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2018 Week 12 Update

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Another week and we’re almost at the end of quarter 1!

I spent my weekend debating internally whether I should deactivate my Facebook account or not. With the Cambridge Analytica fallout, I am now rejoicing over my decision not to be all over social media and keeping a very low profile. While I did not deactivate my FB account, what I did was spend some time removing apps which had permission to access my account. I have a decent score of only 11 apps in the last 9-10 years, including WP, so yeah, I’ve gone and deleted everything from Facebook. I guess I am lucky that I am so paranoid that I almost never sign up with FB and always sign up to any apps or websites using email and this has, to a large extent protected me.

I’m also using this as a teaching opportunity to show GG & BB how social media can be dangerous, if not used properly. And also using this as an excuse to unsubscribe to all the newsletters and spam email that seem to proliferate and choke my inbox.

What steps are you taking to protect yourself online?

2018 Secondary 3 Week 12 Update

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The pace is starting to pick up in school and in just a week after school has started for term 2, GG has said she is done with school!

BB’s results, as expected, were not as good as expected. Only in the normal Maths (or E Maths as it’s called here, one which every student has to do), he scored well, the other subjects were either below expectation or worse. I’ve had a good talk with him and I am hoping that things change for the better and soon!

Soon, the midterm exams will start, as early as next month as they need to be finished by early May at the latest, giving the teachers time to mark the papers and also go through the papers with the students.

That was pretty much what happened this week in GG & BB’s school week. Have a great Sunday and an awesome week!

2018 Week 11 Update

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Another week has gone by and I really don’t have much to update.

BB and I went to watch GG’s school choir perform at the Voices of Singapore festival. They performed along with five other secondary school choirs to a full house. It was an interesting and enjoyable afternoon.

I had wanted to plan something with the children over their holidays, but because they had hectic school and tuition schedules, we couldn’t do anything. Now, need to wait for the June holidays to do something fun with them.

Hope this week has some news for me! Have a great week folks!

2018 Secondary 3 Week 11 Update

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The first term school holidays end today and the children go back to school tomorrow.

BB will start getting his common test results back from tomorrow and if he does not perform to the expectations set down, I have told him, he has to face the consequences. I have told him that his phone time will be severely curtailed and he will not get to use the laptop to play games. I am not sure how much I can enforce this as with a hormonally charged teen, I don’t want to be too forceful as it may backfire. Wish me luck for the coming week!

GG also had a very hectic holiday week. Last night, she was telling me that she didn’t feel like she was on holiday, what with going back to school for remedial lessons and a public performance and then having tuitions almost daily, she needs another few days before starting school again. But such is life and school starts tomorrow, whether she likes it or not!

This term is going to be a bit more hectic than the previous one because they will now focus on the mid-year exams which should happen sometime in end-April.

Ah, well, hopefully more school news next week when school starts…

 

2018 Week 10 Update

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Another week has gone by, but I am still where I was a week back, a month back, heck, even a year back!

Because of this uncertainty with my job situation, I don’t want to commit to something because I am hoping that the most recent interview will result in a job offer.

I have had an unconventional, non-linear career track till now which makes me over qualified, over experienced and too expensive for junior and middle management roles and not enough specific experience for the more senior roles. This way, I am rejected by probably every role I apply because I am either over or under qualified! It will take a very special hiring manager to be able to see the value I bring to the table as most of them are very blinkered and don’t see the value of having a different and varied perspective. I guess I can also see things from their point of view, as they probably need  someone to hit the ground running, which I probably can’t because I need a couple of months to learn and understand the organisation and in many cases, the industry. Ok, enough of my rants, I just need to keep being positive and know that the universe has something special out there for me and I just need to wait to get to it.

This was my week, this week is all about being there for the children. I need to get them to start being serious about what they want out of life and start working towards it. Have a wonderful week people!