Simon, The Magician.

Simon, the magician kindly and generously performed a nearly two-hour magic show to our kids here tonight. The kids were really excited and very much fascinated by the excellent tricks presented by him. There were "flaming wallet", "floating card", "magic string", "magic wand" and many others.

kids were invited to join in the magic trick

The kids were lucky enough to have a magic show treat in this long holiday and I believe there will be lots of story to tell about their magician friend when they are back to school after the holiday, and they did feel very proud of having a magician friend tonight.

Thank you, Simon, that's very kind of you!

Cracks before collapsing!

When an object cracks seriously, it will eventually collapse as well, and that's MCA.

Let's witness this sooner or later!

1 Malaysia Tragedy!

Yet, search is still continuing for the 2 missing schoolgirls of the tragedy of the suspension bridge!

The news here reported that "They were jumping on suspension bridge" before the tragedy happened.

Do not try to blame the children for jumping on the bridge and caused the bridge to collapse! Being active is the NATURE of the children!

Those who were responsible for the designing of the bridge and the planning of the camp should have expected how active the children would be especially when they were participating in outdoor activities that provided them chances to play around or even fool around in groups. The organisers seemed rather ignorant about the precautions to be taken while having a camp for so many children near a river!

And giving excuses for all kinds of tragedies is such common here, in the end, there might be more and more sacrifice in future, even the children have become the victims now! So sad!

I just could not imagine how the parents of the girls are feeling now... ...!

My eyes are filled with tears, thinking of how pitiful the poor little girls and how anxious their parents are... ...!!

Traditional Games

tracing the roller track

using bottle caps as chess pieces

playing congkak

walking on the coconut shell

There was a traditional games exhibition when we visited to the National Museum during our school trip in KL. Those games were not so common among the children nowadays. And thus only we teachers knew how to play some of those games.

We had rope skipping there. The students were so excited to see their teachers skipping the rope there as many of them hardly know how to do that!

Anyway, there were still games that they know how to play like congkak.

There were also cartoons of traditional games drawn by my idol cartoonist, Lat.

The children enjoyed themselves very much at the traditional game corner!

with kampong boy, a cartoon character of Lat

R.I.P. Chester!

13-year-old Chester's dead early this morning. So sad :( !

He had been such an obedient and loyal pal throughout these many years!

Rest in peace, Chester, we love you and we'll miss you a lot!

Bottleneck

I have been feeling like getting stuck in the bottleneck of my career these many days. And yet, I'm still making an effort trying to make my way out of it!

A mixed feeling of disappointment, frustration and depression has often been muddling my mind and emotion lately. I'm well aware that I would have to get rid of those unhealthy emotions, only then would I be able to carry out my duty efficiently in the class.

Reading used to be one of the methods to revive my soul and uplift my spirit. Thus, I indulge in lots of inspiring articles and stories throughout this one-week Hari Raya holiday. And I tried to regain my lost enthusiasm in my career from the " Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul", a book that nourishes spiritually.

School is reopening before long, hopefully my effort in refreshing my soul and regenerating my spirit will help to make a difference in my days ahead! :)

UPSR

At last, UPSR was over!
After nagging at the students and pushing them so much throughout these many months, I do feel really relieved at this moment!

I am rather satisfied with the performance of the students after checking the answers given by them on the question sheets collected, and I believe that most of them had really tried their very best this time.

Though their true scores are still yet to be known, I shall have no regret on whatever scores they might obtain, after all, we have already done our best! I would like to thank the students for their effort and to assure them that all their hardwork shall not be in vain!

Wish us good luck!