Vamps

Assignment:
Longman English
Unit 1 Activity 23
Unit 2 Activity 2
Unit 3 Activity 12, 13, 14

Everywhere I go, there is spilled water. In the hall, I had to step over spilled water and when I came to our classroom, 5G left a watery mess! Spilled water follows me everywhere! It is strange and disturbing! It is like X-files! Do you know X-Files? When I was in primary school, I was obsessed with this show.

It was about two FBI agents investigating under X-Files; Unexplained cases. It centered around the possibility of alien life. Even though it was a show for adults, I really enjoyed it because I was, and still am obsessed with extraterrestrial life, astronomy and cosmology. Too bad X-Files is not showing anymore...

Back to school matters. The nearer the exams are, the more we have to do a lot of mundane work like completing worksheets. We have finished covering the whole syllabus for Term 2 and it is now mostly revision and endless worksheets and also doing peer marking. To be honest, I don't like exams. I never did as a student and even now as a teacher, I still don't like it.

But now I understand why it is necessary. If there are no exams, then no one would want to study that hard because no one is afraid of getting low results. Very few people study for the sake of wanting knowledge. (Even though knowledge is POWER). Anyway, it feels really good when you get back an exam paper, and you found out that you achieved a Band 1 or an A* for a subject. It is one of the best feelings in the world!

One more reason why I do not like it when exams are near is because I don't get to conduct lessons where I teach and you respond! This is when learning is really fun. The few weeks before exams are too packed with completing worksheets and revision. It is very tiring, isn't it?

However, like I said, it is necessary. We won't be able to succeed without relentless practicing.

Nothing much can be said about today. The boys of Hope had their collars turned up. When I asked them about it, they sagely replied, "Miss Hidayah, when you button up your collar, it means, you are a good boy. If you turn up your collar, it means you are a vampire."

Oh I see... (-_-") Sometimes I think there is no Hope for the boys of Hope... :D

After class, I told them to fold down their collars as we needed to go to the courtyard for the Majulah Singapura and Hail Alma Mater. The flag of the country and the crest of De La Salle must be hailed by Lasallians and Singaporeans, not nosferatu (vampires) :D

It seems that the trend of Rubik's Cube (originally from the the 1980s) is back! A lot of you have bought the Cube. I am glad to see this. I have always loved to see young minds tackle the genius of Ernő Rubik. It took me more than a month to figure out how to solve it. (Without instructions) Now that I have solved Rubik's Cube, it is time for Rubik's Revenge! If you think Rubik's Cube is tough, meet Rubik's family!


From left to right: Professor's Cube, Rubik's Revenge, Rubik's Cube, Pocket Cube.

I love the cubes so I'm glad to see a lot of you with Rubik's creations and trying to solve it at such a young age.

OK, see you on Monday.