After 10 days

So I am back now to the working routines. Not so happy about it, but man what can I do?

To get things more exited (and while giving tests to the students), I came across wordpress app for iphone. So I thought I can start blogging whenever.

We’ll see if that is turning out to be true. Or not.

Anyways, after not working for so long, your body has adapted this hibernating-cozy-whatdoicare mode that makes me struggle hard to wake at 5 am this morning. Well I specially planned to wake earlier to get my body engine warm up, and plus I need to make a test for the day.

I arrive at the school in a record breaking time of 6.15. I took my time eating bread in the car before finally went to office. Of course, I was the first. Anyway, test was done, delivered.

Marking time now. Oh no!!!

Resep sakit perut

Days ago, I had a problem with my stomach.
Well, it was a bad one.
I didnt do it intentionally. But for those who needs excuses to skip works, you can continue reading.

Tis is the recipe, it works at least for me.
Pertama2, sebelum berangkat kerja, minum segelas susu.
Lalu sampai di kantor, minumlah capuccino (that time I use torabika).
*ingat, jangan makan apa2.
Niscaya, beberapa menit kemudian (ga sampe 2 jam deh), pasti akan mules2, meriang2, merinding2, siap2 buang air.
Untuk lebih manjur, dihimbau untuk sehari sebelumnya makan soto, gudeg, pecel, gado2, dan martabak manis seharian.

Dengan demikian, dijamin anda akan sakit perut.

*Bila sakit tidak berlanjut, coba ulangi resep sekali lagi. Kali ini pakai susu basi.
** Disclaimer: bagi yang mengikuti anjuran diatas, akibatnya ditanggung masing2.

Hibernating = Diet = Savings

Yesterday I was not feeling well. I hope it wasn’t pork flu, chicken flue, or sweet and sour fish flu.
I felt the body temp goes up a bit. I decided to have a rest.

As a teacher, it is my previlege to finish work at 3.15 pm. (well, i start teaching when common people just start stretching on their beds) So I went home, get myself change, and sleep.

The sleep went for 15 hours. Almost undisturbed except for my sister asking if I am alright and told me to have dinner, which ofcourse instinctively I rejected.

I went hibernating, thus I skipped dinner and supper -> sweet martabak, egg martabak, latenite kwetiau, etc.
It was a good diet program, plus there was no cost for the diet.

I think I have found the best diet program in the world.
Anyone care to try?

Lemme go register for the copyright and patent, before people start claiming about this program.

Pencemaran nama baik

Saya melihat adanya keanehan di kasus prita yang saya liat di detik.

Kasus pencemaran nama baik setau saya, yang kurang mengerti ini, berhubungan dengan kasus perdata, bukan pidana. Oleh karena itu, apakah alasan dari prita dipenjara?

Apakah polisi hanya membela corporate, apakah ini indikasi suap, apakah menutupi kinerja rs omni yang kurang kompeten? Apakah ada hal yang salah ditulis oleh Prita? Apakah tidak boleh complain? Apakah Prita menghasut, dan apabila menghasut, apakah berarti salah? Apakah mengingatkan teman2 bahwa restoran itu ga enak, sekolah itu ga bener, rumah sakit itu jelek, mobil merk itu boros, dll berarti menghasut dan mencemarkan nama baik?

*apakah saya akan ditangkap juga?

Well, in my honest opinion, people should have the liberty to express their feelings and comments. Especially when the comments were made to friends. We are no longer living in an era where we only say what government approve to say. Expression of feelings and freedom of speech are actually human rights.

Apa bedanya blogging? curhat di email? wall in facebook? curhat hati ke hati? ngobrol di telp? sms ke temen2?

Apa jadinya negara kita bila polisi, sistem, pengadilan, masih ga berubah2?

Bapak2-ibu2 pejabat negara yang terhormat ini usul saya…:
Mendingan tangkepin tuh orang2 yang masih utang sama KPK bertriliun2 rupiah (kasus korupsi).. Walopun sudah divonis harus bayar oleh pengadilan, tetep belum bayar..
Mendingan urusin tuh ormas2 yang ga bener, kerjaannya merusak dan meresahkan masyarakat. contoh: FPI. *hayo.. mencemarkan nama baik lagi kah?
Mendingan urusin gelandangan yang berkeliaran tanpa nasib yang jelas.
Mendingan urusin korupsi2 yang terjadi karena penggundulan hutan liar, pengerukan mineral yang tak berijin, masalah2 rehabilitasi tempat2 pengerukan dan penggundulan tsb. Masa tanah air kita botak2 dan bolong. Itu harus dikembalikan dong posisi dan bentuknya.. Perusaha2an ini hanya ambil untung, dan tidak bertanggung jawab untuk rehabilitasi..

Cape ah, komen banyak2.. mending saya kembali mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa, biar semoga masa depan bangsa, ga sejelek sekarang…

Culture..(and holiday sooonnn)

I know time flies.. but for once, it didn’t fly fast enough.
Been wanting to have a break. (of course it will not be a total break – Working in 2 places creates this total break constrain). Hopefully, this break starts next week, fingers crossed.

Neways, I have been marking, preparing final results, and what happens.. many got below C.. There are several possibilities: students are lazy, students are ignorant, or students are playing dumb.

Funny, most students where I am teaching, are actually having similar behaviors and attitudes. Is it the current culture of the students every where now?

Of all three possibilities, it could also relate to other possibilities: school’s effort to help, school’s system, and school’s resources. (which i will write about next time..)

Talking about resources.. human resource wise.. I witness a quite contradicting working behavior of my current workplace and my previous (and still current) workplace.

Here, people come early and go home on time. By early means, at 7 am (actually starts at 7.15) teachers are all hear. And people go home on time.. By on time means, they go home at 3.15. They make queues on the fingerprint attendance machine at 3.05.

At the other place, people arrive on time or 5-15 minutes later. And people stay a bit later in the office.

If this can be observe (officially), it will actually good for those students wanting to learn organisation behavior and/or culture.
Since basically, both offices are education centre.

End of second week

Doing something new is exciting and exhausting at the same time.
Tiching hi skull is no different. Some respect you.. some neglect you. Gw sih belum ngomel2.. reserve it for the next year. It is the end of academic year now, let them end it peacefully.

Anyhow, yesterday, I got a bit irratated with my college students. (fyi, I still hold my part time classes at a uni)
The students were acting like hi skulers and worse.
Since this is in college, my charted territory, my turf, I unleashed my superpower. It started with me peacefully explaining about assignment. Then, I continued with my usual lecture. The students start their own little discussion. They were done in low and murmuring voices. So, not so much of distraction.

After about an hour, one couple started holding hands as if my class is a cinema. Others were chatting louder, maybe one or two were laughing coz they were listening to my examples, but more were into gossiping and planning where to go after. It got worse. People started to tease and chat more louder.

So I stood in front, silently. Waiting…

After several minutes of that, students realized.. me sipping drinks, watching them…

Then, some politely shut themselves up. However, some still continued as if the world is theirs. So I waited…

The friends who had already realized I was silent for minutes tried to shush the friends.. Took a while for everyone to be silent and start looking (if not staring) at me.

Since I laid the rules, I said this – Do you remember my rules in class? I speak you listen, you speak I listen. Only on disccusion you speak, when I teach you listen. (my favourite rule)

By this time, they should have realized I was irritated. Then I continued my cynical sarcastic comments – If you dont want to be here, you are welcome to go out. Your attendences are noted anyway.

With a more stern and deeper voice, I said you are not hi skullers. I dont care about you. You could fail this class, and for all I care, you could repeat several times. My duty is to deliver the knowledge, not to babysit.

In closure, I warned them .. Next week, any of you who wants to chat and not be in my class, please come, do your attendance, and go out. For I only will lecture those who wants to listen. Today, I will finish right this moment, and I consider this topic is done. If it comes up in the test, it is your bad not mine. You may go home now, thank you.
(It supposed to last for two hours, but I was done for in 1 hour.. )

Let’s see if this situation happen again next week. I guarantee some people already failed bfore even test 1 is done.

Har har har… *evil laugh..

Second week

Finally, I got my chance to blog. Last week was hectic, early this week was also busy. I actually have some tasks to do, exam papers.Procrastinating is my middle name, so blogging this is one of my excuse.

The students are now doing their IGCSE exam. So, I am relieved from the duty of going to class, yelling at them, and delivering knowledge. It is not so me yelling and being angry. When I stand in front of my more mature students, I would just stare at them. They would understand then. I always said to them: I teach, you listen. You talk, I silent. If I silent for too long, I might just finish the class early and fail the students faster.

With these immature students, more brutal punishment maybe needed. Mental abuse is not enough. Of course, I would not resort to physical abuse. Got to find a way to punish them.. Got to..

Teaching IGCSE

As a first timer, I didn’t have a single clue about IGSCE. For all I care, IGCSE could be I Got Cured So Easily, or If Ghost Could See Earth.

Yeah, I was just making it up.

But honestly, I thought teaching secondary was easy pissy. It was more piss than ease. Teaching is not a problem for me. It is the new syllabus and environment that makes me rolled my eyes. Hmm.. I will report soon about the situation of this battle field. Keep your head tune in.

Vampire based love story – Stephenie Meyer

I don’t intend to give a full review of the tetra-logy book by Meyer. (is tetralogy a right term? hmm..) Main reason is just that I have only finished the third book.

So far, it is just a -so not for me- love story drama novel.. (read: pretty lame) I was waiting for the fights of the mythical creatures: vampire, werewolf, maybe knife throwing, gun shooting, grenade launching actions. I never reached that part.. not yet.

Neways, if anyone have read the book? do you care to comment?

This is what I gather so far .. the most frequent used words in the series are ‘rolled one’s eye’. eg: Bella rolled her eyes. Jacob (the werewolf)grinned, and rolled his eyes. And even vampires – the Cullens, Alice, Edward – rolled their eyes. I wonder how a person roll his/her eyes. Hmm.. I guess that is an expression most used by Meyer herself.

*rolling eyes…

The strap on the neck

Why would most IT – tech guys wear straps on their neck? Be it their three-four-five lock of flash disks, or ID card + server room keys.
I know this may not be always correct, but I still wonder about it.

My own guess is for the to show off purposes. ‘Hey, looky here, I am an IT person. Cant you see from the stuff dangling on my neck?’

Hohoho..

Delivering management…

It is so happened that I am teaching 3 subjects of managements. People would initially think ‘hey.. thats easy. You only have to prepare one time’. While that statement may hold some truth, it actually has a twist of fate. (I wonder if I use the correct term, but anyway..)

After teaching for 2 weeks, I realized that I could accidentally teach the wrong topics in the wrong class. Or may have repeated the same topics twice in the same class by mistake .

E.g: Every management class talks about scientific management as part of the theory. But in my classes, that topic is discuss in different weeks. In basic mgt, it could be in the third week. In more advance management, it is discussed in the first week. Inevitably, I could repeatedly discuss the same topic. Geez…