in the first month) and F*** that, almost every Saturday there are events in the school. I don't mean that I hate that... no. But at least give me a break for me to settle the 'so-called personal event' - it is important for me.

With the time constraint, what's the point I waste almost RM 100 just for the reflection, and I am not get paid, yet pay for everything including my 'personal matters' in the U if I cannot do so? I also need to get some materials and perhaps take some time to release my tension off. Planned to get a leave on Friday and settle everything off - it is not easy to go to KK when you live in 'outskirts'.

I am a human, not a cyborg or robot.

Practicum life - football match

Last Sunday my school had football competition at Sipitang district. 8 teams from the area, including my school, joined the competition. It was based on knock-off competition. I am playing at the right side, including RB, RM, RSW, and also RW. Well... I am playing with the No.6 jersey.


The first match is our school, SMK Padang Berampah versus Oranje Army (I think it is the Western Zone...)
The first match we were against Western Area and we had a comfortable win, 6-3. My ratings from the match was 5.5, with one offiside and a foul.
The morning match. The players are enjoying and discussing for the strategy. The man, second right was an veteran player that assists a lot in the match.

Meanwhile at the evening, we were are semi finals and against PPD. A tough match, yet we won 2-1. Rating for the match was 5.0 as I performed no attacks and also a foul.
The linesman is from our school. The student that picks the ball - also.
The evening match. The dirt and the rain makes there are some performance problem on the match.

Teacher's day of the school of my practicum!

Last Saturday, my school had celebrated Teacher's day. And it is obvious that we practical teachers are compulsory to join the activity for sure, right. Still, it is not so bad as it shows the participation of the practical students too...

The activities held for the teachers, something like Amazing Race.

A snapshot of the group of teachers after the race.

This is my group, we had a good result even it was a bit exhausted... Ranked 3rd out of 8.

Students that attended, I can say.
They look happy because the teachers are singing (and me too, the reason that I became popular after that).

If I have the time, I will upload the video to here or somewhere else. Need to admit that my singing is not good but what to do... -.-

The life of practical - Day 4

I am speechless with the event that happened. Expect to teach more than that but the progress is pretty slow.

The 9 (consider it as 10) sentences that I had taught...

1. Hello. Allow me to introduce you my friend, XXXX.
2. Nice to meet you. My name is XXXX. What is your name?
3. My name is XXXX. Nice to meet you too.
4. XXX, where are you from?
5. I am from XXX. How about you, where are you from?
6. Oh! I am from XXX.
7. My hobby is XXXX. How about yours, XXXX?
8a. Oh! We are sharing the same hobby. I also XXXXX.
8b. We are having different hobbies. My hobby is XXXX. How about you, XXXX?
9. My hobby is XXXX.

Well, the class is a big class, like around 35 students. However, they are pretty talkative and the classroom management of mine should be changed for some reason...

I had managed to get the learning outcome by asking them present every 3 sentence into groups. I am not really happy with this, but at least it is a good start as the class is partcipating. The issue is how I am going to conduct the lesson plan if the supervisor comes? I cannot use English fully as it is considered as an UFO language to them (still they understand a bit).

Please let me know what I can do to teach English for the weak class. Desperately need help on that for now.

Problem in my practicum! (Day 3)

Problem happens in the second day. Luckily that I met a real good Samaritan a.k.a. my previous house owner that I rented her room (but I cannot stand with the heat and cats), and eventually my problem about house was solved.

The new room is pretty good. At least it was air conditioned. Still:
1. The condition other than the room is worse compared to the previous one (if the previous one have no cats then it is good)
2. Toilet... (still OK, I loved the previous one but it is a bit 'not so good' here, after all I just spend most of my time at my room instead of toilet, duh)
3. Owner (not really tolerate, and hoped she can clean the house or maybe employ cleaners to perform cleaning matters as she was renting the house right). The rent was RM 350 per month! But it inclusive of bills (water and electric), so, after class, the aircon open till next morning. Don't care.

At least the school situation is not so bad. But now I am stuck on what should I do - my lesson plan at the school. After all at the first week is about settlement, and diagnose test (thanks to the previous teacher in their hard work, and now my demonstrator also in a headache because she was transferred from Form 1/2 into Form 4). Imagine that - Text book only 1 chapter has done, the literature done with both short stories (maybe?), no taught any part of grammar, and even worse - writing, too only completed with formal letter!

I will be having a hard life at here, facing a small group of students, and also problematic class. I hope I can solve this obstacle as the time progresses. I need to think how to teach the weak class as I had never done that yet...

The big issue of mine for the moment

OK. The first moments in the practicum area. The school is good and others are fine so far (at least it is OK for now). Things went fine except for some. Forget about the situation at the school - I am now facing seriously bad health hazard and seeking for help!

I live at the shop lot for the moment. The room temperature here is unbelievably high - There are no windows to open for the moment as the security measures. I and my friend had decided to spend some money for the sake of health (try to imagine that you are in the room temperature of almost 30 degrees till the midnight due to the low air flow and might get sunstroke any time of noon when you are in the room). The machine costs some fortune and well... RM 1++ per person. You know the price. Still I cannot see that the condition of the room becomes cooler or what... Guess I need to have to ask on the shopkeeper...

Next. The room that we currently rent is a cat lover. You will never able to imagine how much cats that the owner have - 15 of them. I previously had a symptom of asthma and now I need to face so much cats due to lack of location - no quarters and no any suitable rooms to rent for the moment. The asthma sign has shown and I need to sort out the solution pretty soon.

Please - tell me, what should I do? I cannot asks the owner to keep the cats away beacuse of me (in morally)...

Advice me in my Facebook post located below:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1058502878&v=wall&story_fbid=123481197693835


P/S: Just checked at my result recently. I am sad with my PSMP result. But I think I cannot do anything with it...

Findings of my practicum!

Just went to my future practical school - SMK Padang Berampah.

The school is bigger than I thought, LOL. They just constructed another new building and they have two different sessions, for Peralihan, Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3, Form 4, Form 5... The school also provided both old and new (don't know if I can live at the new one?) quarters, maybe need to discuss with the principal first about that.

The school is good, still the distance from there to the town is like 10 km something, it will cost some time and effort to go to the town if I was assigned to the afternoon class. Not sure if there is any student's hostel but hopefully there is none, somehow. As I am using newspaper as a part of my practicum and also for my thesis, I think I need to do something about the transportation.

From the comments (even though I am not sure it is true or not), they said the students are 'naughty' and weak in English. I think I need to prepare mentally for the school as well...

Food is another issue - unless I know how to cook, LOL! If I live in the quarters, no food supply at night.. yet cannot afford to pay if everything eat at outside... thanks to the stupid system, WTH said that we get allowance for RM 10 or RM 5 daily? In the letter...

...Pihak kami tidak membayar sebarang elaun untuk penama berikut yang akan menjalankan praktikum...

Hostel fee (even though you become NR you need to worry on the application after your practicum and final semester), accommodation, course fee, bla bla bla. Where to get the money while you need to spend again?

The best thing about that location is there was 3G connection there! (even it can only get WCDMA and not HSDPA) I can re-connect or apply for Celcom 3G at my location. After all, I 'need' Internet to survive...

Wait patiently for the 45 days (That come soon)...

Holiday has ended and the semester break is coming soon.

In a summary, I had a miserable semester for the moment.

First - my thesis. Well, I do put out a lot of hope though. But, is it that I am really demanding, naive or what? If people really don't know... then what can that people do except by asking questions? Wanted to have a good quality thesis, but when the supporting force is not helping, then it is likely impossible to do so. I obtained an impossible topic yet I can covered the 'impossible' to make it possible. Please, I need your comment or support SERIOUSLY. It is not that I love to offend the rules...

Second - Practical. I hate this phrase a lot when I asks...

Don't worry, I will work it for you, just wait for us to inform you who is the supervisor.

Ahem... Of course 'you' are not worried because you are not the one who get supervised... It is not that tough - just find a supervisor near the 'coverage area' to supervise us! It is just four of us, after all...

Third - final exam

Well. some issue happened... I need to settle everything in 5 days and then 'not checked'... Gosh. I wonder what I had done in those days and doing something worthless while my work was not checked... wasted all my effort on the papers and no more mood to study my final exam... What... flunked all of them, of course.

Fourth - hostel

Because of practicum that 'not offered any allowance' to us, I am forced to register myself as a NR student just to save the 3 months money for my future accommodation in that area... During the practicum I need to worry my thesis, my practicum and my accommodation after my practicum. What a horrible semester.

I wished that I am a gifted one for now... Pretty envy on them, somehow.

The 20 things you should do when you are graduate.

Happen to get this when I am surfing net, credits to the person who created this essay (I do the translation only LOL)

Read the 20 keys! Click here to show!

1. Not matter how introvert you are in the class/ lecture. You must use this chance to talk to your friends, or perform in front of them, or like the new semester, introduce yourself (it doesn't matter!) to your friends.

2. Visit the lecturer you respect the most. Talk to them, and learn a 'theory of life-walk process' when you graduate.

3. Tell the girl/ boy that you liked/ loved before: "I loved/ liked you before!"

4. Buckle yourself up and say sorry to someone that you never do so.

5. Drunk yourself for this time - even you don't drink.

6. In a rainy night, go out, shout as many of your friends' name that you can remember, even though your action might woke up N number of people.

7. Go to the cafe of your residential area, and drink the soup. You will remember the taste of the soup for eternity.

8. In a morning, try to jog. You will realize that the strength of yourself has made a huge difference compared to when you first entered the university.

9. Never write/craft "XXX been here before" in your hostel, anywhere. You know why.

10. Make a promise to yourself that you will never miss or escape any gatherings - if there is any.

11. Wear formal attire once. Compare again, see is there any difference of yourself at the past 3/ 4 years?

12. Spend some time to clean up and organize your items. Filter and see what are useful, and what are not. You might also end up by getting on someone's item or surprise inside.

13. When guys are cleaning up the items, try to: give your jersey to your male junior, CD to your female junior, books and games... bring it back. For females, your gown/ prom dress to your female junior, books to your male junior, cosmetics... bring it back.

14. If there is a mountain in your university, remember to climb it again. If there is a pool or beach in your university, remember to go to swim or play at there again.

15. Remember to get some of your good or constant friend's contact, and even give them your possible new number or address if you are going to change them.

16. Make a final haircut 'in the university life'. You are going to have a new life and bring a new start by doing so.

17. Remember to return any passes or cards, tables, books, anything that you need to. I know the opinion that 'those can become a memory of mine - I rather to get penalized than return them back'. It is subjective, anyway.

18. Your thesis and viva might the the last assignment in your university (and might not). No matter how troubled you have, try to treat this 'assignment' seriously.

19. Have a memorable photo with everything that you had gone through with you for the years you are in the university.

20. Try to bid farewell with as much of your coursemates, friends in university, if possible. They have been with you for the four years. There might be some possibility that the friends that you had bid farewell is the last and only moment.

Will anyone remember to do so when they are going to graduate? I think I will. And there should be something more to do... (just cannot think off due to the 'state of blank')

That's why I HATE the lecturer of Philosophy of Education.

Do you think it is easy for him to gain the title of "King of C" (he is good at giving C's)? Just have a look at his overview of assignments (actually it is bullshitting)...

Student Council - Best way to reveal 'humanity'?

Trends of people are sure... wierd and funny... right?

My thoughts of SMKDK activity

Read this before you read the rest! Personal thoughts!

Plenty of surprises and surely it will be a miserable 'new semester' for me soon...

1. Results
Pointers dropped 'dramatically' from 3.XX to 2.XX, luckily my CGPA is near to 3.XX so that I still manage to save my pointer for this semester, if everything are fine for this semester though... now quite worried if still manage to do so from judging at the courses that I am taking this semester...


2. Roomates
Never imagine that I can find a people that is extremely unhygienic... 8 days from the day he moves in, his average clothes washing time is 0 and I wonder if he really cares about his own personal hygiene.

3. Courses
Realized that it is tough when it comes to choose a course, when you are going to decide for your sake of pointer or based on your favorite lecturer or for safety reason... it is hard to make the decision. At the last, need to take the lead to drop a course and take a course that I am not intended to take for this semester, hopefully I am safe for this as I am going to meet that person 4 times a week (suffering).

Semester break left 'a few days'... and soon will need to struggle for result again . I still not yet recovered from the impact of the result and quite envy someone that still 'managed' to get such good results without doing anything.

The only left activity that I need to join is my school activity. Hopefully by joining the activities held in my school will able to let me live in the hostel for next year... hate the hostel admin system, judging people through pointers and activity, yet not able to get a double room now.

Rooms... is still a '?' for me and don't know how is my future roommates will be. Quite nervous, hopefully it will be good ones and it will be better if it is in same school or same course. It is rare to find any roommates that are taking same school with me, and is even rarer to get roommates in same course.


New semester, new year, new challenges. Hope that I can overcome it, and so do you.

The results are out yesterday. Just checked this morning and almost get a heart attack when I viewed on my result...

My first response is: "WTF? What happened? Pointer starts at 2...?" My average pointer for this semester drops from 3 to 2.9 something... is quite relieved that I managed to get sufficient pointers at previous semesters... and for me to save my pointers at next semester.

Still...

It is a sad thing... don't even know what I had learn and now come out with such result... And need to see the lecturer again at this semester... how to prepare on his courses, WAH! A B and C for all of my major program and well, my major school's result is already in expectation.

Don't even know how to survive on next semester. The major school subject is always a piss off.

Have been wait for a month... when will the result coming out?

Started to get annoyed and piss off with their 'beloved system'. The date for the result is getting late from a semester to another. Now... left only a week for the registration and at next week will be the registration of new students.

D'oh! How on earth the admin department in the university doing?

Visitors from Chile to our school by Spanish Club

During the final exam, I had a program that is from my Spanish teacher about the international students sightseeing program at my school. Seems that I have some time on my final exams (I don't really study even I am free, after all), so I had decided to join the group for a day.

The group on that day, and guess I had blocked one of them~ >.< (Angelica - left 1 in first row, Alexandra - middle in middle row, Robben - left 1 in back row and Ximena, middle in back row)The first destination after breakfast - Monsopiad Cultural Village, the man besides me is wearing the traditional Kadazandusun clothing.

Cannot remember what is that house for...
Some of the games at the cultural village - considered as traditional game, like blowgun.

They also have the utensils that used to make tapai (a kind of wine).

Went to several locations but there are only two places that becomes the main spot for the day - and the second one is the Lokawi Wildlife Park.

White eagle that in the park, very cool...

First time that I touched a snake. Looks a bit... -.-'

The orang utan, she is quite a poser.

At that night we went to Damai for a dinner too (I planned to go because at that night I am furious about the hostel... that they chose randomly). They spent a week here and have fun with them, even it is just a day. Luckily that we live in the same college at that time they visit, so still can spend some more time and chatting when they are around, to release some 'tension' from the student affairs too. *sigh*

Courses Review on Sem 4

Semester 4 is over and now is going to the 'Junior' era (Third year). Seems that this semester had a lot of pleasant things in my activities but not in my courses... *sigh

1 - Morphology

Morpho... well it seems that the final paper for this course is... ridiculous. Reuse the previous paper totally for the final exam and wasted the efforts of those who is really studying... and the weightage of the paper is unknown too, as the paper's marks are 169... don't know convert to how many for the result...

He is also one of the lecturer that only uses white board for the lectures from A to Z (even I have no idea what I had learn as the assignments was the thing he not taught yet, then we already know what he is going to teach as we had done the assignments, if really spend the time on it).

2 - Approaches

He is like a Mr. OK to me as he always agrees with our requests, and he is quite a kind lecturer, but still will fall asleep in the class sometimes... luckily that the course is not that hard to understand and I think this is the only major program that I am sure I can survive on...

He is the first lecturer that called me at 5.30am too.

The course is all about the theories that is similar to pedagogy but it seems that this is the advanced version, wonder that other faculties in my school like science social will need to study these pedagogical methods or not...

3 - Writing

She is the outside lecturer (from Institute Gaya) and she is quite a good lecturer, but the issue is maybe because she was invited, with her age too, some of my friends suspect that she cannot teach us well (in fact she is not a bad teacher as she taught us useful things with a easy manner, like some of my lecturers in the past).

This is the first major program that I attend in night as well.

4 - Pusat Sumber

This is one of the course I called as... KILLING! The lecturer is really kind but the thing is the class for this course is wayyyyyyyyyyyy to big (almost 500) and now wonder that how will she able to give us those carry marks as I don't have any idea how those marks are calculated and how many tutorial works that I had sent...

The second most questions in my courses so far (before the stupid philosophy course that have 100 questions), this have 80 questions, that enough to kill you.

5 - Pedagogy

This lecturer is a popular lecturer (the coursemates voted him) as he knows to talk jokes in class. This course also have 2 different lecturers as one is mainly about the theories and the other is about applying.

It is quite a hard course for me as I hardly to get any notes (same goes to the Pusat Sumber - the notes for Pusat Sumber is too complicated as most of them not related to the course), and because of too many involvement in activites, I think I pranked on this paper.




The later my U life goes, the more I am worried for my results, as I totally hate on my school subjects - It is in a large group and the lecturer (some) are quite not responsible on their teaching, and don't even know what I had learnt for them!