i’ve actually been wanting to record my thoughts about Graduation Day, ever since it took place last Saturday, but for some strange reason, i’ve not been able to articulate my thoughts.
So i’ll make it short and sweet.
You all were my first batch of students in Cedar, and for that simple reason, you will always have [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Your Graduation
Posted in Musings on October 18, 2006 | 14 Comments »
train station
Posted in Poetry on October 10, 2006 | 4 Comments »
this, train station, now, buried deep,
down, down in the recess of
this airport, working in metronomic regularity,
functionality. silence. lost
in the hollows in the caverns in the glassy
shell. twice the limbo. doubly displaced. so,
we sit hunched over, drawn
into ourselves, reaching, reaching
within, yet flinching, fleeing at faintest
contact, burrow our fragile selves in the depths
of newspaper, of books, of [...]
More My Temasek Times
Posted in Musings on October 7, 2006 | 4 Comments »
And now, we return for more Temasek Times…
You know how in certain television shows the protagonist returns to his old haunt and the old haunt has obviously changed in a hundred and one ways and then you get that moment where everything becomes fuzzy and you see the place through his eyes, as he remembered [...]
My Temasek Times
Posted in Musings on October 5, 2006 | 8 Comments »
I walked through Temasek Junior College yesterday afternoon, after Mr Lam had kindly given me a lift from school and dropped me off at the bus stop behind Temasek.
I had been wanting to do this for some time now, considering that my last visit to my alma mater was in 1998, oddly enough, after I [...]
My Marking Analogy
Posted in Musings on October 1, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Bad language to an English Language teacher is as dust to a clean freak.
Sometimes, you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
