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Saturday, February 12, 2005
Haven't posted for a long time...been busy with lots of things...setting and printing common test papers, cheer competition, spring cleaning and shopping for the new year, etc
Let's talk about Chinese New Year then. I guess now that I'm older, I'm no longer that enthusiastic about CNY compared to children who would get so excited about collecting lots of red packets and getting new clothes. Probably as we get older, the CNY mood is no longer that significant. We just spent the two days visiting relatives and marvelled at how they have changed over the years. CNY is also the time when our relatives would get together at my house to eat rounds and rounds of teppanyaki, and we could use CNY as an "official" reason to gamble with cards and mahjong.
What I hate about CNY is that relatives would start to ask irritating questions about boyfriends and marriages, and commented that teaching is a very relaxing job where we get to work half day and still get a good pay with an iron rice bowl job. Where do we see teachers working half day only? Sometimes teachers work as long as 12 hours a day. Ya ya, if the schools are run by my relatives, probably I would get to work half day only. That's the only scenerio I can visualise, other than that, it's almost impossible to get such an easy job. Well, I shan't hold it against their ignorance...haha
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Let's talk about the cheer competition then. It's really a chore to prepare the class for the cheer. I do appreciate the effort put in by the girls and some of the boys to organise the cheer, but practically, it's almost impossible to involve the whole class. They grumbled when they needed to stay back, and what was worst was that they would make so much noise that's totally irrelevant to the cheer. Then they would blame their classmates when they didn't do the cheer properly when they themselves did not even bother to do their job well. It's so easy for people to see the fault of others and start to pinpoint their weaknesses, but it's always so hard for them to see that they themselves have flaws too.
What made me so infuriated was the attitude of some of the boys. Imagine them saying these to you, "Since I'm not coming for the cheer competition, what for waste time staying back and practise for the cheer?" Aren't they really sickening and irritating? In the end, I have to send a few boys for detention because they did not have a valid reason for their absence.
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Finally, the IT instructor for Computer Club is here, so I do not need to crack my brains to think of things to teach them. For the previous lesson, i taught them about blogging since it's the IN thing now. From the registration process to selecting a design for the blog, the students were so keen on that, and they spent their time registering and choosing the skins that they wanted for their blog. Hope they will continue to update their blogs and find that it's a useful tool for them to express themselves and pen their thoughts as well as a channel for them to communicate with their friends and understand their friends.
Come to think of it, I've only learnt the skills of blogging just a few months ago from Xinwei and Qin Hong. Kudos to them. They have patiently helped me with the codes and troubleshot the technical aspects that I faced at that time...Haha, to think that a teacher would learn blogging from her students. I remembered we spent so much time online during the December holidays, sometimes as late as 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning trying to figure out the codes for the layout of the blog and the music for the blog. Don't think I can afford to spend so much time online during term time. Haiz....
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For the first lesson, the IT instructor, Mr Ismail taught them Javescript and it's quite technical for the students to comprehend. I've to admit that I know nuts about programming and I think that students need to see the point of learning programming, otherwise, they will feel that it's quite irrelevant to learn all these.
The instructor commented that programming can be a very dry topic to learn. Can you imagine that I've a few jokers who could not understand the term "dry" and compared it with the word "wet" and joked that the rest of the topics are "wet" topics where they get to play with water. Isn't it ridiculous? I see the need to put a stop to all these nonsense and explained to them that "dry" in this aspect means that it can be quite a technical and difficult topic for them to understand. What has it got to do with water anyway? Basically, what they did were merely copying the codes from the screen and typed it into Notepad. But still, some of them were not able to run the program because even a missing full stop or comma or even a spacing would prohibit the program from running.
I marvelled at how some of them could understand programming, especially when they were greenhorns at this. Hakim, who was not even a Computer Club member, could even get it right at the first attempt. He was there to do a trial for the club because he has the intention of joining the club. I was amazed with Shi Jie too. He could solve the problems that the students faced when their codes were wrong. Bravo!! "clap clap"
Let's talk about Chinese New Year then. I guess now that I'm older, I'm no longer that enthusiastic about CNY compared to children who would get so excited about collecting lots of red packets and getting new clothes. Probably as we get older, the CNY mood is no longer that significant. We just spent the two days visiting relatives and marvelled at how they have changed over the years. CNY is also the time when our relatives would get together at my house to eat rounds and rounds of teppanyaki, and we could use CNY as an "official" reason to gamble with cards and mahjong.
What I hate about CNY is that relatives would start to ask irritating questions about boyfriends and marriages, and commented that teaching is a very relaxing job where we get to work half day and still get a good pay with an iron rice bowl job. Where do we see teachers working half day only? Sometimes teachers work as long as 12 hours a day. Ya ya, if the schools are run by my relatives, probably I would get to work half day only. That's the only scenerio I can visualise, other than that, it's almost impossible to get such an easy job. Well, I shan't hold it against their ignorance...haha
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Let's talk about the cheer competition then. It's really a chore to prepare the class for the cheer. I do appreciate the effort put in by the girls and some of the boys to organise the cheer, but practically, it's almost impossible to involve the whole class. They grumbled when they needed to stay back, and what was worst was that they would make so much noise that's totally irrelevant to the cheer. Then they would blame their classmates when they didn't do the cheer properly when they themselves did not even bother to do their job well. It's so easy for people to see the fault of others and start to pinpoint their weaknesses, but it's always so hard for them to see that they themselves have flaws too.
What made me so infuriated was the attitude of some of the boys. Imagine them saying these to you, "Since I'm not coming for the cheer competition, what for waste time staying back and practise for the cheer?" Aren't they really sickening and irritating? In the end, I have to send a few boys for detention because they did not have a valid reason for their absence.
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Finally, the IT instructor for Computer Club is here, so I do not need to crack my brains to think of things to teach them. For the previous lesson, i taught them about blogging since it's the IN thing now. From the registration process to selecting a design for the blog, the students were so keen on that, and they spent their time registering and choosing the skins that they wanted for their blog. Hope they will continue to update their blogs and find that it's a useful tool for them to express themselves and pen their thoughts as well as a channel for them to communicate with their friends and understand their friends.
Come to think of it, I've only learnt the skills of blogging just a few months ago from Xinwei and Qin Hong. Kudos to them. They have patiently helped me with the codes and troubleshot the technical aspects that I faced at that time...Haha, to think that a teacher would learn blogging from her students. I remembered we spent so much time online during the December holidays, sometimes as late as 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning trying to figure out the codes for the layout of the blog and the music for the blog. Don't think I can afford to spend so much time online during term time. Haiz....
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For the first lesson, the IT instructor, Mr Ismail taught them Javescript and it's quite technical for the students to comprehend. I've to admit that I know nuts about programming and I think that students need to see the point of learning programming, otherwise, they will feel that it's quite irrelevant to learn all these.
The instructor commented that programming can be a very dry topic to learn. Can you imagine that I've a few jokers who could not understand the term "dry" and compared it with the word "wet" and joked that the rest of the topics are "wet" topics where they get to play with water. Isn't it ridiculous? I see the need to put a stop to all these nonsense and explained to them that "dry" in this aspect means that it can be quite a technical and difficult topic for them to understand. What has it got to do with water anyway? Basically, what they did were merely copying the codes from the screen and typed it into Notepad. But still, some of them were not able to run the program because even a missing full stop or comma or even a spacing would prohibit the program from running.
I marvelled at how some of them could understand programming, especially when they were greenhorns at this. Hakim, who was not even a Computer Club member, could even get it right at the first attempt. He was there to do a trial for the club because he has the intention of joining the club. I was amazed with Shi Jie too. He could solve the problems that the students faced when their codes were wrong. Bravo!! "clap clap"