KONG Xi FA CHAI!!

4 figurines, Mixed Media

Male figurine - in Jumping Clay, Japanese white clay and Paper Mache..Dog; Japanese white clay


Female character, Jumping Clay,Paper Mache and Japanese white clay..Cat; Japanese white clay

Educating with Love & Encouragement II

What was your feeling when you received a certificate for doing something really well? Good, wasn't it? For certificate collectors, it is a bonus as they see the collection expanding in their clear-holders. Parents, you can use certificates to encourage your children for tasks done well. Check out this URL for many Microsoft Word editable templates.
http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#awardCertificates

School has started for the year 2009 and many parents are either back into the routine of preparing their beloved offspring for school, lessons, enrichment classes; or creating a functional, workable routine which works well with the caregivers - parents, domestic help, father-in-law, mother-in-law, even neighbours. Routines, however necessary and secure they may be, might turn out into a boring rigmarole. Use certificates to brighten up their schooldays. For example, you are at your office when you call your mother-in-law or teacher and learn from them that your child has returned a wallet to the General Office. You visit the website and print out yor child's name on the relevant certificate and before dinner, announce to everybody that there will be a ceremony to award someone special for a good deed. Then take out the certificate and see the surprise and love on the child's face.

Having these templates and for special meaningful occasions do wonders for your children. And your relationship with them.

Educating With Love and Encouragement

Managing CLAY and managing children have a lot of similarities. one, you need to know what the clay is made of. You have to handle it. This includes stretching, throwing, coiling and other things you do to clay. It would be good to know the level of moisture, the malleability, the resistance level, and only then can you explore its potential.

You also have to, very importantly, do what you desire with the amount of material you have and fashion it when it is moist. Why? Because when it hardens, sorry man, you have to live with the outcome.

Doesn't that ring a bell for parents? We have to know the personality type of our children and see the best-fit teaching and communication style for them. Parenting is like clay, trial and error and we need to do hands-on so that we know what is the best time to teach, encourage and to chastise - "Teachable Moment" is the term. Once we know the substance of our children, then we can fashion something out of them. This is how GOd fashion us as well, for we remember that He is the POTTER and we are the clay.


But most of all, when I do clay, i do it out of love and passion. Only then will i feel satisfied with the outcome.

Happy New Year!!!

2008 ~ A year of Adventure ~

2008 for me was a year of Adventure, stepping into the corporate world as a Corporate Facilitator, meeting Business leaders and corporate clients in the marketplace. Most of the time, it was an invigorating, exciting experience. Sometimes physically tiring, sometimes mentally exhausting but at the end of the programmes and facilitation, satisfaction in a job well done. I am able to sleep at night with a clear conscience that i have done a good job all round.

Through constructive and most of the time, excellent feedback, i have garnered what i think are the factors which account for the kudos:

1. Facilitate with confidence
2. Relate with Sincerity
3. Plan with seriousness
4. Manage expectations well
5. Deliver Fun
6. Practise Safety
7. Focus on the Objectives
8. Walk the ground
9. Work as a Team
10. Take care of yourself
11. Don't forget your family
12. Always Claim on the promises of GOD

Here's to 2009 - THE BEST IS YET TO BE!!!

It's TIME to Move On, Brother!

The Rat Year is almost over. What did it bring for you? Well, it brought for me a lot of important lessons, the fundamental one being GOD is in Control of EVERY situation; and GOD has been faithful in every single of those challenging circumstances.

What will the year of the OX / COW / BULL bring for you? I certainly hope it's not a whole lot of B**S^#! But whatever it is , the best is yet to be!!! Cheers!