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freaking bored to tears ;'(

bored again.

relief teaching really is the best job around!
1. u get to see how you were like. and u know u miss those times.
2. u get to catch up with ur own teachers, and maybe ex-classmates who teach there too.
3. u get to educate a new generation of younglings.
4. u get to try canteen food which, although would still suck, would probably taste better than ur previous school's food.
5. u get a whole bunch of people obsessed with you. haha, maybe not that serious.
6. u get paid 11.80 an hour. under ideal conditions.

i took a p4 and p6 class today. the p4 class seems like kinda 2nd best class. could tell they were usually quiet...but cos i came they all went mad. oh well. it always happens. had lots of fun i guess. i'm not paid to read anyway. so i went around to see how they were doing. i identified how i was like. that kind who upon getting the worksheet rushed into doing it, while at the same time blabbering nonsense with my group mates. so in a sense, it was work and play. while taking them for pe, i was not concerned about my class, but kept observing this p3 class which i took for chinese class on the 1st day i went there. they were having relay games. the whole bunch of them listened attentively to their teacher describing what they were to play. and when they rose up and the first pupils started running, the rest of them were bouncing around so happily cheering their mates. it was so cute. to imagine how it looked like, think 'king of fighters/street fighters'. all were doing unique cheering acts. a girl held her right hand up as though holding a torch, while some guy jogged on the spot, another held his hand out, another waved her hands about...everything! so cute. too bad the only time we really played such things was when i was in p1 and p2. i remember having to have those caterpillar races. it was very annoying, and the whole row would always end up collapsing and breaking apart. but its funny in a way. the thing was that no one row would be moving fast, and everyone would be like suffering. haha. but that was 13 years ago. i haven't seen anyone else playing it ever since.

while i had talked to my p5/6 form teacher, mdm jameela before, she had a dilemma. whether to call me herrick ,or mr ong. that is, to see me as her student or colleague. alright, dun be silly, i'm always your student. haha. then after sometime, i found my p4 form teacher. she's a sweet lady, but probably not too attached to us at that time. but she does still talk to me whenever she sees me, though i know she doesn't remember me. haha. thing is, she looked 35 back then and now she looks 35 still. i wonder. and about 3 weeks later, i plucked up the courage to look for my last form teacher i had in admiralty primary. my p3 form teacher. it was kinda awkward, but i guess, what i did made her day. me fumbling and being a bit nervous "er..mm..hi ma..dam fad..ilah..DO YOU FIND ME FAMILIAR?" lol...i'm bad at asking questions..i always ask them in a retarded way. poor lady, i talked to her for like 5 minutes and still i didn't tell her who i was. i only told her i was her first batch of students, in class 3E. obviously she doesn't remember who i am. she said its 10 years ago, and that i'm probably damn old already. hahahah. not quite. i'm like the youngest staff in school hello? she's still as interesting as ever. cruel me had talked to her for 5 minutes and still she didn't have a clue as to who i was. so what if i told her my name, she still couldn't recall. haha. and she said because of me, she's probably not gonna sleep until she digs up the class photo and find out who exactly i am. but i made her proud. her first form class. first batch. coming back to tell her, look cos of u, i'm here before you. woots. i think she probably didn't expect this to happen. but its so cool. if i were to be a teacher i would have wanted the same thing to happen to me! but she thanked me for acknowledging her as my p3 teacher, as though many people wouldn't? hmmm..she sounded touched. i shall talk to her more if i get called back anytime soon. and soon, when this chio teacher who's at most 23 came over to talk to her, she started to show off her 'fine specimen' already. her first specimen. 'look, can you believe this? my student from my first batch!!' she sounded as though she couldn't believe it herself. hehe. i'm feeling so content. that teacher was asking how old i was. too bad, none of us answered. probably old enough to be ur boyfriend. hah. jie di lian that is. way too cool. i'm happy that i did go to her today. so that's it. while most of the teachers have left, all my form teachers are still there. this is way too cool. i love all of them! mdm fadilah, mrs karine nim, mdm jameela! hugs to all of you!

but back at work, it ain't easy. it gets easy if the teacher i'm covering gave me stuff to give them to do. or best still, if they have homework they were supposed to do. i really abhor the idea of going to class with nothing for them to do. in a way its not very responsible of the teacher to take leave and leave their class to slack. that's when i really die. but alright, i gave them worksheets to do today..taught them a bit. teaching is fun. now i think i understand, partially at least why teachers love to stay back in school for their students. i dun think its easy to explain. but maybe 'joy of teaching' might be sufficient to understand. when u teach, u really interact with the students on a one to one basis, and that's when it gets really fun. like today, i was taking the most notorious p6 class. their teacher left them with different work to do. so this guy wanted to do chinese corrections. as a relief teacher supposed to be taking english subjects, i kept on insisting that i help him in his corrections. i was feeling high. then they were like, something is amiss, i dun think this guy's chinese is good..haha..then started to ask what i got for psle chinese. A or B. seemed that they would've looked down on me if i said B. but though i got A i told them i got F. silly kids...started to laugh..the ones who were not easily tricked simply chided them ' stupid ah, if he get F then he standing here' those kids are funny. but in that class, i saw stuff that made me realise how lucky i am. to see things that i hardly saw, really caused me to be sad for some of them. though they might be the delinquents of the class. sigh. xin suan. wu nai.

as a relief teacher, my time is quite fully utilised. having a break of just 30 min for the whole day is typical. but still, enough to get canteen food, though teachers can no longer cut queue. haha. not that i'm the kind. the canteen vendors...half of them are new. some probably continued by different people. the food is really quite good, though prices are steep. some stalls probably see a teacher coming so they hike their prices. but well, doesn't matter much. i've been over-charged in aj too. over-charged for disgusting fodder. yucks. shudders. but for the sharp increase in price between teachers and students, i get really ALOT of food. being a guy, its not customary to say u want lesser of the food. but that's what i did. its really alot. but thankfully its decent. the drinks stall auntie knows that i'm a student there before, but only cos i told her. she would never have suspected. her daughter used to help her sell drinks. probably forced to. quite a pretty girl older than us by a few years. now she's teaching chinese too.

nowadays it can be quite a disturbing though ultimately pleasant experience to have a whole class waving at you shouting your name and smiling so jovially. i really pity the teacher who was taking the class at that time. she probably was trying to keep them quiet already,and i always had to pass by, spoiling things for her. haha. unintentional though. and it gets creepy when there's a guy who keeps telling you how handsome and cool you are. i always pretend not to hear it. only when i can't stand it, then i'll counter-praise in the hopes that he gets flattered and keep quiet and not telling me how he thinks of my looks. but it doesn't work!! :( it sounds to him like i've accepted his compliment and he continues. dots. and that day this bunch told me i look like some 'bobo' from the ch8 7pm drama. like i'd know who? so i asked around. and i roughly know who. so i thought okay, fine, they're trying to say i look like a tv star. okay. case closed. but when i was leaving the school, i saw that bunch again. and they asked, so do u know who bobo is now? in my mind i probably was thinking 'spare me' cos i've enough of the handsome crap for the whole day. i'm not saying they are crap to say that, but its just sounds like incessant prayers in your ears. so i confessed to them, ya i roughly know who but i dun remember. they didn't seem to mind, as long as i still looked like that tv guy to them. after turning around the corner, the girl still stood up to say bye from the corridor. i dun doubt children's sincerity. that's what i love about them. their courage to say what they feel. to express what they must. well, this fan club thing is kinda fun. thing is, i dun know what to say to them, but probably the best thing to do is to react to what they say to you. yup. if not, a simply hi would suffice. they know you like them. it shows. even today, they were making such a din that the only way was to call the teacher next door in to give a scolding, which is 100% success rate. but i couldn't bear to. that would be so cruel. as for the p6 class. u can say they are the epitome of guai lan. the ah lians there were guessing if i'm gay. or ah gua. then there's this girl who goes around whacking every guy. serious, man-beater. but she's quite cute. so i told her, i'm gay, so please dun whack me, cos i know you always whack guys. apparently jokes about being gay and whatever are the best way to engage a class. and this ah lian asked if i'm ah gua. i said ya, then she kept making fun of me. they are fun-loving ya..i dun think i was that audacious before. but before i left the gate i saw her there. and when i saw her, i turned back and said ' you call me ah gua right? ' ahahaha. so fun.

but at the end of the day. every cent the ministry pays you is worth it. as in, if not, no one would bother about them, i guess. u work 5.5 hours minimum, getting paid 65 bucks. so that's 11.81 per hour. better than to toil under lame roadshows getting paid 6 dollars an hour. dots. justin keeps having weird ideas on me. i'm not some guy u can cheat, so forget about it. not going to work for meagre pay and long hours and dun make it sound so rosy. i know its not. so i'm not getting any other job for the rest of the month. A levels results should be coming soon. apparently, i get a pay rise right?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! YAY! promotion! haha. probably $10 more each day. while signing my form, i saw my pay was 65. then i saw another relief teacher's. its got a 1, and 2 fat zeroes. damn jealous la. how i wished that were mine. even if i worked a relief teacher for the rest of my life, it'd be enough to cover expenses. alright. no more poverty for my family. now i'm convinced i wun have to be like my parents. low education, can only do the low-skill jobs with lots of physical intensity. for the low shitty pay. i wish my dad's boss would give him more. he's a bloody scrooge. totally profit-maximising asshole. his workers never get pay rises. he keeps the old workers simply cos they're cheap and they need his money. okay, enough of ranting. the though of ns is depressing. the pay component though. 4 days of teaching(assume u are the teacher who gets 100 a day) already gives you more than a recruit's pay for a goddamned month! i'd happily teach and not waste my time in the army. and which is more productive? but the army is dumb...it doesn't work. and if it has to work, it wouldn't work. they lubricate the moving parts, but they dun realise their parts are not precise and totally understocked.

sigh. im very bored. so long-winded. tired. go to sleep.

"plak!";
x 12:14 am

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