overshadowed

i've just started work at Kumon.. yes, the place that didnt-intend-to-hire-me-but-just-asked-me-to-wait-for-goodness-gracious-till-when-but-instead-hire-my-classmate-on-the-spot-because-she-knows-mandarin-while-i-have-been-waiting-since-the-week-before-christmas. and so, they finally called me yesterday at about 8 in the morning to ask me over to their centre for "training" from 9-3pm. curious of why i'm being called when they've already hired enough people, i just couldnt bother because i am in need of money.. lol.. they did repeatedly say that i'll be paid for the "training" over the phone.
as i got there, i realised why they finally called me up - my classmate quit the job. and so, i was 'the replacement', the 'spare tyre', the second choice. =.= !@#$% yet again. always known as somebody's someone, or for someone..

well anyhow, after less than half an hour of learning how i should work around, i started marking endless worksheets of primary, no, kindy maths.. the sums we'rent even multiplication ones.. and each worksheet are repetition and different sequences of additional sums of a certain number.. and the unmarked work just kept piling up on my table.. the work gets more 'challenging' when the lil kids start coming in as soon as the clock turns 10:30 am. that's when you really start to multitask - monitor one child as she does her maths while teaching another child to read and write while marking some child's homework and recording it and at the same time too, rushing to mark some other child's work for today so that they can do their corrections and then go home. worse of all is when the parents of the child are there to pick them up when the child havent even finish half of the days' worksheet.. the marking never seem to stop even till you start having problems calculating sums like 2+3 or 6+7, and that's when your brain cells starts to go into kamikaze mode.. i didnt even have time to go to the toilet.. haha.. never in my life have i ever done so many basic calculations in half a day.. believe me, it's tiring and drains your energy.. i was already starving after 2 hours since i had nasi lemak for breakfast.. the good side is that they provided meals.. and the kids are really cute.. =)

till then, hope this outta keep me busy..