Petrol Prices Too High La..

realised that I have not posted in a long time.. can't exactly say that I'm very busy, but yet I'm never free.. and I have tonnes of marking piled up somewhere on my table.. so yeah.. sigh..

oh well, last Thursday's TIC (Teachers' Investiture Ceremony) draws the curtains on the NIE chapter of my life.. well, the full-time NIE chapter anyhow, and mixed feelings really.. the tutorial mates that you've spent a year with, witnessing how people have changed, how relationships have changed, known a great deal more people that you can rely on for resources.. and yet at the same time, glad that it is finally over and we're officially teachers.. even though we're like labelled BTs for now.. beginning teachers.. how very apt.. Buay Tahan..

life's in TP is alrite, slowly getting into the swing of things.. juz went for my CCA yesterday.. shooting.. hmm.. rather interesting.. at least I concluded that sitting at the range watching the students shoot is loads more interesting than watching paint dry.. so well.. been playing regular soccer every Thursday.. if twice in three weeks can be considered regular..

so things are moving along again, especially after the stop-start nature of things in the post-practicum, pre-reporting stage, and somehow, despite the increased workload, I'm glad.. in all, it feels good to get started again, and that idle engine is being slowly cranked up to speed.. I hope.. at the moment, it's happily chugging along, doing 20km/h on a 110km/h highway.. bo pian.. darn petrol prices, need to do 20km/h to be fuel efficient.. sigh.. =P

Teacher Power

"I have come to a frightening conclusion that
I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that
creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather.

As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's
life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can humiliate or humour, hurt or heal.

In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a
crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanised or
dehumanised."

Dr. Haim Ginott