Sunday, August 10, 2008
/ 10:37 PM
Fireworks on tv for two consecutive nights. Not much excitement when I saw the fireworks. Even when I have 3.5 consecutive rest days, I have not much of holiday mood. Have been marking assignments and preparing assignments for the past two days. And this reminds me, I have yet to complete the online progress reports for my students. Maybe I should really give myself a break tomorrow.
I have tortured him today. He looked damn scared whenever I wanna carry him. Not very comfortable, I guess. Haha. Seriously, I can't imagine having a child of my own. Heavy responsibilities. In school, I have been seeing so many students, and I guess I don't wanna go home at the end of the day to nag at my own child. Well well, maybe it is a different story when maternity instinct kicks in. Well well.
I think the phone's camera is quite good. Better than the old one. Haha. So I'll take more random photos with it in future.
I wanna stay up late into the night. Coz once I sleep and wake up, it is one day nearer to the end of this long weekend. Sounds sad, isn't it. It is not a good sign that I'm beginning to dread teaching at such an early stage. My classmates were asking if I am depressed to teach Sec 2s, whose work is like damn trivial. Sigh. I guess no matter how bored I am, I still want to make my lessons as interesting to my students as possible. And I still hope that I can help them do well and promote to Sec 3.
I better get in touch with some real math before I downgrade my brain cells to those that can only solve trivial pythagoras problems. I'm thinking that, maybe I should pick up nonlinear programming for fun? And maybe some game theory? :) Well well, I need to find time to study. Yawn.
Wanted to go Hong Kong in September. Looks like I have to postpone the plan. I have to go back to give remedial to my Sec 3 kiddos. They are like super behind time. Hmm. Perhaps my lessons aren't really very effective.
Some photos of my nephew, who is 2 months old.
I have tortured him today. He looked damn scared whenever I wanna carry him. Not very comfortable, I guess. Haha. Seriously, I can't imagine having a child of my own. Heavy responsibilities. In school, I have been seeing so many students, and I guess I don't wanna go home at the end of the day to nag at my own child. Well well, maybe it is a different story when maternity instinct kicks in. Well well.
Yet to collect my scroll from NUS. Must find one day to drop by and visit my gohie. Wonder if he has any new honours student. Haha. I still remember the old days when he had more than 10 students approaching him, and he got to turn down majority of them. He is such a nice teacher. :)
Sometimes, it really brightened up my day when my high ability students came to tell me that they wanna push themselves to achieve greater heights. On the other hand, I don't wanna whip them to hard such that they have little time for other subjects. Anyway, some of them are beginning to think that math is fun. Perhaps their idea of fun is equivalent to easy. In fact, the real fun in math is attempting difficult problems and solving them. I hope they'll enjoy the fun in Sec 3, when the content difficulty is a big leap from that of Sec 2.
Since I'm pretty motivated now, I shall do a search on the notes. :)
