etc etc.....
wow, i think i doubled my iq since the last time i took the test.

details here



now on to more serious matters.
i got to work early this morning.
as in 15 minutes before class started, and i can assure you this will be an isolated incident; i;m never early.

well anyway, while marking books (because i'm too lazy to mark books at home nowadays) the power suddenly went out.
no lights, no fan etc....

tnb screwed up again.
no electricity for over an hour to the whole of ss2.......
the last time we had a national power outage, they sacked the ceo, who will they sack now for a local power outage?

and puay chai definitely has a very weird chain of command.
ask the security guard why there is no power
"go ask the co-curriculum teacher,"

ask the aforementioned teacher
"go ask the electrician, but wait arh, he went buy chee cheong fun,"

i don't know whether to laugh or cry or slap them.....

and the kids are still just as annoying as they were the last time i posted
still crybabies the lot of them.....
thank god no nosebleeds today.

and i had to spend half an hour watching a parent trying (and failing quite spectacularly) to discipline her kid, who has summarily refused to do her homework for the past 2 months.
this is actually a very embarrassing but necessary part of a teacher's job.
watching the kid getting screwed but trying your best not to smile as you recall how you were the one who used to get screwed, and still do i might add.

alright, thats all for now

go to our new class blog
http://pm12.co.nr

ok?
kthxbye

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first, some background info. i work as a teacher for a class of overly rambunctious class of primary school students. hell hath no fury like a class of 20 hyperactive seven year olds.

when i get to work (time 0.00) the first thing i do is wonder why on earth am i spending such a beautiful morning cooped up in a classroom (with no air conditioning, i might venture to add) with the aforementioned seven year olds from hell.

i get out my marker pens (time 0.50 minutes), clean the white board, and contemplate how to use the duster as a lethal weapon. funny how seven year olds can inspire such hatred. in fact, i usually wonder why teaching a class of seven year olds is not used as a substitute for capital punishment, the suffering is neverending.

by this time, (approximately 1.03 minutes since i arrived) the class starts to get noisy. if you've never been to a heavy metal rock concert before, you can simulate the experience with a class of at least 15 seven year olds. really. not joking.
i call for silence, already, the day seems to be dragging on......

next on the agenda, the dreaded roll call (time 2.36 minutes). somehow i believe that the ability for a child to recognize and respond to their name only manifests itself at age 8, because my charges never, let me emphasize this, never respond when i call them. mostly, it's just me reading off their names and ticking down the names of whomever i see present. at least i've developed the ability to separate my thought processes into 2 so that i can call names (i wish... :p) and tick names independently of each other.

collecting their homework assignments (time 3.44 minutes) is an experience that borders on the traumatic.
incomplete scripts, illegible handwriting, smudges of brown on the edges (ewwww) etc.
thank god not all of them hand in their work.

and finally the first 5 minutes have passed
at this time, i glance at my watch, realize i have a whole day in front of me....
and i weep inside