老虎！

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献丑了！

其他的历史

那是一个很难回答的问题。

我想自从小学就觉得华文比其他的科目还容易学吧？而小五小六的时候碰上了一位很好的华文老师，让我对华文产生了浓厚的兴趣。记得吴老师很会画画，常用粉笔在黑板(...yes ... 我活在使用黑板的年代...)上绘出了许多栩栩如生的图画，为课堂带来了不少的乐趣！

中学时期可以用八个字形容：一份耕耘，一份收获。

高中是金庸先生的天下，记得他的书看多了，连写作都不知觉地受其影响。

后来当然也就要为自己的前途做打算了。其实中学时期也因为学生警察的缘故，所以对教育产生了一股浓烈的兴趣，觉得没有什么可以更有意义了。于是上大学就不顾一切，以平庸的资历报考国大中文系，与精英们挣一日之长短，为的就是理想与兴趣的结合。

其他的当然也就是历史了！

Clarification to the Post "What Say You"

Actually after reading my post and the response from all, i think there could be some misunderstandings!

What I wanted to actually say was: do superbly well now for your studies or anything that shows people of your ability at large, and you will be able to enjoy or live the kind of life that you have always imagined!

you know that means if u excel in something... next time you can have lots of free time for yourself... and get to do all the things that you were never free to do. In the opposite sense, a person who does not excel, be it studies or any talent, that means he would have to slog his life away.

I figure be hardworking now so as to enjoy life later is perhaps a kind of option lor.

But then again that is only ceteris paribus :p

What About My Life? (in singlish)

Haha okie yet another response to questions posted.

My life ah, very boring one... like nowadays i am stuck to Tiong Bahru exam centre to do O level marking for the students of 2006.

Dun bother to ask me about who got how many marks or how we go about marking cos i cannot say... later gahmen come arrest me for violating the Official Secrets Act under the Statutes of the Republic of Singapore.

then hor lunch time was spent scouting for places to makan lor.

dinner with fren then on way home was caught by cousin who forced me to go makan dinner with her.

good in a sense that she paid for everything la but then she forced me to go shopping with her.

then saw yanhan in the mrt and my cousin actually says he more handsome than me leh!!! ANGRY!!! (then i say she heavy colour light cousin)

haha...

anyway most interesting that happened to me was the experience of reading a story in the national geographic magazine... the one about the greatest mountaineer in the world... wish i can be like him leh... haha so officially hes the closest person to an idol for me la... if u r interested to know :p

interesting or not? light or not? haha :p

This is from Steve Jobs -- and this is for Andrew

Well i cannot think of a more successful businessman than steve jobs, so here you go...

quoted in his speech for the graduands of Stanford University 2005

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

the gist...


"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

so i guess the very first thing is belief and the 2nd important thing is a combination of disciplines, quoted from steve jobs again of cos (and i am not a fan ya.. haha)

What Say You?

Hmm which leads me to the point that studies are actually the most important thing for students in the world today.

According to the report by TIME magazine (latest issue), half the population in the USA has annual income of less than 40000 USD. 90% has less than 100000 USD annually. The richest people of the population owns a large amount of wealth and of cause the disparity is worse in developing countries.

The conclusion from the report is that the group of people who has more knowledge actually earns more money and does less work.

This means that, in realistic terms, people with higher qualifications in their studies(one way to let people know you are knowledgeable) actually get to bum around doing less while getting higher pay!

The other group of people gets to slog their entire lives away and realise that they are always not earning enough to pay their bills or afford a higher standard of living.

I figure if the USA is as such, it would not be any much different for the rest of the industralized countries, including Singapore.

Hope this post makes you want to study harder?

What say you people? :p

空悲切！

Tough tough tough.

Think by the time i am effectively bilinggual, i should either be driven crazy by adapting too much.

I really hope teaching can be more simple sometimes. When you have accomplished something for the students, some other areas seemed to be lacking.

When it is the opposite way round, it makes you wonder why are you a teacher in the first place.

A hard dichotomy to mend.

Being a Chinese Teacher

In the end the English is more preferred more than the Chinese Language! Am I a failure or what?

My job as a Chinese teacher demands me to be Chi-Na-lized in the most invasive of ways, trancending my administrative work, CCA and even my daily undertakings in my interaction with people in the school and beyond.

Much as i would like to "Chinese-lize" everything that comes in my path, it is almost next to impossible if this is the only way to change the culture in the school.

We talk about bad results for the Chinese Language and i am seemingly the only one who is responsible for the inculcation of culture in the school?

Makes it seemed to be that i am the sinner when it comes to the less than satisfactory results on show between the ranking boards each incoming year.

What makes a successful teacher then? What is the expectation of a teacher who has to handle all other areas not related to Chinese in the first place? Is it too much to ask for? Is it even required?

Who comes help when the teacher encounters obstacles in his job? Money as in salary as the only available answer?

Then i should be grossly underpaid.