Monday, October 02, 2006
Hi... woke up today to good news! Man Utd won Newcastle 2-0!!! A brace from the long-serving Ole Gunnar Solskjaer secured the win. The second goal was a deflection though. But a win is still a win! Anyway, I got thrashed 7-0 in Hattrick.org... sianz... I gave a very lame speech during the assembly, on behalf of my class to thank my form teacher. It sounds very sarcastic, cuz'... you can ask any people from my class. Here's the speech:
Speech: Thank you Mr Ong
“A Leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t want but ought to go.” That was a quote from Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States and wife to former President Jimmy Carter. By her definition, Mr Ong is without doubt a great leader, for where he has led us we definitely do not want to go, but ought to go.
1L is not an easy class to handle at the best of times. As form teacher and History subject teacher—who gets a mere two periods a week—one would think that Mr Ong would deserve a pat on his back just for surviving thus far with his sanity intact.
Mr Ong is, to say in the least, not a highly interesting character. He does his best to solve the problems with 1L, and despite his good intentions and content, his speech is hardly attention-captivating. But like endless and persistent rain on the coarsened soil of us, he has kept the ground from breaking apart—and maybe even encouraged a flower or two to bloom. Mr Ong, despite your inability to get through, in great part due to the fact that we’re not very receptive people, we still see that you are trying, and some of us respect you for that.
There are a number of things we can thank you for—bringing the issue of capteh in the open instead of just banning it, for example, despite our less-than enthusiastic response to the ban. But most of all it would be simply for your continued existence.
From a too often laughing and too rarely listening class, from a class that is lively and lethargic at all the wrong times, thank you.
I’d like to end as I began, with a quote, this time from Henry Adams, an American historian, journalist and novelist. “A teacher affects eternity; we never know where his influence ends.”
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You can see, it's dumb, and I acknowledge Mok Zi Cong for making this speech (and edited heavily, well, not SO heavily...). He was the one who made it, and you can see that his vocab is so zhai. Lol. And we should protest against the teachers as they never give us children's day holiday one... We are still children until we're 16... xD
