I don’t even know most of you, not even acquaintance. I made the decision to close 2 of my accounts just by 1 spoiler. This person spoils my mood and filled me with anger by calling me names and commented on me. Seriously, someone who don’t even know me! I feel so upset about it and decided to shut my world from this person. Maybe there be more in the future. I don’t want to hurt myself by letting people who don’t know me to spoil my day. I informed only half of them in my account and I got replies of asking me ‘why’ and they really hope and want this friendship with me. There are people around who truly want a net-friend or a dinner-friend. Be it just even email-friend or MSN-friend, they genuinely appreciates ‘friends’ they ‘know’. I’m being so unfair to them. Most of them do support me whenever I’m down, praises whenever I need some praising, encourage whenever I need some encouragement. Reading through the replies in my friendster inbox do makes me feel so happy and being appreciated. With the replies of that they support me, support my web, enjoy reading through my updates, enjoy the new photos by many photographers do make me delighted. I really appreciate all of you. Thank you all so much!

Labels: My Friends Faculty

I started to love children when I started private tuition back in 2003. I remembered Augustine and Amelia who stays at Maria Avenue. They actually don’t like me when I first entered their house. Of course, no kids like tuition. To make them even dislike me more, I ‘visit’ them in the evening, after they reached home from school. After 2-3 lessons, they started to get close to me, (with my charm…hahaha) they started to tell me all their ‘little secrets’. They started telling me that their eldest sister seldom smile and Augustine would tell me where Amelia hides her things and Amelia would tell me what’s Augustine favourites. I can still remember their innocence and adorable look. It was actually an hour session each but from the fourth lesson, they want to do their tuition together and their mother asked for my decision on that, I agreed. They started to fight for attention when I’ve to sit in between them. Everytime they hugged me from my back, it gives me the warmness I never felt before. Everytime they asked for something from me, they always melt my heart as I looked into their eyes. They even asked me to stay over and they’re willing to give up their bed for me. Awww… Aren’t they sweet? During that time, Jiesen picks me up to send me home after my tuition sessions (the kids stay at private property area, quite quiet place, J being so nice to make sure I get home safely every night). They’ll ask me if I can ask Jiesen not to come or come in later to bring me home. How could I not love them?

I always remind myself that giving tuition is a big responsibly. If I can’t teach the kids well enough, I have to leave. Along the way, I gave tuition to Daniel, he’s too comfortable with me and I must have been too soft on him that he would drag the time away to do his assessment by telling me his stories. Well, kids have a lot of stories.
Reason? Their parents have no time to listen to their ‘stories’. It’s all about their school and classmates. What’s more for any primary school children to talk about? So now we know that a lot of teenagers problem, even at primary levels, children start to fight, involve in stealing etc.
Problem? No one listens to them. Adults think that the children are too talkative and too noisy as they talk so much so that they have to shut them up by telling them to go to sleep or go and study instead of talking so much. Shame on the parents! Wake yourself up first before start scolding your kids. I enjoy listening to the kids and feel that they’re many of them who are actually not happy at all.

There’s another tuition session with a P1 boy. I only teach him for a month and I call it quits. I really cannot take it. I remembered taking his session in mid-February and he’ll be having his first CA test in March. He is having problems with is,are,was,were. He’s so afraid when he read his books. On the third lessons, he’s already crying when I went up to the house. He didn’t want to talk. Only his grandmother was at home, and she was busy preparing lunch for him. I have to comfort him and hug him. Tears roll in my eyes as I watched a 7 year old boy crying. After about 10 minutes, he finally talks. He said that he’s too afraid. I asked him what’s he afraid of? CA test. He says his mother will scold and beat him if he doesn’t do well in the test.
Oh my! I believe he didn’t have a good foundation back in kindergarten. Or can I say that I couldn’t believe that the Primary 1 standard is too high. Just 3 months of entry in a new environment, they have to do a difficult test! I can see that he’s under a lot of pressure. I feel really sorry for him and I can’t handle these emotional moments at all. I thought that all kids should be very happy during their childhood.

It makes me want to study psychology again. I had wanted to do that, years back, but mummy says no. Well, whatever mummy says.
This boy’s parents were not at home when I went for the tuition session. Of course, they’re working.
Another problem? Parents are not with their kids during their crucial growing up stage. So what’s there to say about children are having so much problems now? Who to blame? It’s our responsibility to give the child the most he/she should get. At age 20-25 years old, we should already be prepared for marriage life, for family life. Whatever we are doing now, will affect our life in 10 years time. Believe it or not! If we don’t have a proper planning and proper financial, how would you support your family next time? Won’t you feel guilty that you’ve to leave your 1 year old kid at home and you’ve to go out and work? I’m not meaning that we don’t work after having kids, but have enough savings and planning to last you through the years of the kid’s crucial stage. There are still other alternatives like working from home or part-time. Don’t blame the school when your children came home with all sorts of problems. The problem lies in the parents.

Labels: My Kids Park

After dinner, I met Joe for movie at Marina Square. It’s a Friday evening; we didn’t book the tickets before going, so we have to sit at the first row! Lucky, the movie is nice. My personal rating for Basic Instinct 2 – 7/10. My mood was really low yesterday. I didn’t talked much and almost sulk the whole evening. We went to East Coast Park to chill out for an hour before going home.

I spent my morning watching 2 DVDs. Fragile, casting Calista Flockhart. The story is about something living in an abandoned children’s hospital. There’s something which the children call the thing ‘mechanical girl’. It’s an average thriller to me.

Another movie which I prefer better, Eight Below by Frank Marshall. It is trilling with the adventures and yet an emotional film. For at least 10 minutes, I weep as I watched the show. It’s too much for the survival scenes. This show is going to be in my favourite list.

Labels: My Movie Station

I searched through the web, there’s no template that caught my attention. Until I clicked on Aspiring Pink, it’s awesome, I love it! But there’s no code for it. Sad! Till I browse to Pannasmontata site, all the designs are so unique and neat, finally, I choose this template. You can view the site at the credits link. Now I know why blogging is so fun, it took some little effort for the design, the add-ons, the layout and colours which make the whole blog complete with satisfaction. Of course, it’s the contents that attract readers too.

Here’s another pic which I like from the shoot at fort canning.


Yesterday, Tas and I went to catch a movie – Nacho Libre. I gave it 4.5/10. It’s either I can’t get the entire joke or the film just doesn’t suits me. We left with no choice, as all the movies in the listing, I had already watched! The next movie I wanna watch would be – The Lake House. It seems nice…