in between

9am and i'm in LCCT.

3 and a half hours bus ride from ipoh.

everything is like The First Time. huge luggage but 5kg lighter. cacat laptop. canon.

i am like supposed to go for the school PIBG meeting but nope, i am skipping it coz i booked the tickets days before they announced the meeting date. submitted a letter to the boss to inform him that he won't see my face in the meeting. he wasn't in a good mood that day but thank God it was ok.

talking about shifting house. i told you we are moving one floor down, kan. alrights. actually things weren't as simple as it looks like. conflicts and confrontations. whatever. we followed the proper procedure and yet we 'lost' the battle. never mind. i don't want to waste my time fighting over that. hope the 'new' house we are moving into will be better than the current one. don't worry, i will definitely show you pictures of that new house.

it's February!

i am leaving ipoh at 4am tonight, i mean 'tomorrow morning'.

and soon i will be back in the other side of my world. it's been a good one week break back in Ipoh. and i am looking forward to the mid year holidays in May-June.

what's awaiting me in LD?
basketball practices and competition. HKSBP. classes. moving to another unit one floor below the current one. school sports day. have to settle the Feb math test problem. have to key in the marks of Feb test for bio, science and math. settle the PEKA filing stuff. what else? erm, get the tickets to fly back for holidays! ;)

i don't know how am i going to do this kind of traveling for 4-5 years. *hopefully not more than that*

sometimes i wonder how am i going to face all that is coming.. how am i going to keep the enthusiasm and passion to teach.. how can i keep myself from disillusionment.. how can i keep myself from being so affected by the working environment.. how can i keep walking along this path and not be influenced by the one-of-a-kind attitude which we all know so well when we talk about teachers in school.. how? how not to be overwhelmed by so many 'hows' and 'don't-knows' and 'whys'?

Psalm 37.

Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him....
.........

it's going to be an eventful three months in LD with more stories to tell in the blog as i plugged myself in to the life in LD and when you see me face to face during the mid year break. there will be more building-bridges-crossing-cultures stuff to work on and creating opportunities of coming together building each other.

i missed my uni days
happy birthday, jiaaaaa!

ups and downs

Faith never knows where it is being led,
but it knows and loves the One who is leading.
- Oswald Chambers

fallen. leave.

Ten miles from town and I just broke down
Spittin' out smoke on the side of the road
I'm out here alone just tryin' to get home
To tell you I was wrong but you already know

Believe me I won't stop at nothin'
To see you so I've started runnin'
~Daughtry, Life After You~

it's time to show you how my place is like

Day One of CNY! woohoooo!!!

from the balcony of my house.
oh wells, my housemate and i decided to do some CNY decoration.
it does give us the excitement to go home for cny.

after one and a half month in LD, finally i can showcase to you how my flat and the school look like and what kind of life i have there. anyway, i am truly glad that i am finally back in Ipoh, the place where i belonged (hehe). i left my flat at about 1pm on friday, reached KK terminal 2 at 4pm, waited till 7pm and reached LCCT at about 10.10pm. Took yoyo bus and reached Ipoh at about 3am. 14 hours (instead of 12 hours) of traveling madness. goodness gracious, it took me quite a while to recuperate from that and here i am finally have enough energy to sort through the pictures i took and go online to lepak.

okiess.. some of the pictures i took in this one and a half month..

early morning, about 6.20am, preparing to go to school.

day 1 in LD. this is the unit i am staying in currently. most likely will be moving to another unit after the cny break. erm, the place is quite ok if you ignore the 'surprises' that come with it.

this was taken from the back balcony. it's the school building. classrooms on the left and surau and hostels at the right. a big field in front of the buildings.

aiks, got to go for dinner!! ;)

to be continued...

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

I am waiting to go home.

This week the students had their Feb test.
I don't know how to describe what i am feeling right now. What will you do if most of them failed the test? I set the form 2 maths and form 3 science paper. Science paper was ok, although most of the students in my classes got below A, and a few of them failed the paper. Maths is a totally different story. Only a few of them passed, and the rest failed. How? :(
This Feb test is really a mood spoiler larrr!

But one good thing is, the Bio results of my budak form 4 is quite encouraging. Not like they get A+ or things like that, but comparing to the objectives questions i let them do the other day, they did better in the Feb test. ;)

Basketball training went well. Taking a break during the holidays. The MSSD will take place during the first week after holidays. Then we will head to Kuching for basketball competition. The first two teams will represent the zone to Kelantan.

Overall, the week before the CNY break is a disaster. grrrrhhhh...

Ok, stop counting the bad things.

Continue with the good-things-list:

1. enjoyed the basketball training
2. enjoyed the extra classes for my form 4 budaks and taught them chinese
3. enjoyed the craziness of the form 3 and form 4 budaks i teach
4. going back to ipoh
5. got my pay
6. brought the basketball girls to menjolok jambu
   
7. better bio results
8. i can cook

i shall not think about the school stuff until i am back to LD after the break. ;)

Happy thoughts!!!!