Old school glory

Old school glory

Relief teaching again *yeah* and i love teaching my students. Listening to Bernard's blog song while blogging. I like that song a lot but i just dont noe the title. Lazy to search for it on imeem so gonna ask him later. Why bother going there when i can just listen from his blog zzz. I want that song haha send to me leh Bernard!!

A quick summary about my teaching today. My lesson was suppose to start at 9am but AGAIN, i was told to come down at 8am to report. Stoned myself with Samson and his friends at the canteen drinking coffee and idling at each other.

My first lesson was at the computer lab, but Mr Steven Toh barged in and "interrupted" my relief teaching cuz he was dying to teach them photoshop. So i sat down and watch the students learn as i was learning the Adobe Photoshop myself haha. Now i noe how the magic wand works lol and i noe a bit about photoshop. The relief teacher is being relief by another senior teacher haha, ironically. Students are quite discipline, sec 4 students are less playful but just a bit rebellious. They are so huge, one punch from them and i am dead haha. I cant use the com at all cuz i dont have the password. It was a really boring yet interesting lesson. I noe a bit of Adobe Photoshop le haha, i can finally play with it after installing it for 3 yrs in my computer not knowing what to do about it lol.

My second lesson was with a sec 3 normal technical class. When i step in a student approach me and ask "teacher are you an andro?" Andro means gay after consulting with Samson's friend haha and i reply back smiling "nope, now you can get back to your seat please." Just playful and chicky but nothing bad at all about them. They thought they can annoy me but haha, i am just glad that they ask me stupid questions so that i can give them a stupid reply. I was told to assign work to them but who would take the words of a relief teacher seriously. In the end i just told the Math Rep to issue out the workbooks to them and i said "i dont care if you guys do the work or not, i just want to see the book on your table" in a serious tone. Within 5 seconds i turn back and said "oh please dont like that lah give me face leh, just scribble something in the book lah" and the whole class laugh at me haha. No they are not disrespecting me haha. Some of the students did their work and ask me about the questions. I was teaching them simultaneous equation and i wrote out the answers on the board. One of the student raise up her hand and said "cher cher (teacher for short) your 1b correct or not ah?" Puzzled? i recalculated the answer and yah i was wrong haha, it was suppose to be 5 not 8 haha. See, who said all university students are smart haha, i even screw up a simple simultaneous equation haha. I was almost confused by some of the students when they doubted my answers. Yah i was rite in the end, that answer was suppose to be in fraction. Interesting lesson, at least i am teaching something meaningful.

My third lesson was the most interesting of all. I was suppose to relief them 2 whole hours for math. They were suppose to have a math test today on quadratic equation and they were delighted to see me, until they saw the test papers on my hand haha. First question they ask was "cher can give us 10mins to revise or not" and i said yes haha. Giggling and squiggling, they are making fun of me secretly but i didnt really care. I was busy counting the test papers as i was about to issue them out. The test was suppose to be 40mins but i gave them extra 10mins to do. One student ask me "cher *and they just LIKE to call me cher instead of other name* can discuss or not" and i reply back saying "only if i cant hear them" and the whole class went "YEAH!!!" haha. Their discussion was DAMN LOUD LOR haha, chicky students haha. Scratching heads, stareing at me giving the "i dont noe how to do leh teacher" look. I cant stand it anymore, i quickly work out all the answers in 15 mins time (its just simple quadratic equation lah) and i started walking around to "assist" them and "invigilating". Here are some of the classics of how i help them through their test:

student A: cher is this correct?
me: ummm *knodding my head slightly*
student A: so correct or not?
me: ummm *knodding my head*
student A: yeah so correct?
me: *smiling at her*
(of course it is correct lah zzz if not i would have nag at her liao)

student B: cher correct or not ah?
me: ummm *knodding my head*
student A: cher said "umm" already, means correct lah
(I lol in my heart, lol)

student C: cher i really dont noe how to do leh
me: which question
student C: everything lor
me: like tat cannot lah
student C: you got the answers or not cher
me: *place the answers on her desk*
student C: cher is tat the answer
me: ummm *knodding my head*
student C and her neighbour student D: *frantically copying*
(I only give them 10s to copy, they didnt copy finish haha, returned back to student C and D through and forth 3 times for them to copy finish lol)

student E: cher my answer and him different leh, who correct ah?
me: hmmm *used my pen to point at student F answer*
student F: so my one correct ah?
me: ummm *knodding head again*
student F: YES!!!!
student E: wah lau knn let me see
(lol, copying under my eye, i pretend not to see haha)

student G: cher cher how to find perimeter huh?
me: *giving her the stun look* perimeter leh you sec 3 liao hello!!
student G: but use wat number got 2 answers leh
me: length can never be negative
student G: oh yah hor i noe liao, thanks cher
(almost scares the hell out of me when i thought she dont noe how to calculate perimeter)

student H: cher help me check answer correct or not ah
me: wait let me check *take out a calculator*
me: yah correct
student H: yes
student I: yes
student J: SIAN wrong must recalculate again
(mass copying the other ppl's answer, i pretend i never see it again haha)

Times up so i collect back the paper from all of them. They did their own things while i was sorting out the papers. I even had the time to glance through and grade their papers haha cuz there was still time to spare. There were about 10 who had the same answers as me so if my answers are all correct they would have score full marks. Overall nobody failed the paper thanks to my assistance and seeing the smiles on their face, i feel the sense of satisfaction. Yes i noe that wat i did was wrong but i also dont want to disappoint them. I just want to give them a tiny bit of motivation cuz i dont want them to think belittled of themselves. The students may be playful but they have a very low self-esteem. Many of them came to me saying "cher i fail the paper rite, i tink i fail leh" but when i told them that they didnt, they were like so happy haha. I noe how they feel cuz i am a student myself. I dont want to follow the footsteps of all the other teachers, grueling them with tortures and riddles and so many demoralising remarks like "you will fail your O levels if u dont buck up" etc. I may be just a relief teacher earning simple money, but i take my relief teaching seriously. Because i like my job, i feel passionate in teaching and the money i earn is meaning. While pondering on my thoughts, that stupid student councilor was being bullied by her other friends i walk to her saying "why are you outside" and she said "cuz they lock me out." I pointed out to the other door saying "why not enter from the front" and she was like "oh...yah hor". Zzzz, she is a student councilor somemore. How did she get to be a student councilor in the first place lol.

I met up with a lot of old veteran teachers today, they arent really that old lah much like senior. So much so that i dont even have a proper time being alone and i have to keep talking to them haha. Most were my lower secondary teachers cuz all my upper secondary teachers had left. They remember me by the "small cute quiet boy who always sits in the front row". Fact check: i was FORCED to sit in front cuz of my puny height when i was young, puny! And now i am all grown up they said "wow all grown up but your face haven change so cute haha." Can they stop emphasizing that i am cute lol so embarressing to hear that from a teacher leh haha. Oh yah that did make me feel better, seriously. Yah lots of changes in the school but everybody is still the same. Miss Koh is still as fierce as a tigeress haha, she shouted back sarcastically at the students who played with the lift haha.

Teaching in HongKah thought me a few lessons today. It is not about how i need to kill my time properly cuz i have nothing to do at home. It is about managing my time to do meaningful things. I keep complaining to my friends that i am so bored at home, grinding maple doing nothing, wanting to go out but no one to go with. Oh forgod sake stop complaining lah Jun Hua. If you want to go out just get your ass up and move! Go out and have a jog or a swim like Bernard and Samson. Train for your IPPT 2.4km! Stop procrastinating about how boring life is and do some action about it. I shall not whine at about how helpless i am being at home now during my holidays. I want to change myself and i dont want to keep asking for a soulmate. Earn a soulmate yourself and dont go about looking for one. Grow up! I dont want to be like the old me anymore. Yang Guang haha, i want to be my cheerful self. No more sick emoing or stupid "negative sides of my life." I feel like a better man today after my relief teaching, ah....the sense of satisfaction =)