W16M Teachers' Day E-card

W16M Anthem - STFM

W16M Problem 17 Presentation

W16M BBQ Chalet

From a fellow student SJ's camera:

A new beginning

My department has decided recently to change the structure of the department, changing it to one that is project-based instead of the existing team-based structure. The upper management's rationale behind it is that people have become increasingly protective over their own team-based roles and not interacting as much with fellow colleagues from other teams as per the open structure that they had envisioned it to be.

Together with that scheme is the revamp of everyone's reporting officer (RO), or the person whom I report to. I was having a rather nice one who was not micromanaging and was keenly interested in whatever I had wanted to do. The new one, however... nothing nice (at all) has been heard about the person. When I told some colleagues about the news, they acted as if someone has died and consoled me.

Doesn't bode well, huh? Moreover from what I understand the person is someone who is keenly interested in IT which is something I am getting myself out of as I do not see a life of debugging and whatever-not, especially considering juggling with other matters such as teaching/facilitating.

To think about it seriously, I do not think I care a lot about it, because I have already collected a lot of things on my plate and I will definitely insist that I will like to do whatever I like (which contributes to the work)

JET, chotto matte kudasai!

Summer festival (natsu matsuri/夏祭り)

Finally the long-awaited Summer festival (natsu matsuri/夏祭り)!

Major crisis with coffee

I had a relaxing time in office today where I did not have to run into class in a crazy frenzy as it is the school holidays. I did some grading in the morning, went for an early lunch, played badminton and had another cup of coffee before leaving to buy yukatas for the ECA I am advising when it happened.

AD and I were at (my favourite) cafe and he spilled HOT coffee on my pants! ARGH! I was totally caught off guard as I was due to meet another colleague in Clarke Quay in an hour and I had nothing to change into, except my exercise gear. Argh!

Just another inch or two more and the coffee would have gotten to my nuts! Then it's goodbye manhood!

AD!!!!

Some words of wisdom from my students!

"For you, Mr. Ned, in fact, you are one of the facilitators that I like the most as your way of teaching us was different from others. Like you would try to help us to know and learn more from the every lessons of this module , you would advise and remind us whenever we did not meet or hit the main and inner path of the lesson and try to guide us to understand the lesson better. Thus, this is the good thing which I thought that should be maintained and keep up for the following class that you would have with other new students. Besides, I personal think that you should communicate more with the students through any ways that you could. This is because, you might have cause some misunderstanding between you and students in our class, I would not tell you who are them, but they told me that they were quite disappointed with you as you might have hurt them in the way of your comment in their RJ, like you might have comment that they were not good in their presentation, however you still give them A, thus they might think that you were just given A to them as pity or humiliate them as I know you did not mean it. In short, communication is a very huge knowledge for us to learn and the most difficult things to be solved and I hope that you could manage it well in the future and all the best!"

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