Your reaction: Poly also need tutoring?!?!?

Me: Haha, I'm the tutor!!!

As a tuition teacher, i realised that some kids love to talk and talk and talk

They like to tell or ask you about all the things that they know in this world

Looking at the talkative kiddies, I'm not sure whether it is a good thing or a bad thing

I mean, its good to teach kids about general knowledge and answer all their queries so that they can learn

We're trying to promote to the children to ask more questions so that they can enhance their learning right?

During tuition, I only have that few hours with them

And every seconds is worth their parents' penny

As much as i want to share my knowledge with them, I have to constantly pull them back to the topic on hand and remind them to finish up their work

Because if they dont finish = fail = parents unhappy = i no job = i cant impart more knowledge to them = sad

When i keep pulling them back to the assignments, i feel that i am conforming to the education system (reminds me of literature lessons haha)

But imagine if we do not conform to the system = students learning unrelated stuff = fail the exams = cant make it to the next stage of education = hard to get proper job = hard to lead a good life in the future

This is the reality. There is no perfect world.

So in conclusion, timing is key.

Ask the right questions at the right time,

Say the right thing at the right time,

Do the right thing at the right time.

Last Saturday, we had Inter Primers Olympics Day (IPOD in short).

It was a games days between all the various Primers organisation in NP, SP, NYP, BB Headquarters and some secondary schools students.

There was different segments like captains' ball, basketball, soccer and telematch.

Telematch is a new component and its like completing some games stations in a team.

As usual, all I could play was Captains' Ball haha, so I joined the Captains' Ball team! :))

Most of us didnt went for training, and we weren't very confident about our skills either :X

we thought we'd just give it a try and play for fun

and guess what?

we made it to the finals!

and finally, we were vying for the first place with our fellow NP team

We let water and let them have the first place.

Just kidding! They were really good! :D

So yeah, my team managed to get 2nd place!! :D

So happy!

It was an enjoyable day!

The weather was good!

With occasionally drizzles here and there, breeze here and there, but lucky it wasnt pouring (:

The sun wasnt particularly strong, but we were all sunburnt :(

we played from 9am-6pm haha! like working haha!!

my face, especially my nose, was peeling badly! like some scales of a dragon

and today, my scalp is starting to peel !

oh man, i hate my scalp to peel!

like some dandruff or dirt :(

Well i enjoyed this year's IPOD! (:

Well done ladies! :D

I dont care whether we have anything to do or not

I just want to see you and be with you

Who cares if we have nothing to do on that day?

Who cares if we're just walking about with no aim?

I don't.

Cos baby, everyday with you is Valentines' Day.

Watching your every move is "doing something"

And my aim is You (:

I know I've been asking you everyday what we should do on Valentines'

And then i realised that I'm concerned about other people's views

Cos everybody will be like "what are you gonna do? what did you do?" and stuffs

Now I don't care anymore

They can ask me "what did you do on Valentines' Day?" and I shall go "Nothing"

For baby, no one will understand how magical it is just to be right in your arms (:

Just to watch you smile makes me melt, just to sit beside you makes me feel bliss (:

Quoted from The Love Stories;

Being in a relationship isn't about the dates, look, the showing off. Its about bein w/ some1 who makes u happy in a way that no one else can.

Have you ever seen this machine? :)

It's called the Wurlitzer machine.

There's pages of songs titles where you can choose your song, insert a coin and it will play the song.

When i was still a child, my dad used to bring me to some kind of place with this machine and asked me to choose a song.

I've been an undecided person since young.

I prefer to strike off those that I dont like rather than choose something i like haha.

So i'll flip the pages of the songs and tell him the ones i dont want to listen to.

I remember it costs about 50 cents per song haha.

So i'd stand at the machine for a very long time, clicking the button

When you click the button, the pages will swing mechanically, which i enjoyed watching

In the end when he prompt me whether i wanted any songs, i'll be like no, i want to watch the pages swing instead hehe

I think its a pretty machine.

Very classy and classic.

It's rare to find it anywhere now, there used to be more of this machine.

I chanced upon it when me and my team mates went filming for our Tourism Law module at Changi Airport.

Hope that someday I will get to visit that shop and use that machine.

I'm a kinda classic old lady at heart haha.

When we are 70 years old, I wished my baby would bring me to a classy restaurant with a Wurlitzer machine and slow dance with me haha ;)

Cos exams are coming! :(

Tertiary academic life is really (N)

I used to like studying and going to school until up to poly.

Maybe i'm not the mugger type of student when i was in primary and secondary school, but at least i did my homework consistently and studied here and there

i used to enjoy sitting at my table with all the books

now, the moment i sit at the table

all i could manage is to fall asleep

haha

i rarely complained about studying in the past

i tried not to when i went into poly

now, i cant handle it anymore

argh

There's something wrong with the colour stuff and i dont know how to resolve it so just read on, and read everything, haha.

I was just reading http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/11/20/60-tiny-love-stories-to-make-you-smile/#more-399

And yes, he satisfied 90% of the qualities i wanted! :D

LOL the other 10% is kinda hard to attain :X

Because it consists of "preferably rich, own big houses and cars, treat me like a tai tai"

hahahaha just a dream alright, who doesn;t want to be rich haha!!

Therefore, he doesnt have to satisfy those haha!!

i'd rather have his love than his wealth, but people will still wish they have both alright? hahaha

yupyup, so if you want a boyfriend, go and try this haha!! :D

One more story.

"Today, my dad is the best dad I could ask for. He’s a loving husband to my mom (always making her laugh), he’s been to every one of my soccer games since I was 5 (I’m 17 now), and he provides for our family as a construction foreman. This morning when I was searching through my dad’s toolbox for a pliers, I found a dirty folded up paper at the bottom. It was an old journal entry in my dad’s handwriting dated exactly one month before the day I was born. It reads, “I am eighteen years old, an alcoholic who is failing out of college, a past cutter, and a child abuse victim with a criminal record of auto theft. And next month, ‘teen father’ will be added to the list. But I swear I will make things right for my little girl. I will be the dad I never had.” And I don’t know how he did it, but he did it. MMT"

Certain times i would think, probably these people went through a lot of hardship, thats why they are able to pick themselves up.

I thought again.

Precisely because they went through wrong paths, therefore picking themselves up is harder than normal people. And so you have to applaud and encourage them :)

Well done! :)

Read the one below from

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/10/02/things-to-stop-caring-about-today/#more-392

Stop caring about what everyone else has.

When you catch yourself comparing yourself to a colleague, neighbor, friend, or someone famous, stop! Realize that you are different, with different strengths – strengths these other people don’t possess. Take a moment to reflect on all the awesome abilities you have and to be grateful for all the good things in your life.

The problem with many of us is that we think we’ll be happy when we reach a certain level in life — a level we see others operating at – your boss with her corner office, that friend of a friend who owns a mansion on the beach, etc. Unfortunately, it takes awhile before you get there, and when you get there you might have a new destination in mind.

Instead, appreciate where you are and what you have right now. Try comparing yourself to those who have less, those who are dealing with tragedy, and those who are struggling to survive. Hopefully it opens your eyes to all the things you should be grateful for.

It always happens, yup.

I always can't help but compare myself to others.

When i see some hot girls down the street, when i see some rich ass spending their money, when i see people with good results, i can totally compare anything and everything

and im trying to stop now

in this realistic world, people will try to compare you to other without u trying to do so

so dont bother about comparing yourself, save that for others to help you with

and you know you always hate people doing comparisons

for example, your mother comparing you to your siblings/peers

so why not curb that bad habit first

i might not eradicate that completely, but i'll try to lessen it :)

Suddenly feel like blogging about my Cambodia trip~ :D

Went for a service trip with my friends from my CCA

We visited Siep Reap and Phnom Penh

Cambodia used to be one of the rich countries

In the past century, Cambodia has been through a civil war that has crippled the country and made it into a third world country

You can do your own research haha

It's a loooong story~

This is the stupa that contains the skulls of those who perished

It is located at the killing fields where the Khmer Rouge tricked the civilians there, tortured them and killed them

They killed them brutally, with blunt objects and sharp edges of the trees

The way they kill children is by hitting the babies on the trees

Can you imagine babies being thrown on the trees?

They are just small cute little innocent human beings, just came to earth for just a short period of time and they had to be killed in this manner

There are also large, deep holes to bury those who were murdered

There is this magic tree, where they tied loudspeakers to it and played loud music so that people would not hear the moans of the victims and discover their crimes

Evil.





This is the S11 prison where they held captives.

It was formerly an old abandoned school, thus the school building exterior.


The people set up sharp wired fences to prevent the prisoners from escaping.



This is the interior of the classrooms.

Each classrooms has about 8 small cubicles.

The cubicles are separated by bricks or wooden boards.

The prisoners arre not allowed to make any noise, cry or anything.

The whole thing is covered up and they are faced with nothing but themselves, the guards, fear and solidity.

On top of that, they were being tortured as well.

For the women, some of the methods that they were tortured was having their nipples clamped and pulled, and men had their fingernails pulled out and such.

There were even worse torturing methods and it was really unimaginable.

They displayed the pictures and some remains of the victims in various buildings, making it extra creepy.

This is one of the remaining survivor and he wrote a book about what he has experienced.

We bought the book as he relied on it for living.

He is around 80+ i think.

There's only about 2-3 remaining survivor of the S11 prison.

In Cambodia, you will rarely see elderly around as they were all part of the war period.

If you do see some elderly, they are the survivors of the war!



Of course, the famous wonder of the world, Ang Kor Wat was not to be missed!

The place is huge!!

You can walk until you die, haha.

We travelled around in our coach and visited only about 3-4 temples.

The famous steep steps was out of bound and they build a wooden steps for us to get to the top.

It was a few stories high!

When you look down from above, the people below are like ants

And we've got an awesome tour guide who is a fan of Chris Brown hahaha

Whenever he takes a photo for us, he makes sure that the picture is nice :D

We've also developed some interesting jokes for ourselves there haha :D

This is a temple with twin trees and as you can see in the picture, the roots is all over the temple





They is the reason why we went to Cambodia!

They are my most adorable students!! :D

I'm their facilitator and i love them! :D

They know how to speak a little Thai too!! :D

We went to do road works for them

And we carved our names there :D

BBLC stands for Boys' brigade learning centre and i represented Ngee Ann Boys' Brigade Primers to go over for service learning trip!

BBLC is like a free tuition centre for them to improve their English!

My little kiddos! :D

Totally enjoyed this Cambodia trips

Lots of memories, fun, laughters, crazy moments, sad moments, fun moments, good friendship and an eye opener!!

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