Telling about my blog

Hakim and I are discussing about blogging now

I am going to have a new life!

Starting 01.01.2009, everything will start anew for me! Hooray! It is near my home as well... Though not the same place as Qili, but we have achieved what we want! I'll be with LINDA though!

Great Day

Today I went to work. Its Monday and I am reputed to have a black face on Monday. Simple reason is that people piss you off during meetings. However, today was great. Meeting was short, frictionless and constructive. Heng ah... Phew.

Qili liked my nails. Will lend me her nails one day. Ah Ming said "Ji mei li". LOL. More confidence. Thank God for friends like this.

I

"I" is the person that spent the past 5 days with us. When she says "I", it seemed to be the dirty word for the past 5 days. Every time we hear "I", we know that the "I" will be telling us something that we most probably are not interested in and will never be. Kudos to "we". "We" endured!


This is Ble with the "There she goes again" look.

When the butterfly died

One of the butterfly on top of Uncle Sunny's Bus died when he reversed into a lot where the ceiling was too low. Their "old man" was to be blamed! Nevermind, we will start looking for caterpillars!

I don't like school

When I asked a child why he did not want to go to the classroom for lessons for the whole week, he replied that he does not like school AT ALL. Not even fun lessons. He said that he wants to be a doctor. I told him that if coming to school will make him stupid or silly, he does not have to come anymore. We will not hinder his future of becoming a great doctor. And yes, his father was there to hear this.

Uncle Sunny

Uncle Sunny,

You are the BEST! Even when we are "going down the mountain" you still think my welfare! Give me "sa leng chia". Hehehe. In the end you still dropped me at Yio Chu Kang Road and make sure I get taxi first. Thank you!!!

Shame on you!

We are not rich. Neither are we "so free". We did not get them in stores. Whatever you saw, we made, designed, begged, borrowed or stole. Without the charity of others and ourselves, we could never have accomplished it! You are not the only one without a budget! Don't belittle our stuff when you are the lazy ones!

Sterilise Them

Once I overheard a child telling her teacher that when her brother was sick, he was taken care of but when she was sick, no one wanted to take care of her. This is not uncommon in a Chinese family.

What sickens me is also the mother's unwillingness to take her daughter home after school punctually, avoiding calls and abusing her mother-in-law to pick up the girl, making her even less popular in the family.

I remarked, "How can we help? We can't cull them, nor can we sterilise them!"
One of the staff said, "I wish we can sterilise them! They can stop this ridiculous cycle!"

Tour

I'm on a tour for 5 days to visit different institutions for learning experience. I went to places in North, South, East and West and places that I've never been. In some places, I was like a community cat. Loved by those who love me for who I am but a nuisance to those that never liked me to begin with. I want to say that I do not understand why some people are in the teaching service at all. I now know where all the animal abusers may come from.

A particular institution, Yu Hua Primary in Jurong East is my favourite by far. I was a true VIP there. I felt at home. Teachers there made me feel like I'm human and I am worthy. VP welcomed us before we got down, brought us to principal where we sat and have breakfast cause he insisted that one should never work with an empty stomach. They chatted with us and their EL HOD was there throughout our visit. Teachers there posed interesting and realistic questions, conversations were honest, open and engaging. We share common difficulties and problems in our organisations. We've never felt so appreciated. Thank you for having us. Our Effort has paid off.

Tomorrow, it will be north.

Bullying

In every organisation, there are 2 kinds of people. The bully and the bullied. We all know that one should stand up to the bullies because they will abuse us more if we remain meek and quiet.




The first rank of bullies come from the Dog (only 1 in most cases) who is comfortable and can afford leisure time.





The next rank is the persian cats (a company who sits on cushy cushions in a small and private enclosure) while the bullied(s) are the stray cats in the organisation. (Yes! I am a stray)



Sometimes, when a stray decides to join the persians or when the Dog decides that the stray can finally join the house to sit on the cushy cushions in the small and private cushion or hints that they might soon be there, the stray becomes pedigree overnight!

However, many strays that we meet also want to join the persians and will stoop to any levels of cruelty or abuse to get there. They just have to learn to bark and they think that they are good enough, but they are worse than human! What is the Dog doing? It is oblivious and only cares about enjoying the food that the strays bring back. Who cares what the persians do as long as there's food? Oh yes, and the persians and wanna be(s) are also trying to speak its language, what more should it ask for?

Yet many times, we meet strays that are most forgiving, the persians multiply overnight.Strays endure, then after some time, when even the mice decide that they are also of a higher level, bully them, they quit.





Sigh. Is there no shelter for us strays after all?

I don't want to wake up

I'll be away for 5 days, waking up early, going home late. I don't want that! I don't want to wake up!

Country Club

I went to a school to visit today and was given country club kinda treatment! The staff room had freshly baked bread for hungry staff and also fresh hot beverages. Woo...

BGR

It's really wrong for a teacher to have a student girlfriend in the school and to make her pregnant somemore?

Pandai

I think that's the right spelling. It means smart or clever in Malay. You can never imagine how saying this to a child with low intelligence level can make his or her day. I am beginning to see the strengths in the weakest.

Nice day...

Today would have been a really nice day, if we did not have to waste our time attending to someone else's business. Overall, still good.

Teach A Bear To Fish

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."

Now, say we try to teach a bear to fish, so you know, it can eat for a lifetime. We also try to teach the bear to read, to jump, to sing, to listen, to respect, to play musical instruments, to do Maths, to write poems and stories, to use the computer and to create art so that it can be a genius, so that it can contribute to the eco system.

However, if the bear fails to do all that or some of that, the bear might have learning disabilities. It can be dyslexia, hyperactivity or attention deficit. We then tell the bear, sorry but maybe we have to put it in another circus, where they teach intellectually impaired bears or put it in many many programmes, so that we can help the bear. We exhaust our list, but our bear is still disabled.

We get tired, we get upset, we get demoralised simply because our bear, is not learning as well as other bears!

Has anyone considered that the bear might just want to be fed by someone else for a lifetime?

After all, I want to be fed by someone else for a lifetime.

Based on a telephone conversation

A lady promoted a software to my work place but did not exactly quote the terms and condition. I was conveniently put in charge.

Over the telephone, I told her that we have about 21 people confirmed, but still awaiting confirmation from some others. I asked her some questions and she told me the software is best for office use. Well, our computers in the office are quite run down and we asked her since the software would be ours, can we also use it at home? She said only for single PC use and best be installed in the office. I told her I needed to make the T&C clear to my colleagues as many of us thought that it was a shareware kinda stuff. The discount offer for the software still stands if there are more than 10 ordering. She also asked me to email her the order the next day so that she could process it and for the order to be created under my email so that any updates could be sent to it.

Being the rep, I had to make this condition clear to my colleagues so that they will not be misled. About 8 canceled, including myself. So I passed on the ordering to another colleague. She then emailed her the final list and the lady replied that she went ahead to order for 21!

In the first place, she did not accept my order over the phone (I thought we had a casual conversation cos she wanted an email and she even told me that we might have to wait up to a week for the products) and then, asked for an email to be sent to her with the names. I really cannot comprehend why she went ahead to order without the email that she insisted and after telling her I had to make it clear to my colleagues! In the end, she told me that she will have to cover the loss for the other 8 sets and it made me look very guilty. In the whole conversation, she stressed that she would have to pick up the losses but was not interested in hearing the reason why the orders were canceled until I finally had a chance to ask her when she paused for breath, "Would you like to know the reason why the orders were canceled?"

She finally realised or not realised the miscommunication. As a business person, I pity her, but there's really nothing much I can do. If she really wanted to take my orders, she should have waited for what she insisted, an email, before ordering the exact copies. Sigh.

When Teaching Children

When teaching children, never ever double standard or interfere. It confuses the kids and makes you look like an Ass!

It takes a village to raise a child.

Hello

On my way home last night I saw a cat who look like a slim version of Bleblesaurus and suddenly, I said "Hello" to it. My colleagues all got a shock when the cat gave a loud meow and went back to groom itself. Community cats can be so friendly. I bet they speak more languages than we do!