the day of liberation has come! they are finally freed from the bondage of exams! they now have a whale of time to do whatever they want to "de-stress" themselves for all their mugging these past few weeks! the heavy burden from their back is finally off-loaded! doesn't it feel great after exams!? I loved it when i was a student! long for it so much during the exams that I look forward to it as if it the day i will be meeting my Lord face to face!

but the irony is this: when it comes, i suddenly don't know what to do! i suddenly feel so bored and just feel like going home to have a good sleep! all of a sudden, there seem to be a loss of purpose... :P exams give purpose in life!?

oh well, now that i am a teacher, the feeling is kinda different!! when my students mug, i worry for them and try my best to prepare them for their big day! when their exams are over, i am stuck here with a big pile of exam scripts all ready for me to mark in the shortest deadline! suddenly, the red pen becomes the most powerful thing on earth! it determines the fate of my students! with it, a tick and a cross means heaven or hell! with it, 0 is a sacred number that they hope they would never see in their scripts! no wonder the pen is mightier than the sword! RED pen, especially!! LOL! :P

alright... it's time to end my break and get back to the "leaning tower of pisa" that is waiting for me at my desk! :( teachers "have no life after exams"! they mark after 'they' mug!

from the scripts i have marked so far, i felt like i am the captain of the Titanic ship.. the ship was cruising smoothly on course (the classes i am teaching were doing well for physix) but now, it ran into the ice berg (the final year exam) and it is sinking... I am trying my best to save as many people as possible but there are quite a number who may not survive...

to the tune of My Heart Will Go On,
pass, fail whatever you are, i believe that your heart will go on... and on... :D

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