trophy

today was one of the toughest days that i ever had and today i wished that i was invincible .... i was given 3 trophies to give to the 1st , 2nd and 3rd position students for doing well ... infact all of my students did well ... to me that is .. i think for the whole year i have tried my best to encourage them in whatever they do ... however to some i did not do what i was supposed to .. but in my heart i did ... well you cannot please everyone ....

i went and did the unthinkable .. i ordered two more trophies . the thing is no matter what that trophy has to be given to the right candidate even though you have two students who had the 1st position ... fair is fair ..


i admit that i was wrong in some ways or another even if i have given them each a present , i mean all of my students a gift , i still did not suppress the issue .. the issue is even though i went ahead to present them the gift , a trophy is still a trophy and it is to be given regardless of the gift ....

children are very special and to them when you give a gift , and if there is a trophy somewhere , you still have to give it to them ...


i learned a lesson today and i have found a solution to it and that is ... get the trophy ... give it to them and explain it later to my boss .. wink , wink ...

silence from the class

in a few days time , my students will be leaving me ... and for once i will hear nothing but silence ... hmmmm ... no more talking , laughter and tears ..... it has already started to seep into me .. like today only 12 turned up and by tomorrow most of them will not come ... i try to be brave for them .... i got each of them something small .. normally i do not get them any gifts but then again it's only once a year .....


they are the best bunch that i enjoy working with .. no, i am wrong actually i have enjoyed teaching them and every year i look forward to my new students .....
i have been trying to find the right words to say to them but it does not come .... i put it off , saying that i could always talk to them later but i am guessing again what does a bunch of kids want to hear ?


today some of my students went on a trip and you could just see that they were not their usual self .. maybe because i did not go along with them .. i don't know .. kids are like tightrope .. they become close to you and every awaken moment of their lives , when they get to school , it's you that they want to see the most .....you can say anything to them but at the end of they day , they look out for you ... i think that is what makes it so special being around children ....


so where do i go from here ? my hopes and prayers will always be with them .... wishing them all the best .. the best is yet to come ...

december

next month will be a yr .. of me being a principal ... someone asked me just the other day how did i do .... that's a tough question... well from what we have observed it was one heck of a roller coaster ride ....


it was fun , scary and funny all at the same time .. i found myself stuck in difficult situations and at times i could not even decide or i don't know if i made the right move ....

however there was a being up in heaven who loved me so much , that He gave me the courage to hang on and accept all of the challenges thrown in my way ..i would not say that we made everything 100 % right . we are learning still and now we have upgraded ourselves into a cruise ship ...

in January , we were all huddled up into a small rowing boat with no oars and we went in all directions ..... it was funny though ...

having the right support group made the days seem brighter, when were were just about to give up . with that support , we hung on and braved into the storm ...

so teachers , are we ready for another great year ahead ?

i know i am ....

saying this

earlier i wrote something with regards to exams , learning through play and the basics of early childhood education .. the post has been deleted .. i could not go on as i feel that i do not have the right .. to judge or comment on it further ....

for whatever i feel in my heart will be a battle within me until the day i die .. assuring myself that it can change .. the system can change and that change may take time ...


i am so sorry for the young minds that go through the changes that we make and if we do not correct it , it will be too late .... too late for anything ...


i still pray and hope for a change to come so that our children will be better equipped and well prepared for their future ..


i am so sorry ....

the end

2 weeks, its the only time left for me to spend my time with my studnets and next month will be excatly a year of me becoming a principal .. so how did we do ?

all i can say is ,we did our best and next year would be better ...

i just want to thank all of my students for teaching me , not only did i teach them , i leared a thing or two from them as well and for that i am very thankful to all of them .. i bought each of them a little gift .... something simple and it has been along time since i gave them anything ....


but then i am wrong .. i gave them loads of love , hugs and scoldings too !!!! the scolding part goes hand in hand with the job ..so my studnets will be leaving me soon and here is a list of what i am to say now ;

adrianna -- the most sweetest girl who tries her best .
Chai shu Yen --- smart in her own way and never fail to help out .
Chong Ci Tian -- from the crying diva that she was , she is now a very confident
young lady!
Chong Wei Zhe-- adepts well into the envioronment like a chameleon !!
danish shah ---- as sharp as a pencil ....the next politician ..
lynus ---- minuses very well in math hence the name lynus minus!!
yasmin -- quiet queen with a good heart .
edlin --- witty as a hungry muching monkey munching on a banana !!
ong wen shuen --- knows when to show off her skills after 10 months !!
lai bei shuen -- a would be hairdresser in the near future aka sandra bullock !!
damea --- degil as a rock and she has come along way !!
hew bee ee -- the one that gets everything that she wants !!
lee ken shine ---- my miss lee ever so kind and soft spoken.
homer -- his grandpas name is homer , his dads name is homer and so is his name !!
nabil ---hmmm the one that i must constantly push ..
nur iman -- the good girl ..
nilly sofea -- my lady gaga is leaving me and there will be no more talking shhh!!
hadief farhan -- kaki bola of 6 grace ..



so where do i go from here ? well the yr is coming to an end .. its no the end for me but the beginning for me .... here we go another great year ahead ...

bye my studnets , all the best .. make your mark in the world ...

its what i like

i spent the entire day at bandar utama .. not only did i shop till i drop but i managed to give some smiles here and there .. you see we malaysians are the most caring lot and my dad used to say .. each time when you go out, try to at least smile at anyone who passes you by ..... most of the time i will give a nice smile to all those aunties and uncles .. you will be surprised ..

if you seen the movie pay it forward , you will know what i am talking about .. its not about showing others that you can do better than them , its mostly about you , yourself and only you ,making that littlest difference it that persons life .. the same as when you fall in love for the first time , you'd just go do anything for that one person .. i mean everything and you may even think later .. lying in bed , 'wow , i never knew that i could do that'.


nice feeling and not to mention , you hear kachhiingg !!! that goes into your personal bank account for a good deed done .... it could be anything actually ... if you can please one person a day .. good for you .. if you cant , dont be too hard on yourself , there is always tomorrow .. you can try again .. no harm ...


so are you ready to pay it forward and give it a shot ?

cakes

call it crazy but i have started baking and loving it .. made 2 cakes so far and it turned out pretty well .. thanks to you tube .... that is where i get my ideas .. its kind of a hobby and i am quite pleased with myself .. i can just see it now .... the headlines .. mountain of cake fell onto baker .... !!!!!!!!!!!!


i think everyone should at least take up one hobby each .. i mean you may just never know where it may lead you to ... trust me ,when i tell you this , when i bake , i forget my problems its the same when i do beading .. you just forget everything and you just get better and better ... you feel excited ...


maybe i might just go into business eh ? i mean , in the long run , i bake because i enjoy making good cakes .. lets face it .. if i were to order a cake i May not like the cake itself ... OK i tengah naikkan tocang i sendiri but facts are facts .. its either the cake tastes lousy or the cream on the cake is lousy so why not ... make it good on the inside as well on the outside ...


my mum was the excited one .. at first ahe was like ' okay you do la ' later it was , 'mum you also do , come i know how you feel you want to, come and do , we will share it out '. hmmm boleh la tahan tapi sayangnye saya tak de camera but i did save it into my phone and the best part i even managed to send the picture to my sister through mms ... and i have friends who said that i was so ketinggalan zaman ... not bad for the first mms ... puji tuhan .... amin ..