Just came back from JB teachers training!! Was a great experience and I believe all participants agreed. Really thanks, FGS Singapore, FGS Malaysia, Ven Miaoyu, Prof Bao Ru, Principle Karen and all fellow teachers for making all this possible.
The trip sets off at 25th Dec, and yes its the day straight after Xmas :) Although I have not been a good and regular volunteer yet Karen invited me for the training! Fellow participants were no strangers with just a few new faces and a great chances to know each individual teacher deeper especially volunteer teachers at Pu Ti Primary.
The first 2 days meals were all vegetarian meals provided by FGS malaysia and was really nice wor! The accomodation was also well planned and we all feel so comfortable.
Prof Bao Ru delivered a great lesson introducing us his way of running his kindergarten and his valuable case studies he met throughout his career. I believe his succes was brought about by his passion in education as well as his cheerful outlook towards life, ever so carefree yet so discpline in living his ideas.
Some valuable lessons I have gained is on the art of communications. Often then not we always unconciously forced our perceptives on others and always pressume we are doing the best for them. But I come to realise that our best may not really be the best for them, be it the kids or anyone we can across. The idea is to listen to what the kids want and always give them the chance to learn by their own ways.
He also tried his very best to give us a good introduction into high/scope strategies and now my brain was saturated with ideas I would try to enforce into my techniques. Now left the actual application. Something unexpected out from the lessons were some goal actualisation and personal development ideas that seems to be the most practical I ever heard before. Much better than those motivational talks you get by paying a few grands.
On this trip, the fun was not possible without our fellow youthful teachers, full of laughters and synergies for each other. I come to realise that in a team, we all have our speciality, characters and reasons in our voluntaring work. But coming together, we can accomplish a great deal. But like what prof Bao Ru was saying, its always not about the result but the process. And I see lights in the process now and I believe we will go far and continue to benefit kids that we had our hands lay on and people that has cross our path.
Can't wait to see the kids now!! but haiz have to wait 6 mths more before I can do anything. But yup I have promise to and will commit myself :)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Thanks Esther from bringing us to Hope Church Church Christmas service. The event was done really professional and the audience really rocks the house :) There was I hoping the seats' platform does not collapse! The songs were nice and the skit was rather interesting and thought provoking. The end was done with a mass prayer as usual where the non christians were urged to the front to receive God in to their life. I would say this segment was a rather important segment :)
Comparative to other Xmas, the night was more rowdy and full of handshakes, getting to know more people and getting myself more thoughts and realisation. Realising I am old haha. Also, where is all the older people?? As for the more religious part stay tuned on to my other blog :)
I still manage to think back to one of the previous church experience in a more smaller but cosy and homely church few years ago invite by my poly classmates. If were to choose I prefer that! I am not really into the teachings since I believe I never really finish every single page of the bible. But seems like they show their faith more into studying deeper into the bible and leaving life more humbly as a christian :)
And to answer why I attempts to visit the church;
1) I am free
2) Xmas by christian should be more authentic.
3) To strengthen my "faith" haha!
Comparative to other Xmas, the night was more rowdy and full of handshakes, getting to know more people and getting myself more thoughts and realisation. Realising I am old haha. Also, where is all the older people?? As for the more religious part stay tuned on to my other blog :)
I still manage to think back to one of the previous church experience in a more smaller but cosy and homely church few years ago invite by my poly classmates. If were to choose I prefer that! I am not really into the teachings since I believe I never really finish every single page of the bible. But seems like they show their faith more into studying deeper into the bible and leaving life more humbly as a christian :)
And to answer why I attempts to visit the church;
1) I am free
2) Xmas by christian should be more authentic.
3) To strengthen my "faith" haha!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Chill out session!!
Have always wanted to visit a jazz pub but I find it hard to find except Hotel lounge. But ya my wish was fulfilled finally when Dengli (shoe size 3 gal) heard my cry and willing to bring us down!
The place is call Jazz @ South Bridge. Its located at the end of boat quay and separated by the river is the parliament house. The jazz music instantaneously sets my mood into a more relax manner especially when the jazz singer starts to mesmerize the audience with her light and relaxing voice. Drinks were not too pricey but strawberry boy decides to treat us :)
Had relaxing casual chats and updates from the group. All doing well except some complaints on work. Isn't it nice to have a few close friend to share our happiness and sorrows together.
The place is call Jazz @ South Bridge. Its located at the end of boat quay and separated by the river is the parliament house. The jazz music instantaneously sets my mood into a more relax manner especially when the jazz singer starts to mesmerize the audience with her light and relaxing voice. Drinks were not too pricey but strawberry boy decides to treat us :)
Had relaxing casual chats and updates from the group. All doing well except some complaints on work. Isn't it nice to have a few close friend to share our happiness and sorrows together.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
生命中的朋友!
Can't wait to share the experience!! Feel so young tonight :) Thanks w.s.d.p for organising tonight's music sharing by Kang Qi and group! 生命中的朋友!
Not much participants as before but was a light hearted sharing session by Kang qi and friend on their album. I can say its an album where I like ALL the songs. Something I find rather rare nowadays. The rarest part is its a collection of songs with meanings. At least it did arose me to think deeper into the meanings of the lyrics.
The rythmns are catchy and it also gives a kinda youthful campus feel. Songs are perfect for small gatherings where someone just plays the guitar and the rest just sing along. The audience is a little tense for the mood I guess. If there is a weekend noon session where "works" are thrown aside, i believe the feel will be perfect.
From the session I found the reason why I prefer buddhist songs then other commercial songs or even other religious hymns :) All songs sings about love and most songs talk about love that's inward. A love that someone gave or b'cos of someone's love. It is always about love that's directed to ourselves. Buddhist songs usually spreads the love from within to outwards. It always about caring and loving others where there is no specific others. I call in the un-conditional love generation.
Singing is not about singing it as professionally but in the most sincerest way touches the most :)
Love that is expected to get comes greed, hatred and delusion. But love that's spreading outwards with equanimity needs no designated recepients and we can just keep spreading it out, selflessly :)
Ya to add on! The little note that CH wants us to write on what we always want to tell ourselves. I didn't write any because my chinese is bad. But in mind, I just want to say, "All man are good man." or at least innately good. There is a saying, this world has more good people. Because the good will just be good but the bad willl still feel remorse for doing bad and leads them to good. Unless under unfavorable conditions, everyone just wants to make friends and utters only well wishes for each other :)
Not much participants as before but was a light hearted sharing session by Kang qi and friend on their album. I can say its an album where I like ALL the songs. Something I find rather rare nowadays. The rarest part is its a collection of songs with meanings. At least it did arose me to think deeper into the meanings of the lyrics.
The rythmns are catchy and it also gives a kinda youthful campus feel. Songs are perfect for small gatherings where someone just plays the guitar and the rest just sing along. The audience is a little tense for the mood I guess. If there is a weekend noon session where "works" are thrown aside, i believe the feel will be perfect.
From the session I found the reason why I prefer buddhist songs then other commercial songs or even other religious hymns :) All songs sings about love and most songs talk about love that's inward. A love that someone gave or b'cos of someone's love. It is always about love that's directed to ourselves. Buddhist songs usually spreads the love from within to outwards. It always about caring and loving others where there is no specific others. I call in the un-conditional love generation.
Singing is not about singing it as professionally but in the most sincerest way touches the most :)
Love that is expected to get comes greed, hatred and delusion. But love that's spreading outwards with equanimity needs no designated recepients and we can just keep spreading it out, selflessly :)
Ya to add on! The little note that CH wants us to write on what we always want to tell ourselves. I didn't write any because my chinese is bad. But in mind, I just want to say, "All man are good man." or at least innately good. There is a saying, this world has more good people. Because the good will just be good but the bad willl still feel remorse for doing bad and leads them to good. Unless under unfavorable conditions, everyone just wants to make friends and utters only well wishes for each other :)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The life Book
Memories seems to be just like a book. As days pass, new pages and new stories are added. Each lines tells us the path that we have walked, friends we have made, cries and laughters that has left a trail in our life. There is ups and downs, horrors, wars and romance. Some written with bold while others are in finer prints.
Usually we flip on to make new entries yet sometimes we just flip back to recall hopefully the sunny days.
But yet how good our memories would be if they really are a book. With a detailed content page, we could just flip to where we want, seeing the vivid pictures and pleasant sounds, all the colourful feelings and thoughts then we once had. The once foolish acts, has became something so distant to recall. Faces fades off and names ever so hard to recall. Forgetting the unhappy days seems to be healing the wounds but yet longing to watch once again the youthful happy days.
Maybe it feels better not to go too much into what has been written but what is to be written and those yet to be written.
Usually we flip on to make new entries yet sometimes we just flip back to recall hopefully the sunny days.
But yet how good our memories would be if they really are a book. With a detailed content page, we could just flip to where we want, seeing the vivid pictures and pleasant sounds, all the colourful feelings and thoughts then we once had. The once foolish acts, has became something so distant to recall. Faces fades off and names ever so hard to recall. Forgetting the unhappy days seems to be healing the wounds but yet longing to watch once again the youthful happy days.
Maybe it feels better not to go too much into what has been written but what is to be written and those yet to be written.
Friday, December 11, 2009
People just don't learn :(
Why does the people that cares the most, weep the most yet hurt the most? In no way of any rationality does that appear to be logical yet often than not its always happen :(
Is it b'cos using someone dearest to you usually appears simplier and often gets our own ways easily? Our love ones definitely would not turn our request down. But isn't that outright exploitation of trust and love? Shouldn't kinship be un-conditional or at least decorated with some form of minimal care and concern?
Does weeping when your love one is sick gives the right for future "usage". I just hope people are just getting forgetful. Coz unless I justified it as forgetfulness, any remaining reason is hypocrisy.
Or maybe people just care more for their own problems and only their own problems and desire renders the most attention.
Is it b'cos using someone dearest to you usually appears simplier and often gets our own ways easily? Our love ones definitely would not turn our request down. But isn't that outright exploitation of trust and love? Shouldn't kinship be un-conditional or at least decorated with some form of minimal care and concern?
Does weeping when your love one is sick gives the right for future "usage". I just hope people are just getting forgetful. Coz unless I justified it as forgetfulness, any remaining reason is hypocrisy.
Or maybe people just care more for their own problems and only their own problems and desire renders the most attention.
w.s.d.p Quarter Life Crisis
Nothing beat having fellow like-minded friends, pursuing the path together :) Although slightly off from what to be expected but maybe its because of expectation, some left half way when the segment on role -playing fails to hold on to the audiences attention.
I personally had gained useful insights. Quarter life crisis, as the name suggested somehow narrowed our view into topics like studies and employment but are we the one that has made assumptions before attending.
Point on the finding the FIT in life. Nothing in my family that I find I need to purposely fit in.....or maybe slightly during my growing up years. Friend maybe since sometime I just need to speak the groups' language yet in a very genuine way. I don't really find it tough since I can learn alot from talking to various walks of life. At job......hmmm....maybe after some past major falls, just have to be on my toes :)
Practising kindness I believe I am still on track since even mosquito doesn't bite me and ants tends to give way when i speak to them. Learning to forgive....hmmm....currently I still do not meet with any issue that makes me angry over a day and usually a smile will turn everything around.
As on the role play, the main point is on asking how I could contribute to a relationship instead of what to expect from others. If every member just expected to be given then there won't be someone that gives. Simple it is but often then not when facing a quarrel, our natural "firewall" just thickens. Emotions just took over logics and nothing would turn out well.
Especially on how we treat our love ones, we tend to take for granted and assume others would understand, or maybe doing something which we all think is for their good. But maybe the best policy is just to lend a listening ear as pointed out by one of the participant. The best way to let someone grow is to let someone do what they want :)
Last but no least is about having an open-mind and seeing things from different angle. With patience, I believe those that stayed behind and those that let themselves go into the role-play gained tremendous. After all, lesson learnt from others is much faster than going through ourselves. Meaning often comes at the very last moment :)
Already looking forward to next w.s.d.p session on music sharing!! Hope I could attend :)
I personally had gained useful insights. Quarter life crisis, as the name suggested somehow narrowed our view into topics like studies and employment but are we the one that has made assumptions before attending.
Point on the finding the FIT in life. Nothing in my family that I find I need to purposely fit in.....or maybe slightly during my growing up years. Friend maybe since sometime I just need to speak the groups' language yet in a very genuine way. I don't really find it tough since I can learn alot from talking to various walks of life. At job......hmmm....maybe after some past major falls, just have to be on my toes :)
Practising kindness I believe I am still on track since even mosquito doesn't bite me and ants tends to give way when i speak to them. Learning to forgive....hmmm....currently I still do not meet with any issue that makes me angry over a day and usually a smile will turn everything around.
As on the role play, the main point is on asking how I could contribute to a relationship instead of what to expect from others. If every member just expected to be given then there won't be someone that gives. Simple it is but often then not when facing a quarrel, our natural "firewall" just thickens. Emotions just took over logics and nothing would turn out well.
Especially on how we treat our love ones, we tend to take for granted and assume others would understand, or maybe doing something which we all think is for their good. But maybe the best policy is just to lend a listening ear as pointed out by one of the participant. The best way to let someone grow is to let someone do what they want :)
Last but no least is about having an open-mind and seeing things from different angle. With patience, I believe those that stayed behind and those that let themselves go into the role-play gained tremendous. After all, lesson learnt from others is much faster than going through ourselves. Meaning often comes at the very last moment :)
Already looking forward to next w.s.d.p session on music sharing!! Hope I could attend :)
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Me a guru??
Haha~!! I would say they are just generic question where any one should know if they bothers to plan where they are heading in life.
With a well thought plan, it is still hard to have an great wealth empire but you can still walk the park without having to sleep in the park!
But in Singapore with so much initiatives by government, is there a need to fear? Of course we are more comfortable on average but personal wealth is best managed personally since everyone's idea of comfortable retirement is so different.
Paying a visit to your most trusted adviser should be treated just like going for a GP annually for checkup. But having said so, day to day planning still falls back to the effort of individuals. And to do that, we have to constantly update ourselves with the necessary facts.
To me I do not fear meeting up with dodgy advisers because I always hold all financial decision to my own accountability. Advisers can only be an adviser and I would not chew on any meat served without knowing what meat is that. Rather, I have a habit of meeting up with agents as they could update me with market and product updates more readily than surfing websites due to my audio inclinations.
Have fun with the quize ...... at least it can spark some "question marks" to spur you on your quest for answer.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Mission accomplished and well done :)
I felt so joyous and ever so greatful today :) My mum's condition got better!
Few weeks ago and yes jus a few weeks ago my mum was diagnoised with a growth in her head after several scans due to her frequent headache complains to her usual doctor. And indeed the growth was located jus below her skull cap pressing against the brain mass. Advice was then given from the brain specialist to remove it to minus any possible worsening of the condition fast.
Yesterday she underwent a 4hr long operation which started even earlier than we had expected. We almost freak out when we received her call that she was about to be pushed away to the operation theatre. All thanks to the nurses, we managed to send her off :)
The wait was crazily agonising. Was really lucky that we had the whole family around to chat and wild the time away. Seeing her being pushed out, we practically sprint towards her and followed her to the ICU.
She was all wired up and looks terribly tired. All of us was in tears looking at her in such state. But strange enough, she was much better and able to recognise us when we do our last visit before heading home.
Miracle happens when my bro called the ward this morning and was told my mum can already seat up and consume porridge. Previously the doctor was saying she should be able to move into ICA while the nurse thought that she might still need to stay on in ICU for 2days! But she can in fact move to the normal ward already by today!
Just back from visiting and she was recovering even much faster than expected. She can laugh and perform much more bodily effort already but still have to stay in ICU for the night due to inavailability of normal ward! Good in a way when you know she is in better hands and environment was clean. Bad as in visiting her is much more restricted and she is definitely feeling bored with no "neighbours" to make friend. I think the amount of friends and relative visited her today might have topped the chart as the most amount of visitor!
Looking forward to tomorrow's visit :) and hereby would like to thank all friend that has help me prayed for her success in operation. I believe her speed of recovery is slightly off the scientific logics and I believe its not possible without those sincerest prayers!
Few weeks ago and yes jus a few weeks ago my mum was diagnoised with a growth in her head after several scans due to her frequent headache complains to her usual doctor. And indeed the growth was located jus below her skull cap pressing against the brain mass. Advice was then given from the brain specialist to remove it to minus any possible worsening of the condition fast.
Yesterday she underwent a 4hr long operation which started even earlier than we had expected. We almost freak out when we received her call that she was about to be pushed away to the operation theatre. All thanks to the nurses, we managed to send her off :)
The wait was crazily agonising. Was really lucky that we had the whole family around to chat and wild the time away. Seeing her being pushed out, we practically sprint towards her and followed her to the ICU.
She was all wired up and looks terribly tired. All of us was in tears looking at her in such state. But strange enough, she was much better and able to recognise us when we do our last visit before heading home.
Miracle happens when my bro called the ward this morning and was told my mum can already seat up and consume porridge. Previously the doctor was saying she should be able to move into ICA while the nurse thought that she might still need to stay on in ICU for 2days! But she can in fact move to the normal ward already by today!
Just back from visiting and she was recovering even much faster than expected. She can laugh and perform much more bodily effort already but still have to stay in ICU for the night due to inavailability of normal ward! Good in a way when you know she is in better hands and environment was clean. Bad as in visiting her is much more restricted and she is definitely feeling bored with no "neighbours" to make friend. I think the amount of friends and relative visited her today might have topped the chart as the most amount of visitor!
Looking forward to tomorrow's visit :) and hereby would like to thank all friend that has help me prayed for her success in operation. I believe her speed of recovery is slightly off the scientific logics and I believe its not possible without those sincerest prayers!
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