The Talented Mr Ripples
Well hello. My P5 student msg me today out of the blue. HoHo...
I called her immediately. And yes, it was good news. She passed English AND Maths! Woohoo.
Science is a definite pass for her, cos I've screwed and hammered a lot into her crummy brain.
But Maths!?! Wah leow. I should start a tuition centre if I can make her pass.
At this rate, she won't go to EM3. YES!! I'm so glad I've made such a difference in her life. She's not on the EM3-Normal Stream- ITE trail, because I was there to save the perpetual F student.
Tooting my own horn you say? But of course. No one's going to toot it for me when I ask her dad to increase my fees.
You see, with the amount of hours I'm putting in, I earning a measly $17+ an hour.
The gay idiot in my office who flunked his A levels and who's retaking again this year (without studying he says he can pass, because there's no pressure)is getting $25 an hour. Sure, he has to take a bus, and I only need to walk across, but the disparity between our pay is so great.
He goes there not because he wants to show results, but to pass the time to get cash. I actually care for the airheads I teach. I often get neck, chest and back pain coming home from tuition cos I'm so tense I could snap my neck with my neck muscles if the student fails another practise paper.
AND I've shown results. So yes, I'm going to ask for a raise that is more congruent with my performance and qualifications.
On another note, I've finally learnt how to use the UT account: all the timings, the processing lags and what not.
And I'm so eagerly awaiting the China market correction that will temporarily cause the stock prices to drop for a day.
Then again, I have to weigh how much the China correction will bring the stock down for that day, against the overall gain that rising crude prices and falling US Fed rates have between now and the impending correction.
BUT, I have a more or less demarcated time when the correction will occur, that is before the Nov 5 IPO of Petrochina. (if analysts are correct)
Regardless of whether I use the correction to take advantage of dollar cost averaging, or buy now to take advantage of rising crude, in the long run, it will still gain cos China's economy is set to grow 10.8% in 2008. This is excluding any unforeseen booms due to the Olympics.
Yep, I've been listening to the news, and yes, I barely understand 1% of it, but its getting more or less clearer by the day. The problem is, as with the news bits I gave you above, is that having a long term strategy is fine, but there are so many opportunities to take advantage of to make more gains than the average investor. Problem is, I don't know what to do. Haha.
Care to give me some advice? I'm as Lost as Jack when he got off the island, and wanted to go back in the season finale of Season 3. Haha. I still can't believe that they got off the island in the end. Season 4 is going to be so cool. There's going to be flashbacks and flashforwards. Hohoo.
I called her immediately. And yes, it was good news. She passed English AND Maths! Woohoo.
Science is a definite pass for her, cos I've screwed and hammered a lot into her crummy brain.
But Maths!?! Wah leow. I should start a tuition centre if I can make her pass.
At this rate, she won't go to EM3. YES!! I'm so glad I've made such a difference in her life. She's not on the EM3-Normal Stream- ITE trail, because I was there to save the perpetual F student.
Tooting my own horn you say? But of course. No one's going to toot it for me when I ask her dad to increase my fees.
You see, with the amount of hours I'm putting in, I earning a measly $17+ an hour.
The gay idiot in my office who flunked his A levels and who's retaking again this year (without studying he says he can pass, because there's no pressure)is getting $25 an hour. Sure, he has to take a bus, and I only need to walk across, but the disparity between our pay is so great.
He goes there not because he wants to show results, but to pass the time to get cash. I actually care for the airheads I teach. I often get neck, chest and back pain coming home from tuition cos I'm so tense I could snap my neck with my neck muscles if the student fails another practise paper.
AND I've shown results. So yes, I'm going to ask for a raise that is more congruent with my performance and qualifications.
On another note, I've finally learnt how to use the UT account: all the timings, the processing lags and what not.
And I'm so eagerly awaiting the China market correction that will temporarily cause the stock prices to drop for a day.
Then again, I have to weigh how much the China correction will bring the stock down for that day, against the overall gain that rising crude prices and falling US Fed rates have between now and the impending correction.
BUT, I have a more or less demarcated time when the correction will occur, that is before the Nov 5 IPO of Petrochina. (if analysts are correct)
Regardless of whether I use the correction to take advantage of dollar cost averaging, or buy now to take advantage of rising crude, in the long run, it will still gain cos China's economy is set to grow 10.8% in 2008. This is excluding any unforeseen booms due to the Olympics.
Yep, I've been listening to the news, and yes, I barely understand 1% of it, but its getting more or less clearer by the day. The problem is, as with the news bits I gave you above, is that having a long term strategy is fine, but there are so many opportunities to take advantage of to make more gains than the average investor. Problem is, I don't know what to do. Haha.
Care to give me some advice? I'm as Lost as Jack when he got off the island, and wanted to go back in the season finale of Season 3. Haha. I still can't believe that they got off the island in the end. Season 4 is going to be so cool. There's going to be flashbacks and flashforwards. Hohoo.
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