“friends comes and goes but mathletes is forever”
After 3 years of being with our beloved teacher Mr. Kichan, it is sad to see someone I look up to leave our school. Though i wish him all the best for his future, we couldn’t finish our ib journey together. Sir if you are reading this (pretty sure you will) I hope your future ahead of you will be bright but you should come back when we graduate ok?? 🙂
Mr. Bean
looking back at my journey with our beloved teacher Mr. Kichan, i can’t seem to find the very first assignment i had with him (since it’s a test he decided to give the day i came back to school :’) ). So instead i decided to find the first assignment I had in JC1 “Initial thought: “Are you Mr. Bean?” “
So after looking back at this assignment, I realised “damn i was lazy at writing”. everyone was writing paragraphs after paragraphs and here i am with:
after almost a whole year of JC1, i think my brain is still wired poorly because if i were asked this question, i would probably say something similar. However, if i’m really forced to re-answer this question differently i would say something along the lines of:
Mr. Bean is the very embodiment of the DON’Ts of IB or any occupation. Instead of putting so much effort on cheating or strategising, why not redirect the effort to actually studying :’)
Memorable lessons
So this is the part where the most memorable lessons are placed. Unfortunately, i don’t rlly have any memorable lessons except for two lessons we had in sec 4. In secondary 4, we learnt vectors and statistics. I chose these two topics specifically because, how could i forget them! Statistics was that one lesson i remember because, i don’t remember anything. We had an assignment in Environmental Science which needed statistical results such as standard deviation, p-values and f-ratios. I didn’t understand what any of these were and my teacher asked, “didn’t you study this in maths or physics?” All i could do was smile. sorry kichan :p
Vector was that one lesson that was along the end of the year. For some reason, Mr. Kichan asked us to come to school and we did vectors for the whole day. FOR. A. WHOLE. WEEK. I don’t know how he managed to get the other teachers to give up their classes, but he did. suffice to say my brain was done with maths for several weeks.
Memorable memories
For most of my lower secondary years, i’ve heard stories of this “Hottie K” from my older brother. My brother was notorious for his naughty behaviour and his C Average in Maths but for some reason, around the time when this “Hottie K” came to SIS, he suddenly became an A* average student. My brother wouldn’t stop talking about this amazing teacher. To my surprise, Mr. Kichan came to babysit my class one day. I was excited to see who this amazing teacher is but for more than half the class, all he was doing was sitting in the desk silently working. After the second half of the class, a group of students in the back started laughing and Mr. Kichan blew up mad. My first impression of Mr. Kichan was that he was a serious teacher that shouldn’t be made mad. I didn’t understand why my brother’s grades shot up and his interest in this teacher was so high as he wasn’t a serious studying student. However, when i reached secondary 3, he did a 180 flip and his personality from what i remembered was sooo different. Though we had small interactions before, this is what made me :O and understand why my brother likes him so much.
Another memorable memory is an event called SISMO (for more details please see my blog 🙂 thx). This event caused my brain cells to commit suicide. Even though it was not the best thing to go through, it was still an achievement and i am proud of myself and my friends that we went through all that. Especially Kichan who helped out with the public relation. :’)
Ancol was another fun memory. I was kidnapped from my friend’s home to be taken across the city. We went on a 10min boat ride, got lost in the highway and finished off eating cow brain in a padang restaurant. Even though it was a short day, i wish we could go out all together again before you leave :).
Thank you Sir for not only helping me enjoy my school life but for improving my brothers school life and all my classmates. Though it was a short 3 years, it was still a fun 3 years. We may not know what the future has in store for us but i’m sure it will be a good future for you :). Do come visit once in a while for us to meet and catch up again. Mathletes for life.
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