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Saturday, April 22, 2006
So little time, so much to do...>
Haiz... A lot of things happen recently but i'm too lazy to blog everything down. Anyway, it is not that important for you guys to know what i do on daily basis. My blogs are more of an opinion oriented.
Firstly, i've been receiving a lot of calls from my grandma's contacts regarding providing tuition for their children. Apparently, quite a lot of people in my area are damn weak in Maths and it is difficult to find a good private tutor in the neighbourhood. It started out when my granny told some of her peers abt me giving maths and science tuition and i manage to make the girl improve. So one of them decided to ask my granny if i could teach her daughter but i couldn't because i have no time.
Eventually, she would like my sister to teach her daughter and her daughter also start passing. Alhamdulillah. With a just pass and highest ONLY in class, the girl is so satisfied that she start skipping lessons. I'm not pleased with her attendance because her foundation is not properly laid out yet. And i dont want my students or my sis students to got stuck at 50+ if they have the potential to improve even further provided they put in a lot of effort. So to solve this problem, we gave her our own test so that she knows where she stands in real Normal Academic Level coz she is in the last class in NA stream. The other problem i have with NA students is that they dont really have the confidence to score. This girl simply told my sister that she is not that smart, hence she could never get B3. I find that is so sad because i believe... "No matter how slow you are, if you really want to succeed, you have to persevere all odds". The slower you are, the more i have to repeat and find ways just to make you understand. I'm very patient and i'll be like a tape recorder if i have to. But once the student got it, the knowledge sticks to them like a glue for a very long time. By that time, you know all your hard work is paid off. As they always say, "Success is 1% intelligence and 99% effort". So if she really want that B3, with much effort through my sister's guidance, InsyaAllah she will get it.
As for the Sec 5, she has really slacken a lot. Maybe it is due to the overwhelming pressure of the 'O' level and the fact that they have a lot to catch up when comes to Maths. So i hope she wakes up at least by after the Mid years. If not, i'll make her wake up myself.
Abt the calls from my granny's peers, some are thinking about it... you know, just asking only and stuff. And maybe one of them will be taught by my sister as well. We'll see how it goes.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Whatta Fruitful week!>
From monday to wednesday, Misha and I really studied very hard. However, I dont know wat comes over me on Thursday. I was so tired of everything and felt little depressed. I try to figure out about what causes me to feel that way but everything comes to me in bits and pieces. At first I thought i was tired about having to get up early in the morning everyday and decided not to study at the National Library just for a week. Another reason is because i thought the air-con is worsening my cough and I still haven't stop coughing. So yeah, i also thought maybe my cough got something to do with my exhaustion. So i asked Misha if we could study separately just for a week. Thankfully, Misha manage to react calmly and talk to me out of it. We also readjust our timetable to suit us better. I think Misha jokingly suggest maybe we should Maths Revision(bcoz it was sheer waste of our time) and went to Plaza Singapura to watch movie. Then, i cant really remember what happen but both of us eventually agreed on skipping class and watch movie. We went to watch Mine, Yours & Ours. Not bad and quite funny. They have some of the popular kids from Nickelodeon Channel like Drake and Danielle. After that break, i felt refreshed again. On friday, revision continued as usual and we are more productive than ever after that break.
