.::Multi-Colored-Dreams::.

Eh.. Good digression?

Went for tuition on a Sunday morning without fail(well, sometimes it does, lol). Even in the midst of my examination, I thought I would need to go for tuition, as I felt it's my responsibility. On a value-sense, ya. On my pocket sense, YA!

Yup, but I look forward to going tuition each time cos I like to teach something new. Haha. You know I came up with this holiday program for my top student(who recently got top in his class) - Weice. So I'll be teaching him not just Chinese now, but English, and literature. As part of the holiday program, I'm teaching him poetry writing, song writing(written 2 songs so far!), and creative writing.

Oh, by the way, I gave him a short lecture on "public speaking" as well. Previously, I asked him to prepare a speech on the topic "Friends". I was quite amused by how he took the topic - "You can't buy friends. Friends that are 'bought' are not genuine friends". That was quite amusing, and somehow true. I asked him why he approached the topic this way and he said it was "an open topic mah". Haha. So I shared with him some pointers regarding public speaking. Not that I'm a qualified professional public speaker of some sort, but at least I did go through a course on that. I even took the effort to draft out a multiple-paged article based on it!

Go check it out at
http://socyberty.com/advice/speaking-with-confidence-how-to-dazzle-an-audience-with-your-speech/

So yes. And I had an idea for a tuition advertisement which I posted up on Gumtree yesterday.

http://singapore.gumtree.sg/c-Jobs-teaching-nursery-Need-help-in-Eng-Chi-Higher-Chi-Lit-Try-my-methodology-W0QQAdIdZ168751930

Think it's working quite well cos I had an enquiry call by some parent just this morning!

Well, I must admit I'm a tutor who tends to digress during my lessons. But usually, all the "digression" spark new topics, new ideas, and new things to talk about. That, again, is part of my methodology of teaching. :) And then again, it is to lighten the atmosphere. I asked Weice about his other tutor and he said the environment was totally different with him - tense and serious. While I'm not in any time ready to be such a tutor, I believe in forging friendships and good tutor-tutee relationships with my students.

Coincidentally, it's Weice's birthday today! Happy 13th! Bought him currypuffs from Old Chang Kee on my journey to his place. Not as his birthday presents of course! Lol. And guess what? I'll be bringing him out on Thursday. Probably go catch a movie, and then bring him to Kino to browse on some books!

I always believe in outside-classroom-and-textbooks learning. So tutees, you are WARNED ADVISED!

After tuition today, I headed to JP. Went to Gramophone and got to know that Jason Mraz has a new 'live' album! And Sondre Lerche too! Oooohh!! So tempted to buy them. And I even saw "Paris36" DVD - a movie I sought after!

Gahh... all these are making me so motivated to look forward to post-exams period, where I'll go back to exploring my music, probably know more people, get involved in more performances, indulge in my world of music, read some novels/graphic novels, non-fiction books, post more articles on my Triond account, etc.

I'm already getting excited.

Though I should be mugging now, really.

As I said, I tend to digress. But well, writing all these is part of motivating myself. So ya, it's good digression.

And I can't believe I haven't started revising on Tuesday's and Wednesday's paper. >.<