What have changed and what have not so far for 10 months after I leave my 'lovely' secondary school. I call it as a long vocation with my own laziness lifestyle. What has happened when I finally came out from CPSS (Confucian Private Secondary School)? It is somethings like I finally succeed in prison break, and it did makes me felt that I was like kind of obtaining the stuff call freedom once again which I have lost it long time ago. I thought so when I was studying in school, everything is fixed, all you have to do is to follow what it was there, innovation is considered as an unfavorable issue in my secondary school. 'Dun try to break any rule which is set and we have reason in setting the whole sorts of rules'. Unfortunately, those reasons are never told. Still, I have to thank my 'lovely' secondary school, because I have met my best friends there, the only thing I would like to keep in mind is those times we have spent together. No matter what we have done, I shall remember it untill the end of times.
Actually, I have set my mind to work for a short term before I continue my further study in university or college. I had prepared to go against my father if he try to appose my decision. Luckily everything is going fine, my father agreed with it and I still remember what he said, a powerful statement,"You have my words". Among all sorts of part time jobs, finally, I had chosen to work as a temporary teacher. Please don't ask me why I had chosen that, I was just using my intuition instead of doing consideration. When I had decided to do so, initially I have phoned my alma mater, SJK(C) Salak South. It was only November of 2007. Deputy principal, Puan Chong were quite surprise when she received my call. It was considered as an early call at that time, what a efficient person I am XD She told me to wait for her called, and now I was regretted that I believe in what she told me... She never call me then, when I finally called back to check it out, it's already left two poses for afternoon class teacher. @#$%$%#^$% what the... I should have reject the offer... but my willingness to become a temporary teacher have overcome my anger. As the result, I visited my alma mater again after 5 years. Besides that, I also felt how lucky is it that I has chosen to take SPM when I was told to use my SPM result to register as a temporary teacher. Honestly, I advise all the Chinese independent school students to take SPM because it has its usefulness, and you will not know when you are going to need it.
As I started off my job as a teacher, I learned somethings that I shall never learn from school, and what made me felt so Lucky was that they treated me as a full time teacher, they made me to take part in all kinds of meeting and also to organize activities. It is a quite challenging job for me, in order to manage those 7 to 8 year-old children. Yet, they are the most honest one, where we probably cannot meet this kind of people in other place or environment. They will show you a bored face when they found your teaching topic was not interesting. They can express themselves honestly without pretending and caring your feeling. Because of that, sometimes it really made me very angry, fortunately I have not go mad in the classroom. The most profitable thing is that I do not need any transportation fee at all, all I have to do is just walk there to teach and then walk back home after teaching. Another thing that I found quite difficult, is to manage the relationships between other teachers and me. I really don't know how to communicate with them, because they are all female and obviously, we have not much to share with... Normally they will ask me these questions: where do you live? where did you study in secondary school? where are you going to study? what are you going to study? Our conversation would ended up after answering these questions.
Sometimes, we know that somethings are out of our control just like there are some favorable classes and also unfavorable classes. When I was young, I would usually blame on those temporary teachers by saying that they were so poor in teaching skills and it's really embarrasing me when I was studying in their class. Now only I know that it's easy to become a teacher but it is definitely hard to succeed in this career if you treat it as a job. I have regretted to treat those temporary teachers like that because I, myself were also having problems in teaching and managing classes. This makes me deeply respect those who have the courage to be involved in this career for so many years. Finally, I ended up my job in may before 'mayday' came.
At that time, I have finally make up my mind to take the 3+0 bachelor of commerce program offered by Taylor's University College and University of South Australia. Their intake was on 23th of July, so I would have another two months holidays to play around and find my friends, and also I can finally accessed to internet at home. Because I already don't have any other work to do, I just kept surfing and surfing in the 'web', although my mother was unhappy with that...
Blogger, the stuff I entertained every day during that period, and it can be also considered as the only productive job I have done. I was so devoted in learning how to manage a blog. I learned some HTML in order to change my blog template or style. Access to others friends' blogs to share interesting stuff or read about others' day review. Besides that, I tend to have visited my ex-classmates more frequent or I will ask them out to 'Yam Cha', which I have probably post some of these recorded events in this blog. In fact I have got nothing to do with, so I prefer to go out to find some activities rather than stay at home.
The most excited event that I have, was the trip to Penang on 4-6th of July. Zhi Kang, Hui yen, Zheng Zhi, Shang Wen, Tian Yeong, Loo Yee, Ting Kang as well as Xuet Fun were together with me on the trip. This trip was actually also recorded in my previous posts. I was really having a good time during the 3 days 2 nights trip. I hope that they were also enjoying the trip as well. Actually this trip was organized by Tian Yeong and I because I would like to have some relax before my college life start. I believe that this kind of trip will be organized and held at per annum and I am looking forward to have more people taking part in it.
23th of July, my first day to involved in a brand new learning environment. Everything were so strange to me. Some how I have to take bus all the way from Kota Raya to Subang Jaya. The fiirst few it's kind of torture=.= After that, I was having 3 days useless orientation at Taylor's College. I Regretted to attend the orientation, wasting my time and money. It's not cheap having a meal at Subang Jaya as you know. The orientation was presented to us by listening to numerous talks and speech given by PHD or Officers, all I need to do is sit there and listen to them quietly, damn boring! I thought I could get to know some new friends nevetheless, 1 only I could met.
The following weeks, I started my lectures and tutorial class which are both very fresh to me. Somehow I thought it's quite relax studying in university, I just need take 4 subjects every semester and there are only 4 hours class per week for each subject (2 hours lecture and 2 hours tutorial class), furthermore I don't have to attend class on Saturday, it is quite different from what it was in Chinese independent secondary school. That was what I kept in mind until the very first assignment due date came. That was a nightmare to me, and t know that the nightmare will not end until the time I graduate.
I think I have written quite a lot, those who have read this post from the very beginning till here, thx for your supporting again. I guest I myself would not have such patient to read through this post carefully XD If you ask me how is it going, I will probably tell you:' So far so good ^^' Have a nice weekend, my friends!
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