Truly remarkable
Before I go on to explain why my post is tittled so, I would like to give a shout out to Mr Angelsoul for hosting the greatest house party ever and to those who helped to contribute by making an invite on behalf of the host himself, for cooking the delicious pasta, the fried chicken and the nuggets and to everyone else including yours truly for finishing the food. Not also forgetting the Wayans family for producing the most hilarious show I have seen in 2005(we watched White Chicks after dinner hehe) and Angelsouls's parents for going to Bali and allowing the most happening house party to have happened.
Now back to why i have decided to name this post "truly remarkable". It all boils down to 3 main reasons.
1. I helped facilitate an ala Amazing Race programme for Nu Quest and the clients we were serving were ShangRi La's Chinese tour group or something like that. Basically they were all Chinese from China, and therefore they had no command of English at all. Which obviously meant i had to converse with them in Mandarin. Imagine that. They didnt have enough people to conduct the programme and i needed the money, so that was how i ended u in Sentosa that morning. Due to my Kindergarten Mandarin education and the many conversations i have had with my Chinese friends, somehow i thought i could converse in the language. However, soon i realised that these were ethnic Chinese whose Mandarin is relatively quite different from the Mandarin I speak. But somehow or rather managed to deliver it and i am truly proud of that. Although copying instructions and certain words in hanyu pinyin and having a great assistant helped a lot. Thanks again Adeline,( even if iknow u wont be reading this).
What can I say?Personally i think it is A truly remarkable feat for me to have delivered the programme in Mandarin.
2.I finally got the tuition posting under MDIS for Mendaki Tuition Scheme. From now onwards i will be travelling every saturday morning to Si Ling Secondary taching Sec 3 and 4 Normal Academic Students Mathematics. Yeah!!!! This would certainly help alleviate my financial worries, although i was hoping that i would get another centre on a sunday morning. But well i should be grateful instead. The remarkable thing was that MDIS didnt call me at all. In fact i was already lamenting and giving up on ever getting a teaching position. Especially when i heard from all my colleagues that they have all gotten their posting. I was already thinking of other ways to earn money. Then, as i did my Friday prayers, during my last protration, i asked God for help in this. Somehow it gave me the confidence to call them up. I was already expecting an answer saying that the " I am sorry Mr Azuan, according to your diagnstic tests and your personality profiling, u are not what we are looking for" Instead they called me back, saying this
"Azuan, I am awae that you were once a tutor with us at Canberra Secondary and it was because of that experience we were having doubts about employing you, however gven the fact that you called, we would like to give you an opportunity..."
I was ecstatic although i shouldnt be given the remarks she made because all this while I thought i didnt fare toowell with the test scores when in actual fact it was because of my irregular attendance during my previous stint with them. And I have to add that back then i was bogged down by my MS commitments and my dragon boat commitments. I gave them an assurance of the high level commitment iwould be giving thsi time round and they told me another set of instructions about Saturday.
What was truly remarkable about this was that had i not called i would still be jobless this semester. I am truly grateful to God for showing mercy on me despite the fact that i havent been a loyal servant to Him, yet he still threw me me lifeline, that allowed me to teach a challenging group that provided the highest pay.
Truly remarkable I have to say.
3. My last and final reason isnt really as positive as the ones above. In fact it would lie on the other end of the positive-negative spectrum, if there was such a thing. Somehow i found out today about how people form impressions about me even before speaking to me or finding out more about me. How people were able to form impressions from the company i keep. How my reputation pecedes me and that people i do nt know are able to recognise me and make judgements about the person that I am. This I find truly remarkable because for the first time, i have been referred to as "distasteful". Wow!!! To the person reading and empathising with all this, please dont get me wrong, I am not disappointed in them or you for that matter. I have come to realise that everything happens for a reason, and God has his ways in acheving anything. I will just be taking this in my stride and contemplating and reflecting on how anyone coud pass such a judgement about me.For some obscure reason, there must be some truth for people to pass such judgements.
I will not be living my life any differently. But i wll definitely ponder over this to better improve myself.
But once again, i really think this is truly remarkable.
Ok, its time to go and do my maghrib prayers and continue to be grateful to the Al Mighty for such a truly remarkable day.
Azuan Out.
Now back to why i have decided to name this post "truly remarkable". It all boils down to 3 main reasons.
1. I helped facilitate an ala Amazing Race programme for Nu Quest and the clients we were serving were ShangRi La's Chinese tour group or something like that. Basically they were all Chinese from China, and therefore they had no command of English at all. Which obviously meant i had to converse with them in Mandarin. Imagine that. They didnt have enough people to conduct the programme and i needed the money, so that was how i ended u in Sentosa that morning. Due to my Kindergarten Mandarin education and the many conversations i have had with my Chinese friends, somehow i thought i could converse in the language. However, soon i realised that these were ethnic Chinese whose Mandarin is relatively quite different from the Mandarin I speak. But somehow or rather managed to deliver it and i am truly proud of that. Although copying instructions and certain words in hanyu pinyin and having a great assistant helped a lot. Thanks again Adeline,( even if iknow u wont be reading this).
What can I say?Personally i think it is A truly remarkable feat for me to have delivered the programme in Mandarin.
2.I finally got the tuition posting under MDIS for Mendaki Tuition Scheme. From now onwards i will be travelling every saturday morning to Si Ling Secondary taching Sec 3 and 4 Normal Academic Students Mathematics. Yeah!!!! This would certainly help alleviate my financial worries, although i was hoping that i would get another centre on a sunday morning. But well i should be grateful instead. The remarkable thing was that MDIS didnt call me at all. In fact i was already lamenting and giving up on ever getting a teaching position. Especially when i heard from all my colleagues that they have all gotten their posting. I was already thinking of other ways to earn money. Then, as i did my Friday prayers, during my last protration, i asked God for help in this. Somehow it gave me the confidence to call them up. I was already expecting an answer saying that the " I am sorry Mr Azuan, according to your diagnstic tests and your personality profiling, u are not what we are looking for" Instead they called me back, saying this
"Azuan, I am awae that you were once a tutor with us at Canberra Secondary and it was because of that experience we were having doubts about employing you, however gven the fact that you called, we would like to give you an opportunity..."
I was ecstatic although i shouldnt be given the remarks she made because all this while I thought i didnt fare toowell with the test scores when in actual fact it was because of my irregular attendance during my previous stint with them. And I have to add that back then i was bogged down by my MS commitments and my dragon boat commitments. I gave them an assurance of the high level commitment iwould be giving thsi time round and they told me another set of instructions about Saturday.
What was truly remarkable about this was that had i not called i would still be jobless this semester. I am truly grateful to God for showing mercy on me despite the fact that i havent been a loyal servant to Him, yet he still threw me me lifeline, that allowed me to teach a challenging group that provided the highest pay.
Truly remarkable I have to say.
3. My last and final reason isnt really as positive as the ones above. In fact it would lie on the other end of the positive-negative spectrum, if there was such a thing. Somehow i found out today about how people form impressions about me even before speaking to me or finding out more about me. How people were able to form impressions from the company i keep. How my reputation pecedes me and that people i do nt know are able to recognise me and make judgements about the person that I am. This I find truly remarkable because for the first time, i have been referred to as "distasteful". Wow!!! To the person reading and empathising with all this, please dont get me wrong, I am not disappointed in them or you for that matter. I have come to realise that everything happens for a reason, and God has his ways in acheving anything. I will just be taking this in my stride and contemplating and reflecting on how anyone coud pass such a judgement about me.For some obscure reason, there must be some truth for people to pass such judgements.
I will not be living my life any differently. But i wll definitely ponder over this to better improve myself.
But once again, i really think this is truly remarkable.
Ok, its time to go and do my maghrib prayers and continue to be grateful to the Al Mighty for such a truly remarkable day.
Azuan Out.
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