Blood D Bio

OUch! Pain lo!

Sir! Why got no blood one? Already poked?
You got thick skin mah!

Sir! How come my blood cells so small?
How can I know? Your cells wah!
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Ouch! Why you prick so hard? Sir! Please pull the lancet out....... Wah! My blood red in colour.

Oh look! I bleed lo..... how ... painful... hemmmmm ma ma help meeee

Battle of the Bands

After the Senamrobik, the school Band (which won 2nd prize in Hong Kong) gives an exquisite presentation to the Aussie visitors.

The band

The audience captivated by the performance (or just plain relaxing in the sun)

Next the Chinese Philharmonics renders the Wong Fei Hong's song accompanied in action by the Wushu members.

Waiting for Master Wong Fei Hong

Come Shake Your Backside

First time this year, the aerobic shaking and dancing is back and now it is known as Senamrobik 1Murid 1Sukan 1Malaysia program (which incidently is conducted simultaneously all over the country for 30 minutes).

This is what you should wear to shake better..... the vice principal of the Heights School in tune with us

How to shake.. easy only la.. just follow me... 

Watch out for the Bush dance too from the Aussies

The Aussies Are Here

Hi mate! gud-eye, howyagoinallright?

What's that things! OMG! They can dance ... 

Students and teachers from the Heights School (Australia) are in Jit Sin since last Tuesday on the Students Exchange program which started last year. They will be here for another week.

Do have a bloody good time here.

Minggu Koperasi

Toys toys in the Jitsin... Half the hall is loaded with toys and other kiddies gadgets for the Minggu Koperasi.

Piggy and mousies... and the lion is watching.

Sports Day 2012

A hazy day but the brave Jit Sin runners still run for their Houses. Me, I am the Assistant Starter, for the first time.. Interesting for without my signal, nothing can be started..

Note the blurriness of the pictures...  due to the haze

In the end, I don't even know which house won.. Will ask the PKKK later on.

I can't See anything!!

Which one is amoeba? The big one or the black one? Amoeba got legs or not?

Sir, sir!!!! I can't see anything....

Wow! This big kah? You don't laugh huh, I

Why because, (1) either you are blind, or (2) there is no light so how to do LIGHT microscopy work leh... aisay...

Teacher's Day 2012

Happy Teacher's Day .... Innovative Teachers Generate National Education Transformation

Enough for 194 teachers

But, I am not feeling well and so could not care less about the celebration.. even not had any pieces of the cake

Science Trip to Alor Star

First day of the school holidays, and I followed a group of Biology/Science teachers and students to Alor Star for a study cum holiday tour.

Paddy Museum and Science Centre

We visited the Paddy Museum (well all you see is all about paddy). The thing that impress me and most of the visitors (and worth of the entrance fee of RM3) is the 36-degree mural painting the wall of a dome. If you have the time, you can sit and watch the picture while the whole platform rotates slowly.
The bad thing is you are not allow to (actually you have to pay) for bringing in the camera. I mean why charged for taking pictures while in most places don't.

The Science Centre (Northern Region) is next to the museum, so we walked there. I do not find Science centres to be impressive because most of the exhibits are toy-like and catered mostly to the kids. This Science centre is small comparatively to that in Singapore, so to me it is not worthwhile.

Alor Setar Tower and the Ecobrown Rice Mill

We detoured to a place where there are stores selling crystals. I assume the crystals came from the surrounding hill. Anyway, I bought a small piece of white calcite (I think) for RM3.

Then it is lunch time in Alor Setar Pacific Shopping Complex. After filling our stomach with food, we proceed to the Alor Star Tower. A five minutes lift ride to the top enable one to have the aerial view of Alor Star.

Our last stop is the Serba Wangi Rice Processing Plant. There we are introduced into eating the  Ecobrown Rice which most of the teachers bought in kilos.

I would say it is a 12-hours trip well spent for the start of the holiday.

T-Cher's Day

The Teachers' Day cake.. for 150 teachers.. "cleaned-out" in 150 seconds...

Two surprises happened today


First, somebody remembered the teachers in JitSin and sent a cake. What a pleasant thought.

I am not going to sing to you, maybe Pn Yeoh is... Okay la.. I'll sing..... see what happened when I had sung..

Second, there is an assembly at the volleyball court regarding teachers' Day. This is really a shock to me, as Jitsin do not celebrate the real Teachers' Day (see what I mean when you teach in a Machine school). So all form 3 and 6 students will have to assemble there at 10:50 (the rest of the students are taking their exams - another point to show that exam is more important than remembering teachers' Day in Jitsin)

And this could be another surprise, because when everybody is at the court, the program is just to watch the small television showing the speech by the Minister of Education in TV1 (live) from Kuala Kangsar. Scheduled at first at 11 am but only come on air at 11:35 am (talking of Malaysian punctuality).  What is the educational aim of this thing? Well, probably to make the students remembered this year Teachers' Day

Second Place

Second prize

The Basil Leaves project had won for the second consecutive time. Congratulations to the members and of course the teacher who gets nothing (ya la.. talk about sharing????)

Long March to 2013

Marching in (the boys lead) and ......into the hands of ......discipline teachers for first filter..

The Lower Sixes are back to school.

Welcome back for the paper chase. A new chapter (STPM) begins.

First three days will be orientation to the Lower Sixes, to choose Science or Arts, Bio or Physics, Accounts or PP, and then choose which KoKo clubs or uniform bodies...

Then beginning of next week, it is going to be full throttle towards 3 STPM exams.

The vision stuck on the wall.... but the impression .......if there is hope...

World Book Day

The book worms feasting on the layers of cellulose polluted with lead-based inks

The timing is correct - the annual books exhibition was held in the school hall for the past two days. Not many book stalls for this year, just 3 only.

I did not really find it to be of any interest as the books exhibited for sales are all in language which I could not understand. What a pity as I had the budget to acquire some books.

InTraining

Recsam - nothing interesting about the course hence the scenery of the campus is the main attraction

Spent my last weekend at RECSAM-SEAMEO in Penang Island for the course on New STPM (syllabus and coursework).

Actually, it is more of a 3-days holiday with nothing gained except that for those who are going to come back for Lower Six next week, be warned that there are many course works (kerja kursus) that you will have to do.

As for Biology, I am not too happy with the new practicals for paper 4 as some of the good practical in the Terminal STPM had been taken away and the new ones suck. Anyway, it is still a new thing and the guinea pigs will be in next week.

Met two "old" boy and girl of Jit Sin, one Ms Teng Bee Gaik, a sweet teacher from Heng Ee, who came and greet me. I cannot remembered her but her name struck me as my ex-student in 1996.

Run

Oh my! The end is still so far away........

The first day of the annual Sukan Tara - a chance for the Jitsinians to enjoy life in the morning sun. The pounding and trumping of the Class One Boys and Girls shaken the earth as they tried to outpaced each other to the finishing line in the 100 m dash (or clash). At the end of the day, the Jitsinians gained much from the exposures to the sun and the Green House emerged the winner

Post STPM Visit

The Zombies and the Pea-shooter (mycikgu).. Thanks for the Teacher's Day present

I got a Zombie and a Pea-shooter and .... a Highness, a Hikaru, a Shimin and a Movethebox today in school... Thanks for the Zombie and the Plant (also from the Highlanders).. Love it...
Oh ya! forgot about the MusicTeacher who wrote her farewell song too soon

The Best in Penang

From Penang State Government

Confirmed and Sealed

In Fantasy - 2nd Place

Roti prata with basil leaves will be the 2013 project ....

The Basil team #2 had won 2nd place in the Science Competition for this year Science Week. Congratulations to the team for their effort and perseverance in carrying out this project.

Fantasy of Science

Science (fiction) week.. Basil leaves scent from my R&C group 2012:::::: and one of the better project (electrifying the plant)

Oh! It is not a battlefield in the school hall, but the chaotic presence in the hall is due to the annual Science Week with this year's theme The Fantasy of Science (probably Jitsins study science as sci-fi and no wonder they scored As and A+s every year in SPM)

And true to the theme the ExaMachs do transform Science into Fantasy. I mean, how can a project presenter explains that aluminium can stores heat better, or that 4 spoonful of sugar and 4 spoonful of salt are of same concentration and.. and that hot air flows downward.. oh my god! What a fantasy world our ExaMachs live in!

Out of 41 projects (sounds grand - but as Hokkien people said  Boh Liau) only 2 or 3 projects are worthy to be called science projects (and least to say of Kebangsaan level). The rest are typical exam-oriented laboratory works or magic shows. Chemistry projects that are done with no chemical principles, Mathematics projects with no background in mathematics principles or rules, Science experiments with no controls - had the Jitsin students not taught of these in class or lab?

Yucks! What an insult that my intelligence had to endure as a judge for today and (OMG) tomorrow again.

CrossCountry Chicken Run

At check point 8

Thank god no rain today, as it was raining cats and dogs yesterday morning.

A good weather for the Jitsin Chicks and Ducks to run the annual somewhat-shortened-again cross country (or taman) run.

Most of the two legged super Chicks and Ducklings managed to walk all the way while the teachers constantly yelled encouraging words to them.

After the run, there will be more strenuous exercises .. talking about torturing people.. I will be too weak to blog after this