TG 04!
Back row: Janissa, ME, Cheryl, U-Shan
Middle row: Ouyang, Qiuxuan, Desi, Felicia, Joanne, Yvonne, Jacqueline
Front row: Shihui, Xueqiu, Melissa(birthday girl!)
12 EL/Maths teachers, 2 EL/Music teachers. 13 girls, 1 guy. 1 porn-star, 1 porn-star-to-be and 1 bathtub/fridge/air-con. * Click on Calbin’s blog under my links in you are lost * Yah I am the only guy in the class, so they bully me and make me eat their leftovers. And I am often confronted with the potentially dangerous and suicidal questions “Who do you think is the sweetest/prettiest/nicest girl in the class?” or even “Would you like to have twins?” * !!!! * And sometimes they have total disregard for my presence and start talking about feminine stuff such as how to make sure their bikinis stay up, menstrual cramps, etc and once they even start grabbing each others’ ***** halfway through a conversation. I think it was XQ who mentioned that “The only girl in the class stands out, but the only guy in the class blends in.” No, I don’t mean I join them when they are grabbing each other!
Oops I got carried away. I forgot the purpose of this entry is to say nice things about my classmates. Anyway, even with these, erm, shortcomings, my class is a bunch of really fantastic people and I’m thrilled that there is so much unity and comradeship in the class. I’ve never felt so strongly that I was part of a class before; in my first 3 undergraduate years I wander around the hallways of NUS alone because I don’t really have friends who take the same subjects and modules as me. There was a fixed class in my honours year but we were all rather busy with our own little cliques and that kind of jeopardizes the overall comradeship. Then there was my JC class…..which kinda sucked, because we had such different timetables that I barely know some of them. My secondary school class was quite cool…but I guess I was more engrossed in my ECAs and was not so much a permanent fixture of the class…which I regret.
There are also plenty of nice people around who are not in TG04. Firstly there is Calbin, who is in all our other classes except for EL so that’s quite a shame. Anyway slowly but surely he is defecting to our class, where XQ will welcome him with open arms. He is this cute little boy who can pass for 18 anytime, and as Ms Koh said, Calbin speaks with an endearing quality. You can find pictures of him in the next post.
Karen and Yew Hock are fellow EL/Maths teachers who are in all our classes except for EL and Maths. Karen and I are one of those poor souls who do not have a comforting hall to return to at the end of our lessons, so we always see each other on the ever-so-crowded 199 bus. Yew Hock, together with Paul and Hidaya, are in my Ed Psych project groups, and we have a fun time talking all kinds of crap during Ed Psych class because our tutor is so incompetent. I need to take pictures with all these people before we graduate from NIE, but you can find Hidaya hidden behind Jacqueline in the class picture above.
Then there are the EL/Lit teachers from TG03(which is where Calbin, Karen, Hidaya and Yew Hock belong). Some of them are in my Ed Psych classes as well, but they sit far away from me and are thus rather blurry because my eyesight is not that good. It was great fun crashing in their class after our EL tutor got sick though. I would like to thank them for accommodating us although it’s not as if they have a choice. =p
My short stint in NIE is certainly enriched with all these wonderful and interesting personalities around me. Thanks everyone and here’s to a smooth sail for the rest of the academic year!!
As for the not-so-nice people you shall not see them on my blog. Oh well maybe they will appear anonymously when one fine day I am in my bitchy mood. (which is not that infrequent)
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