things are looking better now

Dearie has given up his own training to keep me company for the past 2 days. I was really lethargic yesterday and dearie, instead of going for his swim, came back to do track training with me. he was having problems with his knees yet still ran with me for an hour. Thank you, baby. I am really thankful you are around. =)

After attempting for many tuition assignments recently but all seems to be infertile; yesterday, I finally got a call from a coordinator, Carine. She offered me an assignment for 2 days a week tutoring a P4 girl Chinese and English. Location is at Woodlands Road, which is actually on the main road next to Caltex. It’s really near my home! Just that I don’t think I’ve got any form of transportation to get there except by walking. I can bike there but it’ll be too unglam for a tutor =P

It is such a pleasant relief to know I have settled the tuition portion of my life. the target is to earn about $300/month from tutoring so that in any case should I have to quit this job to move to another (that translates into losing of my year end bonus), I will have enough to see me through the paying of my school fees in term 3. right now with the new assignment, I’ll be earning $380/month, which I hope to hold through till at least end of next year. I’ll try my best to help the students..and if they work hard themselves too, in the win-win situation, we can sustain the relationship of student-teacher for a long while. =)

I’ll be starting this assignment next Tuesday because I wanted to give myself some time to gather some materials and familiarize with the syllabus. I’ll pop by big bookshop on Saturday before school to go through some books and get a few if I have to. I can always reuse them again when I teach other students so the money spent on books will never go to waste. Alternatively, if time permits, I’ll love to dig into the 2^nd hand bookstores at Bras Basah again for some good buys.

I’m 85% done with my first assignment. Aiming to finish it off by today. It’s quite an impressive piece of work. Will get dearie to proof read it tonight before I submit it by end of the week. Having finished the assignment, Friday I’ll be using my 2hours study time to go through the quantitive notes. Hearing all the lousy feedback about my lecturer for the module, I am fretful. Nonetheless, I always remind myself with what dearie tells me, “whether the lecturer lousy or not, I still must score!” with a lousy lecturer, it can only mean I must work doubly hard and should I do well in this module, I can unbashfully boast and claim the credit to myself!