Bits And Pieces

Finally, I've finished keying in the marks and targets for all my four classes today... Alhamdulillah, after I've been trying for weeks...below is an excerpt from The Star stating that this new system has been pressuring the teachers all over the country lately...Thank God, I'm done ( for now, there'll be more after the trial and final exam...huhu...) KUALA LUMPUR: The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) has asked the National Key Results Area ( NKRA ) unit in the Education Ministry to improve the online school examination analysis system, known as SAPS, immediately. NUTP secretary-general Loke Yim Phing said the union had received numerous complaints on SAPS from teachers throughout the country. SAPS was introduced in July to centralise examination results from all states. “The teachers are stressed out waiting for hours to key in the data,” she said at Wisma NUTP here yesterday. Loke voiced her concern over classroom lessons being affected because...

A couple of months ago, one of our colleagues had made a drastic move when he decided to leave the teaching profession and to join a business with a friend or rather, a couple of his friends. The business sounded lucrative as I heard he was determined to apply for early retirement and forget about teaching. Nonetheless, our principal had advised him against the idea and asked him to apply for an  unpaid leave instead (to which he agreed to ...) His departure came as a shock to many of us, but some had already suspected so. There was no secret that he was doing the business apart from teaching... and everybody was aware of the fact that he was driving a big continental car ( which obviously ordinary teachers like us can't afford, unless we're married to a businessman/woman or a contractor. I know quite a number of them who have super rich spouse but that is beside the point).  Well, he just left without saying goodbye properly and we...

So, this is my new obsession for this fasting month. Tepung pelita has always been my all time personal favourite during the month of Ramadan and this year is no exception. Honestly speaking, I've never bothered to think about this kuih in any other months but during Ramadan, it will be the first thing that cross my mind and luckily my hubby as if he could read my mind bought this kuih for four straight days. ( with the exception of the first day since he couldn't find a parking space due to overcrowded and overexcited buyers at the Bazaar).   This is another obsession during Ramadan, Nani loves these spring rolls so much so we decided to make our own yesterday, it tastes a lot better than the ones we bought at the bazaar, plus we can choose our own filling and sauce. The ingredients and the preparations are so easy and it doesn't require much time to prepare...so from now on, we'll do it ourselves..... This whole ...

Saying goodbye has become a commonplace to me lately especially in the past few months. Since  in the middle of June this year, there are more than five of my friends/colleagues were saying goodbyes to us. Most of them had been transferred to a new school, two on early retirement and one of them is going to further her study (fully-paid leave). Some of them were really sad to leave the school while some seemed to be very happy to get away from the school...Anyway, for whatever reasons they are leaving I'm just wishing them all the  best ..... Nonetheless, there's one tiny teeny thing that I found distracting and still can't put my mind off it. In her farewell speech, one of my colleagues did really say all nice things about us and her advice was really good and inspiring for us who are still staying and continuing our duties to educate the students. But when she was talking about herself and what she'd done (all good things, of course)...and how she felt ab...