A week at SAJS

School's finally starting next week and after lazing around for 3 weeks or so I found a job thanks to Gabriel's reccommendation - relief teaching at St Andrew's Junior School.

It's really a job that I have not much complaints about for once, financial-wise $65 for 5.5 hours is really pretty own considering that there are also free periods in between. The food's cheap, it's a primary school canteen afterall and it doesn't taste all that bad just that I might have something to comment about the portion size. For the past week I've taught primary 1 to primary 6 and most of the time I don't really have to teach anything, the teacher would've left instructions on what to do and usually the students are asked to do like 3 pages for 3 periods, so there's no way of not accomplishing the tasks.

I realise that I'm what I would regard as a pretty fierce teacher cause I cannot tolerate students talking or even whispering to each other when I'm in class. I always expect like complete silence when I'm talking or even when they are doing their work. I cannot seem to control myself when I see students turning around and talking and I'll get right in their faces and scream at them. The way I'm doing it, I don't ever think I can be a regular full-time teacher cause I'll probably lose my full temper, not least my voice, within a month or so. I'm always telling the boys to tuck in their shirts and dear told me that is probably something only the DM would do, and I'm only a relief teacher. I didn't see it that way, but I guess I have zero tolerance for students who disrespect teachers and abuse their school uniform. That's another reason why I can never be a teacher, students all over the world do that ALL THE TIME and I'm not someone who can let such things go easily.

Overall it was an enlightening experience being the one standing infront of the whiteboard instead of sitting behind the desk. When I was a student I've always looked up to all my teachers and to a certain extent, thought of them as superior beings living in another world. What with all the 'spiritual engineers' tag many are giving them, it's probably understandable. Now I know, teaching is JUST ANOTHER JOB.

Not trying to discredit the profession, cause no doubt it requires a lot of patience and care and love and etc. to teach kids but come on, which profession doesn't require its fair share of hard work and input? Is it any easier being an accountant than a teacher? If you think a job is easy, you probably do not understand it enough to be able to judge or compare with others. What I'm trying to say is, teachers are human beings too and teaching is the same as preparing the accounts for a co., it's just another job, at least to me, so there's no need to put anything or anyone on a pedastal.

It's just a little thought that occured to me after a week of relief teaching, but what do I know? As the cliche goes, the more you know the more you don't know.

Ok enough about that, talk a little about my results for the semester. I might seem like I'm hao lian-ing, maybe I really am, but come on this is like my highest scoring season so I just gotta put this down. Semetral GPA: 4 EAT MY SHORTS HAHA YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? STRAIGHT As. Last semester last chance for me to get my cumulative GPA up to 3.9, but that would require another semestral GPA of 4. Possibility: Rather low. IAP don't know got how many credits probably 8 and it's definitely not looking good. I remember watching the Apprentice and 2 of them were arguing when Donald Trump asked for their GPAs and they said 3.9 loudly. Since then it's registered with me GPA less than 3.9 = lose.

There's always people saying the results don't mean anything. There're tons of people with poor academic results and yet they can go on to enjoy great careers. To me, this idea just seems like striking 4d or Toto, you always hear about these success stories and yet they always happen only to someone else.

What's true is results don't mean EVERYTHING, but it's gotta mean SOMETHING. It's a very self-denial thing to say it doesn't mean anything, it's like me saying that looks or money don't mean anything it's the inside character that counts. Sure there are always examples of average/ below-average looking guys getting hot girlfriends but what do all of us know? The handsome and rich people always get the hot girls. From what I've seen so far, I mean ALWAYS.

LOL loserish.