Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Mess... Arghhhhh!
My room is in a total mess. Not that I purposely do not want to clear and clean it up, it is just that I need all those papers to complete my scheme of works for next year. Hah, I will try to be a better teacher next year =)
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Those papers actually are the worksheets that I did not use for my students this year. Some will say, just throw it away. But hey, what if the worksheets have 70 sets for each? It will be a total loss for me. Some more, I'm trying to save our environment =) as well as my pocket too!
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Goodness, I think my head is already ting tong with all these stuffs. At the same time, I have to study the new text for literature. For those who have children or younger siblings who will be in form one and form four next year, they will study new text. The one that the students are studying right now is already ten years.
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I'm more than happy when I know that they are getting new text. However, then I read through the texts (both forms), I felt a little bit disappointed. The text is not local at all! Except for 'Heir Conditioning' by M. SHANmughalingam, 'A Fighter's Lines' by Marzuki Ali (Form 1 text), 'In the Midst of Hardship' by Latiff Mohidin and 'Are You Still Playing Your Flute' by Zurinah Hassan (Form 4 text).
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I wonder how my students will learn the texts as I expect that I'll teach among the last class. Phew, I really have to work extra hard next year. At the same time, I also expect to be sent for endless workshops next year. Haish... when will I have time to teach my kids? Haish...
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Stop complaining Ain! Continue your work!
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Dang!
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Friday, December 11, 2009
REvisit: UPM
This is where we begin...
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Since I started working last year, it is like a habit to go back to this place where I call it as home-sweet-home. Yes, UPM is our second home as MPTI/ IPTI is our first home.
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I miss all these places, the BSN where we did our 'rompakan bersenjata' because our monthly allowance were bank in through it. Most of the time, the juniors who were still in Maktab will inform us when our allowance will be in. The Harbour Bridge, or some of us called it as 'bukit batak', because once, one of my friend misheard what my friend said. Actually, my friend was refering the bridge just like bukit kat maktab. So funny. We had scary times with the college bus since the drivers drove like manic. We always pray hard and cross our fingers, hoping that there would not be any accident. Plus, we also had a lot of headache since they played the non-friendly-'Kelly Ng'- songs non-stop.
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The FPP, is where we spent most of our times and when we discovered how cosy JPPPL is, we hang there like anything. This is also the rooms for our lecturers. We had our breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea, discussion, (dating) and a lot more things at faculty's cafe. Whenever we wanted to pay for our food, we always pray that the one who will calculate it will be the abang, not the makcik, because he usually will give us cheaper price. My lunch usually cost me only RM2. Wow, I do save a lot then it comes to food.
When we orded our drinks, the abang who prepared it usually will put a lot of condensed milk. And Sammy will say, "rasa susu sebenar, fresh dari ladang UPM". Once, I told him to make my Nescafe Iced a bit thick, so I told him "bang, kasi kaw punya" and he replied "okeh boss".
Oh, JPS is the least adimred place for TESLites and we could not understand how the sports students can stand with that place. It's scary and smelly, yucks!
We love the foyer! Hell ya, we love it like anything until we create a phrase nak berfoya-foya di foyer. A lot of informations we got from the foyer as we always look for updates at the boards. After that, we will spred it among 52 of us. When I went there the other day, I found an interesting banner, which is about MICELT 2010. We love MICELT, and for next year, it will be held in Equatorial Hotel, Melaka again! For more information about MICELT 2010, refer to this site for updates.
Oh, I went to the bookshop, and shop there like there is no place in KL that I can shop better. But wait, I found this, the script for Ronggeng Rokiah by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai. I did not bought it, but I just love the title la la la~~~*
The entrance is one of our favourite spot. We admired the architecture and it is a good subject for photography. I remembered that I used this entrance as one of my subject of photography for my Teknology Pendidikan class. It was early of the semester. Students were still eager to go to class and I had to wait almost 30 minutes to make sure that nobody would interfere or enterframe my picture. Not a single human, and not a single vehicle! I was really tiring, but indeed, I managed to snap a beautiful picture.*
Owh ya, Dr. Edwin will screamed at us if he saw us walking on the grass. "You UGLY PEOPLE, GET OFF FROM THE GRASS!!!" And when we entered his class, he will give us another lecture about walking on the grass. If you read the entry that I wrote about him, you will see our pictures with him standing on the grass. It was drizzling, what a beautiful moment, and he said like this to us, "because all of you, I had to be an UGLY PEOPLE today".*
This is not the end. Although we had our convocation at Dewan Besar, it is not the end of our journey. In fact, it is the beginning of our career. We hope to come back to this place again to get our second degree. One day, we will tell our next generations proundly, "I used to study in UPM once. We never regretted even a minute of our life studying there and we are proud to be the Alumni of UPM"Salah!

As an English teacher, sometimes I think I suffer because I tend to correct every single mistakes that people make when they speak or write in English. Sometimes, I even laughed at them (this happened during Induksi), scold them (during Induksi too), etc...
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And look what's written on the paper...
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I didn't realised it until I looked at it thorougly. This happened when I bought my new toy. If only the person who wrote this is my student, I will definately scold him on the spot!
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HUH!
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
'Ronggeng Rokiah' (part 2/2009)
As I have promised earlier, I will write about my second part of 'Ronggeng Rokiah'. This time around, I went to KL (ya, there's no other place for me to go except JB and KL).
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Day 1
I went to KL quite late as I had to go to school and finished some tasks.
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Day 2
incik-kacang-senyum asked me where I wanted to go and I straight away said, "UPM!". And UPM, here I come!
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I will write more about UPM in my next post.*
After UPM, I went to Mid Valley (where else?) for my first round of book hunting. Unfortunately, I could not find the books that I wanted to buy, but wait! I still buy some books. It is a lie if I tell you that I entered a bookshop and walked out of it without buying any books. Haha...
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And I went to The Gardens too (so jakun!), since I have never been there before. Mind you, I'm staying in Johor and going to KL is just like escaping from a prison.
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Since Christmas is just around the corner, they decorated the places with christmas trees and castle. The one in MV is still unfinished (when I went there), but the one in The Gardens reminds me of bridal dais. Yeah, you know people nowaday are so creative until sometimes I think they have changed the dais into something else. *sigh*
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Mid Valley
The Gardens*
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Big Bad Book Sale @ Amcorp Mall*
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*After the 'photography' session is over, I went to Kinokuniya (as usual) and took quite a lot of books. Come across my heart at that time, hopefully I have enough money to pay for those books or I will be a dead meat. And guess what? I got RM10 voucer since I spent more that RM100 in a reciept. There goes my smug face. Since the voucer can only be used from 3/1/2010 until 31/3/2010 I guess I have to come back to KL next year. Hopefully I will go there on sencod week of February and it also means that I can attend the first MASKARA next year, yeah.
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