There was a kids’ modeling show at The Kids Academy which was held at Suntec Convention Centre. I found out that some of the kid models actually had Down Syndrome. I was touched. I felt that they lived life well, and can also perform better than normal children. These kids have to face more problems [...]
Archive > March 2010
I was a teenage toilet cleaner
I am going to tell you something shocking. When I was in secondary school, I washed the school toilets. It was not part of detention class (how dare you, I am a good girl okay). It was part of our regular, daily classroom cleaning routine. You see, at the end of each classroom block was [...]
Happy Birthday Lady Gaga!
Yesterday (28 March) was Lady Gaga’s birthday. Thank you for your amazing music. Ever since I stumbled upon your music last year, I have been incredibly in love with you. You have been my source of inspiration. Thank you for all you have done for us. I am proud to be your little monster. Just [...]
The mayonnaise jar & 2 cups of coffee
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24 Hours in a day is not enough, Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class, And had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, He picked up a very large [...]
Words can hurt deeply, badly…
I came across this email and would like to share… Sometimes we don’t know how our words can hurt others and ourselves at the end of the day. My mom only had one eye. I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. . She cooked for students & teachers to support the family. There was this [...]
Foreign brides
this post wld just be some side sharing on a topic my group & i just presented in a seminar ystdy at sch. the module was Gender Psychology, & our group chose to research on the issues of Mail Order Brides or Foreign Brides, to examine the power differential between both sexes. You can click [...]
Creativity of 8-Days
Pick up a copy of 8-Days yesterday. The headline was: “Liang Poke Poke” (regarding Jack Neo)
I simply love working…
Just one and half hour to go, an important person in my life asked me to stop working for a special day today. I told her no way, I will work today coz its 1:38am… so yeah today, wednesday! Since we set up the AdvoDream platform, I have been asking myself why should I be [...]
Painful to watch
One of my students shared this link with me. And my my, it was too painful to watch! It amazes me what tickles the kids now. Well, if you have 10min 17 sec to spare, watch it at your own risk. “I will take full responsibility in my action to click on this link”. Anyhow, [...]
Believing in what you do
Those among you who follow my personal Facebook feed as well as the company’s Twitter feed will probably have noticed that I am nuts about the TV show Glee, and their theme song in particular. The song title is “Don’t Stop Believing”, and I have begun to see that Belief is going to be a [...]
Kidz Academy
Advo Group was involved in the first ever Kidz Academy in Suntec City on 19, 20 and 21 Mar. Establish Education organizations from all over Singapore were there to showcase their teaching methology. ISUN and The Reading Loft represented Advo in the events. Ex-students from advocators were also there to help out. Below are some [...]
Limiting Labels
Just got an email from Anthony and read his article http://www.anthonyfernando.com/2010/03/03/399/. I totally agree with what he says. I just recall an incident last week. We had a bio workshop last week. Heard from the bio coach that one of the parents told her her child was rejected by a teacher before simply because his results [...]
You can do the most remarkable thing!
Got this interesting quote while packing my past materials… Don’t wish it is easier, wish you are better! Don’t wish for less problem, wish you have more skills! Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom! You can do the most remarkable thing no matter what happens! Wish for the right things today!
Work, Career, Calling… Study, Pride, Grow!
Recently, I was introduced to a sharing my Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos.com) about growing your company. And he shared an interesting idea of the different kind of employees in this world and it suddenly creates a realization in me. He shared about there are basically 3 types of staff you will encounter. Type 1 [...]
How to get the best out of everything
I picked up this book from kino yesterday. Only managed to browse through few pages till this moment. Since I have to blog, I will talk about it. We have the tendency to lose passion/interest in whatever we are doing and falls into a routine.. be it our job/marriage/friendship/studies etc… In this book, they suggest we [...]
A lesson in non-verbal communication
On Sunday evening, I saw my boyfriend off at the airport. I took the train back, from Changi Airport station all the way to Clementi MRT. I was lucky enough to get a seat, and was quite determined to hang on to it for at least half the ride. At Tiong Bahru MRT, the train [...]
A Dream that is fulfilled
In 1974 Sylvester Stallone was a broke, discouraged actor and screenwriter. While attending a boxing match he became inspired by a “nobody” boxer who “went the distance” with the great Mohammed Ali. He rushed home and in a three-day burst of creative output produced the first draft of the screenplay entitled Rocky. Down to his [...]
Change starts with me.
Not too long ago, I was in an awful situation with someone close to me. There were things we could’nt see eye to eye with. At that time, my thought was why is he thinking that way, why cant he think this way. I was bothered by it until someone told me if I wanted him to [...]
爱不能等待
Last week, my mum was hospitalized until now. I was very worried as her conditon was not stable for the last few days. Then i realized, she has became so old. It was so sad to see her hand was full of hole of jab. My father was so tired as he never really rest [...]
