Children's Day

Well well well... I finally got enough free time to update this blog. What have I been doing? Oh nothing much... besides setting an exam paper, preparing for a NIE assignment, marking books, preparing for Children's Day item, performing in a wedding, that is. My beloved PS2 has been neglected for a long time. I think she's gonna file for divorce soon. Darn...

On Children's Day, it was chaos for some of the items. Not all of us have time to actually run through our items. Someone in the group is always missing. My lindy hop item is the first item of the show, so we have the duty to raise the bar for this whole show, and I think we did quite a good job, and we actually had FUN doing it! :) The fun part about performing for students is that the younger ones just keep on waving their hands to their teacher on stage, like their biggest fan. For the other last minute items, some turned out to be quite good, while the rest, well, at least we hoped that the kids are too young to tell the flaws. :P

The supposed grand item is the finale, where all the spoof celebrities just went on stage one by one and just do whatever until the music ends (yes, it's THAT simple). We got Britney Sneers (spoofing Britney Spears), Buay Paiseh (Beyonce), Powder Bluff Girls (Powerpuff Girls), Bruise (Blue), Ta (S.H.E.), Front Stones (Flintstones). Too bad I got no photos for this extravaganza, as all of us were at backstage going, "Who's going out next huh? What's going on?". Well, what the heck? We're not out to win awards anyway. :P

My school's parents support group is always very impressive when helping us organize this kind of events. They actually bought KFC mashed potatoes and Pizza Hut pizzas for all the kids. Mind you, the pizza slices are bigger than some of the kids' faces! That led to some wastage, which was a shame, really.

I was assigned to look after my P1 kids, so I brought along my cam. :) When I asked them how was the show, all they could say was, "Eeee... you danced with a GIRL!!! Eeee..." It's a girl's school thing, I guess...

This gal is not bad in nature, but it's just so hard to teach her the lesson of communal living. Sometimes after I bark at her, she would stop talking/playing/fidgeting, but would be back doing it again after 2 mins. She would try to act cute to get away when I really looked mad. Then there are times when she would come to me to double check on the homework I've given out, or to let me check her homework corrections. Can't tell from this pic that she's a troublemaker, eh?

Troublemaker #1 

Now this is a major headache. She displays no sense of remorse whether I talk sense with her or scold her. No homework ever come out from her. Then, she lies. Her classmates alienate her. She spits at them whenever they make the slightest remark about her. All teachers know about her. What annoys me is that during spelling, after I read the question, she'd say, "SO EASY!" Then her spelling would get less than 30. Her background is a sad story though. Parents divorced, now living with her dad who comes home late, and her grandma. Both can't help her with Chinese. Recently I've been calling her mom and dad, and I think she's starting to make progress. At least, I get to collect her work nowadays...

Troublemaker #2 


Freaky Bunny (and kids love it!) 


Kids with their pizza and mashed potato 


Savouring the food... 


Spot the BIG KID! 


Clamouring for the camera! 


Even I can't resist the camera :P 


Kids will be Kids :) 


My P3 Kids 

The parents also prepared a sumptuous meal for the teachers after the children went home. Some of us were dead tired, but as you can see from this pic, there's a kid in all of us. :P

Even teachers become playful on Children's Day 

I actually asked a friend to help me baked cookies for my kids as their Children's Day gift. It was phenomenal! I even gave out the crumbs to them. Hehe... now that's a tough act to top next year...