i finally remember...

i finally remembered the bloody password required to log into my blogger account. actually i had no intention of writing anything... just happened to see a friend's whose msn featured a site directing people to visit it... the site... well... it sells...stuff. twinkle-stuff.

apparently i changed my passwords too many times. given that the average person has so many e-accounts to manage, it's no surprise one often has to create many user ids and passwords to log into these accounts. of course, there's the option of using one universal password for all... yeah, heck that security thing. i haven't got the time - nor the space - to remember another piece of information in my already overfilled brain.

what should i write about?

i don't want to write about school cos i'm going there every week, for the past 4 weeks. i have yet to skip any lessons... ok ok i confess, i attended like about an hour of a lecture... then skip... cos it simply is beyond me to stay in a lecture where the lecturer takes a full hour to explain all the possible uses of forecasting in the world. hello prof, i only need to know about sales and demand forecasting! so pray don't tell me about GDP, population, student intake...

of course that isn't the only thing... the prof go thru the lecture like he's going through some textbook... "so children, flip to page 100... you see this formula here... ok so X stands for this, Y for that... you know why you gotta do this? cos the formula has limits..." every single variable in the formula is explained to the minute of details. hey, the good thing is... this prof damn relax... heck care about stuff and set easy questions... some more say in addition to lecture notes (which are obtained from the textbook's CD... lazy asshole!) will print out relevant pages from the book that he thinks is good to boost our understanding... i guess that's not too bad considering that buying textbooks when i'm already out of cash... not a very attractive option.

and heck, i just wrote about school.

personal stuff. ok i'm giving part-time tuition, which is quite challenging. i suppose kids nowadays are much more savvy and open. that's a really far cry from the standard that i went through... the other day i was asked a question on algebraic expansion i.e. (a+b)-sq = a-sq + 2ab + b-sq... you get the idea. so there was a question that required the use of one such expansion. having gone through o levels this question was of course not a problem to me. to my amazement (i'm quite surprised actually) my student asked me:

"ok, so this is how you would do. but how do i know this is the way - did you consider it from my perspective, my level?"

i'm slightly stunned by this statement. positively stunned, i slapped my forehead and said to myself, that's quite true! how 2 people see the same problem greatly differs. i had more experience, so the question is routine - but what about my student who does not have much contact with such questions?

i do not believe in smoking my way through, nor simply reply "hey i'm the teacher, you listen to me." that certainly is not the way to motivate the kid! i don't like to do things the ways parents and teachers did back then: it boils down to, i'm the teacher, don't fucking challenge my authority. no no, i don't believe in this.

so i replied: let me go back and think of an appropriate way to explain this question. which is what i am thinking about now. the easy way of course is to give the explanation as written at the back of the assessment book. what is difficult is to impart the skill of viewing the problem in a broader, unique perspective. and that is often required in maths questions that serve to differentiate students of different caliber.

perhaps i can get the optimal method in my dream... lol.

romantic interest - none as yet.

socializing - the usual i guess... catching up and chatting with friends... an occasional meal together... outings... that's just about what SG has to offer for socializing.

other misc. things (tick when done)
1) find wu zun-lookalike for one of my gal pals
2) earn money for year-end HK trip
3) keeping an eye out for potential targets
4) lose some weight (been downing lots of trash into my tummy lately...)
5) learning to survive on lesser amounts of sleep
6) attend the career talks by banks... i'm really sick of marketing... give me numbers to crunch!
7) stop thinking about booze every now and then
8) watch lesser south park / youtube
9) TRY to update blog more often!

eh... off-hand cant think of wu zun lookalike... ha well there's other criteria given to me... so it ought to be easier...

and wu zun is *supposedly* more realistic... ya... compared to the ideal... yes indeed...