preparing notes and worksheet and conducting remedials...

invigilating...

finishing up the SEM report for school appraisal...

going for a meal with my students...

playing and laughing with my kids about their drawings, games, pets, music, people, storybooks, excursions, photos, food etc...

attending home schooling support group gatherings...

talking to my wife about home schooling matters...

organising cell group and marriage support group gatherings...

bringing an old couple from Switzerland to Adam Food Centre for local food and Island Creamery for local flavoured ice creams...

finished watching "Glory Road", an inspirating movie based on a true story about a white man who looked beyond the colour and see the potential in a group of blacks colleage students who played basketball really well and eventually led them to win the national championship despite of death-threats from the white community...

reading the books "The Purpose Driven Life" and "Learners Unlimited" to enrich myself...

that's about it... :D

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school officially closed yesterday... holidays officially begins today! HOWEVER, while other countries' teenagers (i guess) are having camps, overseas trips and lazing at home, for Singaporeans, extra lessons resume for the next few weeks with holiday assignments piling up from various subjects! :(

teenagers, being teenagers, what would they do? they will come for the lessons but their hearts are probably miles away... most of the things taught will probably go in from one ear and go out from the other... assignments given will be left untouched and probably missing and hurriedly copied on the first few days when school reopen, just to stop the nagging of teachers and ease their conscience that some work (though copied) is done, though defeating the purpose of giving it to them in the first place... (although some teachers do likewise by collecting and leaving them at one side and never going to mark them in the first place, thinking that the students have done all the relevant work, only to be shocked by their first test results next semester! :P)

as for me, like many other teachers, I will be down for O levels invigilation. I will be going to Clementi Town Sec to administrate this national exams that determines where my students will be going for their tertiary education... for most of them, it will be JC, for some of them, it will be poly and for some of them who did not prepare for it, it will be repeating one year or going to ITE... whatever it is, what matters is for them to know exactly where they would want to go and not follow the crowd... this is absolutely so important...

rewinding, yesterday, being the last day of school, reminded me of my childhood days once again... we played freeze and melt (or police and thief for my era) at the field, screaming at the top of our voices and running away from each other, like young children... :D to some it may be childish but to me, it is a wonderful flashback of the good old days... and i played the board game RISK at the canteen with some of the boys in my class to fully immerse myself back to my chidlhood days :D Lastly, i was given the chance to play sherlock holmes when one of my students' media player went missing from his bag even though the classroom is mysteriously locked without the keys... hmm... i hope the case will be solved soon...

this is the end of all my babblings for now... :D

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To all my graduated and current students:

You are cordially invited to my house during this holidays to play with my adorable kids, have a game of badminton, have a chat over some simple snacks and ice cream or have some extra coaching in physix or maths...

It is preferable that you come in small groups so that it is more cosy and easier for us to play host to you.

The date and time is up to you but i would need you to sms me earlier so that i can check my schedule and also prepare for your visit.

alternatively, you can also invite me and my family to your outings or chalets or bbqs that you may be organising this holidays. We will try our best to grace your events if we can! :D

All these are done with a simple intention in mind: I hope to make this holidays an enjoyable and memorable one for you and for me and my family! :D

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