Math Tutoring

Finally, we had math class after so long (it was Tuesday, 12th January, 2010). Sadly, he couldn't make the Boys SAISA football team that he didn't have to practice anymore. Hope he is not frustrated, but ok with it; he can't play football in the team but he can do math with me! It may be not a big pleasure for him though.

ANYWAY

He is still doing Probability in his math class since they couldn't finish the chapter before break. He is now learning how to draw Tree Diagram to solve the questions. I know it's a painful work to draw tree diagram since I have to draw and show all the possibilities in any occasions and it takes pretty a lot of time. BUT STILL, it's the best way to understand the chapter and it's easier to see the probabilities once I have done drawing.
Yet, he seemed to be doing fine with this chapter. Only sometimes, he is confused with when to multiply or add the possibilities. We'll see how it goes after all.

Sunday Church Basketball

We played at the Amal International School again last Sunday, 10th of January 2010, from 3 till 6:30. This time, not many people came to play; I guess that's because many of them have the MOCK exam as they started the new semester. Anyway, nine of us came this time that we played as many matches as we could and it was fun.

My friend told me that he talked to Remor who's in 12th grade in our school and currently the captain of the OSC SAISA basketball team to play a match with us. I hope we can play soon. :)

Bass Guitar Class

My tutor was sick last Saturday,9th of January 2010, that we couldn't have class last week again. But I practiced myself what I learned last time.
Also, I've been practicing some songs, Around the world by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Hysteria by Muse. Both of the songs are pretty well known for their fast and awesome bass intro which fascinated me as well that I decided to practice. I'm now almost able to play the whole songs, but still need to make sure with the fingers and not to lose my beat while playing.

Sunday Church Basketball

From last week(27th of December, 2009), we started playing basketball again. It was canceled because of rain. However, it didn't rain this week(3rd of January,2010) that we could play properly.
We changed the place from this year since the manager of the old place didn't allow us to play there anymore with a stupid reason saying his school basketball team is playing poorly these days because of us. That didn't make sense, but anyway we can't play there anymore even though we have paid for playing there. So we now play at the Amal International school court which is another local international school in Sri Lanka.
It has been a while we haven't played together; I felt we lost some acumen sense of how to play the ball. Besides, since we haven't palyed it for so long, we got tired very easily. It was extremely exhausting, but it was really fun.
I better practice more to fit myself to play best.

Bass Guitar (canceled)

My tutor, Derek, went on the business trip that we couldn't have class last week, 2nd of January, 2010.

Bass Guitar Class

Today we tried something new after we haven't seen each other in a while. I learned a simple chord progression and some variation techniques. We played several chords in a certain pattern which sounds like a typical country song. It goes from A to E to D and back to A. It sounds a bit boring if I play just by the chords, so I added some variations to it that it sounds more abundant and interesting.

Merry Christmas !

Today, 25th of December, Christmas, I went to the orphanage with my Korean friends to help the children there and play with them. It was Sneha Child Development Center which is near House of Fashion in Colombo.
My friends and I have been planning to visit there to help them with cleaning up the room, washing the dirty clothes and curtains, and playing with the children on Christmas which, I thought, would be great to do on Christmas rather than just celebrating ourselves. We volunteered to be the Christmas Santa for this year.
So, from 9 AM in the morning, first we cooked for the children and packed some snacks and toys for them as Christmas presents. Once we got there, we separated ourselves into four groups; one for playing with the children, the other for cleaning the room, another for washing the clothes and for cooking as mentioned.
I was in the 'cleaning the room' group and it was pretty hard job; it seemed that they haven't cleaned up the room in ages.
We finished it at 1:30 PM and it was really fun and I felt proud of myself even though it was just A BIT tiring. This will be unforgettable Christmas ever in my whole life :D