Starting classes

Tomorrow I try my hand at being a tuition teacher. Some of Nany's students have asked for some help at Prinsip Perakaunan, and she volunteered me.

It's not like I don't have experience with teaching. Well, the informal kind. I've headed study groups before, and coached my fellow students as well. I even help Nany prepare for her classes.

But I've never been in a teacher-student situation before. The people I've helped before have always been my contemparories. So this will be something new for me. And I'm going to be "teaching" Accounting Principles. I took a couple of accounting courses at Acadia, and before that we covered it in IB Business at Kungsholmens in Sweden. So I'm familiar with the material. Just have to get used to the BM terms.

I hope my students tomorrow are comfortable with English. We'll see how this goes.

X-Men 3!!!

Woohoo! X-Men 3 movie (X-Men: The Last Stand) is coming out end of May! Pretty sure Malaysia will get an early release, so we won't have to wait a few weeks before the movie gets released here.

I so want to watch this movie at the cinema. The last movie I watched at the cinema was Batman Begins, so it's been a while. Good thing Nany's interested in watching X-Men at the cinema too. :-) We'll have to plan this properly and get someone to watch A'isyah for a few hours.

Losing a little bit of history to development

Well, it's happening everywhere, and not too surprising in a developing country.

Penang's about to lose a little bit more of it's heritage.

The International School of Penang, or as it's better know, Uplands School, has long occupied some heritage buildings along a historic part of the island. I just read in yesterday's NST that part of the campus along Jalan Gurney has been earmarked for some development.

I still remember moving to that building. I went to Uplands from 1985 to 1988. We moved the classes to there early in my stay at Uplands. The boarders were going to move there too (across the field from the school building), right after I left Uplands.

Lots of memories from my years there...

I've seen some pics of the new campus that was purpose-built for Uplands. Looks nice, modern. Won't be long before a part of my history disappears.

For that, I'm a bit sad.

[Pics] Some older pics

Putting up some pics from earlier. A'isyah's between one and a half and two and a half months old in these pics.


This is us at A'isyah's majlis cukur, which we did right on the last day of Nany's confinement. We didn't shave A'isyah's head; just some clippings, since her hair was already very thick.


This is A'isyah in her babyseat in the car.


And here we took A'isyah out to the shopping mall. She was very curious, looking all around her, taking in all the new sights.

Link to previous pic post: Baby pics - 25/1/2006