After a great December, January first few days were more or less used for rest and family time. Since New Year where I went Orchard with family and cousins, Monday invited First Class over for the meeting because I wanted to stay at home, Today I invited Tai's mum too for the Manhattan Fish Market deal =D

Was planning, if possible, to complete all necessarily works to be free on Fri to bring family for the Alexander Road Bak Kut Teh too, and the Serangoon Prawn Mee perhaps some other time. Fri, well, if smooth, I might be able to meet First Class again for SP open house, then drop by Alexander Road before meeting Shixiong for our planned training plans for the first 2 months of wushu classes. I had included in many skills components which I think it might be useful for them outside wushu as well. I had also incorporated the schedule to match NAFTA times too, at least they will sort of train up for their school NAFTA too. =D

For future training, Im planning to include activities that is fun, that can help them learn some sports skills, with some wushu essence inside. Sports skills include ball skills, fielding or batting skills, and other interesting sports like tchoukball. We would also plan to train their reactions and mind too, and if possible, chinese culture, the chinese language itself, perhaps not to extent of tang poems, at least basic characters?

So then I had this idea to set up this committee to help people plan for ice breaking or amazing race games, that we would host them, like the laser tag team. Thus, we gotta come out with many interesting unique games, which we could pilot with Bedok Wushu first. =D As sx said, this is a platform where we could test our leadership, management and creativity without affecting much to anyone, since there isnt report book sor such things that would get parents complaining and questioning.

Next, I would like to bring Moving Blue over to sg, but sigh since starting of the year I only get limited photos of their products, website not updated, samples not sent.... How to do?

And so, hmm, over these few days, I got more insights to social problems in sg, especially in teens. Really, many of them were shocking, and some more common problems are ofcoz bgr. So I see that the recent few cases I see, it can really be a good thing, that love can change one person from head to toe, but there isnt really right and wrong, and what comes around goes around, so...... hmm, shall see how these episodes turn out in years to come. That got me curious, do people last time have all these problems too? Are they really that conservative? Or just that we assume they are more old fashion, or that they kept in to themselves. But one thing for sure, bgr is taking place at very young age now. Ofcoz, as I discover more about a person through another, it could be that the information provider is trying to use me to change the person's view of the information provider instead.

It's not a bad thing I personally thing, it teaches them to care, to manage, to plan, to love, to handle failures, to have responsibilities, to stick to commitments, to deal with social problems.

Anyway, had this talk by some random guy, Im inspired. He had a strong and interesting point, he said that giving allowances would discreetly condition the young to be employees, to work hard, in order to receive a fixed pay, determined by someone of higher authority. As such, he gave no allowances to them, but to let them look around and find things to do, then negotiate with him the incentives. Though this might give rise to money face people, but it actually encourages them to take the initiative to change things they can, to find opportunities themselves, to look at the diversity around them in one more perspective - money prospect. It also train their negotiation skills, their tact, their public speaking, their creativity.