Dora can do with a little more patience.
This week has been a pretty fulfilling one as I managed to settle some pretty tasks at work.
The feelings of satisfaction were elevated further when I saw my students "achieving" in their liitle own ways; from a novice in html, css, javascript to the "expert" some of them have become. They are gaining their own sense of achievement as they slowly complete each webpage on their own and feeling useful as they start to help their friends who had problems.
But back to my lack of patience. Yeah, I think I did an overall good job in imparting twchnical skills to my stufents. But I regret that in the process, I was not patient enough with them, was a little too harsh to some of them, spent too little time on them compared to others.
Seriously, I feel a sense of remorse towards this little handful of guys that I did not didplay the kindest behaviour. I wanted to make it up to them during yesterday's lesson, but ... they were absent.
So treasure every opportunity you have to be kind to someone, because often, when you want, the chance is no longer there.
Next week is my last lesson with them, I hope they would be there.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
iVanity IPhone App
Tried out another IPhone App today - iVanity. Put on eyelashes, blusher on yr photo to see how you would look like with makeup.
Here's the result of trying on my own photo:
Before
After
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Here's the result of trying on my own photo:
Before
After
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Fleming and his stamps
Painstaking efforts by Fleming to soak the stamps in a bowl of hot water and then peeling them off one by one to dry on the F4 board before putting them in his stamp album.
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Wasted waiting
Just wasted 1.5 hours waiting at Coronation Plaza for nothing because we didn't know the uniform supplier of NYPS is no longer United Uniforms but has changed to Shanghai Uniforms ay Bras Basah Complex.
Arrgh. Got to make a trip down there later. Hope those sized 36 tees won't run out before we reach there.
Ordered two drinks just to fill up the 1.5 hours waiting time
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Arrgh. Got to make a trip down there later. Hope those sized 36 tees won't run out before we reach there.
Ordered two drinks just to fill up the 1.5 hours waiting time
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Friday, January 21, 2011
ArtStudio
Nice IPhone Drawing software, has advanced Photoshop like features like layers, gradients, brushes, magic wand etc, amazing!
ArtStudio is available at AppStore for $0.99 or you can download the free version ArtStudio Lite to be convinced of the value of this fantastic app.
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ArtStudio is available at AppStore for $0.99 or you can download the free version ArtStudio Lite to be convinced of the value of this fantastic app.
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Rough is better than smooth
It's great! They've "upgraded" the flooring below my flat to some pebbly material which will make the floor less slippery when it rains.
The old flooring was a hazard because it would become very slippery whenever it rains and there were a few occasions when me or NRZ nearly skidded and fell.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Happy Birthday Edison!
Went through timers demo with 3B01 and helped 2B03 with tjeir assignment today. One of those better days where I managed to satisfactorily perform my duty as a teacher I think :)
Today is Edison's 11th birthday. How my boy has grown. He is now 150 cm tall, just 5 cm shorter than me. I hope he overtakes me soon, and ideally, one day, overtakes his Daddy in height too.
Happy Birthday darling, Mummy loves you and hopes you'll lead a happy life and stay optimistic, cheerful and resilient, no matter what you do or where you are.
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Today is Edison's 11th birthday. How my boy has grown. He is now 150 cm tall, just 5 cm shorter than me. I hope he overtakes me soon, and ideally, one day, overtakes his Daddy in height too.
Happy Birthday darling, Mummy loves you and hopes you'll lead a happy life and stay optimistic, cheerful and resilient, no matter what you do or where you are.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Busy with IPhone and my new Macbook Air
Have been getting my hands dirty with IPhone programming since I received my Macbook Air two weeks ago.
Just managed to figure out how to use Facebook Connect on IPhone yesterday too.
At work, it was working on the Achievements system and brushing up my knowledge on .NET.
Wish I have more time to do more things, sigh.
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Just managed to figure out how to use Facebook Connect on IPhone yesterday too.
At work, it was working on the Achievements system and brushing up my knowledge on .NET.
Wish I have more time to do more things, sigh.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Fleming's Ting Xie tomorrow
Testing him in his 听写 for tomorrow as I am typing this.
Not doing so well, :(
He made 5 or 6 mistakes and even forgot how to write a simple word like 这
oh dear >.<'
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Not doing so well, :(
He made 5 or 6 mistakes and even forgot how to write a simple word like 这
oh dear >.<'
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How to use advanced Twitter to find a job
Interesting headline that I came across from Mashable. Keeping this link lest I suddenly get in the mood or when I need to find a job!
From Mashable
http://on.mash.to/eMmCeW
From Mashable
http://on.mash.to/eMmCeW
Cold and Headache
Not one of my favourite days today because it was raining for the whole of today + I had a nagging headache since morning. Its so cold today, so My dressing style was very different today - a long sleeve shirt layered with a vest and long pants.
Work was however quite ok as I finally met up with my Year 3 students after 4 weeks of vacation and I was relieved though surprised to see that most of them felt quite satisfied with their Mid Semester test results which i gave out today.
Edison updated us that there won't be any interview for the New Zealand trip but he was given 20 minutes to write a short note on why he wanted to go on the trip and how he can benefit from it. Looks like he has quite a high chance of joining the trip as he told us that there were only 3 students from his class who signed up for it.
Was checking out the free apps on AppFree, and was enticed to download this game called Tiny Chef because apparently, I could earn some AppGame points if I installed and played it.
Well, I did install and played the game, and actually its not a bad game ... alot like FaceBook's Restaurant City.
NRZ also had fun playing with his Samsung Galaxy Tab ^.^
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Work was however quite ok as I finally met up with my Year 3 students after 4 weeks of vacation and I was relieved though surprised to see that most of them felt quite satisfied with their Mid Semester test results which i gave out today.
Edison updated us that there won't be any interview for the New Zealand trip but he was given 20 minutes to write a short note on why he wanted to go on the trip and how he can benefit from it. Looks like he has quite a high chance of joining the trip as he told us that there were only 3 students from his class who signed up for it.
Was checking out the free apps on AppFree, and was enticed to download this game called Tiny Chef because apparently, I could earn some AppGame points if I installed and played it.
Well, I did install and played the game, and actually its not a bad game ... alot like FaceBook's Restaurant City.
NRZ also had fun playing with his Samsung Galaxy Tab ^.^
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Monday, January 10, 2011
The most essential qualties I want of my kids
Yesterday was just another "normal" day, but then again, I love "normal" days like these! :)
Woke up at a later timing of 9 am today compared to 7am on the previous day. Even so, it was barely enough sleep since we only got to bed at 1am the night before.
2011 has indeed brought about many changes.
For instance, we have changed our weekend routine to eat at Long John Silvers on Sunday because of the kids' new CCA commitments on Saturdays. Previously, Saturday morning breakfast was always LJS as it's Flem's favourite!
Our usual routine is also to bring back two hashbrowns for our helper to eat. Today, Flem declared, "I am not going to bring back hashbrown for Auntie today. I will give her biscuits instead".
Flem didn't explain the reason for his odd and adhoc "decision" today, but clever NRZ immediately guessed Flem's intention - he didn't want to approach the LJS staff for plastic bag (which he usually is "assigned" by us to do) so he decided to try to eat up the remaining hashbrowns instead so that we can't ask him to do that today. Tsk tsk.
I am not too pleased by his "excuse" as above, but what made me really angry was the incident which happened when we went home later.
Well, since he ate up all the hashbrowns, I couldn't bring back any for Zaina, our helper ad usual. So I reminded Flem of his earlier promise, that he would give her biscuits instead. I handed two packets of biscuits over to him and instructed him to give them to Zaina.
Well, I was probably rather fierce and rather demanding when I did that, and so he was also very 不干愿 (unwilling) when he took over the biscuits from me.
But never did I expect that kind of behaviour from him like this: he walked over to Zaina who happened to be sitting on the floor and threw the biscuits on the floor to "give" to her.
When I saw that, I was really furious and immediayely smacked his hand on the spot. Also demanded him to apologise to Zaina anf I myself also said sorry to my helper as well.
I am definitely very saddened by the behaviour of my child and would not cordon such callous actions from him. Reprimanded him for a few minutes and being the stubborm child he was, he went on
"cold war" with me for an hour after that.
When he cooled down, he took the initiative to come to me to "make up". I told him he was "forgiven" but reminded him not to repeat such behaviour again. He nodded his head and "promised", but kids are kids, they forget easily, so I really hope.. he would really not do that again. To me, it is not essential that a kid must be smart" and score A grades , but he must learn to be thoughtful and display kind behaviour, that is the most important!
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Woke up at a later timing of 9 am today compared to 7am on the previous day. Even so, it was barely enough sleep since we only got to bed at 1am the night before.
2011 has indeed brought about many changes.
For instance, we have changed our weekend routine to eat at Long John Silvers on Sunday because of the kids' new CCA commitments on Saturdays. Previously, Saturday morning breakfast was always LJS as it's Flem's favourite!
Our usual routine is also to bring back two hashbrowns for our helper to eat. Today, Flem declared, "I am not going to bring back hashbrown for Auntie today. I will give her biscuits instead".
Flem didn't explain the reason for his odd and adhoc "decision" today, but clever NRZ immediately guessed Flem's intention - he didn't want to approach the LJS staff for plastic bag (which he usually is "assigned" by us to do) so he decided to try to eat up the remaining hashbrowns instead so that we can't ask him to do that today. Tsk tsk.
I am not too pleased by his "excuse" as above, but what made me really angry was the incident which happened when we went home later.
Well, since he ate up all the hashbrowns, I couldn't bring back any for Zaina, our helper ad usual. So I reminded Flem of his earlier promise, that he would give her biscuits instead. I handed two packets of biscuits over to him and instructed him to give them to Zaina.
Well, I was probably rather fierce and rather demanding when I did that, and so he was also very 不干愿 (unwilling) when he took over the biscuits from me.
But never did I expect that kind of behaviour from him like this: he walked over to Zaina who happened to be sitting on the floor and threw the biscuits on the floor to "give" to her.
When I saw that, I was really furious and immediayely smacked his hand on the spot. Also demanded him to apologise to Zaina anf I myself also said sorry to my helper as well.
I am definitely very saddened by the behaviour of my child and would not cordon such callous actions from him. Reprimanded him for a few minutes and being the stubborm child he was, he went on
"cold war" with me for an hour after that.
When he cooled down, he took the initiative to come to me to "make up". I told him he was "forgiven" but reminded him not to repeat such behaviour again. He nodded his head and "promised", but kids are kids, they forget easily, so I really hope.. he would really not do that again. To me, it is not essential that a kid must be smart" and score A grades , but he must learn to be thoughtful and display kind behaviour, that is the most important!
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
No more Saturday laziness!
Its been quite some time since we have to wake up so early on a Saturday.
But today, we had to send Fleming to school by 8 am because he has just signed up for Boys Brigade CCA.
It was quite a stressful morning before we set off because the stubborn boy refused to eat his breakfast of egg, steamed prune cake from BreadTalk and Nutella bread. At 7.45am, I was still "bargaining" with him to eat something, else I will not let him go, blah blah blah kind of threats.
Good thing, he doesn't like to be late himself, so in the end, he ate the egg and drank a cup of hot soya milk, and that was his teeny weeny breakfast! Well, I am not so happy with that, I think growing boys should eat more!
On the other hand, the elder boy has a huge appetite! After we sent his younger brother to school, we walked to Burger King for breakfast. Edison managed to finish one Bacon Croissanwich + half a Ham Croissanwich + a small packet if hashbrowns + Ice Milo!
Hmm.. noticed that his voice is becoming more "coarse". Wonder if that is the impending sign of the arrival of puberty?
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But today, we had to send Fleming to school by 8 am because he has just signed up for Boys Brigade CCA.
It was quite a stressful morning before we set off because the stubborn boy refused to eat his breakfast of egg, steamed prune cake from BreadTalk and Nutella bread. At 7.45am, I was still "bargaining" with him to eat something, else I will not let him go, blah blah blah kind of threats.
Good thing, he doesn't like to be late himself, so in the end, he ate the egg and drank a cup of hot soya milk, and that was his teeny weeny breakfast! Well, I am not so happy with that, I think growing boys should eat more!
On the other hand, the elder boy has a huge appetite! After we sent his younger brother to school, we walked to Burger King for breakfast. Edison managed to finish one Bacon Croissanwich + half a Ham Croissanwich + a small packet if hashbrowns + Ice Milo!
Hmm.. noticed that his voice is becoming more "coarse". Wonder if that is the impending sign of the arrival of puberty?
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
IT is a tedious line to be in!
super tired. spent the whole day trying to debug my "EditAchievement.aspx" which sometimes worked, sometimes did not, and I had no idea why!
This morning, one of my former students, Willie Chua dropped by and I had a short chat with him. He has just graduated from NTU and is the midst of applying for a job. Meanwhile, he would be going for a holiday to Taiwan first! ooh.. everyone seems to be going to / have visited Taiwan, I must make plans to go there next year too :)
Willie also told me about his hectic life in NTU, apparently, he took one module called "Programming Languages" which required him to do FIVE projects and learn three new languages: Scheme, C# and another one (i forgot which). His current interest is in datamining and cleaning... woah, tough subject!
Well, the fact is, being in the IT line is tough!
heehee.. my cute niece and nephew
This morning, one of my former students, Willie Chua dropped by and I had a short chat with him. He has just graduated from NTU and is the midst of applying for a job. Meanwhile, he would be going for a holiday to Taiwan first! ooh.. everyone seems to be going to / have visited Taiwan, I must make plans to go there next year too :)
Willie also told me about his hectic life in NTU, apparently, he took one module called "Programming Languages" which required him to do FIVE projects and learn three new languages: Scheme, C# and another one (i forgot which). His current interest is in datamining and cleaning... woah, tough subject!
Well, the fact is, being in the IT line is tough!
heehee.. my cute niece and nephew
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
On the way home
最近迷上了第八波道七点的"爱"。快快赶回家去看！
Its raining again...
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Its raining again...
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Location:Commonwealth Ave,,Singapore
Sunday, January 2, 2011
FeedBlitz - Subscribe to any blog for free
Been keeping up with alot of blog updates in preparation for my upcoming new module in Apr 2011, but not every blog / website provides email subscriptions, so FeedBlitz to be a real life-saver in this case.
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