Teachers are more than what you thinks

When you think teachers finish work at 1pm, they are bringing home exercises and documents; When you think teachers have long holidays, they are going to school for extra classes, doing documentations and preparing for new semester; when you think teachers have high salary, they are suffering stresses and depressions, and some even on medications; when you think teachers are only repeating contents in the textbook, they actually need lots of knowledge in pedagogy and methodology. Love your teacher, because they did more than what you think!

System, let us go...

System,
Why are you being cruel to us?
We are desperate and stressed in our job
not because we don't love the job
but the job don't love us anymore
It's all because of you.

System,
You torture our mental and emotion
with tonnes of clerical works
and repetition of data collections
You separate us apart
with the teaching job we love so much.

System,
It's nothing wrong to occupied my working time
But why my family time, holiday picnics and sleeping time?
You make us burn midnight oils
just to fill information that I already filled last week
and during the first day of my service.

System,
Do you realize my baby boy doesn't recognise his father?
Just because you separate us in two distance place
My wife cried during phone calls
complaining about her mean headmaster
while my heart bleed, unable to do anything.

System,
Let us go...
Education should not be torturing
Education should not be saddening
Education should not split family
It should be about Love...

Menu 1 Malaysia from another perspective

Aiyoyo... ini Menu 1 Malaysia buat saya manyak pening manyak susah ohh~

Orang besar besar macam Prime Minister datang kedai saya mestilah saya manyak gembira...
PM ambil itu lauk manyak manyak mau bikin try try kualiti...
Kalau itu PM tidak bayar orang ramai marah marah makan free...
Saya bagi kira RM3 lah, sama harga macam itu Menu 1 Malaysia...
kira belanja PM makanlah

sikalang manyak orang besar, orang kecik, orang gemuk, orang kurus semua datang...
Semua ambik lauk sama macam PM bikin saya manyak susah hati...
Semua cakap PM RM3 dia RM6, manyak tak adil sama dia...

Aiyoyo... sikalang saya manyak takut masak chicken wing...

小拿破仑的所作所为

七点半上课，老师一定要六点半到学校
每天的教案一定要写详案，不可写简案
教案不可以在空节写，簿子也不可以在空节改，放学后才可以做
照政府的指南上课到一点，自己爽爽每天加多一节到一点半
一点半放学，要三点才可以离开学校
老师有责任每天放学后为学生补习，无津贴， WAJIB
星期六老师要为学生补习，也是无津贴， WAJIB
中秋节申请特假，六年级老师和学生要来补习
UPSR科学用双语出题，学校期考科学考题却要一半华语一半英语
老师的孩子生病请不到假期，自己却拿假期去外国旅行
学校打印机和复印机教师不可以用，要用就用自己家里的或者拿去街上印
笔记型电脑平时不可以用，只有去上课程才可以借出来

真是霸道，无法无天！

Reality In Education

Books are great partner in life
But books isn't everything
From what I see and hear
Lousy students earn more money than scholars.

Tuition classes are crowded with students
Even supermarkets had to step a pace behind
These classes suppose to help weak students
How come genius-grade A students are also here?

Piano's voices are a grace to the mind
Smiling angels playing musics and sang a song
But I didn't saw that through the glass window
Only a girl crying while playing piano.

Teachers are no more like granddaddy's generation
They enrich their heart with patient and soft voice to share
"Little boy, you should do your homework last night"
"You be careful! my daddy will complaint you to the education department".

Philosophy says:"develop individual's potential in a holistic and integrated manner"
Principal says: "I want results! I want more As! I want improvements"
District Office says:"Give me data! Show me black and white!"
Teachers... nothing to be said.

There is a head prefect chosen every year
He signify the leadership among the students
There are head prefects chosen nowadays
They signify more marks for Ko-K

Yeah! It's Friday!
Starting tomorrow is a week's semester holiday!
Wait! Said the school principal...
Year 6 will have tuition classes on next Monday to Friday...

Visit to Trauma & Emergency Centre

It's been a long time since last post. All this while I'm having busy time with works and boring time with personal life. At last today found some interesting stories to blog. We are preparing for our ambulance service during Hari Raya. So before the service started, we arranged a visit to the hospital E&T Unit for a simple briefing, which happened today.

We were introduced to a few area namely the triaging zone, green zone, yellow zone, red zone, asthma zone and treatment room. We actually are quite familiar with these places as we usually have chance to be around. What amazed me today is the Red Zone. The chance I've been into a red zone is to transfer the patient onto the bed and get lost, without even seeing the inside clearly. Tonight is a special chance to see the inside of the Red Zone. The most eye catching items in the room is a row of Laerdal Suction Units (LSU), arranged on a cupboard. The blue and yellow combination of colours is really striking. There is a cleaning room beside the room, which is a place to bath dirty patient especially those they rescues from the stinky drains.

At the waiting hall, I have the chance to dig into their trauma bags and kits. Their so-called trauma bags are more similar to a combination of resuscitation bag and IV bags. The in-charge told us that they usually store dressings and bandages inside the vehicle. They have another kit which contains all kinds of drugs, which they say they "play" with the drugs on the scene. Together with the bags is an Laerdal Heartstart AED which seems like an older model no more available in the market.

As a conclusion, i found E&T Unit very "impressive" and "expensive". Everything inside cost a big fortune. Looking forward for the coming duty.

Flying fox equipment cause death to a student

Incident

A group of scout is setting up flying fox equipments in school. The rope snapped and the roller (as big as a palm) fell down and hit on the head of a student. He is pronounced dead when ambulance arrived.

Reflection

Accident is something we can't predict. We can't take for granted that it won't happen to us. Think back of the Survival Camp 2 last time when we have meeting to decide whether we should go on with flying fox or not. The decision not to continue with it is a wise one although most students are not satisfied with the decision. If we decided to go on with the game maybe this accident happened to us and no one of us have the ability to carry the responsibility when someone is dead. "Safety first" is not a slogan, it should be a practice.

Implication

After this incident, various implication will effect the activities of student co-curricular activities in school. I believe that MOE will come out with a guideline which rule out activities that can't be done by students. I do believe that this will limit the activities and sooner or later co-cur activities will be classroom-based which are generally called "boring". However, this is a prediction and the real implication still depends on how ministry will decide on this matter.