An ex-student from VJC, Cliff, came to visit me today. I was in school so he took a taxi from orchard and we had a good chat. Cliff is now studying in New York University, doing business. He's one of the more unique individual around - I can still remember him perpetually falling asleep in class, which is a problem he has been having since Pr 5. I met the mother before over this, and she said she had sent him to various doctors before, but nobody could tell why he has such a problem. Haha, actually we had quite a few good laughs over this during lessons, especially when he fell asleep during PW group discussions (it's like, there're only 5 people talking and you can fall asleep?!?). The weirdest thing is - Cliff is a sportsman. He was into Judo and was some national champion in his category. Maybe his metabolism goes in bursts. I remember having to squeeze a lot of brain juice when writing a recommendation letter for him for his Uni application as he did not get fantastic results. But I truly feel he has great potential, so I was rather glad when he told me he made it to NYU.

I recall those days fondly. Cliff's class was my form class, and I literally laughed and cried with them. I guess JC life was really stressful for most, and it doesn't help that they're at an angsty age. Actually, I've found that even my sec three students can be rather angsty about life. More on that some other time.

I think it's nice to have ex-students to visit and chit chat with, to know how they are getting on in life.

I must really be growing old to think like this.