L I Y A N A' S . T H O U G H T S

_______________________________________Sunday, July 31, 2005
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Get off that Thang!

Mood: Fireworks High

My free weekend.. At last.. for a rest. But it didn't go to waste cos, I went to the Esplanade. It was the NDP preview and there was a performance at the Outdoor Theatre.

A chance to take lots of pictures, have fun and enjoy the atmosphere.

The performance were by Syawlaevol [love always front to back], Fatskunks and Dancing Nancies. All of them are awesome. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Especially when Dancing Nancies had a Fire dancer. Magnificent. I really believe that they are international material. My bro was amazed they sounded this good and he commented on how professional DN interact with the audience. He thinks that they have been around for quite some time.. hehe too little he knows.. [you have to excuse him cos I just introduced him to the local scene]

[Pictures in Album 1]

Oh and not forgetting the fireworks.. They got my heart racing.. Just like how it raced when I met him.. It pumped fast and it made me blush. It was beautiful. Fireworks makes me want to fly and be happy and all that. I'm still high from it.

I'm still smiling cos I love the fireworks, the bands, the laughter, the lights and the way my heart felt lighter.. You still affect me like nobody does.. Miss they way it feels.

For Mr DJ, hope you like what I got you.. Its too long to keep any longer. You look good as always.. :)

posted by AimiLiyana 1:44 am

_______________________________________Thursday, July 28, 2005
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Freedom: Painting by Aimiliyana

Mood: Stringed

I had an idea abt freedom and webs..

Freedom in Speech.
Webs of Lies.
Freedom in Religion.
Webs of Attacks.
Freedom to Love.
Webs of Hate.
Freedom to Smile.
Webs of Tears.
Freedom for a Dove.
Webs to be tangled in...

~Liyana~

posted by AimiLiyana 1:43 am

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Flushed...

Mood: Resigned

I have just been told that I would take over a class because the present form teacher just tendered her resignation.... In good words, I have been promoted [1 mth ago was jus a slacking artist.. now im a full fledged form teacher] In bad words, I'm all alone taking care of 34 kids every single schooling day till the end of this year without a CPT and still undergoing a DPT. [I know... too much letters to digest. CPT is cert in pre sch teach.. DPT is dip in pre sch teach. understand?]

Here is a list of my role in the classroom:
Educator [Officially, I'm paid for this]
Referee [Fair is fair.. but they can be sneaky buggers]
Counsellor [Its hard to make them stop crying]
Waitress [Meal times are a chaos when someone brings chocolates to school]
Hugging post/pillow [Always receive them at the start and at the end of the day]
Sticker Magnet [They get one from me if they are good, and i get tonnes from them for being pretty]
Nurse [Ironically, plasters don't hang around long for the wound to heal. Its due to itchy fingers or the sticky stuff they exude that repels plasters]
Magician [I have the ability to magically shut someone up using just my eyes]
Hankerchief [When they cry, they just love to wipe all those tears ans snot on my clothes]
Judge/Momma Santa [I HAVE to know who have been naughty or nice....]
How am I to cope?

posted by AimiLiyana 1:42 am

_______________________________________Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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Stickers Galore!!

Mood: Sticky

I have just realised the magnificant magical powers of stickers.. Not only do they come cheap, they do wonders to a rowdy class. And you can even bribe a kid with stickers to make them behave.. but to the politically correct who stands by piaget's theories, its called rewarding a child. [i think its piaget.. cant remember with all this environmental awareness facts im going through.]

I was at Tamp and there is this bazaar beside the train station. I came across one stall that sells stickers that costs S$1 for 10 strips.. WOOT!!! thats freaking cheap!! they have powerpuff girls, spongebob, incredibles, fantastic four, superman, hello kitty, snow white, ultraman and whatever great cartoon characters we get nowadays.. but I refuse to let my class be contaminated with Barney and Friends.. he just looks... purple and green.

So now, i have stickey fingers from peeling all those to give away and to stick on their books since they get full marks for spelling seremban, kerikil and batu.

That reminds me.

I had to teach them about traditional malay games. So I introduced them to Congkak, Chapteh and Gasing.. This was how the lesson went.

Me: [drew a chapteh] siapa boleh beritahu cikgu nama permainan ini?
Boy 1: Bulu ayam cikgu!
Boy 2: Daun! Daun!
Girl 1: Feather Duster cikgu!!
Me: Salah salah salah... Cuba lagi.
Matin: Cikgu, saya tahu.. Chapteh!
Me: Pandai Matin. Ini chapteh. Ia diperbuat dari getah dan bulu ayam.
[drew a Congkak]
Me: Ok. Ini apa?
Class: Goli cikgu!!
Me: Salah! Cuba lagi.
Boy 3: Lubang goli cikgu!
Me: [speechless] Tidak..
Girl 2: Saya tahu.. Nenek saya ada. Congkong cikgu..
Me: -_-" Congkak sayang.. Ok Ok... Yang terakhir.
[drew a gasing]
Class: [Everyone scream... so jus imagine] Bay Blade!!!

Duh..
Of Bay Blades, Bulu Ayam and Lubang Goli... I rest my case..

posted by AimiLiyana 11:25 pm

_______________________________________Friday, July 22, 2005
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Rubber Bands and a Bag Full of Wit

Mood: Exasperated

A teacher's bestfriends in the classroom are:

rubberbands to keep books and worksheets together,

a loud voice to scream to the other end of the corridor and

a bag full of wit to answer all those innocent questions about life and dead ants.

Having lots of stickers helps too.

posted by AimiLiyana 12:06 am

_______________________________________Thursday, July 21, 2005
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...missing...

Mood: Found it..

For 2 weeks.. I have been swamped with 2 submissions, 2 relief duties, 2 weddings and a trip to bangkok..

I clocked in a week without sleep making games and activities for a module called Language and Literacy. I was happy surrounded with glitter, tape and poster colours but it did weigh down on me on the fourth day. In the same week I had my observation submission, did relief duty for 2 days and finally get some sleep on friday night which was rudely disturbed on sat to go to a wedding.

As an ambassador for this family, I meekly went only to sleep again very very soon for another wedding on Sun.

Congratulations to Farah and Rahman, Zaza and Yan.. Alhamdullilah. may your marriage last your whole lifetime, be surrounded with people that you love and be blessed with great grandchildren..

Now that I have time again, salary finally... I just am missing the people who are in bangkok.. Where are thou?

I may be to Vietnam soon.. and the news have not been broken to u yet. Call me before its too late.

posted by AimiLiyana 1:55 am

_______________________________________Friday, July 08, 2005
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Hoarse Referees

Mood: Scratchy throats

This week have been really testing for me. The kids not only tried to test my limits, but their true colours are showing. Some are so caring, adorable, huggable and kissable but the rest are like midget demons from hell! [no offence to the midget demons from hell.]

The guys would talk when I talk, they would imitate the way I teach, dig their nose and wipe it on the girls' hair, zone out when they are supposed to do their worksheet and keep colouring their works with unimaginable colour combinations.

The girls would get distracted at all things crawling, fluttering, the brooches I wear, the clothes I wear and even the perfume I used. They would compliment is endlessly just so they could get a compliment from me in return. And they would try to 'please' me by doing their works as nice as possible regardless of the mountains of spelling mistakes that they accumulate.

And with those two genders combined, who love to collect dead ants, bluetack, coloured paper and attention from me, all hell have broken loose at that centre.

Just imagine screaming for one boy to stop hiding behind the pillar when I was teaching for 3 hrs.
Calling a girl's name who cannot stop talking to her partner about her dead fish. Shaking in anger when one of the boys peeped at a girl while she was in the little girls' room.

I need Strepsils.. I need a throat reliever... I need to be away from kids during the weekend.

posted by AimiLiyana 8:59 pm

_______________________________________Tuesday, July 05, 2005
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Ignoring Friends?

Mood: Trying to Avoid Strangling Fucked up "Friends"

Whats the deal? Whats the FREAKING deal?! Just because you are in a relationship with my fren, why do u have to sniff the sky? Why go around telling your partner that you miss me but yet you avoid even to say hi? Why are you a walking contradiction? wait!! make that a HYPOCRITE! You know that alot of people don't like you. You want to know why? Because you don't treat friends half as nice as you treat your many boyfriends. Boyfriends are not medals for you to wear snobbishly in public. They are as flesh as blood as friends.

Here's an advice, respect friends the way you want to be respected.

And when did the bloody hell did I say I hated u? Maybe because of this incident, I gained a reason to.

What if I'm a guy too, would you treat me nicer like your partner with many 'Hi's?

Treat this as a wake up call. Look around you and then look at yourself in the mirror.

>(

posted by AimiLiyana 11:07 pm

_______________________________________Monday, July 04, 2005
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Hamster...

Made by: Ayi
Reason: I nibble paper like hamster
Verdict: I look cute.

posted by AimiLiyana 2:03 pm

_______________________________________Sunday, July 03, 2005
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Love?

the funny thing is,
i don't know what love is...
I have been disillusioned with all things fairytale..
I have no idea about the concept of love

posted by AimiLiyana 3:14 pm

_______________________________________Friday, July 01, 2005
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From the mouth of Babes....

Mood: Like a princess.. [Mr Numbnuts used to call me princess.. I kinda like being called princess esp from these kids. heheh]

Today the class was pretty okay. The nursery kids were rowdy. They simply don't understand 'Quiet', 'Quietly' and 'Silence'. The best part was when I asked them about what they had for dinner the night before. Someone said 'Pwayhouse Dinney' [Playhouse Disney] and the rest start shouting to me about TV shows. Huge headache at 10 am. And dismissal at noon was a nightmare! this is what happened:

KID: 'cikgu! cikgu! (his blue shorts suddenly changed deeper blue and a pool formed between his legs, spreading fast.) sayer nak gi nantas!' ['teacher! teacher! I want to go to the toilet!']

Haiz -_-" I had to mop the floor after him. well, accidents like these do occur....

I recieved this drawing from Ayuni. She managed to pass this to me in between classes while complimenting my black shirt.

And this was from Syazana. I'm still not happy abt the lips tho.. :(

posted by AimiLiyana 6:20 pm

L I Y A N A' S . S E C R E T S

L I Y A N A' S . T H O U G H T S

Get off that Thang!

Freedom: Painting by Aimiliyana

Flushed...

Stickers Galore!!

Rubber Bands and a Bag Full of Wit

...missing...

Hoarse Referees

Ignoring Friends?

Hamster...

Love?

From the mouth of Babes....