My current good friend

Uphamol 650 had been a great friend to me throughout the sleepless night and unbearable pain. Thanks to the growing of wisdom tooth i've been depending on this good friend of mine. If not i'll be crying, shouting over the pain of my gum.

It might lead to bad side effect in the future but i need my sleep now! Please wisdom tooth, faster grow, i beg you....!

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Wisdom tooth fever

I just finish my 5 days 4 nights seminar in UKM! Yeah! So finally i'm back in my home. Home sweet home. But thanks to my wisdom tooth, i had a week of sleepless night but really wana thank my partner for being there for me throughout the week. She helped to lift my cheek up when i was in great pain, helped me buy paracetamol, ice compression and a lot more! Really made me so touched and really grateful for her for being for me throughout the week.

Anyway overall from the seminar, it's mainly about appreciating our parents and elders. Some sessions are kinda fun but some are pretty dull and i reli fell asleep a few times. :P But now

Just a few photos here about the seminar.



In the hall




Speaker sharing his knowledge



me taking photo on the stage. :P


me and colleague in front of the hall entrance.
(dun really understand the two lines of chinese words beside us. :P)


In front of the big stage. :)


As for now, i'll be resting at home and hopefully my teeth, gum and the wisdom tooth will not ache anymore! :)

5 days seminar!!!!!

I'll be attending a 5 days seminar starting tomoro! It'll start on coming MOnday til Friday and it'll be conducted form 8am til 9.30pm! It's specially for chinese school teachers and some parents from chinese school. I was 'honoured' to be asked to go with some of the teachers in my school and it was fully paid by the school. I was kinda shocked when i receive the letter from the school to ask me to go. But luckily some of my close colleagues are going too. Furthermore, it's in UKM, my previous Uni! And esp my friends and my partner is around there too! So i'm not really looking forward for the 8am-9.30pm time everyday but looking forward to the time out of that range where i can go and look for my friends! So it's not really a bad news for me after all!

Some intro about the seminar i'm going....

Introduction of Di Zi Gui

"The Chinese culture has been deeply influenced by Confucius, a great Chinese teacher and educator. His influence extends throughout the world even today. Confucius believed that moral principles, virtues and discipline should be the very first lessons taught to a child, and that children need to practice them daily. Unlike modern-day parents who disapprove of physical punishment, ancient Chinese parents actually encouraged and thanked the teacher when their children were punished for misbehaving. It was most important to the ancient Chinese parents that their children learned moral principles and virtues first – before any other subjects, because without these as a foundation, the learning of all other subjects would be futile. In ancient China, the purpose of going to school and studying was to prepare for becoming saints and sages, not to pave the way for fame or making a profit.

Di Zi Gui, in English, means standards for being a good student and child. It is the guide to a happy life. For thousand of years, this book contained the recommended standards for students. Even though they seem stringent by today’s standards, it is apparent that the people of that time felt it was important that the child should be well-disciplined and taught moral principles and virtues when still very young. They felt that without strict discipline and moral standards, a child would amount to nothing. Not knowing what it meant to be dutiful to parents and respectful to teachers, a child would grow up not listening to or respecting anyone. Ironically today many parents listen to the child instead of the other way around. Additionally, teachers are afraid to teach and discipline children because they are fearful of violating the children’s legal rights and being sued by the parents.

Currently, we live in a tumultuous world where the relationships among people, between people and their environment, parents and children, husbands and wives, and employers and employees are disintegrating. Parents do not act like parents. Children do not act like children. Our minds are polluted and our family system is disintegrating, as evidenced by an ever increasing divorce rate. Soon the planet Earth will no longer be fir for us to live on. We are fearful for our futures and the futures of our children. In reintroducing this boos, we hope it will serve as reference material and provide guidance for parents and children. Thus, future generations will benefit from it and society and our world will be at peace."

So....
Wish me all the best and hope i learn something from this seminar.

Holiday! Celebrate!

Heya! I'm currently on a holiday! one and a half months! Thanks to school holidays that i get to hav holidays too! That's the good things about being a teacher! The first weekend of my holiday, i've been to the berjaya hills, or was known as bukit tinggi. It's located near Genting highland. I never heard of it before til i saw my friend's photos in facebook. Since it's reachable by car, so me and my partner went there by my cute little proton car.

So we went to the rabbit farm as it's the nearest. The entrance fee is only RM3. The rabbits there were so cute! Chubby and just simply cute! You can carry it and touch it but bear in mind, it's not easy to hold a bunny. And never hold their ears or else you will kena from them. haha! There's instructions teaching us how to hold a bunny correctly. We had quite a fun time there not forgetting there're also deer park and ponny trails for kids. We took photos with the deers and pony too. The workers there gave us some foods so that we can feed the deers. It was a very exciting experience feeding them. :)



It's not easy as it seems to be to hold a bunny! and not forgetting to cover it's private part. :P






Feeding the deers and with the cute ponny(donkey?)



Next, we head to the Japanese Village. The slope to Japanese Village was kinda steep. I've been using the 1st and 2nd gear only. When i reach there, my car's water was boiling!(duno how to say, it's near the engine there) My fault as i din check my water level before i go. So for those who's going, remember to check ur car. Luckily i hav some water in my car that i can refill the water. While waiting for my car to cool down, we head to the botanical Garden. It was a nice place! When we wanted to take photo with the botanical garden information board, there's a japanese or korean couple offer to help us take. Very kind of them. But we actuali brought tripod so it's kinda useful for us. :) It's cooling and there're a lot of flowers and plants in the botanical Garden. Plants lovers will love to be here and not forgetting photographers who like to take nice plants photos.



Japanese Village



After leaving the botanical Garden, we head to japanese village which is just side by side. It's very nice with the nice waterfall and ancient hut. There's a place that we din get to go unless we rent a kimono which cost RM20. My partner wasn't so interested in kimono wearing so we just walked around the japanese village.

Next, our journey continues.

We head to Colmar Tropicale a.k.a the French Village. It was really kinda impressive! We dun feel like we are in Malaysia when we're in the French Street! Very cool and nice building built. More buildings are being built so we only get to walk in a street. Very cool and the 3 storeys-tower had lift so we no need to climb up the stairs. We can get to c the whole French Village on top of the tower. It's cool! Very cool! Oh ya, not forgetting there're two pairs of white and black swan just underneath the bridge to Colmar Tropicale. They are so elegent esp the white ones. But the black one quite nice too!


Here we present the Colmar Tropicale




A shot from the 3 storeys-tower


My partner with the black swan. :)

We head back to town as the weather doesn't seems to be nice. We had a lot of fun there especially taking photos! If u want to go somewhere for a walk or take nice photos, Bukit Tinggi a.k.a Berjaya Hills is a nice choice. You can stay overnight at the Colmar Tropicale's hotels and resort too. We might go and have a visit again when the new French Village is done. :) In conclusion, we had fun! :)

Good Mood :)

It's been a while since i last blog due to my mood swing. Proud to say i'm very happy now and i've been experiencing good things these few days.

Before and after:

BEFORE
- a letter from ministry saying i'll be jobless this Dec(means no salary for the month)
- still not receiving any income since my first month pay(has been so poor for months!)
- streamyx down for nearly 3 days! had been calling tmnet and complained like crazy!


AFTER
1) A new letter saying they'll still pay us til December and next year contract will be renewed! :D
2) Got my cheque! 3 months salary all together! :D :D
3) Streamyx is finally back! :D :D :D
4) School holiday will be here starting 15th of November! Yeah!!!!!!

Looking forward to more good things to come! Happy!!!

~Depressed~

Currently is 11.45pm. Wednesday night. 22nd of October 2008. I'm currently very depressed. There'll be sometime in my life that i'll get depressed for small reasons. These few days, i was bothered by my future. Before this, i never really think about it but since i got a letter saying i'll be jobless starting this December and no guarantee my contract will continue next year, i start to get worried and get tensed.
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The problem is i don't know what i can do other than teaching. I've applied for HR, Management Trainee but i'm science based so it's not easy for me to look for these kind of job with a good pay. I wanted to apply for KPLI(Teaching course for graduates) but it's not easy to get it. Even Malays with good grades also took 3 years, means they applied for 3 times to get into that course.
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These problems might be small in other people eyes and can be easily solved but i don't find it that easy. I have to think of my family too. I couldn't just go anywhere to work. Remember there was an offer for me to work in Kajang but parents dowan to let me go.
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I feel totally tensed up and depressed. Hopefully it's just because of hormonal level changes in my body. And God please bless me with bright future.

Final Exam

Final Exam is here! But not my final exam! hahaha! It's the season for exam so it's the season for us, as teachers to mark papers. Bahasa Melayu and Maths papers i've already marked and now only left Science. I'm so happy with pri 3 maths as i taught among the worst class in pri 3 and a lot of them passed. Some of them even got B! I was so happy as they improved! Happy for them! I was 'forcing' them to do revision before exams like giving them lotsa exercise and it was useful after all! :)


3 Daffodil exam time

But sad to say, I'm so dissapointed with pri 5 BM result as they always talk in class and dowan to pay attention as if they already know everything. Some of them even said,'teacher, no need to teach la, we noe already'. We never said this kind of words to our teachers back to our time! They are overconfident! Now, in the best class, there are only 5 A's instead of last time more than 10 people! Hopefully after this lesson, they'll be able to be more humble and strive harder! Now i understand how teachers felt about us last time.... ...


4 more weeks of school then holiday! yeepie! :D

Kimberly's birthday!

13th of October 2008

Went to Mid valley to meet with my dearest form 6 frens~ Eugenie and Kimberly and my cousin too. Due to some delay, i waited for them for around 2 hours but i had fun spending my time shopping around mid valley. :P We had our dinner at secret recipe and the food was great! Each of us even had a slice of secret recipe cake after the main course. We asked for a candle and sang bday song for Kim and enjoyed the cake and of cos we catch up a lot since it's been almost a year since we last met!


Kim, Me and Eugenie

Oh ya, in the end, after we paid the bills, Eugenie asked us to make a move and she walked kinda fast. We were like why? She said, secret recipe gave us free cakes! Because they din charge us for the cakes! haha!

Anyway, Happy birthday to my dearest Kimberly on 16th of October 2008! hugz hugz!
Many returns of the day!
God bless!

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Blue and black

9th October 2008(thursday)

I fell down from the stairs!!! In the school, when i was coming down from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor with kids' exercise books. So at the stairs, i couldn't reli see what's in front then i step wrongly at the stairs and fell down on my butt(more to my thigh la) and 'skate' down a few steps. It was so painful and embarassing! Luckily there was only a student coming up from the stairs. She helped me collect the books and asked me how was i. I was so embarassed so i said okay and limped back to the staff room. haih...

so this is the effect from the fall..



~painful~

Back to work

~tired~

Sometimes it's not so good to have a long break. Made me kinda lazy and couldn't cope back to work. Can't imagine wad will happen after that nearly 2 months break.

~Zzzzz~

Journey to the North

1st of October 2008 (1st day of Hari Raya)

My parents and i started our journey to the north of peninsular Malaysia around 7am. Our first destination was Sitiawan, the place where we can find the most Foochows in West Malaysia. So firstly, we used the north south highway(NSE) til we reach Bidor toll around 9am. So just go along the Bidor town, we followed the Teluk Intan road sign, or the Pangkor Island road sign to continue our journey. At around 10am, we reached Teluk Intan and since parents never went to Teluk Intan, so we took few photos with the Menara Condong Teluk Intan(Leaning Tower of Teluk Intan).



After that, we head to sitiawan. After around 1 hour plus, we reach sitiawan and bought some of the foochow biscuits and hand-make noodles. For those who wanted to buy Foochow biscuits in Sitiawan, remember to look for 7 floors yellow building of courts mammoth bcos the shop is just behind the building or feel free to ask around the local people where's the 7 floors building(qi chen lou).

We went to Lumut too since it's only around 15 min away. We passed by Lumut jetty and there were a lot of people lining up to buy tickets to go over to Pangkor Island. It's so cheap now as u only need to pay RM10 to go and come back by using the ferry. After having our lunch in Lumut, we head to our 2nd destination, Ipoh.


Around 2 hours of journey, finally we reach Ipoh. My dearest partner who's a truly Ipoh resident bring us around and after settled my parents down at the Hotel, i get to go to her house at Menglembu to stay for a night. :)


2nd of October 2008

We took picture with the famous Menglembu groundnut and we also bought a lot of foods around Ipoh before we head back to KL.


The famous Menglembu Groundnut


Kellie's Castle


At night when we reach home in KL, we celebrated sis's birthday and ate the famous Kampar Bread Chicken where we dapao at Kampar when we were on our way back. Happy 28th birthday sis! Many returns of the day!



Oh ya, Alicia's mum gave me cute cute tortoise pau! They sell these during the temple celebration to welcome the 9th dragon god. Cute pau!

Holiday! Celebrate!

YiPee!!!! I'm finally on a week holiday now! At least for a week i no need to...

(a) scold kids
(b) mark tons and tons of exercise books
(c) wake up early
(d) wear skirt


I took this picture after copying the maths questions on the whiteboard to let my students copy. :P

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So, currently i'm at home relaxing and enjoying with my parents. :D We'll be heading to Perak for sight-seeing on the first day of Raya which is on the 1st of October. These 2 days it's a sure that we couldn't go anywhere at all as everywhere is so jam cos everyone is busy preparing and buying things to celebrate raya.

Hereby, i wana wish Selamat Hari Raya to all my friends who are celebrating! Enjoy!:)




Ketupat with rendang is very nice oooh! *slurp*
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Great mothers

This morning, before i reach my table in my school, i saw a lady standing waiting for me. After introducing, i only know that she's one of my student's mum. This kid got 35 over 60 (Grade C) in his bm essay exam this time and his mum come and ask what happen. I explained to her that his son didn't write down the key words required and she understand and asked me to ask her son to photostate the list of key words WITHOUT TELLING HIM THAT HIS MUM LOOKED FOR ME BEFORE. I was like...'huh?' She said cos her son said he'll handle by himself and no need to worry about him. Wow, kids nowadays are so different from our time! Lastly, this lady hoped that i can at least give him til Grade B. I'm still considering but most probably i'll give as he only need one more mark to get a Grade B.
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This reminds me of my mother when i was still in school. I remember after PMR, when the list of Form 4 is out, i was in the last class in science side! That time i couldn't believe it! I only need 2 more A's to get straight A's for PMR and yet i'm in the last class?? I was quite sad and wanted to cry. But mum was there for me. She went to the school and ask the PK1 and headmaster what actually happen. So in the end it's their fault as they count my numbers of A's wrongly so at least i'm not in the last class in the end. My mum is always there for me since young even til now. Tomorrow, she'll be getting her result for her throat whether it's a cancer or need to do operation. I really wish that whatever thingy that is in her throat is not harmful to her and every result will be positive tomoro. hugz!
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Dad and i teaching in the same school

"Ask your father to come next Monday", my headmaster told me. Then my colleague teased me by saying

"Eh, cham liaw u, headmaster wana c ur dad le, sure it is because u got some discipline problem".
Then we all burst in laughter including the headmaster. LoL!
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That was last Friday's conversation in the staff room. So today, my dad followed me to school to become a relief teacher for a bm teacher who just gave birth to a baby boy. So in this 2 months, dad will be driving me to school everyday..kakaka....

Anyway, today, i showed dad around the staff room, introduced him to a few teachers esp bm teachers and showed him around the school, macam i'm the senior only. haha! If anyone who's close to my family will know that my dad is more to the feminine side than my mum. He can be very funny, humour, always joke around and can be very talkative too. LoL!

Today is his first day in this school and yet today every teachers got a mooncake and a learning english cd(cost RM15) for free! What a luck for dad! haha!

Hopefully he'll enjoy teaching in my school in this 2 months then. :P



my dad and i acting funny during the mooncake festive season. :P

3 in 1

a) My grandparents

My grandparents was in the town since last Sunday til this thursday. I never knew communicate with my grandparents especially my grandma wil be so fun. :P My dad love to tease my grandma which i think my grandma enjoyed it. So i start to joke with my grandma while she joke back to me too. Had a great time with them since this year i din go back to Kuching at all so it's a great time to spend time with them when they're in KL and staying in my house. Some photos taken during grandparents last night in KL, we were playing cards or should i say 'du' in chinese? LoL!


My grandma was supporting me by sitting beside me but in the end my dad won the set! LoL!



Dad's turn in this gimrami game... kakaka...


b) My workplace

UPSR is over! I think the primary six students are as free as a bird now. Anyway, i teach primary 5 so doesn't reli affect me. And as for primary 1 til primary 5, they just had their bm penulisan exam two days ago(Fri),so we, bm teachers gona start marking again.



And on Friday, it was the first time i hit kids' palm using rotan! I was so pissed off with primary 3 pupils who never respect me as a teacher! I never thought i'll need to hit a student but this time i need to. If not next time they'll be crawlling over my head ! Kids kids kids, please be more obedient ahhh... -_-lll

But thank god i'm in control of the primary 2 kids by using scoring method. hehe! The primary 2 kids are more obedient and cuter! hehe! sometimes i feel like cubit-ing them on their cheek! LoL!

c) Happy mooncake festival!

Last night, followed parents went to an old folks home under parents' temple to celebrate mooncake festival. Mum cooked rice to join the pot luck there. And we just go there eat eat and chao. hehe! When we wana go back to home, there're mid-autumn festival procession outside the main gate til we need to go somewhere else as we cannot go back to home. haha!

Today is the mooncake festival is also my cousin, Shean Tyng's bday! Happy bday ah tyng! She said she no need to buy bday cake this year as she already has so many moonCAKES! haha! Anyway, mum buy me my fav 'ping pi lian yong' mooncake. I only like lian yong mooncake, with no eggyolk inside please. haha!





YUMMY!!!! Happy mid-autumn festival everyone! Enjoy!
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Origin of my blog title

Just wana respond to li xin's question about the title of my blog ~flying cow. :p

I got this fly cow animated screen saver from a mobile phone accesories web site last year. I find it funny and adorable especially it is bloated and floats around the blue clouds non-stop! haha! So i put it as my mobile phone's screen saver.

So there was one day in UKM, pei fong saw my screen saver and start calling me flying cow. She thought i will feel annoyed but in the end i find it cute! haha! But luckily she never call me by that name after that.

Since then, i start using this cute name and pic around. Just hope it's not copy-righted :P

*just shouted for 5 continuous periods of classes today. Kids are getting more hyper nowadays!
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Happy but not so joyful 51st independence day Malaysia!

Today is the 51st independence day for Malaysia. But compare to last year, this year's independence day isn't so grand and even my school, no celebration, not even assembly for Hari Kebangsaan. Only a few patriotik songs played before 7.30am.

Anyway, for pri 5 BM last friday, i divided them into groups and asked them to do 3 things for me. Firstly, draw a Malaysia Flag. Secondly write down a patriotik song lyrics and lastly, wrote 3 paragraph about Malaysia's Flag.

Some of them did pretty well and nice as they really write and draw and decorate it nicely. What do you think?





But anyway, they'll be having BM essay exam during the UPSR week(9.9.08-11.9.08) so i had been giving them essay practices which means i need to mark it. Gonna use my holiday to mark it. Wish me all the best! :D
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Graduation studio pix

At last, i got my graduation studio picture. The soft copy that i got was the unedited one, means it's totally me. As for the hard copy, my face is so smooth and fair and my eye bags gone! haha! But here i present the soft copy, the unedited one. hehe!



Another one standing with the scroll and orchid(even the photographer said it is his first time to see people holding orchids to take pic but it's nice tho. :D)




Besides that, i also took passport photo since i'm in formal wear. I still haven't got the soft copy but we took a pic of us using camera phone. hehe!



Do we look 'yao yeng' in that formal wear? :D

Holiday-ing

I'm now on a one week holiday! Yeah! I'm currently a yearly contract teacher in SJK(C) Chung Kwok, Jalan Merpati, Kuala Lumpur. I bet there're some questions for me for being a teacher again. (I was a temporary teacher before i get into UKM). I remember telling a lot of people that if i'm given a choice, i won't want to become a teacher. Actually, i've been hunting for jobs since i graduated and there's no job available for me. After being jobless for a few months, (means i dun have any income!), i've decided to try to become a teacher.

Well, being a teacher in a chinese primary school is quite different from malay school. The kids are more 'outspoken' and love to 'help' to let teacher know who're the noisy, the naughty in class. Basically, i have to shout at them everyday or shud i say, scold them to stop them from making anymore noise. I don't remember we were this naughty and noisy in class last time. Kids nowadays... haih..

Besides that, there're a lot of rich kids in this school. I remember a kid asking my colleague why he drive a lousy car(Kelisa) to school. For me, Kelisa eventho a small car, but it's still quite okay ah. Afterthat i heard that the kid's family owns a lot of nice cars eg: Benz, Alpha, Mercedes. And i heard some of the kids' daily pocket money is RM100!!! Rich kids!

Anyway, i brought some kids' exercise book back to mark. But kinda lazy tho. I just mark a few and i feel like doing some other things. haha!



Hopefully i can mark all the books before holiday ends! hahaha!

Yeah! I've graduated!

I'm finally a degree holder! This post might be a bit late but i'm still happy. My convocation was on the 10th of August 2008 in Dewan Tun Abdul Razak(DECTAR), UKM. I want to thanks everyone for helping me throughout this 3 years in UKM. My seniors, coursemates, hostel-mates, roommates, housemates, friends, and juniors. Thanks for the laughter and joy throughout this 3 years in UKM. I'll never forget those wonderful moments in UKM. :)

Some photo during the convocation


Taking the fake scroll.. :P


with my dearest family(Bro in law, dad, sis, me and mum)


with my dearest roommie and partner~Allie (we both look pretty dun we? :P)


(my closest fren in UKM~Suk Chin, Zhen Pern, cm, Fanny and me)



Wana thank my sis for the flower, bear and photo frame, Su Ti for the big cute doggie, Andrea for the roses, Hui San for the bouquet of winnie the pooh with sunflower, Mong Ling for the cute bear, Mum for the flower and white bear, cm for the cute lil bear, Fanny for the bouquet of twin bear, Cheong ee for the cutie lil bear and Lee Ching for the photo frame too. Thanks thanks thanks!


*More pic at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=36227&id=502193950