Hey, All....

I have an unfortunate day this week as my Compaq laptop disappoint me. The screen was spoil. I have to go and repaired it. Not only that, my previous Acer laptop for five years, crashed as well. My father came to tell me he does not have a computer to use. So after thinking thru and discussed with my brother, we decided to give the Compaq one to my dad to use. So I will have to go to Sitex to look for one.

Firstly, I just want to say sorry to my next year Sec 3 students that I will not be able to teach all of you already as I was deployed to teach the Lower Sec again even though I have requested to follow all of you up. Thanks for all the joy you have brought me for the past year. Really appreciated and grateful to you all. I will still be around, so if you need any assistance, I will definitely be there for you. I was rejected due to my inexperience. A bit sad actually when I heard that.

Come back to what I'm going to tell you in my previous update. On Tuesday, my friends Simon and Christina brought me to The Cookie Museum at the Esplanade Mall. It was really a nice place. They ordered some fruit tea to drink. It was really nice. I enjoyed the tea very much. Besides that, there were also Cookies sampling. There were savoury cookies and fruit cookies. Savoury cookies such as Laska, Hainanese Chicken Rice, Curry Crab. I was quite overwhelmed by them. Interesting cookies I could say. The taste were really like those you eat for lunch. Fruit cookies included Blueberry, Lemon...... I really enjoyed myself on that. A special thanks to Simon and Christina.

Went back for Band on Thursday for stock-take with Mr Wee. It was not really that good as I cork up some stuffs. Seriously I have to learn from this mistakes and tightened the procedure of the instruments. One good thing is that most of the instruments are accounted for. That one was really relieved. If any instruments were lost, it would not be very good. I have to come out with a list of damaged instruments and instruments that needed to be condemn. Overall, this was a good learning experience.

Is Friday today, went back to school in the late morning to settle some stuffs. I left around 3 plus. Suppose to go to Vivo to watch a show but it was too late...... so eventually went to Plaza Singapura to watch "The Sky Crawlers". It was a Japanese anime on fighter pilots. The story was really slow....... I only can give a 3 stars.......

Well, that's all, folks..... tomorrow need to go back for Alumni Band practice...... Band Concert coming in 3 weeks..... so nervous...... I have not really practice the pieces yet.

So if anyone wants to give your support to me and my School Band, the concert will be held on the 20 Dec 2008, at Victoria Concert Hall, 5pm to around 7pm. Tickets are sold at $10 Stalls and $12 Circles.

Good nite and have a great weekend!!

Dear All,

I back again. Hope that everybody is enjoying their holidays either working or playing.

We have our Staff Retreat for 2 Days this year. For the 1st day, we have bonding games in school. I was really fun playing with our colleagues. After that, we were assigned to go out for external scan of what the industries are doing. My group went to the Singapore Polytechnic Engineering Faculty to learn about their Clean Energy Initiative. It was really an eye-opener for me on how the course was structured to meet the needs of the environment. I was thinking of maybe my future career would be here.....haha

After that, we went back to school to do a short presentation on the trip.

With all the presentation from other groups, we were treated to a talk by Adam Khoo' company on Generation Y. The main topic were how to talk to them and the techniques to woo this generation over. I find it interesting and hope to use that in my lesson.

The next day, we went to Civil Service Club near Farrer Park for our internal scan. Mainly is about school stuffs. So I'm not going to talk much to bored all of you.

Last Monday, 24 Nov....... went to VCH for the Band Concert Rehearsal. We really busy looking around the place and also getting ready the logistics aspect of the rehearsal. Need to check that the chairs and stands were in position. The band members were really slowed and we have to rush them to do things quick. First up was the technical run from the main band...... marching onto the stage was not that bad, could be improved.

Next was the String Ensemble rehearsing. I needed to get the sitting arrangement ready for them to rehearse. Not only that, I also needed to check whether the arrangement was correct. While listening to them play, I really felt that they have improved a lot. Not that bad for their first rehearsal.

After that, was the Main Band turn to rehearsal. Overall, they were not up to standard yet. Seriously have to go back to school to put in more work. Really very frustrating especially they did not see the importance for the concert. I really hope that can put in a lot more effort into it. A big thank you to the Seniors who have come back to play with them.

Well, that's all folks..... I try to keep my entry as short as possible so that you all don't feel bored.

Next updated, I will tell you all about the trip to Biscuit Musuem at the Esplanade with my friends yesterday. It is really a posh and interesting place.

Dear All,

It has about a month since I updated my blog....... I have some sort gone through lots of stuffs for the last week four week.

I was down at Pei Hwa for the "O" Level Invigilation for around three weeks. It was a good experience so far. The students at Pei Hwa were really polite. I was really impression by it. I also met a few teachers from other schools as well. Pei Hwa's school hall is air-condition. The students could actually take their exams in a cooling environment. So good.

Besides doing invigilation, I also went back to school clean up my table and also do some preparation for the THIMUN. You might be wonder what was that? Well, it was the United Nation Conference in Singapore. This conference allowed students to discuss and debate world affairs ranging from Human rights, development and the environment. This year theme was 'Climate Change', a relevant topic for the world as we are currently experience weird season. It was held again at Hwa Chong Instituation from 19 - 22 Nov 08.

By the way, I just came back the from the conference. I was really tired after the last four days over there. Overall, it was another interesting conference where I saw high ability students express their passion for the topics. There were also jokes and laughter as well. At the second last day, we have a Dinner and Dance at Orchidville at Mandai. The atmosphere was nice. The food was wonderful. Managed to see my students dancing at the dance floor.

Well, I will continue again later to tell all of you a little bit about my Staff Retreat and the Victoria Concert Hall Rehearsal for my school Band upcoming concert.

Take Care!! Miss you all!