Day 108: Pro-ELT Cohort 2 Meeting

I planned to get up at 3am and move out at 4am but turns out it was really hard for me to wake up. I think I know that my body is not ready, so I was an hour late. Still I made it in time. I forgot it was fasting season, so I didn't had any breakfast... I had to go out for quick bites.

We had Dr. Jayanti S. Nathan today, she's the one who spearheaded the Pro-ELT program. We had a lot of questions and one of the hot topic been discussed was the c1-c3, RM 3,000-RM5,000. It's unofficial and we're not to spread any news regarding those issues. It was not really that long, in the afternoon we're done. Time to head back to Telupid, I'm not gonna stay another day in this place.

17th July 2014 (Thursday)

Day 107: PLC Course Day Two and Promotion

I really wanted to finish my claims today and I did just that. But still it will gone through another checking before actually landed on Masneh's table. Anyways, another course to be done and earlier today, PPD wanted to see me about something. He was excited about me seeing him and point out critical issues. So he decided to make another meeting in the evening. I kinda knew that this day will happened sooner or later. But it happened today, I got promoted to be the Head of LINUS.

21st July 2014

(Tuesday)

Day 106: PLC Course Day One

I went to the office and then went out for a quick visit to SMK Telupid. I needed the headmistress signature for my financial claims. Right after that I went back for PLC with Mdm. Duisa dan Simon. I wasn't really helping much since I had just one slot and it's about lesson study. Even though that's the case, I'm still in the room. We only have like 4 teachers inside the the PKG room and they were the selected ones to attend such course. I got my ex co-worker Cikgu Iap and Leifrey inside the course. I've been bugging Simon for knowledge. He's becoming my Senpai for most of the things that I've been doing here. I'm really grateful for him.

17th July 2014 (Monday)

Day 105: Working On Saturday

Something about yesterday still bugs me. I couldn't stay calm in house watching TV and relaxing when I still got things to be done in the office. I always got this principle of leaving work behind when it's holiday. But today was different, I feel like I want to work.

I decided to go to the office and continue working. Well it's my first time since I got here going to work willingly on Saturday. I don't get paid extra for this but I got something to prove. This burning passion of doing my job is really getting into me.

I was the only on inside the room doing my work. I don't feel bad, I feel great. I'm a working man and keep telling myself "Melbert you finally become an adult" LOL. I got presentation slot for PLC next week. I need to prepare myself of that as well.

12th July 2014 (Saturday)

Day 104: The Financial Problem

 

How do I start this blog... I was pretty damn pissed about something. I got beef with the account unit at my workplace. I haven't made any claims. I was wrong, I know but there's a better way of letting one knows. Anyways, I was getting really serious and started learning how to do the claims the right way. It's my forte turning negative things into something positive. So because I got criticized, I used all the anger into burning fuel to do my job.

It's Friday we had early break but whose still working? Me. I'll show them how real men work. If got serious there's nothing I could not finished. Yet all those hard work for the day, still not enough for me to get all things done. The day end with me cooling off with SoL.

11th July 2014 (Friday)

Day 103: Office Day In

Went to the office and I was the first one to arrived. Usually I took more time for my break in the afternoon but today I didn't even took too much time for rest. Maybe because the internet at my house was down and there's currently some kind of maintenance going on in front of the police station here. I like watching YouTube videos and sometimes I couldn't get out of the house in time because I got distracted watching interesting videos via subscription. 

Favoring myself being inside the office instead at home feels like I'm beginning to become a hardworking person. Anyways, Mdm. Duisa had her daughter tagged along inside the office made us stayed and didn't visit any schools. Besides we got reports and other stuffs needed to be finished.

10th July 2014 (Thursday)

Day 102: Kursus FasiLINUS 2.0 Siri 2 Day Three

Gawd it's the final day, I couldn't be more thrilled about today. I needed a break from courses and I feel like I need to be with my teachers. I need to keep my teachers back in the district to be motivated and aware that somebody's watching. I really want our district to go up the ladder even more this time. We started at the bottom this season and we climbed to 15th place.

Anyways, we had micro teachings and a couple of photography sessions. I'm not staying another day in Kota Kinabalu, I'm going to drive back even if I'm tired. I reached somewhere around 6pm at Telupid and I went to hibernation mode right after.

8th July 2014 (Tuesday)

Day 101: Kursus FasiLINUS 2.0 Siri 2 Day Two

Well another day full day of input going inside my head. I already learned some of the things inside the course but it's really good to get refreshed once in a while. By time, I know I will be an expert in this. We had another micro teaching on the way and it's going to be presentation time tomorrow. In the evening session we had a full blown group work. This time I got to be in a team of men. We got Jumaat, Victor, Hadi, Er and that other guy who is a newcomer whose really quiet. I can't seem to remember his name... never mind I'll get this updated once I recall.

7th July 2014 (Monday)

Day 100: Kursus FasiLINUS 2.0 Siri 2 Day One

After a day break, already this one comes along. It's Sunday. I haven't missed Church so I don't want to start now. So what I did was, I went to SoL church, she's SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) . SDA christian pray on Saturday so it's okay.

So today I pack my things and away I got to Klagan Hotel, Kota Kinabalu. After 5 hours of driving, arrived, course started right off. Great, I'm still tired. But okay. Because it's fasting season for the Muslims, we don't have any night slots. Yay! Still tired as hell today.

6th July 2014 (Sunday)

Day 99: Forum LBI

This forum was totally conducted by me from the start till the end. Mdm. Duisa was only there to supervise and give a little comment or two. We had different teachers coming in for today's forum. I gave each of the teachers equal chances to speak their heart out. For me this forum is really important because it's one of the event that steer the direction of our district for LBI. I really wanted to score and give that much needed pressure for them to perform.

Actually I already knew about their issues at school and I'm aware of what's happening. It's not been that long that I've taken the position as a FasiLINUS. I'm still a teacher at hearts but my burdens are great as well. I sacrificed a lot just to help these teachers out. I used their frustrations as their fuel to do their jobs. I gave them a speech that moved them. I was really great today. I believe that we're going to rose above our score last screening test.

On the other hand, our PPD had gotong royong  EKSA. I didn't really participate but I helped a little as soon as the forum was over.

4th July 2014 (Friday)

Day 98: New Teacher Awareness Course Day Two

Looks whose in the middle. Me. LoL. I felt like the Red Ranger from Power Rangers every time I got my pictures took out like these. Well another tiring course comes to an end. Everybody said their farewell and I feel great. I cover a lot of field since yesterday. The flow of information was not rushed too. It was precise and timely as well. Tomorrow is going to be LBI forum, my innovation for our district. Hopefully it will turn out great just like this course.

3rd July 2014 (Thursday)

Day 97: New Teacher Awareness Course Day One

The first day of the awareness course. As I mentioned, somebody was late. Well that's not the highlight of today's course. It's about me giving 100% for my presentation and mentoring. I actually didn't prepare much, most of my sessions were conducted spontaneously and I reacted upon experience. It brings back how I used to teach kids... adults are pretty much the same. Except you don't have to control them. They're well behaved. It's from 8am to 5pm. I don't feel like going back to the office just to punch out my card, so here's what comes in handy when you got someone close to you in the office. I asked SoL to punch my card. =)

2nd July 2014 (Wednesday)

Day 96: Preparation for New Teacher Awareness Course

I didn't took any pictures today. This was the picture of a car that's blocking my car yesterday. I guess this could do.

I sat down with Jeya and talked about our program tomorrow. Well by the end of the discussion I joked about being late. She was like "don't you ever joke about something like that" in an angry tone. I was like "chill, just kidding". Turns out I was on time, she was #@$!%!^%^@ late.

Never mind, I had a great day today. I got to the chance to spent the night with having dinner with that SoL. She was the one who paid for the food and she brought along her family. I got the chance to talked with her parents. Other than that, finally after a month I sent my glasses for repair.

1st July 2014 (Tuesday)

Day 95: Pre-School Awareness Course

Jump on the first day of the week and also the last day of the month. I wouldn't expect more from my PPD, I already got tasks in line just to get going. I got a slot for that course being conducted by our LINUS team. I was still damn tired. Jeya didn't really have anything to do, she was just sitting there and it kinda pisses me off. To make it even worst, there was supposed to be an Awareness Course for new teachers on this coming Wednesday but the place was still not booked yet.

I had to go out and booked for that ICT room at SMK Telupid right after my presentation. Sometimes I wonder, why do I have to do everything myself...

Well the day start off really weird by the way, the door to our office was locked and I finally acquired some lock picking skills. I now know how to open the door without any key. Oh there's another thing, a new trainee from some college that I don't know much was here. She's staying for a month or so. She's under Mr. Arnold.

30th June 2014 (Monday)

Day 94: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day Six

Phew... Finally the last day. We had a couple of unfinished micro teaching and then closing ceremony. Damn it's already Saturday, that was the first time I had the longest course. Talk about six days of morning until night trainings. Before heading back to Telupid, I went shopping for a bit.

28th June 2014 (Saturday)

Day 93: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day Five

A lot of group work and we're having micro teaching. Telupid group was being combined into one with Ranau. We had a really great teamwork and produces some of the finest presentation. It was kinda memorable because we're given a birthday topic and it's actually one of our teammate birthday. We celebrated her birthday right on. But on the downside well... celebrating your birthday while working hmm... Anyways, great day today.

27th June 2014 (Friday)

Day 92: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day Four

Despite being tired, I was surprised how I'm not really that sleepy. Well there's rumors about our night off last night was being questions and according to some higher ups. That was really uncalled for and it shouldn't happened. I have no comments about that matter and discussing it further was of no use because it already happened and we don't really have any problems with it.

26th June 2014 (Thursday)

Day 91: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day Three

Today's most interesting event was it's pay-day and not just that. The speakers were being kind to us. They didn't do any night session and it's a chance for a MOVIE NIGHT. Well Alvin was always the one who bought tickets. We got Jumaat, Victor, Gary, Jeya, Ahmad, Er, Mirul, Alvin, Royzad and Me. All 10 of us going out for that Transformer 4: Age of Extinction. Well I did dozed off, my biological clock is calling me to sleep. The movie ended at 2.30am, went back to sleep at the hotel at 3am. What a great day to start off tomorrow (--__ --')

25th June 2014 (Wednesday)

Day 90: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day Two

We're finally being given a group to work with. I like it when we got more group work instead of just listening. Well I'm not gonna do a report here, one report for my PPD is enough typing for the day. So that's it for today.

24th June 2014 (Tuesday)

Day 89: Kursus Pemulihan LBI Day One

It's a Remedial Course for LBI if you need any translation. Well I should've gone yesterday but naa.. it's better on Monday. Woke up early to pack my things and get going. After that long drive, finally reached Palace Hotel. I got a room with Er from Kota Marudu. He was actually a great guy to have as my roommate. We did workout together that's what cool about being with him. As soon as I got there the course starts. I was trying to sit at the back because it's pretty cold in front. But the speaker was really begging so okay... Well being in front in not such a bad thing but now I'm known, I'm stuck there until the course is over. We had night session as well. The one conducted the course was from Nottingham University, Mr. Joseph and Ms. Tze Peng. Slept early because I was tired from the long drive.

23rd June 2014 (Monday)

Day 88: APC Day

 

Award Ceremony was being held at IPS Forestry Hall. I was being called out by Aron about being a video cameraman. It was a boring task but I was getting the impression of I wanna see what's going to happened. Two weeks ago I went to a karaoke session with some of my friends, I was pretty confident when I got good feedback from them. Then it happened, Reynold asked me to sing. If I remember the lyric then go up stage he said. That was one of the horrible, embarrassing, not cool memories I had for 2014. Note to self, don't show off. You'll look like an idiot if you failed.

21st June 2014 (Saturday)

Day 87: LINUS Organizers and Headmasters Meeting

The meeting went really well and not just that, it actually finished sooner. I kinda dislike long meetings. We got time to be more than acquaintance after, let's focus on tasks at hand. That's just my style. Well I finally sent my claim for transferring to PPD. I was so confident with it and little that I know I got it wrong in the future.

After the meeting, there's another meeting that doesn't really concern us. It's PPD with the headmasters at the PKG meeting room. There's a funny side story happened today, actually there's two tables being sent, already paid and ready to be put inside the office. But the thing is, the payer was supposed to be a mystery man. The people in the office was puzzled out with it. They can't seem to find the person who bought it. Everybody was suspecting me of it. But sure hell no I'd buy tables.

At last it was revealed, it was PPD himself. He wanted to do some kind of a 'sedekah' LOL. But so kind of him to do that.

20th June 2014 (Friday)

Day 86: ICT Room SK Pekan Telupid

There's going to be a meeting with LINUS organizers and the headmasters tomorrow. I need to book for ICT Room, SK Pekan Telupid since the Gerakan Room, at SMK Telupid is being used for MUET. While they were busy discussing about places and things needed to be done. I already made my move. I went out to SK Pekan Telupid myself and book that place. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one doing the hard work here. I'm a little angry at them and for the whole day I just kept doing my preparation for tomorrow's meeting and even bother to talk with them.

19th June 2014 (Thursday)

Day 85: FasiLINUS meeting with Ketua Sektor Siri II

Because of my past experience, I decided to wake up early and drive. It was a good decision because I don't have to spent too much money just for the hotel. Jeya and Mdm. Duisa was here as well, too bad Elsie couldn't joined us.

The meeting was mainly about our Ketua Sektor checking up on us. As I sat there, Gary was with me again. I was being friendly and nice to him by reminding him of some stuffs. But he was being rude with being like "I don't want to listen to you just give me the damn thing". Next thing you know, I changed my seat. I know he was playing but I don't play like that. I'm staying away from this guy because this type of people just gonna disrespect me as I got more close to him.

Anyways, that break in the afternoon, I went to Karamunsing and bought a new printer. I need it for my office work. I got one already at home but I need another one for the office. I should've taken that free lunch before going out because when the time I reached there, the foods was already empty. I'm a frugal guy so... I care about things like this.

I didn't stay for the night, drove back home that evening. Hate rush hour.

17th June 2014 (Tuesday)

Day 84: A Visit to a Furnite Store

I went to buy furniture with that sweet office girl today. She helped me picked the best table and I got the fanciest table in the office. Heellll Yeaah... I got standard. I will not be working with that small table they provided for me. I got class yo. So I bought that new table with my own money. I feel good about myself after that. Other than that, as a token of appreciation for that sweet office girl.. hmm... I should abbreviate her to SoL as in Sweet Office Lady. Well I sent SoL home. Like I said before, the start of something beautiful.

13th June 2014 (Friday)

Day 83: Preparation for Data Analysis Presentation

I got a new task in hand, preparation for Data Analysis Presentation next week on 20th June. I got some free time to spare and decided to bought drinks and talked with that sweet office girl while she ate the macaroni that she thought I prepared specially for her. In the evening, refuel. I haven't took a single photo so this is the only one I got. Sorry subsidized gas working girl.

12th June 2014 (Thursday)

Day 82: The First Day in The New Office

Well guess what. The door was locked and there's no key. I don't want to wait outside so I decided to head back home and play me some video games while waiting for a text from Jeya about the door current situation. Right after the door was forcefully unlocked by an iron ruler, I went back to the office and spent the day working.

11th June 2014 (Wednesday)

Day 81: Moving Out to the New Building

Today is physical day as in doing heavy work by moving stuffs. I was wearing a wig while carrying that big table around. Got a have a little sense of humor sometimes. Well that's that. Nothing better to say, nothing better to write and I ain't gonna be wasting my time explaining things from A to Z about moving stuffs.

10th June 2014 (Tuesday)

Day 80: It's a Beautiful Day

The started off with staff management meeting and I said something really important in it. I told them that I'm volunteering for LO position since nobody is doing that right now. There's 2 English teachers who are actually being invited to that position but they haven't sent any replies yet. So considering that this PPD is in dire need of people who are capable to do it. So I took the challenge.

Well another special occasion happened today. I didn't wait for anything to give that sweet young office girl those gifts that I bought last week. I asked her out and she said yes. This maybe the start of something beautiful.

9th June 2014 (Monday)

Day 79: Kota Kinabalu Here We Go! Part 3

Well the meeting that I'm attending is actually an LO as in Language Officer meeting with JPN. Yesterday I went for movie marathon, I finally watched X-Men Days of The Future Past and Amazing Spiderman 2. I want to go for the next movie but it's Okay I'm all tired out. But next time I would totally break my record by watching 3 movies simultaneously. I also went a little shopping for that sweet office girl.

Yesterday was PISA - Program International Student Assessment. It was attended by Arnold instead of me. Today it's my turn again. We started with a little motivation session and then a little discussions about LINUS. Right after that I drove that long road back to Telupid. It was foggy and rainy as hell but I'm glad I made it through just like always.

I won't be posting day 80 on Friday this week because I'm just gonna stay in the house just to take a break.

4th June 2014 (Thursday)