Crocs

Accidentally heard from the bimbos that Expo has Crocs sales. Wanted to go yesterday, but was traumatised by the LONG queue into the sales area.. Really LONG. They actually have an exhibition hall opened next door just for queuing!!

However, being a cheapo, Ling decided that by hook or by crook, she will wake up early in the morning and queue for the crocs sales, an hour before they open for sales.

Ling did try her best. Managed to reach the exhibition hall an hour after it started, at about 11am. And there's alway LONG LONG LONG queue!! Already 3 lines into the exhibition hall next door!
But luckily the queue moved very fast. Within half an hour, Ling is IN the crocs sales. Because it's the last day, Ling has difficulty getting the shoes for her foot which has a common size 7. Thus Ling only managed to get 2 pairs of Mary Jane and 2 pairs of Prima. All 4 at a total of $70!

4 pairs of shoes is already considered a harvest to Ling. But there are other shoppers who ma-chiam buying shoes and clothes for the whole kampong - dragging bags of bags of bags along the queue to cashier!! Talking about cashier, Ling spent about 2-3 hours just to queue to pay for the 4 pairs of shoes.

While queueing, Ling listened to MP3 (till no batt), read a book and observed people/ kids. She also heard one lady complained "this is crazy. nxt time even if they sell at $1, i will not come. it is a waste of time!"

Ling looked at the lady bags of things, and think that she will still come even if they sell at $2.

Nature or Nurture

It has always been controversial on the topic of Nature v.s. Nurture..

For me, I think both nature and nurture works well together but I am more towards the nurture side. I believe, through appropriate teaching, nature can be overcomed.

I was waiting for my train to Changi Aiport this evening. A boy (maybe about pri 1 or K2) asked an elder sister to give him his food in her bag. She replied in Mandarin "Cannot! Will fine $500!" And the boy also doesn't make a fuss.
-- Simple things like obeying the rules, can also being passed down from fellow young peers. Some parents will just ignore such rules and secretly shoved the food to the kids. Worse still, parents do it openly.


Another scene:
When the train is arriving, a boy signalled his parents to move back behind the yellow lines. Parents followed the child's advice and moved back.
- Learning about rules again. Children teaching parents about the rules.


I believe education plays a very big part in moulding a good person. Educating can come in many forms, and it always starts from little little things.

Kids nowadays learn things very fast, and will imitate adults' actions.
Kid A always take the front seat of dad's car.
Dad is a short-tempered man. When Dad drives and the car in front of Dad is probably too slow or made some mistake, Dad horns the car infront and scolded "stupid! no brain!"
Kid A who likes to sit at the front seat, repeatedly experience such scenarios and repeatedly sees/ hears Dad react in this way.
One fine day, Kid A was returning home from school with his nanny. Suddenly, he heard a car horn, and he immediately scolded "stupid uncle! no brain!"
See? Kid A reenacting how Dad behaves.
Nanny corrected Kid A's behaviour by explaining that it is impolite for young children to scold adults stupid, and that if he hears Dad saying this, he should tell Dad that it is impolite.
However, things doesn't change if dad doesn't realise his bad behaviour, and doesn't even refrained himself from saying such things again. It'll be worse if he even introduce punishment to stop the kid from saying such things.


Learning good behaviours always starts from young. Good habits of sharing, taking care of items, addressing adults. How mischievious or playful a child may be naturally, I believe nurture can add even more value to overcome it.

And Oh, media. The kids programme are showing too much of Power Rangers, Ben 10 kinda of violent, fighting, stuff. Who cares that it is to show good always truimph evil? The programme is already "evil" enough to teach my kids fight and shout loudly with the SPD powers.

Ling made a boo boo today... A real BOO BOO..

Supposed to have a patient going for an interview today but was messed up due to Ling's negligence of not informing the other party that patient's family is supposed to bring this patient for interview.

Haiz.. this made everyone pissed, i supposed. Those who have helped to make the interview possible, those who have kindly agreed to standby at the Home.. ...

This made Ling rethink: What went wrong?

Is it Ling's forgetfulness?
Is it Ling's loss of concentration to do things immediately?
Or is it that Ling is not suitable to do coordination work??

What could have been done, or done better?
To notify everyone involved immediately upon confirmation of a plan.
Double check on plan.

This is what Ling should do. Reflecting and prevent similar incidents from happening.
But another side of Ling is trying to minimise the fault on her (that's bad):
- Ling is helpful enuff to still follow-up on patient even though the patient is not in the hospital now.
- Ling should not be too nice next time. Leave it for other people to handle themselves. Out of sight. Out of mind.
- too many cooks spoils the broth. Too many people involved in the communication makes things complicated

Haiz. This incident bothers Ling a lot.
Coz poor patient missed a good chance due to Ling..

Service recovery to be done asap.
Bad Ling.
Ling will have difficutly sleeping tonight. confirm.