This is where I started my tertiary study, Penang Tunku Abdul Rahman College. This morning, I went to there. Why? To visit my Princess? Of course not! I fetched my sister and her friend to college.
I greeted the guards and only the Indian guard who could speak Hokkien recognised me. He was so surprised to see me and said I was still the same as last time, that was why he could recognise me. Before I went off, he hugged me. I attended the AAC class, Entrepreneurial Skill too. To me, this subject is similar to P3 Business Analysis. I met my part-time girlfriend, Pei Pei at 8:30a.m. in CP room. The lecturer, Dr Kang felt curious that why her class suddenly appeared so many unknown faces while many of her existing students went missing. I told her that I was from AFA and I was having a two-week study leave, thus I was there to visit her.
She joked that our KL friends were back but the existing students went to KL. Actually, even though she was neither my lecturer nor tutor before but I recognised her since she was one of my OHR's test invigilators. At last, she permitted us to attend the class. Other than me, the other AFAcians were Will, Hui Pin and their friends.
After that, I was having a long conversation and gathering with Eric in Student Affair Department. We chatted quite a lot and I enjoyed it so much. During our conversation, I met my tutor. I forgot what his name but I called him. I asked him that whether he still recognised me and he assured me that he did, just that he had forgotten my name. Who was he? He was the one whom my classmates previously called him "Don't Cha". I met Mr Ong Peng Song too. My tutor introduced me to him and obviously he had forgotten me until I asked him for my Christmas gift.
Then, Eric started to do his assignment and I started my plan to visit my other lecturers and tutors. The first one I wanted to meet was Dr Janice Toh, nonetheless she was away. Therefore, I visited my Darling. She was doing her lecture notes there and I entered to disturb her. She still recognised me too. The first thing I asked her to do was adding me in Facebook. Later, we chatted for 2 hours.
We talked a lot, about my KL life, KL lifestyle, KL lecturing and tutorial styles and certainly her things. She agreed with me that the students nowadays were too childish and not matured! I told her that even in KL, some of those who were known as elite of the best of the best also had this kind of behaviour. She said she didn't intend to praise me but she was really fancy about my attitude which according to her, a positive attitude while maintaining a not bad result. I was flattered. She said it was normal to get a CGPA of 3.5 at my level and told me that her results were poorer than me during her age.
She also told me that she had given up the lecture and she wanted to focus to be a tutor only. She said she kept on receiving complaints from students. Students complained on her hot temper and she admitted that to me too as she was passed a task to teach three new subjects. Sometimes the KL Main Campus would change the syllabus at the last minute and didn't disclose the source of reference directly. Therefore, she had to change her lecture notes.
She told me that since I graduated, she was passed with this task and she had to do the lecture notes every day until midnight and she even had to continue her work during semester break where she did her lecture notes even if she was visiting her relatives in KL. She didn't hope the students to appreciate her effort but at least, don't simply complain without knowing the reasons behind all these. She said, the students nowadays didn't 尊师重道, even didn't respect you as a human, they just treat lecturers and tutors as their slave or servant. To them, they pay the fees, so they are the master while you are the servant! I felt sad after hearing this.
Then, we talked about my god sister. She came back and went to visit them last month. What made my god sister so angry was our college even didn't want to give her name tag which was hanged on the door to her as souvenir after she resigned. My Darling told me that they were willing to throw it away instead of giving it to you as gift.
Nearly 1:30p.m., my Darling had a class and Eric came in because he brought my book to me, thanks a lot. I exchanged handphone number with my Darling before I went. Then I followed him to attend his tutorial, which was Strategic Financial Management tutored by Dr Janice. I entered the class and asked Dr Janice that whether she still recognised me. She said of course and knew that I was one of the participants in Business Investment Game. Before the class started, we chatted a lot. She asked me what would I take for my optional papers. I countered by asking her should I take Advanced Financial Management. She told me that this paper is tough and few students manage to pass. However, the market and Big Four now are looking for financial experts.
The tutorial class started and she introduced me to the class by saying that I was their senior. I objected by saying that we were from the same batch, just that I took AFA whereas they were taking AAC. She asked me about KL tutorial's style. I asked her why she needed to present in slide show since students were the ones who supposed to present the answers. She said since they needed to prepare for their assignments and mid-term tests, thereupon she gave them leave and prepared the answer herself. See, we can negotiate with tutors in Penang, haha...
Same as previous, I asked a lot of questions in the class even those which were outside of the syllabus. She answered me gently and patiently. Thank you so much, Dr Janice. What surprised me was she called my name to brainstorm for an answer. She knew my name! She said the Strategic Financial Management was slightly similar to Advanced Financial Management but S.F.M. was lower standard than A.F.M.. However, I already found this subject difficult as there were lots of formula which I was not familiar.
After that, I tried to meet Melinda and Jenny once again but I failed. Melinda seemed like not teaching there anymore. I really hoped that I could meet them since they were those very important to me during my Diploma study. Later, I moved to I.T. lab to find my part-time girlfriend as she sms me for help in the morning but it was 3:30p.m. and she was no longer there, sorry about that.
Anyway, I enjoyed myself today and I'm so glad that everyone is still recognising me. Today will be a meaningful day to me. I love you all. I promise I will be back one day.
