Green Citrus Smoothie

Woke up in the morning and while I was preparing the ingredients, my bro requested me to make an extra serving. Glad that he liked it:)

Green Citrus Smoothie
Makes 2

Ingredients:
1 avocado, fully ripe
2 oranges
2 cups of frozen spinach, chopped (I froze the spinach to prevent it from turning soggy in the fridge, to extend their fridge life)
2 carrots, chopped
2 handfuls of ice

Blend avocado and oranges with a bit of water until smooth. Then add in frozen spinach, ice and carrots to blend.

Indeed, $50 per lesson is not alot of money. But as the saying goes, "do more of what makes you happy". Strangely, I derive great pleasure and satisfaction from planning lessons and designing activities for my tuition sessions:) Despite being greatly discouraged by my poor teaching and how students fail to comprehend concepts, rendering my teaching useless at times, I shall persevere in designing my lessons. Hopefully my efforts will be recognized by the students as reflected in their grades.

At times, I really feel that I am a useless teacher who can't teach concepts properly. This makes me very demoralized and unwilling to plan for any more lessons and want to just shut out the route to teaching career. But the thing is, there are only two choices in life. Either do something that you like or something that you are good at. I can't find anything that I am good at. If I shut off my option which I am passionate about, what am I left with?

Student said to me " Teacher, I think you should bring panadol next lesson, in case you headache. Or you can tell your family to call 911 if you're not home by a specific time".

The best advice my student ever give to me. Dont know to laugh or to cry.

Matcha Azuki Avocado Milkshake

Had a sucky tuition, so here's a happy sweet milkshake to make my day:)

Matcha Azuki Avocado Milkshake

Makes 1:

200ml of milk 

1/2 avocado, fully ripe

1/2 tsp of matcha powder, dissolved in 2tbsp of hot water

3tsp of azuki bean paste

A drizzle of honey

Throw all ingredients into the blender and blend until smooth

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The best smoothie I've made so far:) Happy how it turned out to be of a thick milky consistency with no taste of avocado:) Now I can make matcha milkshake at home with low costs and low fats! :P

Passion vs Strength

Today's tuition didnt go as well as expected. Despite planning so much and putting in so much effort trying to make sure the students understand, I doubt my efforts and patience was appreciated as it was drowned in the students' noises and handphone addictions. Babbling in their own groups, playing with their phones in class. Whatever. Honestly, I don't care about what individuals do in my class. "If it is not meant from the heart, it is not worth doing it". If you are not interested in my class, so be it. I won't expend energy trying to engage you in the class as it is not worth my effort and it is unfair to others who are truly interested in learning. So I dedicate my remaining energy and passion to delivering the lessons to those who are truly interested in learning, who truly want to make their money worth, who truly want to understand the mysterious beauty of learning. I believe, since you are matured enough to walk from your home to my class, you should be matured enough to understand the importance of paying attention. So I shall not waste time and effort trying to teach basic manners and principles of learning.

During the afternoon over lunch I was discussing with my mum and decided that I will go for teaching career upon graduation because of my passion in communicating with kids. However halfway through my lesson today, I doubted my capabilities. If I can't even control a small class of 8 how am I supposed to teach classes in future? If I can't teach a simple Math concept efficiently how am I supposed to make significant improvements to the kids' results?

Passion is one thing. Strength is another thing. People say if you like what you're doing you become good at it. But for my case they are two different things. I am not good at what I am passionate in. So which road should I take?

Credits: http://www.pinterest.com/explore/lucas-scott/

Post-internship nua day: Treated myself to banana+Choco chips+ milk smoothie:) Life's good without having to wake up early in the morning and squeezing with people on the mrt.

 

Appreciate the little things in life. For it's these little jigsaw puzzles that makeyour life complete.

Treat to self

The cute army collection

Loving my new loots from yesterday's mini shopping trip:) Got all these from The Paper Stone on a discount. I love the army collection so much I got a mini series:P

On a side note, I noticed alot of guys changing their profile pictures on facebook in recognition of SAF day. I'm grateful for all the hard work put in by these guys in protecting our countries and how supportive they are of this national duty:) Thank you guys:)