They care...

I have never thought that there are still students that care in our school...

After the teacher’s day assembly in the morning, when I was about to enter the staff room, I noticed a few boys were gathering around the table outside the staff room, and they were talking and looking at something on the table. Those boys used to be restless and playful in the school, but they looked serious at that moment.

Out of curiosity, I walked towards them to find out what on earth they were discussing about. And when I got near to the table, I was really surprised that they were looking at the pictures on the newspaper and discussing about the earthquake happened in Szechuan!

I have never known that there are still students that care in this school. What I know is the children today know nothing and care nothing other than their studies, homework, exam, tuitions and material needs. They are well protected by their parents, living such comfortably that they never bother to care about anything around them. They are not taught to observe, to think, to care, to help, to share, to love...

I was really touched by the scene they gathered round the newspaper on the table, and in order to guide them to be more caring, I immediately joined them in their discussion...

A Visit to The Fruit Farm

We brought our PBL society students as well as some of their most enthusiastic moms visited to the fruit farm this afternoon. The weather is extremely hot when we reached there. The farm owners were so warm-hearted and the students were so excited! The students had some new experience in the farm, they learned how to wrap the dragon fruit, how to cut off the ripe fruit and pick the passion fruit. They learned some knowledge about the fruit plants from the owner that guided them going round the farm and from the question sheets prepared for them.

The children enjoyed the visit so much, it might be quite an interesting experience to them other than homeworks and tuitions , and we feel so much contented with the visit planned!

And we would like to express our most heartfelt gratitude to all who have been contributing so much to make this wonderful visit a success, they are:

The Headmaster of SJKC Chung Hwa Presbyterian,
Mr Chua Hwa Kiang
for his support,

Mr and Mrs Chan,
the owner of the farm who sincerely welcome the students with their warmest heart,

The loving mothers of the children,
Mdm Yang Mei Jin and Yang Mei Fang,
who contributed the transports to the students,
Mdm Lim Yok Lang,
who contributed the lunch, drinks and transport to the children,

Our senior colleague,
Mdm Lim Siew Moi,
who brought us to the farm before the visit was planned,

and all the workers of the farm,
who had been so patient and friendly to the children!

Thank you and your loving kindness are very much appreciated!

Retired...

We have 2 senior colleagues retired in a week.

They are Mdm. Lim and Mr. Lau. Mdm. Lim has been teaching in our school for 28 years while Mr. Lau 23 years. They are both our school’s most precious, experienced and dedicated teachers! Their leaving is definitely a great loss to the school.

Mr. Lau has been contributing so much to our school’s sport activities throughout the years. He is one among the teachers that helped to make the “instant sport day” a success!

May the retirement opens the door to a whole new world of enjoyment, adventure, and happiness to both our dearest colleagues and may they be well and healthy forever!

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: