UNGRATEFUL AND UNGRACEFUL WOMAN
Cheng Kah Kee ( Mother ) registered her daughter Yijun for Play clay lessons in November1999, she had already waived her rights to any materials own by Garie's Creations. YiJun knowledge of the Arts and the works was all taught and created at our workshop. All ORIGINAL CLAY pieces created by YiJun are all in her possession when it was completed. What we have were digital pictures or photographs taken before she takes home her projects / works. YiJun's Mother paid $1500/- for one year, "Consultation, Design, Maintenance and Hosting services." using some of our existing images, records, photograph materials in our possession, with the exception to digitize her existing drawing and poems in year 2002. Garie's Creations has ceased, in year 2004 and the rights to YiJun Site is being host under a new ownership. Since the termination by Mdm Chew Kah Kee in 2003, Yijun Site has been promoted under garieinternational. com.sg website and garieinternational has paid for the additional hosting, maintenance, for the past 8 years. The Mother ( Mdm Cheng ) aggressive, unreasonable behavior in approaching to this matter was not in good faith, she had violated and infringed our literary works. Chew YiJun was just one of our many student we taught, if we allow her mother to abuse and remove our rights to our materials, we will be encouraging many to pirate our works without our approval or consent. Google has lost it's sense of direction in the copy right law and is not protecting the many artist in their literary works. All complaint put forth by anyone must be investigated properly, as individual country laws differ from each other, in other words Different Country Have Different Rules. YiJun condition were make known by her own mother letter to us dated June 2002 and therefore, the receiver ( garie ) is the rightful receiver / owner of the emails / mails, uploaded to our website, this is not a copyright material or issue. Garie had taught her daughter well in her Arts and has provided Yijun with a therapy that help her to get back to school and society (note: Yijun was home school when her mother had disagreement with the school over her and her refer to " Mother own words" ). Yijun had a sweating palm problem and Garie on his own accord did research and managed to overcome Yijun's problem, building her confident further in clay making.. Garie's Creations is proud to announce to the World of his/our achievement with Special needs children but, Mdm Cheng Kah Kee is ungrateful and abusing and / or took advantage of Singapore Court system ( a system protecting the Rich and /or a Play Ground for the Rich ) and the copyright law to erase records of her daughter's condition, and achievement. Mdm Cheng can only remove her own website, but has no right to remove or delete "Yijun's Website", as Garie's Creations is hosting the truth not lies or had infringed on any original works. Any original works done by Chew YiJun is the creation concept and ownership of Garie / Garie's Creation. Therefore, it is not her / their rights to order or demand the erase of YiJun ADHD history, so that her teachers, classmates and others will not know about it. Everybody has a past and it's with a past that one has a future. She even demanded garieinternational webhosting Chew YiJun's articles in the server, but it was declined and now this by Google???? Any action by Google to prevent the search/ remove article belonging to Garie's Creations will be in Question and their role as a Major Search Engine? NOTE: The work Yijun produced are products, idea and design that are created by Garie's Creation and Garie, is the Master of his own works and the works by Chew YiJun is produced in Garie's workshop. In addition, What is copy right infringement? What was the material infringement that mdm Cheng is requesting? What has her (YiJun ) condition to do with Copy Right Infringement? What has they ( Mdm Cheng or Yijun ) lost in term profits? Did Mdm Cheng or Chew YiJun buy Garie's creation rights to the original ideas / tutorials, and instructions, existing images, records, photographic materials in our possession while at the clay workshop? As Such, Can such a person ( Mdm Cheng Kah Kee ) be qualified to give talk / lecture to the various Primary Schools about ADHD/ADD, when she herself wants to erase her daughters history, letters and emails (address to garie), so that her teachers and friends of Yijun will not find out about her condition. Can such a person be lecturering or teaching to promote knowledge on ADHD or give advise about the Special needs children of the future? Link : Chew Yijun,Pg 6, http://www3.moe.edu.sg/corporate/contactprint/pdf/contact_jan07.pdf SPARK: How Can A Person Who Wanted To Erase Her Daughter's ADHD Condition Give Talk About ADHD To The School And The Community?Link1: http://www.spark.org.sg/news/news3_1.html Link2: http://www.spark.org.sg/news/news3_2.html
From:
Chin Bella <chinbella99@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: About Cheng Kah Kee
Date: January 4, 2012 PM 11:07:49 GMT+08:00
To: Sim Garie <garie@starhub.net.sg>
Cc: Spark_singapore@yahoogroups.com
Dear Mr Sim,
Thanks for sending me the below info re Mdm Cheng Kah Kee. It
is regretful for me to read about this episode on her. Kah
Kee was an active member of SPARK (ADHD Parent Support Society)
in the days in 2001 - 2004 when her daughter was still young,
and she helped to create ADHD awareness by giving talks
to schools. She has since became inactive and I came to
know subsequently that her daughter does not want to be known
as having ADHD and so Kah Kee is trying her best to remove any
association of her daughter to ADHD. I hope the matter has
settled amicably finally.
Regards,
Bella Chin
SPARK
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:44
PM, Sim Garie <garie@starhub.net.sg> wrote:
UNGRATEFUL AND UNGRACEFUL WOMAN
Cheng Kah Kee ( Mother ) registered her daughter Yijun for Play
clay lessons in November1999,
she had already waived her rights to any materials own by Garie's
Creations.
YiJun knowledge of the Arts and the works was all taught and
created at our workshop. All ORIGINAL CLAY
pieces created by YiJun are all in her possession when it was
completed. What we have were digital pictures
or photographs taken before she takes home her projects / works.
http://www.garieinternational.com.sg/ungrateful.htm
APPRECIATION, THANK YOU CARD FROM CLASS 4 LOVE
CHIJ BUKIT TIMAH FOR THE CLAY WORKSHOP
March 2001
Clicked Above For Link
Mum's Own Words / Letters & Emails To Garie
"Yijiun loves clay arts, horse-riding, reading, computer games and playing with her friends. In fact she enjoys most physical activities such as fishing, cycling, roller-skating, snorkeling, rock-climbing, or just walking along the beach observing sea-creatures and collecting shells.Her favourite subject in school is Physical Education and the highlight of her school day is often a game of touch-rugby/soccer during recess (she will willingly give up food for play!).She is an avid reader who likes fantasy, adventure and animal stories.Yijun is full of zest and her interests are varied; the primary constraint in her case is the lack of time to pursue them to her heart's content."
By Cheng Kah Kee, June 2002
Testimony
"Yijun
took up clay art with Garie's Creations in November 1999. She
was then in Primary 2 and had just been diagnosed with Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Lack of understanding
of her condition both in school and at home caused her to exhibit
many psychosomatic symptoms relating to "severe - stress"
sleep disturbances, gastric pains, panic attacks, school refusal
etc. Her self-esteem was at rock bottom, as was her position
on the social totem pole in school.
Books on ADHD emphasized the need for parents to support the
ADHD child's area of strength, or "passion", so that
she can at least experience success outside school (the odds
are stacked against them in school). Yijun loved art and I had
heard of art therapy. When I heard of Garie's clay art classes
from a member of the ADHD Parent Support Group, I immediately
brought Yijun there for an introductory session. The warm, "family"
environment made her feel accepted and at ease. She took to it
immediately, and has been attending regular weekly sessions since.
Yijun's progress in clay art has been heartening. After going
through the basic courses making animal fridge magnets etc, she
progressed to her (then) favourite Pokemon characters, and then
to her all-time favourite: Unicorns! "Unicorns" as
Yijun puts it "lives in your believing". She drew and
made unicorns endlessly. My display cabinets are lined with many
different interpretations of this magical creature that, I believe,
offered her some refuge from the pain of facing angry teachers,
parents and classmates at every turn.
Angry or impatient teachers/tutors -Yijun has had more than her
fair share of them. It is not easy teaching an ADHD child who
seems to be doing everything except pay attention to the lesson.
It is to Garie's credit that he took her condition in his stride
and, in the process, won her confidence and respect. Garie even
took the trouble to help "showcase" Yijun's skills
by going down to her school one day last year to give a free
clay art session to her whole class. This popularized clay art
amongst her peers, and Yijun's form teacher followed up on it
with a one-girl class exhibition of Yijun's works, which gave
her "instant popularity".
Today, in Primary 5, Yijun is a whole new person. She has regained
her lost sense of self and has some friends in school and in
clay art classes. Gone too are the psychosomatic symptoms. In
clay art classes, she has naturally evolved from total absorption
in unicorns to exploring other options - dinosaurs, dragons,
assembly of battery-operated clay-coated animals etc. She is
currently working on a large project involving entire scenes
- rocky surfaces, lakes, trees and mini inhabitants. It is beautiful
and I am planning to display it as the centrepiece in my living
room.
Notwithstanding the various therapies undergone and the nutritional
supplements taken, I believe Yijun's progress would not have
been so definitive had it not been for the belief and support
of some teachers - Garie included. "
By Cheng
Kah Kee June 2002
"Yijun's work was already featured in Garie's wonderful website when he suggested setting up a separate site for her. Both Garie and Teresa felt that it was good for Yijun's growth as a budding young artist to have an independent sitelinked to his. I was delighted that Garie considered Yijun's work to be of sufficient quality to warrant a site of her own. wanted to give her as much support as I can. I had been keeping Yijun's sketches, poems, letters and other works since she was in kindergarten and it had always been my intention to present them to her (together with her growing-up photo album) when she reaches twenty one years of age. Garie is a talented webmaster and I couldn't have found a better person or better way to showcase my daughter's. Thank you Garie. May my daughter's website grow with her "
By Cheng Kah Kee 4th Aug 2002
