27 December 2006

Professionalism Versus the Human Heart

Today i learnt that capability may not be the best thing that a person has to offer in his job.

Professionally speaking, the person with the best skills win the day. But the eventual winner will always be the one who has access to the hearts and souls of the people around him.

Not that we should tumble into the depths of immorality, as we should still be professional the way we can best portray.

But ultimately, human is still human, and absolute trust can never come from just that aspect in which we all thought we knew so well.

23 December 2006

Duties 2007

Just realised that i have a understudy teacher next yr!

I teach 2 sec 1 classes,
be seeing 4 sec 3 classes
and 2 sec 4 classes

19 December 2006

17 December 2006

Trinity Blood


Trinityblood_anime.JPG, originally uploaded by crassus08.

the anime set part 2 is out!

haha but i just realised from yoshi that its available online too .. .. duh..

0_o"

15 December 2006

富有意义的人生

今天看电缆电视的节目,主持人说有趣味的人生就趋于一颗热脑袋。只要自己脑子里充满抱负和理想,那么人生就非常有意义。当然,那必须是在自己努力的前提下。

14 December 2006

可贵的友情

Friendships, one of the toughest to maintain amongst relationships in society today.

Friendship is forged when people of similar interests come together and begin to bond in ways so special that it makes them want to keep the relationship.

Some groups hold similar values whereas others share a common passion. Some withstood the test of time while some erode under the merciless flow of work and family matters.

Though some hold on, some friendships do fade as the years crept by.

What defines a strong friendship?

Friends who remember your birthday and celebrates with you every year? Friends who send regards now and then? Friends who send you a card on every christmas day?

What makes the friendship true?

When you take away every single layer of usefulness and connections and they would still be by your side?

Today i watched a television programme and the guest on the show said something to this effect:

"当你要确定自己的决定时,你必须把对方的权势,财富全部拿走,然后你在问自己,这还是我的决定吗?当搁天醒来的时候,我是否可曾后悔?如果没有,那么,我的决定就是正确的。"

Futures & Achievements

Life as it was, it is and as it will be.

Ever ponder about the limitless possibilities of what the future can actually bring? I remembered about a conversation with either students or friends that of people who generally finished their university degrees, their futures seemed less of choices.

If you are an engineer, the prospect of landing up in a job in the same field would be very high indeed. That would be quite a lame claim, since that person should have known that it was to be the result when he made the committment in the 1st place.

But some people are generally clueless about what their futures should be like. Thus they land up in courses whereby they would have most confidence doing well in. (thus the point in writing the above)

Anyway back to the topic as was initially discussed, students have the brightest of futures. They have the choices of making to the courses of their desires as long as they work hard for them and they can be anything that they prefer should effort and luck fall into place.

So if a graduate is to be admired about his "achievements", the student can be envied to make the choice that the former had always wanted to.

Moral of the story?

Knowledge is power. Get your facts, learn as much as you can before you plunge into your seemingly limitless future, because after a major decision is made, there can only be less that can be maneuvered after.

09 December 2006

可怕的 2007

不知怎么的,对新学年感到异常的恐慌。

明年的职务好像已知悉了七七八八,除了跟上两班中三班以外,好像又得在两个高年级班执教。

哦,忘了大家应该不是很清楚教员 (teachers) 的基本职务分配吧?

新加坡的教育制度是世界闻名的:这里的老师基本所需除了教学以外,还必须另外设身于课外活动 (CCA) 以及学校委员会 (Committee) 方面,有一些老师甚至还是特别职务干部 (Task Force)。(As a general trend, teachers from other countries do not seemed to be so dissected in their main duties comparatively)

根据上头的解说,一个普通的教员应该在三方面都必须均衡兼顾,才算得上是一个尽忠职守的老师。

而我的 2007 年就是如此的阵式:

两班中四
两班中三
学生警察第二负责老师
学生培训委员会中四协调员 (sec 4 coordinator)

如此看来,明年将有得受了 :-(