I will give way

I pledge that I will give way to YOG vehicles even when:

1) I unknowingly drove onto the second leftest lane, when I was driving on the second rightest lane in a 4 lane expressway when it suddenly converges into 3 lanes.

2) the traffic is very congested, I will forcefully change lane.

(So that I will not be fined).

(Why can't they just share the rightest lane with emergency vehicles, instead of splitting affected roads into 2?).

Just a little bit Retro

Yesterday while lunching at my old place of residence, my mum said hi to an auntie whom she suggested that i remember. In fact, I was totally clueless and it happens that the auntie used to be the ice-cream vendor at my primary school, while I was studying there.. Wow, my mum has great memory.

After a while, she saw and greeted another auntie, and shot out a name that was totally foreign to me, and who is the child of the auntie. That child happens to be my classmate in kindergarten :/ OMG.. I only remember 2 names from kindergarten, and I've already no contact with them, trust my mum to remember. Guess they remember everything about their children.

Later in the afternoon, I have a guest, who came over to borrow my comp to try to restore his iphone. He even brought over some PS games and a controller to play at my house :x Playstation 1 if anyone don't know what that is. Haha, I thrashed him in winning eleven, since I'm quite pro at it, and he beat me in the racing game he brought. LOL..

Today was slightly better. After a long day out, I played DOTA with my mentees, probably 1+ yr since I last played with anyone. Maybe they will still ask me to play again soon :p

Homework Strategies

It's the parents that fret about the child's homework when they can't finish or won't start doing them. It's rather amusing to see parents using many different strategies to get their child to do their homework.

1. Baits

Using food to entice the child to do their homework. Some favourite baits include ice-cream, sweets, chocolate. Could prove very effective when dealing with a gourmet kid (if put in a nice way). However, with so much food attracting the attention, how much of the attention is spent on the homework?

2. Play time

"Work hard, play hard". No one says it the other way round, obviously parents aren't exceptions. More often than not, you will hear parents shouting "Quick do your homework, then you can go play your PS3!", if you don't do your homework, then your play time is compromised, simple. But a lot of time, after doing homework, the parents will say "Go learn your spelling!!". LOL! Bye bye to play time..

3. Reasoning

Over the weekend is when there is the highest amount of homework, and you will hear this "You do this homework now, then you will have less to do tomorrow." Perfectly logical, but not appealing at all.

4. Threaten

Possibly the first exposure to the notion of threatening comes from the parents when they threaten to give them a beating for not doing their work.

Acquaintances

Just a few years back, I would have played bball only if the court was at least half empty, so I could train shooting on my own. Even on days when there were people who came and wanted to play with me, I would have reservations about playing.

Nowadays, I realized that I did not want to play when the court was empty. My view of making acquaintances seemed to have taken a big turn, probably thanks to the CCA that I had joined for 2 years.

It's common interest that pulls people together, and then it takes effort to nurture the budding friendship, and even more to maintain the friendship.

I've read or heard somewhere that it's easiest to make friends during childhood. Friends are constantly replaced by new ones, that's why we have contact with so little of our primary school friends. As we grow older, and become more and more picky with our friends, there ain't no constant flow of new friends, and therefore spends more effort in maintaining friendships.

I think it's important to maintain friendship and at the same time keep meeting new people, so that you don't cling onto just a single friend and be a burden to that friend.

Keep an open mind and be thick-skinned!