I had to stand in as acting principle for a kindergarten of my sister's friend during the holidays. Well ..........not really as an acting priciple but just to unlock the gates and keep an eye on the teacher and maid.
There were only 5 children because they were under the day care programme. The other were on school holiday. I had a lot of fun playing with them but it is a tiring job as the younger ones are constantly trying to get your sole attention and sometimes you just feel like splitting yourself into 2 just to meet their needs. However it was a very goog experience.
Short trip to Singapore
I went to feel the breeze of Singapore during the holidays. My family and I took off last saturday and stayed the night in Johor before crossing over to Singapore. We woke up early in the morning to beat the traffic on the causeway as you know traffic conggestion over there is terrible, horrible and vegetable..............*-*
Well the merchandise there are damn cheap compared to ours but the price of a house over there is damn expensive. I didn't manage to shop but luckily i got to meet my ex-house/university mates over there. We did a little bit of catching up and it was interesting to hear all their adventure and stories while working in Singapore.
Oh .....my family and i also got lost while heading back to my aunt's apartment. We had the GPRS but the road signs sucks. We practically rounded the city for an hour an alf before finally reaching our intended destination. We even pass through little India of Singapore, what a sight....... i really thought i was in India with the masses of Indian people walking around.
Well the merchandise there are damn cheap compared to ours but the price of a house over there is damn expensive. I didn't manage to shop but luckily i got to meet my ex-house/university mates over there. We did a little bit of catching up and it was interesting to hear all their adventure and stories while working in Singapore.
Oh .....my family and i also got lost while heading back to my aunt's apartment. We had the GPRS but the road signs sucks. We practically rounded the city for an hour an alf before finally reaching our intended destination. We even pass through little India of Singapore, what a sight....... i really thought i was in India with the masses of Indian people walking around.
Legend Water Chalet in P.D.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
It was a beautiful day and after a long and tiring session of talks. Me and my apartment mates (Cozaine, Chow & Heng) decided to take an evening walk along the water chalets situated next to our 3 star resort. We heard that our next door hotel was given a 5 star rating and therefore decided to check it out ourselves.Equipped with our cameras, shorts and sandals, we started our exiciting expedition.
The view from the water chalets were magnificent. It was as if we were in a small neighbourhood that was built on the sea. One could be fooled that we were in Maldives from the pictures that we have taken. There are also some crazy ones that we took in which they will be embedded in our lovely memories forever.
The only sore eye of the whole view was the sea water. It was seriously polluted and murky. A vast contrast of the clear blue sea that had always been portrayed in the ads and tourism campaign. And with Maldives......... i see no competition there. However, this did not affect us as we continue to pose differently with each 'click' of the camera.
Induction course part 2
Alright, after all the ramblings in part 1 i guess now is to continue, not with ramblings, but reminiscence of the fun time and new friends that we met and made throughout the course.
The best thing that ever happen was that we get to meet and make many new friends. Some were juniors just like me while some were a bit senior. However I was lucky as all off my group members were very easy going, cheerful, caring and lot's more. During the 2 weeks we have bonded very well and we seem like one big happy family than different individuals from different places.
I still remember the time when we've sucessfully done practising for our closing ceromony performance and went out for supper together. All nine of us squeezed into a MPV, with our group leader in the driver seat. Our group leader was just like a father to us as he has a very tranquil aura around him. He is also very knowledgeable as he has been teaching for quite sometime. We made a ruckus all along the way expecially Khong with her funny quirks.
Almost at the end of the 2nd week we gather for the last time, express our feelings and said our goodbyes. It was a very touching moment and i will definitely remember those moments and miss them.
Induction course 2008 part 1
Friday, December 12, 2008
I've been attending an induction course for the past 2 weeks as it is a compulsory course for all new civil servant. It was practically a torture session if you ask me. No doubt there were some very informative topics about leaves, allowances and medical benefit in it but most were in my opinion insignificant. Yes you read me clearly...... INSIGNIFICANT! and there was also some history of how our education system was formed. Pftt........ no connection there........ (I HATE HISTORY)
My reasoning for this induction course was that there were too many employees in this sector and in order to segregate some work to them, courses like these were invented. Well most of the useful topics are presented by speakers who are already burden with loads of work by their post and still they are further burdened with all these minor seminars. While for all those useless topics i guess they have too much time on their hands and therefore they are call to torture us and in a way to occupy their working time.
Some of the speakers were very good as they conducted their presentation in a very interesting way by occasionally slipping in cases, jokes, funny pictures to keep us alive and awake throughout his speech. There are also those who just babble on by reading their powerpoint slides. What's the point for those speakers? what's the point? The question keeps repeating itself in my head throughout the induction course.
My suggestion would be to provide each new civil servant with an employees handbook so that they can refer to if they encounter any problems. The handbook of course will state the common rules and regulation and if there is a special case, we would refer to the person in charge of that section. There can be hundred and one scenarios just on rights to claim certain allowances which can't go into the book altogether. If courses held was for this purpose then it would not be a best solution as we might not be able to think 0f these 101 scenarios unless we encounted it let alone during that 4 hours of talk. Besides, printing a handbook by the bulk is much more cheaper than having to pay for the accommodation, food and traveling for a duration of 2 weeks to all who attended this course.
In the teaching profession, i would have hoped that the government would allocated funds to send teacher to attend courses that helps in the field of teaching such as courses organised by MELTA. They have various kinds of courses which explores the possibility of using a particular materials to come up with creative and effective ways of teaching or maybe a much more lively and interesting method to pass on the knowledge to students. Now wouldn't that be more interesting and relevant?
How does the minds of those people works still puzzles me but for all i know is that to survive you have to make the best out of the things around you and to make the best out of this induction course would be to get ample of rest before going back to the tedious task of teaching.
Alleluyah!!!!!! ^-^
My reasoning for this induction course was that there were too many employees in this sector and in order to segregate some work to them, courses like these were invented. Well most of the useful topics are presented by speakers who are already burden with loads of work by their post and still they are further burdened with all these minor seminars. While for all those useless topics i guess they have too much time on their hands and therefore they are call to torture us and in a way to occupy their working time.
Some of the speakers were very good as they conducted their presentation in a very interesting way by occasionally slipping in cases, jokes, funny pictures to keep us alive and awake throughout his speech. There are also those who just babble on by reading their powerpoint slides. What's the point for those speakers? what's the point? The question keeps repeating itself in my head throughout the induction course.
My suggestion would be to provide each new civil servant with an employees handbook so that they can refer to if they encounter any problems. The handbook of course will state the common rules and regulation and if there is a special case, we would refer to the person in charge of that section. There can be hundred and one scenarios just on rights to claim certain allowances which can't go into the book altogether. If courses held was for this purpose then it would not be a best solution as we might not be able to think 0f these 101 scenarios unless we encounted it let alone during that 4 hours of talk. Besides, printing a handbook by the bulk is much more cheaper than having to pay for the accommodation, food and traveling for a duration of 2 weeks to all who attended this course.
In the teaching profession, i would have hoped that the government would allocated funds to send teacher to attend courses that helps in the field of teaching such as courses organised by MELTA. They have various kinds of courses which explores the possibility of using a particular materials to come up with creative and effective ways of teaching or maybe a much more lively and interesting method to pass on the knowledge to students. Now wouldn't that be more interesting and relevant?
How does the minds of those people works still puzzles me but for all i know is that to survive you have to make the best out of the things around you and to make the best out of this induction course would be to get ample of rest before going back to the tedious task of teaching.
Alleluyah!!!!!! ^-^
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