So exciting!! Today actually marks the first day of my leave and i'm going to be resting till next tuesday. A well-timed break, given that i'm dying due to lack of sleep. Too many hours on computer games is harmful man. The day started off with a trip to the dentist and and i was made to wait forever. However, cannot really blame the dentist because she was on mc and so all her patients that day were shifted and transferred over to the days that she could make it.

It means almost double work everyday. I wonder how she managed to cope man. So i was just watching my dentist at work, and i was fascinated at how she configurated the bite of my fake tooth by using a rough estimate and she even mentioned the word "angle" while talking to herself. Wow man, am i supposed to do that in future?

And that led me to think, am i really ready for dentistry? Why do i really really feel so inadequate. I feel so unprepared and so fearful of what i am to accomplish in the next 4 years. I probably am going to study very hard, for once in my life. And then? Will i be ok doing extractions? Doing all the cleaning and filling? Injection? Just so foreign.

It's probably time that i grow up into a man. Finally. Army days probably gave me a glimpse of what being a man entails. But i guess only when i am on the brink of adulthood will i understand what it means to grow up.

Ok enough of man this and that, while waiting for the dentist, i read the book "Tuesday's with Morrie" by Mitch Albom and i relaly liked the quote :

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." HENRY ADAMS

I have no idea who henry adam is, yet i still find this a very suitable and applicable quote. Teaching as a career is probably something that MOE advocates, but how many in the teaching line actually loves teaching and aims to impact lives? I'm quite sad to know of a few friends who actually was very passionate at first, but when thrown into the school, with all the politics and pressure from all fronts, they just totally lost it.

And teaching is not a joy anymore, instead it became just a job, a way to earn good money. I'm also quite disappointed that teachers are no longer the symbol of good values. Teachers molesting students, abusing students are just some of the more common examples. However i'm glad that throughout my childhood, i had some very good teachers.

The one i remember the most vividly has probably got to be Mr Quark( hopefully i spelt it correctly). If i do not remember wrongly, he was a relief teacher for my Pri. 2 class. I was hopelessly naughty, yet he never once gave up on me and even made me one of the group leaders, of which i was very proud of because i'm sure i did a reasonably good job. He gave me the belief that i had so much more to offer in class. To me, he's a positive example of a good teacher. One who will not judge a student by his behavior or how he works, but instead choose to focus on the potential that he/she can reach.

Ok enough about teachers, i'm just extremely happy today! Because today i found 2 great buddies on the bus. We were sitting in the last row and for the whole journey of about 45mins, we "agreed" with everything! Come to think of it, quite mightily hilarious to come up a bus and see 3 heads at the back swinging to and fro.

Ok time to rest.