Today was really an entirely fei and unproductive day at work. Still stagnating at POSTCARDS ARGHHH bloody postcards.

Anyway i think i'm burning out again.

Zzz
1) maybe it's because of the past 4 consecutive days of waking up at 6.15am for RGPS's CCM classes. But the most amazing thing is, when i enter the class at 7.30am (ok realistically we prob enter only at about 7.45am? After they get to class from morning assembly and etc) i get miraculously clear-headed and like on-the-ball.

2) maybe i'm fatigued from the intense mental rigour that is demanded when i'm standing in front facing the whole class. Wow really, there's a vast difference in mentality and thought-processes, when you're sitting down and staring at 1 person standing in front, or if you're the 1 person that 42 others are staring at.

But anyway taking RGPS for CCM has neutralized my extreme emotional unbalance and distress from NASS. Zzz. I used to be appalled at what i thought were judgmental and elitist remarks about top/neighbourhood schools, but now i think i understand why people say that. And i also realized that there is no point in making such remarks because that's how society and Life is - if everyone is good, then no one is.

3) and, every morning 2h+2h lessons at RGPS till 12pm, then 2pm back at MMI for halfday. Why am i doing this.../it should be why did i do that.

Anyway i'm down for a full-day training workshop for NDP volunteer ushers thing which i signed up for, and sigh this is a really bad time to throw myself into a group of strangers and go through the motions of Socializing 101.

Haii.

Here's a picture taken on Wednesday, after my P3 class after we played pictionary (classmates are supposed to give the answer in Mandarin. FUN OR NOT? :D They seemed to enjoy it. But RGPS girls are really damn smart - they started rattling all the vocab off the textbook, from start till end.) Didnt manage to take with my P5 class coz it was too big (about 40 students) and the P5 lessons were always dragged till the last minute of the lesson.

Cute, enthusiastic, obedient, AND smart.

Overall it was a good experience teaching them, and in the course of this, we also got to know a few interesting Malay teachers, and wow one teacher My Idol is really damn inspiring. She is a small-sized lady in her early 40s (but looks like she's only about 30+?) and a mother of 4. This is one of her part-time jobs, and her other part-time is working at Macdonalds, simply because she wants to experience that and know how it's like and how Macdonalds work. She's working as the counter crew, but what she really wants to try is to flip burgers. HAHAHAAHA wow. Her son is retaking some O levels subjects this year, and to encourage him, she's taking with him. WOW. Though she's taking only 1 subject English, but still, WOW. And, her daughter's favourite artiste is Super Junior and she (My Idol) actually knows the song SORRY SORRY coz her daughter keeps playing it.

WOW WOW WOW.

I was feeling rather inspired and touched and also pretty damned impressed by her. Her life, her wisdom and her philosophy. And we first started talking because she was advising us about how we should make lessons interesting, how to engage the students, and gave us some good games to play with our classes. And the way she talked about it was damn professional and of course experienced, and the way she spoke was also very amicable, very real and very our-frequency. Her family unit sounds really cool and cohesive, and definitely more healthy on a moral, spiritual and intellectual level - they are not rich, they live in HDB, her children are not in the top JCs or secondary schools, but i think she has a very meaningful and enriched life, her family is very blessed and happy, and that's most important.