Saturday, August 23, 2008 @ 12:09 AM:
have been in a particular bloggy mood this week!
hmmm just came from tuition from lianna and she mentioned to me how her hunger to be determined and study hard had influenced her friend, who in turn became motivated by her... and when lianna was a bit down, the enthusiasm in her friend brought her back and encouraged her to study even harder... power of study partners!
i guess that's something that really brought me memories of sengkang study grp... and as i was reading the autograph book, i got a bit moved by the fact that how all of us still kept in touch despite having not been studying together for so long (i guess one day we would need to take photos of us mugging, or just pretending to mug) haha... yups... the times when we accompanied simin to laminate some stuff, the times when i would always be the first to reach and someone the last (haha, i think he is seldom late these days)... and i would always remember how we would motivate each other as well!
and yups... by this time i thot QQ and shouheng would be back already... ok make no mistake... QQ isn't really part of the study grp but he came twice to study with us at the captain cook... hmm if QQ u are reading my blog, yeps... wanna
wish u belated happy birthday! and for shouheng, ahhhs... need to wait till sept for him to be back! but well he would be in time for a big gathering then! and ssg can send us off on consecutive dates!
realise that it is just slightly more than a month before i'm flying off... yups and it is confirmed that i would be back from 9 Dec to 12 Jan! So pple if we aren't able to meet up during this period, remember to call me during that period k? though i'm not really sure i would be retaining my number... but but... i would more than welcome any meetups these days (those tuitions here and there may compromise a bit la)... and i wanna k as well too! haha!
thank you for bringing me memories...
Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 11:32 AM: distance and perceptions
just saw from soki's blog
"when distance is a perception, does that mean it has unwittingly became a self-fulfilling prophecy?when distance is a choice, does that mean that a different company is preferred?"I guess I would wanna say distance is a perception by choice! But in this context, when distance is a perception, it may bridge closer or go further. It takes the two points to bridge it or break it. And I thought that in this case, Darwin's theory of evolution really comes into mind. When distance is being perceived, paths separate and other sides undergo their different experiences (just like how geographical separation leads to variations at other sides)... but ultimately when the differences in thinking and mindsets set in in perhaps years to come, ppl will come back and appreciate each other better...
and yups for the second part, it differs for ppl actually... sometimes i guess it is the personal space that each person yearns for themselves, sometimes it is really preference of another company and moving on, and sometimes i guess it is just that both do not fit in, not that both do not prefer each other? hahaha
but i hope that there will not be any distance for me and my friends! esp the first few days in cambridge where I heard I wouldn't get any internet access! OMG lar...
thank you for bringing me memories...
11:18 AM: some thoughts about tuition
Just feel a bit dejected... browsing through some blog entries which made me re-think about my priorties in that particular vulnerable part in me...
Okie... but anyway these days have been crazily fun and busy... 8 tutees and yups this week I would welcome yet another new J1 tutee! Hope the tuition would be useful! Anyway, here's a summary of the story from my mum that I had wanted to share long ago on the blog:-
My dad, in his primary school days, had little pocket money given his upbringing. In school, he knew that his mathematics was his weakest topic and he understood that he would really need tuition to pull up his grades in mathematics. So he took up a few other errands, helping ppl buy stuff and getting small tips all around his neighbourhood and slowly accumulated enough money - just enough money to go for group tuition. And his hard work paid off eventually.When my mum told me about this story, I reflected and wondered at times how I could put in more effort to coach some of my kids at times especially when it is right smacked in a tuition marathon or after a long and exhaustive day esp at bridge. Sometimes I would charge less or coach even more hours to make up for it as well...
However it has been quite disheartening to see that for some instances, it is the parents who would like to force the tuition on the kids who sometimes may not need the tuition or feel that they may not need it. Sometimes I just feel this makes things counterproductive and it ends up a waste of time on both sides. And in some other cases, the students thought that through tuition they shld be able to improve but they still dun put in the effort to take in the learning pts... appears that the impression of "A,B,C had tuition and they improved, so if i had tuition i would improve" had got to them.
Ok! One last month of pia-ing tuition and off I will go to UK! and yeps just to update the readers, I would be coming back in dec during the hols!
thank you for bringing me memories...
