For the first time ever!! I'm actually able to solve the rubiks cube! For the past 20over years of my life, I've been dismantling the whole cube and putting it back... haha...
Dunno why the sudden craze over the cube actually... I've not touched this toy for over 10 yrs I think. Last time I played with it (meaning dismantling and putting it back) was like when I was in Sec Sch? This cube thing, sort of 'reappeared' in my life last nov, when an ex-student kept on playing with it and was named the 'magic cube' boy because the instructor who wanted to call him didn't know his name and the boy was too engrossed with the cube.
Then this year, just before CNY, my colleague started confiscating from her class because they were playing during her lesson. At first was only one, then it became three... we used them to 'decorate' our cabinet partition for a while, until she sort of 'remembered' she wanted to return to the students. I also confiscated one from my class... the rest were smart enough to quickly keep theirs when they saw their fren's one being confiscated and I even explicitly warned them about that toy. Apparently it's now everywhere in the school. Dunno where the sudden craze came from... It's not like there's advertisement on TV or something...
I realised that students always don't 'remember' to claim back their confiscated items. Usually we confiscated and tell the students to come claim the item after school... but sometimes, they never come. Only handphones they SURE remember.... Things like calculators, stationary, storybooks are always 'unclaimed'. Well we say u don't come and claim, we're not going to bring it to class for you.
Like recently I confiscated a basketball. Usually, students will come and hog you every other day, or every time they're free to get their ball back. But this boy, strangely didn't ask at all. So I thought, should I be kind? Probably Sec 1 don't dare to hog teacher yet... Or I too fierce... Anyway... in the end I gave the ball back to the boy. It was taking up space under my table...
