Pursue One's Dream

Dare to pursue one own dream. Ping Ping Ping to win....go go go...

As usual, saturday is my tuition day.I sleep for a few hours the night before and had to wake up at 7am in order to reach Bukit Merah on time at 9am. This week tuition was especially hectic, from 9am - 5pm, 8 hrs of non-stop tuition (Pri 1,3,4,5,6) but luckily i am not the main teacher.

Well, i had a smooth first 4hrs of tution helping out with the pri 3 and 6 work. It has been a long period of time since i last saw them. For the past few months, i was helping out with the pri 4 and pri 5 in the afternoon, as well as the main teacher for my most playful and happening pri 1 kids. Sadly, not long ago i was replaced by a better and more qualified retired teacher recently. Though kinda of not feeling too good of leaving them to another teacher but i think they will be better off under her teaching and care. I can confirm and guarantee that :)

For the pri 4 class this week, I have some special guests from my ex-pri 1 class. They are the notorious jolyn and malcolm. Jolyn is a smart gal for her age but she always wanna grab attention from the teacher. She always grab me like a koala bear holding on tight to the tree especially when i am teaching the pri 1 last time. Then i will need to show my pretentious angry face so that she will go back to her seat. Malcolm is the never ending asking question kid, ha cos for almost all the excercise i gave them to do, he can ask me from the 1st question to the last question of the excercise. lol

Due to the special guests this week, the pri 4 class was especially noisy :P It was a hectic 2 hours as i have to handle 1 pri 4 and 2 pri 1 kids at the same time. All of them have come from different education background and needed serious attention to guide them in their work. As least under my hard work for the last 2 hours, they managed to finish the work they are tasked to do. Sweat.. Sweat..

Finally, it was the last session of the day. As usual, the pri 5 class was very happening especially with the playful guys around. They can turn the classroom into a playground ha.... but ironically, the guys are the smartest in class too. Well since young they already understand the meaning of play hard and study hard, but playing hard at the wrong time. But they soon went back to their seat as my friend proceed with the lesson. He seems to have some special ability to tame them. Ha ha :) Life in pri school is no easy task compare to my time especially science. The science syllabus have changed tremendously, the topics that were covered during my time in the secondary sch were already covered in the pri school. Likewise for mathematics which require lotsa of creative thinking nowaday. I must admit that some question i don even know how to go about doing the question....that i have to consult my friend for discussion.

This week pri 5, I have a invited guest. He is supposedly to be in pri 1 this year but somehow he isnt there. He was situated at the back of the class doing his homework for the day and I was tasked to guide him in completing the exercise. Soon, I realised his problems in calculation and understanding the question from the exercise. I slowly and patiently teach him to count numbers above 10 using fingers ONLY especially everyone knows that we have only 10 fingers and will end up using the toes to count when the number become greater than 10. The exercise was a brief one...spent about 20minutes and the rest of the exercise seems too tough for him to understand.

I gave him a short break and asked him to grab a book from the mini library. He chose a book on school funfair, which was especially tough for me, i will tell you why in just a short while. The book was about a school organizing a funfair and so the school management asked the students to approach their parents to help out with the school funfair. One of the students' father happen to be selling roti parta. So this student approach his father to help out with the school funfair but was rejected, however the father gave in in the end and promise to help out. Next come the challenging part, I have to communicate with the kids using "sound" from making the roti parata. He was kinda of excited as he react the process of making the roti parata, hitting the table with his hand as what roti parata man will do when making roti parata. He hit, He flip, He throw the parata...he sure can act well :P So he asked me to demo as well.....*Sensor*. We come across alot of action verbs which i have to demo to him in real "sound" ha ha......Example was the sizzle sound when the parta was cooked....the steam from the cooked parata.

The day finally ended with my stomach calling to request for more food. Now i have a cravy for parta after reading a book on that :P

Disney MTV Highlight...

Disneyland seems to be the all time dream of children and even adults. The place is fantastic as one entered into a dream world since childhood, with all the exciting new things awaiting them inside. It seems like a childhood dream being fulfilled.

Since young I always get to watch disney cartoon on television during every festival events. It seems to be a norm catching them on television rather than in cinema. Some of the disney song really bring back old memories from childhood.

I wonder when can i save up enough to visit Disneyland in tokyo :P
Will work hard for it :)

3 Love Song to Share......

Love can be eternal.......

Love can be very beautiful.......

Dare to pursue yr true love........

10 tips on how to keep oneself happy :)

1. Be with the happiest person - kids

2. Just do your best with everything in life, over stress on outcome wont make one happier

3. Do the things you always wanted to do - Go on a tour

4. Volunteer work - helping others and seeing the smile on their faces will definitely enlight your day

5. Exercise regularly is a good way to relief stress - Going for a jog in the park

6. Dont keep all the bad things to yourself - tell a good friends or family members

7. Dont expect too much in life - simple is happiness

8. Take a slow stroll in the park or the beach - The greenery and the calm sea is the best stress healer

9. Listen to relax and soft music

10. Treat yourself to a buffet or seafood treat, and a jug of cold beer
( Can visit my friend eatery place at FoodLane )

Let find back the happiness...

Time really flies, it has been a few months since I last posted.

How can one really keep happy :) all the time ? Is there a formula to that ? I doubt so. Perhaps kids are the most happiest of all, they don’t have any stress, no burden and no worries about anything. But when they grow up, things can be very different. They will start to experience greater stress, heavier burden and more worries - Stress over school work, stress over examinations, stress over results and many more. They also carry the burden of the some parents who wanted them to archive the best in life at all aspects by producing results, results, results.

I have a student who always seems so unhappy. She has 10 tutors altogether. I do understand that parents do want the best for the kids but that dont seem to be the way to do it. An unhappy kid can hardly succeed in life. Even though her results might show that he/she is top in the school, but how about other area of development, which most parents didn’t notice and often neglected. An unhappy kid will develop to become one who dread school, one who lost his/her interest with life, one who only care about results and nothing is more important than that.

But how can one find happiness in life in the midst of stress from work especially at my age where most will be working hard to earn a living. For most of us, we carry the burden of load of loans from the bank – laptop loan and tuition fee loan and monthly allowance for our ageing parents. Once we embark on the journey of the working life, most of us will probably forget our dreams that we have set long time ago such as starting up a small business and many many other ideas. Perhaps most of the ideas will eventually vanish as time goes by, when most of us are happily embrace in the comfortable work life and making a stable and substantial income.

As for me, I have set some of my goals and I have plenty of ideas too. Perhaps there are so many things I wanted to do, and I feel like doing everything at the same time. But sometime one really needs to be realistic and set priority. There is once an experienced entrepreneur who told me this “set your foundation first before you move on” which I find was very true. However, I always make that same mistake and till now I am still making the same mistakes of not building up a strong foundation in everything. :(

Perhaps the burden is toooo much to bear, I need to find a way to release them. However, I wont give them up, that is not the real me. Perhaps by finding a way to release them I can be a happier person. Stay Happy Always :)