Sick

Throughout my career life, I had only taken 3 days of medical leave; it was during many years ago when I was suspected of suffering from dengue disease and was admitted into hospital under observation.

I was quite sick this time.
My sister who came back from KL felt really pity for me. She took over my job in the kitchen so that I would have more time to rest. I appreciated her kindness really much for taking care of my meals though she was here for only 2 days.

In the end, I still managed to heal myself with a few panadols as well as to maintain my 3-days-medical leave record. I had also failed the doctor from earning not even a single cent from me. :)

In fact, to be able to serve or to work restlessly is a blessing indeed...

Anicca

There was a young man driving to my house sending some fruits to share with his cikgu tonight; he was Benjamin! Ha, he drove! I just couldn't believe my eyes; I just couldn't believe that he could be so brave, so adventurous; he hasn't got his driving license and he drove here with his dad sitting beside him! He is no more a timid and fearful boy! Time can really change a person, especially the young ones....

Everything is impermanent, inconstant, in Buddhism; it's called "anicca" in pali language. Nothing is permanent in this world, and so, we do not have to attach to whatever we are possessing now, but that doesn't mean that we have to discard or abandon everything, we are just reminded to treasure whatever we are having or possessing, and when there is a day we are losing everything, there will be no regrets and not even pain....

Presentation

A presentation session was held for the students of the PBL (Project-based Learning) class. The presentation was held in the library. Our PIBG chairman, headmaster, teachers, parents and some of the students were invited to witness the very first presentation by the students involved, not forget too our most helpful facilitators that had been coming in a big group all the way from KL.

The students were feeling most excited to be able to present their work for the very first time. The presentation proceeded smoothly throughout the session. The talent, confidence and courage shown by the students had really touched the facilitators, teachers and parents, and our PIBG chairman and headmaster were really proud of their students too.

Everybody was really satisfied with the presentation, particularly the students. Other than acquiring knowledge from their findings, they had also learnt lots of ICT application skills; they had learnt to collaborate, to solve problems and to distribute tasks among themselves too. They were so much interested in pbl learning as they found that learning could be such fun and they are looking forward really much to the starting of the second project!

Well done, children, we are really proud of you and to all the teachers and facilitators that had been contributing so much in guiding the children throughout the learning, you are very much appreciated and the excellent presentation of the children is our most valuable harvest, do keep up our good job!

Spider Man

2 questions were raised to my year 3 students during Science lesson today:

Q1: How many legs does a spider have?
A1: Eight! (Aren’t they clever?!)
Q2: How many legs does the spider man have?
A2: Eight………! ( Managed to hold myself from fainting!)

Tribute to Auntie A Moi

Auntie A Moi is the one and only Chinese non-academic staff in our school, she is retiring today. She is a kind and hardworking staff who has been serving in our school for a total of 35 years long. She has been contributing really much in maintaining the cleanness of our school. She worked tremendously hard for the school and seldom on leave.

Each morning, as soon as she reaches school, she will be starting her work by boiling three kettles of water to make three kettles of different drinks: coffee, milo and tea for all the teachers in the staff room. Once we step into the staff room early in the morning, we shall be able to smell the fragrance of the coffee that has always been stimulating our cravings of having a sip of it.

Then, she will start sweeping and cleaning the compound of the school to make sure there isn’t any litter at any corner of the school, trashing the garbage and cleaning the toilets. She is the VIP of the school, her presence is very much important to the school. All of us appreciate her contributions so much, and we have been relying on her so much to get the hot drinks prepared early in the morning.

After her leaving, there will be no more coffee smell, and neither milo nor tea too. The staff room will soon be filled with the smell of all kinds of 3 in 1 instant drinks instead. The most fragrant coffee smell will be gone with auntie A Moi……

We are most grateful to auntie A Moi for everything she has done for us throughout the years, and we would like to express our most heartfelt blessings to her on her retirement, may she be blessed with good health forever, and may the restful days ahead bring a peaceful heart and a contented soul that leads to genuine and a life time of happiness.

Happy retiring, auntie!

Thick-skinned

School has just reopened, the staff room is still in such a mess, it will be parents' day on Friday, but the system that generates the results can't still work properly and correctly. Anyway, we are always good at getting jobs done at the eleventh hour, so, nobody seems worry and panic at all... haven't got my power point slides ready for the talk to be delivered on Friday afternoon too, and is forced to work till late in the night...

I took nasi beriani for lunch today. One of my colleagues treated me nasi beriani, a kind of Malay style rice. He treated only three colleagues in the staff room, I was lucky enough to be one of the three. He is going to finish his service contract at the end of the month, and he was just trying to express his gratitude to us for helping him before, but..... I couldn’t even remember when and what had I been helping him??? I could really hardly remember!!! Anyway, I still gobbled up the nasi beriani, though I didn't know what had I really done to help, ’cause I was too hungry!!!

I am always such thick-skinned!

On The Way We Are!

concentrating...

Yes, we are on the way of the project-based learning!

There are a total of 14 students in two groups that participate in this program. Much grateful to the three facilitators led by Ms Oh that traveled all the way from KL to assist us at the beginning of this program, they are making their most effort to introduce and carry out PBL in the schools all over Malaysia to help to make learning more initiative, livelier and more interesting. Much appreciate to the other three colleagues that had been willingly consented in helping to implement the program in the school. With the assistance from all of them, the program has been running smoothly and the students taking part seemed enjoying the learning really much. Hopefully the program will be going on successfully.