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So I chanced across this when surfing the comic blogs. Instead of women in refrigerators, it’s woman as refrigerator!
I was told that I have a name that is not obviously Malay / Muslim because my parents didn’t want people to judge me on my name or my race. I was told that having the word “Malay” in my IC meant I had to work harder to prove myself. Being in Chinese schools for ...
I only access ST.com to read the forum because on occasion, it makes me laugh (and on other occasions, it annoys me). Well, the new “redesign” has left me unable to figure out how to access the print ST forum. So much for the new website. And it is still subscription based and frankly, looks ...
A priest killed his wife after she caught him sexually abusing his daughter. He stuffed her body in his fridge where it stayed for a few years.As shocking as the news was, I was a little tickled to find out that the priest’s name was Anthony Hopkins.Read more here.
I like eating and trying new places but I don’t post about my meals for various reasons. Firstly, I don’t like taking pictures of food and secondly, I’m just not interested in reviewing food places, unless they are exceptional. Which is what Ramen Ten / Shin Tokyo @ Century Square is. Exceptional.Since I didn’t actually ...
One of my most read blog post is the one in which I rant about all things teaching.Today, I was bored and decided to google my name and one of the links that came up was a blog post from an ex-student of mine. He wrote a post on how I had inspired him to ...
You know, I think I am easily satisfied. I bitch constantly about my job but when I am sick and my student msg me this:Do take care of yourself when you are sick [edited for grammar and spelling ]I am touched. And suddenly teaching isn’t so bad.
Returned home to find mail from my employer. How strange. Usually, mail from them is sent to my school.Things get even stranger. My employer has sent me mail to persuade me to be …. a teacher?! Perhaps they realised that I have been harbouring thoughts of quitting?
This is the strangest news I have heard all day. I can’t seem to get my head around it … Midway Games Inc., a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer …
I am planning to organise a school-wide reading challenge. Essentially, students will be asked to read X number of books over a period of time and record their reading. Students who meet the challenge would get a certificate (or some other token) acknowledging their success. Now the ‘problem’ is how to monitor their reading. My ...
Sigh … I have nothing to say. Perhaps the Champions League will be an improvement …
I was pondering why my school performs so badly. According to data given by MOE, we manage to produce one of the worst results when compared to comparable schools, i.e. schools who take in similar cohorts. So we can’t say we take in poor performing kids that is why we produce crap results. The big ...
I guess overall it was a good day.I passed my Japanese exam! 100% some more. Haha!My “innovative” lesson was voted best innovative lesson in our school’s I-day.Ah well. The euphoria will only last so long.
Conversation between my P, the OM and me.Me: I need the carpet in the library cleaned. I don’t think it has been cleaned in a long time and it smells funny.OM: Oh ok. How are ca …
That is why the time-tabling committee thinks that they can sit through 6 straight periods (3 hours) with me. I suspect they will last longer than me. I might fold before they do.And anyone who tells me that I should engage them with exciting activities and I wouldn’t have trouble with them can come and ...
Current Mood: MischievousHere’s an update of my previous post on Evony’s boobs.Yeah, probably NSFW.The last ad I had then was this one:Well, it seems like there are a few new …
One of the most popular posts is (aside from the I hate teaching one) the one on single mothers in Singapore. I am not really sure why since it isn’t a particularly insightful or analytical post. Anyway, I thought I would highlight one of the comments I received in that post for those who are ...
I have a student in class whom I suspect may be a learning disability (LD). His handwriting is awful and inconsistent, his spelling is appalling and he reads really slowly. I spoke briefly to him on Friday and he mentioned that he had a lot of trouble reading but said that he had been tested ...
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