补习日记 11/2/2012 （星期六）

依照约定今天傍晚到了赐安家为他补习。很可惜他却没有依照约定地背完１－９的乘法表。所以今天我也很严肃的对待赐安，不像上次那样跟他谈笑。抱歉，我是来帮助你的课业的，不是来跟你嬉皮笑脸，尤其是当你没有认真对待我们的补习的时候。

我发现赐安一直嘀咕着“很闷”：数学很闷，念书很闷，平时“很闷”。当他说数学和念书很闷的时候，看来是因为信心不足而导致的失去兴趣；但是当他说“平时很闷”的时候，却是指他平时不知道要做什么。而值得注意的是他说了两次“闷到要跳楼”，虽然他是笑着说（而且从行为上看不出来对人生太悲观到那个地步），不过从小学生口中说出来还是需要值得注意，看来之后的补习当中还需要“抽空”关怀一下。

他也说很想去做工，因为读书很闷。我不知道应不应该，但是我首次把他带到社会现实的层面：我跟他说念书是为了以后赚比较多钱（对不起我没办法说出念书是为了求知识这类的话=.=)，但是看得出来他因为年纪的关系而没有什么金钱观，因为他说没去想钱多不多。但是我觉得应该要他了解钱的重要性，所以我用了他最爱的“电脑”来举例：如果没念书，你不能找到好的工作，怎样买电脑？怎样玩game? 看得出玩game对他的重要性，因为他听了之后愣了一下。事后我感觉有点邪恶但是觉得需要让他知道努力念书可以给他带来的影响...

之后我们又继续乘法表的复习，赐安也成功地解答了几题除法的题目。过后看得出来他对数学感到沉闷后，我们便转而学习英文。我准备的是一年级的英文习题。他看到习题后说“这个是一年级的咧”，然后样子看起来很失落，可能想我在看低他。但是我解释说，东西要从基本的学起，如果基本都不会，到后面就越来越难跟，结果可能是完全跟不到。幸好他能够领悟然后说“对hor,现在六年级的我完全就听不懂" =.="

结果发现赐安连英文的Ａ－Ｚ都不是很会，看来事情有点大条。值得庆幸的是他肯给我机会，也肯给自己机会，因为看得出他对搞好英文有着很强的兴趣（主动要求我教他生字／句子重组）。我也很高兴因为看得出他对自己的课业是关心的（告诉我他对ＵＰＳＲ感到很紧张，而不是漠不关心的表现）。

我用老师以前教我的方法，让赐安在簿子上重复写Ａ－Ｚ，包括今天我们所学的英文生字。强调说当他重复写时，不是为了写而写，而是一遍一遍地记在心里。结果很开心的是看得出他认同我的说法并点头说他会照做。结果今天给他的功课便是重复写英文及背熟乘法表１－１１。

最后在临走前看到赐安的表现良好，又再跟他说笑。而当我某个不自径地抬头，看到赐安那有着铂金森病的叔叔余东裕师伯也在笑...　^^

补习日记 9/2/2012

今天，第一天开始了和赐安的补习。因为之前师姑介绍的关系所以一直以来以为他叫“志安”，直到看到他的课本时才知道他叫赐安。Paiseh lah 赐安，刚见面就叫错你的名，都是师姑的错（开玩笑的啦，师姑）.

大概解释我的来意后（赐安还在念念有词“很奇怪咧”），我问赐安他想要我为他补习什么科目
其实问他之前，我已经准备了要教他数学及英文，除了因为我没有其他的强项外，另一个原因是他现在只是在Nalanda上英文，华文及国语补习班，而赐安告诉师姑他听不懂印度老师的英文讲解。结果很识相的，他选择了数学。很好，我已经准备好了，来吧！

赐安比我想象的还好像还更不理想些，因为发现他在计算普通的二位数加减都感觉上很吃力。
随着他要求学习除法(他说学会除法，他的数学就“完美了”。很会讲），我们开始了除法的练习。

要会学习除法先要学习乘法，很遗憾赐安并不会乘法表。看见他用加法的方式来做乘法，我告诉他你算到天亮都还没算完.结果接下来的时间我们又开始在学习乘法。

我给赐安10分钟的时间，让他背2和3的乘法表。他也不负我的期待，背得还不错。
在他开始背熟了之后，我开始把乘法表得到的数目倒转过来，想让他看到乘法和除法的关系，结果他又乱了
但是到最后，他开始有点开窍，只不过需要花多点时间想乘法表的内容。
没关系，赐安，慢慢来，最重要的是希望你能够对事情培养兴趣，及对自己有信心。看到你在作答时写得很浅，看得出你信心不够。接下来的日子我会负责帮你培养兴趣及自信心，接下来的就看你自己了！

临走前，我给赐安功课要他背熟1-9的乘法表。星期六我会来验收成绩。
赐安在学习除法顺利后要求我下次教他有余数的除法。没问题，你OK我OK, dio boh?

前面还有很长的路要走，看来我们都要加油.

Just one more day! Yes!!!!

Excited about it! :D

Hope you both gonna like it. Best wishes :)

倒带

窗开了,风轻吹
翻开了尘封中的日记簿

窗开了,风轻吹
翻动着沉睡中的相片集

画面在倒带

笑声在重复

眼泪在回流

记忆在缅怀

窗开了,风轻吹
吹不动的 是你我都存在于当中的 - 现实。

空白

是吗?是这样吗?

忘吧,忘了吧

算了,算了吧

舍得,舍得吗?

记得,记得吗?

怀念,怀念的

眼泪,眼泪呢?

记忆,记忆啊

迷惘,迷惘中

别了.挥一挥.别了

做到吗?

Can't wait...

One more month to go...

One more month to go... One more month to go... One more month to go...
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One more month to go... One more month to go... One more month to go...

Yesterday, I was shocked to find out that Mr V (my co-worker) cried during work. Even more shocked to know that it's because Miss S (another co-worker) shouted at him infront of a bunch of users, saying that he dunno anything!! It got me really angry because Mr V is almost the age of my father, people at this age should deserve the basic respect! And it hurts my heart to know such elderly cries although we're not very close.

I know everyone is getting very tensed up with the project and none of us can hardly avoid being frustrated, but it doesnt mean that you can vent your selfish temper and humiliate another person infront of so many people! And I know Miss S is not so good at handling her emotions because she had cried many times during this project, and she had my pity last time but not anymore, because she has lost all my respect to her now.

Damn

久违的... 这种幸福感觉...

好幸福.. 感恩啊！

^^

Life is not easy here

- Having to work in office nearly 12 hours everyday (7.30am-7.00pm)
- Having to continue working after getting back to apartment everyday
- Having a project manager that sleeps at 3am, and call us lucky for not staying in office until midnight everyday
- Having to compress the schedule which normally requires 5 months, to be completed in 3 months
- Having teammates who implemented the same system for L'oreal, F&N, Panasonic, Shell, calling this current project "the toughest ever in their life"
- Having to gather requirements & present system design to a business process owner, who isnt keen to commit and cooperate, and tells me "toilet bowls are more useful than computer", and "we're just doing shit work now"

I really aint being modest, that I'm not having a good life here. Life isnt easy.

Wonderful experience at airport

Can you believe that I could still catch my flight, when:

1. I arrived airport only 20 mins before flight took off.
2. The ticket printing machine broke down, which later the person at counter took 10 mins to fix it but still in vain
3. The person finally decided to write a manual flight ticket for me
4. She gave me a "fast track pass" which allowed me to check-in with other first class cabin passengers. (damn, that was really express!)
5. The gate was at the very end of airport @_@ (8 mins walking distance)
6. Ran all the way to that end of airport, and heard the last call of flight passengers (me!)
7. Saw the board and realized I was supposed to go to another end of airport (!!!)
8. Ran the fastest ever record in my life (almost felt like an Olympic athlete)
9. With my pants almost fell (no time to put the belt on after scanning)
10. Reached the gate 30 mins later than the original departure time (with my pants still on :D)

Thank you MAS, for always delaying the flight departure time. I realize it's sometimes a blessing in disguise to have a lousy flight company like you :)

我的朋友古玛 (My friend Kumar)

Among my project team members that I have, there's one guy who just started work in South East Asia not long ago. His name is Kumar.

(During lunch time)
Kumar: Teck Yong, what is this?
Teck Yong: Ohh.. it's anchovy
Kumar: (Excited) I see (Shaking his head)

(During lunch time of next day)
Kumar: Teck Yong, what is this?
Teck Yong: Ohh.. it's fishball
Kumar: (Excited) I see (Shaking his head)

(During lunch time of day after next day)
Kumar: Teck Yong, what is this?
Teck Yong: Ohh.. it's sausage
Kumar: (Excited) I see (Shaking his head)



(Today, during the study about barcode scanning system, everybody concentrating hard to listen how the barcode scanning sys works)

Kumar: What is that?
XYZ: It's the barcode scanner
Kumar: No.. I mean that one (Pointing to the object beside the barcode scanner)
XYZ: (Looking around the barcode scanner, bewildered) You mean this?
Kumar: Yeah (Excited)
XYZ: It's stapler
Kumar: Oops.

Kumar: What about the other one?
XYZ: (Looking around again, lifting up the object) This one?
Kumar: Yeah!
XYZ: Staple remover


(Hahaha I juz feel funny when Kumar suddenly shoots out non-relevant questions during when everyone was serious at work, hahaha! So fun to someone who's so curious about everything, like a baby lol)

泰式“福慧红包“

带着祝福，欢喜上路。

接下来的几个月虽然会很难走，但是还是别先管那么多吧...

趁现在还有机会，赶快先说一声：我很好，谢谢大家关心！！！！！



p/s:谢谢“福慧红包“制作人，超感动的 T_T

Tribute to Yasmin Ahmad

p/s: I admit that I had not heard of her name until the news of her passing away was announced. But I believe most of us have seen her works, and they are really touching the hearts of the audiences. Such a genius... she may have left but her works and the messages behind are bound to continue making the impacts to the Malaysians. RIP.

Batu Pahat - my home, and where my soul belongs

Hello there! Perhaps you've heard umpteem times that I'm from Batu Pahat and how much I looooooooove my sweet little hometown. Lets follow me and take a glimpse of the city. Jom!!

Maybe let's start off with few places that are memorable to me.




This is the bridge of Batu Pahat. If you're coming from the direction of northern part, there's no way you gonna miss this bridge. It is the first landmark that shouts you out loud that "Hey! You're in Batu Pahat!".




This is the place where I spent my 5 years of not-so-pleasant time, LOL! No la not entirely. It's my secondary school - SMK Datin Onn Jaafar.
Well this name tells you it is not somewhere to be taken lightly. It's located at somewhere called Kampung Kenangan Dato' Onn. According to my guess since I joined this school (yeah I've been guessing only :P), this should be the birth place of the famous Dato' Onn.





And why the school is called Datin Onn Jaafar... urm I'm not really sure hehe. But surely has something to do with Dato Onn... gua.

(p/s: why did I say I spent some not-so-pleasant time, because it's when study suddenly becomes something pressurizes and going to school is not merely meeting friends and having fun. Nevertheless I still enjoyed it la hehe)





Guess what place is this?

Food court? Yeah, it is a food court.

But 18 years ago, it was the school that I entered!

It was my primary school!!!!!!! (sometimes you gotta compliment ppl's innovative skill and creativity dont you?)




Photo taken from the other side of the entire structure. They somewhat reserve the symbolic part of this very historic school (if I remember correctly it started year 1945), and yeah, they also so 'benevolently' keeping the school name (there, above the seafood restaurant).

It was SRJK(C) Cheng Siu (1). There were ChengSiu 1 which carried the yellow school badge, and ChengSiu 2 which carried the green school badge. That's all I could tell the difference of this 2 schools.



Let's travel further.





19 years back then, it was the place where I started mixing with alot of other kids and fighting each others.

Memories of me from kindergarten are surprisingly vivid. Could still remember certain scenes, eg my fren would always cubit me with his nails and I would throw his water bottle in returns. And there was one kid who couldnt take the meehoon prepared by the kindergarten (becos inside got prawns!) and he would always let me have his share! HAHA!

Is it when I started become fat?? T_T




In fact when I revisited this place, I could barely recognize it. It has changed so, so much and it certainly wasnt as colorful as now. But what remains familiar to me is the field outside the classrooms. It was the fav place of all kids during recess time, and there was always an aunty who would be selling the otak-otak outside. I would always buy the 'white' otak-otak from her and I remember it costs 25cent back then.

(p/s: white otak-otak is the one without spice. Nvr see before ler!)






And time travels back further.






25 years ago.

It, was where I was brought to this world.

Though I have no memories over this place, it remains one of the places I have the most sentiments towards...