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...