:: reader k ::

Thursday, August 31, 2006

and i am whining

and here comes again.

this year, i read the words carefully again.
i love the cards the kids made and wrote - those are the BEST gifts!
the card that brought tears is from geng bee.

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many thanks to these delightful kiddies:
(not in order of preference)

1) art students from 4NB
2) the giantic hand-made card from 4NB
3) the feather duster from lela
4) the sms from weijin
5) the pretty portrait from boon hao
6) the on-the-way gift from margaret
7) the smiley key chain from suzy
8) the warm drink holder from iman
9) the i-love-u-n-ah xin note from ariel
10) art students from 4E4
11) the very nice card from jiexin
12) the drink from amanda which i forgot to drink
13) the manicure voucher from songxi
14) the warm handshakes from my BASKETBALL trio (tenghui, edmund, kevin)
15) sweet smile from audrey (even though i've shouted at her several times)
16) art students from 3E3
17) flower and card from atiqah
18) a 'sorry teacher, i am late.' from darren
19) art students from 3NC
20) the two delicious cakes from 3NC
21) the sms from yingkwang
22) the bottle of stars from xiaozhen
23) the chocolate from axel
24) the bear cup from dingjie
25) the attention from 3NC
26) the surprisingly-great behaviour of 3NC
27) the shyness of my sweet 3NC
28) my sec 4 SJAB cadets + alena
29) flower from amanda
30) the touching card from geng bee
31) my ex-sec 5s (2005) who took time to come back
( CK, TYC, Clair, Meow Meow, Hanxiang, Ikhwan-kwan, Ivon, Suet, Rosli, Hazmi, Raihan, Wilson, Sophia, Bob, Bong, etc.)
32) the funny time we spent at Coffee Bean after that
33) my ex-students from 2004
34) chocolate cake from adorra
35) all who took time to write the essay to vote for me
(wangshan 4B, iman 4B, suzy 4B, Mar 4B, boonhao 4B, audrey 4B, lela 4B, fengyao 3B, zhengxi 3B, qiaoqiang 3B, shenghui 3B, chunya 3B, yenkeat 3B, syafiq 3C, neeza 3C, hafizah 3C, salwah 3C, artika 3C, zairie 3C, hanjoo 3C, zhangtai 3C, xiaozhen 3C, shuzhao 3E3, alena 3E2, amanda 1E2, gengbee 4E3, lynn 4E5)

there are some gifts without names.
i thank whoever you are.

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last year,
yong cun's card made me weep.

last year,
5B made an elephant-shaped autograph book out of acrylic sheet.
filled with words from them.
my treasured gift.

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and my comrades-in-teaching,
without them, school life would be tragic:
grace
widya
sandy
reh
clarisse
adam
mdm ang
maslina
zech
marcus
chuimin
shirley
weilin
sok peng
patrick

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there.
2 years and 3 months of teaching,
and i am whining.
and the one who bears with the most whine:
alex mitchell.
:)

reader k | 8/31/2006 09:34:00 PM | 1 comments

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

one line of elephants

one day,
my line of elephants went for a walk.
they did not come back.

they used to crowd around my wrist.
no more.

they did not leave a note,
(how rude!?)

gone gone gone.
:(

reader k | 8/29/2006 11:54:00 AM | 2 comments

Sunday, August 20, 2006

it's life pursuit

there there, N's down, and gone for marking!
Yee Yeah Yeah Hoo Hoo!!!!!
Such a relief.

Just waiting for the result now.
.......................................................................

O's continuing.
Art room is in a constant production mood once again.

Z asked one student yesterday:
'why do you do this painting?'
'for O's.' she said.
'just that?' he asked?
'yah.' she replied.
then went the whole talk about personal feelings.
she cried,
not because Z scolded her, in fact, he didn't scold her.
she cried,
because she recalled how hard it was and has been for her mom to send her all the way from China to study here, how hard life has been.
she realised the 'personal feelings' part should come straight from the heart.
the painting technique is secondary.
after that, she sat in front of her painting,
stare hard at it,
and tears still flowing.
i went over, said a little something,
give her a hug and left her to dry her tears.
she needs to sort out the colours of her own feelings.
she will be there, no doubt.
:)

for many times we whine and complain,
eventually our hearts still stay with them,
no matter what nonsense they have given us.
this attachement, grows.
comfortable.
habitual.

perhaps, happiness too. :)

my dear students,
past and present.

reader k | 8/20/2006 12:27:00 PM | 3 comments

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

pin me

each brooch i wore,
i whispered an inspiration to it
for the day.
at the end of the day,
i heard the reply from it.

the tail of my unfortunate week still lingers.
i burst out more germs than i ever have in a month.
following the week gone, expected pile of mundane stuffs awaiting.
they are so patiently waiting even though each one has an "URGENT" tag on.
they wore the "URGENT" brooch so well.
perhaps i should resort to wearing one too.

i want to see myself,
wearing the "URGENT" tag,
looking not a bit in urgency of anything,
but eating my plate of fried rice.
just eating.

it's good to be insane.

because they will know then,
the little slips that says i'm sick,
can exceed the number of days they tagged onto me.
who the hell puts a cap on the number of times you can be sick?!
i have not started to charge them by hours i am insanely-working-my-health-off.
that will cost them a bomb of brooches.

that will.

reader k | 8/08/2006 03:11:00 PM | 3 comments