Something meaningful to share...

A very heart-warming video that everyone should take a look....

http://www.makeadifferencemovie.com/

I can still remember my first day of chinese class in secondary three with my then chinese teacher Mdm Tan Pin Yin - she had already transferred to another school now. Back then the chinese students were segregated into different classes for their chinese lessons in secondary 3 - one with the best chinese results in secondary 2, one with the average results and the last class is of course the students with the poorest results.

Of course I ended up in the poorest class because my chinese results in secondary 2 always barely pass the 50 mark. On the first day of class Mdm Tan made her rules very clear. She is one teacher who would not give grace and if you don't finish your composition; other homework; failing your spelling repeatedly, she will not hesitate to call your name out during the school assembly and you'll feel so damn embaressed. Love or hate her, she does her job well. Her birthday was on the 22nd of July. On that day we got a severe lecture from her for something wrong we did; which I cannot remember the matter. She cried and walked out of class, the whole class was stunned and still for a couple of minutes. She eventually came back and told us to write a letter on why we made her angry and what will we do to repent.

Memories of her remains very clear. The jokes she told us, the knowledge she shared with us... I still keep the notes that she gave us. Mdm Tan knew what we were thinking and treated us like adults, not so much of her students. With the encouragement she gave us and all that she taught, our results improved tremendously - at least for me I know. She told us on one occasion our class made the most improvement among 3 chinese classes. She was proud of us, and we were happy too...

That's exactly 10 years back.. Mdm Tan is one teacher who made a lot of impact on me and inspired me a lot.. I still bump in her every now & then and I'm so glad she still remmebers me... =D