Meeting with math friends

Today, met my first case when a student cried. She was sad coz her pet was missing for a day. Really did not know what to do then, coz there was not much i could help if she remained sad. Juz prayed together with her (as she is a Christian as well). May God help her and comfort her as well.

In the evening, went to meet up with Eugene, Chongjie, Kayjin at the esplanade. Wang Fei wanted to join, but could not wait for a bus (to think SBS is going to revamp the service!) so in the end, he forgo the meeting. Sad Faizal, Jasper and KCM can't join us too...

Anyway had a good time. Found out that Kayjin will be going scotland for his pHD...all the best for his life down there... indeed once we are working...the things we said changed. 2 yrs back, we were still talking about fields, rings, groups, complex numbers etc.... now it is teaching, financial planning, and life of other friends....wah..time flies.... all the best for Eugene and the new batch of NIE trainees, as well as Chongjie and his batch of practicum trainees....

Busy with work...life must go on...

Math fun

haha..have been bombarded the same pictures from more than 5 friends..so i guess it's good if i can share to my blog readers!

An interesting website on math created by fellow math lover Eugene...

http://www.mathpoint.blogspot.com/

So much thought provoking ideas.

Beautiful class

Glad that my form class finally decided on something that is nice and lovely --- a class T-shirt...
So happy that they are bonded... hmm maybe this applies for the majority...but nevertheless bonded...

Another of my class is also nice... though not very strong in math...they are willing to buck up and spend the extra effort...so happy as well...

Life is full of ups and downs.....

On a grander scale...really hope things will turn out well in the Middle East...the whole world is anticipating...

Just another day in school (part 2)

Just checked on the previously mentioned blog... it was deleted! =)

Very Happy... there is hope in the students after all =)

Just another day in school

A colleague on mine ask, "How come you never update your blog these few days?" haha... yeah... i realized that ... so i'm updating! haha...i guess that once you started getting used to a system.. there is nothing much you can write about ...

Or is it so?

Every since i step into this school, there are always things to write about ... life is beyond monotony... everyday is an interesting fact of life...

First lesson: I taught about an equation to my students:

Aptitude + Attitude = Altitude

Aptitude is God-given, but Attitude can be trained ... hopefully they will understand it in time to come.

Came across another class joke ... one male student, posing another classmate, wrote a romantic blog in the web describing a girl in the same class.... talked to the girl and the guy who was being posed... and also the whole class... never stopped them coz all the parties involved and the whole class just treated it as a harmless fun kind and entertainment... haha..but i still find it quite lame and wu liao... hope they will grow up of it in due time :)

May-ann's birthday --- an ex-crusader's outing

LAst night went to May Ann's birthday bash at City hall...but really, it was more of an ex-crusaders' (arts) outing, with some Science and Engin elements...haha anyway really glad this blessed sister of ours.... take time to re-connect us...

Many of us have been working for 3-4 yrs liao..ever since our university days... but some things never changed... if May Ann never organized such events...may be the the next time i meet with them might be someone's wedding liao...haha. Glad to catch up with so many friends...

May Ann with a group of us...

The table that I was sitting

The table that i was sitting with my face more clearly

The whole group!!! (except for me...haha..left due to a terrible sore throat thanks to school's outing on Friday..haha)

Went to read a few of my student's blog...wow..amazingly one managed to track down which JC i was thru google...haha... hmm...will see how well they managed to track this blog before i disclose to them. :)

School at east coast

Today went to East coast for cross country and racial harmony celebrations...

Ran..wah super slow...wanna faint liao..haha...although nvr stopped (except to tie shoe lace once)..but still super slow...sure die during IPPT test one..haha

Then later in the morning...saw the great milo truck!!! yeah...in fact funny thing happen...students were sprinting to the milo truck, and when the milo truck was moving in circles in the carpark..students sprinted too...haha...so got brain wave liao

How to help students pass their 2.4km?
Haha drive a milo truck at 15 km/h in front of them!!
The sure gurantee to pass one!

After the jog, racial harmony celebration started.
Played tug-of-war with my form class against other classes...
Had 4-5 matches...won only the first one...haha..lost the rest...
Well, can't blame my class, no overweight people ... haha..all very thin (so can run very fast)
Anyway..shout shout scream until lost voice liao

Then had their first unofficial class photo.

After the games was the wrap up... hmm... then they asked me and Mr Chai (their last sem's form teacher) to their afternoon activities...to go mac for lunch....had their 2nd informal class photo taken...

Then cycled for 2 hrs with them..yeah...!!! When asked...some said that this was the very first class outing, since joining the school for 1 1/2 yrs...

I'm happy that today, they showed lots of class spirit (which was rather weak in the past). In fact when one student lost his friend's wallet..the whole class went to look for it...hopefully, they will continue to bond together and have many happy memories together.

back to NUS science

Today went to NUS science with nicky after school... yeah...later managed to catch the famous claypot muttion and claypot yong tau foo....wow...really yum yum! Met Minghui, Xiong Dan too...time flies...now they are concentrating on their post grad!

After that hopped over to PGP to meet the crusaders at blast off camp...so old liao...i am like year 7 liao...but glad that are so many people in blast off camp...may the new freshmen like Zhiliang and Amelia have a great start under God's leading...

Ah Beng's Dictionary

For Singlish lovers out there...

GORGES
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* adj. stunningly beautiful
Eg. 'That guy is gorges!'

BEACH
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* noun. a derogatory term for a disliked woman
Eg. 'That Nancy is such a beach, man!'

CORAL
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* verb. 1. to bicker
Eg. 'Want to coral, is it?'

CORAL REEF
Ah Beng's dictionary
* 2. to argue with
Eg. 'Want to coral reef me, is it?'

DAM
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* noun. a swear word to express disgust or dismay
Eg. 'Dam it, call her go zook, she dun wan.'

VALLEY
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* adverb. extremely
Eg. 'That Versachee belt, valley nice!'

THERMOMETER
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* phrase. to meet the next day
Eg. 'Mary say thermometer at Taka.'

LATITUDE
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* adjective. a disagreeable demeanour
Eg. 'She really got latitude problem man!'

CIRRUS
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* adjective. certain
Eg. 'Cirrus or not? Dun bluff!'

CANOPY
Ah Beng's dictionary meaning
* phrase. impossible (cannot be)
Eg. 'He bought new handphone? Canopy!'

Life getting more interesting

Teaching becomes more interesting now... really begin to see the fun side in my new school...

Some cute comments from students... dunno wanna laff or cry...

"Cher...the assignments given are too hard! even my tuition teacher also dunno how to do!"
"Wah...explain this step in my assignment ah? dunno ler...my tuition teacher do one..."
"Cannot clean our classroom ah...classroom no broom!"
"Wah..why never grade our assignments? We want them graded! else we no motivation to do..."
"Wah..test ah? yeeeeaaaaahhhhh!"

Anyway in the evening met up with Yen Sinn and Tim. Got to see Yen Sinn's cute little gal! wow... my NUS DG mate now a dad! time really flies...sad that both Tim and Yen Sinn going overseas for studies...May God bless them in their studies.

CIP for school

Yesterday, went back to school...coz of a CIP (community involvement programme) involving some ppl from NUS, year 2 students from my school, as well as friends from MINDS. The NUS students and year 2 students from my school are supposed to set up stalls like a carnival, as well as bringing friends from MINDS to walk about, and to play...super fun... hope that students from my school will learn to interact and understand better people who are less fortunate than them.

There were some incidents yeaterday that really ask me to think about eduation or values that society has let our young ones to think...

Firstly, I saw some year 1s in my school (even though they are not supposed to be present) grabbing food on the buffet table (that is meant for the year 2s and NUS students as our friends from MINDs were served happy meal instead) even though many of the NUS students as well as the year 2 students had not eaten! i mean, if there is leftover food, by all means go eat them... but shouldnt they be more considerate?

Secondly, all though most of our students were helpful (I'm really glad to see them attempting to interact with friends from MINDS), there is this small group of students who juz bochap everything, sat at one corner just to sms?? This really saddens us, for where is the heart for people among our young ones?

Despite these 2 incidents, I really see that the event is really well organized, and I do sincerely believe that many of our students are able to take home memories from this event. Well done to the organizers.

NIE Graduation 06

Yup...finally graduated from NIE...new beginning for us new teachers. Below are a few shots that I took with various people along the way.

Me with Yong Zhi, fellow NUS crusaders ...

After ceremony, yeah eating of food

Me and Practicum buddy yeah Eng Hwa

Me and Mdm Tan, Sec 1 teacher (now NIE lecturer)

Me and NIE buddies Mat, Huifen, Xinyi, June, Qinning, Wendy

Me and Ms Yeo's Math classmates

Me and NIE cell grp buddies David and Jogi

Me, Wendy and Dr Ho

Congratulations to all my NIE peers. All the best to your future endeavours!

Math Question

Today inspired to formulate one math question for factorization.

Without using remainder theorem, factorize completely:
1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + x^5

Haha... a totally genius work of masterpiece! :)

Pains of National Service

Tonight attended yet another wedding..this time a banquet...

With me on the same table was a good friend, jeremy... still serving his national service...

Ah..the apprehension he felt today...his anxiety... ah was similar that i felt years ago when i was still serving NS...

time ticked by as the dinner courses were slowly served...

time ticked by as book-in timing seem nearer to nearer...

"Will I be able to eat one more dish? Can I make it back before the book in timing?"

Ah.... the pains of National Service...the pains of attending a wedding dinner on Sunday night...

Superman Returns

Watched Superman returns today.... as what the critics show... plot quite boring, and it's a bit too long ... more of a tribute to the old superman shows (where superman continue to gek sei (act handsome), even when he was exposed to Kryptonite).







However, what touched upon my heart is the statement from Superman's supposedly deceased father, Jo-el. "... For this, I sent down my only son, to the planet earth, to show them the light." Wow, very messiaic ... about someone being the saviour of mankind. Even when Superman flew Lois Lane up into the sky, and asked, "What did you listen?" Lois replied, "Nothing." Superman continued, "To you, nothing...but to me, millions of people asking for a saviour."

Wow, and superman continued to do his heroics.

Indeed, I too can feel this world needs a saviour. Everyday, millions of people crying for help, be it fighting against illnesses, depression, poverty, wars, natural disasters, sins. Superman, at most, can only do a little, yet brought hope to many in metropolis ... but God has gave us His only son, Jesus, that thru him, we can be saved and have hope of eternal happiness. Don't you agree?

DISCover yourself

Today, I got my very own name card!!! yeah!!! Became more like a working adult liao.

Set for the DISC personality test in the afternoon too. In fact, half the teachers in my school went for it. Discover our personality and style of doing things. We can be categorized into 4 main personality types

D- Dominance
I- Influence
S- Steadiness
C- Conscientious.

For more info, check out http://www.discprofile.com/whatisdisc.htm

I was reminded that in a team, we really need people of diverse personality so that we are able to compliment our strengths and weaknesses together. It is good for people around you to know your personality type to so that they are able to be more senstive to your needs, and allow areas for which for you to develop to your potential.

Plaza Sing - A place for Crusaders...

Today organized a wonderful get together for science crusaders to meet up with Tim, who just came back from studies in Australia. People who attended were fellow crusaders YenSinn (yeah finally met him again after more than a year!), Tim, Glenn and Luz, Jason, Eunice, Kat, Mingyu, me, Wenyang, and later Tat and Zibing! yeah! Thank God for the fellowship, and the sumptuous meal at Mahattan Fish Market!

Haha, but the happening thing is that before this meet up, at Plaza Sing, we met other crusaders in Plaza Sing, who were there one reason or another.

We saw Hui En and some of her mission trippers back from Thailand (finally!)
We saw Lindee and Hansel. I think they are meeting some other crusaders.
We saw Irene. She was there meeting Kat for a while.
We saw Merlyn...haha saw her finally after she was married.

Haha seems like seeing lots of crusaders...past and present in Plaza Sing....
Dun we haf other places to meet up???!! :P

My church anniversary

Happy 26th Anniversary Little Flock Church!

The sunday school kids before their performance

The main service .. congregation

Sunday school skit

More of the skit

Youths/ Young Adults performing

Birthday cake

Auntie Mary blowing the cake

Buffet dinner and fellowship

Kids eating at the basketball court

So glad to celebrate my church anniversary once again... yup it has been my church since young. A small family church, so not many people will know about it. But will want to say more about it here...

Name: Little Flock Int'l Church

Address: 10 Seng Poh Road (Using SANA Christian Counselling Servies) premises (So it's near tiong bahru and outram mrt)

Worship Time: Every Sunday 2pm

Population size: 40-50 people (small and family size, but definitely not exclusive! We welcome all!)

Why I am here: 28 yrs ago ... my dad came to know about God in this church coz God cured him of a terrible migraine. That's how my whole family came here... a few years later, my dad was almost killed or paralysed badly in a terrible car accident, but God saved him, with lots of love and prayer support from this church. Thus that is how my whole family is still in this church ever since. :)

Oh yah, thru out this blog i usually say about attending another cell group from another chinese church. yup! i certainly do...and I love those people too! (Who says Christians must stick to only one church or christian organization? haha. We must be where God wants us to be ... but LFC will still be my main church)

World Cup 06 thus far

Wow...after last night, hot fave Brazil and popular team England now exits world cup... haha...this proves one thing... the ball is round...anything can happen inside a soccer field...

Now we have Italy vs Germany, and Portugal vs France.

My personal analysis (though not logical...but still..)

Germany will win the world cup!!! Reasons as follows:
1) German mafia at work ... referees of those matches beware! :P
2) Klinnsman is the coach! (No experience...so no other coaches will be able to read his games)
3) As what Klose said, "It's bad luck for teams to meet Germany before the finals!" (Though they could only beat Argentina during the penalty shoot-outs)
4) Good publicity for World Cup Committee ... since more countries will die die want to volunteer to host the World Cup liao (France hosted and won 1998 world cup, South Korea co-hosted and got very far as an Asian team in the 2002 world cup)

Haha... the whole world waits for the semi-finals to begin...

Revival Song - Korean

This is a very inspiring Korean Christian Song I recently came across. May God revive our land once again.

復興 -韓國敬拜讚美

復興

天父上帝求你醫治眷顧
這荒涼的土地
因你是施恩憐憫的主
懇求你赦免我們的罪孽
求主醫治這土地
如今我們同心合意懇求
當你重新建造
這被毀根基的時候
求賜下聖靈的火焚燒
除去我們所拜偶像

懇求你賜下點燃復興的聖火
以真理話語來更新這土地
你恩典江河活水湧流不盡
讓聖靈的風吹在這地
哦！主　賜下充滿榮耀
你的新日子
哦！主　願你國度降臨
充滿全地

天父上帝求你醫治眷顧
這荒涼的土地
因你是施恩憐憫的主
懇求你赦免我們的罪孽
求主醫治這土地
如今我們同心合意懇求
當你重新建造
這被毀根基的時候
求賜下聖靈的火焚燒
除去我們所拜偶像

懇求你賜下點燃復興的聖火
以真理話語來更新這土地
你恩典江河活水湧流不盡
讓聖靈的風吹在這地
哦！主　賜下充滿榮耀你的新日子
哦！主　願你國度降臨充滿全地

懇求你賜下點燃復興的聖火
以真理話語來更新這土地
你恩典江河活水湧流不盡
讓聖靈的風吹在這地
哦！主　賜下充滿榮耀你的新日子
哦！主　願你國度降臨充滿全地 充滿全地

Really sick

Sick for the past 3 days liao...sighz...doctor said it's stomach flu...yeah..i think so too..can't even eat solid food..else tummy will have sharp pain...haha..and it's only the 1st week of school!!!

Thank God nothing much around in school for the last few days..or else HOD might think I slack... thank God for nice colleagues who cover my duties... thanks so much! ... Supposed to bring my form class to national satadium on saturday ... supposed to attend cell group on saturday, supposed to help aunt move her stuffs on saturday.... hahha..but right now quarantined at home liao...never mind..at least liangmeng coming to my place to visit me..haha...or rather put his bike here...

Just read Psalm 41, really a great encouragement to those who are sick...even though David was sick and his friends turned against him...he still trusted in the LORD.... And history states that David became triumphant!