Just so you know, I have less than 2 weeks here in this school for my teaching practice. I just got observed by my lecturer for the second time few moments ago. The first one was yesterday. Yes. I got myself being observed for two consecutive days! 

I've received many positive comments from my supervisor and I'm thankful for that. I'm glad that he satisfied with my teaching. I would also like to thank my students of class 1E and 2B for being so "angelic" that it stirred my curiosity *grinned*. Anyway, thank you peeps! 

All this while I've been told by my former teachers/lecturers that I should never ever underestimate the students' potential. Yes. That's true. However, I can still see a handful of the teachers here in this school who tend to look down on the students *sigh*. 

I was once approached by this particular teacher and she asked me which class I'm going to teach. Once she knew that I'm going to teach this particular class, she told me confidently that the students are "hopeless". I kept myself quite after that. It was like as if she knew I just finished teaching in the class that she came and asked me whether I achieved my objectives. What? Let me break this down. At the first place, was she appointed as my mentor? Nope! Secondly, is she teaching the class? Nope. Next, is she even an English teacher? Nope! Basically, she has nothing to do with class and the subject itself. 

The thing is, I manage to prove that the students...wait a sec...MY students are not "hopeless". Take note on that. They are just students that are not interested in any mundane classes. So, the teacher should make an effort to make the class more lively and thus arouse their interest. I'm not doing this to say that I'm an extremely good teacher. Nope. I am just saying that a class should be interesting as possible. I once was a secondary school student and as far as I'm concern, all my English classes were fun. We had video show. We had games. We had so much fun. Enough said. 

Bottom line is...we shall never underestimate the students!

Hello friends. On behalf of my friends (Dieny & Dominic), I would like to ask for your kind and generous favour to vote for the photo that was submitted for the saga-snap-and-win contest. 

The contest is actually organised by PROTON in conjunction with the company's 25th anniversary. 

Please click HERE to view the photo that was uploaded and being listed in the top 10.

Please...please...vote for the picture as you (voter) might as well grab the cash prize. 

For more information about the contest, please visit the website. 

Hello peeps!

Just so you know, I still have three remaining weeks for my practicum (teaching practice) here in Banting. While most of my friends already being observed by their respective supervisors, I'm still here, clueless and waiting to be observed/evaluated. 

Frankly speaking, I can't wait to finish my teaching practice. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I have lost my passion in teaching but it's just so depressing living in a huge house where there are only three people living together? Again, don't get me wrong. I'm thankful to have them as wonderful housemates.  Back to being depressed again. Why am I feeling so depressed? Simply because there is no source of entertainment in the house. The only source of entertainment that we have is the thing called laptop. 

You might ask, where am I right now with this internet connection? I'm at McD. Thanks to its stable wifi.

Ok peeps. Gotta go. Will try my best to update you from this depressing place...Lol

It's already the final week of the exam period of this school where I'm at now. That means, I have another 2 more days for invigilation. Not to forget the pile of essays that are waiting patiently on my table that need to be marked. 

Speaking of exam, it is undeniably could evoke myriad feelings for everybody (including me!). I guess exam is school's foremost servant-fiend and everybody's ruthless foe! Agree or not? Well, whatever it is, obviously those who excelled in the exam would be justifiably proud of their achievement whereas those less fortunate may try to find various reasons to deride it. *wink* At its heart, exam is definitely one of the tools utilised to gauge learning, or the lack of it. To put it simpler, exam is established to quantify academic achievement.

Ok. Enough. Ain't gonna bla-bla about exam in this post. What I want to share here is the experience that I had during exam invigilation. I noticed a handful of the students utilised so many tricks to cheat during the exam. I find it funny because it actually reminded me of schooling years in which I cheated during monthly tests (not major examination of course!). Basically, I know (roughly) the students' tricks because I've been in their situation once! *Grin*

Some of the tricks used by students during my invigilation:-

So far, that's the only tricks that I managed to "detect". It's somehow funny to see students feeling restless for not being able to copy/cheat during my invigilation and because of that students unanimously called me "cikgu mata helang/cikgu cctv". Lol...

Ok gotta go. Off to exam invigilation. Beware! Hahahaha....

The result was made official yesterday and I was not able to be there to watch the crowning of the new Unduk Ngadau. *sigh*

However, I received constant updates on the finale from a close friend of mine. I couldn't refrain myself from checking my phone even during my exam invigilation. Hahaha!

So, here's the result...

Winner: Tati (Miss) Crystal Eve Huminodun of Tg. Aru (Center)

1st runner-up: Tati Rochelle Fayrenie of Penampang (Left)

2nd runner-up: Tati Crystal Connie of DBKK (Right)

Did you notice her last name? Huminodun? Very significant indeed...

>>The winner<<

>>1st runner-up<<

>>2nd runner-up<<

Pictures taken from Dusun Tatana's Facebook profile.