A failure........

wat are with kids nowadays….
is life really tt harsh on them tt they become discourage and dis-hearten most of e time??
well…..today,
I felt tt I’ve failed terribly as a tutor….
today’s E. math tuition was terrible….
they were all so stoned…
plus Ethel was being extremely difficult today….
I was on the verge of flaring up, looking at how she was juz wasting time….
mine, the others and her own……
all full of complains and nothing else….
haiz….
can’t seem to get through to them….
was on the topic of coordinate geometry,
a topic I did with them 2 weeks ago, n today was juz a revision….
taught them again n again bout the procedures and methods of tackling the ques,
but they juz can’t seem to retain wat was taught….
most of e time, they juz stared at me as if I was speaking Martian or something….
sigh!!!! wat wrong????
is it the way I speak??
but I dun mumble, n I’m speaking like 60% of my normal speed….doing slow n steady
is it the way I teach??
but then I’ve repeated and repeated and repeated most of the methods in different approaches…..
is it because of their own mentality??
at least I think so….
everytime I give them a question,
their comments r normally,
“HAR!!!! (frown)”…. “crap”….. “so difficult”…….or juz *silence* and stare blankly at e paper……
mentality they are drowning in either ignorance or self-pity…
self-pity for most, but ignorance for Ethel……Bloody hell!!!!!!!!!
and I thought bring tit-bits into class to give them a treat would motivate them…..
give them something else to ‘distract’ them for dreading maths so much…..
but well….it was freaking useless…
haiz……..

went to watch e movie a series of unfortunate events b4 tuition today….
was giving myself a treat for working extremely hard last week=]
anyway,
all I can say was….
I sort of expected better….
thought it wasn’t as bad till e extend of me falling asleep,
but,
think it was only Good-To-Watch-On-VCD-but-Not-Worth-The-Big-Screen…
mayb it was because I was pathetic enuf to watch it by myself….
hmm……….

1 interesting fact tt i learned today....
the longest word of the english language currently is:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
meaning 'a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silica dust'
cool!!!!!