CNY Break

My my my. I had a really good break during the CNY.

On Saturday, a few of my family and friends came over and we all had dinner together. There will be a post about this showing all the pics of the food! yum yum

After dinner, we all decided to play some mahjong. So I taught my cousin and her boyfriend to play and we played a few games. Not bad, but as usual, when we all start to do something new, it is slow. I am glad that I am a teacher because my students have trained me to be patient while allowing others to figure out something new.

On Sunday, after service, I had lunch with Edmund W. We talked about so many things, it was so cool. I am really glad to be making a new friend at this time in my life.

After lunch, I called a friend and so ended up at his place for dinner. We all dinner (Pasta and Pizza) and then we all decided to play Monopoly. I have been waiting to play for so very long, but as usual, the game got so ugly with the wheeling and dealing that I was put off all over again. I wish that I could find people who are willing to play according to the rules and play it well according to the rules.
After Monopoly, I introduced them all to Citadels. That was a really fun time. By the time we were done, I got home at about 4am.

On Monday, by 1:30, the same 7 of us had gathered at another friend's place for lunch (leftover pasta!!). All of us sat down to play one round of Citadels before the guys all sat down to a massive war on Axis and Allies. It was a good battle, but the Allies finally won.
The ladies decided to go through all the games that I brought and played Niagara, Boomtown and Blokus.
Dinner (MORE pasta! good pasta too!) was done while playing games.
After dinner, the hosts introduced us to a game called "1000 Bornes", a simple card based french racing car game. That was really fun. Then we decided to play Mahjong. So I taught 3 ppl how to play and 5 of us took turns to play. This time, the new players learnt the game very fast and the game moved quite smoothly.
By the time we were done it was about 4:45am. So I crashed at their house before taking the bus back (4 bus stops) home.

I spent the whole of Tuesday being very productive, cleaning the house and clearing work.

I had a great break, but am now at home with a still hurting throat from last week!

Kat rumah, I bosan. Buka komputer kat youtube, jupa balik lagu bes ni.



Straight, gua cari chord chord, dan jam kat rumah seorang. Shiok sendiri ! hahaha.

Lagu ni memang power liriknya. Dulu, I ingat lagu ni tentang kehijauan dunia, tapi kali ni I rasa lagu ni tentang manusia yang masih HIJAU, belum matang lagi.

Apa u thinking?

The Best Year So Far!

Since the end of the school term last year, I was already aware that I was going to be given an exciting deployment this year in 2009. I was informed that I was most likely going to be given the responsibility of teaching both Science and Maths to the same class. As far as I was aware, this is not the normal practice outside of primary school. I was really excited about all the things I could do with the flexibility of time that this new deployment was going to give me. I spent some time planning out some possible lessons and all the stuff that my class would be doing together.

Then rolled along end 2008. I was given confirmation that I was indeed going to be deployed as mentioned above. I looked at my time table. I realised that a full half of my allocated periods was going to be spent with this class.
I actually became very afraid. I was so concerned that if my class and I did not get along, this year would be one of the most challenging years of my life. Imagine going into a class 16 periods a week and knowing that it was going to be tough every step of the way.

I began to pray in earnest that He would grant me favour with my new class. I asked Him to make me different, to make the class different, unique, so that we could be so amazingly different from the rest of the school that we would be recognised as the best in the school. Not just best in terms of discipline or conduct or cleanliness. I asked God to make us the best. I wanted other teachers to say that the best class that they know of in 2009 is my angels of 2A3.

Since I have started the year, I have come to know my angels and am really enjoying their company. I am learning more and more about them and they are teaching me so much about joy and perseverance in the face of difficulty. They have made my teaching time in school absolutely wonderful and I actually look forward to stepping into the class just to share my life with them.

This has been so far, the best year of my teaching career.

Lord, please bless me and my angels so that we may be a wonderful, positive blessing to the people we all meet as a class. Lord grant us favour in Your eyes and in the eyes of our leaders. Help us to do our very best and never anything less than that. Help us Lord to became advanced practitioner of the basics skills that make us all successful.