This is already week 7 of Term 3, 3 more weeks to go and then its Sep holidays. and heard that term 4 is rather slack so cant wait! :) hehee...

Took part in our school interhouse bowling competition and our team won the first place! There is this very pro player in my team, his name is Alvin, so that's why we won! and Alvin invited me to join the MOE bowling competition with 2 others from my school. HAHA!! I am soooo worried, cause im not good, i just know the basics. and sometimes when im off form, i can be really OFF! lol. But nevermind.. i will just go and try and do my best! Its fun! Love bowling. all thanks to my dear husband.

Now busy setting exam papers.. then keying in results for term 3, rushing to finish the syllabus, etcetc. ohh and i just wanna mention, i've a new neighbour sitting with me in school, her name is yi qiao! super nice girl... but i miss eunice... :(

Our 6th 19 July

Is there such a thing as I miss my wedding? I really do.. i wish i can return back to the time when I walked into the ballroom with daryl, seeing all my friend and relatives there for me. enjoying the music i chose for to play during the wedding, and not forgetting counting all the blessings of ang pows! I really miss that day.

19th july has just passed, marking my 6 years with daryl. i wasnt expecting any gifts from him, every year its the same, we would just go for a dinner together to celebrate. This year, he bought a precious moment figurine for me without having me to "niam" at him to buy me something! :) so sweet. the figurine is actually a couple reading news together, and the name for it is "Here is the good news, I am by your side" And along with it was a card. Although there were only 4 words written by him in the card (which made me laugh), the words printed on the card itself made me teared. Thank you so much dear.

I feel so much stronger now. After being in anxiety from last night till today!! I had a lesson study, and about 5 teachers were watching my lesson. The thought of them being around was so scary!! And I was so worried about it the whole night before. My mood was the lousiest in the morning and then it is over! And i really feel that i have overcomed this fear of people watching my lesson already! (hopefully.... cause i still have 2 more observations to go for next week and the week after)

And i m really quite a perfectionist.. :( feel upset when people say negative things about my lesson, but there is always room for improvement, and I should learn to look at it positively and treat these as opportunities to improve further! hehe

Shall continue marking now... wonder how can ppl with family balance their lives... im so tired.

The last time I blogged was in March.. wow, the month difference is getting bigger and bigger. So many things happened between March till now. In summary..

April - my big day
May - yanjun's big day
June - mingwai's big day
Went to Korea in June
June - grandma passed away

I just cant wait for December holidays, when the June one has just passed only. omg...
In Dec, I must really enjoy myself!! I would have gone through soooo much in school by then. Lesson observations, lesson study, setting of papers, etc etc etc. Cant wait to rest.

Cant believe the last time i blogged was in Jan.. It is now the March hols, one term of school has passed. Time flies very quickly when you are loaded with never ending amount of things to do! And this March hols hasnt been much of a break either. Everyday there are things to do - camp, course, setting of papers and preparing for lessons when school reopens!

And it is 3 weeks to my wedding banquet! Finally. Cant wait for it to come... been preparing for it, thinking about it till I just want it to faster come and be over. It's exciting as it is going to be once in a lifetime :) hee.

Took out my wisdom tooth.. it was really quite an operation. I couldnt get to bed the whole night after the operation cause there was so much blood and it didnt seem to stop. After it stopped, it came back again as I was dozing off! it was really quite a nightmare and my face was swollen.. :(

And I have done something really bad. Hais.. all because of my blurness, I forgot about my best friend's wedding. I really hate myself for being so blur. I think my mind was preoccupied with school stuff that when my family asked if I could go on a holiday with them in June, I immediately said yes to the much needed holidays without thinking too much. My best friend's wedding is during the time that I will be in Korea for holiday... sighs. im a total failure!

busy life!!!

A month of 2010 has passed. So quickly! Time really flies when it comes to work. I m now slowly getting used to stepping into class and doing all the scolding n nagging. And I have also come to realise that I really do HATE marking. Before I was a teacher, I always thought marking is the most fun part in a teacher's job. And now it is the most sickening part. Marking copied homework, untidy work to the point that you have to squint and search for corrections, little minus signs that are missing, is REALLY REALLY frustrating. Marking test papers is even worse, because the truth of whether the students have been doing and understanding their hw properly comes to light. The disgusting and scary truth.

Overall, I cant say that I like my job. I dislike the nature of the job, I have tons and endless of things to do everytime. And as teacher, we have to be involved and active in many different comittees etc. And unmotivated students are really a challenge that I have not been able to deal with properly yet.  :( But I cant say that I hate my job too.. there are students that I really enjoy teaching and seeing in class. Those who are willing to learn, responsive and look happy to be in my class.. my sec 2 Topaz, i love them so much.

SIGH. It is really tiring to work! HAHA... i wish i can just slack throughout my life!! Wahaha. But then again, life will be quite meaningless, and I will have NO MONEY! :P

My wedding is drawing near. Weekends are just too short, need to buy new year clothes, prepare for wedding, do some work related stuff such as preparing for lessons ETC. TIRED!!!

It has been 4 days of work! Wah. I am so overwhelmed by the many many events happening in school. The ongoing ones, upcoming ones, etc!! There are just so many events happening in school. omg. for the first 3 days, we had department meetings, sec 1 camp which i wasnt involved, and stuff. and i was quite stressed at the amount of work teachers have to do. Set test, exams, organise events, cca, attend courses, work appraisals, notice boards, enrichments, remedials etc.. the list is non exhaustive. After wednesday's meeting, I was so "filled to the brim" that tears just kept flowing while i was waiting for daryl to pick me up from his busy day at work too. lol. I dunno why i so stressed for what!!

Classroom management is still ok for me! i think partly cause i m taking all the express classes. But i guess i pissed my math class students when i decided to use part of cme's time for math.. and i forced them to buy the cme file which i dont know if i will ever ask them to use.. they kept groaning and moaning about buying n not using them at all in class and complained that i did math during cme.. haha... it was only the first lesson ma, and there was nothing much i could do also.. :P

Brand new 2010

Cant believe it. My dec holidays has come to an end. Tomr I will be officially stepping into school as a permanent teacher! Of course it will be an exciting day, but I am worried and anxious more than excited.

I don't aspire to do very well in my career given my introverted personality and I dont want to really aim high. But I want to see myself progress well in the school. I want the students to enjoy my lessons and want to be a better teacher each day. I want to have really good classroom management skills too. Well.. just have to see how it goes! Good luck to all my nie batch teachers!

New Zealand Holiday

Day 1 - on the plane to NZ

Day 2 - Christchurch

We didnt do much for day 2 as we were all tired from the overnight plane.

International Antartica Centre

We took the Hagglund ride and it was really bumpy and FUN!!

We saw some penguins and also experienced a snow storm! It was super chilling and scary, probably similar to the temp i experienced in finland but with strong winds.

cold~~

Day 3 - Hokitika

Hokitika

Lunch was whitebait, a popular fish in this town. We were really looking forward to eating it and were disappointed that it was just some small tiny fish fried with omelette.. diao...

Arthur's Pass

Some lake...

Views from the bus

Christchurch

Near Fox Glacier

Day 4 in New Zealand

Day 4 - Fox Glacier to Queenstown

Beautiful Fox Glacier

the scene behind is the glacier.. i wanted our photo to turn out this way but no one could get a shot of us with this backgrd

Our tourguide photography skill...

can u spot me?

Beautiful mud

Salmon farm

Nice smoked slamon sandwich

Hot Chocolate is great for cold weather

Scenes taken from the bus... everyday on the bus, the views were like these.

Lake Hawea

Kawarau River

Jet boating which we didnt try

Waterfall

Compare the scenery of this photo with the previous one.. hai..

Fish and chips that cost... i think more than $10 in some normal cafe