an advice from a teacher

To my students,

It's not easy to reach your ideal, as a proverb says:
'Rome wasn't built in a day'
so you must be firm in your purpose.
and 'Life is much easier if we didn't complain too much'
since 'Complaint is not a solution'

Mind ! 'A book is like a garden carried in the pocket'
and
'He who requires much learns much'

and at last but not least:
'Man proposes, God disposes.'

Drs. Mahmud, M.S
conversation class,
this old man stayed 7 years in Australia
many stories about him cannot be retold easily

healthy is priceless

some of you may usually catch a cold.. flu.. cough..

some of you may have ever gone to specialist to check your stomach,, your head,, your hand.. anything..


i've ever had a serious illness which really made me down..
every time i felt the pain .. i was like.. God.. am i gonna die now?

every time i couldn't close my eyes i was like... God.. if you want me to die.. just do it don't lemme drown with the great feeling of this illness

it was few years ago when i was at 2nd grade of senior high school..
my head bumped on hard stuff.. rock or something.. when i practiced karate..

then.. it all started..

the woozy... the pain..

till one day a friend asked me to go to see the neurologist..

and... all the medications began..

it was tiresome..
but friends and family gave me great supports..
my head was better.. but then my knee ...

i fell when i played badminton,, but i ignored it .. i loved sport.. being injured was a usual thing..but then i found it was different.. again.. i met the specialist.. i had 3 months to get the therapy..

and.. wallllaaa... knee was good..

i thought everything was okay...

but then few years later.. when i was at 5th semester at university,,
the pain on my head back..

i tried to feel nothing .. but it was really something..

then i gotta back to see a specialist.. neurologist .. again...

i was like.... all right... hey doc..i need your help my head feels like cracking


it didn't stop right there... i was hospitalized for several times..
really boring... really tiring..

at that time i hate God,,, i said..why should i feel this way...???

but then.. i thanked to God.. by having that pain.. i could appreciate this life much better than ever..

till today.. i thank Him for that..

we'll never know what will happen to us ... we can predict a situation.. but we can't predict all situations..
or in short.. man proposes God disposes

anyway.. when you are ill .. sick..
you just have to face it... think positive.. and you'll feel better

i've been through those moments...
when i had to see lots of doctors..
when i had to find out,, what happened to my head,, my stomach,, my eyes,, my nose,,my knee,,

once i felt.. i've done with it ..enough .. i didn't wanna care about it... but then .. i realized.. there were many people out there that couldn't survive any longer..

so i made my mind.. i will not give up ...

actually when i typed the first word above.. i just wanted to tell you about my flu.. but i guessed.. old stories could help me feel better..
hahaha :D

ow..
it feels good sharing this story...
thanks for reading this.. ^_^

smart people vs freedom writers

what's on your mind when you meet people who are so brilliant.. or smarter than you...??

what comes to your head when you see a family... consists of smart people?

what will you say,, when you have smart lecturers/seniors but they cannot share their ideas.. they always forget your name,,, they don't care that you want to be smart as them..

anyway..SMART PEOPLE is the title of the latest movie i watched,,
i've seen many great movies.. but this is different...

may be b'coz i've ever worked as a lecturer,, teaching university students.
and because until this moment on... i still work as a tutor.. teaching many kinds of people (workers,, HS students,, graduated uni students,,uni students and so on)

this movie reminds me ...

being a lecturer or teacher or tutor.. whatever you name it..
we really have to be smart people ...

smart ,, not only know how to teach.. how to share ideas,, how to be respected,,how to treat students or anyone else,,, but also know how to be a good role model..

this movie tells us about a senior lecturer ..who is really really brilliant in his field.. but unfortunately.. he never respects his students.. his staffs.. even his son and his daughter..

he always thinks .. he is the right person,, what he says is true.. his ideas is always perfect..
on the flip side.. none likes him at all...nobody respects him.. not even his children..

ow.. it's so irritating.. but you know what? he doesn't care about that.. he is truly a selfish man...
never listening others...always listening his own words..

have you met someone like this?
well.. i bet you don't like her/him...

this movie will make you feel different...
great players... Dennis Quid, sarah jessica parker,Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes, Thomas Haden Churh
some of you maybe have watched this movie..
it's really a drama...

but it's about a life... haha..

talking about smart people .. i remember another movie.. entitled FREEDOM WRITERS,, a story about a smart woman (played by: Hillary Swank), who decided to be a teacher in a high school which is really i n trouble..

no students want to study,, and the govt. doesn't support this school at all...

so this woman tries her best to do everything she can..

she even has another job,, just to get more money .. to buy great books for her students,,,

in the end.. she encourages the students to write a journal...and finally all the journals written by the students are arranged into a book..
a book about about the real stories of their lives..

this movie....

it will remind us that being a teacher is not only teaching... it's more than that..
i know deep inside our heart we always want to give more and more to everyone else.. although sometimes it's hard..

anyway.. this woman struggles her students education.. and even their lives matters,,, while she cannot struggle her own life.. he is left by his husband,, who doesn't like seeing his wife works too hard for someone else...

this movie is a true story.. and it has a happy ending...

if you watch both of of these movies you will understand what i mean...

so guys.... if you haven't watched those movies....

better watch your step.. hehehe just kidding...

watch it!! you'll see why i cannot explain it in detail... ^_^

smart people

a new brand job

i've got several files to translate..

it's not a new thing actually..

few years ago... i 've done this job before

at that time i translated a book,,, now i gotta translate something different..

anyway...

it's still about link...

well.... whatever it is..

i guess i really have to do my best...

for the sake of my own professionalism... *_*

lovely cat...

my cat is suddenly sick..
i don't know what's wrong with her..

yesterday everything was fine..

last night...

she got difficulties in having her dinner,,

her mouth is full of liquid..or saliva

like a dog..

this morning she still couldn't eat anything..
she was hungry.. but no food got into her mouth..


she's always strong ..


hope she's getting better soon...

English.. teaching..

i had ever been so bored teaching.. but then someone told me or.. reminded me.. that teaching makes our lives alive..

so i made up my mind that .. if this is my way so i will do my best..
though i never know how to be the best teacher for my students...

anyway.. 1 year teaching university students,it helped me to figure out..several methods of teaching English..

may be because they are mature enough to say everything what's on their mind..

but i still cannot understand how to handle students who have no willing to learn English..

they think it's just one condition to graduate from school or college..

they don't care the importance of English language..
i do know that English is not the only one language we should learn...
God has created many languages.. and we need to cope with it.. because it can help us learning sth new..

but.. it's not the only problem i got..


when i know that some friends..

who basically studied English.. have no ability in speaking English fluently..

it's really annoying...

they think they are smart enough,, and they don't need to learn more.. they don't even care that they can't speak English in a good order..

they don't even think that they have students who.. of course will imitate the way they talk..or they think..
they just 'teach' and get the money...
how could they live that way..

sometimes im stressed out ..just because i can't find the right persons to discuss teaching stuffs,,

it's like.. my head full of heavy things and i can't take it out..

my friends at work.. are not interested in discussing teaching stuffs.. like the theories.. methods.. anything ..


so.. i'm sharing this.. coz may be you can help me with it..
i do really hope you can give me some opinions about those problems..