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the paid 2 hours of work story

on this day, mum paid $50 expecting an hourly maid to come in to do 2 hours of chores.
maid arrived at 0900hr, briefed by mum, started work, and packed to leave at 1000hr.

mum: hey! why you work for only half an hour and you are leaving? you’re supposed to work till 11am right?
maid: no, 10am is correct.
mum: but i paid you $50 when your hourly rate is $25.
maid: yes yes. i spent 30 mins to come from home to here, spent 30 mins to discuss the work with you, cleaned the house for 30 mins, and i still need 30 mins to go home. so all in all, 120 minutes = 2 hours. IF i were to work 1 min extra, that would really be courtesy of me. you ought to write me a “Thank You” card to show your gratitude! but for now, bye-bye (:

i’m utterly impressed when mum related the story to me (:

mop (credit: Rubbermaid/ CC BY 2.0)

(disclaimer: all characters appearing in this work are fictitious. any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. the only real person here is “i”)

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padfone 2 station touch insensitive problem

lately my padfone 2 station appears insensitive to touch on the screen. it doesnt accept functions like “hold” which is needed to activate alternate character on the touch keyboard for example, and pinch to resize is also non-responsive. a search on the internet finally landed me on the solution shared in the padfone club. but the solution isnt available quickly through a search. perhaps not many pple have this problem, yet.

the solution to the problem is quite simple. it’s a software issue. a recalibration of the padfone 2 station is required. this can be done by downloading the software from asus support website. look for:

padfone 2 –> OS: Android –> Utilities –> Padfone2 Station Calibration Tool

you may need to download an RAR archive extractor to extract the apk file. plug in your padfone 2 to the station, run the apk (you’ll need to enable “Unknown Sources” software to run option found in Settings –> Security).

and it worked for me, and i hope it works for you too (:

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new pedagogy for 21C

if the current school system was organised for the Industrial Age, and school’s killing creativity, where should schools be going? (:

2013 TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra, who founded the “Hole in the Wall” experiments, has proposed a new pedagogy during his recent TED talk.

the new pedagogy is simple and almost unbelievable. it’s: say, “I haven’t the foggiest idea” followed by “I am going away.” and leave the learners on their own to self-organise. how much further can you go in SDL than this? (:

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yet another classroom the return post

since my last post abt one year ago, most of the photos have gone to fb. this time round to post yet another group photo taken during the last f2f session of QED526 Teaching and Managing Learners at Secondary Level (aka CM).

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(from left to right, in order of appearance, regardless of front or back):
Qinghua 清华, Zheng Hui 郑慧, Han Chuan 汉川, Shu Min 姝敏, Yen Nee 妍霓, Fang Li 方丽, Xin Yin 欣颖班长, Huiyi 慧仪, Joanne 美君, Zhiping 志萍, Yan Ling 燕玲, Khai Qi 恺淇, Wei Di 韦迪, Siew Chek 秀洁, Feng Lin 凤琳, Ewe 异微, Sui Wei 淑薇, Yifang 益芳, Wei Bin 維彬, Hui Ying 汇颖, Nga Man 雅文, Yan Wei 彦纬, Kee Hong 其煌

顺祝各位老师前程似锦，一帆风顺 (:

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