Take Time....

Saw something very touching while on the way to school this morning. There was elderly man, not very old about 6o plus. He was with his mother who was wheelchaired and was on drip; probably she cannot take solid meal anymore waiting for a cab. Finally the cab came and the way he lifts and carries his mother into the taxi was so touching. You can see how gentle he in moving his mother into the cab. Mine you, he was quite a big size man and for his to slowly and gently place his mother into the cab was a sight. He makes sure that his mother will not be hit by any part of the taxi. It was so touching that the scene keeps replaying in my mind over and over again when I was walking to school.

How many of us can says that this is the way we treat our parent? Even though I am an educator, I am not at all proud at the way I had taken care of my mother who had passed away many years ago. No, I did not ill treat her, but I only visited her at my convenience. This does not bode well as a filial person. I am ashamed of myself when I see how this man treated his mother.

Hopefully, my young readers will learn to appreciate the hard work of their parents. Many of you are enjoying the fruit of the hard labour of your parent. Many had not seen how their parent had toil and sweat so that all of you are having a good time. You may not agree that you are having an easy life. Let me ask my young reader. How may had ever went to school with just 1 set of uniform for a whole year? How many had only enough money for just a cup of drink only for recess for your school life? How many of you ever wear just a pair of school for a whole year? How many of you had gone to a movie school only once for a whole year? I can go on with many many how many. But I guess I will stop here. Take time to honour your parent. Take time to appreciate your elderly.

Do realize that what you are enjoying now is all because of the many sacrifices that your parent had made so that you could enjoy the good life you are now having.

Don't Even Try!!!

Would like to take a few minutes to pen my feelings. Was feeling a little down due to many things that seem to be happening to my dept, though I was not directly involved in it, but somehow can feel that my fellow colleagues are very stressed.

Why? I would rather not speculate here as it may be due to other issues rather than what I thought, but somehow, the “unhappiness” seems to be cascading down to me and I am also feeling it.

Been a long time seem I really had real contact with my students. I remember when the dept was started, I was so closed to my students that they will approach me for chatting, for help, or just looking for a listening ears but now, it looks like lecturer are more concerned with projects, with trying to make an impact to higher authority so that they will be duly rewarded. Where is the basis of being a teacher? Where is that so called passion when they first join the teaching line?

I was commenting to my daughter that we should never allow people to go into teaching, just to try it out. Their “trying” may sometimes kill the interest of the students and would destroy him for life.

I remember that one of the main reasons why I had never ever able to pick up Chinese was because when I was in primary school, my Chinese teacher saw one toy protruding out of my pocket, cannot remember what it was, and snatch it then smack my head with it!!! It left me with a great fear for Chinese teachers and I can never recover from this fail and had never ever passed my Chinese all the way to “O” level.

Can you imagine what damages can a “trying” teacher left behind before he/she quit the teaching line? It may be too late for some of these kids. So, to my readers, unless you really have a passion for teaching, don’t even try going in just to have a taste of teaching life. By not “trying” you may have “saved” some of these kids life.