Thursday, September 07, 2006

i miss hwachong and uniforms

i'm re-reading my old notes of Heaney in preparation for another presentation tomorrow. I did it for A's which explains why i'm rather reluctant to start preparing right now. So then i chanced across an old test essay of mine entitled "The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Heaney Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Test". What a cute name for a boring test. And who better to think of it than my favourite lit teacher Mr C. Burge.

So then it all came pouring back. The way we always sat in the lecture theatre, how i scribbled furiously, and how at the end of it all, i was so drained of energy i scrawled "Joyce is sad" across my menuscript and handed it up. That was the way it was. With our tutors, especially Burge, there was an unspoken presence about them. It made you unafraid, yet in awe of them at the same time. Ergo, my shameless scribble declaring how sad i was after the test, knowing he'd read it and find it amusing.

So we got our tests back. It's customary for Burge to write the scores on the last page as opposed to the other tutors. And he had neatly written "Joyce is happy :)" complete with smiley face and a nice score in a round circle at the end of my essay. That kind of fruity happiness was satisfying. It's nice to know teachers care.

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