Graduation!

Ok, I have been neglecting my blog for quite some time. After all those ups and downs in the sea called life, I have finally managed to crawl myself back here to blog about it. Up first and one of the foremost important event in my life, GRADUATION! I have finally graduated!!!

Being the pioneer group of PISMP *cough* the *cough* white rat *cough* group *cough*, the convocation ceremony could not be more grand. Venue? Putrajaya International Convention Centre! 477 Mathematicians had their graduation on the morning of 17th April 2011, including me! *proud*

White teddy from dearest mom and green froggie from bro and future da-sao!

Not to forget, let's throw our mortar board!

With a degree at hand, shall I aim for Masters next?

Journey of Study Life (Degree)

I remembered the first time I got an offer letter to this course. I dropped on my knee and cried so hard. Well, if I have stopped here, you might think that I cried because I'm overwhelmed. Boo boooo.. Wrong! I cried because I did not want this course. I cried because my dream job was fading far far away from me. I dreamed to be a designer. I dreamed to find a job of my dream as Conficious said, "When you have a job you love, you won't be working another day of your life.."

So, with a sad face, a heavy and unwilling heart, I took the offer. Partly because mom don't let me enter Taylor's. 7 hours ride to the college and there it stood. Admist all the trees and no tall buildings within like 30km radius? I registered and went into my room. I was dead shock to see how dirty the place is. More like a haunted house. Clean, clean, clean. Unpacked and bid my family goodbye.

Orientation week. I was the youngest among all. A crybaby, I am. Looking back at it, I pity my roomate at that time, Connie Ting for having to hear me sobs the whole week. However, miracously, I survived that week. One week being tormented by seniors. Sleepless night. Oh what memories it was.

There it was. 16 of us. Pretty laid back at first. Not much lecture to attend to. I also had problem communicating with the rest as my Mandarin was freaking terrible at that time. I was like partially deaf and whole dumb when it comes to Mandarin. With patience, rest of the Chinese girls in my class were patient enough to teach me. Much appreciation even until today. :)

Few weeks later, comes six more girls. Pretty girls. There's even two that are taller than me, making me the third tallest in the class with Lung Lung. Now, we have 22 in the class.

Everyday, we had lectures until the Sun decided to set in. I remembered that we only had like three classes present in the college with all the other seniors out for practicum. The lecturers were eager to enter our class.. even when it was not in the schedule. So, we appreciated their enthuiasm and effort in educating us, trying their hardest to guide us in passing the evaluation assessment.

There were also various events to attend to such as event celebration, marathon, sports and et cetera. Our relationships were tight. We knew who is who and what was going on within the college. Pish, posh.. Tick, tock. One and a half years passed by. We did barbeque for farewell and everyone cried until their eyes wanna popped out.

January 2007 arrived. Campus changed to Kota Samarahan. 22 together again! Tsk! Nobody was away.. lol~ The class was tight at first but got more loose with the time as this campus is bigger. People spread to make new friends. Less events to attend to and more assignments to deal with. Dealing with assignments and poofed! 4 years were gone! I can't believe I have completed my degree in Education. Love and hate. Give and take. I learned to love my job, my profession. Though designing is still my first choice, I believe I can make way for educating children.

I'm gonna GRADUATE soon! Wooohooo!~

Bloated Week

Last Wednesday, I've finally presented my research! WooHoo! Although I looked kinda dumb on the video, I'll just ignore that and enjoy the feeling of freedom! ^^


Oh ya.. felt bloated this week since on Tuesday, went to KFC to celebrate Bobby's birthday and just now, went to Pizza Hut to celebrate the success of research presentation (for few of us)..


Man, so gonna gain back the 3 kg that I've lost last week.. xP

Donating Blood

There were some medical officers from the hospital that came to our college earlier today to help out with the blood donation day. Out of curiosity, I dragged another friend that knew nothing of donating blood to the site.


In the end, both of us decided to have a go in donating blood. A bag full of blood was fused out of my body within like 15 minutes? I was scared at first but thinking about it now, it's just a minor pinch and I felt nothing when they drained the blood through my right arm.. My right arm was pretty sore in the afternoon but it went better during the night. Oh and the whole donating blood thing has made me pretty sleepy the whole day.


However, knowing my blood might save a person's life is all that it takes. I should do this often! :)


This marks the first day of me donating blood! Woots~ xD

Young at Heart

Yes, we're no teenager but still darn crazy! This only shows one thing: young at heart! ♥

Allowance Issue

Allowance oh friggin allowance.. Why have you not entered our account yet?


Everyone's really dry at the moment and will be eating grass soon..


I'm sensing a strike on the way all through Malaysia if this matter goes on. =.="

Internship Week 1

First week of Internship and I felt like a truckload of paperwork hit me hard. It is almost to the end of the week and my partner and I barely finished with two proposals. Sudden change with the spoke person's schedule sent my driving up and down delivering letters. I'm even faster than the post laju.. lol~


Fortunately, staffs at my current Internship place are all so lovely. Despite their busy schedule, they still spend time to moderate our proposals. I am really thankful that I got such a wonderful place for Internship compared to some of my other course mates. According to them, they had to do many extra works that wasn't supposed to be done.. the one that is not in our Internship outline.


I'm also grateful to have the spoke person volunteering herself to help us with the talk! It is not easy to find an experienced and suitable spoke person given the limited time and budget we have. I owe her a big favor! Thanks, Madam! ♥


With two out of three proposals almost done and waiting for its implementation, the result from all the rush is oh!~ so sweet. Hopefully, I'll just be busy for another week and have the last two weeks to finish up will all three reports.


Hey, life's ain't easy right? Unless I am a princess livin' large in a mansion or something! xP

Back from 4 Months Hiatus...

Dang! I've come to realized that it has been err.. Feb > March > Apr > May.. four months since my last post! In these four months, I did intend to write a few times but it's either I'm too busy or I'm lazy. xP


In a nutshell, these four months had been the busiest period I had ever experienced in my life. Practicum, observation, research proposal, data collecting and exam.. Crazy and hectic period. Phew, glad that all's over.


Yesterday, almost the entire class went to the waterfall trip.


Two words: LOVE IT!


It is nice that we get to relax and enjoy ourselves after all that we had been through this semester. As we seldom meet with each other this semester, this is a great way to strengthen back the bond of friendship among our coursemates.


Great way to kick off the one month holiday too! Happy holiday to all TARians ^^

Losing Sight of The Light

It's been 3 days since I started my practicum a.k.a field training. I'm starting to lose the light and dumping myself into the darkness of negative thoughts. The schedules and extra classes on Saturdays. The naughty pupils and how much extra efforts that I would need to give in to make sure that they have the knowledge that they needed. The special case pupils and ways to overcome their difficulties in learning. The Action Research proposal that will due soon..



What if I fail to contribute knowledge into my pupils? What if I fail to find the right subject for my action research? What if I break down mentally and physically? What if I closes my mind and will to continue on? What if I fail myself? What if I fail to get through this?



I am thinking to myself "Maybe I am just afraid. Maybe I don't want to go through this" Man~ I'm becoming pessimist. Oh Merciful God, please guide me through this.

New Sem 2010

Ah~ 2010's finally here and that means back to hitting my head on the book again. Well, after a long holiday, trying to start your rusty brain would take a while. Basically, I went Spring cleaning on Saturday before staying in my new room on Sunday. Can't believe that this is my fourth year.


Anyway, we only got 2 course to complete for this sem. One is action research which is really important as it decides whether we get Hons or just a degree. Another course is Counseling.. whaaa~ counseling. Psychological stuff...


I went to the administration block and was thrilled to see my CGPA. result 3.82! Wooohooo! Now my total accumulated point is over 3.5. At least, that's an achievement. ^_^


The 3 months practicum is coming soon.. Sigh~ and we got to complete an action research to qualify for Hons. double sigh~ I still have no idea on what to research about and getting the topic for the research the sooner, the better! Help!!~


Basically, the first week was pretty laid back.. I think.. ROFL. Talking about afternoon lecture, everyone was not used to it that when the lecture began, almost everyone started "fishing". Even the most gentleman of the class.. XP Oh yeah! We finally have an air-conditioned lecture room! Praise the Lord! ^_^


As always, campus line blocks Facebook.. well.. it tried its hardest to block and most of us were able to penetrate the blocking system easily. LOL~ It tried it hardest to block us and ended up dead on Wednesday... which means we do not have any freaking line! Not even to check our assignment task. Sheesh~ So, I am thinking of whether to apply for broadband.. Freaking line #%&@^#


It's Sunday and hopefully this coming week would be better in terms of Internet line. Aja aja fighting!

Facebook Addiction Disorder

Looks like I've abandoned my blog for pretty long. Heck~ Not just me. Practically, everyone who is on their third year or final year is doing so. *making excuse* XD

My first final paper is on this coming Wednesday and I haven't start revising for that paper yet and barely finish reading for next week's. I think I lost a screw somewhere.. >_<"

All blame FACEBOOK! *blame self-control!* Last time I checked, Facebook holds over like 120million users? And I'm one of them! and also all of my friends. It's almost 5 times the population of Malaysian! How's that? Not a shocking fact actually..

Recently, I heard a news saying about how a wife got kicked out of the house by the husband who claimed that her wife often wakes up in the midnight to harvest her crops in a Facebook game. This is not unbelievable to me as I've seen these symptoms before somewhere. So, I browsed around to find some information regarding Facebook and I stumbled to a new disorder called Facebook Addiction Disorder.

Oh man.. I think I'm having the symptoms.. I can quit but my Happy Farm! My Friends for Sale! *got dragged away*

See you guys in two to three weeks time! After the finals I mean... *crickets' sound*

Awww shrugs! No one's around.. T_T

P/s: Those italic blue-colored text is by my alter ego.. muahaha~

Craving for Bing! Coffee

After rejuvination for a whole week, lectures start again..

Walao eh... This week has been a hectic week for me. I only had 4 hours average of sleep everyday. Slept at 3:00am then woke up around 7:00am in a startled condition, fearing I might be late for my 7:30am lecture. Sometimes, I had to kept my eyes wide awake starting from the first lecture. Sometimes, my energy lasted til the 11:00am lectures where I started yawning really hard and gave my lecture the dull look on her presentation (mind that I sit in front of the class; sitting straight and absorbing all the presentations in that state of mind was not easy for me).

Funniest thing happened on Tuesday or was it Wednesday? It was the 11:00am lecture and Dr. Rahmah came in for her lecture as usual. 30 minutes after, I started yawning and gave her the dull look AGAIN.. Then, she started to comment about pyschological interpretation that she knows who is paying attention and who's not. I thought I was getting the hint from her that I'm not paying attention (and it's already not easy for me to stay focus). When I turned around, I saw most of my coursemates were yawning and having teary eyes due to the yawning.. I guess that hint goes to everyone, not just me.. Imagine the whole class yawning..

Hopefully, next week would be the last week for assignments to torture me and the rest of my coursemates as all projects, assignments and reports are to due next week. Will rejunivate during this weekend and rush some of the assignments to evade burning midnight oil again.. Cause last night, I caused my roomie to move to another room to sleep just because I was awake with me group members finishing on an assignment. Gomen, Christine.. You can torture me by playing the piano loudly for the next two weeks... ^_^"

Oh.. relaxation started this afternoon actually where we massively went to Sya's house for lunch in celebration for Raya. Everyone.. wait.. well most of us were there just to take that one-day-away-from-assignment moments. Lovely lunch indeed. :)

Tomorrow, it's the Mooncake Festival. Going for steamboat with my coursemates. I don't like the eating part but I just can't miss the excitement waiting for me then. I'm that type of person who will try not to miss any exciting events with friends.. LOL..

Arggghhh!! When can I reduce my weight then? I'm so going on rice and meat strike after this! X3 but craving for mocha with caramel at the moment! I want to go to Bing! Coffee... XD

Post note:

Happy Birthday or Belated Birthday to the following people (which I can remember of):

27th : Chen Xiao Fang a.k.a blur blur girl

28th : Siew Sing Ya

30th : Hanaa the Skype Queen, Jack Joannes a.k.a Mr. Grasshopper and James Wong

2nd: Alexis Sim

3rd: Terence Siew

2010 Holidays

Announced and for reminder:


13 March to 21 March First Mid Term Break
5 June to 20 June Mid Year Break
4 Sept to 12 Sept Second Mid Term Break
20 Nov to 2 January Year End Break

Seems like the holiday is getting shorter and at weirder time.. =__="

Second Phase Practicum

This morning was my last day of practicum. Half of me was like "Whaa.. can't wait for the time to scram" and the other half was going "Going to miss here.. Thiam, going back to 7am-4pm schedule of lectures again.."

My second phase practicum was completed in SK Tambay, a very small school with average of 15 to 22 pupils in a class. It's a pretty laid back school where all the teachers are very friendly and warm as well as the staff there ranging from the cooks, clerks, security guards and cleaner. My session with the pupils was around 5 hours a week excluding all the other teach-ins that I might have to take. I taught Year 4 Mathematics and Phys. Ed.

So, this morning was my last day. I bought some gifts to 17 'Denise the Menace' in my class. Well, not all are menace but most of them are. =_=" I had my last lesson before the recess and after the recess, we had a short assembly. After the short assembly, I was planning to pack my stuff and getting myself ready to go back when the class monitor of Year 4 pulled me to the class, claiming that they were crying in the class. Indeed they were...

Being a very cold-hearted teacher.. acclaimed my practicum partner for me not crying when I saw them cry, I just felt weird thinking the whole time, I kept on lecturing them on finishing their homework and punishing them whenever they make noise and being naughty during my lesson. So how in hell would they miss me??

It was like 16 broken pipes in the class! Even the naughiest boy whom I punished almost every lesson. Gosh~ I had to retain myself for quite a while just to comfort all of them and when I started waving goodbye to them, they all cried back!!

In the end, a teacher asked me to ignore them and walk away or else I could not leave the class. I did that and after packing my stuff and bringing it all to my car, there they were! All 17! Crying on my car! Aiyoyo~ Some of the girls even pull my clothes asking me not to go.. but what can be done? Every journey has its end.

Anyhow, feeling pretty tired atm. Symptoms of flu are appearing.. and holiday's around the corner. Going to zz soon so logging off..

Moving

The four of us officially moved in a rental house which is about ten to fifteen minutes drive from the school I'm having my practical in.

We moved on Tuesday afternoon. Some of us, including me being the 'clean-addict', we started cleaning the place up. Sweeping, wiping, mopping, washing, brushing, arranging, throwing out the rubbish and etc. A housemate works on the kitchen while for me, the toilet and the bathroom. =_=

By the time we finished cleaning everywhere, it's about 8pm! And gosh, we haven't started out daily lesson plan yet. Luckily managed to finish it and got a few hours of beauty sleep before going to school the next day. The funny thing was I was so sleepy that my lesson plan got so many typo error. XP

This week was a pretty busy week. The house is a nice place to live in although it's a bit rundown. What's killing my back is the bed. Need to buy a better mattress or I'll be like an old lady by the time I finish my practicum.

Oh ya, do you know where do the villagers throw their rubbish everyday? We were quite curious on how to manage our rubbish as there were no rubbish bin in sight. So, we went on to ask a villager living nearby. According to the makcik, the rubbish truck only comes twice a week that is on Tuesday and Saturday. Hence, they throw their rubbish into the river. I was like THE RIVER???!!! Gosh~ I can't do that. The river is God's creation. Making it dirty means that I'm ruining His creation. Furthermore, the river is so beautiful.

Lastly, we ended up putting our rubbish outside the house to avoid attracting ants. Guess what? Next morning, it was gone. Now thinking of it, someone must had helped us throw it into the river.. NoOoooOoo...

All in a Life as A Human...

Currently not in the mood (T_T)

Incident #1

Actually found a place to stay for the 2 months practicum. When we decided to go and clean the place up, we realized that we can't park our cars there due to the extremely small bridge. So, if we want to live there, have to park at roadside which is super dangerous with the chances of:

i. Big lorry hitting our cars anyday of that two months

ii. Probability that we would accidentally drive our cars into the big longkang near the house

Another option is to park our car near the shops. Bad idea according to locals as there are many bandits lurking around the area.

So, bo pien.. Paiseh, paiseh have to decline the kopitiam lady's kindness in helping us to find a place to stay. Now, we have to drive up and down 1 hour plus from campus to our practical place. Jia you, Amy for taking the role to drive~ Hopefully, I can help her by turn-taking...

Incident #2

In my attempt to search for a new place to stay cause I want to avoid from being overtired from the long drive everyday, my practicum partner and I were almost being bitten by a furious, angry looking dog. I could still remember the adrenalin rush of standing just a few feet away from the dog who was ready to attack me any moment before its owner managed to save me.

After whole day talking to the locals there, still no luck finding a place to rent. Long hours of driving, here I come.. xS

Incident #3

Practicum + 40% of semester's credit project + fatigue from everyday trip to practicum place + lonely campus = me making this face (=_=") and also developing pessimistic thoughts.. Pray for me...

Incident #4

Allowance's not out yet... *pockets fill with dry leaves*

Incident #5

Car buat hal.. She's sick and asking money for me to heal her. Luckily, it cost me no above than RM500. If not, I'll be eating dirt until my allowance's out...

Incident #6
I want to shoot that stupid c***d *takes a bow, shoot and miss* DARN! Get out from my head!

Then again, what's life without these challenges right?

*current optimistic level: 2/5*

Memoirs of May

Since I got a 3 weeks holiday now, thought I better update my blog. ^^

Here's the activities that we had after the Practicum month and along the month of May:

Batch of 2007 Mini Olympic: We got 1st! :)

Celebrating the end of Practicum month as well as getting first in Mini Olympic

Before eating! All hyped up to eat the 44 pieces of KFC! XP

It was a pretty hectic month. Never the less, we still enjoyed it very much!...

before

END of the month = EXAM!! XD

Upcoming D-Day!

Since it's been a long time since my last update here, guess I'll need to write a thing or two.

Hm.. I'm just feeling doomed right now. =.=

D-day.. D-day.. Who the hell introduced the exam system?! xP

My semester exam starts next Wednesday and ends on the following Wednesday.

Aiyaya.. I am so lazy to devour all the thick notes into my brain.

I need to update my memory gig. xD

Positive thought: After exam, it's holiday!

After holiday, it's practicum week! Ok.. back to negative thought... +_+

Hahaha.. I'm talking crap now. =_=

Back to the notes then..

*Imagine me as a big pacman chomping five 10cm notes*

Final Day of Practicum I

Yestarday was my last day of the four-weeks practicum. My 45 Year 5 students had touched my heart deeply. I went for the last hour of Mathematics class with them around 11:00am yesterday. As I opened the door, the room was dark and all I could see was empty tables and three lines of students at the back and a conductor. As I entered the class, they started to sing Auld Lang Syne in Bahasa version. My eyes were filling with tears but I managed not to drop one. I gave them a big applause after they had finished singing and joked about them trying to make me cry.

I continued teaching them Mathematics and on the last ten minutes, I gave them presents that I had prepared and managed to take photos with them. And by the time my lesson was up, my table was filled with presents. All of them approached me, asking for signature and phone number. I was thinking, I'm not a celebrity. I'm just a teacher. Yet, they're acting like I am one.

It was really difficult to leave that day. This devilish yet cute bunch of munchies had really put an impact on me in just a short period of time. I'm really gonna miss them. :(

The boys of my class

The girls of my class

And All Hell Broke Loose...

Earlier this morning, I had an hour session with my Year 5 students. Mathematics class.

I guess the one thing I did wrong.. very wrong is to teach-in their class the previous hour before my class.

It was a bit of a relaxation Mathematics session with some quizzes. When I start my lesson, all hell broke loose. My students seemed to be really hyped up and restless.

Time slowly passes by and they are getting more noisy. Slowly, I start to lose grip of controlling them.

And to make matter worse, my lecturer came in to observe unexpectedly!!

"Die! Die! Die!" are the only thing that goes through my mind at that moment.

The class noise level was getting worse every single minutes and at its peak when it was group work activity.

When my lecturer decided to leave early, I know my observation result would be disasterous!

And it did...

His note to me was:

I left early because I cannot stand the noise by your students. You lost grip of class control today and worse, some students are screaming when doing group activity. You better find a alternative way to control your student before my nect observation this Wednesday...

And I lost my voice.. Oh, man. I feel like jumping from Taipei 101 right now.. =_=