Farming

getting ready to start...

The theme of the children's project this year is 'agriculture', and they are provided a small corner within the school compound to do farming, each of the groups has chosen its desired plant to be planted, such as okra, peanut, passion fruit and vegetables. The children seem enjoying the activities so much, they hardly have chance to get involved in such activities other than studying and going for tuition classes everyday. And all of them are looking forward to the visit to fruit farm next week; the visit is arranged by the teachers with contributions from some of the parents among them.

Too busy to write more now, shall tell you more about their project next time…

60

The government is expected to extend the retirement age of the civil servants to 60.

Our colleague cikgu Fatimah jeered that she may have to come to the school with a walking stick at the age of 60, and by then, she may even be bullied and beaten by the students with her walking stick.

At the age of 60, all the aged cikgu who have all become presbyopia will spend most of their time on the never-ending, stupid, useless paper works and redundant computerized work rather than teaching, as all the elderly are slow in producing those work while the amount of the paper works used to be very much more than teaching works and seemed more significant to the authorities.

Besides, I just can’t imagine if I were to leave the world immediately after I have completed my service at the age of 60, I can’t even enjoy my life at all if that will to happen, isn’t it sad enough?!

If the retirement age will to extend to 60, our staff room will become an old folks’ home!

Dragon Fruits Farm

dragon fruit

passion fruits

Together with 2 other colleagues, we visited to a dragon fruit farm yesterday.

It’s a very beautiful farm, the dragon fruit plants are neatly planted, the farm is so green and clean, the environment is so peaceful, the air is so fresh and the owners are so passionate! Oh ya, there are passion fruit plant too! Click at the slideshow for more pictures.

A Responsilbe Citizen

88-year-old mom had never failed her duty and responsibility as a citizen since she migrated here from China a long long time ago.
And here she is again, to exercise her democratic right and cast her vote for the sake of her third generation:

May Our Dream Come True...

Yes, the 'angpow' promised right before the 15th day of the Lunar New Year had been received

With the amount of money, hopefully the teachers won't get wet again while walking along the staircase and corridor to the class as water used to drip from the upper floor in rainy day. And the students would not have to be shone by the morning sun in the class where many window panes have broken and lost, and they would not have to shift their seats and squeeze together to avoid hitting by the rain too, the aged school building really need repairing and renovating very much to ensure a safer and more comfortable place for the students to study in!


Thanks to the 12th GE!
As the largest Chinese school of the town which has around 1,400 students, our one and only science lab is modified from a container which is definitely not a safe space for certain experiments to be carried out in it. Besides, our school assembly as well as other ceremonies or activities are always terminated, canceled or postponed when it rains as all the activities are held outdoor without a school hall, and we are looking forward to the next GE, by then, maybe, our dream of having a school hall and a safer science lab might come true too.......... ^_^

Miss Not the Golden Opportunity

I received a call from our PTA chairman last night excitedly sharing a good news with me, the secretary.

He and our school HM had successfully squeezed into the crowd around the MCA President Mr Ong Ka Ting who made a visit here last night. Their aim of squeezing into the crowd to approach the President was none other but to grab the golden opportunity asking for contribution to renovate our aged school building. And the President had verbally agreed and announced to grant us a sum of money.

I am very much rejoiced by the good news indeed, the amount of money granted will help to improve the studying environment of the students and enable them to study in a safer and more comfortable building.

On behalf of the parents and students of the school, I would like to thank our PTA chairman and HM for their effort to get hold of the 'Golden Opportunity', and hopefully the check will be arrived soon before the 12^th GE, else, another 3-4 years would have to be waited again till the next 'Golden Opportunity'! ^_^

Old Students

Here they are again, my old boys and girls from the Pengkalan Bukit Estate!

This time, they are my earliest guests on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Really glad to have them back again, they have never failed to be back here since the past few years, and they promised to have somebody here every year! They have really touched my heart with their most sincere promise!! Even if they couldn’t make it, I shall always know that they really love and care their cikgu who had been spending 6 years with them in the estate, and a number of them really grew with me throughout the 6 years, like Harry and Meizhen, I was just like their nanny in those days!

Promised Harry to attend his graduation convocation in August, he had completed his degree in the University of Malaya, congratulations, boy, Pengkalan Bukit Estate is proud of you and all of us will cheer for you!

They are boys and girls of another group of my old students that I thought they wouldn't be here this year, but they did! Like the Pengkalan Bukit group, they had been back here on Lunar New Year for the past few years too. They were in Year 2 when I first came to the present school after leaving Pengkalan Bukit Estate. And most of them are studying in colleges and universities now, some of them who are granted JPA scholarship will be leaving the country soon, their presence had very much rejoiced me as the previous group did.

Girls and boys, either from Pengkalan Bukit Estate or CHP, thanks for your visit every year, and wish you all the best of luck wherever you are, and lots of love from your cikgu too!