My bro recently set up a new blog...

http://mrguay.blogspot.com

it's called "Mr Guay's teaching blog"
so the stuff he blogged abt it all related to his job..
teaching

yes, Captain Guay had his pink IC returned to him...
and is now known as Mr Guay...

this is the guy who used to hit my head with my physics notes when i asked him to help me solve physics questions...
and usually followed by
"自己不会想啊？我以前没有人可以问，也是自己做。"

and now..
he is part of the team 'moulding the future of singapore'
-_-

but...
reading his new blog...
make me feel like he has resort to less violent/insulting ways of teaching the young ones...
or at least..
now he use more of a 'military' approach..
like doing push-ups to motivate his students to do better at a robot competition...

he had an entry about "education stress"..
and in this entry..a paragraph goes like this..

"Firstly, having survived 16 gruelling years of Singapore education, I don't find it stressful at all. Seriously. And it's not that I have low expectations! While it's true my parents/relatives never place any high expectations on me, I do have high expectations of myself (and my sister, whom may have felt a bit to live up to her brother's name but I digress)."

now...i have to agree and disagree with the line in bold...
agree because...
having followed my brother's footsteps from primary to JC...
even to the point of joining NCC even though dance was my real interest...
living up to his name was definitely one of the stressors
not only to do as well as he does academically
but to be as nice a person as him is very hard..
cos Mr Guay is just...very very nice..
and Miss Ni..well...not very nice person to be around with sometimes...

but, i disagree because...
i feel proud to be his sister..
having someone to look up to makes me feel safe...
having him achieving ahead of me makes me wanna work harder so i can be on par with him...

and i guess i did manage to be on par with him academic wise..
personality wise..
i think it's mission:impossible
he's Mr Nice Guy
and i am Miss Petty girl...
too far apart..

nonetheless, i agree with him that education in singapore is not that stressful...
perhaps because our parents really didn't add any pressure to us..
it was always 尽力就好
the freedom given to us gave us the space to study at our own pace..
and also instill a sense of responsibilty..
that we are responsible for our own achievements...

my bro probably achieved alot more than i did...
he's an all rounder..
studies, relationships, musical talent, computor skills, general knowledge, sports....
i am more or less the typical geek
study, work...........ermm...no more... i think...

nonetheless...
he is my brother..
so his achievements make me proud...
i've stopped being sad that my brother is a better person than i am...
besides..
with a nasty sister like me...
my brother has alot of chance to practise being nice..
which is probably why he is so nice...

anyway...
from the tags left on his new blog..
i think his students love him :)

and i hope..
he'll be alot happier with this new job

哥哥，加油！