It is official. I am now a teacher. This post will expose a certain ritual that I firmly believe in. A few post back I mentioned that I have been quite lucky and just a quick recap on how lucky I am:
Car accident no injury.
BTO in Tampines.
Graduated from NUS with no work done.
A- for FYP with no work done.
Successfully get a job that is within my target.
Zoe.
To be honest, I would love to credit all my luck to Zoe because life has never been the same after I met her. In fact, without her immense coaching before A levels, my Maths would have flunked just like my Physics and Econs. And most of you would know that she is a super tryhard in terms of studies so the fact that she took so much time off her revision to help me proves how lucky I am.
Those multiple coaching sessions allowed me to get into NUS due to an A in Maths despite the abysmal results in Physics and Econs and that was the start of the amazing luck.
I firmly believe in karma. Not so much as doing bad to others and bad things will happen to you also, but rather if something bad luck happens to you, you will get an equally lucky break.
Not many people know the full story of how NS screwed me over, but long story short, if NS didnt screw me over, I would not have met my hyper-carry in Uni. Case in point, bad luck -> good luck.
Not many people know the story of how I finally made the decision to quit maple due to extenuating circumstances, long story short, without quitting, I would have never started blackshot, never met HeavenRemix, never been able to stand on the stage of WCG kissing a medal, how many people can daresay they took a game so seriously so far to that extend? Furthermore I would have never started maple private server, never met Dollars/Ikke in DN which in turn would not have given me all the fun memories and money to go Taiwan, how many people can say they stood at the top of 2 MMORPGs? Case in point, bad luck? Fk that shit -> Even better luck.
So far, it may seem luck has been favouring me in irrelevant things like games. The next part of the story would go into Dota/LoL. Some of you may know, I went to WCG Dota when I was in secondary 3/4 and got 4th in the Asia Regionals. So therefore I always felt that I was good in MOBA games. LoL is a game that is similar in concept to Dota and I aspired to be as good in LoL as I was in Dota. However, despite previous success in Dota, despite dominating FPS, dominating Action MMO, dominating MMORPG, I could not go far in LoL. Perhaps I was old, perhaps I was getting tired of games, perhaps I coudlnt give enough fks to be a tryhard, but an interesting phenomenon occured.
Every time a really important life event was going to happen, I would go on MASSIVE losing streaks. I was still playing ranked games despite 0 progress in FYP, after 17 consecutive losses, I stopped playing, and suddenly my FYP was done. After the interview, I had 16 consecutive losses, and abracadabra I am now a teacher with my dream subject combination.
Perhaps I am giving myself an excuse as to why I suck in LoL, but being bad was well worth it.
Going into the next part of my life, I am kinda sorta reluctant. Not that I dowan to work or I dowan to stop playing, its just that I have to start giving a fk to things that I have long not given fks to.
Things that I have not given a fk to:
1) People.
2) Building relationships.
3) Impressions of others.
4) My image.
Now that I have to start work, be a role model, start making friends with colleagues, suck HOD balls, trying to carry on pointless and boring and fake conversations with people I give zero fucks to. Sigh.
Grow the fk up Danny. Stop whining like a little bitch. I guess this is what it means to 踏入社会. Time to respect authority and stop testing/challenging the system. Time to 早睡早起, time to be politically correct, time to man up and shoulder some responsibility and work towards a family someday.
One thing will never change though,
Dear Miss Yeo,
I love you. I want to make you Mrs Chu soon <3
Regards,
Mr Jay =D
You will always be the silver lining to whatever bad luck that bestows upon me, you will always be the good luck that follows me around without complaints, and as some would say: blind faith.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Job *** Interview
Ok this post is meant to be informative. So I will keep the vulgarities at a bare minimum.
So you think you can teach?
Lets not kid ourselves. What exactly is "passion for teaching"? When people tell me they have a passion for teaching, my first impression is "he likes to be the smartest person in a group" or "he likes to 讲大道理 ". Do not get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with both mentalities. Everyone enjoys being the smartest in the group or having people listen to your 大道理.
So basically, if you wanna be a teacher, apply online, wait for reply, if shortlisted go down to *** for essay writing and interview and a 5 min verbal presentation on any topic of your choice.
Here are the essay questions that were given to me. ( 3 choose 1 )
1) What are your views on a teacher dating a student after he/she graduates and is of legal age?
2) What are your views on a teacher accepting expensive gifts from students?
3) Responsibility, Integrity, Respect bla bla bla, which of the above core values do you think is the most important and why?
Obviously being the humji dog that I am, I chose Q3.
And I am quite sure people who know me know what are my views on Q1 and Q2 hence understanding why I chose Q3 since I do want to get the job.
Next was the interview, 4 old people asking me a bunch of standard questions.
Pro tip: Do not say things like "I like to interact with kids" if you are a male. Just don't.
So why do you want to be a teacher?
What I wanted to say:
I dun. I dun even wanna work a single day of my life. I just wanna sit on my ass playing games with money dropping from the sky.
What I said:
"I feel that as a teacher, I play an instrumental role in molding the nation's future and I feel a great sense of achievement and satisfaction when I am able to inspire the next generation of students the way my teachers have inspired me in the past."
So what makes you think you can be a teacher?
What I want to say:
Because the students today are fked up. I am fked up. I understand them. Takes one to know one. You think your *** courses are enough to cover the amount of toxicity in the generation of students today? Lmao. Just ask the minister of education to go play 10 ranked games in LoL and I assure you he will revamp his useless policies and courses the very next day.
What I said:
"From young I have been known to be vocal and hence I want to work in an environment where I can interact and communicate with others while exchanging intellectual ideas. With my outgoing personality and my continual involvements with both music and sports, I believe I fit right into the ***'s policy of having a holistic education experience and hence be able to guide and inspire students to take the holistic path in education as well."
Edit: The entire segment above was just a joke. Everything on this blog is a joke. A great big joke. Now that I have the job, I love teaching and I am just trying really hard to be funny k? So dear *** background checker, I am just a humble teacher who tries too hard to be funny, please 大人有大量 and let me carry on trying to entertain myself without blacklisting me or firing me ok? Thanks in advice mighty ***<3
Edit 2: Replaced all traces of my boss name into ***. Save my own humji ass.
So you think you can teach?
Lets not kid ourselves. What exactly is "passion for teaching"? When people tell me they have a passion for teaching, my first impression is "he likes to be the smartest person in a group" or "he likes to 讲大道理 ". Do not get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with both mentalities. Everyone enjoys being the smartest in the group or having people listen to your 大道理.
So basically, if you wanna be a teacher, apply online, wait for reply, if shortlisted go down to *** for essay writing and interview and a 5 min verbal presentation on any topic of your choice.
Here are the essay questions that were given to me. ( 3 choose 1 )
1) What are your views on a teacher dating a student after he/she graduates and is of legal age?
2) What are your views on a teacher accepting expensive gifts from students?
3) Responsibility, Integrity, Respect bla bla bla, which of the above core values do you think is the most important and why?
Obviously being the humji dog that I am, I chose Q3.
And I am quite sure people who know me know what are my views on Q1 and Q2 hence understanding why I chose Q3 since I do want to get the job.
Next was the interview, 4 old people asking me a bunch of standard questions.
Pro tip: Do not say things like "I like to interact with kids" if you are a male. Just don't.
So why do you want to be a teacher?
What I wanted to say:
I dun. I dun even wanna work a single day of my life. I just wanna sit on my ass playing games with money dropping from the sky.
What I said:
"I feel that as a teacher, I play an instrumental role in molding the nation's future and I feel a great sense of achievement and satisfaction when I am able to inspire the next generation of students the way my teachers have inspired me in the past."
So what makes you think you can be a teacher?
What I want to say:
Because the students today are fked up. I am fked up. I understand them. Takes one to know one. You think your *** courses are enough to cover the amount of toxicity in the generation of students today? Lmao. Just ask the minister of education to go play 10 ranked games in LoL and I assure you he will revamp his useless policies and courses the very next day.
What I said:
"From young I have been known to be vocal and hence I want to work in an environment where I can interact and communicate with others while exchanging intellectual ideas. With my outgoing personality and my continual involvements with both music and sports, I believe I fit right into the ***'s policy of having a holistic education experience and hence be able to guide and inspire students to take the holistic path in education as well."
Edit: The entire segment above was just a joke. Everything on this blog is a joke. A great big joke. Now that I have the job, I love teaching and I am just trying really hard to be funny k? So dear *** background checker, I am just a humble teacher who tries too hard to be funny, please 大人有大量 and let me carry on trying to entertain myself without blacklisting me or firing me ok? Thanks in advice mighty ***<3
Edit 2: Replaced all traces of my boss name into ***. Save my own humji ass.
25 years old
Dayum I'm 25. Take a deep breath, take one step back, DAYUM I'm 25.
No accomplishments, no job, no money but a $300k HDB loan and a girlfriend looking forward to getting married. DAYUM.
It has been a long long long time since I bothered to write anything here since I only do so if something significant happened such as game maintenance or during exam time where anything else seems 100000x more fun. But I guess there are some things for me to remember as a joke in the future.
I graduated. That itself has to be the greatest joke of the Singapore education system. I got carried so so so so hard and I can daresay I learnt close to absolutely nothing in the 4 years except the fact that I am not suited to be a computer engineer. Therefore I shall dedicate an entire paragraph to my beloved carry: Lets call him R.
I was destined to graduate from NUS by doing nothing the day SAF posted me to 30 SCE. Reason being if I did not know my NS buddy, he would not have introduced me to R in the first day of school. So how did he carry? Basically, for the 8 semesters in NUS, I did not have to plan for any of my core modules and electives at all. He single handedly planned the perfect timetable for our clique that involves the most efficient "bid points to free day to easiness" ratio. I would sleep until 4pm on close bidding day, he would wake me up and tell me how many points to bid for which mod and I would just follow suit. G-motherfking-G. He even taught me some CORS mechanics that involved dropping a core mod and bidding it in round 3 to refund half the points or sth, till today I have no idea whats happening, I just listened to him. The catchphrase in the 4 years was "Dun doubt R".
To put things into perspective, I would wake up, check my whatsapp, R would tell me today got lecture, I would go empty handed, walk into the LT and notes would be printed for me on the table already. Sometimes I would take electives and would briefly mention my project deadlines to R and 2 days before the deadline holyfk R would remind me that I had a deadline for a mod that he never even take. LOL.
In year 4, we had to choose our FYPs, we tried to look for the same prof and do the same FYP together. Sadly our cap discrepancy was too big and for once my guilty conscience SCREAMED at me when R wanted to reject a FYP that he wanted to do because the prof didnt want to take me in as well. Therefore I decided to man up, and told him I would be fine doing another FYP on my own.
My FYP was a joke. But thats another story for another time.
One of the most memorable getting carried experience was CS4243, R literally SOLO-ED the whole project, we never met up even ONCE for this project. On the presentation day itself, R told me and H to go school early, and he showed us the PPT slides and explained to us what he did and taught us what to say. Ultimate carry. Not to mention we got extra marks because apparently the work R did was so good that it even beat all the name long name short people. Holy fuuck I think saying I got carried is definitely an understatement at this point. Up till today I still have no idea what CS4243 stands for.
TBC.
*** / *** Interview
Relief teaching all girls school
$220 谭鱼头 bday treat.
Inverse law of game luck.
No accomplishments, no job, no money but a $300k HDB loan and a girlfriend looking forward to getting married. DAYUM.
It has been a long long long time since I bothered to write anything here since I only do so if something significant happened such as game maintenance or during exam time where anything else seems 100000x more fun. But I guess there are some things for me to remember as a joke in the future.
I graduated. That itself has to be the greatest joke of the Singapore education system. I got carried so so so so hard and I can daresay I learnt close to absolutely nothing in the 4 years except the fact that I am not suited to be a computer engineer. Therefore I shall dedicate an entire paragraph to my beloved carry: Lets call him R.
I was destined to graduate from NUS by doing nothing the day SAF posted me to 30 SCE. Reason being if I did not know my NS buddy, he would not have introduced me to R in the first day of school. So how did he carry? Basically, for the 8 semesters in NUS, I did not have to plan for any of my core modules and electives at all. He single handedly planned the perfect timetable for our clique that involves the most efficient "bid points to free day to easiness" ratio. I would sleep until 4pm on close bidding day, he would wake me up and tell me how many points to bid for which mod and I would just follow suit. G-motherfking-G. He even taught me some CORS mechanics that involved dropping a core mod and bidding it in round 3 to refund half the points or sth, till today I have no idea whats happening, I just listened to him. The catchphrase in the 4 years was "Dun doubt R".
To put things into perspective, I would wake up, check my whatsapp, R would tell me today got lecture, I would go empty handed, walk into the LT and notes would be printed for me on the table already. Sometimes I would take electives and would briefly mention my project deadlines to R and 2 days before the deadline holyfk R would remind me that I had a deadline for a mod that he never even take. LOL.
In year 4, we had to choose our FYPs, we tried to look for the same prof and do the same FYP together. Sadly our cap discrepancy was too big and for once my guilty conscience SCREAMED at me when R wanted to reject a FYP that he wanted to do because the prof didnt want to take me in as well. Therefore I decided to man up, and told him I would be fine doing another FYP on my own.
My FYP was a joke. But thats another story for another time.
One of the most memorable getting carried experience was CS4243, R literally SOLO-ED the whole project, we never met up even ONCE for this project. On the presentation day itself, R told me and H to go school early, and he showed us the PPT slides and explained to us what he did and taught us what to say. Ultimate carry. Not to mention we got extra marks because apparently the work R did was so good that it even beat all the name long name short people. Holy fuuck I think saying I got carried is definitely an understatement at this point. Up till today I still have no idea what CS4243 stands for.
TBC.
*** / *** Interview
Relief teaching all girls school
$220 谭鱼头 bday treat.
Inverse law of game luck.
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