World Ocean Day

Yes, today is the World Ocean Day and i am very lucky to be invited (actually it's Wasan school that is being invited hehe ) to witness the event. The best part of the event?? I would say it's the boat trip. For the first time, i went on board a fishing boat, the one that do trawl net fishing. It's actually meant for Geography people but well, who cares about what subjects i'm teaching. Plus, i guess some of the teachers were too sea-sick to go move from ship to speed boat. It was a nice experience. Another highlight is where they showed us the coral reef through video cam, live. It was soooo beautiful down there, with about 135 species of lifeforms. Wow! We all should be proud of our sea and give her more love.
I think i can never be a good fisherman. I feel so pity to those fishes that were caught. They even caught 2 sharks, just not big enough to get excited about. I actually had the urge to throw the fishes back into the sea :p
Oh yeah, i also love the reusable bag they gave us this time. Very nice blue, not like the one i got from the ICE 2010 at UBD. It was a black one. Black is never my choice of colours.

While we're on the boat, i had a long conversation with my HOD. He explained the situation to me and why he doesn't encourage me to do personal-tutoring for more than 2 students. There is a high chance that i will have to teach 6 subjects, ALL new to me. Plus the duty and responsibility of GC (new to me too), i don't think i still have much time to prepare efficiently for the tutorial session. Maybe i can, but it won't be my best. Maybe the students can cope with the timetable, but they will have difficulty with the workload. After the discussion, we both started to think there will be more cons than pros if we allow them to proceed while repeating the failed units. Haih... more than 1 colleague have told me, sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind.
I strongly believe that we cannot do experiment with it because it's their future. And i guess i have to give in to the fact that there's a limit to the things i can do at a time. The teaching hour for the new sem is like more than twice my teaching hour now. I'm yet to find out whether i can cope with it or not.
I'll let the academic board do the decision, since they're all experienced people. But i'll just discuss it again with my colleague this saturday. From now on, i don't want to think about it.

My face is reddish now, need to do mask later. Thanks to our beloved Mr Sun.

I am so broke this month. Haven't fully recovered from my trip to taiwan. So it's actually a good thing that my new car is yet to arrive.
I'm proud of myself today for not getting too sea-sick. Drinking cola does help.

Till here. Take care old ladies. xoxoxo