Saturday, May 19, 2007

Pictures say a thousand words


Teachers seriously at work


This is Ah Mei - the bubbly girl (Shhh...i cannot gossip about her because she may be reading my blog now! Ha Ha Ha!)


Miss Ling Leng - a very fine lady!


Helen oh Helen! Forever so cute, so pleasant and so likeable!! My fav!!


Let's pose before the timer is up! Tilt those butt!


Another take! We are laughing so hard during these photo takes that we are disturbing the meeting in another room! Hee Hee!


In KTV room


Miss Agnes, the pleasant directress!


The teachers of K1s.


Lets go GAGA!


Group pic using Timer.


Singing happily....


Pretty cheryl who is our admin staff.

So what can you see from these photos? Karaoke? Correct!

Fun and Craze? Correct!

With unknown people?? They are my colleagues. They are real sporty and everyone start swaying and dancing when they sing. Very cute indeed! No wonder we are all childcare teachers! And we spotted one "trademark" too. Our voice became more hoarse and rough after being a teacher. Years ago, i can hit a high pitch easily. Now, it takes me more effort to do so!! Sob Sob!!

I will be meeting my Rainbow Camp child tommorrow. I will need to fetch her to Kovan from Tiong Bahru mrt station. Let's hope we can communicate well!! :)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Art Theraphy Rocks!

Art Theraphy is a rare course, not many people understands about this course. Art Theraphy is not popular in Singapore. I must really thanks jane for getting me expose to this course. Registered for diagnostic art theraphy and i am loving it! Just went to my second lesson and the information i am hearing are keeping me at the edge of my seat! It is so interesting and is definitely my cup of tea! Although the lecturer keep saying a lot of terms which i don't know but i still note down everything he say in details. There are so many things to learn, so many books to read, so many details to remember and so many MUST-KNOW authors to memorise!

Art Theraphy is mainly to analysis a person's mind through what he/she draws. It is extremely useful for kids who have difficulty expressing themselves. For adults, it is mainly for people who have emotional problems. For example, cancer patients, ill patients, mentally ill people or criminals. On my next lesson, the lecturer wants us to bring drawings of a house, a tree and a person drawn by person of aged 8 onwards and we will be taught on how to analysis it! Woo Hoo, i am going to call my friends to draw so that i can practise my work! :)

I do have some thoughts whether to be an art therapist in any form in future. These 10 lessons that i am going to have will help me to determine my interest more.If i am heading towards this path,i will be facing all kind of people who are having emotional problems. If i am handling with children, they will be unhappy children. I want to do a job that enables me to help those in need but i need to find out if i have the ability to balance my emotions. By going through this course and doing my volunteery work in Rainbow camp will expose me more to all these factors.

By the way, i have visited one of my Rainbow Camp child and she is a pretty primary 6 girl. She is suffering from some form of osteoporosis so i will need to be very careful with her. The only thing about this pretty girl is that she is very very very shy and quiet. I will need to be GI LA GI LA and very talkative to cheer her up!!! Ha Ha HA! And i do hope she will be involved with most of the camp activities.

Wow, i am sure excited about my path ahead! To think back, i make a breakthrough by becoming a childcare teacher and give up IT industry. After my experience, i realised i really love to work with children. And now, it is time for me to progress. Either i will be a teacher still or do some other relevant jobs. I never regret studying my Dip in MMI as is very interesting and get me exposed to so many different lines! Meeting the people in therapist line and getting involved in all these sure make my life more meaningful!I believe i will learn a lot more in future. Wish me all the best ya!! :)

Friday, May 04, 2007

New Plans with a New Me

I must say a big THANK YOU to Brighton Montessori. I learnt a lot from Brighton. I learnt how to manage my students, how to liaise with the parents, how to be an octopus and multitask, how to speak proper english. I also love my students as they let me smile and laugh from the bottom of my heart, amazed me with their talents and amused me with their innocence and speech.

I like my colleagues too as a few of our own lingos are created. In Brighton, we cannot say negative words so we spell them out. Words like BLUR, NAU(stands for Naughty), STUBBORN, SPOILT, SOTONG, LIAN, BENG. Funny Funny words you can think of! And guess what, BLUR, SOTONG and LIAN are always used on me!! Hee Hee! And we called some of our seniors OP! Nope, not because they are very trendy and love to wear ocean pacific shirts! Is that they are Old People! Hee! Bits and pieces of these memory stays in my heart.

My students will not go "Teacher Carole, i want paper!"
"Teacher Carole, i want to do cutting!"
"Teacher Carole, he don't love me!"
"Teacher Carole, i want to go shhh shhh"


I will moved on to a part time job in a learning centre in Bishan. It is also a montessori place and i will continue to teach my montessori way. I will not be working on Sunday and Monday. I will still be learning more about my phonics and i will be taking in phonics for tuition.

And oh yes, i will be taking Art Theraphy Cert starting coming Thursday onwards and it will last for 10 weeks. Till then, i have enough time to think if i'm up to go the art therapist line or further on my degree in early childhood. Lots of changes and planning and so far, everything going well.

And i am being selected to the rainbow camp! My leader just called me and told me that i am being assigned to 2 primary 6 girls who live in Bukit Merah. As my co-leader is out to USA for job post, we, the team mates must do more. I got to think of a group name related to muscial. Any suggestions to help me save my brain cells???? ;)

It's May! Is time for May to become Mrs Yang!

Finally, vows are exchanged and their love are being witnessed by all their friends and relatives. Not to forget the poly friends who watched how their love grew throughout the years. We walked part of the journey together and on 1st of May, is time for them to walk out and shine in front of the rest as they exchanged their rings and Kissed to swear to love,to care and to be bond for life.....MUACKS!


This cake is done by Jasmine. So sweet and nice of her!


Let's applauded to the lovely couple....May and Meyer! Look at how pretty the bride is!


Their bed decorated by the friendly Raffles Hotel's colleagues of May.


May walking towards her future husband with her father with joy! :)


Finally caught some time to take a few snaps with the pretty bride. That is Phyllis on the right.


Yes! Is us! :)



MAY AND MEYER!!! FRIENDS FOREVER!! WE LOVE YOU!!! :)