Exams passed

Posted on December 21st, 2008 in UK life, web design by James

I passed my exams. All I have is a feeling of relief. I don’t have to re-take the exams. I don’t have to pay for the resit and use up holiday time. My job is safe (safer?) for a few more months. It’s not like a school exam where you aim for a good mark and to beat your peers. Passing is more than enough. I just have to repeat the process 11 more times.

I’ve finally managed to put up a banner on the site. I was meant to do in when I was in China, and it would have had more meaning then, but it still works for London-life. I would still call Liverpool “home”. Sometime in the future, I will regard London as my home, but not just yet.

I’m planning to do a month-by-month review of the year. Given my rate of blogging, it could take a while.

Blog Down

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in UK life, web design by James

Crazy, utterly crazy. You may have notice that the blog has been down for the past few weeks. Someone decided to hack my site with a front page of bad taste and no decency. You should get the idea.

The timing of this was not good. I was revising for accountancy exams and then I was sent to a client by my company for an extremely busy 2 weeks. When I got the blog back up, I found that it had been backlisted by google and no longer appears in search page results. Google - please take me back.

I forgive whoever did this. I’ve put the experience under the “shit happens but it could be worse” section of my life.

New Website Layout!

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 in web design by James

Woooo. New website layout. Try the links, none of the pages are finished.

Grading homework - better than doing it

Posted on November 17th, 2007 in teaching, web design by James

Well, I’ve finally updated this blog and I can tell you it probably wasn’t worth the wait. My time has been consumed by teaching, learning Chinese and designing the school’s new website. Check it out at www.teachers4china.com I’m quite proud of it (though I’m sure the code is amateurish) but it has meant that this blog has been neglected

I have spent the evening marking my student’s homework. I always appreciated the teachers take marked my homework promptly and gave me good feedback so I try to do the same for my students. Sitting on the other side of the desk has given me a greater appreciation of how utterly boring this is. Actually, I don’t sit behind a desk during my lessons because I normally stand. All my students scored As, so I must be doing something right as a teacher.

My student’s homework