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Blue version of my most favourite #teamLab exhibition 💙 “Forest of Resonating Lamps”
I’ve posted vermilion and pink version, which one is your most favourite colour?
Good thing with Team Lab exhibition that you can take a lot of photos with different light ambience..
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#teamLabBorderless #discoverJapan #exploreJpn #visitJapan #visitjapanjp #JapanVacation #myJapan #Tokyo #Japan #japandailies #Japanfocus #nippon #tankensuruJapan
I believe that when we stop focusing all the things that going wrong in our life, that’s when good thing starts happening.. 🙏🏻✨💫
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Throwback to those day that we can still roam around for free in the garden without the mask and before #CircuitBreaker started..
Shoot by 📸: @blackivory - I miss create content with you! Find new places to explore and shoot new angles..
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Btw talking about this #AirMesh Pavilion at #GardensbyTheBay - This angular, tetrahedral design mesh-covered pavilion has structure made with 3D-printed stainless steel nodes.
Built using more than 200 rods connected by 54 3D-printed steel nodes the temporary pavilion was created by the Architectural Intelligence Research Lab (AIRLAB), based at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Called AIRMESH, it is the product of five years of researching and was assembled in two days using only hex keys.
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#exploreSingapore #discoverSingapore #VisitSingapore #singaporeinsiders #singaporeworld #things2doinSingapore #Singapore
I'm a private tutor. I run a small tuition centre. After deducting rent, marketing & administrative costs - I take home around $2500 a month. I teach more than 10 classes weekly.
It has been a very demoralising few weeks.
1. Amidst the suspension of centre-based tuition classes - parents have asked for discount on fees. I tried to help whenever I can by waiving off fees or giving discounts, knowing fully that it will be at my own expense.
Yet, I've received a lot of comments from parents who do not have financial difficulties, going "e-learning should be cheaper".
e-Learning IS not cheaper than classroom based learning. It has been 2 sleepless weeks with this mad scramble to move classes online. We've had to to spend sessions doing orientation for you and your children to help explain how to do classes online. We had to buy IT equipment, video recording equipment - all of it not cheap with my measly $2500 monthly salary.
You think it's less effort - it's not. It's more effort and more work. And you want to pay us less.
Please don't undermine our efforts by requesting to pay us less. If you have financial difficulties, we will discount for you. But don't say "e-Learning should be paid less". Thanks.
Rental still goes on - landlords who don't take the initiative to help and pass on rental rebates, I'm looking at YOU!
2. We totally understand that why we have been closed down. Health comes first - sure.
However, can don't call us non-essential?
School is essential, tuition is non-essential. Minister said that. True facts of life.
But, but. Can you also see this.
In every sector, there are good people and there are bad people.
In the tuition sector, there are some of us good ones and some of us bad ones.
I dare say, I care about each and every-one of my students. I do my best to motivate. I do my best to talk to them when they have family troubles. I come up with extra worksheets when I know they are lagging behind.
In schools, you also have teachers who are not motivated, who only come to school for the paycheck and do the minimum.
If all school teachers are good - need tuition teachers for what?
If everybody scoring A1, A2 and A* - then no need for tuition. Some parents find tuition because their kids have been failing.
We don't need you to recognise us. But don't call us non-essential can?
3. Common comment from school teachers and from the public - "They should pay school teachers more" or "Tuition teachers make so much money".
You know how many times I roll my eyes at this?
Straits Times - I'm looking at you. Thanks for always reporting on "million dollar" tutors. Now everybody thinks that all tutors make millions.
Reality check - If you are a school teacher and you think you will make a lot of money leaving the public sector, feel free to go try your luck.
Is every school teacher a Principal? or a Cluster Superintendent? or a Director? No right?
Same thing with the private sector ok? The top tutors make a lot of money. The normal tutors like us make close to the 'median' $4600 of the typical Singaporean.
We don't have CPF.
We don't have AWS.
We don't have performance bonus.
In November & December, we eat bread but still pay rent.
Whatever we earn in 10 months, must ration across 12 months, because November & December parents go holiday and don't want tuition.
No - regular tutors don't make millions.
Stop dreaming. Most school teachers are not zai. If they leave the public sector, they will eat grass.
I make $2500 a month - if you feel that is fantastic, you can be my guest. You have a choice. If you think you can make more as a private tutor, take the plunge into the world of the unknown.
4. Teachers got a lot of admin work, not like private tutor only need to teach
We don't have admin work. We have "admin work" - marketing, accounting & trying to keep the business alive. We don't only teach.
You have a 'clear thick' line between yourself and parents. We don't. We are obligated to answer, and talk to parents everyday. Do you know there are parents who call us and talk to us everyday about their kids and their anxieties? (a lot of parents from top schools are actually very anxious about their kids) I spend 1 to 2 hours daily talking to 2 to 3 parents everyday.
5. Thank you for classifying us together with KTVs, Bars & Entertainment
I called the bank to lower my credit card interest because in anticipation of school closures, I invested heavily in video recording equipment and IT equipment that I actually cannot pay for with my measly salary.
Guess what the bank said? You are not from an eligible 'adversely affected' sector.
Adversely affected = tourism, aviation, F&B and entertainment.
Entertainment qualifies but private education doesn't qualify.
Again, i understand why we have been shut down. But can everyone remember us private tutors have families to feed too? Mortgages or rent to pay? Bills to pay?
6. We are human beings too
We have feelings. We have empathy. We have tried to help whenever we can. My tuition centre offers free tuition all these years to whomever are on MOE Financial Assistance scheme. When parents face difficulties (retrenched, fell sick), we always cut our fees or give free. When students ask for extra help, we coach and we don't charge extra.
We are trying our best too. Really. We are all in this together.
I don't know since when being a 'private tutor' is a nasty thing.
Maybe tuition centres like Learning Lab, Mavis Tutorial or any of those big tuition centres with big MRT and bus adverts and sprawling land space of more than 10000 square feet might make millions of dollars a year. Maybe they have strong investors with hundreds of millions. But hey that's not us. Don't assume that we have a mountain of profits to stomach this because we don't.
Also, a lot of our kids and a lot of our parents always tell us that school teachers always say bad things about private tutors. "Tuition is a waste of money", "don't need go for tuition", "private tutors are not qualified and don't know what they are teaching".
Some teachers seem to spend a lot of time bad-mouthing private tutors.
Just focus on teaching your kids please. You still have a job.
I may not have one when the dust settles.
Also, remember that a lot of us private tutors were once school teachers.
Some of us left because of school mergers.
Some of us left because we were pregnant, had kids and could no longer cope.
Some of us left because we don't want to deal with this crap called EPMS.
Some of us left because we don't want to deal with all the politics, committees, organising overseas trips and want to just focus on the kids.
Please support your tutors, thank you. A lot of us, really do care, genuinely for your child.
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歡迎各位兄弟姊妹，因為你們來看看小弟的MV 所以要表示萬分感恩！千萬不要忘記幫我轉發、按讚及訂閱 小弟非常感激～～～
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謝謝所有付出貢獻的兄弟姐妹～
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Translation/Lyrics
詞：阿龍
曲：WhoIsThisGuy (多倫多）
I live in a city where it get a little gritty
Where bitties so pretty - I do my thing
Chilling, but itty-bitty minion
Trying to play villain so I tell a bitch “hold my drink”
我 住在一個泥濘不堪的城市裡
這裡 妹子都有點美麗 - 就做自己爽做的事情
乘涼吹風 一個嘗試當個惡霸的無名小卒
在上場之前 可以裝逼的叫妹子拿著我的酒 然後前衝義無反顧
Got fists for a foe, daps for a bro
Mad love for a queen, hard dick for a hoe
Snakes in the grass, I see y’all slither
Got my eye on you kids like Seymour Skinner
對對手 要痛扁 對兄弟 要痛快
無以倫比的愛要獻給女王 對於婊子我只有屌一塊
這群貪食蛇們 每條我都看得一清二楚
一群屁孩 我就跟Seymour Skinner一樣用鼻子看你們
Faking mother - 誒
Hating mother - 誒
Crabs in the bucket
You some crayfish mother - 誒
尼瑪就做作 - 誒
尼瑪就討人厭 - 誒
要走不走 一群拖油瓶跟著走
一群尼瑪神經有問題的小九九
Basic mother - 誒
Impatient mother - 誒
Y’all ain’t got no vision
Get some Lasik mother - 誒
尼瑪 草泥馬
尼瑪 就輕躁
尼瑪 就是高處不勝寒
尼瑪 勸你罩子放亮 回頭是岸
我沒有朋友
只有兄弟姊妹
我沒有朋友
只有兄弟姊妹
唉 矣 唉 矣 歐
我沒有朋友
All I got is fam
My 兄弟姊妹 say
say 誒 歐
Say 唉 矣 唉 矣 歐
Now we up in this club with a couple of models
and couple of bottles that I ain’t pay for
It’s all G, My family know (It’s all G = good)
I gotta show next week where the bottles free
現在夜店氣氛正好 小模們一群長得真好
一隻隻免錢的酒也只是剛好
一切都豪 家裡人都知道
下一個禮拜 喝酒免錢 我還有一場秀準備表演
My pockets ain’t deep but I do what I can
I get by with a lil bit of help from my jam
I might not have the cash, but I do got connections
And numbers to bitches that’ll make you say DAMN!
我知道口袋不夠深 做事就要把握尺度
來自結團的幫忙招呼
我沒有太多藍色小朋友 但我有很多朋友
還有只能讓你尖叫的一群女朋友
Listen mother - 誒
You tripping mother - 誒
I put family over all
That’s the difference mother - 誒
尼瑪 好好聽清楚
尼瑪 別再ㄎ ㄧ ㄤ
老子 家人最大
尼瑪 勝負高低利立見
Snitching mother - 誒
Stingy mother - 誒 (小氣）
For cash, for ass
Side switching mother - 誒 （拋棄 + join the enemy)
尼瑪 廖北阿 - 誒
尼瑪 鐵公雞 - 誒
愛親錢 熱臉貼冷屁股
尼瑪 背骨仔 - 誒
