job will never end

At least in my mind the job will never end. There will always something you need to do and to plan even though it is during your weekends. There will always be something that comes to my mind and reminds me that I need to do something in the office soon!

Sometimes it gives me a bit of an adrenaline rush and I just jump on my laptop and start typing a letter. Sometimes I just quickly send a text message to my staff to remind us of some item that we need to discuss. That is just how my mind works I guess. I just need to keep up with it.

I remember back when I used to teach kids in the orang asli school, it was the same. However, it was always the creative side of my brain that kept working hard. My mind was always wondering how and what is next to teach to the kids. How would my class be different next week? What else I can do to teach them? How to connect the things around me with my students? There was always be something that made my mind wonder. I was eating a slice of bread, then the bread became my pedagogical tool to teach division; I was folding a letter, then A4 paper became my teaching tool to teach shapes; I was walking around the village and kicking stones, then stones became counters in my class. As a result, it turned into and exciting and interesting class.

I found that it happens the same way here but the problem is I am not sure if people can accept the way I work and think. Sometimes it's too fast for certain people. I guess so. Anyway, I am still trying to figure things out to be creative and innovative in the world of assets and procurement! (laughing)

PS: just a lazy and cozy Sunday!

After every storm, there is a rainbow

AFTER EVERY STORM, THERE IS A RAINBOW

I always neglected how meaningful and powerful this quote is. I guess it is just normal for us not to look at the positive side of something happening in front of us. We tend to look at the problem more than the solution. We tend to focus on the difficulties rather than the result. Just as the real storm, it's hard and dangerous to go through the storm either u walk, run or drive. We might find a shelter and wait until the storm stops. Then suddenly the colourful rainbow appears, everything that has been bothering us is gone and wiped away. Appreciate.

It has been six months since I started to work in Perlis Education Department. i really feel comfortable to work in the area of education and find it is the right place for me at the moment to build my experience on the things that I am familiar with and see how this will change and extrapolate my knowledge and skills.

So much stress to keep up, so much energy to push out with so much travelling and overwhelming knowledge to absorb. Yet, I am still standing here, trying my best to hold everything up and I really appreciate the experience that I have now.

PS: the struggle is real

Malacca for a week

I do not really have time to think about writing at the minute as there is so much work to be done in the office now - end of year. However, because I am travelling at the moment, I can only do work on the phone and through emails when necessary.

Last week I went to a big event in Malacca. My task was to observe the liaison officer and the event itself as Perlis will be the host for the same event next year. I was in Malacca for almost a week and managed to observe from the day before the participants of the event registered.

It was quite amazing to be able to learn afar throughout this complicated event which involved many small activities such as sports event, youth event, talks and seminars and gala dinner. We asked some of the officers in charge for information and knowledge about how they do it but we tries to avoid disturbing their time too much. We took their contact details instead for future reference.

It was well organised as we can learn a lot from them especially on the registration day. They organised the registration smoothly like the welcoming, transportation, accommodation and others. I was able to witness how the liaison officers did their job from the beginning to the end. I managed to interview some of them to gain better understanding.

I think that the opportunity to learn was very interesting but also quite challenging physically as I think I was standing up and walking here and there the whole time and trying to be ahead of them to witness the event from the beginning. The experience was positive for my own learning and hopefully will be useful in the future.

PS: I am tired!