Tues 14 oct 2008
Ate lunch with my senior and studied together...
Again, i went to the wrong lecture venue. By the time i reached, since it was a much smaller lecture theatre, it was fully packed. It is much more difficult to find a place, let alone find SF. So i went all the way to the front to sit and i much prefer this kind of lecture environment, much higher level of concentration in the lesson due to the smaller lecture theatre size.
Wed 15 oct 2008
Happy birthday, Janny!!
I wished her earlier in case I forget to wish her on her special day itself.
A big sigh..so foreign to me....>_< i mean the lecture content.
Whenever I get ready to go to school, the sky looks like it is going to rain at any moment. All the time!!! Why am I so unlucky? You want me to fall down again ah?
Thurs 16 Oct 2008
Rushing homework....
Fri 17 oct 2008
I decided to give up teaching the friday's class..the girl hasn't been coming regularly which makes it hard for me to wait till she finally completes her foundation course. I can't wait any longer!!
I need more time for my studies~~ huhu (T_T)
Sat 18 oct 2008
What a "surprise"!
I disliked it when there is an event going on and not a single colleague told me about it and expected me to agree with the arrangement.
When there is a meeting and i wasn't in it, no one bothered to inform me about what goes on in the meeting.
Hmmph....
The arrangment for today is me teaching for the first half of the day then go to the seminar in the hotel later. I don't even know what i am supposed to do there. =__=
My student gave me princess themed stickers..haha...so cute, i am going to keep them safe.
She said..."teacher, you are a princess."
awww....so cute...
In the midst of the lesson,
Me: Now, we are going to do numeric memory training.
Boy: Teacher!! What did you say?
Me: * repeated the previous sentence*
Boy: Teacher, you said we are going to get married!!
All of a sudden, he looked so horrified...his face was so pale... haha i kept laughing in class.
I agreed to walk to the seminar venue with my xue jie. So we had lunch before reaching there.
Oh no, it was a disaster.
Our task is to take care of the kids in the room but the thing is, they didn't bring enough to entertain the kids for a few hours.
They brought colouring pages but didn't bring any crayons. =_= How can that be?
I left my xue jie to entertain the kids and rushed to PS to buy crayons, markers, sweets.
Not only that, called my colleagues who were still in the office to bring the activity box later.
The kids were all of different ages,so it is very hard to entertain every single one. Most are toddlers..ahhh.
Some colleagues including me saw our boss wanting to take a photograph with the 2 speakers of the seminar. One happened to be busy talking to 5 parents. The boss insisted him in joining in the photo shoot without thinking that it would be rude to call him in the midst of his discussion with the parents. Very selfish action.
After the end of the seminar, our receptionist called all of us and said a big thanks for our help. The seminar ended early than our knockoff time for the day. So we were thinking: wah very good, maybe can leave early.
There is a buffet for all of us so some of us headed to the restaurant first. The accountant told us we had only half an hour to take the food since the restaurant is going to clear it very soon. Anyway, we were happy to eat haha.
Boss came and our happiness level went dropping down, we became very quiet and serious.
She sat right in the middle of the long table and asked: " Why isn't everyone sitting at this long table?"
So someone explained that there weren't enough seats for everyone. Boss insisted everyone to sit near the table.
Then she started off by saying: "We are not here for lunch, we are here for meeting. We don't anyhow waste this kind of money..." with that mean tone of hers.
All of us heard it and i totally didn't have the mood to continue eating.
The director happened to walk near the table and rebutted: Can you don't keeping saying such things.
And....the area , at least where all of us are seated, became so unnaturally quiet.
Some didn't dare to look up from their plates. I thought boss would have started arguing. Surprisingly, she just kept quiet.
She continued talking, giving another mean comment: wasted in prizes of lucky draws, shouldn't have given prizes. *if she is so reluctant, then why suggest the lucky draw? =_=*
First prize was 3 months free of classes in this company. So, this particular parent won the first prize and she had 3 kids. Therefore, she wanted to ask the boss whether each kid can attend one month free. Straightaway, boss rejected. And right in front of us said, " What kind of parent is this? What a stupid question!" * Isn't she mean!! i mean it is a reasonable question to ask...it is ok to ask.*
In the newspaper advertisement, my company advertised free gift for people who sign up for the seminar. Boss said "shouldn't have given the gift at all"...the pet immediately cut in and agreed. The rest kept quiet. But a sales person said...whatever is promised in the advertisement, we have to do it. We can't misplace trust like that.
She turned her head to the direction of the teachers and commented: a lot of parents complain about the noisy kids.
"Why did you control them?"
*can't help it what, the kids will be noisy when we entertain them..if they just keep quiet, it doesn't seem right*
" Why didn't you give them work to do?"
* most of them are too young to do worksheets*
"Why don't just let them do some singing?"
*huhhhh won't that be even noisier?
" The talks by the speakers are so good. Did you teachers listen to them?"
* excuse me, we were busy taking care of the kids in the room. How can we be in 2 places at the same time? Plus, we couldn't hear anything from the room.*
Of course, her favourite question is: how is the sales?
Can tell that the sales were bad.
First problem, the sales table wasn't strategically placed. It was placed right in the corner of the function room. During breaktime, they wouldn't have a chance to walk past there since the food table was outside. People were busy queuing up for the food.
Second problem, there wasn't any thing indicating that that table is the sales table. =_=
There were so many problems with the seminar itself.
Firstly, during the talk, they didn't even promote about what this company is doing since they invited speakers that are not really linking with what we are doing.
Secondly, the food wasn't even enough for 2/3 of the people coming, which resulting in many complaints afterwards.
Thirdly, it was done so last minute that everyone didn't know what we are doing.
New sales people were very proactive in giving suggestions and one even offered to do a report for boss. * don't need to be so hardworking for such a boss*
was so agitated..felt like walking away during the so called meeting...
the meeting ended right on the dot of our usual knockoff time. I think she did that on purpose loh to make sure we don't leave early.
2 friends walked back to the office with me because i was the only one who didn't bring my bag along.
Sun 19 Oct 2008
Hmm..i should add in about what happened on last Sunday.
In this class, there was a trial boy joining the princesses and he is the active sort but not the naughty kind. He wanted to go to the toilet so i accompanied him. When I came back, pet was in my classroom, standing near the door. I continued my teaching and she sat between the kids. The worst thing was she began 'snatching' to teach.
She embarassed the trial boy in front of the girls and made everyone not happy in class.
Really treat them like commanding army...gosh.....
they didn't even do anything to deserve that treatment....my poor kids...
made me feel so inferior and i didn't have the heart to continue teaching...i wanted to do something special for my own classes....
I was so fed up...really wanna just let her do the teaching since she keeps snatching....then i can packed bag and go home....
Wow, a record of 2 blackouts in a day. For both occurrences, i was in a classroom with no windows. It was pitch dark till i couldn't even see my fingers.
First time, I was alone in the classroom with my students and told them: don't be afraid..teacher is here...and remember not to move. When i was telling them, at the same time, i am afraid too. haha I requested for the girl who was nearest the door to open it for me. But she was too scared and thus refused it. I tried to feel my way out of the row of tables and managed to open the door to let some light in. At that moment, boss was walking along the corridor and she peeked into my classroom. She said: ohhh you are teaching this class? *if i am not, i won't be in this classroom =_=*
Second time, I was in the same classroom and this time with my friend. Thank goodness, it was just for a short while.
Today was the last day of my work. I wanted to inform boss de but since the pet knew about it, i assumed boss has already known that. Then i didn't say loh...for fear of talking to her alone and falling into her trap.
My friends gave a farewell dinner for me. Thanks so much!!
We went to Raffles city japanese restuarant..cos a few of them knew i was craving for japanese food these days. ^_^
Haha they wanted to take my food secretly by diverting my direction to other places...i told them i won't get tricked..haha
Afterwards, we went to Ministry of Food at Marina Square to eat ice cream!! Cool!!
Then we parted at Marina Square since i have a direct bus to home.
I was already walking to the bus stop direction when someone kept calling my name. I turned around and saw PS running towards me and hugged me while saying " why u didn't say bye bye and just leave...."
Yah and i have mentioned before: when people hug me, i will feel like breaking down and cry.
It was very emotional and she hugged me for a long time. Then Aunt came running behind too and hugged. So it became a group hug. I could feel tears in my eyes....
This is just goodbye for now.....^_^..we will see each other soon....
