Wish me a Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to me!

Thanks for all your greetings; my ex-pupils, ex-colleagues, "daughters", friends and family!

Today, I am supposed to "take the day off" since it was my birthday. But I have a commitment to teach in a secondary school and it was the last session today too. I did not manage to complete the whole booklet of activities due to the time constraint. It was a 2-hour session, but a lot of explanation took up quite a bit of time. I had to make sure they were clear about the tasks and the problems presented to them. I was happy that they were very cooperative even though I sensed that they were tired and brain-drained after a few tasks. Then, I gave them some sweets and asked them if they knew why I gave them. They replied they were behaving well. That's true. I told them it was my birthday and some of them did not seem to believe it. Anyway, I did not bother about it. They were very nice and wished me a happy birthday!

Long time no blog!

Well, it has been a long time since I last blog. I was busy OBVIOUSLY! Haha! Anyway, I went to a secondary school in the North-Eastern part of Singapore to conduct a programme. I was happy when I saw the class list as I saw a few of the familiar names in it. There was a change in the class list just before the day, but I still got to see a few of them. Some of them were in the other classes which I did not teach.

I was so glad that one of the boys actually came by my class to greet me. He was Bing Ren. I taught him when he was in P2. He was one of the fastest runners that I knew that time. He was also one "loud speaker". I had Wei Qin and Felicia in my class. Wei Qin was one of my best pupils at that time. It was a pleasure teaching her as she did her work and corrections diligently. There wasn't even a need to ask her to do corrections as she would do it AUTOMATICALLY. Her handwriting was and is still very neat and tidy! Felicia was my CCA member. She was responsible and would follow instructions diligently, even though she might "grumble" occasionally. :D

Another great ex-pupil is Yan Yi who always remembers my birthday. She would always send her greetings on special occasions throughout the year. She still hand-makes birthday and greeting cards every year. I remember I only told her (and my class) when she was P3 that I like things that are hand-made from pupils. The main idea was to discourage pupils from spending money buying "gifts" that I had to keep in the storeroom! The hand-made gifts, no matter how "small", show the efforts and sincerity. I remember one of my pupils, Little Lok, who passed me a Teacher's Day card and told me it was his mum who asked him to give me!!! Thanks, Little Lok. I will not tell anyone your full name to protect you. Haha! But I know my sister, Ms Ng, will know who I am talking about!

I hope she will have a smooth "sailing" year this year.

I killed one last night!

This is a picture of the American cockroach which was killed by me last night. It was spotted at the "border" between the living room and the kitchen. Instantly, I was tasked to terminate its life. I grabbed some old newspaper, rolled it into a "stick", approached the poor little soul and hit it straight on its head! I gave it a second hit just in case. Death was instant. There was no struggle.