oh, did i forgot to mention that my work contract status is going to be upgraded to permanent?

I received a letter through the school/principal that moe will be replacing my contract to a permanent contract soon sometime back 2-3 weeks ago? and that i will be entering the NIE on the next available intake subjected to vacancy etc. That is to say, if there is space for me in NIE, i will be entering in Jan. But who knows when NIE will send me the notification letter? It’s going to be another week more only before I am on holidays. Hopefully, I will get the notification letter asap so i wun have to check the mailbox in school on non-working days (might have to trouble my school CCPE to help me check )

ok anyway, it would be good to go NIE soon, but that means I will have to wish and hope that i will be posted back for practicum in order to be with everybody else.. anyway there is appeal letters to write.. and i think i might need to discuss with the P etc.. haha anyway just hope things go on smoothly for all of us. Really hope that everyone will be able to come back..!

if you are wondering what I have been up to.. since it has been quite sometime before I last updated..

I’m into cleaning the house lately..

Digress a little, the week before this, hmm maybe i should say the dates instead. Before 18th oct, i was busy with my work since my grad students will be off for their study break for the Os. And due to that, I had almost everyday consultation with my students till about 5pm - this lasted for about 2 weeks. And ya, right after they left for study break it was quite a relief but i fell sick during the period of endless consultations. Moreover, there was a promotional exercise the next day after the grad classes left. I tried ‘tahan-ing’ throughout, only to find my flu/cough (it started off as flu) aggravated. It has been a week down with flu and cough and finally i went to see the doc yday (sunday) and took mc on monday.

My doctor was pretty funny. She was quite alarmed to hear that I have been sick for a week and advised me to take 2 days mc.. haha, but she forgot that tuesday is a public holiday (hari raya), so in the end i took a day off from work. Anyway, I am recovering now thanks to the super good medicine

Back to the topic, last wed i moved all the things out from my room because my air con broke down since dad had arranged someone to remove and install air-con/ as well as the compressor on thursday. It was not an easy job since I have a huge collection of junks in my room. And soon, the living room was filled up with things from my room.

Thursday, came the air-con man to remove the old air-con and install the new air-con. Thankfully, no more heaty nights to bear . Due to the mess caused that day due to some drilling, all my stuffs were dusty .

Dad said that since the air-con removal and installation caused some walls to be dirtied, we might as well paint the house. So we started off painting on saturday.. and then sunday, and today. Finally we get everything done! It was quite tedious considering that we have to paint it ourselves, and there are alot of things we have to move.

oh, my room is painted lavender white (chosen from the range of paints my dad purchased during the home-fix nippon paint sales), with one side of the wall pink (customized paint colour, thanks to the computerised mixer machine)..

Here are some pictures of my room, newly painted, so much more refreshing..

After painted and organized. to clarify that is not my bed.. i sleep on mattress..

the lights at my windows

there are a few misconception about the teaching profession..

and sometimes it arks me to the extent of being angry-over-nothing..

so if you think the teaching profession..

.. is an overpaid job…

screw you! , for your information, our starting pay is only about 1600 like many other jobs, and we still have to pay tuition loans.

.. is an easy job …

screw you! , the amount of preparation for the different levels or streams is so much that we sometimes are force to give them tests or papers to do - so that we can have more time for other teaching preparations. And we usually have to bring work home to do even though chances of completing them at home is low.

.. is a “can go home early job” …

screw you! , we arrived school at 7am then get back home at around 4-6pm, do your calculations!

.. doesn’t have much to do after lesson time

screw you! , we have meetings to attend! And on top of that, lesson plans!

ok, there is many misconceptions for most of the jobs around..

actually i didn’t complain because there is alot of people thinking this way.. but..

i just simply can’t understand why the “insurance or savings consultants” like to target us! grrr

ok, the title is random, it doesn’t really mean anything..

maybe i’m just finding excuse to blame keai