At first it was a simple request from this teacher for fellow colleagues to comment on this piece of assignment he created, which forms 10% of the final grade. But it soon spiralled into ugly emails. Come monday someone is going to ask me for my opinion (in fact she already did last friday), and seriously I have no wish to be involved. Right now I'm dreaming this really interesting way of teaching basic trigonometry, and I can't be bothered to make the water muddier.

Here's my dream teaching profession - having only to teach, design lessons, share ideas with like-minded people, and perhaps with more experience mentor younger teachers so that the excitement can be passed on. Also, getting to know students better, sharing their happiness and sorrow (just read this angry blog entry of a student, makes me kinda sad), convincing them that life is beautiful and worth living. No handling of money, selling tickets, printing concert programmes, getting involved in stupid office politics, worrying about stupid file checks, constantly thinking about meeting exams requirement...

As I count towards the last days of my service, I can't help but feel angry that such a dream cannot be fulfilled. What exactly are those people thinking of???!!!