Before CNY

#504
23rd January

(Source: www.sojournerweb.com)

5 more days to go and it would be Chinese New Year, the year for the rooster.

I'm quite agree with the term "rooster" on the Internet rather than "chicken", as "rooster" sounds more elegant than that.

Well, anyway, all of the Chinese should have on the way of preparation to celebrate another new year again.

Being an almost 20-year-old teenager like me, CNY is becoming more and more important as this festive is telling me that I'm not a child anymore, and I have to be doing something different starting now.

But, I still don't care, as long as I felt that I still remained some childhood part in my heart, I mean, there's no wrong to be childish one more time right?

Erhem btw, I'm still remaining my status as a 19-year-old teenager I'm not ready to step into the 20s yet okay?

So, based on school holidays, I will have a 6-day off from 26/1 until 31/1, since all schools in Penang start at 1st February.

Talking about job, I'm still able to overcome everything, except that the task is covering full-day, I might get tired when reaching home. Well, that wasn't worse enough for any job you can get.

Although some naughty + lazy students might driven you mad, but that's not my teaching way lol. Instead of giving myself high blood pressure, calm down and let them do whatever they want (unless the bottomline is not reached), at certain time they will get tired of that and start following instructions.

Some pushes must be given too, so that they could feel the pressure, as long as they know what are the circumstances.

From all of the above, if you think that is not very pleasant, just keep reading.

I had visited a lot of friends during last Saturday with Kar Oon for a 探班之旅.

Yup most of them are doing shopkeepers and promoters, for sure if there is no customer they don't have to be busy servicing.

But then the working hour is long enough and sometimes additional tasks might be included, and so they are not that as relax as you thought.

Well luckily with the help of Kar Oon, I had managed to meet up 12 friends in total in just one day.

That was about one month and more since Prom Night, I didn't meet up with them.

As I concluded to meet friends in the afternoon in the previous article I had posted, it turned out that it is really true, since Kar Oon and I visited them in the afternoon.

Such a meet up is really important to stay connected, well forgiving me that I did not do that after SPM.

Great, finally I had updated my blog since last week.

I'm waiting for my off days haha.

Bye~

Time For Friends

#503

15th January

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Hello everyone, yup it’s kinda boring during the off days yet rest is quite important in our life lol.

Somehow I need to use my brain and my voice the whole time, the moment during sore throat is really uncomfortable, that made me had to use full force to speak out.

Anyway, after going for a round of visiting my friends who are working nearby today, I realized how easy actually my work is, and I had found out that time is too important at this moment.

And so, I decided to write a new article about the time to visit friends, scroll down for more.

But before that, I have to say that this article is only useful for shops or stores, not very useful for offices, restaurants, schools and tuition centres.

Time For Friends

Visiting a friend who is working during the gap period? Yes that’s truly welcoming. Even though you knew the locations, their working time, their off days and so on, you might not get the chance to meet them. You might reasoned that they take a leave that day or went for lunch, but all still depend on how you arrange the time to visit them. 

It is really not that tough to estimate when will they stay at the shops/stores. Normally, mall shops open at around 9-10 am, which is actually not the most suitable time to visit them. Why? Well, if you are a shop owner, don’t tell me that you just open the door, switch on the lights and wait for customers. Nope, for sure, you have other preparation works to do, such as checking the stocks, arranging out the items, putting on the price tags etc. By then, visiting friends at that moment might cause conversation lags and halts for a lot of times as they are busy. You might want to take a look around the shop but what if the shop doesn’t seem to be interesting to you at all? Concisely, try not to arrange your time to visit them in the morning.

Next, it’s lunch time and dinner time. From what I know, some shop owners provide workers lunch and dinner, but of course, not that expensive for sure, maybe a lunch box of rice and two types of dishes only. Anyway, if this condition applicable to your friends, then it is recommended to visit your friends at this moment. Yupe, they do not need to do anything and you still can chit chat with them without any worry of them getting away when there are customers since there will be always other workers to help them to do so. However, it might depends on luck, sometimes they might be leave the shop for a while to have their lunch outside, and you will lose the chance to visit them at that time. Moreover, they also maybe have their lunch at the store, which is unauthorised for customers to access. In this case, I still recommend to meet them during lunch or dinner time, or else, call them to have lunch or dinner outside together.

During night time, it is still possible to visit them, but not too close to their closing time. This is similar to that during the opening time, as they are busying clean up the mess, checking stocks, counting money etc. On the other hand, you also have to make sure that your friends do work during night time, as some workers only work until 5-6pm, where visiting them during night time is impossible.

I guess, the answer is obvious, what the best time to visit your friends? Well, it’s none of others but afternoon is the best time to visit your friends. This works 99.99%, unless you are that unlucky 0.01%, when they take a leave on that day. So, in whatever case, time arrangement is important. Somehow, if you and them are free at the same time, how about a hang out? Yes, that makes up 100%!

Same Old Place

#502

12th January

(Source: www.boredpanda.com, edited)

Hey guys it's me again for another blog update.

So, I think, it's the second week of 2017, students are dealing with their brand new year, employees are working for a greater project, mothers and aunties are preparing for the upcoming Chinese New Year...

Not just that, school leavers like me, no matter SPM or STPM, or college students who just ended A-level/Foundation, most of us are currently working to deal with the long gap before continuing the next step.

Right, as I said before, I back to the same tuition centre and became daycare + tuition teacher again.

Well that was a pretty interesting story: 

I decided to look for a job after back from Taiwan, and the first person that I want to call to is the tuition centre's headmistress to ask whether is there a place for me.

Somehow, my thought told me that how about look through newspaper to find another type of job nearby? (And also I was urged by my mom too mom lol)

And so I did it, scrolling through the job vacancies and several slots did attracted me, until I found the same old slot, which is exactly the same vacancy offered by the headmistress.

I was like "Wow" seriously, this is just in time, and I think that had completely saved my time to look for other jobs.

Without hesitation, I called the phone number and eventually, the familiar voice is heard and that made me had a job in just a few minutes only.

Yupe, no interview is needed as I was known very well, I was offered to do full-time, provided lunch, and of cuz' salary is increased as well haha XD

Back to the same old tuition centre after 1.5 years brought not much changes on the surrounding, yet people changed.

A lot of new faces, some students remained, and things turn to a new direction as well.

Compare to 2 years ago, the number of primary students is far more than that of secondary students, but now it twists, and that's why new teacher has to be hired as soon as possible.

Well, currently, in the morning, I'm teaching Form 1 (for a moment only and then my headmistress would teach them later on) and Standard 2 students.

In the afternoon, I'm in the "multipurpose" mode, which I have to teach Form 1, Form 2, several Standard 4 and Standard 6 students.

Sometimes if Form 4 and 5 students have questions in their homework, they can ask me as well.

Wow, I think I'd been upgraded lol as a STPM school leaver.

Anyway, today is the eighth day of working and I had knew everyone here already, no matter old or new.

The morning class is actually much easier due to the number of students is less.

I'm still not sure what's coming up next but... February, as confirmed, a new teacher is coming soon.

Yupe, this new teacher is my friend, and I'm the one who introduced him to this job.

Alright, I'm so excited for February to reach as soon as possible, by then I could proudly say that I have a partner in my job already ^_^

The Right Time to Recline Airplane Seats

#501

8th January

(Source: www.travel.aol.co.uk)

Hey guys, recently I found a suggested post on Facebook about an article from the Chinese version of BBC website, and I’m quite agreed with and I would like to share with you guys.

The article is obviously translated from English, yet, I wish I could add in my ideas and rewrite this post in my own way.

So, now just take some time and read this post. It is quite useful for everyone when taking flights.

The Right Time to Recline Airplane Seats

Traveling is always been the priority of all holiday activities. After choosing your desired destinations, booking flights and hotel, packing your luggage, you would always wish that everything goes on smoothly, especially during the long journey in the airplane.

A long journey couldn’t be enjoyed with your eyes fully opened until the airplane lands (unless you are watching shows on the small personal TV). A nap is the best to deal the journey, and you try to recline your seat, but it seems to be stuck. What happened? You made sure that everything is normal, until you look behind.

Some passengers placed an item such as brackets, lock the tray table arms, avoiding the person in front to recline the seat. This scenario can be happened due to two main factors: The passenger behind is having a meal or using laptop. In this way, you are not allowed to lean back and take a good nap during the journey. What should you do?

There was one case happened in The United States, all because of this issue, where a passenger used a knee defender to prevent the passenger in front from reclining the seat. The passenger in front splashed the passenger behind beverage, causing trouble, that the airplane was forced to stop at a nearby airport, and the troublemaker was called to leave the airplane.

Reclining airplane seats is always been a doubtful issue among the passengers. Some passengers start a fight due to a few inches of spaces at their seats. This made stewardesses have to stop the quarreling in order to reclaim the calm.

All airlines set a rule that the airplane seats must be in the vertical position during gliding, departing and landing. Accidents mostly happen in these three phases, hence it is vital to make sure the airplane seats in vertical position for safety. On the other hand, while having meals, airplane seats are usually have to be in vertical position too. This is very important so that you could give convenience for the passenger behind to enjoy the meal.

Courtesy is everything in this issue. Do not forcefully recline the seat suddenly, it may cause injury and damage to the passenger behind and their possession such as the laptop. If you wish to recline your seat, always remember to turn back and ask politely. Usually, the passenger behind will reply “Yes” if condition allows, otherwise they will ask you to wait for a while before you could do that.

However, there is an exception that it is not suitable to recline your seat. If the duration of journey is short, such as 30 minutes, it is unusual to take a nap, so you need to have your self-knowledge, that you could not recline you seat. Meanwhile, asking maybe skipped at some condition. This happens during night flight, when everybody is going to take a good sleep. At this moment, there is no need to ask the passenger behind. Automatically, or looking at your surrounding, when everyone is reclining their seats, then you can do so as well.

Take this in your mind, you could be a well-behaved passenger of all time. Perhaps, your courtesy on your journey might give you unexpected surprises that will leave you unforgettable memories of all time.

(Source: modified from "Is It Rude to Recline Your Seat?", Beth Blair, www.bbc.com)

Happy 500!

#500
5th January

(Source: www.seekingjohn1010.wordpress.com)

As what exact the title had been told, this is the 500th blog post of my blog!!!

Yupe, and this is also the first blog post of 2017 too!!!

Hmm... Couldn't believe that there have been 500 posts in this blog already and hope that this is a really good start for a new year in 2017.

Ya even though new year was 5 days ago but at least I'm still able to take out some time to blog lol.

Follow the tradition of my blog, I will always come up a review post for the year before when a new year comes.

So, as same as this year too, let's review 2016 for the best moments in 2016.

However, there wasn't more than 50 posts published in 2016 due to lack of time, so I had only about 10 top moments only compared to 15.

Btw, ranking is not available.

- Blood Donation

- F4 Outing

- Inti Summer Camp 2016

- PA Quiz 2016

- CLISC 2016

- Week Preview

- Graduation 2016

- Stairs to Freedom

- Throwback #2

- Throwback #3

Okay back to the celebration of 500th post.

Well I don't have an exact plan to celebrate for this post, but as simple as possible, today I would like to introduce an apps known as Bitmoji.

Yupe, sounds like you can found it on Snapchat too, where you can edit and create your own avatar and your own personal emoji for variety of usages.

I did one recently and this is mine haha.

Well actually I had this, the same avatar in my Snapchat just there aren't much selection of outfits on PC, so I just simply took a different one.

Hmm... well guess what I made this, with 70% following feature on myself, especially the glasses, except for body size and hairstyle lol I can't find the one which has bangs as that is for female only.

Anyway, surprisingly, the amount of emoji is unexpectedly booming, and consists of differnt kind of emotions and feels which sometimes, make yourself might say "Wow, this is how I feel right now!"

Indeed, this is currently my favourite apps and I'm really want to introduce to you all, even though you don't have a Snapchat account but don't worry, you can still download it at Chrome, and use it on almost every website.

Alright, it's almost the end of the post.

Fyi currently, I back to the tuition centre I went before again, after I finished SPM, to be daycare + tuition teacher again hahaha XD
Click here for the post that I mentioned about the job after SPM, and know I'm back to be temporarily Mr. Leong again lol.

I'm doing full-day and no longer half-day anymore, and pretty sure I don't need any interview since I had knew the teachers there very well already.

Well, that is a quite lucky one, back to the same old place with known environment, yet somehow, lots of changes in people, I would talk about more next time.

That's the end of the 500th post.

Bye~