Meaningful Parable

Well I am not Christian but good things are beyond religion :)

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them: and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Glad

Sometimes as a teacher,
when you feel demoralized and down,
certain good things will always happen:

Happy that some of you made it to scholarships in JCs,
Some of you made it to top JCs
Some of you were happy to go where you wanted to go,
You were in control and enabled choices for yourselves.

Some we shared through pains and difficult times,
And some, the happy memories were short and fleeting.

Time passes,
people come and go,

But, remember all of you I'll do.

Best of luck for your future endeavours :)

欣慰

Today I was casually looking through the school results excellence record and realised that 9 of our ex-cadets were scoring 4 or more distinctions in their A level examinations in the various JCs!

And I realised that 7 of my ex-form class students also scored 4 or more distinctions in their A levels! Pity they did not share with me the good news but rather that I found out by accident.

Or maybe they did not think that their secondary school teachers had a part to play for their successes? :p

But indeed I feel this should be what all teachers are looking out for, success stories! Even if we say it is very shallow just talking about results, it is actually more like overcoming obstacles that I see here. Likewise, I would be equally happy if they had exceeded themselves even in other arenas. It's not the results but rather the outcome of their hardwork that make the difference!

To all of you: push on and we will always be here behind you :)

看齐

今天又问了自己同样的问题：为什么要教书？
悲观？
极端？
坏脾气？
不看世界？
不走流行？

我只想好好教我的书，行不行？

以为

从聚会中得知，另一位同时最近为工作忙碌得有些晕头转向。
从前爽朗的她，整个人好像都变了一个样。
原以为职务再繁重，应该也难她不倒，但现在事情看来是我太主观了些。
我们是否对人往往都太早归类与定型？
今天的他是否也还是昨天的他？

思考

朋友说与其自己说，不如等别人的答案。
真是有趣的意见。

感触

有些班永远都无法做到要求的水准。
有些学生则明哲保身。
有些老师就此灰心沮丧。

看远

今天朋友让我看吴庆康的篇章，不知道是不是在暗示我，说我太悲观？想像也许真的可能如此。
作者说凡是都要看得远，看开其实还是悲观的。
所以我们大家一起来努力看远吧！
:p

文化的流失

今天突然心血来潮，
到夜间动物园走了一趟。
那边人好多，
旅客一批接着一批，
本地人都是一家大小，
但，
当我放眼看去，
最没有教养的好像都是本地人。

再次

忙到没有时间下笔。
总觉得朋友们在这个年纪都好像为生活疲于奔命。
热情已悄悄匿迹，
以前大班人马一同外出的场景不复存在。
今天，
小猫三两。
明天又会如何？