Guess what? 
Yes! I accidentally broke my specs AGAIN! So, now I'm stuck with this new frame (which I happen to think is ok, except it looks rather fragile). Well, anyway, the guy on the left (white t-shirt, Renlly) also happened to break his specs while playing football, and the other dude (in yellow, Rohlist) has been without specs since forever, and has had blurred vision ever since he came into school. Even while sitting right in front of the class, he had vision problems. I had been meaning to take Rohlist to make a pair of specs a few weeks back. So when my specs broke, I thought, what the hey, let's take a nice trip to Kudat and get those specs done. When we went into the shop, Rohlist recorded a 150 power on both eyes (I know the English is bad here, but whatever la!). That's a real serious short-sightedness, and to go for so long without a pair of glasses, I wonder how he survived. So, we had to wait for Rohlist's and Renlly's new specs (couldn't change the frame only, dunno why!), which (thank God!) took only less than 2 hours to get ready (maklumlah, their power so low, and no astigmatism). Anyway, while we were waiting for MY specs to get re-framed (I found a shop that was willing to use the same lenses I had in the old frame, thank God!) I was specs-less for about 2 hours. Pure difficulty. So now, here we are, all with our brand new specs, the talk of the school. Haha! I'm glad I took Rohlist to go and get his specs done. Now, at least, he can see properly, read properly and do his work properly. So much improvement in terms of his work this past week. Maybe a slight drawback is that everyone keeps calling him Harry Potter now. Haha! Well, anyway, since I was in the mood to snap some photos, I thought I'd just show you some of these. 
Two of the shortest guys in the school. Can you believe it? Guy in white is 13 and the other one is 14. Cute! 
We took so many photos to get this one right. Haha! Dunno la, sometimes when you're shutter mad, you just take as much as you want. Anyway, this photo is supposed to remind me of a lot of things (or at least it SHOULD remind me of a lot of things). Hence, why I took so much trouble to get it right. I can't believe it's September already. I've had a love-hate relationship this year with the school (and everything in it). Maybe I'll blog about it some time at the end of the year, when I do my annual year-end reflections. Right now, part of me can't wait for the year to end, so I can be rid of some things about school life that I'm really tired of, but part of me wishes that the year end doesn't have to come, so I can be with some students for a longer time. There seems to be so much left to do with them, but little time to do it with. It's hard to believe that you only have a maximum of 5 years with your students. Can you really impart much and change them and mould them in that span of time? | 
