In dedication: JC 1 Class of 2006
06A02, 06S03, 06S11

i had not known you long but the past 4 months have been one of the best in my teaching career so far. It could be due to the honeymoon sentiment all this while. Opps. Still, lessons with you were the stuff that i look forward to each day and your enthusiasm and energy (sometimes mulling despondency due to the afternoon heat) kept the hours going. I'm a better & happier tutor because of you.

06A02, thanks for the artsy and original insights and moody-swingy attitude you bring to our lessons. I fall back alot on my 4-5 years of coaching (arts students all this while!) to survive your unpredictable and wanton morsels of dry wit and collective restlessness. It will be hard to forget your collective cynicism and shameless ability to transform any GP lesson to a chat-show of sorts, b*!*hing (it's public, not pubic (!) domain after all!) about every imaginable darn issue under the mighty hot sun. Our whiteboard would be teeming with energy thereafter, you picking out concepts hinterto unknown, even to me! And slowly we divert from basic and oh-so--darn-dry comprehension skills to a no-holds barred discourse on various theories on Michael Jackson's ability to procreate. OMG. Long live A02 :) To Andy, Rebecca and Aisah, a special note of thanks for keeping me sane and stable all this while. You know why...Btw your class blog is one 'helluva' cool and so darn exemplary to the rest. It shows your purpose and unity as a class. Stay united, as always.

06S03, you bring to mind all the accurate prophecies colleagues have told me about teaching GP to science students. I am always assured that i need not run after you for assignments and that every good advice and tip would be digested, assimilated and well-heeded to the end. Indefatiguable and utterly non-pompus in voice and style, teachers will enjoy vocational longevity with you by their side. Work-wise, you are tops in stamina and positive addiction to deadlines and class concentration regardless of sweat, sun and ever-crushing timetables sitting on your shoulders. Your warmth and appreciation comes through always, in subtle, quiet ways. Thanks for having affirmed what i try to give and share, in more ways than one. When a lesson plan works out well with you, i always know it will work out beautifully for the rest. Never forget your untaPPed potentials (Nicholas, don't give me that look!) and to my incessant (go check the dictionary if you don't know the meaning!) and indestructible 'aunties' in the class, all the best to your PW. I know you will do a fine job, no questions asked. Did you manage to contact that aggressive nurse / nutritionist from AH or mRS cHUA? Quick, chase her like you do to most teachers...hehe. If only there were more classes like yours' , truly :)

06S11, you are the most openly affectionate and 'feeling' of the lot, never afraid to share your wildest humour as well as the things that cloak the heart. I have the ball of a time with you though sometimes the decibel level threatens to stretch my vocals to near exhaustion. Don't forget to use your mutant powers only when you feel threatened. With great power comes great responsibility as Spiderman (?) said. I have yet to meet a class that celebrates life so fearlessly. Your blogpage says alot of what you live for and it is good. To Tenniso, SloooooowLeeeee, Lady Lookz, Lao Beng, AudioShrieks, Cynico, Bros@Twinballs, Lord Stroker, PulleyBoy, BhangraWonder and the rest of the league, 'Prof' K (BA NUS, MEd Melbourne, PhD Pulau Ubin) will not forget you. Special thanks to Jae and Silvia (oi, you thought of taking over the real S Lim's place in WP one day?), who, like i shared before, will always remain my first ice-breakers of the class. To all, don't let your feelings rule your head always. Sometimes it is good to strike a balance. Thanks for teaching me what it means to live and be free once more.

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footprints approach
to leave this place
of winter language

the eye moving a pen
across paper
a blank white field
of memory

the voice unlistened
( more poems) to mark it

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ron seitz
(adapted) journals on merton