First Day of Practicum at BMSS

Today was my first day of practicum. Quite excited and yet worried. I wondered how will the students behave in Bukit Merah Secondary School. According to my experience while I was a secondary School student, the students in Bukit Merah Secondary School were very rowdy and they behaved like gangsters. Being so petite, I wondered if I could really manage them.

Upon reaching the school, I was quite surprised to see that the cohort of students was very small. Just imagine that there was no Sec 4 students this year in the school!!! The students, to my surprise, were rather polite and mild. As for the staff over at Bukit Merah Sec, they were very friendly.

My SCM was Ms Chong. She is the HOD of English Department but she still sits in the main staff room. She is the discipline master there too. It was also her who scheduled my teaching periods at Bukit Merah secodary School. I have about 8 Music teaching periods and I have to teach 2 Express classes (Sec 1C and 1D) and 2 Normal Academic classes (Sec 1A and 1B).

Today, I went in to sit in Class 1B and 1D to observe how my two CTs, Mr Albert Low and Mrs Lim, teach. Mr Albert Low was my official CT. Not only he is a Music teacher, he was also a Geography teacher. He seemed like a very stressed person and he did not like to talk much. Felt quite hard to talk to him. At this point in time, I was quite worried how am I going to communicate to him regarding my practicum matters.

Another CT of mine was Mrs Lim. She looked like a tai tai, instead of a teacher. What surprise me even more was that she's a Chinese teacher!?! OMG, all along I thought she could be teaching other subjects except Chinese! This is because her command of English language was superb. :)

Oh ya. I met another trainee teacher called Siew Yan at BMSS. She's in her thirties and looked very slim. Teaching is her second career. Heard from her that she set up up a business before she came into teaching. But then, the business was also related to education field. She was extremely friendly and nice to talk to. Felt quite blessed to have such a friend there to look after me during my practicum.

Hope that my days in BMSS will be happy and smooth. :)

Website of BMSS: http://schools.moe.edu.sg/bmss

First time in Educators Group

This evening, I was at the Soka's Educators Group. Though this was my first time there, I felt it was really a wonderful experience with trainee teachers and other experienced teachers as well. I met Kah Kiat, Mei Ming, Tiew Ling, and of course, Linda, who recommended me here into the educators group.

I was quite surprised that I talked quite a lot in today's discussion. Maybe it's due to the anxiety and doubts I have regarding the coming practicum. I felt really welcomed by them and they are really warm teachers.

I felt more confident that I could pull through the practicum after the discussion. I hope I could have such kind of discussion in the future! Let me see how! :)

School Posting out on V day

Happy Valentine's Day! Early this morning, posting of schools for practicum was out. I am posted to Bukit Merah Secondary School for the 1st 3 weeks and thereafter, will be posted to Victoria's Junior College for the last 6 weeks.

Happy Birthday!!!

Congratulations!!! Happy Birthday to me! Can't believe I'm turing 25 this year! I'm in MID-TWENTIES!!! OMG!!

What are my birthday wishes? Hmmm... let me see.. Firstly, wish that I can cope well with my career ahead, secondly,wish my family members and friends are healthy and lastly, hope that the kins of tsunami victims could brace themselves up and live stronger each day.

This afternoon, went to buy MULAN DVD with my boyfriend for the sake of finishing my assignment. Quite worried that I don't have anything to write for my lesson plan on the movie MULAN. The deadline is drawing near for the submission of this assignment and I hope that I can churn up something good in time.

Worries aside, my boyfriend celebrated my 25th birthday with me by treating me to Phinx Restaurant. Didn't know there's such a 24hr restaurant at Liang Seah Street (opp. Bugis Junction)which serves mostly western food (I think). I ordered fish and chips and he ordered the same with the only difference that the fish was battered with beer. The serving was quite large and quite tasty. On top of the main course, we ordered buffalo wings as appetizers.

After that meal, we went to Bugis Junction to shop. Only then, my boyfriend gave me a present and it was a bottle of perfume (MoonFlower) from body shop. I felt so remorsed that I didn't get him any valentine's present. So... I shopped for the valentine's gift with him haha...!! You know what I got for him? I got a bottle of perfume from the Body shop too!!! haha

Went home for dinner. My parents cooked a sumptuous dinner for me to celebrate my birthday. It's Steamboat with tomyam base. Yummy!! After dinner, it's cutting cake time!!! Feel so old to cut a cake and weird to sing a birthday song. The birthday cake (coffee flavour) was a gift from my sis. It's from Polar cakes and puffs.

Chinese New Year's Eve

Early in the morning, I still have to report to school to see our classmates microteach even though it's Chinese New Year's Eve... *poof* Lazy mood aside, my music classmates and I were surprised to see a leaf insect near our Choral room's door! This is the first time I saw a leaf insect. The insect was very beautiful and it really looked like a leaf! I wondered why it chose to 'camouflage' there.

In the evening, back home to have our reunion dinner. As usual, it's steamboat again with lots of balls... fishballs, cuttlefish balls, vegetable balls, prawn balls, meat balls.... etc. haha Of course, not to forget about the abalone and the prawns.. tsk tsk..

While watching the new year countdown show, my mom, my sis and I kept ourselves busy with our nails. Yes.. painting our nails. Wasted lots of alcohol due to lousy skills of painting nails.

What is my new year resolution at this moment? -- hope to get lots of angbaos before I get older.

A Birthday Present

Today is Tuesday, 4 days before my birthday. I was delighted to receive an early present from my friend, Sarah. Got a sweet note from her and guess what... just as what I always wanted to buy... a key pouch! It's quite a special key pouch with a strawberry on top and I'm using it now. :)



In the evening, went out with my boyfriend to have dinner at the Old People's Park hawker centre. I ordered mixed vegetable rice and my boyfriend ordered the famous yong tau foo. Surprising, our stomachs could fill another plate of fried omelette. This fried omelette is the best, the best that I've ever eaten!!! Too bad, in about a month's time, that this hawker centre is going to close down for renovation. :( Never have mind that it looks old. I believed that so long that it serves good food, customers would still come and savour the good food.