|
1N2 united as ONE |
|
|
|
Sunday, November 1, 2009
{ 9:17 PM on '' } Never Say Goodbye I never had the time on Friday to give a farewell speech because I was running like mad here and there, doing admin matters to prepare for the Parent Teacher’s meeting and writing love letters to you guys which I believe most of you have read by now. Since we have a blog I thought I will give you some final words here. Since the first day I saw you guys, I knew that this class would be special, it consisted of cute adorable children who stepped into secondary school life and whose success partly laid in my hands as a form teacher. I knew there was greatness in all of you. A greatness even some of you never noticed in yourselves because all this while nobody had told you how capable and great you were. You were all like diamonds covered with dirt, my job was to rub that dirt and make you shine. I could see in your eyes the lack of confidence that you had just because of the fact that you belonged to normal acad. But you didn’t know that the only thing that separates a champion from a loser is not his ability but it is his belief and confidence. I promised myself that I will do everything possible to make you guys realize your greatness and unlock the belief and confidence in you. So I introduced a lot of rules for everything, a proper system for everything because I wanted you to become disciplined and be the best. I relaxed when the time was right. I implemented the squats and the push ups for the first time in my teaching career as a means of punishment, I never used it before. This was because I wanted you to be the best, even if I feared some of you may hate me in return. I wanted your success more than I wanted you to love me. At times I was a bit too harsh with my punishment, those days I went back and wet my bed with tears because I had to be strong when i punished you, but could not hold back my tears when I was alone lying in my bed. Perhaps you didn’t know that by punishing you, I punished myself deep inside. It was a tough journey, sometimes in class I was so filled with emotions when I saw you guys not in the right path, I started to get worried and I nagged at you and sounded like your grandmother. I was often speechless with emotions. I think you witnessed those moments. By the middle of the year, you guys performed a great heroic achievement, your Maths scores were outstanding. With more practice and consistency and hard work, you proved that you can be better than anyone, even express students. Near the end of the year, I replaced some of the Maths tuition with other subjects like Geography and Science but you still continued to excel at Maths because your confidence was already high and nothing could bring you down. At the end of the year you had 33 passes for Mathematics out of 40 and you improved in most other subjects too, that is indeed another record for 1N2. This has indeed a record breaking year and you guys are simply the best and will motivate those 1N2 classes in the next years. During the whole year, I never could tell you how much I loved you but I am sure you guys knew. Sometimes, when you love someone so much, you can’t look at them in the face and tell them that. That’s why I could never look at you and tell you those 3 words. I have yet to have my own children in my life, but this is probably the closest I came to loving my own children. I knew if I broke down, some of you would break down, and a lover does not like to see tears in the eyes of those he loves. I am glad I was strong in the final days we had together. I never loved any class more than I loved you guys. I want to end by saying, this was the greatest year of the 34 years of my life. It is a year that changed my life, a year that taught me to love, a year that proved to me that anybody can achieve anything, a year that showed me that there is no such word IMPOSSIBLE, that anything is POSSIBLE with hard work. I hope you have learnt these too…I want to end this farewell note but wait… NEVER SAY GOODBYE… because a lover does not say goodbye to the ones he loves, he only says “I will see you again”. So see you guys again my dearies. Lots of Love, Mr Khan |
» One «
1N2 is our class.JURONGWEST SECONDARY is our building. We all wear purple uniform. We are all friendly [: » Two «
Class Committee MembersChariperson: Fateh Vice-Chairperson: Ruth Admin Head : Naresh Welfare Head : Anisah Function Head : Jaisani Ambassadors I&E Ambassador: Jaisani & Jing Yong Health Ambassador: Arif IT Rep: Roy & Kenneth NE Ambassador: Naresh Subject Reps English Rep: Jing Zhi Maths Rep: Edmund & Cindy Science Rep: Sona & shangkari P.E Rep : Naresh & Farah Geography Rep : Jaisani V.A Rep : Khairul History Rep: Jing Yong D&T Rep : Geni & Suhermanto Teachers Mr Khan (Form Teacher and Maths) Ms Tay (Science) Ms Siti (English) Mdm Lim ( Geography) Mr Prabhu (CME&History) Ms Nadira (VA) Mr Yip (P.E) Ms Lin (Music) Mdm Kalai (Literature) Ms Lee(Home Econs) Ms Tan(D&T) » Three «
|