one down, four more to go

Holidays bring out the laziness in human being. If there is a person who would do a research about the former sentence, they are likely to find the truth to that sentence. I don't know if there is a direct link between laziness and holiday or if there is a secret cell in our brains that becomes dysfunctional during the holidays. Whatever it is, I could be one of the case study because there is only a few days left before this hols end it is so embarrassing to think of how I reminded the kids to do their homework and yet I have yet to finish marking their exam papers *blush* *blush*.

I have just started the marking marathon earlier this evening and it was just so hard to resist the temptation to put down the red pen and go surfing the internet instead, or taking a *cough (long) cough* nap. Gimme a break, I was fasting.

Thank God I have a younger brother to boss around. He helps me in marking the objective papers (and has only managed to complete marking 2 classes out of 5 but nevermind, who's complaining). While I strive to mark the essay papers. They didn't write long but it is such a hassle to determine which category they fall under. High C, average C, low C, high D? And so forth *take note that I didn't list neither A nor B because sadly, my students have a long way to go before they would be able to reach that level of awesome-ness :(* Each category has their own criterion and I found myself constantly referring to these criterion in deciding their marks so that's why it took longer to finish marking the whole class.

Anyhoos,

I've completed marking one class. There is only 4 more to go. I think it's time to bribe my brother yet again.

makes you ponder

It's Sunday today and most people would have to go back to work tomorrow (if you're not, I guess that makes you abnormal? ekks. Let's call you special). I'm not going to make you green with envy by stressing how I, the fabulous me who works as an English teacher, who finds constant struggle in making the students realise that it's OK not to understand each English vocabularies because that's what dictionaries are for and who is still trying to adapt to working lifestyle (it's an everyday battle!), is on 2 weeks uber awesome holidays and tomorrow is a no-work-let's play day for me, again :P I know how stressful Sundays can be because at the back of our mind, there's this thought of another week of war at work that's gonna start tomorrow. I hear that laughter is the best medicine, even for fatal diseases. Perhaps, it lightens the misery? Even cracking a smile could put a dampen mood at rest and makes you feel better. So I am here trying to feed you some food for your funny bones (not that bones could eat, but I love to create new idioms and pharal verbs. You should listen to my B. Melayu ones, they are off the hook I tell you!). Sit back and indulge, luves!

1. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
2. How can 'You're so cool' and 'You're not so hot' be different?
3. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
4. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
5. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
6. If one goose becomes two geese, why doesn't one moose becomae two meese?
7. Although the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, we must be grateful for small mercies of the language that the feminine pronouns after 'She' don't become 'Shis' and 'Shim'.
8. If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?

her new toy.

She finally got hold of her new toy, which she had been dreaming about aggressively for days :) It was quite a winding road for her to finally own this latest gadget of hers. She was so happy to buy it I could literally see her floating all the way from the exit of the shop to her car.



Isn't it a beauty? I'm so glad she could finally buy it, that it is finally in-stock and she managed to grab one before she goes back to Sarawak. I know how it feels to really want something and not being able to get it (and settling for second best, to make matter worse). It sucks big time! So it was such a relief that she didn't has to settle for second best :) Jaga baik2 lah makcik plis the laptop tuh ko jgn ganas2! I expect to see that black beauty of yours in a great condition when you come back here in August.

BTW, the hols is going by smoothly so far. Some things didn't turn out how I wanted them to; there were some rendezvous that didn't happen in the end but I guess there's always next time. More time to concentrate on marking the students' paper then! (all I need now is to actually start marking the papers though).

I'm so glad I managed to see my nee chan and hugged her. Even just for a fraction of time. It was so brief! But I was overjoyed nonetheless :) And it made my weekend too when my goldfish came all the way to accompany me to a friend's wedding and drive us to KL, all in a day. It must be super exhausting and all these makes my heart grows fonder towards my goldfish.

"great".

The twitter says it all. I have been feeling rather blue since early this weekend. Plans that I had in mind withered one after another. Probably one of my lowest lows for this year. And what happened just now did not do much in helping me to cope with my distress.

I hope tomorrow's gonna be better.
Or else, I might have to resort to shopping and by that I meant crazy ass shopping.

I'm shouting on top of my lung asking for the holidays to come FAST!

If there is a way on how to make the days go by faster, I would be willing to pay RM 10 for it (oh gaji masuk lambat lagik, so mane buleh spend lavishly). I am, honestly, quite frankly, am sick of waking up for rows of several days (and this includes my precious weekends - last week had to be the scorer for softball mssj on both saturday & sunday. oh yay.) and go to a place where I am doomed to carry out the work that has been a routine it is fast becoming stale. My heart is rapidly becoming bitter and I constantly found myself cursing under my breath when my classroom management didn't work its magic. Or when it came to my realisation that the typical lesson works better (in terms of keeping the students behaved because they would be busy copying down the notes aways or they'll be late for recess/go back home) than those fun lessons that I tried to organize for them. It certainly doesn't help either when the body seems not to be willing to cooperate with me and works at its perks. I have been bitten by the fever bug so I am now feverish. Somewhat.

This weekend won't be nice and easy too. There would be another (effing) LDP (Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan - it's like a kursus for us teachers, that is held in our school. Minimum 0f 6/8 in a year) on Saturday. I would still be going back home tho on Saturday. The most days of being in BP without losing my sanity is 14 days. That much, I have discovered. And I still have that mountain of question papers to be stapled together. Hundreds of them and I know just who would be the victim *coughs* I meant, helper. My 16-year-old just-coming-of-age brother.

I just can't wait for next Friday to come. Go back, say goodbye sucker *slaps self* students for I won't be seeing you for 2 weeks (distance makes the heart goes fonder) and have a rejuvenating holiday. I won't be going anywhere fancy unlike last year's mid year break but this time around it would still be fun nonetheless, with anticipated rendezvous with friends and dates with my goldfish. I want, I want, I want! So I'm shouting on top of my lung, May 29, please come fast.!