Rizal writes...eventually!

8 November 2008, 0530 hrs I'm in my 39th week of pregnancy. For the past week, I had been eagerly anticipating baby's arrival. This time, I really want to have a natural delivery so badly. My bag is all packed and every night, I would wish that my waterbag would break or I would experience contractions...but nothing happened. On Thursday, I went to Thomson Medical Centre (TMC) to confirm baby's dimensions. Baby's head circumference is 35 cm and weight is 3.653 kg. Amir Hakim was born at 38 weeks; head circumference was 36 cm and weight was 3.5 kg. After having through C-section for the first delivery, i discussed with my gynae Dr Lawrence Ang and we decided to go for C-section directly. I was sad that I am not able to deliver naturally but i've come to accept reality and my fate. What's more important is that baby's healthy. So, today's the day that baby will be born. Rizal and i will be reaching TMC at around 10 am and the operation is scheduled at a

Talked to my pupils form IFC today about blogging. I was a bit concerned that folks were more interested on beautifying their blogs with blogskins than really making it a fully functional and easy-to-use form of online reflection and thoughts. I guess, I can't blame anyone for that as the desire for all of us to be unique from one another does reveal itself in almost all aspects of our lives. But I do want these initial stages to move on a bit faster so as we can continue learning other stuff!

sigh...sigh... feeling despondent about things right now, especially with how my pupils' fared for their year end exams. Really need to pull myself together and reflect on what I've done that worked and what didn't. There's a high probability I'll be teaching most of my current group of pupils again. New approaches and strategies will have to be employed to better engage everyone for the very crucial year ahead. This will be a huge challenge for BOTH parties involved. I definitely need to get greater parental support this time round.