Yep, so technically this blogpost should be titled yesterday at school, cos its one day late. Its 1.20am now. Haha, anyway, 'today' was a really bad day at school for our class, at least. All the teachers seemed to be pissed at our class for one reason or another. I mean, its not that bad if its just one teacher, but almost all in one day is just...bad.
First period was english. Basically, we had a change of english teachers, cos our last teacher had to leave school for a term or so, and now we have a new teacher. When I say new, I really mean new. Newly graduated and inexperienced. I dont mean to be offensive, but he really should improve on his engagement with students during lesson. He's like afriad of us or something, and just yabbers away, without making sure we are even following. (Mrs Ong is much better at this..."are you with me?", haha) Anyway, back to my point, so we started getting bored and when students get bored, they start looking for something else to do, and that is to talk. But he got unhappy towards the end of the lesson and slamed his hand on the table. (that must have hurt) And told us to pay attention in a really loud voice. Speaking truthfully, Im guessing that he has a really bad impression of our school students.
Chemistry. Also the same for CLE. Mr Koh was just pissed that quite a number of us didnt go for his chemistry lesson yesterday. I went obviously, but quite a number didnt. Let me explain. It was supposed to be RE period yesterday, but now that RE has sort of stopped, teachers were free to take the lesson for themselves. Mr Koh told our class that he has taken the lesson, and we were going to have a combined lesson with 4R. The only difference was the instructions given. For them it was: "compulsory", for us it was: "compulsory, but if you are not keen, I wont force you". Yep so some people though Mr Koh wasnt serious when he said that it was compulsory, and didnt go. And only about 1/3 of our class went. Im going to see it from 2 angles.
For those who didnt go, they misunderstood what Mr Koh meant. And some people thought that it was a remedial lesson. And some think that since the school wants us to be independent learners, they should be given a choice to not go if they think they are good enough.
For Mr Koh, he gave 4R a different instruction, and that shows that he actually meant it when he said he trusted us to be self-motivated learners and go for his lesson even when he said he wont force us. Also, he had said that it wasnt a remedial lesson but a lesson. So new topics will be taught and everyone will have to be there. Also, when Mr Koh told us that he could have actually just stopped at normal lessons and not take the RE period to teach, Im sure we all agree. We all know it. It is a fact that his timetable is almost full every time. And its all for us. We all know how dedicated he is. Its just, sometimes we fail to realise that teachers put in effort to prepare and conduct lessons too. And that we arent the only stakeholders.
I shall move on.
For Geog, Dr.C was just really angry. First, even before we did anything wrong, she scolded LinJin really badly when he came back to class late after recess because he was taking a test during recess. She didnt listen to he explanation at first, but even after he explained himself, she continued to scold him, like really badly. I was feeling so stunned cause I came back with LinJin after collecting some geog worksheets, and that was what I saw. I feel very sorry for LinJin, because in this case, I can only stand on his side. He was seriously put in a difficult situation. After he gave his explanation, she shouted that it was always her lesson being taken up for other subjects. But then what could be done about it? It was also a teacher who told him to take the test during recess. Dr.C even said that next time equal amount of time shouls be taken from the periods before and after recess. Yea, ok, but if that were to be done, shouldnt it be brought up to the school instead of telling us? And anyway the current system is not as such, so can a student be blamed for that? And to Lin Jin, I hope you dont feel too bad, we all saw your face just now...
Chinese lesson...nothing much, cos it was basically just a zuowen competition which I totally failed. Couldnt think of a story at all. and just crapped something up when I got too worried, lol. its bad.
After school was the museum trip, where we went to the ACM to view the KangXi emperor exhibit. Generally speaking, it was quite interesting, but small. The place is really small, like there are less than 100 artefects there. So although the stuff are good, you can be finished with it in a short time if you dont read everything. Which was the case for some of them who rushed me to finish and go, haha. Well, ok Im sorry for making you guys wait! But I did manage to learn quite a few stuff from there!
So we went to PS, Hiok Yang, Teng Chuan, Alvin Lum, Manfred, Ben Ng, Alvin Chua, Aloysius and me. And watched Fast and Furious 4. Initially felt like watching Knowing, but since some people didnt want to leave late, we watched Fast and Furious 4. I must say that it is indeed better than I had thought, haha. And it was really action-packed. But I cant seem to be able to pinpoint what I like about it the most...
After that, Teng Chuan, Hiok Yang, Alvin Lum and I said goodbye to the rest and stayed to have dinner together. It was quite fun la, having dinner together, talking about loads of random stuff, but for some reason, I felt really cold then...
After that we went to the MRT station where we nearly got into a 'waiting fight' to see which side, Hiok Yang, or us, waits the longest for the other group/person to leave first. Lols. But we decided that it was too lame, anyway, Hiok Yang left first, haha. Had a nice talk on the train too! Felt so long since our class have really gotten together for a fun outing or something. This is close. haha. At least it brightened up the day! =D
