Friday, January 4, 2008

S$4800/- for tutition?

Today, we chat with the lady who own 3 chain stores in Lucky Plaza, she came to our shop for body massage because she suffered from serious flu. She has taken the medication for a week and still not yet recovered. I said to her what she needs best is to rest and suggested to her that why she not train some one she can trust and take care of the business, so that she can relax and be the happy boss. This woman is a very capable lady, her three shops rental are S$22,000, S$12,000 and S$9000/- respectively. She said her three children are still young which age 12, 10 and 2 and a half respectively. She said her kids are all very naughty. She has no time to supervise the kids to do home work so she enages tuition teacher to coach her children. The teacher must find way to discipline her children so that they will sit down to learn their lessons. It is not easy task. Once, her P4 boy asked a lady tuitor, "How old are you?" She replied,"30", then he asked "Have you married?" She said "No" He said, "Oh, no wonder nobody want you, look at your teeth.................., your dress......................." Another time, he poured powder inside the tuitor's shoes, so that when the tuitor put on his shoes, the powder all blow up, and they were having fun, laughing. When the mother asked them what were their result in school, the boy said in the nice way, "There were two more people behind me, and Jia Jia didn't have any one behind her." Since, this parents are working every day without holiday, they enage the tuitor come to their house to tuition their children every day, including Saturday, Sunday, and during the school holiday. The tuition takes 4 hours a day, 2 hours for the boy and 2 hours for the girl. They paid the tuitor S$4800/- per month for the work.

As a result, the boy has scored the best mark for maths this year, the class position has improved to no 6 position. The girl also improve the position in school from 39X/400 to 21X/400 position. Money paid off!!

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