Teach

During lunch time one of my female colleague asked me if I would teach anyone to play piano. Well, two questions pop up in my mind. First, how the hell does she knows I play piano well enough to teach? Second, why the hell she wants me to teach her? I wonder.

Hmm... how does she know?

Anyway, without much hesitation, I told her I don't teach anyone piano. Seriously, I doubt if I am a good teacher. I tried teaching some kids how to play piano before. They're between Grade 1 to Grade 3 (when I was just a grade 5). And the experience was horrible. Not only was I do not have a clue on how to teach, I also hate the fact about different students have different attitudes and the teacher was suppose to motivate them to play more and practice more. Duh! I couldn't even motivate myself to teach, please!

So, no I don't teach people how to play piano (even though one of my ambition when I was young is to become a piano teacher). And today, since my seniors (colleague) were away for vacation, I have to help out the juniors who are still young and fresh, with their projects in hands. Well, I am pretty free these days since the jobs assigned to me are not very urgent. So I thought I could help them a bit.

Need a hand?!

I thought it's gonna be easy just to give them some instruction or two to make them move their hands on the computer keyboard and do whatever necessary. But when problems occur, one of the junior (who is well-known to be very 'slow') could not solve it. Well, being his senior (for the moment) I patiently asked him to show me how he debug the system error. I let him do whatever necessary while I sat beside him observing. And after for like 5 minutes, I still couldn't get what was he trying to do. He basically look here and there, scrolling the page up and down. Curious, I asked him what was he trying to do. And guess what he said?

"I am not sure myself."

I was like "Oh my goodness!". Although he is a fresh-grad, he works in the company for almost half a year. And still not sure how to debug a system error? *Fainted* So I have to guide him step by step. Finding the root cause of the system error. And that was really testing my patience. You might not hear me yelling or screaming when trying to teach the junior. But I found myself frowning while talking (or teaching) him feeling irritated and annoyed. I am so bad, I know. My concern is if one can't even master the basic skill, how can one survive a bigger storm ahead?!

I don't think I am a good teacher.

Surely I have to put more efforts on this junior. At least until he could stand on his own feet without being too dependent on others. And once again I found myself in the role of teaching. Perhaps it's time to improve my teaching skills and leadership skills. Who knows, I might eventually become a piano teacher some day?

Night with Flute & Piano

In conjuction with the celebration of National Independence Day of Poland, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland organized a Flute and Piano Concert in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. I was very lucky to be offered and invited to join the wonderful event.

So right after my working hour, I quickly rushed to KL Convention Centre just to find myself too early for the event. So I took my time to walk around the KLCC park and enjoyed a lot of eye-candies. Being the naughty me cum cam-whore as always, I managed to capture a few photos of those hunks wandering around in the park.

As I have to get the entrance ticket from my friend at 7:15pm, I walked myself back to the KL Convention Centre at around 7:10pm. I searched around the Planery Halls and still couldn't see any sign of my friends. So, I ended up buying myself an ice-cream at New Zealand Natural at the ground floor. Yummy-licious! I forgot what's the name of the ice-cream. I remember there was double scoop for rum-raisin and top with sweet dried raisin and half fresh strawberry. Hehe... Will I ever get fat? I doubt so!


Anyway, around 7:45pm I managed to find my friends at the third floor Planery Theatre. A lot of Caucasian there! All Poland or Polish! Gosh, I managed to indulge myself in the world of Caucasian men. And most of them were wearing suit , tie and jacket/blazer. All of them looks like those rich and wealthy dukes! Yay, I should have found my future-hubby there. Yummy! I could almost feel I was drifting away... Oh, they offered this vodka drink pretty nice. I am not really into alcoholic drinks, but I don't know why, just now I drank a glass of vodka and followed by a glass of red wine after the show. Perhaps too many Caucasian made me feel like I should get drunk and drag one of them home with me tonight! Oh did I mentioned I saw someone who look like Dr Mani?! Almost wanted to grab him to an isolated place and suck his face!

*Floated away...*

Anyway, the concert was not bad. The flutist is a woman. Yes could see her almost in her 40s. And the pianist is adorable. Not very young but he looks like those very polite and decent man. And his beard make him look like the Santa Claus! Oh reminded me of Christmas is coming soon! Oh I managed to take a photo with him after the concert. The funny thing was he kept on asking question when we took photo.

Pianist : Are you a piano player?
Me : Yes I am!
Pianist : Oh great!
Me : I enjoyed the show. It was marvelous!
Pianist : Good! Glad that you enjoyed it. Thanks for coming!
Me : Yes, please look at the camera and smile, would you?


LOL... of course I didn't say the last sentence. But he basically talking tome while taking photo. Quite weird. Anyway, he's being very nice.

The red wine is making me really sleepy now. I have had a wonderful evening.