The Lessons
Chem lessons were fun and interesting with Mr Ng around. He delivers his concept rather well. He would make sure that our theories are reinforced in our minds although sometimes he might not be able to explain some questions (he would always say "eh, actually I also dun know leh...think it's not in the syllabus lah!...). Most of the time, he would talk about mundane stuffs, but in an interesting way. Like the burning of diapers which will result in worsening the global warming, how detectives, like the ones in CSI, break cases using chemical test etc. During lab pratical, we would always joke about the necessary precautions after every experiment. "How do you supply more oxygen to the flame?"..."Put a plant next to the flame!" Usually after his lesson, we would have some chit-chat sessions before the period has ended. The first topic he chated with us was what do we want to be in the future. He wants to be a waiter. haha. Quite a peculiar choice of job. Most of us were still unsure of what courses to take in university let alone what career path will we choose.
Mr Ng - A good teacher that anyone would like to have.
Maths lessons with Ms Tian were surely crapping sessions for us! We always crap about the way the mathematical symbols were to be pronounced. Like 'theta' and others. She also very willing to re-iterate certain concepts we could not apprehend at first. However, if there were to be no further questions asked, you can expect to hear "Okay, no more questions? Let's have class assignment now." And she could also always expect the reply to be "Huuuhhhhh......we got questions leh!" or "huuuhhhh.....can next week anot??!" Sometimes she would yield to our plea. However, most of the times, she would just continue with the class assigment. Now, she had retired from the teaching profession.
Ms Tian - A teacher who you can crap with without her knowing what's going on.
Physics lessons were quite boring at times. Think most of us agree with this. Might be due to its nature of the subject that made the lessons to be qite dry. However, Mr Tan tried his best to deliver his lessons in a more interesting way. With the usage of characters like Mr Potential, it has made the lecture to be less boring but it had somehow increased its lameness. He always like to ask people who had failed the latest test to answer his questions during lessons, and he would also give nicknames to people. Like The Elites, Mr Fantastic etc...Craps. haha
Mr Tan - A teacher with a tinge of lameness.
GP lessons were sleep-inducing periods in excess. Ms Tay tried to make her lessons as interesting as possible and making the lesson to be fruitful. However, she's ever busy with her PW stuffs, so she did not have much time to really put in time to prepare for her lessons. Can't blame her either. We would always have th News of the Week quiz every Monday if I'm not wrong. Once a week, we were suppose to read the week's news and she'll ask questions on the following week. Sometimes, it's in test format, other times is turn-based, where you need to answer her one question to gain immunity to stand. As you can guess, as class of 04S3A, we would always believe in teamwork! haha. Will pass the answers around for those who were remaining standing. She had left to MOE HQ this year.
Ms Tay - A persevering teacher who's always on the search for the answer to deliver her GP lessons for the better of the class.
Chinese lessons were one of the lessons we anticipated for. Cause we could slack. Huang lao shi is a flexible teacher. Can eat in class, joke in class etc. He also doesn't like to be involved in unwanted trouble, so whatever we're up to, he tries not to know it.
Huang lao shi - A teacher who just wants to deliver his lesson.
PW lessons were the periods we dislike most. Even when the word PW is spoken, everyone will be in their sian mood. Luckily, we had a fantastic PW tutor, Ms Cynthia, who guided us thorughout the whole year. Helped us in the proposals, how to write the wrriten report and improving it and not forgetting the oral presentation. My group (NY091) was abit guilty to always find her to ask questions about our written report and stuffs and we would always be taking much of her time.
Ms Cynthia - A motherly teacher who takes care of the interests of her students.
Our Maths tutor changed to Mrs Wong come J2. She was quite demanding to her students. Once she said te last few batches of S3A had straight As for maths, so she demanded us to get all As. Even threatened some of us to write letter with parent's signature in it when some of us didn't complete their tutorials. However, she can be quite lame at times - usually cold ones though. Sometimes, she'll talk about her anecdotes when she was a student herself. A classic example was "Last time when I was in secondary school we all learn AP,GP. Now syllabus change, you all should be able to do better. etc" and "Last time our calculator not cheap. Was bigger and the screen will show the numbers in green colour one." Her niao-ing ability is quite powerful. Fail her test and you must prepare yourself to get niao-ed by her.
Mrs Wong - A teacher who have multifarious character traits - authoritative, lame, perfectionist and more.
Our GP tutor also was changed to Ms Chiew. She the fun-loving type of teachers who knows exactly what their students have in their minds. That's why we were thought to be in the same generation. haha. Deliver her lessons rather interestingly. Screened some flicks to us like Ferenheit 911 and Dead Poet Society,but I'm not sure about the National Day Speech...Allowed us to go to her house during CNY period and create havoc! Played mahjong, cards and watched tv. She even treated us to 'tze cha'. After prelims, we would always find her at least once a week to go through many of the essays and compres we've done over that study leave period. She'll always say "make sure you attempt all questions and complete your AQ with at least 2 side of the agument", "Choose the right question before you start writting. The question may look simple but it's a huge booby trap!" etc.
Ms Chiew - A teacher who understands the plight of her students.
PW
PW is the most hated exam. Hated to come out with the proposal, hated to do research, hated to write out the written report and still have to edit it, hated to go through the rehearsals for oral presentation....the list goes on...Had to stay back in the library during school days to come up with the proposals and do research, but the school library doesn't seem to have the full list of the materials we needed. Went through alot of misery finishing up the final written report. Those were the daunting days. Oral presentation was alright, but the process to churn out the script was quite a chore too. After the whole thing had got nothing to do with our life anymore, it's like gravity changing to o.1G.
Promos
Promos were our 2nd major exam in J1. All of us pia-ed for this last lap. Some came out to be in the Hounour Roll while others, qouting Johnny, are in the Toilet Roll. haha. Prelims came and went like a breeze but the process isn't so. Fortunately, all of us could get promoted to J2. Some of us wanted to try out 'S' Paper - most of us opted for chem 'S' Paper. After that tiring battle, we gave ourselves time to relax - hanging out, watch movies, etc...things were rather eventful in J1...