I just heard some typical market kind of gossip.
And I just feel sad for the child and felt a lot of injustice for her, but who am I to judge anyway.
So apparently almost a decade ago, two underage parents had a child. That's not too much of a big deal until the Father doesn't want to marry the mother. Reason being, Father doesn't want to convert into Muslim. I guess the Mother doesn't want to leave her religion either.
I just don't understand, if you have no plans of going that far (marriage) with the girl, why do you even start the relationship? If it's just to kill time, I suggest you do the necessary precaution so you won't end up in a bad state. I mean if you love the girl, don't you want to work towards marriage as the goal? I guess maybe I'm too naive.
So.. Mother gave birth to the child and stayed with the Guy's family- still not married.
After some time, she decided to leave along with the child. I guess this will be better for both side.
But the guy's family did not let the matter rest, they went to court and try to vie for the child's custody. And so, the child spent half of the week each with its parent.
Sometimes when the child talk to me somehow I find it hard to communicate, because she will manage to divert the conversation to talk about her parents. And I will have to find ways not to hurt her feelings.Usually I really hate those who give themselves self pity, as I don't feel such thing quite a big deal. But hey she's a child. And a person's childhood had an adverse effect on their growing process.
Haix, so girls. Please don't just causally open your legs to anyone. Because ultimately not only you are hurting yourself, but your future child or partner as well.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
End of Exam!
It's finally the end of my exams! All of my projects! All of my academics!! ... for now.
But still, I have plenty of stuffs to do..
Haix..
Beezy Beezy
But still, I have plenty of stuffs to do..
Haix..
Beezy Beezy
Monday, April 15, 2013
Long Way to Go
Am counting the money I have struggled to save over the past 2 months.
*Glanced at the targeted money*
*Looked back at the total money I have now*
.... I still have a long way to go.
If it wasn't because of Chinese New Year whereby I packed red packets for my elders, I would have been so much close to the goal. But aiya..., must display filial piety.
Well, 2 months to get this amount of money is not bad... at least I saved half of the money I earned. However, the money in my bank doesn't seem to go up. Ever since I deposited my pay back in December from the part time jobs I had, it goes down ever since then. Almost back to when I have not deposit my pay in. I guess law of gravity applies here huh~
With the current pace I am going, I don't know if I am able to reach my target by the end of this year. Maybe.. I even have to roll it over to the next upper half of the year.
Makes me want to get more students.
Haix..
Plus exams are coming too.
I know, I know, time to get back to study.
Zzzzz
*Glanced at the targeted money*
*Looked back at the total money I have now*
.... I still have a long way to go.
If it wasn't because of Chinese New Year whereby I packed red packets for my elders, I would have been so much close to the goal. But aiya..., must display filial piety.
Well, 2 months to get this amount of money is not bad... at least I saved half of the money I earned. However, the money in my bank doesn't seem to go up. Ever since I deposited my pay back in December from the part time jobs I had, it goes down ever since then. Almost back to when I have not deposit my pay in. I guess law of gravity applies here huh~
With the current pace I am going, I don't know if I am able to reach my target by the end of this year. Maybe.. I even have to roll it over to the next upper half of the year.
Makes me want to get more students.
Haix..
Plus exams are coming too.
I know, I know, time to get back to study.
Zzzzz
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Summary of Travel Trips
It's the time of the year where I will do a collection of places I went to. It helps me to reminiscence and recollect the past trips.
2004- Australia
( Supposedly to reward my handwork in PSLE, but I didn't score too well... Haix~ so I feel kind of sore throughout the trip-Mum said that the price was pretty alright so they hop on the offer plus its a good opportunity to bring the children overseas somewhere pretty far )
2005- Twice to Thailand
( One With Band for exchange, a week after we came back, went with whole family )
2006- China
( Went with Parents and their friends- was a alright trip )
2007 - Korea + Hong Kong
( Went with big family and our destination is Korea because Aunt was a Kpop Drama fanatic- plus plus the travel price was really cheap even compared to today and those days.. so without much hesitation , off we go!)
2008- Hong Kong
(Went with Band again for an exchange)
-Malaysia
( KL for a big shopping Spree)
2009- Batam
( Overseas Community Involvement Program , 3 days 2 nights)
-Vietnam
(Went with Big Family minus DaGu's family, had fun sleeping on those olden days boat)
2010- Malaysia
( This tip we went to Malacca and reside in those log houses which is pretty cool )
2011- NO WHERE
DAMN!!!
2012- Batam
( short trip 2 days 1 night, stay in a kelong house. A good experience, also tried snorkeling but I"M NOT GONG BACK THERE AGAIN)
2013- ?????
Probably no where again
Monday, February 4, 2013
Korean School Experience PART 1 (edited)
And so I have successfully enrolled myself into another Korean school after stopping for around half-a-year while waiting for my friend.
After months of careful examination and tons of emails + replies. We or should I say I, settled on Singapore Korean School. Friend was a bit reluctant to join because of the pricing but I told her I decided on this school and won't settle for any less. She - with no other choice- (I'm sorry), she decided to enroll too, of course not without the whines of the pricing and pulling a really disheartened face.
I'm only there for three lessons, so I really can't make good substantiated reviews but I will just say what I feel about the lessons so far.
This is just a very simple contrast between the two schools that I have attended so far.
Word of caution: These are all my perspective. I have not sit for Topik yet so some of these comments may seem unsubstantiated to you guys. Take it with a pinch of salt.
Syllabus
SKS
I know many are concerned with the syllabus taught. Whether they are enough for you to go for the TOPIK Basic Test 1. I have looked through the test paper. And from the point of view of a SKS student, there is a possibility of passing the paper. The grammar tested in that level are all taught, perhaps one or two may seem unfamiliar but passing is obtainable. For the writing component, this would be a bit hard. Because in SKS , the focus is more on conversational skills and reading skills. There is few practicing students have of writing. Therefore, this section may seems a bit more challenging. Plus, vocabulary exposed in SKS are restrained in a fixed context. Thus, may find it rigid and hard to find words taught to express yourself.
Hanok
If you have completed Basic 4, there is higher chance of you passing Topik 1 as compared to SKS. Why? Because unlike SKS, the teacher made speak in Korean during lessons and have dictation every end of lessons. She will scribble English sentences and have you translate them. Of course, these words are all taught and in the textbook. Therefore, being made to write, students were already comfortable in writing Korean words and are better able to express themselves. Plus with the richer range of vocabularies, Hanok students wouldn't find writing component much of a pain.
Pace
SKS
SKS proceed at a faster pace. Each lesson, there is a fix topic that the teacher has to finish. However, because the content isn't really a lot, it is suitable for even slow pace learner. As long as you make your revision every week. I don't seem to think it will be overbearing.
Hanok
Hanok's pacing would be a bit slower. One topic maybe separated into two lessons in order to be finished. This is due to the wider vocabulary words and to revise previous grammar points taught. So for example, on lesson 8, she will teach present tense + past tense+ some vocab, then on lesson 9, she will go through these again + more vocab and maybe future tense.
Teaching
Now, here is the most important part I want to emphasis. Teaching. Most Korean schools here have lessons are conducted by native korean. The reason why I want to address this issue is because I think this is a important factor to consider when choosing a school. Many of us have a common but understandable perception about the correlation between quality of teaching and nationality of the teacher. Of course, I would agree that a native would be a not more suitable person to teach its own language to foreigners. Being grown up in that community for over 20+ years, naturally the native teacher would be more familiar with their own culture and its tradition.
But I would like to say that LOCAL/NON-NATIVE teachers are equally good as well. The important key factor to pay attention to is NOT the Nationality but the way the teacher teach and communicate. Many native teachers here are not well-verse in English, and this becomes a huge problem because instructions are not properly communicate. It will become a common thing to constantly guess and lean in to figure out what the teacher is trying to convey. Subsequently, it becomes tiring and you start to lose interest. Therefore, don't discriminate local teachers. If they have good language background plus good teaching skills, try them out. I'm sure they won't lose out to the natives. Of course, if your teacher is a native and has good command of English, then that will be a bonus!
I will not compare the teachers in both schools yet because Hanok only has one teacher while SKS has plenty of them. Therefore I won't be playing fair.
.
.
.
Hope I answer your questions~
If you have any more queries you can always drop me a comment!
After months of careful examination and tons of emails + replies. We or should I say I, settled on Singapore Korean School. Friend was a bit reluctant to join because of the pricing but I told her I decided on this school and won't settle for any less. She - with no other choice- (I'm sorry), she decided to enroll too, of course not without the whines of the pricing and pulling a really disheartened face.
I'm only there for three lessons, so I really can't make good substantiated reviews but I will just say what I feel about the lessons so far.
This is just a very simple contrast between the two schools that I have attended so far.
Word of caution: These are all my perspective. I have not sit for Topik yet so some of these comments may seem unsubstantiated to you guys. Take it with a pinch of salt.
Syllabus
SKS
I know many are concerned with the syllabus taught. Whether they are enough for you to go for the TOPIK Basic Test 1. I have looked through the test paper. And from the point of view of a SKS student, there is a possibility of passing the paper. The grammar tested in that level are all taught, perhaps one or two may seem unfamiliar but passing is obtainable. For the writing component, this would be a bit hard. Because in SKS , the focus is more on conversational skills and reading skills. There is few practicing students have of writing. Therefore, this section may seems a bit more challenging. Plus, vocabulary exposed in SKS are restrained in a fixed context. Thus, may find it rigid and hard to find words taught to express yourself.
Hanok
If you have completed Basic 4, there is higher chance of you passing Topik 1 as compared to SKS. Why? Because unlike SKS, the teacher made speak in Korean during lessons and have dictation every end of lessons. She will scribble English sentences and have you translate them. Of course, these words are all taught and in the textbook. Therefore, being made to write, students were already comfortable in writing Korean words and are better able to express themselves. Plus with the richer range of vocabularies, Hanok students wouldn't find writing component much of a pain.
Pace
SKS
SKS proceed at a faster pace. Each lesson, there is a fix topic that the teacher has to finish. However, because the content isn't really a lot, it is suitable for even slow pace learner. As long as you make your revision every week. I don't seem to think it will be overbearing.
Hanok
Hanok's pacing would be a bit slower. One topic maybe separated into two lessons in order to be finished. This is due to the wider vocabulary words and to revise previous grammar points taught. So for example, on lesson 8, she will teach present tense + past tense+ some vocab, then on lesson 9, she will go through these again + more vocab and maybe future tense.
Teaching
Now, here is the most important part I want to emphasis. Teaching. Most Korean schools here have lessons are conducted by native korean. The reason why I want to address this issue is because I think this is a important factor to consider when choosing a school. Many of us have a common but understandable perception about the correlation between quality of teaching and nationality of the teacher. Of course, I would agree that a native would be a not more suitable person to teach its own language to foreigners. Being grown up in that community for over 20+ years, naturally the native teacher would be more familiar with their own culture and its tradition.
But I would like to say that LOCAL/NON-NATIVE teachers are equally good as well. The important key factor to pay attention to is NOT the Nationality but the way the teacher teach and communicate. Many native teachers here are not well-verse in English, and this becomes a huge problem because instructions are not properly communicate. It will become a common thing to constantly guess and lean in to figure out what the teacher is trying to convey. Subsequently, it becomes tiring and you start to lose interest. Therefore, don't discriminate local teachers. If they have good language background plus good teaching skills, try them out. I'm sure they won't lose out to the natives. Of course, if your teacher is a native and has good command of English, then that will be a bonus!
I will not compare the teachers in both schools yet because Hanok only has one teacher while SKS has plenty of them. Therefore I won't be playing fair.
.
.
.
Hope I answer your questions~
If you have any more queries you can always drop me a comment!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Money Not Enough
Chinese New Year is Coming.
There are soo many things that I need to fork out money for.
So I opened my accounts book where I record all my purchases and earnings, and took a really detailed look. After I have updated all recent transactions, I looked at my "future earning" page. It's a page that I record all the job assignments that is currently under me and listed down all the income I will receive each month upon completion.
My eyes carefully zoomed into the 'January' and 'February' column.
Haix~...
I guess I should cut back on my spending limit.
There are soo many things that I need to fork out money for.
So I opened my accounts book where I record all my purchases and earnings, and took a really detailed look. After I have updated all recent transactions, I looked at my "future earning" page. It's a page that I record all the job assignments that is currently under me and listed down all the income I will receive each month upon completion.
My eyes carefully zoomed into the 'January' and 'February' column.
Haix~...
I guess I should cut back on my spending limit.
Friday, January 4, 2013
New Year Resolution?
New Year Resolution.
BORING~
Not going to bombard you guys with my resolution.Typical new year post. Plus I even forgot what my previous year resolution was.
But that doesn't mean I don't set goals and push myself to greater heights. It's just that I set long term goals and I'm taking baby steps towards it.
I have already make a tiny baby step today to achieve one of my long term goals. I think it is a big accomplishment. Drawing bubbles of dreams is easy, achieving them is hard. And to make them realise, all you have to do is to take the very first step. So here I am making my next one.
Now with the arrival of a new year, I can't help but feel a slight change in my feelings.
With each passing year, I feel more and more depressed. A new year does not only represents a fresh new start but also gives you a new set of responsibilities. As I inched towards adulthood, I feel a little helpless and a little bit of fear. There are so many questions and doubts I have for myself.
Ahhh..
I'm turning 21 this year. And in a few more years, by society's convention I would reach a suitable marriageable age. Will I be able to cope with this pressure and continue to lead the life I desire. Or will I succumb to their menacing glares and give up my long term plans?
Can I cope with the increasing work load and lead a balanced life? And face the unforeseen changes?
I do not know, but I fear.
Everyone fears the unknown.
It's no wonder that people fear time.
Nonetheless, I am going to take one step at a time, smile and face the upcoming challenges.
How do you spend your new year. Any thoughts?
Happy New Year~
BORING~
Not going to bombard you guys with my resolution.Typical new year post. Plus I even forgot what my previous year resolution was.
But that doesn't mean I don't set goals and push myself to greater heights. It's just that I set long term goals and I'm taking baby steps towards it.
I have already make a tiny baby step today to achieve one of my long term goals. I think it is a big accomplishment. Drawing bubbles of dreams is easy, achieving them is hard. And to make them realise, all you have to do is to take the very first step. So here I am making my next one.
Now with the arrival of a new year, I can't help but feel a slight change in my feelings.
With each passing year, I feel more and more depressed. A new year does not only represents a fresh new start but also gives you a new set of responsibilities. As I inched towards adulthood, I feel a little helpless and a little bit of fear. There are so many questions and doubts I have for myself.
Ahhh..
I'm turning 21 this year. And in a few more years, by society's convention I would reach a suitable marriageable age. Will I be able to cope with this pressure and continue to lead the life I desire. Or will I succumb to their menacing glares and give up my long term plans?
Can I cope with the increasing work load and lead a balanced life? And face the unforeseen changes?
I do not know, but I fear.
Everyone fears the unknown.
It's no wonder that people fear time.
Nonetheless, I am going to take one step at a time, smile and face the upcoming challenges.
How do you spend your new year. Any thoughts?
Happy New Year~
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