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Yay! The network is up and running again! T'is the season for burning PC parts. Last week is my power supply, this week is the modem, I wonder what's next.

Anyway that MIA student who's suppose to be taking O levels exams this end of the year decided to turn up again. *Groan* Just great! When I'm enjoying my life I have to take up such stupid things. No pay, waste of time, I don't see any benefit to me. Oh wait, maybe I'm accumulating some good karma from giving all these free tuition? hahaha.
Well I found out that in the meantime she went missing for the past few months, she got MARRIED!!! OMG......and she's only like, 18? And her husband (find it so strange to address her bf as her husband now) is only like 25? A childcare teacher earning $1000 a month, married to a VCD shop assistant! How's that for headlines? Or is that something common in their world that we don't understand? But what kind of quality life is this? Will they be happy in future or regret it big time? Happily married forever or end up in divorce? Somtimes I feel that they are not helping themselves by getting into the same cycle their parents went through. The problem just propagates till somewhere down the chain one of the descendants decide to do the right thing for once but till then, the problem persists.
But anyway she's freaking lazy, not that I want to condemn her. She had school holiday in her childcare for more than a month but yet she didn't do anything useful with it. What is she expecting? She thinks that I'm a miracle worker? That I can produce results by trying to help her cram in 1 year worth of work into 2 months? It's just so not going to happen. She can go sit for the exam but passing poses a difficulty. Maybe if she really start revising all her waking hours but I don't know how much of her time is she going to invest in studying since she claims she has endless housework to do at home.

Frankly, seeing people like her makes me realise that life is difficult out there. No matter what kind of rosy picture the government try to paint, they're just leaving people like her out of the picture. 3 years teaching in a neighbourhood school, really opened my eyes to the below-average household in Singapore. They face one thousand and one problems everyday of their lives! How they get by is a miracle. I count my blessings that I don't have to go through a difficult path.