Birthday..

Just cut my birthday cake.. Old.. and age catching up fast.. Heartless time.. running so fast nowaday..

Cozy Morning..

Friday, Cloudy and cozy weather. Awoken in a refreshing morning of 7, started teaching at 7.30am. One of my students is taking his admission exam today, really hope he will do well. He is bright and talkative (anyhow, all boys do, including myself), I'm not too worried for him, as I can see the light for passing, shining brightly on him.

He is amazing, he finished 3/4 of an math assignment book and 1/2 of the other math assignment in less than a month. Not to mention, with almost 95% correct after explaining or teaching him. Those are new chapters to him, and some math words are greek to him (he didn't learn math in English). Indeed, He's quite a fast learner, except he is quite careless too.

Anyhow.. I woke up this morning to teach his elder brother, who happened to be otherwise to his younger bro. He does not spk.. and refuse to open his golden mouth.. Still trying to break his silent.. THe only things i can do.. to stimulus his language thought is to write, and he now writing like 5 essays a day. Hence, I can have a graze of his grammar and languague structure.

Wooo.. Btw.. I just fixed my bind in my room.. A start on revamping my room.. Might do some painting later in the month. GtG.. to peep on how my students doing.. Fun teaching them.. Even though some are challenging.

Koff Koff

Having dry cough now.. Guess tt I had pretty stress myself out by teaching such a long hour. Hmm..

Going to sleep early now.. and hope tt i will be fine when i woke up.
Can't go for gym tmr.. Need to go to the town to collect my shoes, and later to Ikea.. Will be revamping my room this month to nxt month.. Need to paint couple of my furniture white.. to go well with my room colour.

Dark knight.

Watched dark knight this evening.. I must said it indeed a good show, and if there's a little more action.. it would be perfect.

Decided to buy a shoes this wed, and revamping my room.. Will be buying a blind, cabinet, maybe 2.. and removing my wardrobe.. Replacing it with, a much simple one. Will need an artistic table lamp. Plus likely to get either a PS3 or Wii console.. else it will be a stero in my room. Est spending... less than 2 or so..

The 6 hours teaching (7am to 1pm) is turning into it 2nd wk, and i'm starting to feel it pain.. Now almost everyday.. I will have to teach from 7am to 1pm... 2pm to 6pm and 7pm to 9pm.

Fortune Telling..

Brown panthers personality is very cheerful, and free from care.
Such character attracts people and helps to build up network of connections.
Brown Panthers have very pure heart, and dislike anything crooked.
You devote to others full heartedly and faithfully.
You are very independent and at the same time a hard worker.
Because of this personality, other people naturally see you as a leader.
Money wise, and in personal relations, you have good fortunes.
You are weak in sales and bargaining.
You tend to lack to see insight, but smartness is Brown Panthers belief, so you can negotiate in your own pace, and can lead the others to come along.
You are strong willed person with pride, and do not like to loose.
You get interested in many things and tend to challenge new things.
But you lack the last step forward, and therefore need more modest effort making.
You have a personality of a daydreamer.
When this fantasy leads to real project, it can end up in development of extremely unique item that may sell millions.
You are suited to idea creating occupations such as in advertisement.
However, you are not too good at balancing out the money and the work, so you need to be careful on that.

On courtesy of :http://world.doubutsu-uranai.com/

Bleah...

End.. In less than 8 hrs.. next long long hour of teaching start again.. Need to catch a gd night slp..

Seeing my students.. improving day by day.. is what it matters.. On top of that.. of coz is my bank acc.. lol.

Need to do lesson plan for the eldest student.. hmm.. what should it be..

Long Hours..

My day started early with 7.30. morning class.. which lasted to 11.30.. then 1.30 to 4.30.. Now taking a quick rest b4 my last lesson start running at 7.. to 9pm..

Tmr will be tougher.. from 7.30 all the way to 9pm.. non stop.

M. o. r. n. i. n. g.

Woke up in a big morning, and the pain on my neck and shoulder not gone nor better. Nevetheless, the morning smell refreshing. Currently waiting for my student.. will be teaching from 9.30 all the way to the evening 7.

Of late, I have been busy doing math paper, cloze passage, grammar and comprehension for my students. Especially math, they have the same problems and same mistakes. HEnce, decided to have more questions that go around those problem of theirs for further practise.

Rounding up, I reckoned that this could be my last wkend of the month, as I would have to teach on both Sat and Sun until the 31th. Anyhow, it isn't a bad idea not to go out too, else I will be spending again.

Stiff Neck!

Woke up with stiff neck, had no idea how it happened and it hurt alot.
Pasted Hisamitsu Salompas, and it didn't help at all..

Anyhow.. feeling great because is wkend again!. Before i can enjoy my wkend, I have had to teach 4 lessons later and 1 lesson to punishment to one of the kid (for not doing his homework properly, he simply scribbles thru the book).

I think i'm gone this month.. I spent.. few k.. in a wk.. die.

New Phone!.

I bot my new phone after 7 yrs, well dunno how long can this phone last me thou.
I bot Samsung Omnia, my friends told me that it is a very good phone. Till now(3rd day), I still satisfy with it function.

Headed out for gathering with my friends, and took some photo with my samsung omnia.

.H . A . R . D.

I done my first paper for my exam, Statistic, and there diminished my confident.. I thot i would be rather very much confident, and it turned out to be otherwise.

Sigh.. I'm pretty worried for my other 2 papers.. Merely no confident at all. Hahahaa.

Loose Thought!

Late night and was just starting to feel tired, Something spurred my thought. Hmm.. years passes fast, and what left are pieces of memory.

Not be blogging for a long time, not too sure if anyone from that memory frame happened to read this. A few friends, a group and a clique, where we were always together, but because of different on route, we gathered lesser. Despite of that, I'm glad and contented to see everyone doing well.

Well.. Í'm not such an insouciant person har!.. I believe, if we will all meet one day at the same place, ponding on the past and chating of present again!.

.:: Handicapped or Not :..

It almost wonderful the dance and the music. I personally find the beginning of the dance was really nicely planned, however, the in between was sort errr..

SBS Bus Captain Throwing fist at commuter!

I been struggling if I should blog this.. But Now I guess I can, after giving a fair chances to SBSTransit for their response/defend to the incident, and I waited long enuff for their reply.

To begin with, I must bring myself back to the Saturday 2 wks back (27 Oct 2007) at around 3.30pm, when I was travelling toward Sim Lim Sq from Little India. The reasons that I decided to take a bus was because I'm running a fever and the strong sun, even for its short distance.

There I saw bus service 170 coming and I hailed the bus, it stopped. Next, I tapped my card on the reader and no sound, and I continued with 3 failed attempts before going onto the nxt reader. Finally, the reader showed "Ëntry Ok", I proceed to my seat. While I was about to sit, the Bus Captian shouted at me in Hokkien:"Hey take bus no need to pay money har.. You think your Ah Gong's Bus har..", hearing this I went forward to tell him I tapped, and sametimes showing it to him on tt faulty device which this time showed "Entry Ok" with no sound.

The Bus Captian followed up shouting at me:"If you tapped, why no sound.. You better pay cash ok.. 2 dollars." (2 dollars for 1 stop?)

I replied:" Err.. Uncle, but the reader showed "Entry OK" ."

Bus Captain continued with his yelling and fouls word.. Then, I tried to put some reason to him.. Uncle:" We should go thru this in a more civilise way, can we?"

Bus Captain:" This is my job responsibility to ensure you pay ok.. You dun pay I will scold you lo.. Is the company Instruction!"

I replied:"Err.. But it can be in a more polite way ma.. somemore I paid.."

Bus Captain:" WHAT, YOU WANT TO FIND TROUBLE!.. You WANT TO FIGHT IZZIT HAR!" (With his fist tight, and ready to throw his fist on my face)

I didn't want any trouble and gave in.. Alight shortly on the upcoming stop.

Well, I reported this to SBS for their follow up, however they not replied to me. Come to think abt it, when I was on the phone with the Mgr (Mdm Sumini), she din seem to be too interested - not listening at all, I can tell from her replies...

Disappointed with SBS..

.: Bad Public Bus Services:...

Hey readers.. You there.. I'm ill since last week, wednesday, and I'm not fully recovered. I'm not healthy or having strong immune system, keeps falling for flu and fever.

Well that aside. I reckoned this is more of a topic comparing to me being ill. I wonder, if ever anyone of you encounter/ came across rude and impolite bus captian be it SBS or TIBS. I always hated some of the bad sheep among those good ones, I personally witnessed a few incidents that bus captian yelling at their passengers, or towards the extreme "rejection of ferry".

I bet you must have seen bus captains who refused to stop at bus stop because they are late or delay on their bus schedule. I checked, and according to SBSTransit, those schedule only served as guideline to reach certain stop and there's no any form of penalty, if they were to arrive late on the next bus stop. Frustrating isn't it, having schedule's guideline becoming an excuse to reject ferry.

This coming one scored the top in my hatred list toward bus captains. Impoliteness, Insincerity, lack of passion/motivation in work, not being enthu toward helping, bad ethic and negative attitude. I must said this spoil one's day and image of Singapore.

Bus captains in the modern days do not just merely a bus driver. They are a representative of Singapore towards foreign. Why so? - Singapore a small island, and very accessible with comprehensive conveniences, hence foreigners/tourists would choose to travel on their own using public transport. Therefore, they would formed maybe not the first, but the 2nd or 3rd impression.

I had an incident here, an Ang Moh conversation with a bus captain.

Ang Moh:"Does your bus go to town.. CK Tang" (where CK Tang is opposite)
Bus Captain:"No!! (+!!!!!!)"(closing the bus door and move off...)

??? Where the ang moh?

The ang moh on the bus, now the ang moh with his wife are at Raffles Girls Sch..

What worst.. The Bus Captain made them paid for the bus fare.. and said Ït my responsibilities, my work.

2nd Incident...
Impolite Bus Captain toward an Indian..

The Indian couple with their both full, and travelling with their 2 kids.

Bus Captain: "I'm not driving you, and I can't have the whole bus waiting for you (yelling)"

Indain Husband:"Wait we still have a few bags, and the wife coming from a really short distance, not far aways.. less than a metre fm the bus."

Bus Captain:"If you dun go down, I drive away. (Yelling, with a few vague)"

Indian Wife:"Why can't you wait for awhile?" (carrying her young kid 1+yr old)

Bus Captain:"Whole bus can't wait for you I***" (the bus only filled with 5 ppl)


Incident 3 (Happened most commonly, after implementation of tt tap tap card)

Bus Captain:"Hey your Ah Gong Bus Har.. DUn need paid" (Commonly heard)
Better version:'Oie huan QIAN!!!..
Better Better Version: "Tap your CARD leh"

Mine version: "Sorry, have you forgotten to tap?" (Polite and good?)

Well, sometimes, passenger did tap, however some devices were spoilt and with no sound.
Despite of that, some Bus Captains.. insisted tt you didn't pay.

Y? Because the no sound

Bus Captain would asked.. "If you tap why no sound.."

You tap again..Device shown "Entry Ok!"(no sound)

Bus Captain:"No money.. Pay cash.."

Ridiculars I say, commuter want nothing more than a peaceful ride to their destination. And afterall, ain't they the customer, should they be treated badly? Even if they are not.. Human with sense should treat one another politely.

Perhap not all the times, nor does it happened to everyone, however some do experience awful ride - being humiliated, verbally harrassment and physiologically insulted by impolite bus captain. Maybe to the extreme threaten to a fight.. I guess public bus company should work toward training Bus captains on Emotional Control, and Understanding the need of the Commuters A.K.A Customers, since there's a recent increase in bus fare.

..: Late Nite :..

Ended up in such a late night.. Not to be too worry.. I'm alright, in fact more than that. I just can't slp, for the reason I slept in the afternoon. To begin with, I woke up at 10am, consider early for me, was planning to do some revision on my sociology.

Sociology, getting harder. Its concepts and theories are flowing like a rushing tap, and overflowing the sink's capacity. This wk lecture is abt Durkheim - idealism, structuralism sociologist, however, before you can apprieciate his idea you would have to know comte, and to appreciate comte spencer is needed. Opps.. and France -Louis XVI (revolution bring abt by enlightenment). I will illustrate here.. hmm complicated, plus I'm still not gd at it..

Yap, so instead of sticking on tt plan, I took a nap through the afternoon. Hence, was feeling guilty when I woke up, can't do much can I.

In order to reconcile, I pick up my glasses, pen, papers and drink. I started mugging and making note after my dinner. I must say, I did slack a moment here and there when there's a blockage in brain. Trust me, when I say it's really hard, took me 5 hrs for 19 pages, 1 half a chapter. Despite of the toughness and long hours, it is a fruitful spending.

Before I logged off, I found out what I need Priscilla.. I need a comfortable high backrest arm chair for my study table.. This is so I could study comfortably on long hours... I want it to be cozy and nice.. heheee..

.:: First Written Test ::..

Is never to late to work har? Yap, I agree to tt too..

This morning for sociology test, I took a look on my paper and decided swiftly, I skip tt paper. There's no ways I'm going to sit for tt paper.

The paper wasn't tt difficult nor hard. Is pretty easy, however, I not done sufficient preparation. I knew if i'm going to write, I be writing nonsense. Therefore why waste time and ink.

Having that, I walk up to my lecturer and asked if i can do it nxt time or bring it home to complete it. (Crazy? you thot so?), Her replied, I can't! You know, there's other ppl not sat for the test. Hmm.. How abt nxt wk.. Shortly, she followed up.. Quite true.. if u r not prepared u better not do them. else be the same like others.

Guess most ppl writting not tt correct answer too.. Sigh..

Conclusion, I better put in more effort man..

P.S I guess I need new bedsheet man.. Gonna get one this wkend..

..:: Is my Birthday::...

O7 Oct.. yap, My birthday.. Got couple of present.. and an angbao from Eugene, Hualian, Pris, Shu hui, Soo Hai, Yihui and Nam. Really thankful to them, been celebrating my birthday all these years. Well, guess most of us getting busy with sch and work, thus not seen them for awhile, wonder how they do. Chee Chong... u r missing.. pls come back.. HOw's NS?

Here.. not forgetting others close friend.. like Axis, tacky and tacky's beautiful gf.. thank for your greeting and present too.. Not recieve them thou.. heheee..

Adam... Jaime.. Lau Chee Chong.. thank too for ur greeting.. we should meet up soon for coffee and wat not..

Stella Lai.. On this special day.. let me wish u a Happy Wonderful Birthday, may all your wishes come true..

Lastly.. Happy Birthday to myself.. and god bless my late sister... may these blessing reach you..

.:About my new place :..

A big hello to my readers.. Yap, I shifted to my new place at Teck Whye since 2 wks back.. Nothing much can I comment abt this area, as it is still quite an unfamiliar surrounding. For a reason, I had never in my life, staying in the west for such a long period.

Due date, I'm still figuring what are the bus services here.. and the best way to travel thru n frm other part of Singapore. At present, i only noe one bus.. The one bus tt bring me to most of the places in Singapore - Town, City Hall, Outram park, and Sentosa.. 190.. Indeed.. it's quite an amazing services by TIBS. The interval of 190 is only 5 mins and sometimes.. 1 min. Est time to reach orchard is between 20 - 30 mins (if the traffic is smooth). However, if u met up with a jam or something else.. hahaa.. you die.. I'm telling you.. you die.. 1h 30 mins to orchard..

The 2nd things.. I seen alot of coffee shops around my place...Need time to explore them all thou..

On the other hand about my room n house, hehee.. I not unpack or tidy them.. Done some thou.. Thanks to my friends.. they are getting me a book shelf for my book..
As for my cds.. I'm still looking for shelf for them.. heheee.. any donation? wahahaa.. Then I think I'm getting myself a new wardrobe.. and oso a curtain..

If any reader would like to make a donation, kindly drop me a sms or msg.. and I tell u what i want. hahaa..

..: Adhoc Posting ::..