a new life

it's gud to be back. yeah, i lost in between striving for excellent (dorky!) until i forgot my password to my blog. gotta close this page & begin with the new one ._.

p/s: how i wish if Facebook has the "Blogger" function like this. Oh! i dunno how to use "Note"

Narcissism of Malaysia's Politic

I know by writing this bulletin, I'd end up my life being remanded or worst, arrested by the ISA. But this is my humble opinion.

I'm tired of Malaysia's politic.

Both right & left-handed.

M'sia isn't M'sia....ANYMORE.

Democracy...It just a joke, lame joke by the G.

Now all the ministers of both parteys....could you be more well-mannered in the parliament?.You're a public figure. Everyone's watching y'all debating in such a kiddo manner. Shouting & insulting. Do not ever tell me that's how the Parliamentary Debate should be(LAME). Wash your mouth with soap so dat it will be squeaky clean (LAME).

Week 13 – 14: These two weeks I tried to finish the chapter that I targeted to be done before I give back my responsibility to Puan Siti Azibanul. On these two weeks, I’ll be observed by my guidance teacher, Puan Siti Azibanul. She observed me on the 7th period on Wednesday and this time I told to my students that Puan Azibanul will going to do the observation. As ordered, they gave fully co – operations and luckily half of the class went to the ERT room to finish their task ordered by their teacher. It was a relief as I could conduct the activity in the manageable condition. However, Puan Azibanul only observed for less than 10 minutes before I could do some activities with them. I hope that she could judge me fairly as she is an experienced teacher I tremendously needed a good mark for my teaching as well as my efforts. On the final week of my practicum, I was asked by Puan Azibanul to do the oral test with my students. For the whole week I only do the oral test with them and at the same time preparing for final lesson plan for the second observation. As expected, some of the students couldn’t even converse in English. Those groups were the talkative click that I often pointed out. The oral test was beyond satisfactory as I put high expectation on them. However, some were doing very well as I never expect that those students could done better. On the Wednesday, my final observation wasn’t the one I wished for. My guidance teacher couldn’t make it on that day and she didn’t come to observe me. I assumed that she might be very busy. I regretted that I didn’t do the observations earlier. If I could, I would like to be given a fair mark. Before, I couldn’t make a date of observation with her because I hardly seen her in the staff room and I was being informed by other teacher that she is one of the busiest teacher. I understand that she gives full commitment on the examinations class (Form Three) and would only asked for her to observe me when she is free. In the end of my final class, I gave my two-cents to my students and asked for their apology. I have nothing to be given to my students. All I could give to them is a piece of advice for their realization.

Week 12: This week will be the busiest week in the school schedule. There will be Hari Koperasi Sekolah and School’s open day. We attended the meeting for the important days on Wednesday 25th June. Among the issues that were mentioned in the meeting were the allocations of the classes for the open day. Every class teachers will be going to meet the parents and giving out the midyear result. We will be assigned to the class that we teach to assist the class teacher. Today (26th June) the school celebrated Hari Koperasi Sekolah. The occasion was commenced by Y.B Senator Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Muhammad B. Muhammad Taib, (Minister of City and Federal Development). The school turned into the business center where the classes were selling a lot of stuffs such as foods, games and so on. We were spoilt by the choices of food and bought plenty of it to be taken back to the staff room. It was a tense moment as we’re going to meet the parents face to face. We were aware that meeting the parents would be the worst nightmare for all teachers especially with the picky parents. I understand their awareness about their children’s performance at the school and should seek advices from the teacher. On the positive side, I found that parents and teachers should co-operate with each other in improving the student’s study performance. I predicted that I will meet up with the fussy parents, however I found that mostly the parents very understood and some of them asking me on how to improve their children performance especially for the subject English. The unforgettable moment was when I met with Muhd Harris the Caucasian boy and his parents. At first his father came to get the result and have a talk with me regarding on his child’s exam result and manner. I gave my decent opinion and his father was satisfied with the answer. However, the family (the whole family) came again and his mother wanted to talk with the class teacher. She asked this and why to the teacher and very particular with the answer. The class teacher is seen getting annoyed by his mother but she tried her best to answer the questions even though she’s not very good in conversing in English. Sometimes I helped her to say the alternate words in English as she couldn’t explain it. Luckily, the mother wasn’t pointing out on the teacher’s credibility. I thought that I wouldn’t be questioned by her. After she finished and partly satisfied with the class teacher answers, the mother asked me what were the major problems of his boy especially in the subject English as she expected that Harris would get the highest mark. (Harris got B for the English paper). For a few seconds I paused and gathered the ideas on how to answer her back. After I gave my decent opinion, I found that the mother was fully satisfied with the answer and agreed of the idea that students are tend to make a translation from Bahasa Melayu to English and the reluctant to speak in English in the class. A sigh of relieve came from the class teacher, beyond the admirations of how beautiful her blue eyes. 12.30pm we’re leaving the class and walking to the staff room with the new experience.

Week 13 – 14: These two weeks I tried to finish the chapter that I targeted to be done before I give back my responsibility to Puan Siti Azibanul. On these two weeks, I’ll be observed by my guidance teacher, Puan Siti Azibanul. She observed me on the 7th period on Wednesday and this time I told to my students that Puan Azibanul will going to do the observation. As ordered, they gave fully co – operations and luckily half of the class went to the ERT room to finish their task ordered by their teacher. It was a relief as I could conduct the activity in the manageable condition. However, Puan Azibanul only observed for less than 10 minutes before I could do some activities with them. I hope that she could judge me fairly as she is an experienced teacher I tremendously needed a good mark for my teaching as well as my efforts. On the final week of my practicum, I was asked by Puan Azibanul to do the oral test with my students. For the whole week I only do the oral test with them and at the same time preparing for final lesson plan for the second observation. As expected, some of the students couldn’t even converse in English. Those groups were the talkative click that I often pointed out. The oral test was beyond satisfactory as I put high expectation on them. However, some were doing very well as I never expect that those students could done better. On the Wednesday, my final observation wasn’t the one I wished for. My guidance teacher couldn’t make it on that day and she didn’t come to observe me. I assumed that she might be very busy. I regretted that I didn’t do the observations earlier. If I could, I would like to be given a fair mark. Before, I couldn’t make a date of observation with her because I hardly seen her in the staff room and I was being informed by other teacher that she is one of the busiest teacher. I understand that she gives full commitment on the examinations class (Form Three) and would only asked for her to observe me when she is free. In the end of my final class, I gave my two-cents to my students and asked for their apology. I have nothing to be given to my students. All I could give to them is a piece of advice for their realization.

Week 11: In this week, there will be a talk by the Firefighter Department about the awareness of the school safety especially the fire drills. After the talk, the Firefighters performed a demonstration on putting off the fire. The students were eager to see how the fire extinguisher works and this is the time for them to gain a hands-on experience with the tool. As mentioned by Mr. Norman, the fire drill will be carried out at any time on that day and the whole school must be reacted as ordered like taking the right routes to the safety place (the field) according to the emergency plan which is pasted on every classes. The first fire drill was a success where all the students and teachers only took five minutes to gather at the field. On the ninth period (Monday), I will be once again observed by Puan Nirmala Devi. This time I’ve mentally and physically prepared. I continued the chapter 11 with the more exciting activities. Perhaps on that day was the best lesson plan I’ve ever made for the past 10 weeks. The feedback from the students and the participation was outstanding as all of them gave full co-operation. It was a ‘happy and fun’ teaching that I’ve ever experienced. Whatever the outcome after that, I considered it satisfactory and the best I have done so far. On Friday, there was an unexpected fire drill on the sixth period. It seems that this unpredicted fire drill has shocked some of the students and almost fainted. Lucky, it was manageable, except one of the classes was not gathered at the field. They might not hear the emergency bell as they were all at the art room and the class; Form One Epsilon was considered ‘burnt’.

Week 10: In this week, I’m having discussion with my class about the English paper. We discussed the paper one and paper two. It was a shocking as I discovered that mostly my students were very lack in vocabulary and frequent spelling errors occurred not to one person but to almost half of them. They often left the letter ‘Y’ in the ‘THEY’ word and mispelled some the words like ‘FRIEND’, ‘EXTREME’, and ‘EXCURSION’ even though the words are actually have been mentioned in the class and printed in the examination questions. I highlighted the summary section as this section is considered as the easiest to score. Besides, I explained to them (individually) on how I gave marks to their essays. So far, the students were satisfied with the marks that I gave although some of them were begging to me for some extra marks. Before I gave the final marks to them, I met Puan Siti Azibanul and inquired her about my marking. Lucky that Puan Siti Azibanul gave a fine comment; fair and considerable marks. My review on the students essays is: 1)They need to read a lot and double check the spelling with the assistance of dictionary. 2)Double check the spellings every after finish answering the essay or summary. Spelling is considered as the essential part of the language and it will be tested and given marks. This week, I’ll be monitored by my supervisor Puan Nirmala Devi and I needed to prepare for it. On that day, I planned to teach them chapter 11: Looking ahead, a chapter about the famous idol Dr.M Jegathesan. I admitted that I didn’t prepare very well as I’ve promised with my students to discuss the English paper one. What is more, my students were making noise, and unexpectedly one of the students screamed out loud as her friends scared her with the little spider. I was like, ‘what a mess’. For the whole double periods I tried to carry on my teaching although the students were not sporting. Maybe it was my mistake as I never told them that the lecturer will going to come and observe me. I just tried to make the class’ atmosphere looked ‘natural’ and the students didn’t have to pretend innocent. Anyway, I still have one observation by next week and that is the only chance for me to get a better verdict. I need to make some corrections and modifications on my lesson plan and teaching skills for the next observation.