it's saturday and i need to keep my cool

OKies ... here are some of my 'bday' pictures and some other pictures telling you The Story in Lahad Datu.

These are some of the 4Z boys. They are quite good boys - hardworking, polite, cheeky at times. ;)

This is their dress code - black and white, during 'masa prep' which is their weekdays homework time starting from 2.30-4pm. Look at the big cake with nice fruits on top!

Here you have some of the 4Z girls and a naughty boy nicknamed Ben at the back. It's a pleasure to teach them Bio and be their form teacher, probably because they are older and they don't need to be treated like kids as much as the form 2 brats. Anyway, they are still brats at times. arggghhh. The week before the school holidays, i let them presented some subtopics of chapter 4. It was quite fun to watch them, esp Hana (the girl at the left of the 2nd and3rd picture) who did most of the presentation on Carbohydrates. She took the marker pen and started to teach us the types of carbohydrates, the formation and breaking down of carbohydrates.. lalala.. It was nice to watch, seriously, because it made me feel so encouraged in a way. Not just her, other kids as well. The best thing for me is to see students TRYING - trying to understand, trying to speak, trying to give good answer after thinking through with their brains. Their English isn't good, some bad, but they tried to present in English with some BM in it. it was good enough.

What's your favourite Form 3 Science topic? Tell me it's Reproduction! :p haha, i tell you.. that was the funniest lesson i had with the two Form 3 classes. They presented the subtopics and it was them who wanted to do the boy-girl way - the boys talk about the girls', while the girls talk about the boys'. hahaha. it was HILARIOUS i tell you!!! oh my gosh. am i tooooo cruel? oh no, look what have i done to the poor souls of 15-year old kids? :p

Ok. enough about school. ;)

This is the main road next to the wet market. The town is really crowded especially on Sundays. You can see people pushing the wheelbarrow everywhere, selling canned drinks, fruits, and some other stuff. Besides that, there are many young and old men selling 'duty-free' cigarettes of various brands like Astro, Suria, and some other brands with funny names from Indonesia and Philippines etc, all packed inside a black plastic bag. It's common to see children coming over asking for money, or selling plastics bags.

This is the Lahad Datu wet market. I was waiting inside the car and it began to rain and what other things can be better than taking pictures of people! ;)

Sigh, my laptop is aging and it's getting a bit senile. :p
I wanted to transfer the pictures from my camera to the laptop but it just refused to load. There's a lot of pictures inside the camera, some pictures of the Tawau trip or some other random pictures of Lahad Datu. grrrhh. i need a new laptop! and the celcom-slow-like-tortoise-broadband is really frustrating. :p

This was the day 1 rainbow. it's not that clear la.
And that's the runway of the LD airport, just nice for Fokkers :p

times like this ease the pain of wanting to be home.