Today is a very tiring day and i guess it will be the one and only time it would happen.

have you ever need to handle a situation like this: in the middle of an examination, the light bulb fused and started a small fire in the lamp. the smell of the burning wire is horrible and you have a student who hyperventilating. You have over 150 students in the hall taking exams.

this calls for immediate evacuation. anyway, i shall not go into details the evacuation. students were settled in various classrooms and exam had to proceed. the students were given 1/2 hour make up time. so everything was delayed for 1/2 hour. it was a tiring day.

one thing i learnt from this incident. never take things for granted. i was flipping through the papers and we were given a paper to read to the students in case we need to evacuate them due to bomb threat or stuff like that. i was still laughing in my head that i wouldn't have a chance to read those instructions. i said too soon. it really happen. such a small thing, lamp, light bulb fused and fire started inside the lamp. If this lamp was not so high up, it would be easily extinguished. But this lamp was so high up, we couldn't not do anything but to watch the fire 'dancing' inside the lamp. I felt so helpless.

another thing i learnt was that, must always have contingency plan. never assume that things will go on smoothly.

luckily, all personnel and adults behaved in an appropriate manner and it had to be really quick thinking on our part. very exhausted now