Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Dear 4C'09,
Gong Hei Fatt Choy!
Happy Chinese New Year to all of you and all at home :)
It's the 3rd day of CNY and here I am, pre-breakfast, with a load of unpacked stuff in my room (leftover boxes from school), another stack of readings beside me (new stuff from my course)...and I decided I should just put them aside for a post.
Was packing my room 2 nights ago and came across our graduation pictures...that jolted back some pretty memories. I was reading the letter that I gave you people and was shaking my head in horror - the amount of unpardonable grammatical mistakes. Haha.
Okay, time has really wheezed by and O level results has come and gone. Been trying to sms and call you people since I came back and I hope I covered most of you, if not all. Some of you changed your numbers so I didn't get through to you. Sorry I wasn't able to be back in time for your results (was actually skiing away in a pretty korean mountain). You see...I figured that I didn't want to be biting my fingers in anticipation and having a thousand and one thoughts flying past my head that day...so I went for something exciting and life threatening (haha as if) to keep my thoughts sane. Pity I had no internet connection that day (bluffed by the hotel when I booked the place), my apologies to those of you who were on msn.
I hope you've more or less moved on to be ready for your courses, appeals or back to try O levels again. So here're my nagging thoughts for you, just imagine we're back in our classroom's cme/pg/cti times...hahahahaha...
For those of you who've got your choice courses - hurray! Well done!!!
For those of you who are more-or-less okay with your courses - I hope you find the goodness in your course of study as time progresses. Still, there's reason to cheer hurrays!
For those of you who are not happy with your courses - sometimes we need to do a reality check...I don't know about your situation, but do make a realistic assessment about your grades and your expected course(s), as well as the blessing that you did make it to tertiary education in the first place. Hope this will comfort you and encourage you. Alright? :)
For those of you who are trying O levels again - there is no shame in failure. Einstein failed at least 10000 times before he got us the light bulb. It's the attitude, courage and perseverence to try again that is worthy of praise. So we're all behind you, keep it going and do your best!
For those of you who feel discouraged at some point or another, I found this online page that I thought of sharing with you. It has pretty good real life stuff, too much for me to cut and paste so here's the web: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/efficacynotgiveup.html
As we move on in our lives, meeting new people and circumstances in the time to come, I hope you will also find time to cherish and build up old friendships. A few friends told me on different occassions that their deepest friendships come from secondary school days, and it's something to be treasured and kept. So I hope this can hold true for you, that after these years in yyss, apart from the friends that you will probably meet once a year in the future, or along the streets...or through hearing from other people...you've also found some friends that you want to keep for life, friends that will walk through life journey with you.
Meanwhile, I'm doing well myself...busy teaching, studying, volunteering all at the same time and enjoying fast pace life as usual. Take care all of you, and keep in touch. May this new year bring you a deeper sense of self-awareness, peace and joy. All the best!
Blessings,
Ms D. Chan
OUR HOPE STARTS @ 10:15 AM
