Day In, Day Out

I don't use Malay with my students ... though it takes me all that I have just to send a simple message to them. When I started teaching in my school, my students could barely differentiate 'class monitor' and 'class teacher'. It took me a while to make students understand the difference. Yeah, it took me a while for I was explaining the difference in English, not in their native language, Malay. As I am an English teacher, the first English specialist that the school has ever had, I try to bold my presence in school by bringing in some changes. The most apparent change is the usage of only-English as the medium of interaction between students and English teachers. The first time the only-English being implemented, there was not a lot of problems except that teachers were required to constantly exercise their para-linguistics features besides having to simplify their English to suit students' proficiency level . However, after a few months, as wh...

I have this quote on my workspace: I could spend hours staring at this whilst letting all the memories of my failure flash before me. I cannot tell which one has the biggest impact in my life yet every each of it helps me to become the person I am today.   Failure. Too frequent, it's failure that stops us from proceeding with what we are good at. It is not because we have became less capable than we were before , it is merely because we could not stand the pressure and the tense of failing. Besides that we take failure as an innate quality , we let all the negative self-talks and thoughts such as; 'Why me ...', 'This is God's punishment ...', 'Only if ...', and 'I should have ...' creep in our heads. Bad enough, as it is a real struggle to shush them away, we let them reside in our heads as long as they wish to. Then, we get complacent (and everything starts to fall). Most of the time, we stand the belief that time heals. ...

The debates over punishments in school is nothing new. It dates back to a time when no one could even tell. It is the practice that could bring two close parties into irreconcilable arguments due to the fact that different parties own different creeds to an extent in which punishments can be considered as acceptable or appropriate. As for me, I am not a proponent of punishments as too often, I find punishments fail its own objective.  Once, I resorted to punishments when my students failed to complete my homework. Throughout my working experience, I had asked my students to individually sing an English song, made them do push ups and even sent them out with the uncompleted task. If the objective of my punishment was to publicly humiliate my students for not doing their homework, I scored quite well but that was not it. My punishment aimed at making my students' regret of not doing the assigned task kicked in and that they will try harder, next ti...

It has been a while since my last post. I have been very busy adapting and getting comfortable with my new life that I literally do not have time to sit, reflect and write. My life seems to flash before my eyes. Among so many things that have happened in the last few months, the following stands up the most: starting my first real job. On April 1st, fate brought me to a religious school in Tumpat, Kelantan. At the point of knowing, I was in favour of neither the type of school nor the county I am placed in. To cut it short, I was not interested whatelse eager to be there. My father managed to locate the school after a long haul travel down the one-way road cuts through paddy fields and villages. It was not a pleasant journey and the school was not the kind of school one who graduated from abroad would expect to be placed in. I am not trying to be proud but the school is  NOT  the kind of school one would see in their everyday life as the school ...

Below are few basic tips to do well in English debates: Know your role; Do not introduce more than 3 arguments (one argument from the 1st speaker, two from the second); Do provide a lot of examples to support your argument. Accept at least 2 POIs (if you wish to decline POI, please do it in the best manner); Don't be text-dependent; Be extra careful with your pronunciation, language (don't make up words) and slip of tongue (ie: destructive and constructive are two different things); Never ever call the first speaker of the opposition Prime Minister. Love, An Adjudicator.

My engagement day was a blissful day. I love: My mom's sanding kurung that I put in, My parents' diy pelamin (with a bit of my fiance's touch), My future sister-in-law's cake-in-jar for the doorgift, My family's extremely delicious cooking, My relatives' support and help, My friends' accompany and warm wishes, My family's friends presence. Also, My future-in-laws' treatment and acceptance. I love every bit of the day. Yet most of all, I love,  The one who uplifts me, The one I am going to marry;  The Fiance .

People who don't break character when they're betrayed, experts say, often have something else that defines them, like children, religion, a purpose in life; others who lose themselves entirely in their romantic relationships—and from what is observed, high-achieving women seem surprisingly prone to this—are more vulnerable to losing control. (source) When I was betrayed, I attempted to break my character and transformed myself into being the meanest and the most wicked woman ever lived in the betrayers' life. I study human and women hence to be one is not such a big deal. More, I had nothing else to lose as I have lost a lot in a game I did not agree on playing. Reminiscing my 10 months of misery, cursing words, harsh realities and heartbreaking nonsense, I am glad that I have successfully held myself from breaking my character and from being the meanest and the most wicked woman in the life of the people not worth mentioning.  Feeling betrayed and foole...