thinking back
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I'll be leaving in a short while for the exercise to Tioman, but the last line will cast off from the ship at approximately 1700hrs. We won't take long to reach the nearaway waters of our neighbour, and there we'll anchor serenely and conduct our auxilliary role.
As I speak, I can't help thinking of Battlefield 3. Never before have I sat in such keen and eager anticipation for a game to come out, and it pains me to know I won't be around when it releases. I want so much to ask someone to come over and simply start the download for me, so that when I get home, I can jump right in. But I guess it's for the best that I don't do that, because I'm quite sure I'd not leave the game for a while and my bag will be left unpacked.
My thoughts on getting a job after I ORD had been refreshed by Nicole's mention of tuition as a possibility, and I quickly got to finding out how to list myself on the web. Given my desire to only teach English/GP and History, mine is quite a narrow fit. Sometimes I wonder if I'm too keen in finding a job after I ORD, even my parents say there's no need to think about it so early on. If I were to give tuition, it would make my time much more flexible. Yet I'd need to put in more effort than with a regular job as say, a sales assistant.
I still remember my tuition teachers, from the crazy bat who tried to teach us Chinese many years ago, to the two good and dedicated ones who taught me A Math and Physics.
When I entered MJC, I realised there was a path available to take Math at the H2 Level even though I didn't have the prerequisite that was A Math at the 'O' Levels. I had to catch up with all my peers who did the subject two years earlier whilst studying the new syllabus, so for that I had to engage a tutor. If memory serves, (which many say it doesn't for me) my mom found me a tutor who was already studying in the U, and her name was Sophie Choo. I think.
Once J1 was over, I decided I could cope without her from then on. I couldn't cope, however, with the increasingly complex Physics, and so found this guy in NS as an Air Defence Artillery man. He eventually went on to tutor Joel too. Both tutors seemed good and dedicated to the job, and both helped me through something I would otherwise have done poorly in.
All this recollection about the past when I was in JC triggered a lot of memories, likes how the atmosphere was like during the 'A' Level period. The tense, foreboding and thoroughly gripping period is without a doubt the most intense few months of my life thus far, and I wouldn't at all like to relieve it. Seriously, just thinking hard about it makes my heart beat faster.
Interesting memories, though. I'll have to end here as I'm going to go off soon. There'll be vsat on the exercise though!
Labels: exams, interesting, mjc, studies, thoughts
posted by joseph at 11:45 AM