Teachers' Day

During the previous three years, i used to be a part time tutor at tuition centre and it was my wonderful memory during teaching - mixing with the students around and doing what i like to do. It was fantastic when we are able to share our knowledge with the next generation. "It is more blessed to give than to receive". ^.^

This year i am having a unique Teacher's Day. I thought i wouldn't receive any wishes due to that i am no longer in teaching profession. It is blessed that i met my old students back in facebook. Thanks for my former students wishes and thanks to a friend for brighten up my days with Teacher's Day gifts. =)

Email

Believe it or not, i've never used email system to chat with friends although i had my email address since year 2004. Most of the time, i use email to forward emails sent by friends, formal communication such as communication related to work, school, or club matters.

 Until this year, i have a friend who is very used to email chatting, and there.... i start to chat using email too. I slowly fall in love especially into google email whereby we can chat instantly when see the person online. The good thing about google chat is 1st:  it is convenient (instant chatting just like windows live messenger - msn), 2nd it is not easily visible (especially when we want to *snake around during work... hehehehe.... let's keep this quiet, okay? hehehe)

I've also found out the yahoo email also has similar function whereby we can chat instantly as well, but it does not look too user friendly for me. Therefore, i go for gmail.... and yeah! Gmail is a good email system, not much spam and big space for us to store our mails!

It's Time to have a Spot Check!

Gotcha! Does it bring back your memory during secondary school life on spot check by the prefects? ::D
I was a prefect during secondary school and yes, i spot check students' bag when received orders. And today, after few years of my secondary school life, im back to spot check, this activity, not to spot check students' bag again, but to check my resolution list set early in January. Let see.......

I have set nine goals in this year, and among the nine goals, i have achieved three!
(1) Getting CL in Toastmasters - Finally, i received my CL pin in last workshop and my CL certificate post by today! Hooray!

(2) Learn Photoshop - There is a slight change on this goal. Instead of learning photoshop, my teacher has suggested to learn Swish Max 2, which is another software for learning computer animation and arts. The software is slightly easier to use compared to Photoshop. Still in learning progress. A lot to pick up due to my slow learning in this.


(3) Getting myself a shoes cupboard - Yes! I got it during CNY. A simple and nice for me to hold my shoes.

There are still seven months to go for me to catch up for the other six resolutions. Glory to God for all the above resolutions achieved.

Difference in Time

wow... it was unexpected that the time passed so fast, and today has come to the end of Apr '10. How time flies. What ever it is, i gonna take this hour to share about the time difference which i encountered recently.

I was making a call to Philippines Agent two days ago for work matters. I called up around 1pm to look for a person. The operator from the receiver side replied that the person was not in yet, as it was still their lunch hour, would be back after 1pm. So, i decided to make the call again after forty five minutes later.

When i saw the time struck at 1.45pm, i made the call again to look for the person. And was replied by saying that "I'm sorry, she was still having her lunch, can you call back later after lunch?" I was feeling quite weird at first place as i thought that the time in Indonesia is same as Malaysia time as the time lined on same Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +8)?

I put down the phone and checked the time online, and only after that i found out not all place in Indonesia are 8 hours ahead of GMT. Some places such as Jakarta and Sumatra are GMT +7, which means that their time are one hour slower than Malaysia.

I realized that it is important for us to understand the difference time zone of different places so that we can adapt to their cultures and living styles, especially if the places linked to our job. I will be more alert to the time zone now to ensure that i call at right time next time. And by the way, the international dial code for Indonesia is +62.

Presenting Speech is like a Roller Coaster

As usual, i will record down what i have learned in my blog as all these are worth while to be remembered. I learned a new technique for public speaking presentation yesterday; i.e. presenting speech is like a roller coaster actually. Have you ever rode on a roller coaster? How does it feel like? Does it come in speedy way in all the way? Or does it have a slower motion or stop at intervals?

To be able enjoy the full excitement, roller coaster will have speedy and slower movement according to where it goes to. At certain time, it may stop and hang up at halfway to increase the excitement.

Similarly, when we do presentation, it is necessary for us to have 'pause' to make the audience think as well as to create suspense to the audience. Let the silence speak. When there is some seconds for audience to think, you actually have let the audience rewind back on your speech and drawing the story line of the speech in their memory. With this, it can help in engaging the audience more to the speech.

Hereby, i would also like to share part of the theory shared by Bryan Tracy "The first party to make a concession is the party who wants to deal the most. You must therefore avoid being the first one to make a concession, even a small concession. Instead, be friendly and interested, but remain SILENT." (taken from http://www.markgarbelotto.com/tag/brian-tracy-quotes/)

Packet Mee

Packet Mee, I'm loving it! Why do people feel happy when taking packet mee? This includes myself too as each time when i am bored or dull, i will feel being lifted up after taking packet mee. So, what is the ingredients done with packet mee that has such an effect? hmm.... i wonder. Ha ha...

The irresistible nice smell coming from the pot while cooking the packet mee increases our appetite. And i've also found out that each time when i am sick or lack of appetite, packet mee is one of the choices of food that i can take to fill my stomach.

And for sure, we can't take this mee too often although the mee is nice to taste, easy to cook, easy to carry, easy to add ingredients, save time....... but one thing, you may not know which i heard from one nutritionist, she said that two packets of maggi mee require a month to be fully cleared out from body. Imagine, the MSG stay in our body for a month..... hmm....

Flowers make my day a great day!

Ah! Beautiful Roses!

The beauty of Roses make my day a great day!

:)