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Hello!

I have been home since saturday. Had a really interesting and educational trip of Malaysia, traveled from the east coast to almost the west, and totally enjoyed the delicious weather/climate up in the Cameron Highlands. Lovely! Even went to the Boh tea plantations. However, due to transport constraints, Dad and I skipped Taiping and came straight home from Ipoh after 5 days.

My bahasa malay was totally …(fill in the blanks)… Lol! The most extreme I did was at McD’s where I ordered 2 Sundaes, “Dua Sundae. Chocolate satu,  strawberry satu.” That’s it. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. And damn, I am quite proud of it. WAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am right now loading the photos I took there onto my FB account. Hope to get it done soon.

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CCAs are cancelled this week all thanks to the H1N1 but I must say that it is a blessing in disguise as I got an extra day to rest at home. Went back to school yesterday and today for staff meeting/seminar where we were informed about the H1N1 operating procedures to be carried out on monday when the new term begins, and we also discussed Restorative Process, a discipline tool that the school is using, and how useful it is and its many other uses, which is a new concept to me as I only know about the other discipline process called Responsible Thinking Process. What I found similar between these two processes is that they, the processess, enable the wrong-doer to think through things by a set of questions and arrive at a conclusion/rational “punishment” that he/she is able to carry out. Infact, many of the staff shared that the wrong-doers more often than not will carry out their self-prescribed punishment when they know that they had done the same thing wrong as the first time. For example, a boy who was always late for school was told to answer the questions. When he came to the last question, he answered that he would run around the field 10 times if he was late again. Another school day came and the Discipline Master was rounding the late-comers up when he noticed that the boy who was late again was not in that group. He asked the boy’s friend where he was, and his friend answered that he was already running around the field. So you see, there is hope. These children just need to slow down and examine their actions and once they realised their wrongs, they will do something to make it right. There is hope! Even played 2 interesting games; “Blow Wind Blow” when we were in our little group circles, and “Landmine” where I was only an ‘observer a.k.a noise maker’ to the ‘blind’ and the ‘guide’. It was really fun playing and watching my team navigate through the ‘landmine’ while trying to distract the opposing team. Lol!

Right. I am so drifting off. Got to go back to school tomorrow afternoon to accompany some students to the Asian Youth Games Opening Preview. Sounds exciting.