Tuesday, April 26, 2005

grinning like a mad idiot....st. hilda's symphonic band got GOLD for this year's SYF!!! aahhhhh...i'm like so happy for them and mr. sim, my conductor! first GOLD in don't how many donkey years... 2001, my sec 4 year was a bronze...i cried... 2003 was a silver, and now 2005..its a GOLD!!

now have to cross fingers for TJ and NJ on 5th may...

recently the newspapers and forums have been talking about teachers. their work load, their struggles, their resignations etc. so many people have written into ST forum to air their views.

as a future teacher and having some experience in teaching, i've come to really believe that teaching comes as a calling. you need to be fuelled by a passion to impart knowledge, to lead the children down the right way. without it, you're just a teacher who provides your students with a broken compass. you're just there because it's a career. worst, it's just a job that you go to everyday. mundane things in your life. go into the classroom, teach whatever that is in your plans, mark whatever that is supposed to be marked. that's when you feel the burden of long hours, of hard work.

a teacher who really cares would spend 12 hours in school a day on average willingly...willing to spend her extra hours giving remedials to a weak student or to spend her lunch hour talking to her students. it can get really tiring. but in the end i would think the satisfaction that comes with it is so rewarding, you'll feel that everything that you did and went the extra mile for was worth it. when my students finally grasp concepts and cleared their doubts. when they tell me they preferred me to their new permanent teacher.... argh...i'm feeling evil tonight.

also, not everyone can teach. some people just cannot teach. i'm sure we all had teachers like that. they're good people, with good intentions. they may be even the most brilliant people in the field. but they just cannot teach! and i get very frustrated when i end up with bad teachers. ok..shall be nice.

teaching is a wonderful thing to do. i wouldn't even want to call it a career/job 'cos that will undermine its greatness. it's one-of-a-kind and shouldn't be viewed as a career...like manager of some shipping company etc. like when grissom from CSI was talking to ecklie, the supervisor from the day shift CSI team and their department head, ecklie was telling grissom to buck up on his supervisory roles (aka. admin work kinda stuff), cos u know...grissom is just not the admin sort. he's the science CSI buff.

ecklie (in a snide tone): be careful, grissom. this could cost you your career.
grissom: that's what scares me, you think of this as a career.

now blogs are so unsafe. someone may just complain me to ST and MOE and there goes my teaching award.

anyway dearest is having a bad night wrestling with a ext HDD. hope the nice things you're doing tmr will cheer you up. =)

i love this song! one of my favourite jazz numbers. It's for you!

They Can't Take That Away
George and Ira Gershwin

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you change my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

4 more days....

This girl posted at 12:26 AM