I have
not updated my blog since June 2013. Well, it's not that I was dead or
something, but I was busy trying to save the world, actually Malaysia.
Currently I am working in an institute that trains Malaysian Teachers, and I
"heard" a lot of praise of the good job that we are doing. But, when
I look back at the reality, yeah, we can get a student to get 17A in SPM, but
there are people who can't handle life, like the 24 years old engineer who
commited suicide because he cannot handle the stress of the first job, so i
wonder are we really doing a good job, or are we just blowing our own trumpet
(syok sendiri). Some ministers even declared our education the best in the
world, but timss and pisa results really knock us back to earth.
Looking
back, it has almost been 3 years I have left the education field. In these 3
years, I still contact my students, get involved in their projects and
regularly visit them. I guess I never left, its just I am not physically there
anymore, but I kniw the happenings at the college. I have read somewhere that
"Jerry Jarrett told me when he
walked away from the wrestling business, he thought he hated the wrestling
business.
Then after he was away from it for a
while, he figured out that he didn't hate the wrestling business, he hated who
he was in business with in the wrestling business." - Jim Cornette.
Well,
I guess that is true, that's why now I am waiting for my change to go back to
teach, it's just a matter or time and opportunity. By next year is my target,
its just the matter of place in location. Actually since last year, I thought
of leaving, but i decided to give people a chance, but I guess it is not worth
it. In the end, you should decide what you really want to do in life.
More
on that later. But I did evolve since I left education field, so I guess that
was the right thing to do at the time. But now, this is the right thing to do.
And
yes, I will regularly update my blog again, since I need a reason to live too.
Till next time.