It's a Friday, finally. Just ended a really long meeting, a few things to cover and then it's the weekend.

Open posting's coming soon. What is open posting? It is basically an exercise where schools with openings for different positions will advertise and if we are keen on the schools, we write in and go for interviews, and yada, yada, yada. So for most of the POs here, they are either going back to their schools or they already know the schools they want to go to, or some schools have approached them. For myself, it's bit of a problem. Cos I'm the only one who's going off from HQ, not back to school but shipped off abroad for my Masters. Which kind of leaves me dangling. Cos I don't know if I should still apply to schools cos I'm not sure if they would allow their teachers to go off for 10 whole months cos if they are advertising, it will obviously mean that they want to fill up that vacancy immediately.

I called up my ex HOD from my ex school to ask if the school would want me back. This was how the conversation went.

Khai: Hello, Mr.... This is Khai here.
Ex HOD: Err...hello. I'm sorry but who's this?
Khai: Khai.
Ex HOD: Hmm...Khai from where?

And I'm like, great. No chance of coming back if my ex HOD does not even remember me. After all that I've done for the dept. Geez...

So anyway, I'm digressing. I told him that I was keen to go back to the school and whether there's a place for me. He said that he was keen on having me back but we aren't sure if the P would wait for 10 months for me. And he said that currently the school is asking for an EL and Humanities teacher, which I am. So he told me to talk to the P myself.

So, me, being Ms efficient, emailed the P straight away after my conversation with my ex HOD and requested for a session with him, the P, to discuss this further. I sent out the email on Mon. It's Fri and he still has not got back to me. I'm so pissed. What's wrong with him? I mean, if you don't want me back, then have the decent courtesy to email me and tell me. It's not like I can't go to other schools. I can. But I choose to remain in my old school cos all my friends are there and I have good working relationship with everyone there. (well, almost everyone) And I've done like so much for the school in so many different ways but I don't get a response. Ps from schools all over Singapore want us in their schools, and here I am asking to come back and he doesn't even ackowledge my email.

Dev says I'm too good for the school, that the school is sapping me of all my energy but does not want to reward me. I was thinking about what he said. I like to think that I'm working cos I'm passionate about the teaching and I need great people to work with, which I have in this school. But this brush off by the P is making me so mad. I'm going to give till next week. If he does not respond by Mon, I'm going to apply for open posting. I'm so mad.

Thank god the weekend is here.