Monthly review 5: May 2009

Time flies... It's already May!!! Erm... Which word shall i use to describe my life in May? I think i will use ‘平静中又带点激动'吧！！！Why i said so?



First, let me talk about the NRC 2009. NRC (National Robotics Competition) is a competition abt lego robots and programming. The students need to use a software to write a programme tht can make the robots to move. This is the second year i trained the students for NRC. Last yr was my 1st yr to preapre the students for NRC and it was a mess. We were so blur abt the competition so we did badly. This is my second yr and i started to prepare it earlier this yr. We invited trainers frm Sasbadi (main organiser of NRC) to train our students (6 students involved) and we started to prepare it 2 months earlier. We put in so much effort and we thought we will do better this yr. For the sake of NRC, my students and i stayed back late almost everyday. We stayed back in the schl to study abt the programming and went back home at ard 4pm or 6pm. It's so tired!!! we are tired not only due to went back home late but it's also becoz of the results of our work. Sometimes we able to produce some results but sometimes not, it's quite disappointing. Sigh.... The competition was held on 12th may and we went to pasir gudang (so far!!!) for the competition. The results? Sigh... Like what happened last yr, although we worked hard for it but we still failed... All of us were so sad and disappointed coz we really worked hard for it... Anyway, i have to say thank you to all the students involved (Thanks weihong, liching, deeveeya, chiuling, jiahui and suting!) becoz i know they did their best and they sacrificed their time to prepare for NRC. The competition was on 12th may and their mid-year exam starts at 13th may (yup, the next day after the NRC) yet the students still willing to work hard for NRC so i really 佩服 them... After NRC, they apologised to them coz didnt do well but actually i shld be the one to say sorry coz i make them worked so hard for the 2 months. Sorry and thank you gals, i hope u did learn something frm NRC although we didnt win it.



Second thing was abt Teachers' Day!!! Our schl teachers' day fell on 18th may which is in between mid-year exam. So, again prefects are the one who is going to suffer, sigh... They need to prepare for the celebration of teachers' day. So many things they need to do yet they need to prepare for their exams. It's quite tired and stressful to them. For a few days, we (prefects + me) stayed back to prepare for teachers' day. Here, i need to say sorry to all the prefects if i ever gave pressure to u during the preparation. Now, let's talk abt teachers' day!!! Sometimes we worked so hard but the results didnt turn out good. But for this time, the results was excellent!!! We put in so much effort and teachers' day celebration is a great success!!! The activities were nice and the students' performance were interesting!!! Oh ya, i must talk abt the teachers' performance too!!! Since students are willing to perform even though it's exam so we as teachers must perform too lar. Haha, we performed a drama talking abt students' behaviours. Students like to act as teachers so teachers will act as students... Me, played the role of students. haha, we borrowed schl uniform and schl shoes frm my students. OMG!!! All the audience were so surprised and they all enjoyed watching the drama. After tht many students praised tht we acted very well. Haha, actually i am not a crazy person but i will become crazy when i met with someone who always have crazy ideas, haha. Audience enjoyed watching and me too enjoyed acting too!!! One of the weekend in may, i went out yamcha with my ex-students. They talked abt ther brand new form 6 life and i enjoyed listening to it. i am so happy not becoz i can go yamcha, it's becoz they still keep in touch with me even though after form 5. (Thanks feiping for ur sushi and thanks wenjing for ur dumplings, i am so touched!!!) I hope tht i will be able to keep in touch with my present f5 students too after they left the schl this yr. Is it possible?



NRC is over, teachers' day is over, get back to exam now!!! Students busy preparing the exam while teachers' busy marking papers.. The schl was so peaceful and quiet during the exam period. Talking abt marking papers, it's a kind of mixed feeling depends on how u want to c it. Out of the 5 classes i teach, 4 of them are so called 'good classes'. Most of the students did score for my maths papers but there were a few students who did quite badly in the exam. I was so shocked and disappointed!!! Sometimes i will ask is it tht i am too busy with others work until i neglected my students, tht's why they did badly in the exam? Is that so? The other class was the last class. Sigh.... I spent so much effort and time to teach this group of students yet all of them failed the exam!!! What did i do ? I am so sad and disappointed and sometimes i felt like giving up... I know as a teacher i must 有教无类 (meant we shld nvr discriminate or give up our students) but i do feel tired. U spent so much time to teach them but when u mark their papers they seem like nvr learn anything!! All my efforts 付诸流水，哀哉。。。Is it that i pin to high hopes in my students? so, i try to comfort myself : Dont feel sad abt the minority groups but be happy abt the majority students. Actually, majority of my students did do very well, so ms chin be happy and contented!!

Muahaha... I managed to update my blog until May 2009!!! Congratulations and well done Esther!!!