They are intelligent, witty, wholesome, matured, active and cute. They can be very aloof, cunning, irritating and a pain in the you-know-where also. 8-year old Aadesh once told me, ‘Air Asia bought 10% percent of Malaysia Airlines’. Well, well, well … he was certainly not some slick exec from the bourse. Me probingly asked, ‘How you know, Aadesh?’. He told me straight, ‘Don’t you watch the News?’. I was stumped.
They are the children of the fortunate, well to do, millionaires, CEO’s! Statements like ‘My Dad owns Baskin’ Robbins’, ‘My Grand Dad Owns the airlines’, and ‘My mother Trade Money’ are quite common around here. They look hybrid, mix and re-mixed! They are the students from Gardens International School. DYMM Yang diPertuan Agung has a daughter in there, too.
Working with young kids. Lots of young kids, is rather a new ball game for me. All the while, it’s been college students who know what they need and whatever I could provide them to eked it out in the real music world. My Saturday guitar classes consisted of teenage guitar hero (and heroine) wannabees, office workers who want to unwind, housewives (who thought that learning guitar was one of the status symbol) and competent guitar students who want to delve into the mysterious world of Jazz!
Here I go again. Maybe my short co-curricular stints last year was good enough for them that they welcomed me to teach at the school back again. The Music Head, Kate even pleaded to me, ‘Won’t you come back, Jimmy?’. Well, I just could not say no. Some comforting thought: Even that superb footballer/pundit Abbas Saad is teaching 4-4-2 there.
It was depressing dealing with these silver spoons kiddos at first. But things are getting easier by the day. After all, they are children of the world. Innocent, colour blind, pure and lovable. They certainly are the crème-de-la-crème. Obviously, the leaders of the future.
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