being a teacher

i think that the society holds high hopes for our teachers, hoping for them to be the very best. Since they are the ones the young generation look up to everyday as "role models", other than their parents perhaps.

well, thats not the point of discussion here though. my point is that i believe teachers should be behaving appropriately. What they are employed to do is to educate the students, and i believe they should have a decent level of respect for the students while they expect the same way in the reverse direction.

There is a teacher whom i have seen posting stuff about students on facebook, of which started last year. i witnessed that incident and i was quite shocked by the way he does it. im not sure if the only one who disagrees with his actions. some of his ex students even began commenting and discussions began.

That time, the material posted were photos he took of students' answers of which he found to be say "ridculous" or "funny". in the sense that i guess he was shocked at that kind of answer being written. And after that, he gave those photos captions which didnt put the student in any form of good light as well. and ppl began LIKING those photos, or joining in the mocking of the poor victims of the exams.

It is rather disgusting to me, i feel. i mean, the students are all trying to do their best and sometimes they dunno the answers and in times of desperation, they would just try to scribble something in hope of some lucky points. or if they have a poor understanding of the topic they might give answers that would sound "funny" to an teacher who, we all expect to know the content of the subject very very well. so why did he have to make it into a joke!? its like a form of public humiliation although the names were not shown. but still. why do we have to make fun of them in this way. shouldnt the teacher be more worried and eager about helping them, to correct their mistakes and to educate them better? instead, amidst his own frustration he has decided to share those silly mistakes with the world. incredible, i feel.

if the material were about like stuff they said that were funny, or like content that are purely funny like ppl writing their dates wrongly or something, i guess thats acceptable. but to post their answers and to criticise them on fb, isnt the way to go, Sir.

and the reason why im posting this after so long is because these few days, i have seen such incidents again. this time, he updated his statuses with some answers he saw while marking scripts i suppose, and once again this is a form of expression which i feel is no way acceptable.

then again, i know teachers are humans too and when they are concerned/frustrated/angry they have to vent it out as well. but probably should be using other methods instead. and definitely not on such open, accessible and popular online channels like facebook.

(i guess some of you alr know who this teacher is but pls do not disclose here. this is just meant to be my stand and opinion on the issue, not on the person. thanks.)

beautiful feeling

when u feel like u have made a really good friend, and u feel like you can talk about anything with this person, comfortably.

thats a beautiful feeling.

POTD 23-09-10

haha haven been any mh's updates for like months on my blog, so heres something more special that made me happy today haha.

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After posting the above post, look wad i have got lol.

POTD 21-09-10

had coronation ke ai ji before last week's MAF @ hc. haha i missed the taste of it but i have to say it disappointed me! doesnt taste as good as last time alr :(

AHM 2010 Official Results

note some mistakes: like under right column facts: 57% were Singapore. LOL.

and FOUR persons ran past me! haha not bad qt low an overtaken rate.

POTD 18-09-10

had TWO KFC EGG TARTS today! for breakfast and lunch lol each one egg tart. its really good but perhaps not so good on my slightly full stomach haha.

POTD 17-09-10

ban mian @ kopitiam tampines 1. recommended by minkhai, and i felt like being a human and spontaneously decided to go have it after sch today. haha. it was qt good, the soup tasty but the noodles were rather soft for my liking. damn qiao bumbed into miko at the stall she was in the queue behind me so random!

finally it is cleared up!

yayy! finally its over.

i guess from that day it happened until this afternoon, i was really unsure still. today was qt a bad day for me, feeling rather terrible and emo. esp in the afternoon like towards the end of day in sch..

den i went to have some alone emo time at tampines one, wanted to buy some clothes! but in the end didnt see something i really liked. as i sorted out my thoughts as usual they will run wild and the feelings get really strong and heart wrenching. towards the end like abt 6pm it hurt qt a lot.

altho feeling emo in this way really sucks, i still, as always, enjoy it because emotions is one thing that we humans have and i welcome these feelings to remind me how humane and weak i can sometimes be. better than feeling like a studying robot eh? hah.


v fortunately, the air is cleared and uncertainties all sorted out tonight. pls gum, stop thinking too much and this will work out fine. live with whats on hand and just chillax and be yourself. im sure it will end up well.

yayy.


cheers, my friend.

POTD 16-09-10

banmian! NUS science canteen. haha its a bit weird to see dumpling inside ban mian right! haha but overall its not too bad la. the noodles werent v nice though, it was a bit tough at first but after a while it was soaked and absorbed more water then became a little soggy alr. a little salty too, but the soup is qt good as it has the choky and milky feel that i love abt ban mian. good deal for $2.20!

ban mian ftw!

good friends.

POTD 15-09-10

had penang char kway teow @ aljunied yday. haha not too bad, altho the portion is a little small for $4.50.

im glad

im glad that the outcome is like this, nth surprising and and the truth is pretty good and nice to hear.

i feel relieved, and assured by the end-result.

think it went really well, and you agreed with me. which was impt.

but i dunno why u said so then, but did another just two hours on.

i felt refreshed and relaxed after it, but now, im feeling a little down and emo somehow.

but its gonna go away really soon.

i hope it will turn out how we want it to be.

my love

last week, i was on the way home from school. while taking the elevator at tanah merah mrt station from the platform level down to the ctrl station level, there was a man standing in front of me.

no, he is not my love. lol.

in the packed lift, my eyes surveyed the surroundings and i caught a glimpse of his handphone. he was texting at that moment and i saw the recipient of the sms. the msg on his nokia phone was abt to be sent to the contact saved as: "A my love wife"!!!

pretty sweet eh! the man was probably near his thirties. the "A" part shld be there so that this contact would be the first in his contact list (think: a gum tang) and instead of saving his wife's name as her actual name, or as "wife" or something, it was my love wife. haha i felt it was really nice and sweet. although it sounds wrong, probably meaning my love (wife) or my lovely wife, but it was still cool. i wonder if i would do such a thing next time hahhaha.

still

still very much on my mind.
once special, always special.

SBR/AHM run 12-09-10

went for singapore bay run 10km aka AHM 10km this morning. i haven been running for qt some time alr and was actually a little worried if i could last the race. haha luckily i did and completed it, with a self-timed 58 minutes. im glad the timing was still under one hr. last yr i chionged too early on lol and in the end walked, so timing was abt one plus 7 mins or something.

one thing i realised is that i couldnt pick up much speed as when i tried to accelerate to a higher velocity, i started feeling a bit of pain/strain in my chest/heart. im a little worried abt this!! hmm. i hope its becos i haven done much exercise recently. this is qt a problem for me becos now i don't dare to push myself, even slightly beyong comfort zone. i shall go for another run soon and monitor the situation.

once again, like always, it feels good after a run, sweating it out (:

open ur heart.

only when you sincerely open your heart,
let down your defence,
and let someone into your 内心世界.

can you make a friend feel truely important, trusted and loved.

POTD 09-09-10

A WILD LEGENDARY POKEMON APPEARED!

why is it so hard to be friends

why does it hurt, why is it so hard, to be friends.
just a friend, and its not easy. its sad, heart pain..
when you have different values, live in different worlds, different priorities.

once again, i confirm that wmshzbtsjldr.



stoopid gum.

why do i always feel im on the losing end of a friendship. is it because i expect too much?
today i had some time to think abt it, and the best reason is that we all expect different things from a friendship, we all value each other to a different extent and our definitions of friendship are too different. and becos we are of some age, and our core values and principles are already firmly established, its v difficult to change, or even influence someone alr.

thats why sometimes its ironic how i view friendship.



stoopid gum.

POTD 07-09-10

olive fried rice, wasnt too good :( hahaha the egg looks plastic right! like the toys of food we used to play!

POTD 05-09-10

haha ban mian frenzy, nowadays just feel like eating banmian whenever i see a stall lol.

this one's at koufu, kallang leisure park! not too bad.. also, i always see ppl eating ban mian with chilli sauce and i always wondered why they did that. cos i think its nice on its own and i haven tried taking it with chilli, just felt weird, outta place.

but today i tried and it was surprisingly good! haha this meal was pretty satisfying (:

just do it?

at first i had already dropped the idea of doing this.

now im sure of the situation and thought i was ready for this.

but uncontrollably i still have my doubts, is it really time? is it really gonna be okay?

for now, the answer is yes. but my mind will be running ard a bit im sure.

am i really happy?

thats a very good question.

indeed, before that moment earlier i was really laughing and entertained by it. actually to be entertained by it sounds a bit bad also, perhaps its more like i thought it was pretty interesting and funny. so while i was seeing and hearing and observing other things, i felt it was qt funny.

but then again, just now i was laughing, but somehow i think i came to a point when i wasnt really laughing from the bottom of my heart alr. hmm. i guess it could be becos i had made too much out of nth LOL and so i realised that it wasnt really that funny. but then again, wat mankey said really got me thinking. am i really putting on a show?

no, im not putting on a show. it was real. but, i thought abt it and i couldnt deny that there was still a little bit of me thats not really too happy abt it. hmmm. i guess its still not 100% gone yet.

but one things for sure, i know its not going to be wad i had thought it could be before, and now im thinking much much more neutrally. perhaps i hadnt got rid of it in my mind/heart totally, and i still think that those look a bit not too good, but im sure that i do not want wat i wanted some time ago.

talking in riddles/ encrypted scripts is one of my fav these days haha.

maybe im not really that happy, but at least im not sad, and my laughter is not fake.

POTD 01-09-10

cleared some of my clothes from my wardrobe on saturday, and these were the hangers that could be kept! i have quite a few clothes which i only like wore once or twice and then decided that i wasnt going to them them anymore! lol, i look at some, and think how did i even buy them in the first place o.O