I seriously think his mum worries too much about his year 3 son's future. We didn't really start the lesson once I got there, instead, his son sneaked out to get his glass of juice later on, went to toilet for another 10 minutes, I had no idea what took him so long staying in the toilet. His mum then asked me about junior and senior high school, what degree is better for a guy to take in uni. She has already thought too far for a 10-year-old child. I recommended him to take either engineering or architecture when she asked me, the reason I didn't even suggest her son to take anything related to commerce, business and all that is because I am sort of biased against those courses=.= AND DON'T ASK ME WHY..I even suggested her to ask about mining engineering since I was told that doing mining engineering can earn big bucks. But it's true, this country is highly demanded for graduates who are ready to create a new prospect of mining sector.
The kid was so naughty though, he was being so ruthless revealing the fact that I have a huge pimple around my neck, during the time his mum and I were talking. 'Yisha...why do you have pimple on your neck? It's so gross....' How would I know why? WHY? I want to know WHY as well...not like I want to have it there T__T Nah, joking, I didn't get embarrassed or anything, his word even cracked me up so hard, I was like 'LOL...yeah I know right...but mehhh you will get it later when you grow older ;)' He then said 'Nope, never..' His mum instantly lectured him after he was being so mean to his tutor, said 'Hey, Calvin, what did you just say? That's really rude, I sometimes get pimple too, you will get it later as well, don't you dare to judge people' He then asked me to pop it>.> Just like what I usually do to myself and even wanting to do the same to my bf...>.> OBVIOUSLY THAT IS NOT RIGHT...
In order to teach a kid the right thing to deal with a pimple, that was the first time I ever said to a person not to pop a pimple or else it will leave an ugly mark there. That is indeed so hard to imagine how I have been neglectant to that huge yellow-ish pimple for more than 4 days by now. Though there was quite a few times it seriously made me have this urge to kill it, I stopped myself because I started to realize how ugly I have become with pimple marks around my forehead and arms...Yeah right..I have changed...
Ok...enough of pimple talk...Calvin is a big ego kid I would say, during the tutoring he occasionally pretended he knew something though he didn't. But I no longer to feel annoyed or impatient, I started to know him much better than before. Whenever he doesn't seem to get the grammar, I explained to him and asked him to repeat what I have said. The way I made sure he truly understands the concept is the time I get him annoyed. For instance, he is confused about what an adj is, I simply just said 'a word to describe a thing such as blah blah blah' Then when I tested him out, he just leaned back and looked so puzzled. I then slowed down and repeated exactly what I said, and asked him if he got it. He did the same. I can be really persistent to get him explained just by doing that until he gave up being so naughty and begged me to flip to the next page lol
Not to mention that I pinch his cheeks hard if he seems to be sleepy, spank his tummy when he stretches and that always makes him laugh and gets back to work. Well of course I won't be physically torturing a kid, I am nice enough to get him some tissues when he's going to blow his nose>.> Funny examples are also used for maintaining his interest, you just gotta be really imaginative to contextualise every single example to entertain a kid, 'ok for example, you are short in a red t-shirt with this perverted smile, now tell me what are the adj here' Yup that's what I said today, and the thing is he just said 'perverted' and laughed so hard, apparently I knew he got the concept so I moved on. There was once, I even used his mum as an example when I tried to explain 'as' to make up a sentence, funny how he told me that his mum wouldn't do that in reality LOL... Anyways so I have come up with this conclusion of tutoring a kid: Familiarity and humor are the keys...
K....After that tutoring, I went straight to townhall to meet up with Karen, who was there waiting for me for half an hour>.> Kinokuniya is the first destination, she has been calling herself poor, extremely poor but spent so much unlike what she has described=.= Not in Kinokuniya but in that Daiso store..I will further explain this later... She likes cute things, she's still the same Karen I knew when she was in year 8 while I was in year 10. The only difference is that she has grown much taller, a little bit more mature from the way she talks. Guess St George girl's high school has changed her to be more mature, which is good, even her voice has softened, and more comfortable to hear, unlike the old times, I once disliked her super high-pitched anime-ish voice once she spoke next to me...-O- Anyways...Karen said she wanted to work in Kinokuniya for good...And when I asked about her HSC and birthday. She was like 'OMG...don't even wanna mention about it man...that was the worst birthday I've ever had in my life, I spent my birthday during my 3u maths exam=.= and then prepared for my next exam...' She aimed for 90+ in 4u maths...I teased her by saying 'and...that's never gonna happen :3'...
As she's been craving crepes, I shouted her crepes as she finished her HSC, it can be seen as a really belated birthday pressie as well >.> But hey, it was brunch time, her crepe was nothing like what she was supposed to have for brunch though, more like a dessert time. Mine was ham+tomato+something else(too much ingredients that I can't name) I thought she would lead me to a proper restaurant so we could have a peaceful brunch there, but I thought wrong, we walked around looking for two seats in the plaza and we ended up sitting at a bench, where is 3 meters away from a rubbish bin... She told me that Geesoo also talked to her last night, and then kept on complaining HSC past papers spreading across her room, everywhere, just everywhere she walks, and that caused her mum can't be bothered to vacuum her room lool
Our next destination was to eat....yup....still....eat...=.= That snowpink froyo is relatively expensive than others...She shouted me this time though>.> btw she put too much passion fruit in her cup, is mixed up with the chocolate flavour yogurt she had there..well....it was such a bad combination...you know...black and yellow...BLACK AND YELLOW>.> Consequently 1/3 of froyo put to waste at the end...mind telling you ....Hers was $10+....And someone said she's poor>.>
We headed to Daiso, a Jap store with everything only costs $2.8...She was excitedly picking this and that like a kid. I got nothing yet I was thinking about to take my mum there next time. There were times when she was so hesitant to choose something, I gave her o.O this face, she would be like 'Don't judge...I know you are judging me!!>.>' I was like 'Nope...I am not...You can't even see my reaction!You can't even see my eyes through my sunglasses xD' 'Yes I can!! I totally feel you're judging me, I don't even need to look at your eyes >.>' She was quite funny repeatedly asking me not to judge her for more than hundreds of times =.=
I took some photos during that 40 minutes staying in Daiso, and they will be UPLOADED on Fb soon...You can tell whether the things she wanted to get is worth the price or not>.> Anywayss we went Paddy's market to shop for one of her friends' birthday pressie, she got her friend a penguin onesie for $25...Yup....She has already spent more than $50 by then...Galaxy world was the last place we went, I hate her for beating me 4 games in a row=.= So let's skip this bit...I am now too shameful to reveal the truth...
Lastly we took some photos before I left...Mehhh...I won't be missing her as I am pretty sure a few weeks later, I will be seeing her cute face again, with some others who triumphantly finish their HSC... Well...It's a pretty good day but it would be even better without my period pain...
