Connee's blog

Hi there everyone.... Welcome to my blog! I love to write but don't have the time to spare previously. So, hopefully, I'll be more hard-working this time round. Sit back and enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy putting my thoughts into words...

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Location: KL, Malaysia

I am but myself. Get to know me and I'll tell you everything you want to know!

Monday, October 09, 2006

Boy, I miss Perth so much!

Every now and then, I think of Perth and my favourite, fantastic and sooooo cheap Japanese food located in the city. Can't even recall the shop name nor the street but it's super famous coz it's cheap!! Ok, not very cheap if you were to convert to Ringgit Malaysia but so ridiculously cheap for a nice, filling and cosy Japanese meal in Aussieland. Maybe crowded should be the more appropriate word to use rather than "cosy" haha :p

Anyway, I just miss everything about Perth. The hours when I had nothing to do.....just read, sleep, be a couch potatoe, enjoy the cool breeze (no haze) at beach, visit the park and admire beautiful flowers ie tulips, roses and fruit trees i.e lemon trees as I walk past houses and of course ......crabbing in the cold in Mandurah :)

Wish I could be thrown into dreamland now! Not Melbourne, not Sydney but a place so lovely, so quiet and so enchanting in many ways if you take time to discover it.

More camp photos!






Camp photos!!


One of my worst nightmares was the unimaginable 8-foot wall. Believe me, it was so fun watching people struggle climbling the wall but not so fun after all when it was my turn to finally "climb". One-two-three.......and I was still on the ground, not over the wall yet. So, of course, I tried many times but to no avail coz I was still on the same side haha! Alas, with many kind souls motivating and encouraging me as well as lifting my body, soooo......I was finally over the other side of the wall.

I particularly like the above "wall" picture because of the colour combination.....old but nice wall, nice coloured t-shirts and nice stunts :) Where am I? Definitely not in the picture :) I was contemplating, to climb or not to climb haha :)


I like this picture too.....very nice, don't you think? Speaks volume about our theme, "Woven Together". This activity ain't possible without any team work.


Balancing was all right for me. No qualms about it. See me?? I'm somewhere in yellow......


This was also one easy task for me.....I just had to remember to lower my buttock and move forward haha :) But I forgot to smile....sigh! Looked so fierce coz I was concentrating :)


Say cheese, say "konica"..... with due respect, I salute all the girls in my team. All super powerful ladies. I was half-dead when we finished the last lap and could smile no more, thus the fake smile :)

Friday, October 06, 2006

Headache endured!

I've finally posted the grades for the Marketing tutorial activity. I'm expecting some indignant students to hunt me down next week for giving them such low grades for their first Marketing assignment. Well, the only unknown fact is that the marks should have been much lower than what I've finally decided to give out of compassion I reckon.

Some wrote in perfect English copied straight out from the Internet or their reading materials while some had "plagiarised legally". Well, a new term perhaps, "legal plagiarism" refers to doing referencing for every bit that was written in the report and thus, leaves no room for even a tiny bit of originality. Sighhh...... what a headache!! To PASS .....or the ultimate FAIL.

Who's to blame? Hmm....It is undeniable that education is getting more and more commercialised today. It does not matter whether or not the students meet the basic entry requirement to pursue their tertiary education as long as their guardians/parents can afford to pay for the tuition fees. This is such an ugly sight to behold but unfortunately, it is "REAL". So real that it is reflected in the attitudes of the students; their poorly done assignments or plagiarised work from their seniors for fear of not being able to meet the passing grades.

Most of my colleagues and I didn't have our one week so-called "break". While the students were busy rushing for their assignments, we were either busy marking their exam papers or their atrocious assignments and scratching our heads wondering what went wrong. Did we really teach so badly that the students couldn't comprehend the lectures at all or was it mere laziness on their part for submitting slip shod assignments?

Of course I remember very vividly that I was once a student and had to toil day and night just to complete the neverending assignments. But, I'm glad to say that I've been through it myself and truly missed the good old times in college/university; experienced the "so-stressed out" period as a student and the worst that you could ever imagine for a student i.e being a failure was the turning point in my life....... Yeap, been through it, seen it all and I'm still surviving :) Praise God!

As a student who had failed in the eyes of the society, I thought I would never be able to stand up again because I've lost all hope and brought shame to my family. Nothing else remained in me except the faith that I had in GOD. Indeed, it was all that I've ever needed in my life. I was humbled, so humbled that I started all over again and what can I say, but life is good!!

Well, I thank God for my experiences in life because I believe GOD wants me to encourage and share it with those who are going through the rough patches in their lives especially the students. I do not teach in a big varsity as much as I would love too, but Metropolitan is indeed a great place to start off. Thank God for my wonderful colleagues and friends; Ms Choo, Juliana, Yeng May, Mrs Chan, Mr. Prabah, Mr. Rama etc just to name a few :) Life would be so dull without them!

"May we never lose sight and hope of our passion to teach no matter how difficult the students/situations may be"


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