Approximately 5 more days till school starts and here I am writing my blog. Its been quite awhile since I last touch my blog; yup, if you look at the last post it says 'Dec 15th'. Haven't baked since and not done anything that I deemed useful. Everyday was just spending time rotting. Days or should I say nights end for me at 4am and starts at 12pm averagely. Met up with quite alot of friends, especially the air force guys. Spent quite alot of money as well, used up all my liquid cash... zzz. Zx just started his new blog, the initial idea was a total knarf. I have no idea what he is trying to do. After watching Heroes, all I can say is to be yourself.
Like the primary 5 kid I'm teaching at the moment, I can foresee another total ah beng. He thinks not doing work and giving a fk care attitude like the other kids in school is cool. I have no idea how am I gonna teach him anything like this. I spend more time trying to make him think and getting him to have the right attitude than actually teaching him real work. To reverse his negative peer pressure is gonna take months or years guessing that he's been with the same bunch of friends for the past 5 years of his primary school life. No idea what his parents tells him but the only thing I can see in him now is just another life which he's gonna regret 30 years down the road. Btw his grades are <35 for English, Maths, Sci. At least the primary 4 kid I last taught was slightly better, at least smarter and listens. The P5 kids tells me they can use calculator, so does my sec 1 kids. I mean for fk's sake, dun degenerate ur brain at such an early stage of life. If you all wanna get alzheimers early then just tell me, I'll gladly let you use calculator for 1+1. Chinese isn't what it used to be as well, primary school chinese textbooks now have hanyu pinyin at the bottom of each character. Kids just read off the hanyu pinyin, they don't recognize the words at all, talking about improving chinese standards in Singapore. Seems to me now you need hanyu pinyin for every chinese character in public. School teachers now doesn't seem to care, teach for the sake of teaching, at least that's what I see for lousier schools, hopeless bunch of kids, same thoughts as mine. Maybe society needs these kind of people so that you actually can see who are the better ones. Everything needs a balance, there can only be positive when there's negative. Of course there are actually kids who's looking for something in their lives, a little late for him but there's still hope and i have kids who are... hmm.. should I say smart by nature or its the parents who are helping.
Ok, recently I have a sudden influx of tuition jobs for me. Calling me almost everyday, asking me why I can't take on more jobs, when am I next available. Teaching the younger siblings of my previous kids. Lucky I guess. Then again, its not my full time job alright, I'm just looking for a certain financial freedom.
There were only 2 events in Dec. One was the house party organized by Gabriel and his gf and the other was my bbq cum archi bbq which was lame. All I can say for the house party was, we had too much to drink but nice drinking game tho, totally luved it, lol. Left me with a bad stomach the next day, ugh, too long since I last drank that much. The bbq was... for us, simple. Had salmon, unagi, stewed chicken, prawns, ya noe... JUST to make the archi peeps jealouse. HAHA. Nah, I mean its christmas man, and those stuff are easy to prepare, put in alu foil and leave it over the fire, no looking after chicken wings or franks or satay. This is what I call a relaxing bbq. The archi peeps were lame, not enough drinks, no utensils (they only had chopsticks), not enough plates, no serviettes, and nobody wants to eat the chicken wings, as always in a bbq. However all these weren't the main issue, the main thing was, zic and jr had a romantic night together, the bbq was just a facade. All the archi guys were thrown into the pool, of course first to go in was the birthday guy, zic. Then slowly you can see who are those more popular in archi and those who are ostracize and of course those who are just 'buay on'. It was definitely a good show for the 7 guys on my side, LOL. Archi side had some gals too, but nah, not interested, shall not talk about them.
Oh, finally I had the chance to go down to union square where its a FFA dance floor for salsa people. Nicole n Joel sadly couldn't make it down. Zic n zx went down with me instead and with shareen, simon and shuxian. Well, this sort of like started the interest of zic and zx who pangseh me when I asked them to join salsa 1 with me last year, zzz. Shuxian just lost touch with salsa for a long time so well, zic zx sx are supposedly gonna join salsa 1 class starting this month, think they missed the first lesson, don't know how are they gonna go about doing it.
Ok, school's starting soon and COR's a pain, so are all the ah tiong and ah neh lecturers whom I'm gonna meet soon. Sorry, kinda racist here but can they just pronouce what they want to say properly?
So much for a long post after a long time.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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