Recent things happening in my life.

Oh hey, I have the mood to blog today. Ignore that stupid green tea post, I am just too obsessed with drinking green tea nowadays. So, anyway, I am going to update about the recent things that is happening in my life. If you are my friend, I have probably told you about it. If ya have to read my blog to know, then YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND, BITCH.

Even though I have stated "things", there is actually only one particular thing that I am going to talk about today. What exactly is it? You might be wondering.

I am going to let you think for a few seconds.

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OK, if you are smart enough, I am going to talk about the tuition issue today. Just in case you have no idea what is it about because you haven't been seeing me.. I am going to start talking about the entire issue.

During the school holidays, probably about 2-3 weeks ago, I was hunting for a job and I decided that maybe I can give teaching tuition a shot. I mean, no harm trying right? Teaching tuition may sounds pretty stressful and I know my parents and aunt wasn't very encouraging towards this issue because they didn't had confident in me. Besides that, I only have an Olevel qualification, which is pretty sucky because most of the Kiasu Singaporean Parents nowadays are looking for degree holder, bachelor, A level students, current school teachers etc.. to teach their K1/K2/lower primary kids. I mean.... WHAT?! Are you fricking crazy, parents? You are actually willing to pay so much money to get a tutor with super high qualification to teach your small kids? :( you must be out of your mind because you didn't even want to consider an O level student like me to tutor your kids :( 

Ok so, I started looking for a tuition assignment online. I signed up for quite a few tuition websites and a few did contact me, but some of the locations were no, meh. Finally, there was this assignment that caught my eye. It was in the East, at Pasir Ris. I woohoo in my mind because I can finally earn some cash. :)
I was able to get the tuition assignment because the fee the parents offered were pretty low for three subjects - EMC. The kid was in P1 enough. Sounds easy-pessy to me after I  went online to search for P1 papers and gained my confidence in teaching that kid even though my parents were still not supportive. 
I told them that I should give everything a shot because I am still young. 

In case you are not sure of all the tuition rules and shit, the tuition company will actually require each tutor to "pay" them 50% of the fee they earned during their first month. So it means that I will only get 75 bucks for the first month for 8 x 1.5h sessions. And I also have to teach for a minimum for one month, otherwise, they will make me pay them 75% of the fee. I had to sign this "contract", it was dumb because it was just an email.

The day of the tuition finally arrived, I was pretty nervous though. I had a really hard time travelling down to Pasir Ris because the place where the kid stays was so ULU. geez, Pasir Ris is damn big. The whole place was so quiet that it was so freaky! Besides that, the place was pretty inaccessible, this may sound stupid, but I nearly got lost. 

The tuition was okay, but I felt a little stressful because I have to teach a lot of things. Days later, after consideration and discussion with my parents, I decided that maybe I am not good enough to teach the kid. So I came to a conclusion that maybe, I should quit teaching. According to the "contract", I have to pay them 75% of the money. WOW, when I don't even get any money.

I emailed the centre and contacted the parents about quitting but I only got a reply the next day. Pretty irresponsible because they actually took a day to reply me, and when they called me, they demanded payment. I felt that the lady on the phone was actually threatening me because she kept saying that if I do not wish to continue, she will ask her company to take action. It did scares me a little because she kept using that "contract" to get me to pay. Apparently, if I don't pay, they will sue me or something. 

After discussing with my parents and L, I felt much better. Really appreciate them for making me feel better. 

On friday, which was the day before, I checked my mail and saw that they have emailed me to demand payment. I started feeling very pissed off because my intention of quitting was because of the venue and I was also afraid that I am not good enough and may not help the kid to achieve good results. Even though I was at fault for quitting after the first session, all they ask from me is to demand money from me. 

Right, it was stated in the "contract", but the thing that pisses me off is that they kept telling me that I either continue teaching for a month, or pay them the money. A month? RIGHT. It may not sound very long, but it is not short either. Even though I was at fault for taking up the tuition assignment and then quitting, but what was their intention for asking me to teach for a month? YES, it is because they want to earn the 75 bucks. So this centre is actually inhuman, they actually find that the money is more important than the kid. Their intention and values were ALL WRONG. 

It may sound like I am very at fault for quitting, but if you give a thought about it, their intention was MONEY MONEY AND MONEY. I feel very unhappy and angry about this. They may argue that if every single tutor did what I did, then there may be chaos. But if the tutor actually have the balls to quit, it means that they actually care for the student's results. All that the centre cares about was money. And also, it is ridiculous and stupid that everyone will actually do this. This referring to quitting before teaching a month, because why would we be so stupid to quit without getting any money? So that excuse was dumb. 

Ok, so back to that email. They told me that I have to make a payment of $112.50 to the bank, and they even put the bank account number them. Sounds very "not professional" to me. Are they begging me for money? :( just kidding. They threatened me by telling me that if I don't pay up before 3rd Oct, I will be permanently barred for taking any assignments from their company. I will also be blacklisted :( sounds so blogshop and my details will be shared on other websites about how terrible I am sigh. I will also be filed to some court. my life is gone, suresure. 

BLACKLISTED. I am very amazed by this because I went to their website to take a look at their black listed list. It is interesting because they wrote almost the same thing for all the cases, and I highly doubt that all of them did the same thing. They actually criticize the tutors like shit and making the kid with no tutor sounds so miserable. They blamed the tutor and said that the kid studies was affected even though the tutor only started one lesson. Hmm, is that meant to be a joke? They even criticize the tutor by saying that he/she is extremely irresponsible and immature. 

Wow, they actually have so much time to blacklist tutors and criticize them and not reply my email that day :( criticizing seems more important than replying an email. :(

I am going to wait till they blacklist me and then I will check what they write about me. If they just decided to copy and paste the same thing and say that I went MIA and never answer their calls or contact them, I will make sure I do something because that is NOT TRUE at all. I contacted them and I even answered their calls. 

They said that I have breached their "contract" and one dumb thing is that they breached their own "contract". They claim that: Any information given to them will be kept strictly confidential and the party will be consulted if the need arises to revel the information. Ok, you know what they did on the blacklisted website? They actually went to put the tutor's full name, address, IC, mobile, parent's mobile on their website and for the address, IC, mobile, parent's mobile, they just decided to cross out two numbers.

For example: Chai Chee Road, Block 803, #01-2**, and IC: s91234**d, mobile: 812345**.

WHAT THE FUCK? Does crossing out two numbers actually protects our privacy? This centre is pure dumb.

Conclusion: This centre is dumb, immature, money-face, lame, and more.

Lesson learnt: Not to teach tuition anymore because I am dumb. 

Really glad for the advice I got from my parents and L, they kept encouraging me and telling me that nothing's going to happen because I am not legal yet and I don't have to worry. I kept telling dad that I might get sued and he just replied me: "If you get sued/have to go to court, I will go with you okay".

xx what a long post.

GREEEEN TEA.

I love green tea, I don't know why I love the taste so much even though it doesn't taste that good.

I am starting to drink green tea very often, almost every day if I can. Besides that, green tea has very good health benefits:

Green Tea may help

- prevent & fight cancer
- lose weight
- fight and prevent diabetes
- reduce blood pressure
- lower cholesterol
- detoxify the body
- prevent & fight arthritis
- prevent & fight allergy
- boost immune system
- protect the kidney, liver, heart
- boost energy
- slower ageing
- relieve stress, headache, migraine
- enhance physical performance & etc

It is quite obvious that I googled that.

Start your diet with green teaaaaaaaa! 

Ps: weird and random post.

Fashion sense, hmmmmz.

Hello, I kept pondering and thinking what I should blog about today because I feel like blogging today.
It's 12.53am now, yes, I am still sleeping late, Kan and Zee. :/
I am still having my poly holidays btw, I think we still have about 3-4 more weeks left, I think..

ok so, today, I am going to blog about Fashion! not that I am a fashionable person, but well, I would love to be one if I have the money and time to buy tons of clothes, and have wardrobes filled with clothes. and oh yes, I would love to have a walk-in wardrobe in the future when I have my own house.. either alone or with my future husband... that will be pretty cool, yea.

So anyway, I am going to briefly describe my "fashion style", not like I have any, but whatever, you get me.
Ok, so I am usually in tank, spaghetti strap or whatever.

like this.


or this.


or this with some designs.

or even some with stripes.

or some really cute ones (of course I don't have this :( )

and then, I will pair my tank with a pair of shorts or skirt...


a simple pair of shorts...

or a skirt..

a tutu-skirt, or whatever you call that. I actually have this.

or a pair of denim shorts, even though the shorts in the pic above is not something i like... but ya, it's just an example.

Not forgetting.....
I will always wear an outer, or an easier term, cardigan. I know, I know, I am always wearing one when I am wearing something sleeveless.


a really plain one..


or this that looks pretty simple.

On some days, I do wear dresses too.

a two tone dress

or a really casual one.

But then again, I will always cover everything with a cardigan, so ya...

And when I am feeling super casual, I will just wear a long sleeve shirt because it is so comfy.

plain looking one,

or a one that looks like a sweater.

If you notice, my style is basically tank+cardigan+shorts/skirt. or long sleeve shirt on casual days, or even dresses when I feel like it.

But the thing is, people usually look nice in what they wear even though it is casual.
For example:

Don't you think those people look really nice in whatever they wear?! why!!!!
what an unfair world, even though we have the same "style", those people actually look fashionable while I look like poo. :(

L kept telling me that my body is too short, and my legs are too long compared to my body. hhmmmm, so he say that I don't look nice in a lot of things I wear. yeah, it may be true. but it is still sad.

But then again, I can only blame myself. people actually make the effort to dress up everywhere they go, but I will just wear something casual if I am just going nearby.. I mean, WHY WASTE TIME DRESSING OUT IF YOU ARE JUST GOING OUT FOR AWHILE?!?!??!?!



This looks pretty cute, I guess. But if I am just going nearby, why would I bother wearing a skirt? a beanie, which I think I will look super retarded in. and what, stockings?! I remember I took like a super duper long time to wear that, plus they tore easily... :( I only remember wearing them when I was in Taiwan.

Here!

the way I paired it is just too.... hmmm.
Anyway, credit for the pictures - F21 website and lookbook.nu
In case I get sued for using the photo: you people are really fashionable!
I actually love to look at lookbook because the people there dresses really well.
time check: 1.35am, I took some a long time to blog!

It's SEPTEMBER.

ooh yea, it's September, which means that it is going to be 3 more months before 2012 officially comes to an end. :O
I don't really know what's the purpose of me blogging today, but I just felt like it. 
I haven't been updating about my life for such a long time, I know.

Ok today, I am going to blog, obviously. About what, you may be wondering. Today's blogpost is going to be a post about things that had been running through my mind for some time.. And as I look through my photos, I felt a need that I should blog.

You must be thinking, why do I sound so serious? What exactly is the matter?

This may sound stupid, but I miss my secondary school. I miss my secondary friends, my secondary school teachers, the environment, and just the school. This may not sound very "Sin Huay" because I have always been really excited to start my poly life just a few months ago. But sometimes, I just miss secondary school a lot especially my friends. Yeah, I am talking about you Kan and Cheng. NO, NOT YOU JOCE.

I can say that I have had really awesome, fun loving, funny and entertaining and stupid friends in Secondary School. These group of friends with characters that are so unique which I will never find in my entire life. I know that we no longer see one another everyday, no longer attend lessons together, no longer studying hard for Os together, no longer laughing at each other (esp Kan) during PE games sessions, no longer able to eat together during recess, no longer being able to have our drinking competition, no longer being able to gossip about random people, no longer... too many no longer. this sounds pretty sad.

Nowadays, when we hang out together, we are always talking about our own school lives, our own social circles. All of us have our own clique of friends now in school. Even though we may be in the same school, we don't see each other in school often as well.

I miss the times we shared.
I miss having talks with all of you.
I miss eating cup noodles after school with Huizee.
I miss recess time with you all.
I miss having drinking competition.
I miss bitching about Jocelyn.
I miss discussing about how big our butts are.
I miss going to the water cooler and looking at how slim our legs are.
I miss studying together with all of you.
I miss you all.

:(

this is unglam, and blurr. but whatever.

and some photos taken last week when me and Kan went to Zee's house to pass her her birthday gift.

 Embarrassing Kan sticking the photos on the MRT platform.

 Happy huizee.