My Feeling as a Teacher

Phew~ Finally, my life as a primary school teacher has finally ended on Wednesday, which was 21st of April.

After 8 days of teaching at the school, I wish to conclude what I feel being a teacher.

First of all, nowadays, being a teacher is no longer a noble profession. A teacher's job is supposed to educate the young generations and bestow everything they know upon the students. However, it is not the case that is happening in the schools today... Apart from teaching the students, the teachers still have a lot of paperworks to do; to write reports; to train the students for numerous competitions; to attend some courses, to go for meeting; and some other jobs that, in my opinion, should be done by the school clerks. As a result, sometimes the teachers have to neglect the students just to accomplish the other unnecessary tasks. Then, why must we hire the school clerks as the teachers are doing their jobs?

Secondly, I miss the good old time when I was still studying at my alma mater - SJK (C) LUM HUA. When I was teaching at Sin Min, I sometimes spent my free time walking around the school. One day, I passed-by a Year 1 class, noticing all the kids were sitting on the floor in the front of the class, listening to their teacher. This scene immediately recalled the moment when I was a Year 1 student, sitting on a piece of cardboard prepared by my mum, in the front of the class, paying attention to my teacher's lesson. Besides, during recess, I saw some parents going to the canteen and bringing breakfast for their lovely children. I then remembered that back to my primary school life, my mum, together with some other adults, used to stand outside the back gate of my school, holding a container of noodles and waiting for me. When the school bell rang for recess, I would quickly rush to the back gate to enjoy my breakfast.

Thirdly, being a kid is so good. A kid is always active, playful and energetic. During the recess, the school, which was initially deadly silent, immediately turns noisy and cheerful. The kids were waiting for this moment, the moment when they could finally have a nice chat or play with their friends. Best of all, they could have their breakfast and snacks! Honestly, I was pleased when I saw the kids playing and chasing each other at the grassy field, although it was noisy. It was simply a sign of joy, happiness and relaxation. It was completely a paradise as compared to the materialistic working world. How nice!

Well, being a teacher is just two sides of a coin. It has both pros and cons. Good things, just like what I mentioned above; bad thing, I have to face the naughty and mischievious kids in the class and endure their sort of "monkey" behaviour. After all, being a teacher is totally a new and fresh experience. Not many people can have this kind of experience~ I badly want to paint my life colourfully and make my life as interesting as possible so I will have no regret in my life.

My Memorable Birthday on 16th of April, Friday

Wow! So many people wished me happy birthday! This was what I talked to myself when I was Facebook-ing at home after a long day of teaching at the school on Friday. To be honest, it was the first time that I got so many wishes from my friends and it was the most in my life so far! Thank to Facebook. So, this is the power of technology.

At night, I was asked by my three female friends to go to Free Style to have tea together. When I reached the top of the building and walked towards the round table they were sitting, I saw there were two little cute cakes being served on a table, and a candle was weakly lit due to the breeze. They wanted to celebrate birthday for me! It was touching! They also gave me a little beautifully-wrapped gift. Then, we had a nice moment there by chatting and joking.

At around 1 am, we went back. Once I reached home, I opened the gift, it was a pen, namely Parker. I believed it must be costly. There were also some messages attached on the gift. They were the wishes from my friends. I was slightly moved and happy, because they really appreciate our friendship even though we only know each other for 4 years. Of course, I also appreciate the friendship with theirs!

Friendship forever! And although it is late, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! ^^

Not Easy To Be a Teacher...

After two days of dealing with my busy workloads as a teacher, today I can finally spend some time to write this blog again. Phew~

Today, I have two things to write about. First of all, I would love to share a genuine story that did happen at the school I am currently teaching. It just happened on 16th of April, Friday(which was also my birthday ^^).

It was around 1 pm. The school gradually became tranquil as almost all the students had already gone back. Only a number of teachers including me were at the staff's room. I was busy marking my students' homework while the rest were chatting.

Then, two adults and a kid went into the room and the man asked, "who is Teacher Lee Kai Wang?" The teacher quickly walked towards the man. The man then started to speak in a ferocious tone, "did you cane this kid till he suffered this injury?" Meanwhile, he pulled up the shirt of the kid. Gosh, there was a scar on his back, and it was the scar for being caned! I believe the teacher must be very angry at that instant.

The man was angry and the teacher bowed and said sorry to him, but the man could not accept. He kept spitting, "saying sorry can solve everything? How if I cane you?" The teacher was speechless. Then, the woman continued, "how can you cane a student like this? You are a teacher!" She turned towards us and said, "teachers, please look!" She tried to show us the scar on the back of the kid even more clearly. She looked at the teacher again and went on, "you better give us a good explanation, or we will just report to the police!"

A male teacher quickly walked towards the adults and suggested them to settle this case in the vice-principal room. Then, all of them entered the room.

After a while, three of them came out and left the staff's room. It seemed that the case was solved in peace. I was not really clear what was happening, but I only knew that it was just an accident, the teacher accidentally caned the student.

Well, being a teacher is not easy today. Apart from dealing with his/her heavy workloads, he/she still has to treat and handle the mischievous students patiently and skillfully, so that he/she will not face the parents. I think I am really not suitable to be a teacher as I know I cannot stand the students to behave in an annoying way like what I have mentioned previously. Anyway, I just tried to get some experiences so I really understand how a teacher's life is.

I think this is all about the story. The second thing? Please go to my next blog! ^^

The Second Day of being a Teacher, How Annoying!!!

Today was my second day to teach in the primary school. It was a wonderful morning and it should be a good day for me too, so I walked to the school light-heartedly.

Initially, everything was going well. However, it was not till I entered 6S class, which is the top class among the other Year 6 classes - 6R, 6J, 6K, and 6C. I was offended and irritated by a student due to the pronunciation of a word - women.

I was reading out the examples of some plural nouns for the students and when I read and pronounced women as "wɪmən", the class immediately corrected my pronunciation and told me that the word should be pronounced as "wimin" instead of "wɪmən". I was surprised as I have never heard anyone pronouncing it in that way! As a result, I insisted that my pronunciation was correct, but they also insisted that their pronunciation, which was taught by their English teacher(the teacher I am currently taking over) was correct. During the fight, I accidentally saw a boy sticking his tongue out at me! How could he be so ridiculously rude! Nonetheless, I ignored it and I could not imagine I could tolerate such an act from a kid to a senior or a teacher like me.

Then, I tried to find out who taught them to pronounce in that way and they uttered the name of the teacher I am taking over. In order not to lose my face, I said, "you ask your teacher to come and see me!" At the same time, I felt bad once the sentence came out from my mouth... To my surprise, there was a reply that totally made me speechless, "辛老师已经大学毕业了，你连大学都还没有进啊！(Madame Sin has already graduated from the university, but you still haven't entered it yet!)” It was the boy again! I could not believe that reply could come from a kid! So, the kids nowadays are like that? Dare to answer back and be rude to a teacher? Still, I could tolerate his annoying act again!

After the class, I mentioned this embarassing event to my colleagues. I also apologised to the husband of Madame Xin,who is a teacher as well, for talking in that manner. Besides, I asked some senior teachers about the pronunciation of "women". They also told me that they initially pronounced it as wɪmən but it was not until Mr. Lim(a retired primary school English teacher) taught them to pronounce it as wimin during a course, but they also told me that Mr. Lim said that both the pronunciations could be used. Anyway, the teachers were very shocked when they heard that the boy was really ridiculous for acting in such a way! Then, a counsellor met him, counselled him and asked him to offer me his apology.

Before he could do anything, I still had one more lesson in his class at 1 pm and I decided to give him a really good lesson then. When I was in the class, after telling them that both the pronunciations could be used, I glared at the boy for a short moment and reprimanded him indirectly by talking to the whole class in a firm tone, “刚才，有某某人讲辛老师已经大学毕业，而我还连大学都还没有进。我想问一下，你们是谁？我虽然还没进大学，可是我起码已经读到中学，也是差不多要进大学了。我大学毕业之后，我就会跟你们的辛老师一样，也是大学生！你们又是谁？你们连小学都还没有毕业，你们有什么资格批评人！你们连奶都还没有戒，还不能自立，你们有什么资格！你们最好是把你们那瞧不起人的态度跟我丢到远远的，因为你们没有资格！（Just now someone said that Madame Sin has already graduated from the university and I still haven't entered one yet. I want to ask, who are you? Although I am still waiting to enter a university, I have at least the secondary school qualification and I am about to further my study to the institution of higher learning. After I have graduated, I would be like your Madame Sin, I will also be a graduate! Then, who are you? You still haven't completed your primary school and you are trying to criticise people! You can't even be independent so you don't qualify to criticise people! Get rid of your attitude for being cocky because you don't qualify!)” The class was silent. And the boy seemed feeling guilty...

After the class, it was time to go home, while I was tidying up the stuffs on my table in the teachers' room, the boy went in and said sorry to me. I was not sure whether he was sincere or acting, I just entertained him by telling him that I accepted his apology. Then, I told him he could leave.

Life as a Primary School Teacher

I have been asked to take over a primary school teacher to teach in a primary school, namely SJK (c) Sin Min, which is just a stone's throw from my house, for 2 weeks. Sin Min is just near my neighbourhood, but I never entered until today, I set foot in the vicinity of the school compound for the very first time.

The teacher I am taking over, whom I was told that she is sitting for a test for about 2 weeks. Hence, she sought my help to take over her to teach her students. Fortunately, she is an English teacher, and I have a considerably good command of English so teaching English is not a big deal to me. The only problem is what am I going to teach the kids as I am used to teach secondary school students? I cannot teach them something that is too difficult, but something that is simple enough and ample for their capacity of understanding. In short, I cannot show off... XD

Anyway, I do not care much about it, as long as I get the experience as a teacher and understand what a teacher's life is about.

Based on what I experienced today, being a teacher, the experience was simply new, fresh and incredible. I earned the respect from the students wherever I was, no matter I was in the class or walking at the corridors. "Good morning, sir!" or “老师早” was what ceaselessly bombarded my ears this whole morning. Best of all, at the corridors, I encountered some students, who bowed and greeted me! To be honest, I enjoyed it, I felt like the King of the World!

However, based on the experience I had when I was teaching the students, frankly, it was simply appalling... To put it simply, an equation can tell how I feel, KIDS = MONKEYS. I do not intend to offend anyone, but this is my true feeling. The students................. Sigh, mere words cannot fully describe the actual situation. I just could not tolerate their damn childish (I know they are kids but this is the only word I can describe) and ridiculous behaviours, like asking and talking nonsense. Well, at least this experience makes me realise that I am not suitable to be a primary school teacher.

Well, I think this is all for now. I am going to bed as I still have to go to school tomorrow. If I have any other interesting stories to tell, I will write in this blog again. Good night and see you again! ^^

Life as a Tutor

I have been a tutor for nearly 2 months. I was offerred such a job by my former tutor, Mr. Ooi. Currently, I am teaching Physics and English. In Sabak Bernam, I am teaching Physics to four Form 4 students; in Sungai Besar, I am teaching English to 1 Form 4 student and 2 Form 5 students.

Well, I do not have any teaching experience. So, I just follow what I think that is right to teach the students. So far, everything is just fine. No one complains that I cannot teach well or he/she does not understand my lesson. Maybe you might think that the students dare not to voice out their dissatisfaction, but I have to stress that, there used to be a tutor (who is a friend of mine) being complained by the students and he was stopped by Mr. Oos to teach those students. Then, I replace him instead and am teaching till now. I do not mean that I teach better than my friend. I believe that it is simply because I am talkative. Because I am talkactive, when I am teaching them a particular concept, I can talk like hell till their faces are fully engulfed by my saliva. This might be the reason that the students think I can probably teach them well and hence, I can continue my life as a tutor.

Giving private tuition is not easy, especially for me, who is a STPM leaver and waiting for entering institutions of higher learning. Many people might think that it is just "give and take", but in actual fact, it it much more than that. You have to do revision to recall everything you had learnt before; you have to ensure that they really understand what you attempt to deliver; you have to convince them that you can help them; and more importantly, you have to make sure that you know how to solve every question, so that you will not be embarassed by your inability to solve a question in front of a few pairs of eyes, sparkling with amusement. Most of all, you must have the courage to speak in front of a group of students.

Life as a tutor so far is not that good for me, because the income I get is too little. Of late, I have been frequently bombarded by my mum that I could have earned more if I could listen to her advice and go to work part-time in KL... Indeed, I am slightly regretted for not listening to my mum. However, I do get an invaluable experience that many people might not have till they die - teaching. And I enjoy the process to make the students understand a particular scientific fact and to see their improvement. Teaching, bravo!

My D-day on 25th of Feb

Tomorrow, which is 25th of Feb, is my D-day - STPM results will be released then... Damn nervous! My heart is pounding strongly when I am thinking of it. Tomorrow, I am sure I will be busy with ceaseless phone calls with the same question- "How many As you get?" Arghhhhh... leave me alone!

Happy CNY

Happy Chinese New Year~~~

Chinese New Year Today

I don't know why, as I grow older, I start to find that Chinese New Year (CNY) is getting more boring and the atmosphere is not that energetic as that I felt when I was a kid. Perhaps, I am no longer active and energetic like a child.

Back in the days when I was still a wee kid in Sabak Bernam, when CNY approached, I was so happy and excited. There were so many things I could do. I could visit my friend's house and get ang pao from his/her parent; I could meet my cousins in Sg. Besar and played with them. etc. Now, being a mature teenager doesn't allow me to do these activities any longer. The best thing I can do is just to gather with my friends and have tea together, that's all.

Besides, my friends and relatives have grown older, they are also not as active as before. They also have their own activities especially dating. This might be the factor that makes the atmosphere of CNY get dull...

My Life After STPM

Halcyon moment does not last long. Two weeks in Singapore finally came to an end. I was coming back to Malaysia. At the moment I set foot in Sungai Besar, my dull life began...


Part-time job will be a part of my life after STPM. Initially, I had applied for GSTT, that was a programme for STPM leavers and U fresh graduates to teach in primary schools temporarily. I really desired to get this job as I had slight interest in teaching. However, I failed to get the job... That was the second time I failed to involve in the teaching profession. Well, it is your loss not to let me teach, because I have the passion to teach and my passion is much higher than those candidates you have chosen, I believe.


Nevertheless, a miracle appeared in my life. I lost the job to teach in a primary school, but I got another job that also needed me to educate the younger generations - a tutor. Thanks God!

I am now a tutor who teaches SPM physics and English, still busy getting more students and hence opening more classes. I also wish to try to teach additional mathematics, mathematics and chemistry. Hopefully my dream will come true~

At the same time I am taking great pains to get more classes, I am also helping my mum to look after the shop. All these routines really exhaust me thoroughly. Sigh...

Vacation in Singapore

After I had finished my STPM on 10th of Dec, 2009, as usual, I would go to Singapore to celebrate Christmas with my relatives. Previously, I normally went there alone, but last year, I was no longer alone, I went to Singapore with my family and it was so exciting.

So, on 23rd, we left Sungai Besar for Singapore at about 10.30 am by an express bus. In Singapore, we celebrated Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year and also, we went to many interesting tourist spots in Singapore. Well, mere words are hard to describe what I did and where I went, in the Lion City. Photos always paint a thousand words.

Welcome to Vincent's Blog World Again!!!

Phew~~~ Once I have finished my STPM, actually I was supposed to enjoy and relax, but it turned out that I was busy for many things - looking after my shop, preparing for a two-week trip to Singapore, and looking for a part-time job. All these busy routines have made me too tired to indulge myself in my own world...

Now, I am back! 2009 has past and it is 2010. Welcome to Vincent's blog world again! There are so many things that I want to tell and to express. I want to tell about my vacation in Singapore, my recent life, and so forth. Details? Kindly go to my next blog, thanks~ =)