on branding …

it’s always good to step out our (limited) context and learn from beyond. the zoom webinar video “Are You Building a Brand or a Bland?” has 3 expert-practitioners in the field sharing their experiences.

and some ideas that caught my attention:

  • “a brand is important becos it builds long last relationship with your customers … and also employees”
  • brand is a sum of perception”
  • Richie’s strategy to building brands from 0:30:53-0:33:24
  • [0:37:29] “we want people to realise that the power of change is actually in their hands and that’s really kind of emotional and inspiring thing”
  • [0:44:26] “how did you end up where you are today(, Richie)?” … “…by mistakes”

of cos, a next/related question could be “what is/are the relationship(s) between the phenomenon of branding and the phenomenon of teaching CL?” (:

早来的教师节“礼物”

上周四年中会考成绩放榜后,过去一周“忙”的就是学生重不重考的事宜。
刚和一对父母(都是波兰人)聊了女儿重考与否的问题。
天下父母心,身为父母,完全能够理解做父母对孩子未来所做的全盘思考。
尽管成绩不理想,最后决定——不重考。
通话快结束时,正向父母表达歉意。这时学生的妈妈说道:

“女儿告诉我们,她学了九年的华文。今年是第一次不怕上华文课。”

教师节虽是下周,这可以算是早来的教师节礼物吧?
Happy Teachers’ Day in advanced to one and all teachers (:

music …

today is the last CCA day for my YI Band students (and teachers as well) as we are graduating the last batch of students from bukit batok campus. “said a few words” to the students, and this is what i shared with them:

Music enables us to forge friendship lifelong.

(Tan, 2021)

received this set of notes from the students, and am glad to have forged lifelong friendship with them too (students now, but friends in 8 mths’ time).