Star Fish Story

This was the story tt was told to me when i first stepped into NIE...

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Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"

2.5 years into service, this is the first time that i celebrated xmas with my students! i attended my students' xmas gathering @ Clarke Quay on Saturday. It was so heartening to see so many of them turned up! It has been almost a year since i last saw them.

They are my very first batch of form class (27/06) - my angelic students :) And i was really close to them... Rem how i slowly get to know each of them as i laughed and yell @ them... How we survived the stressful 'A's together mugging/marking hard for the timed prac and exams... and how i hugged their farewell gift and cried the whole evening away in Oct and celebrated their joy of rainbow results in March...

Now my little starfish are all grown up... the girls in uni, so pretty and polished... the naughty boys no longer sleepy and lazy but serving the army and more matured... seeing them bickering around and catching up with one another's life really warmed my heart and opps ya i actually almost teared again but i held back coz i think its quite toopid to cry in front of them.. T_T

I guess this shall be the entry to remind me of the reason why i joined the profession and during times when i am tired and about to give up, i will look back and smile and carry on to do what i should continue to do even better :) for them...