of drama queens and their distant cousins

no comment on the above title. makes you wanna smash my head at the screen right? right? mwahahahaha....

let's see. no more rerama-sensei. no more future-of-mankind being entrusted to me anymore. a HUGE relief. i wouldn't want to entrust my future to me anyways. but it was fun while it lasts.

thus, back in penang, back in the lab. i'm getting better at organizing work and play [i think]. so i was slightly anxious when the feedbacks i got from my boss were always positive. where are the scathing remarks? where is the sarcasm? where is my boss and what did you do to him???

ok, ok. maybe i shouldn't speak too soon. (>.<)

shouldn't have taken any online writing commission although i really wanna do it. real life tends to be more bitchy demanding. huhu...

ah, hisagi. you made face tattoos look cool.

i have an abrasion on my gum and it hurts.

i'm bad at updating. toldja. LOL

ad interim

i wore mask at school today. it's my sinus problem, but with the H1N1 scare i thought i better mask up so that the kids won't cringe away from me [good way to cover the runny nose too..teehee]. and the whole day, kids tagged me "the masked rider" and "ninja-sensei". chisss...

and because of some schedule reshuffle, in addition of the 18 yr olds, i'm teaching English to 16 and 17 yr olds too. unlike the older kids, these fourth formers are scaring me [but i hid it well]. lemme tell you, gangsterism in schools is underrated. imagine this, when the class teacher found out that i'm gonna teach this particular class, she came to me and start giving me infos on which students to watch out for. fortunately [bless my lucky stars], i made good impression on them and the very kids that the other teachers warned me of were the ones who asked their classmates to "f**king pass up the exercise books that teacher wants now". creepy, but true. maybe they pity me, nonetheless you kids are still freaking me out. (>.<)

on random contemplation, Hikaru-kun of HSJ reminds me of victor. i dunno man. i look at this guy and i see you. it's the eyes maybe. [shrugs]

surprisingly, i understood your gibberish

Life as an English teacher is quite fun. The kids are a good lot but when they are all hyper and excited, it's quite tiring. I was like "Sheesh, calm down people. No shouting matches or headlockings or maiming friends with stapler in my class please!"

By the way, some of them have taken a liking to me. And they're mostly boys. Vying for my attention in class, went out of the way to help me carry books, telling iloveuteacher in the middle of corridors... It's flattering, hun but major awkward okay? And I'm still resisting offers of lunch dates with them. Maybe, just maybe I'll cave in during the last week on the job.

I'm still getting used to the antics and hormones of 18 yr-olds. ^*sweatdrops*

the adventures of rerama-sensei

took up a temp teaching post in klang. i'm currently teaching MUET prep classes for lower sixth form. my kids are cheeky but i think i know how to handle them and at least they listen when i talk (thank god). although their apparent lack of english skills is a bit shocking at first. how bad can an 18-yrs old's english skills be, you ask?

class: miss rerama, how to know more english words?

rerama: first of all, don't be lazy to look up the thesaurus.

class: what teacher? you said tyranosaurus?

rerama: err....have you ever used thesaurus before?

class: (.........) can you spell that?

the first week on the job, and i would like to apologize to all my high school teachers if i've ever contributed to their high blood pressures and ulcers before.