Life became so meaningful with you around.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
i think im going crazy soon. I have tons and tons of readings to do and i can't seem to finish reading them you know? :( HOWWWWWW???? Anw i think W.Atelier is so cool! Our manager actually invited us to their company's outing hahaha! :D There's like bowling tournament and we can play at Escape Theme Park/Wild Wild Wet, BBQ at night and the stayover for a night! She even reserved a room for us, the three temp staff woohoo! :) I'm excited! :D
Monday, August 24, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
I just saw this on WF's blog and I felt really happy reading it! :) I missed Fairfield :(
Teaching at their alma mater by Teo Xuanwei
IT TURNED 121 years old this year. So, the fact that Fairfield Methodist School has possibly churned out the most number of teachers in Singapore is perhaps not surprising.
Still, it is an achievement that should not be dismissed lightly.
Although there are no official figures, the sheer number of former Fairsians in the education industry here bears testimony to the nurturing quality of its teachers.
Many ex-Fairsians are now principals in schools - Ms Doris Ho Sook Fun at Geylang Methodist School and Madam Julie Tan Bee Lian at Raffles Girls School are just two examples. Several have also become directors in the Ministry of Education (MOE).
But what is truly special is that a great many of them have chosen to return to their alma mater as teachers.
Today, about one in five of the 160 teaching staff in Fairfield's primary and secondary schools are alumni. And many of the young teachers (picture) are now colleagues of their former teachers.
Fairfield's previous four principals - starting with their first Asian principal in 1946, the late Mrs Lim Bock Kee - were also old girls.
When Australian missionary Sophia Blackmore founded the school, it was named Telok Ayer Girls' School and had only eight students.
It was renamed Fairfield Girls' School in 1912 after a certain Mr Fairfield (his identity and background are untraceable) donated $5,000 for the school's new building in Neil Road. In 1958, it adopted its current name.
In 1983, after it relocated to its current premises at Dover Road, the school also became co-ed and split into primary and secondary schools.
So what is it about the school that's drawing so many of its students into the teaching profession?
A common answer, if you ask any former Fairsian: To show gratitude for what they had received from their own teachers.
Fairfield's education model throughout its history, said the primary school's vice-principal David Chan, is guided by the culture of inclusiveness.
"We were always taught that every individual matters and success is being the best that you can be," he said.
"The teachers value you for who you are and I believe many of us are deeply impacted by such a culture and feel the responsibility to continue the same nurturing culture as teachers of future generations," said Mr Chan, 34, himself an old boy.
Added Ms Pamela Tan, 28, who teaches Design and Technology: "Many of us feel that Fairfield is like home ... and many of us drew the passion for teaching from the care our own teachers showed us when we were studying in Fairfield."
And what better way to give back than to return to Fairfield.
"Some of my students now are actually children of my own teachers. Being a teacher in Fairfield, I feel I can give back to what the school has given to me by showing them what I received from their parents as a student; the values of compassion, integrity and sacrifice," said Mr Glen Tan, 29, who teaches Mathematics in the secondary school.
http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC090809-0000034/Teaching-at-their-alma-mater
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
I think i still need time getting used to university life.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
im so damn tired now! & I finally went to Sungei Buloh today! :D I only had a one hour tutorial today, which is so arghhhh!! :/ Mwy picked me up from ntu and off we went to SBWR! & im so observant and sharp ok? I managed to spot many many things for mak to take with his dslr! & we saw so many many monitor lizardssss! :/ Then we went to pick mel, amanda and ys up at kranji and went SBWR for the second time but different route this time round!
I had many many mosquito bites :( A total of 3 moquito feeding sessions lor! I cant wait to get the photos from mwy! i think it'll be damn nice!:D had dinner at some zi cha stall in clementi and i ate SO MUCH i almost vomit what i jus ate :S & i chiong to shower after i got home cause im so damn tired :( I still got so much readings to do :(
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
Da Vinci the Genius! Do go visit it if you have the time because its ending soon(16th August, this coming sunday!)
Monday, August 10, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
Alright so on tuesday I made a trip back to Kluang with my cousins. It was quite eventful cause we couldn't make it for the bus, and had to rush to the tanjong pagar railway station(all the way from boon lay) to catch the last train! :/ My cousin's super nice friend drove us there(well u know guys will do whatever the girl wants if they're wooing them? BUT why is it that they can't MAINTAIN that since they've alr started doing it, after they've gotten the girl?) We made it but only reached Kluang at like 1am?! -_-" I was quite pissed cause the stupid train stopped at some place for really long argh! But its quite a cool experience to take train back to Msia with my cousins! Cause we dun really take railway trains back ysee haha! It's usually either car or bus.
5th Aunt(Cousin Jun Quan's Mum) picked us up and off we went to have supper!(after sending her home though :) ) :D It's good that we all knew how to drive now, which allows us to go anywhere we want as long as a car is available for our usage lol. Roti pisang, roti tissue, roti mushroom cheese and mee goreng pattaya! :D YAY i missed them soooo much!!! :) Then we started driving around aimlessly and Cousin Shi Ying went crazy, singing Count On Me Singapore at the top of her voice. I think we'll be dead if she does that in the day -_-" We were in Malaysia for goodness's sake, you go "count on me s'pore" some more and the yalam will start throwing things at us -_-"
We only got home at 2 plus and slept at around 3 :/
Woke up early to have bak kut teh for breakfast, but the famous stall wasn't opened until 5 pm :S & so we had toasted and steamed bread instead! Yummy Yummy Yummy! It's so much nicer then Yak Kun! Cheaper also hahha! & we saw this Chendol stall by the roadside(picture above). My cousins told me that his chendol is very nice and he's like the 4th generation or smtg alr, but a pity that i dun like/appreciate chendol haha! Cousin Jun Quan's like our Chauffeur for the whole day haha. He drove us to whatever places that we wanted :P
& they insisted that I should try the KFC in M'sia cause its very different from the ones in S'pore. I tried it, and what I can say is that: it's more chrispy and less oily. & I think just these two reasons, it's enough to say that M'sia KFC is better that S'pore's lol.
Near the end of the day, we decided to visit the Pasar Malam to get some food to eat on the bus back to S'pore. I like the kaya ball!! :D 5 for Rm 1 hahaha! Nicey nicey nice! :) Bought deep fried jackfruit too, my first time trying it haha! Basically I was treated like some tourist -_-"
Back to Singapore! :D
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
Spent one whole day in NTU listening to many many speeches and stuggling real hard to keep myself awake. Student life is coming back again, real soon.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Life became so meaningful with you around.
Yesterday's a belated birthday lunch for Mel at Tunk Lok Seafood :) Food is alright i guess haha. & of coz the girls din do any removal of shells for the prawns and crabs :/ mwy went off early cause he got something on. & I love honeydew sago :) So we had our lunch there from early 1045 till 230 like that :O I think i could have eaten more, but somehow din really have the urge to stuff more food heh. Off to the orchard ion with Mel and there were so many people. I dun like it :(
this is mr kong, who's driving in a sleepy mode
a group photo with mwy missing since he went off early
but dun worry, i got a photo of him. with some food on his mouth though :X
Team members for the WII competition!
On the way there!
running for our lives with our arms -_-"
with Toilet Queen!:)
with Cherrie! :)
with Jun Wei :)
