Some teachers that I’m grateful to

I conclude, because I once had a wonderful chemistry teacher.

In my life, there are 3 teachers who saved my life, and bring me to where I am now. The rest are just pure bullshit or assholes. Note that I’m saying teachers only, not lecturers.

My first life saviour teacher is my Sec 3 maths teacher Mr Zhang. He is the first and only maths teacher that I respected and learnt from. My whole life, I had many maths teacher, but every single one failed me and forced me to learn myself from textbook. No maths teacher ever meet my expectation before. Mr Zhang is different. He can teach, and he saved my life with just one remark. “Take note of brackets in algebra”. Something on that line I can’t remember exact hahaha. That very one line saved my life and rescued me from nearly dropping to a student who cannot do maths. My sec 2 teacher taught algebra faster than the speed of light, and I was having a fever the whole week she taught so my foundation is rubbish and honestly, I have no idea what is the bracket for other than multiplying. So that comment enlightened me and I went on to score full marks for my first A maths test (aka algebra test). I was damn proud. If I can only thank one person who saved my maths, or thank a person for my A1s for both maths, or maybe my distinction in poly maths, it would be Mr Zhang. Too bad he left CVSS to teach tuition, if not many more CVSS juniors would be able to get a wonderful maths teacher. Guess the juniors are stuck with somebody.

My second life saviour is my Sec 4 chemistry teacher. Usually teachers will hate students who score super badly in their subject but Ms Teng didn’t do that. I have to dedicate my A2 in Chemistry to her. Without her help I would not be able to make it. And thanks for supporting me in my dream to get in biomed. I mean, I was quite upset over not having bio in o level but you told me biomed need a good chemistry foundation more than bio. I was very motivated after it. And thanks to her, my chemistry life is smooth in poly. I guess my foundation is good hahahhaxD and this is all thanks to her. In sec 3 MYE, my chemistry was 48/100 (i remembered because i failed). When I was in sec 4 I was barely passing. Her wonderful teaching helped me get a B3 in prelim and A2 in o level. I feel that I failed her when I got a B+ in IO chem (because I flunked a class test…) so this time, AP chem, I will do well and not waste all your efforts on me. I was probably one of the worst student you ever gotten, but you helped me to a distinction, which is surprising because I was never good in science since primary school. I failed my chem in sec 2 EOY too (I failed both chem and bio, only passed physics).

Lastly I will thank Mr Ng my Sec 3 & 4 physics teacher. I know I’m not taking physics related stuff and 99% of physics theory I throw into the bin already but yup, I’m still grateful because I know I can do physics but I have 0 interest in it and failed god knows how many class tests in that 2 years. You once showed the class a stat of our senior grade, from MYE to o level. I saw a senior from C6 jump to A2 and that was my motivation. I did it too! 😀 Oh, and your naggings do helped. I admit I never do a lot for physics during revision because I am fixed on getting into biomed and physics is not a related subject so I treated it lightly (if not I feel that I could have done better). My grade is a miracle and it is your nagging that resulted in the miracle.

I owe my life to these 3 teachers. A pity I can never thank them in person because I do not wish to step into CVSS ever again.