Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Warning: Long entry ahead
[Photos, photos, and more photos]
I was looking back at my previous entry. *GASP!*
The last entry was more than a month ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gosh. I mean, I know I haven't been blogging for awhile. OK, make that a looooooooong while. But I didn't realise it was THAT long ago since I last blog....
Oh wellz....lots of things had happened. As usual, I was busy. The reason (for those of you who are concerned and wondering what happened to me) for my long absence was simple: my internet connection was cut off, and my busy mum was too busy to get it reconnect back by giving payment to starhub cable.
Anyway, since I haven't blog for soooo long, I have quite a number of photos to show you people!
First up....staff retreat on 12-13th April:
We went to Pulai Springs at JB for the staff retreat. Nice resort that we stayed in, as there are two bedrooms in our room, and a living room to watch tv. We can even watch Singapore channels, just that most of the time we were not in the room to watch anyway. Of course, as usual, there was a dinner and dance. On the whole, the experience was quite fun, as it certainly beats staying at the centre!
P/S: Pardon me for the poor photo quality. I am still purchasing my photoshop!
Yeah, ME lah, being vain, showing off my so called "Latino" outfit for the dinner and dance. Just like what the CEO of our NTUC childcare said...it is a STUPID theme.
Me and pretty Lina...She looked more korean than latino on that day. Who cares???? As long as she looks good!
Me, the k1 teacher, Lina the k2 teacher, and Lakshmi, the nursery teacher. Together, we are the CCK unit learning gang!LOL!! And lakshmi looks so pretty that day:) (Probably cos' I never see her in the Indian costume before.)
The whole NTUC Childcare CCK staff! Note: Look at P/S above.
Me and my godsister, Teacher Lay Hoon:)
Me and my partner in crime *hehe*. She is my k1 darlings' chinese teacher, thus, my partner in crime:)
That's abt all the photos I have for my staff retreat...coming up next...the labour day outing with the Shawl Girls!!!! I finally got to meet up ah meow!!
And *Sobs*, I just realised that Jes hasn't sent me some photos...so the photos I have are more or less the same, and hence, I only uploaded two photos:( Still, I have to tell you that we took the photos at Starbucks and Minds Cafe separately.
Me and the exotically pretty ah meow!!!! At Starbucks cafe:)
The Shawl Girls!!!! Hahahaha:)
Well....when Jes sent me the photos and I send her what I have, I can upload the rest:)
Anyway, the following are two photos that I have taken with some of my sec sch best and close pals:)
From left: Pretty and career woman KaiNi, cute Clara and plain ol' me!
From left, clockwise direction: Weng yan, Suqi, KaiNi, Hui(otherwise known as Clara) and me!
This outing was at IMM. I am grateful to have this bunch of true friends as they remind me of the better times during my sec sch, and that not all of the people from my sec sch were fake and befriend you for a motive or backstabbers.
Enough of showing all the photos of my friends and outings...now I am going to show you something really interesting and touching (at least to me, it is.) that my children did. Or rather, a child in my class did.
As you know, working as a childcare teacher, I will receive gifts from time to time from the children. Of course, teachers' day I will receive more, but on usual days I do as well. Sometimes I receive drawings from children (the k1s) cos the toddlers and playgrp are too young to do any drawings. Anyway, below are some of the things that I have received before:
Given during my attachment days...
Ditto...
These are things that of course, as a teacher, I am touched. As long as the children give me something, I will be touched and keep them, NO MATTER WHAT THEY GIVE. (Yes, cos' they are all sweet and sensible children, so none of them will give me RUBBISH, if those of you who were wondering whether I will keep rubbish if the children give it to me.) Hence, I have a whole collection of drawings that I have no idea where to stall them now, since there are so many of them.
However, below is the most unusual gift I have received:
Guess what is it???
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Ta-dah!!!!!!!
Surprise??? (Congrats to those who have guessed it, but no prizes).
This was given to me by one of the girls in my class. She insisted on bringing it for me just because I said I like barbie dolls. I was very touched.
So moral of the story is, be careful of telling the children that you teach what you like or what you wish for. They just might get you that.
That's abt all...
Joyce Kho Ming Zhen ♥
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