Free Lunch

Today I stayed back at school for extra tuition class, replacing Wei Jie (if I not mistaken his name) while he is occupied for the inter-school badminton competition.

I pleasurably accepted it. Afterall, who would deny for a RM 60 extra incentive by just teaching for TWO hours?

I’m not an idiot, okay?

He pushed me an English Comprehension reference book and asked me to teach by reading along the essays with the students, explain it and do the attached question.

Duh.. how boring.

Before this I’ve been told that today is the last day for the extra tuition class, after this when the November comes, there will be tuition class no more. Moreover, the extra class that I will be teaching is standard 6. So what’s for pushing them to study more when the UPSR is over?

That’s why, before I entered the class, I decided to let them do things that they wanted to.

When I’m walking towards the class on the corridor, these children were chasing around climbing up and down. Well, it isn’t a surprise anyway. What would you expect a 12 years old kid doing when there’s nothing to occupy them?

Sit quietly at each seat and play SUDOKU?

But however, discipline is discipline. After they stood up and greeted me, the first line that I said to the class was: “Stand on the chair, everyone!”

“Stand straight, everyone look at me.”

They might think I was punishing them. In fact I wasn’t. I just wanted to get a momentary attention from the class. And it’s proven effective when everyone is silent and focus on a single person – me.

I did the self introduction, explained why I’m here and make them answer me why they are standing on the chair.

2 golden rules on executing punishment
-Let them understand why they are punished.
-Mean what you said, strictly.

After that I let them sit down and followed by a talk with them so that they won’t lose focus immediately. We talk about their future planning, the school they going to attend for secondary, the places or activities they have been doing since UPSR finish, etc..

Majority of them will be joining Chong Hwa Secondary, where is just a few blocks down the road. Some of them are joining Titiwangsa Secondary - boy school and girl school.

Besides that they joined the school trip to Singapore during the Kongsi Raya holiday, 4 days 3 nights, which cost them RM500++ Quite cheap huh? Haha.. I should have joined the school earlier, as suggested by a child there.

After that, the important part kicks in - whether to teach or not to. And of course, the majority voted *drumroll*

NO.

That’s when Uno card, Chinese chess and others board game becomes my two-hours teaching material :P

As for the English.. whatever book, who cares lah?

I filled up my time by marking books; they have their well deserved rest after final exam. Now we are both happy.

The only person that will be unhappy is more likely the PIBG.

Paying 60 bugs to a teacher who teaches nothing :P

Today, I’m a teacher.

I look very VERY different, from my previous job attire. Don't I?

Finally I landed myself on a job ever since my college break. It’s almost a month I live as a jobless person, long away from fast-paced life. Well, it doesn’t serve for no purpose. You might call it soul-searching in-the-progress.

Afterall, if it isn’t the stupid college promised me a free course to study, I already lounge myself into a full-time job before my Uni life starts. Darn, until now I still haven’t receive the course schedule yet, KANASAI college..

Garh!!!

But hey, until now you might still be wondering.. Yeah.. I’m a teacher now. And I’m not kidding you.



Today is my first day reporting in and I’m teaching standard 3 and 4 students for BM subject and some minor subject too. Actually the school’s principle wants me to teach Chinese since I get an A in my SPM (Sijil Paling Murah), but then he changed his mind after discussing with his vice, just because the Chinese class is in standard 6.

They worried I might caught some chick in the process, can you believe it?!!

He told me nowadays the kids get matured too early, oh well.. *shook head*



All in all, today is a hectic day with lotsa paper works, teaching plan to do. I will write more tomorrow.

Safety rule #27: Never take light rail transit in terminal station

What I like about NTV7’s Edisi 7 night time news is, they always have the latest news that will only available in newspaper the day after.

News like this is A PURE SHOCKER:



When OMG is not enough to express this unbelievable-ness, we can only accept the fact that anything could happened in this world. Routine route becomes a deadly roller coaster experience, kinda interesting don’t you think?

Ironically, I always wish that I have the chance to experience life-and-death situation, again. Ever since a car accident that nearly knock me down when I’m only about 5-7 years old, I hardly met any kind of these anymore.

My height is only at a car's bumper level, that time.

What happen back then was, the car rammed into me a few inches, and I was able to stand still and walk away like nothing happened.

I can only say that it is the moment when I'm closest to God.

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It appears in today’s newspaper headline, without much surprise obviously. I can imagine some ill-looking faces pointing fingers on each other in tomorrow’s headlines,

as usual.