H-H-H-H-Hey... *raises hand, then drops it* ........ *dies*
Firstly, sorry to kumagoro87! :( Stuffs and other stuffs = cannot hand in scripts. *fails*
So I got up at 6.30am today to get to work. I traveled for about 1 hour and erm, 20 minutes (?) to get to my work place. I wasn't supposed to work on a Saturday but the supervisor asked if I could so...well, I'm soft so I said okay. I'm not doing it next time, though. I have to get up waaaaayyyyy too early and it isn't...right for me. I don't want to go back to school times. :(
All on the way I was playing Justice For All, and finally finished the second case. HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PEARLS IS SO CUTE. ;w; HER CUTE OMG. /SPAZZES
Also, you have no idea how happy I am when Maya is back for these few cases. Also, Franziska...HAH HAH. Fucking sexy, but WITH THAT WHIP IS KINKEH BABEH.
Anyway, tomorrow's workless for me. I guess I can get some things done tomorrow. Also, today during work...
There's this poor boy I see who really needed to leave to get to another class, I suppose, as I was told by my aunt. She said he had other things and classes to attend to, so being at our center you are required to do your assigned classwork and corrections for it, and corrections for your homework. I think his schedule is a tad bit too packed, so he doesn't get to do much and probably ended up becoming too hasty.
He ends up rushing himself, and rubbing his work (written in pencil) over and over again and his handwriting gets extremely messy. Also, he keeps looking around the room and at the clock and then at his work and around again, and he also scratches his head, rubs his head, shakes his head, makes noises that sound like, y'know, hastiness and rather pitiful.
And really, he came in about erm, 9.30am or so, and he needs to leave for his next class at about 12pm? That's about 1 hour in this place, possibly, since you need to give time to travel to another place in order to get to the class. It's possible to do work quickly in just an hour (the higher your level, the slightly less you are given since it gets tougher) and what we give I feel is not...unreasonable.
I think he was able to finish his classwork, but only managed some corrections. My supervisor asked him to sit beside me, which he did, and I told him to get through one by one. The poor boy, however, still kept panicking and kept insisting he has no time and needed to go. (Slightly unrelated note: I was marking slightly higher leveled Math, I DIED LOOKING AT MATH WITHOUT CALCULATOR ALL OVER AGAIN *facepalms*)
It just led me to think: why does his parents make him rush this way and try to attempt so many things at one go? I dunno how packed his schedule is, but from what I hear, he does have quite a bit of things to do outside.
I think it's...good to be leading a fulfilling life, but I don't think it's right to take things to the bottleneck. When he bursts, I don't know what will happen to the poor boy. His behavior at our center has already caused some teachers to laugh (yeah a young lady in particular) and other students to look at him oddly. I think if his parents really want the best for him, they need to find out what their son is really going through and understand him better - not just stuff lessons to learn other things down his throat, causing such a heavy burden on his shoulders.
I have to say I'm really lucky, because there have been things that my mom has never really managed to achieve, but she never said I needed to do it on her behalf. A lot of Singaporean parents do that nowadays - they want their kids to do the things they have never been able to do (I have another aunt who is like this - enrolls her oldest daughter in ballet, dancing, singing, art, violin, gymnastics, piano etc anything you can think of), which has been a lot of things. Then when the kids don't want to do it, parents do the guilt trip say things like, "What!? You're lucky to be born here with the opportunity to do such things unlike us when we were young. So while you're young, take this chance and just do whatever you can to lead a fulfilling life."
But they never understood the true meaning of what it is to lead a fulfilling life. I can't explain it myself either since I haven't even led half my life yet, so I'm inexperienced. But I think I know the difference between 'the brink' and 'just nice'. Leading a fulfilling life doesn't mean you need to lead a life jammed with activities and new things every day in this ever-changing world. Sure, it is important to keep yourself up-to-date with life and activities around you, but it doesn't mean you need to chase after so many things at one go that you make yourself so burdened because of it... :|
Anyway, I know you'll say this doesn't concern me - no it doesn't. I think I remember mentioning we're not even teachers so we don't even need to care about the students there, but they're humans too. I think it's only right we help them along as much as we can. Also, it's not because I'm a busybody, because really, if he IS enjoying life, I don't believe repeatedly scratching your head and frantically looking between the time and how much you've done and constantly repeating you need to go makes it any fulfilling at all.
If any parents might actually read this and it seems like it offends you, I'm sorry. But I mean what I said - a fulfilling life doesn't mean a mash of activities all the time. It just means to lead a content, satisfying life that will bring a smile and confidence to your child.
Long rant over, I want to CC Saiyaku for cheezy a bit, and then get to bed in an hour. Sorry cheezy. I'm afraid after this, I may have no time for Echochi, so I might just want to step back a bit and be a 'reserve' translator.
Er, I haven't replied you guys, sorry. I read some posts though. <3 It's like RL comes in and things get eaten away again... *facepalms*
So I got up at 6.30am today to get to work. I traveled for about 1 hour and erm, 20 minutes (?) to get to my work place. I wasn't supposed to work on a Saturday but the supervisor asked if I could so...well, I'm soft so I said okay. I'm not doing it next time, though. I have to get up waaaaayyyyy too early and it isn't...right for me. I don't want to go back to school times. :(
All on the way I was playing Justice For All, and finally finished the second case. HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PEARLS IS SO CUTE. ;w; HER CUTE OMG. /SPAZZES
Also, you have no idea how happy I am when Maya is back for these few cases. Also, Franziska...HAH HAH. Fucking sexy, but WITH THAT WHIP IS KINKEH BABEH.
Anyway, tomorrow's workless for me. I guess I can get some things done tomorrow. Also, today during work...
There's this poor boy I see who really needed to leave to get to another class, I suppose, as I was told by my aunt. She said he had other things and classes to attend to, so being at our center you are required to do your assigned classwork and corrections for it, and corrections for your homework. I think his schedule is a tad bit too packed, so he doesn't get to do much and probably ended up becoming too hasty.
He ends up rushing himself, and rubbing his work (written in pencil) over and over again and his handwriting gets extremely messy. Also, he keeps looking around the room and at the clock and then at his work and around again, and he also scratches his head, rubs his head, shakes his head, makes noises that sound like, y'know, hastiness and rather pitiful.
And really, he came in about erm, 9.30am or so, and he needs to leave for his next class at about 12pm? That's about 1 hour in this place, possibly, since you need to give time to travel to another place in order to get to the class. It's possible to do work quickly in just an hour (the higher your level, the slightly less you are given since it gets tougher) and what we give I feel is not...unreasonable.
I think he was able to finish his classwork, but only managed some corrections. My supervisor asked him to sit beside me, which he did, and I told him to get through one by one. The poor boy, however, still kept panicking and kept insisting he has no time and needed to go. (Slightly unrelated note: I was marking slightly higher leveled Math, I DIED LOOKING AT MATH WITHOUT CALCULATOR ALL OVER AGAIN *facepalms*)
It just led me to think: why does his parents make him rush this way and try to attempt so many things at one go? I dunno how packed his schedule is, but from what I hear, he does have quite a bit of things to do outside.
I think it's...good to be leading a fulfilling life, but I don't think it's right to take things to the bottleneck. When he bursts, I don't know what will happen to the poor boy. His behavior at our center has already caused some teachers to laugh (yeah a young lady in particular) and other students to look at him oddly. I think if his parents really want the best for him, they need to find out what their son is really going through and understand him better - not just stuff lessons to learn other things down his throat, causing such a heavy burden on his shoulders.
I have to say I'm really lucky, because there have been things that my mom has never really managed to achieve, but she never said I needed to do it on her behalf. A lot of Singaporean parents do that nowadays - they want their kids to do the things they have never been able to do (I have another aunt who is like this - enrolls her oldest daughter in ballet, dancing, singing, art, violin, gymnastics, piano etc anything you can think of), which has been a lot of things. Then when the kids don't want to do it, parents do the guilt trip say things like, "What!? You're lucky to be born here with the opportunity to do such things unlike us when we were young. So while you're young, take this chance and just do whatever you can to lead a fulfilling life."
But they never understood the true meaning of what it is to lead a fulfilling life. I can't explain it myself either since I haven't even led half my life yet, so I'm inexperienced. But I think I know the difference between 'the brink' and 'just nice'. Leading a fulfilling life doesn't mean you need to lead a life jammed with activities and new things every day in this ever-changing world. Sure, it is important to keep yourself up-to-date with life and activities around you, but it doesn't mean you need to chase after so many things at one go that you make yourself so burdened because of it... :|
Anyway, I know you'll say this doesn't concern me - no it doesn't. I think I remember mentioning we're not even teachers so we don't even need to care about the students there, but they're humans too. I think it's only right we help them along as much as we can. Also, it's not because I'm a busybody, because really, if he IS enjoying life, I don't believe repeatedly scratching your head and frantically looking between the time and how much you've done and constantly repeating you need to go makes it any fulfilling at all.
If any parents might actually read this and it seems like it offends you, I'm sorry. But I mean what I said - a fulfilling life doesn't mean a mash of activities all the time. It just means to lead a content, satisfying life that will bring a smile and confidence to your child.
Long rant over, I want to CC Saiyaku for cheezy a bit, and then get to bed in an hour. Sorry cheezy. I'm afraid after this, I may have no time for Echochi, so I might just want to step back a bit and be a 'reserve' translator.
Er, I haven't replied you guys, sorry. I read some posts though. <3 It's like RL comes in and things get eaten away again... *facepalms*