Oddblogger says ahoy to SSTMI.

hi people!

last Monday i went to Tengku Mahkota Ismail Sports School (formerly known as Sekolah Sukan Bandar Penawar) and it was a very educational trip for me as well as a tug of the heart seeing the very big and burly athletes over there.

so, this sports school consists of 18 types of sports being offered and you must be (at least) presenting your state in order to enroll into any sports school in Malaysia. as for the the pre-university student course offered, you must have 'presenting Malaysia' on your paper if you wish to study there. *dies*

basically we went there to get some information about the sports school system of administration and to get to know the daily routines of the athletes. the only formal interaction that we had with the athletes were during their prep class where we kinda talk to them and find out what's its like to be in the school running around all day long. pretty much i enjoy being the trainee teacher there because despite some of them being a naughty student, they respect teachers. they call me teacher, then cikgu, then suddenly changed to akak. i was like, yeahhh whatever, as long as you don't cross the line.

i'm very strict who dares cross the line later i rotan them you know? hahaha.

so as soon as we arrived, we were given some briefing and taken to our dormitory. afterwards we went sight seeing around the school and observe the athletes undergoing their daily practices and gathering the information about the particular sports from their respective coaches.

at the first sight, all of us thought that these people carrying those bummers are the next Malek Noor but it turns out that they are actually, get this, SPRINTERS! yeah, all they do is run like a bullet train on the track but who would ever thought that they have to be weightlifters too? the girls and boys don't have any differences much! they are all big and burly with rippling muscles here and there, i feel like i'mma dead meat if i cross line with them! *shiver*

 this training is called lounging. build up the body strength.

 she's a 17 years old. *gasp*

 this is the national coach for takraw, beach ball, all the rolling balls lah.

 fencing like Ninja!

 somehow all of them are like Musketeers.

 Judo! slamming everybody to the ground!

 the swimming pool. they only have male swimmers.

 my bed. lol what's the point?

 the gymmm! :D

 this is where all the researches are done by the officers from Institut Sukan Negara (ISN)

 this is us in the bus. spot that orange lady hey? :P

 our Gerko lecturers yang hyper awesome!

 this is during the briefing.

 some of the icons from these school. 

that man in the poster is one of the teacher in the school hahaha.

 the netball girls! all of them are soooo tall!

from left : form 5, form 2, form 5, form 2, form 5. 

they've been to international levels! 

 this girl is super strong against the boy!

 the swimmers look like dolphins hahaha

 these are the primary school gymnast. most of them have six pack.

 this boy is a Silat practitioner but he's learning gymnastic movement out of interest. 

crazy, i'd say.

 he retired for two years but continue coaching the gymnast without a single pay. 

noble man!

 dolphins racing!

 hockey player.

 who's the boss? hehehe

so after watching all these dudes training, we were given the chance to communicate with them in which the teacher ask us to give some sorts of motivation or bla bla bla because we are teachers and we are the example here yaw! so, we enter their prep class to spook the hell out of them regarding the future but it turns out that we're the one being spook here because they are...exuding strength everywhere!

 the form 5. 

but most of them have such...er...small voices. 

shy?

 that guy in black is soo hyper. 

his name is Selvarajan something. 

i feel like rotan-ing him because he's so loud hahaha.

 this is our aerobic session with two trainers from ISN who's having their practical here. 

they use the Alex Ferrari's bara bara bere bere song.

i'm addicted to that song. 

myahahaha!

 our kuliah.

 the instructor from ISN giving brief introduction about his job and department.

went back to Iptho on board the bas perang.

this is my first time riding this bus so let's perang hahahah! 

all in all, the trip was a great experience for me because i've gain so much in such a short time. 

you know what? 

never underestimate sports students. some of them are very good at additional mathematics which is like, a huge thing for the stupid me hahaha. and most of them have a dream job which is outside the sports field like engineers, accountants, pilot and all. i'm impressed by their thinking. 

somehow, i feel very blessed that we have so many great athletes here,especially here in Johor! ahh my Johor i love youuu! i pray that they will be successful in their future undertakings. 

psst, i want my children to be gymnast and rugby player hehehehe. 

toodles! 

Welcome to the world of Children Literature!

hi peopleeeee!

i have finally finish my UAK examination and i don't have any class today. thank you God!

so, today my seniors from the third semester TESL batch were having their exhibition at the Dewan Seri Budiman and since i'm done with my UAK (which is at the KH block like amagaddd so far so hot the RBT students really power rangers can study in that condition! ) i made my way to the very Budiman hall kehkehkeh.

WARNING !
this entry contains a lot of pictures and waves of words because i'm a vain blogger i blog like nobody's business hell yeah!

so, as i enter the hall, my eyes caught the sight of 4 different booths which represents the classes of TESL 1, TESL 2, TESL 3 and TESL 4 respectively. so i proceed to the first booth on my right which is the booth of Tesl 2. basically all of them exhibit the same stuff : children's literature teaching stuff or as we teachers call them Alat Bantuan Mengajar (ABM). so yeah, pretty much the same but you have different concept and different style of presentation from each booth. i must confess, i got a lot of beautiful book marks from this exhibition which is a huge yay for me as i always left my bookmarks in the library books that i read. so without further ado lets view the pictures that are supposed to tell the thousands of words here instead of me rambling about them all. ahh i'm vain i blog all i want yehaa!

for the booth of TESL 2, i give them 5 stars in terms of presentation and atmosphere. the literary components that they focus on is the poetry. everything is about POETRY here so this is my favourite section hewhewhew. in this booth, they explain about the type of poetry that we can use in the process of teaching and learning in which the targeted students are mostly from the lower primary classes.

 Doket is hiding behind the boards. he won't explain when i ask him to. 

hmph you no good Doket.

this yellow board here explain a brief introduction about poetry ranging from the Chinese, English and modern definition. i like the glittering poetry title up there hehehe. a good introduction, Tesl 2! *clap,clap*

i feel like hopping around here but too bad i'm in my baju kurung hewhewhew. 

 meet Constance! *peace*

she talk super fast like me!

now this dude here, i don't now his name Hot ke Hutt ke Howt ke whatever la cuz i didn't notice his name tag lulz and his friends all call him like that, but let me tell you this, he is a very good at explaining. of course lahh he's probably memorizing the notes and all or just gabble away using the notes up on the board but he's facing me, the kepohchi Oddblogger who talks like a train when it comes to English and poetry and i talk like a lot but he manage to follow the pace lolz what lahh did i talk like so much huh? i don't think so i only mumble here and there hahahah! there are some of the poetry that i've known before but today he introduce me to the shape poetry (which use the poem about volacano as the example). shape poetry follow the shape of the given topic. let's say you wanna write a poem about cat, so the poetry is written in the form of cat. if you write about volcano, so the poetry is in the shape of volcano all triangle an layers. interesting poem style, isn't it? can i have a poem about ice cream? yummeyh! then there's the bio poems which focus on the characteristics of the poem subject.my i can't wait to learn all this poems next semester!

i'd say most of the poems here are suitable for primary school children as they are a lot more easier to understand and create. but there are those all time favourite of mine like epics, sonnets, ballads, and epitaph which really depicted the emotion and expression of the poem in deeper term which i'm sure those who love literature will find them very close to the heart. like me and my food. very close to the heart hahaha.


next i greet you with pleasure to the red world of Tesl 1! *hey, i'm wearing red too!*
the Tesl 1 students are in charge of introducing us to the adorable subject of songs and nursery rhymes. ahh when i say rhymes, images of chubby babies flashes in my mind myahaha. i give them 5 stars too in terms of presentation and atmosphere. they really give attention to you when you come to their booth. so at this booth they give us the example of activities and materials that we can use to make our lesson session interesting for the students, especially the little tiny tarzan of lower primary. some of the items that they use are board games and puppets (which they sew themselves wowow!) you can also use nursery rhymes to teach antonyms and synonyms with various example that you can find from all those sing-your-heart-out nursery rhymes. my favourite was Baa Baa Black Sheep because the sheep is very kind giving his fur even to the little boy down the lane hehehe.

 this is a cat. do i look like a catwoman? nahh.

 this is the foot prints although i have no idea why its pink.

 with Ash who was busy taking pictures here and there then suddenly taking picture with me. lolz.

 these are the example of big books and mask that we can use in class.

 James and Akashah. 

Akashah is very good at explaining. 

 ahhh i miss my guitar strumming days!

 these are board games that miss Farah shown to me. i swear i wish i can whisk that Harry Potter away!

my sally the snail puppet. with no right eyes. hahah!

these two booth are my favourite because they talk a lot and explain very good. 

this next booth are so informative! i like all those boards they put up but the balloons scared me a bit. 

balloons. yikes. 

Tesl 4 Hebat with their exhibition of plays and dramas, everyone! 

 their booth are very attractive and informative but somehow they don't really use this plus point really well. maybe this is due to the fact that its nearly lunch hour and everybody is so hungry. but they have so many interesting props that they display! basically for dramas the application of puppets are very suitable because every kids likes watching puppets right? think of Sesame Street, the Muppets and some of the puppets shows in RTM1 back then. i use to adore my animals hand puppets that i get from KFC! hahahah!

 this is a bee. bee me. *vain*

 it says famous but i don't think i ever heard of them. perhaps because most of the good ones are in Disney.

 you combine sticks and puppets. i love that duck!

 this is the legendary type of puppets. using sticks and papers. my brothers used to do Dragon Ball stick puppets all the time. i did it too, with my Disney princess characters.

 hand puppets! look there's a Twitter bird at the back!

 the methodology use and applied in using puppets in teaching.

 you sign your name, you get free book marks. yay! 

these girls are so darn pretty. okay jelly. lulz.

she explain about finger puppets, hand puppets, mask, and how to make them fun and attractive in the classroom. good presentation! 

this is a string puppet for the Ugly duckling.

 they made it themselves like so pro! *clap,clap*

the last booth is the Tesl 3 group where they present about stories. 

it is the biggest booth with so many props and boards and teddy bears. yes, teddy bears. 

 i look like a nerd. =..=

 these are some of the mask that we can use in story telling. 

 i found a gorgeous lady!

see? teddy bears like wow! :D 

 the attractive poster.

see see my book marks! :D 

that bird one is really cute! 

basically it was a very good exhibition and very informative and educational. at least i manage to learn something new today regarding the usage of Language Arts. gosh, i'll be studying these stuff next semester so i am very glad that they did this exhibition because at least it give me some inputs on what to expect next semester. but never mind lahh i love literature i sure become very bubbly learning all these hehehe. 

it was a job well done and i am sure everyone put in a tremendous effort in order to make this exhibition a success. it is a success to me. despite not having many visitors, the effort that give for this exhibition deserve a standing ovation. it is not easy to settle everything because it is the examination week and there's a lot of works demanded here.  not only that, they manage to deliver their presentation really well despite some of them seems reluctant to talk. its not the talking that matters to me, its the confidence and bravery that you show which prove what kind of teachers you are going to be like in the future. so Teberg, why you so shy you don't wanna speak? i'm not a monster i won't eat you i'm just vain hahahaha. 

English teachers must be vain because we speak the alien language. *vain much* 

actually, i'm not very familiar with my Tesl seniors because we rarely have anything that involve them in our daily activities. so i can say that there's a gap between the semester 1 and 3 but you know what? dash that gap! dash that indifference! they rocks like a boss yaw! with all the friendly faces and energetic attitude, i don't have any problems mixing with them. besides there are many gorgeous sisters in semester 3 so i'll be like,errr... the Ugly Duckling in front of them? lulz. so yeah i might be expressionless and blur when i meet people but i know i'll be talking like a train if they ask me something myahahah.

okay its a long entry and everyone is tired reading my rambling. 

toodles!