bought 3 books from the book store today! realised as i grew up that i actually love to read books but always brush this habit aside as i am busy with "more important" things than just reading! what a fool! :P

book 1: tuesday with morries by mitch albom
An inspiring book that talks about various topics in life with a never-say-die professor!

book 2: a gift from a friend by merry riana
A thought-provoking book that gets you to reflect about how you should live your life and how you can be an entreprenaur!

book 3: the purpose driven life by rick warren
A revealing book that set you on a 40 days journey to discover your purpose on earth!

rented Ice Age 2 as well! heard from my wife that it is really funny! :D may be using that for the next topic for physix: dynamics! :D

met an ex-student of mine @ a foodcourt today.. he was helping out at his dad's stall.. realised that he is repeating his o levels as he failed his sciences and that alone could not get him anywhere. find it saddening as sciences isn't really everything. why make a pass in science a compulsory criteria for entry into higher tertiary institutions?! :(

one of my students is really pro with auditionSEA. if only her nimble fingers can be translated to help her in solving maths problems... :P

thanks for the feedback about the papaphysix restaurant so far... i am beginning to form a clearer picture now! keep sharing with me about it! would love your wonderful ideas! thought of having it @ bukit timah plaza (near to king albert park)... hmmm... will this dream really come true!?

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was having dinner @ BK on wed night and this WILD and WOW idea came to me!

I was thinking that 10 years down the road, if I am not teaching anymore, I will most probably be a full-time home tutor or be doing my own little business. By then, all the students I have been teaching would be grown-ups and working in the society. I would love to catch up with them over a meal to talk about the good old times and also to find out how they are coping with life and provide advice or help as a friend by then.. Also, I hope to put my passion for physix to good use and share with others how interesting it can be! Therefore, with ALL these in mind, I thought of the idea of opening a RESTAURANT with a PHYSIX theme! :D

I thought of the name "papaphysix's selah" or "papaphysix's food gallery". prefer the former as selah (in hebrew) means to take a break (by taking a step back from the rat race and just slow down and enjoy the moment!)

as for how I am going to decorate the place and the creative and interesting things that I am going to do, I shall not mention further cos it's top secret and one of a kind! :P anyway, if you also have ideas to share with me, do tell me please!! :D

share a small example:
instead of having a simple PUSH/PULL sign at the entrance door, I would have it as "PUSH is a force" on one side and "PULL me back like a magnet!" on the other side of the door!

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busy creating mindmaps for my students to aid them in their revision for the final year exams..

busy marking some of the prelims scripts for the graduating class..

busy helping students to revise through their work...

busy calculating CA2 marks and keying in remarks...

busy photocopying useful stuff for my students...

but in spite of these all, i just wanna to tell my students that when you feel like you are falling, I'll give you WINGS! :D

this song is dedicated from me to you all :: You Give Me Wings ::



P/S. i am also "busy" enjoying the company of my wife and my kids and my students throughout the busy days of my life!! :D

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If I am a commander of a platoon of soldiers and they are not disciplined, cant march well and are not trained for battles, I would be most worried and concerned. If another commander comes along and took up the initiative to train up my soldiers, I would most welcome it as i have the soldiers' welfare in mind and hope to nuture them even through someone else if i realised that i dont seem to be able to do the job well. On one hand, I will reflect what i can do to improve myself and on the other hand, I will not bear any bad feelings towards the other commander if what he did is out of the same geuinue concern for the soldiers. Afterall, it's not about usurping my authority or stepping into my territory as the soldiers don't really belong to me. they are just entrusted to me for the time being to be equipped for great missions in the future.

Conversely, if i see another platoon of soldiers who are weak and i judged that I am capable of helping, i would not hesitate to help as well even though they are not officially my own platoon of soldiers. But of course, there is something that i must learn to do: to be polite enough to ask for the other commander's permission to go ahead in the training of the soldiers. If he is agreeable, I think it is fine to go ahead without informing the general about it. All in all, we are all doing our best to help the soldiers to become a good defensive force for the country.

Will all commanders think this way or will some feel that they are robbed of their territories and making them feel as if they are not capable enough for the job!? I certainly hope to believe in the former always...

in life, we can't please everyone... we will offend some and we will win over the hearts of some. So long as our intentions are right and our conscience is clear, I believe we can proceed with what we think is the best thing to do in our hearts...

case closed.

I am the only one who knows the truth and I will not and cannot tell.

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went toiletries shopping with my family to chinatown on Sun cos there is a shop there that we discovered to be selling things at a cheaper price! so we would usually stock up a few months' supplies each time we visit the place!

anyway, took some random shots along the way...



that's ekklesia and her buddy! :D notice how she pose with her fingers? people usually uses 2 fingers but she does it with 3! who knows? she may start a new trend! :P




I thought that i can only see such a sight in HK but this is a flat located right at the heart of chinatown! oh man! look at all the units of apartment cramped within this building!





Due to their limited space, their living room's windows are useful for hanging clothes! aren't you amazed by how they manage to hang so much clothes with so little space!? I am awed by the sight of it! (especially the second photo!)




One last photo to blog about! Doesn't it make me look like some entreprenaur of the year kinda photo!? That's not the main point anyway. the main point is this: it is actually taken by my 5 years old son! :D don't you admire his photographic skills!? amazing!!!! :D

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I teach many laws of physix to my students but the most powerful of them all has got to be Murphy's law: when things can go wrong, it will go wrong!

yup, that's exactly what happened today while i was teaching 304... as usual, i showed part of the movie (Initial D) to the class as part of my teaching of kinematics. As always, i will usually pause at the right moment to end a section of the movie so that i can switch back to teaching the class. for today's lesson, i did everything according to plan but murphy's law strikes at the wrong time!! when i pressed the pause button, it did not respond and jump ahead to the next scene and pause at that instead! And guess what!? the next scene starts off by showing the cover of a magazine that the lead actor's "dirty-minded" father would usually look at! it showed a woman clad in a red bikinis... omg! and the scene just pauses there and refuses to move on! my face turned as red as the bikinis on the magazine cover and i suddenly wished i am an ostrich who can dig a hole and bury my head inside! what can be worse than that?! a senior teacher happened to be around to observe my lessons today! oh man! that's really the ultimate! :P

when i continued my lesson later, my students started teasing when i used a RED pen to indicate a portion of a graph and they just can't stop giggling and making mention of the whole thing! total embarassment! it's really one of my worst days as a teacher and I admit defeat to the power of Murphy's law! :P

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