A Heart-warming Day

Received an unexpected but pleasing message while having holiday class in the school this morning!

It's from Fung Ming, my old boy from SJKC Ldg Pengkalan Bukit, the first school I went to when I first started my teaching career, hoping that we could meet and have lunch together.

How very excited I was to be able to hear from him again since I last heard from him when he rang me up from Malacca after getting straight A's for his PMR, and we haven't seen each other since he left the school.

Fung Ming came to the school to fetch me for lunch when my class ended at noon.

We were really glad to meet with each other again after around 18 years we were separated, and what a matured, smart, humble, compassionate, loving and wise young man he has become now!

We had lunch together and shared lots of the nostalgic memories of those happy and peaceful days while we were learning together in the estate. We were thankful to each other for having a really good time together in the past. We talked about how we prepared for the story telling contest together, how he used to get first place in the class for the school exams as there were only three of them in the class, ha!

How very comfortable and heart-warming it was to hear him sharing his life experience and wisdom with me! And from the achievement of his career at his age, I am sure he has been striving really hard and he has really made me proud of him! 

Thank you boy for your most heart-warming visit, you have really made my day, all the best to you in your career and may your family be blessed forever... 

Great Leader

Today, we have lots of discussions on the characteristics that should be possessed by an effective leader. To me, a successful leader should basically be humble, caring, understanding as well as one who always treasure and appreciate the contribution of his subordinates. An effective leader will always share and discuss the policies of the organization with his subordinates and try to draw constructive ideas from them. He should always listen and help to solve the problems of his subordinates, he always talks less but listens more, and praises more but reprimands less.

Poor leadership will bring frustration and depression among the members within the organization and it will cause low morale creeps in the workplace. Low morale would influence productivity, increase work errors and decrease cooperation between  members and teams, and if left ignored, will lead to more and more problems.

Most subordinates need the attention from their leaders. Showing appreciation towards their contribution will help to build their self-confidence and to lift the working spirit among them.

In conclusion, great leaders care more about those they lead than themselves.

Leader

I like to attend class on leadership, as through what we learned from the class, we will be able to find and count all the weaknesses and faults of our leaders, though we were actually there to learn about how to be an effective leader,ha!


After being overwhelmed with so much frustration and depression under the new management and leadership throughout last year, and is now still struggling so hard to adjust myself to the changes which do not seem to have brought much improvement to the organization but lots of grumbles and dejection among the staffs, I feel really thankful to have a lecturer who is such thoughtful and compassionate to be with us today.


Dear Dr Khadijah, thanks for touching and softening my heart as well as reviving my spirit which had been so down throughout the past year. Thanks for all the inspiring and motivating words you shared with us during the lecture. I feel comfortable to attend your lecture not just because we do not have exam for this subject, but because I am very much impressed by your philosophy of life and your sincerity in sharing your experience and knowledge with us, and I wish that our leaders were all here to listen to you too. To me, you are such a kind, caring and authentic leader and you have also helped me found again my gradually lost enthusiasm in my teaching career. I believe I shall gain a lot out of your class and I promise to try my best to practice the good qualities of a leader in the rest of the years of my teaching career.


Thank you, Dr Khadijah and may God bless you.

Thank you, Ah Jib Gor!

YEH!!! 

At last, I have also benefited from 1 Malaysia since the slogan was shouted in 2010!

Compared to the RM38 million spent on the promotion of 1Malaysia, it's just a drop in the ocean; and compared to the the RM250 million spent on the cows, it's just... ...

Oops! Should keep my mouth sealed with the vouchers...

Oops! Sorry, they are not for sealing my mouth but to purchase books to improve myself!

Better do not comment too much but to thank Ah Jib Gor for the vouchers!

Thank you Ah Jib Gor, you are just like the God of Wealth recently. You know, the God of Wealth is the most welcome God to the Chinese.

Thank you and gong xi fa cai   :D

Thankful...

It's new year eve....

Time flies...

Looking back over the past year, life was badly messed and overwhelmed with miseries, anxieties, worries, struggling, disappointment, frustration, depression and weariness in spite of the lots of effort made to turn everything into a better situation...

Just do not know how I had gone through such a year.....

It might be a tough year, but, since there is always ups and downs in life, I would rather count the blessings of the year than lingering in the shadowed corner of it...

Thankful for my 92-year-old mom's good health, thankful for the strength that helped me walk through all the trouble and difficulties again and again! And most of all, thankful for all the blessings in my life!

Happy New Year!

Thank you, 6M!

Suffering from gastric pain throughout the night before the result of UPSR was released. Got up around 4.30 early in the morning to boil myself some medicine soup to relieve the pain. Besides, felt like falling sick too while having a rather serious sore throat. Anyhow, went off to school after taking the medicine soup as I didn't wanna miss the moment harvest together with my girls and boys on the day.

And yes, they really did me proud by passing their Science papers with flying colors!

Thank you girls and boys，your hard work and effort are very much appreciated. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Goodbye, love you all and all the best to your study in future!

Could hardly write more here as I am exhausted and have completely lost my voice now because of the deteriorating sore throat...

Good night!

Good luck!

UPSR is around the corner. I used to be feeling rather relieved when the exam is getting nearer.
Preparations have been done through out the year, lots of exercises were given, dozens of red ball-pens were used up to correct the students' work and the non-stop nagging on the mistakes made by the students has also come to an end.


Should be feeling relaxed at this very last moment since both teacher and students have already well prepared for the coming exam.

The children will be experiencing the first government exam for the very first time in their life. 

And I believe that they will always try their very best in the exam hall.

Thanks for working hard and good luck to you, boys and girls!