Good afternoon!

as usual, today is my tuition-day. (for ur info, every wed&thurs i will be giving tuition @ thomson. ^.^ means i dun hv to wake up early n go to tuition centre)
now is 2.00pm. i only have abt 10 mins left b4 i need to get changed n leave the house.

9 minutes and 58seconds left.


oh... yah.. i wanna talk abt ytd. i was teaching a pri 4 boy maths. (1 to 1 bcos his mother thought tat he cant concentrate/learn in a slightly bigger class, bcos his maths is very weak. so she requested it.) he's in my chinese class as well. (so i think he'll probably see my face see until sian)
then e 1st thing i asked when i saw him was:"hey, so did u bring ur homework today?" (then he pretend to open his bag and look for e worksheet. so naturally i looked into his bag as well, and i saw tat worksheet, which is still as clean as before, no ink, no words) he didn realised i was looking, so he said:"oh, i think i left it at home." (this is what i always hear from him, every week, for every subject.) not wanting to waste time, i jus passed him a new set of worksheet and start with my lesson.
z0o0om, 1 hour and 30 mins was over. but we were still at e 5th question (angles). he's always taking his "snail speed" to do e sums and happily daydreaming (dunno abt what thing) when i'm explaining. so obviously he didn get anything into his brain. and i was a bit fed up by then, so i made him copied this: the 3 sides of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. after copying for abt 10 times, i asked him to try on a question. !!!!he still didn noe how to do it. so... nvm, (teachers require great patience right?) i taught him again, and asked him to repeat after me. afterwhich, i asked if he understands, he nod his head. and i asked him to try e next question.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he didn noe how to do it!!! (breathe in.. breathe out..teachers require great patience right?)

so i said to him:"you're not going to go home until u can do this question right." so i passed him a piece of paper, want him to copy the 3 sides of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. again, 10 times. (hahaa.. wonder if it really works.)

but u noe what happened next? he started to cry. CRYYYYYYYY!!! (so maybe he thought tat if he cries i'll let him go? but NO WAY!) "there's no point crying, if u waste ur time crying, tat's ur problem, u r not going to leave until u get this question right." as i looked down, his worksheet is totally wet. (OMG, my worksheet!!!) after copying 10 times, i asked him to do tat question, and this time, he got it right. and he didn even use his "snail speed". so as promised, i let him go.


must i always use this method to make him learn? haiz......



OHHHH... i'm going to be late!!!!! ai ya.. BYE!