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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Sometimes it's amazing how a glass of cold soft drink can freshen you up after a long day.


Hush of the rain.
5:58 PM

Sunday, July 18, 2010

I have just started work for a week at my alma mater, The Chinese High School, now known as Hwa Chong Institution (sadly no more 'The'), as a temporary full time teaching assistant. Yes, temporary means for a short term only, full time meaning a fix set of hours everyday. People ( I think mainly Singaporeans) always misuse the term part time as temporary. I digressed a bit but it seems to irritate me a lot.

Okay, back about work. Work is from 0720 - 1630, a standard '8-5' job. Yeah when I say '8-5', I mean standard office work hrs, not literally 8-5. It's a metaphor. I start early, and end early, which gives me a lot of time to do my own stuff after work. But I'm amazed at how I could wake up at 5 everyday when in my secondary school years without any difficulty. Yet I'm struggling to get up for work every morning. One could easily dismiss it as age taking its toll on me, but what about my teachers? They are well ahead of me in the journey of life and they don't seem to be at all tired. In fact, they look very much alive and fresh to me.

Anyway, I'm also here to debunk a myth that the majority ignorant people who doesn't know anything about my school and hence assumes stereotypes of our students. Yes, we started out as Chinese School, but that was like ages ago. It doesn't mean that we are 'cheena' and can't speak English to save our lives. When i went into class, all of them speak English relatively well. Just because we have the word 'Chinese' in the name doesn't mean we speak only 'Chinese'. That because no one speaks Chinese. Chinese is not a language, Mandarin is. For your information, it means a school for immigrant Chinese.

Just like that, and my uneventful weekend comes to an end. It is not that 2 days wasn't long enough to rest, but how I spent it makes it seems as though I haven't enjoyed myself for another week long of work.


Hush of the rain.
6:05 PM


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