Tuesday, March 23, 2010
At the art room now connected to rvhs WLAN on my laptop. Don’t ask me why I’m not teaching because apparently, I too am surprised (pleasantly) when I was told that there was no need for me to do any teaching. the other aesthetics teacher (they don’t call it art here for some reason, I guess it was to make it sound profound) had swapped with me all her sec3 classes with my sec1s. the sec3s are doing Chinese calligraphy for their art lesson and an external vendor comes in to conduct the lessons. so my chore is basically just to make sure that the students are well behaved and all accounted for during lessons. In order words, I’m a relief babysitter. The other art teacher was like, ‘you can bring your laptop there, there’s wireless connection available. Otherwise you’ll be very bored.'
Also, I’m typing this blog entry on Microsoft Word and I’ll copy it over to blogger later. The reason is pretty obvious I guess, I won’t want my student to see that I’m actually slacking off while they had to bear with the Einstein lookalike calligraphy teacher. It’s the same logic as trying to ‘chao keng’ in the office actually. Seems like skills I’ve learned in NPD are pretty applicable after all.
But don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Chinese calligraphy is boring or uninteresting in any way. In fact, I find his lessons pretty intriguing, and I’m very much impressed by the way the teacher is able to produce such a masterpiece in the few minutes he spent demonstrating to the class. I managed to take a few pointers away to apply for drawing while I was listening in to his lessons yesterday. But the reason I’m not paying attention now is because I’ve been listening to the same lessons a number of times already and will be sitting in for a few more lessons for the rest of the week.
But I’m glad to have taken up this 2 week art relief really. There isn’t any vacancy now at the PE or science departments so sitting around at home ain’t exactly the ideal thing to do especially since I’ve already rested for a week during the march school break. Rest is essential, but resting for too long will only cause my system to gradually shut down.
The same should be said about my physical training. Just checked my IPPT information and found out that the last day I can book my IPPT is on June 30th, the deadline in which I have to pass my IPPT is 20th March 2011. Though I’m not really worried about the passing deadline at the moment, I’m pretty worried about the booking deadline since it ain’t exactly so far away. The static stations should be pretty much of a breeze for me. The only hurdle standing in between me and that $400 is the 2.4km run. I’m very certain that I’m not able to hit the 9:45 timing now so consistent training is really quite essential.
The eventful month of March is pretty much coming to an end soon. There have been many highs, but also a couple of down times (as much as I would like to forget them, I couldn’t). I hope the few mishaps that occurred would only serve to make me a stronger person, make me realize (or should I say, re-realize) that at the end of the day, you have only yourself to rely on.
As the rain pelt down on the art room window panes, I can only hope that the lesson can end soon so I can return to the staffroom and Facebook as much as I like
aaron | 10:47 AM
