16 Jan 2009, 5pm

今天终于有缘听见阿查教form 1了。我觉得很搞笑！现在上着课的学生是国小的，所以有必要用英文上课。那英文，实在是太华校了！虽然搞笑，却很有效率的哟。

刚刚让他自己一个处理2Y顿时觉得有点委屈了他。下星期我请假了，相帮他也不行。就新年过后再帮他吧。

Today I wanted to do one major task - to inventorise the lab. As soon as I arrived at work, I saw that the gate was still closed. I thought, finally I am the first to arrive. I happily searched my pocket and found out that I forgot the keys! Oh, shoot. 

I was too lazy to walk back home and come to school again. As my parents fetched me to work, I called my parents to come fetch me again. I waited for them at the front gate. But Farah came first, I then asked Farah to fetch me back home to get the keys, and called to ask them not to come. As soon as I and Farah left, I saw my dad drove into the road. OMG. I am so going to be scolded. I called and explained, and things were fine after that. I was just a little dissapointed that I am not the one who is the first to enter the lab, and preparing things for my colleagues.

After my first class teaching 3Y, we then ate at the canteen. Made a breakthrough today as well, I introduced myself and my fellow colleagues to another teacher in the school. Good.

As soon as I got back to the lab, I was supposed to start to inventorise the lab. But I couldn't do so because, I wasn't sure of how should I do the things. Analysis dysfunction. I am always facing this problem. Shouldn't I do first before analysing too much? Ah, Hakushyo was right. Even though I am Chinese Ed, but I am English thinking. Lols.

Things to ponder:

Texts for Typing tests,

Hall of fame of typing?

Oh and about that f*cked-up server. Very geram with it. Connection always broken, always can't login to the server, always domain problem.

Server task:

Migrate server to the new one.

Upgrade the POOR Instructor PC...

Talking about quiz, and year plan, we have to document them down by tomorrow. This is to be submitted to Guru Kanan Pn Wong and En Chua, and the updated time table as well. Also your work paper and meeting minutes. See, so many tasks pending adi. Must start doing!

15 Jan 2009

Today I have decided to record down my reflection everyday if possible, if I have one.

I have gone through a breakthrough today, I managed to ask without hesitation or in Chinese 不耻下问. As I have no idea how we should say good day to the Buddha every time we go into temples, I tried imitating others. After so long, I still have no idea how to do that. 

I went to Prajnagraha today after work to do some work related to video editing, Chun Kien came along. While waiting for the videos to be uploaded, I felt compelled to ask Chun Kien the right way to do it. There were two reasons, I am sure that he knows how to do it, and I felt closer to him. He gladly showed me the way, and I felt good as well breaking the wall.

I then told him about it, and he told me he had the same barrier as well. Always afraid to ask questions. I told him my experiences after teaching in KB, one of the major difference between them is that, SJK students are more likely to keep things to themselves, especially Chinese students and SK students are more likely to voice things out, no matter how useful or rubbish they are, especially Malay and Indian students. I thought it might because Chinese students were more likely to be spoon-fed, or is it because of the ego? For me personally, I think it might be the ego.

We went for tea-session with Venerable MiaoZan, she told us about her experience in teaching kindergarden student. There is one student who was complaining about not being able to do simple things, he kept asking help from the teacher and complain that he do not know how to do those simple tasks. He kept showing that he is not interested in whatever he does, and doesn't even want to try to execute those tasks. She then talked to the kid, and tell him to start trying things out before saying don't know. After that, the kid was like another person! His interests in different things started to grow and started to learn very fast. The power of trying is so enormous that it can change the learning capabilities of a kid.

During work, I was teaching 3S, the best class of all. I don't know why, but I felt this barrier when I teach them. Since I wasn't in the best class before, there is a sense of fear to teach them, I was afraid what I am going to teach them is what they know, and that they migh feel bored learning with me. I too, assumed that everyone will pay attention to me while learning and thus progressed quickly during the beginning of the class when talking about rules and regulations. As soon as I reached MsExcel, I slowed down a little, and had more interaction with the class. Seems like the few examples given was attractive enough to catch their attention and got them to participate in the class. Any how, I still feel pressured. I guess one of the reason is that, the activities which are performed after a class, was too easy. Any how, this is the first lesson, and the connection to the server is not as perfect for all PCs, giving them jobs is a little difficult. 

Plannings - Strenghten the activities after the class, discuss with fellow teachers about usage of exercise books, year plan.