Thursday, March 27, 2008

I'm tired already

I can't wait for my Mummy's birthday to come, 1st April. I've got a surprise!!!

Watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEBmuQxXlHU
It's a song about Abraham going to sacrifice his son, then it nicely moved into how God sacrificed Jesus.

It's been 3 days of teaching since Tuesday. Oh gosh, it's tiring! After a week of blissful break, coming back to teach almost made me wanna run back on my heels. Some things have changed, I'm a lot more emotionally detached from my students, a lot more impartial, a lot more strict. And I've also started communicating with the form teachers, HOD and the teacher I'm replacing everyday via email about general work covered and behavior. This keeps everyone in the loop what this young and naive teacher is doing so that they can stop me anytime I do something wrong.

SMU is really gaining a momentum and foothold in the tertiary education arena. One indicator is their lack of hard-core selling at the scholarship talk which I attended. Why do I say that it is an indicator? Only schools that confident of getting the best students wouldn't bother trying hard to woo the top students! Prof Ong said something to me that hit me quite hard, 'Anna, do you think it's fair for a 21, 22-year old to make a decision at such a young age to be bonded to an organization for 6 years? Young people change their decisions easily. That is why scholarships without bonds are so important.' He's right. And I absolutely do not disagree.