aquaria klcc... here i come!
Saturday, May 27, 2006
wooohhhoooooo...... am sooooo looking forward to going to aquaria klcc on monday afternoon.
hope my excitement won't just be based on a hyped-up 'going places' article. hehe.
but in any event... bestnya nak pegi aquaria klcc :D
pictures are not from the 'going places' magazine nor are they related to the article i was referring to. heh.
ooohhh....
i'll post up some pictures after my visit to AQUARIA KLCC *yay!*
will be back online after 5th June.
till then, take care, peeps!
ps. i know the cikgu (part 3) is still outstanding. will work on it soon. i hope hihi
pps. aaiiyeee... enthuasism sangat macam budak²!
-#-
Labels: ramblings
posted by dee3 @ 09:06,
,
cikgu (part 2)
Monday, May 22, 2006
received confirmation via sms that it's ok for me to share my conversation with the teacher friend. however, need to edit the obivous names and tell-tale facts... so part three will be along soon. :) till then, it's a rainy monday here in miri.
Labels: ramblings
posted by dee3 @ 11:57,
,
cikgu
The joys of being a teacher (as learnt from a friend on Saturday night).
I had a good chat with a friend over the internet, who is a teacher in a secondary school last Saturday night.
There are lots of pitfalls befalling the teaching profession nowadays, as more attacks are rendered upon the teachers, and they are forced to defend the profession. I won’t give my opinion on this matter, as it is much too sensitive, much too complicated, and way too long that I won’t be able to articulate it well (I think).
Suffice to say, I can only say this: teachers are human.
Teachers are prone to human fallacy, but they have to uphold the teaching profession.
The teaching profession to come first and foremost before baring the human fallacy.
It was the teachers in the pre-Malaysia days who made a big impact, who were the driving force behind our Independence.
It’s the teachers who taught us, regardless whether it was in a shitty way or not.
Regardless whether we grumbled or complained or weren’t happy with how they treated us as students when we were somehow rebelling against the education system… Or how bad we thought their teaching method was (I can even name the teachers from 10-15 years ago who fell into this category today heh)
They need to know what’s in their heart, what makes them BE a teacher.
To save and salvage the teaching profession…. To bring it back to the glory days, to be in a high moral standing.
It’s way past Teacher’s Day, but I’d like to wish it to the teachers out there anyway.
I am digressing from the topic actually.
My dear friend, whom I cannot name, is enjoying herself in school.
Aahh… flirting with a certain particular student is definitely fun, ain’t it?
Come to think of it, any flirting opportunity (in which the comfort zone is not breached – read: the person that you flirts with won’t seriously pursue you afterwards) is good. As we get older, this opportunity presents itself less and less.
So this dear friend of mine is definitely motivated by the student who’s not even in her class.
Just a glimpse, just a smile, just a nod would make her day.
What else to have the student’s aunt as a colleague, keeping an eye shut (the aunt is sure a good sport!) to the obvious.
Well… this is Malaysia, after all….. Nothing would come up from flirting with students (I know my friend won’t anyways. Can’t say about the teacher who was caught in Kuching… that’s a whole different issue after all).
Back to my friend, I am sure the student’s having the time of his life too.
After leaving school for college / uni, I am sure he’ll be telling his circle of friends then about the crush he had on this teacher who didn’t even teach him.
The tell-tale signs of not knowing what actually is going on, the confusion, the heart skipping a little, beating faster… that’ll phase out in time.
Unless of course, my dear friend is able to wait, say another 8 years for him to finish studying, to get himself a job, to basically grow up….. AND ponder about his THEN school crush? That sure sounds like in the movies, eh?
Oi! Stop dreaming ah friend! :p
And so my dear teacher friend, whom will eventually read this entry, please be so kind as to correct any grammatical mistakes I have made. I know it may be irritating to you (heh). Can’t be avoided…
So how to end this entry?
Why…. Have fun flirting la! ;p
I had a good chat with a friend over the internet, who is a teacher in a secondary school last Saturday night.
There are lots of pitfalls befalling the teaching profession nowadays, as more attacks are rendered upon the teachers, and they are forced to defend the profession. I won’t give my opinion on this matter, as it is much too sensitive, much too complicated, and way too long that I won’t be able to articulate it well (I think).
Suffice to say, I can only say this: teachers are human.
Teachers are prone to human fallacy, but they have to uphold the teaching profession.
The teaching profession to come first and foremost before baring the human fallacy.
It was the teachers in the pre-Malaysia days who made a big impact, who were the driving force behind our Independence.
It’s the teachers who taught us, regardless whether it was in a shitty way or not.
Regardless whether we grumbled or complained or weren’t happy with how they treated us as students when we were somehow rebelling against the education system… Or how bad we thought their teaching method was (I can even name the teachers from 10-15 years ago who fell into this category today heh)
They need to know what’s in their heart, what makes them BE a teacher.
To save and salvage the teaching profession…. To bring it back to the glory days, to be in a high moral standing.
It’s way past Teacher’s Day, but I’d like to wish it to the teachers out there anyway.
I am digressing from the topic actually.
My dear friend, whom I cannot name, is enjoying herself in school.
Aahh… flirting with a certain particular student is definitely fun, ain’t it?
Come to think of it, any flirting opportunity (in which the comfort zone is not breached – read: the person that you flirts with won’t seriously pursue you afterwards) is good. As we get older, this opportunity presents itself less and less.
So this dear friend of mine is definitely motivated by the student who’s not even in her class.
Just a glimpse, just a smile, just a nod would make her day.
What else to have the student’s aunt as a colleague, keeping an eye shut (the aunt is sure a good sport!) to the obvious.
Well… this is Malaysia, after all….. Nothing would come up from flirting with students (I know my friend won’t anyways. Can’t say about the teacher who was caught in Kuching… that’s a whole different issue after all).
Back to my friend, I am sure the student’s having the time of his life too.
After leaving school for college / uni, I am sure he’ll be telling his circle of friends then about the crush he had on this teacher who didn’t even teach him.
The tell-tale signs of not knowing what actually is going on, the confusion, the heart skipping a little, beating faster… that’ll phase out in time.
Unless of course, my dear friend is able to wait, say another 8 years for him to finish studying, to get himself a job, to basically grow up….. AND ponder about his THEN school crush? That sure sounds like in the movies, eh?
Oi! Stop dreaming ah friend! :p
And so my dear teacher friend, whom will eventually read this entry, please be so kind as to correct any grammatical mistakes I have made. I know it may be irritating to you (heh). Can’t be avoided…
So how to end this entry?
Why…. Have fun flirting la! ;p
Labels: ramblings
posted by dee3 @ 11:55,
,
setback... ye ke?
WHAT minor setback?
This entry is dedicated to my 20-cents worth of thought reflecting the recent Sarawak elections, in which 9 seats were lost to the opposition.
The news on both television and radio kept quoting the PM (or was it the Deputy PM?) to ‘investigate’ the causes and reasons why the 9 seats, in which primarily urban (Chinese) seats were lost.
In my humble opinion, the voters are smart.
The seats lost were mostly (if not all?) Chinese based.
Thus, the mentality of the voters would affect the winner.
The winner would have to work hard for the constituency and be kept on the edge of his seat to perform well (in order to be reelected the next polls).
There are no guarantees that any single party would win the seat contested, it’s never a sure win.
The last parliamentary elections, the ruling party won the Batu Lintang seat by 1000+ majority (that’s where I voted, by the way). Who would have thought they’d lose the State seat? And this is smart as well, right? They’re represented by the ruling party in the parliament, but they’re able to make a difference in the State DUN.
So it’s a swing, a pendulum.
And this is good. I mean, to a certain extent, it’s just one term. So I’m being liberal, but with a few seats, at the very least there’s some sort of check and balance system, right?
That is why I applaud the Backbenchers / shadow government in the UK. So ok, all I know about it is the impression I got from reading Jeffrey archer’s book when I was in my teens. Why? Cause the check and balance that can be achieved. The critiques will at least try to fix whatever it was they criticized in the first place (me being the optimist here).
That being said, to me, as a Sarawakian Malay, politics is dead.
The mechanism of Malay issues, of Malay fights are no longer there.
The spirit of it all. I don’t see it, neither do I feel it!
By stating all this, I am way over the line, way over my head. But what the heck, I’m feeling reckless tonight. The last I saw of ‘fight’ in the Sarawak political scene was when I was a kid in the 1987 elections which came about from the Ming-Court debacle.
I don’t belong in any political party.
I believe in voting.
It’s a hard-earned right which came with our Independence.
But politics? Seriously, to me it’s dead.
And why 20-cents worth of thought in this matter?
Heck, it’s definitely more than the usual 2-cents!
This entry is dedicated to my 20-cents worth of thought reflecting the recent Sarawak elections, in which 9 seats were lost to the opposition.
The news on both television and radio kept quoting the PM (or was it the Deputy PM?) to ‘investigate’ the causes and reasons why the 9 seats, in which primarily urban (Chinese) seats were lost.
In my humble opinion, the voters are smart.
The seats lost were mostly (if not all?) Chinese based.
Thus, the mentality of the voters would affect the winner.
The winner would have to work hard for the constituency and be kept on the edge of his seat to perform well (in order to be reelected the next polls).
There are no guarantees that any single party would win the seat contested, it’s never a sure win.
The last parliamentary elections, the ruling party won the Batu Lintang seat by 1000+ majority (that’s where I voted, by the way). Who would have thought they’d lose the State seat? And this is smart as well, right? They’re represented by the ruling party in the parliament, but they’re able to make a difference in the State DUN.
So it’s a swing, a pendulum.
And this is good. I mean, to a certain extent, it’s just one term. So I’m being liberal, but with a few seats, at the very least there’s some sort of check and balance system, right?
That is why I applaud the Backbenchers / shadow government in the UK. So ok, all I know about it is the impression I got from reading Jeffrey archer’s book when I was in my teens. Why? Cause the check and balance that can be achieved. The critiques will at least try to fix whatever it was they criticized in the first place (me being the optimist here).
That being said, to me, as a Sarawakian Malay, politics is dead.
The mechanism of Malay issues, of Malay fights are no longer there.
The spirit of it all. I don’t see it, neither do I feel it!
By stating all this, I am way over the line, way over my head. But what the heck, I’m feeling reckless tonight. The last I saw of ‘fight’ in the Sarawak political scene was when I was a kid in the 1987 elections which came about from the Ming-Court debacle.
I don’t belong in any political party.
I believe in voting.
It’s a hard-earned right which came with our Independence.
But politics? Seriously, to me it’s dead.
And why 20-cents worth of thought in this matter?
Heck, it’s definitely more than the usual 2-cents!
-#-
Labels: politics
posted by dee3 @ 11:51,
,
takde karan kat opis sepagi ini...
ehem!
hari ini aku nak tulis entry dalam bahasa melayu. .. walaupun bukan BM yang bak buku teks, tapi comprehensible dengan bahasa rojak. ala-ala conversation in real life ah :p
sebabnya?
saja.
tak pernah tulis entry di dalam bahasa ibunda, terasa 'terpanggil' pulak hari ini.
bukankah lebih baik memulakan pagi isnin dengan suatu kelainan?
akan tetapi, kelainan yang lebih 'bermakna' adalah tidak mempunyai bekalan elektrik (read: karan... read: electricity supply) pada pukul 7.30 pagi tatkala tiba di opis. aduuuhhh! banyak la kerja tergendala. dah la cuti minggu depan! kang kerja tak siap kang, sia2 kena dek hand grenade dari boss. berlambak2 yang tak siap lagi nih!
dekat kol 11 pagi baru karan back on.
pagi tadi sebenarnya rancang nak upload blog entry that i wrote last night. malam tadi tulis, tapi entah kenapa tak nak upload. so pagi tadi la patutnya.
alih2 la ni pon tak upload lagi...
tulih pulak pasal takdak karan no?
hari ini aku nak tulis entry dalam bahasa melayu. .. walaupun bukan BM yang bak buku teks, tapi comprehensible dengan bahasa rojak. ala-ala conversation in real life ah :p
sebabnya?
saja.
tak pernah tulis entry di dalam bahasa ibunda, terasa 'terpanggil' pulak hari ini.
bukankah lebih baik memulakan pagi isnin dengan suatu kelainan?
akan tetapi, kelainan yang lebih 'bermakna' adalah tidak mempunyai bekalan elektrik (read: karan... read: electricity supply) pada pukul 7.30 pagi tatkala tiba di opis. aduuuhhh! banyak la kerja tergendala. dah la cuti minggu depan! kang kerja tak siap kang, sia2 kena dek hand grenade dari boss. berlambak2 yang tak siap lagi nih!
dekat kol 11 pagi baru karan back on.
pagi tadi sebenarnya rancang nak upload blog entry that i wrote last night. malam tadi tulis, tapi entah kenapa tak nak upload. so pagi tadi la patutnya.
alih2 la ni pon tak upload lagi...
tulih pulak pasal takdak karan no?
-#-
Labels: in malay
posted by dee3 @ 11:36,
,
