Teaching English

Good Morning!

Yes... That's the first words I always says to my students when I was teaching English in Tainan, Taiwan. Well it was a great time as I never thought that I could have such opportunity in Taiwan. There are a lot of native speaker in Taiwan or people who can speak fluent English without Indonesian accent. However, that opportunity came to me, and even though I was full of hesitation and afraid about what to do, I couldn't help myself not to grab the opportunity while my pocket was shrinking.  Yes, it is true that the payment is half of normal teaching English salary here, but still, it is good enough to support my life for a month or two.

A little bit of flashback, one of my classmate offered my ex for teaching English. My ex is from Slovakia and her English is way better than me. With a western look and gorgeous looks, she will be easily get the students attention and interact with them. However, when she got this offer, she first refused to do so. She said, she doesn't like playing monkey for kids for their entertainment. Well I couldn't say much, because that's what she experienced. However, I told her to try, because we need the money. Thereby, She decided to try and suggested my classmate to also include me in the project. Well I never though they could hire me, therefore I never hoped, but then... my classmate reply "Sure... you can come with us to the office and have interview with the boss".....In the office, even after interview I still doubt they are going to hire me, until I received email from them to come for a consolidation with other teachers involved in the project, including my ex.

So, the boss assigned us to teach in two different school. And for one school, the schedule is fix and teacher will teach for 4 weeks straight, while in other school the schedule is not fix and teacher might teach for a week or two. Interestingly, they assigned me into the fix one which is a private girls senior high school, while they assigned my ex into non-fix one. My ex suggested me to change the job with someone else, so we can teach at the same school. However, the other school is a normal school with both boys and girls. And they have assigned me into girls school.... So...Which one will you prefer as a BOY? Of course Girls Senior High School! So I decided not to switch the schedule and stick to my beautiful faith :)

to be continue...

SnipMe

Hi all,

After long break from laziness, I successfully push my backbone to sit, put my fingers on keyboard and turn on my brain, start blogging again. Yes, it's been too long since my last post and for sure many things had happened. Too many things I would like to write, but for now, just a quick notice, I have been working at Interchan for about 10 months. The working environment is good and colleges also very nice and supportive. However, currently we are facing a difficult situation as revenue goes down and needs to shift the business into mobile apps. I myself see this as an opportunity for a company to bounce back and follow current business trend and grab potential market. Nevertheless, company needs huge effort and take some risk on the process. On the managerial side, there has been some changes going on. As company decide to shift its business, Indonesia Value Added Service business is left and terminated. Well it is not completely terminated, however, company doesn't want spending any more penny for VAS business in Indonesia. This way make my position unclear. But.... on higher managerial level there is a talk going on that Indonesia team will be switch into mobile apps team. Well, I am looking forward to this opportunity to be honest and feel excited. Yet, I need to make sure what kind of role is given to me. I would love to do more on market research and knows more about mobile apps marketing. I like the company industries. I see this as a future marketing industries. Even huge corporate such as Google and Facebook still finding their way on effective mobile marketing business model.

Ok, let's stop the speech and continue to what our company have done so far. Well, specifically for Indonesia we customize one of our apps to be suitable for Indonesian. We added Bahasa Indonesia as the main language on menus as well as the contents. The name of the apps is SnipMe. This apps is very useful for your daily life who needs to be updated with news, knowledge and infotainment. Everyday the apps will feed you with valuable information that you prefer. Well, if you bored with information in Bahasa Indonesia, then you can switch to different information in English, Chinese or Thai. This apps hugely maximize your knowledge and come in handy. No need to think even more, quickly try our apps by clicking the link below:

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