我始终是个学生！

当老师很难，当个好老师更难！我还是安分地做个学生吧！

意外发现

九年前, 一个十一岁的小女孩正为每个星期得交上一篇作文而苦恼.

后来她想到了一个办法.

她决定在懒惰, 没有心情, 没有时间, 没有灵感时, 以诗代替作文交给老师.

她当时想 :"诗要写的字少多了......"

于是, 她接下来几乎每个星期交上去的, 都是诗.

<<海颂>>

海啊海,
你是那么广阔无边,
没有起点也没有终点.

海啊海,
从岸上看过去,
你和天空是离不开的兄弟.

海啊海,
你和风是一对好朋友,
你们引起了不可抵挡的大浪.

海啊海,
你形成了一座高山以后就倒了,
这时出现的是一朵朵白色的浪花.

海啊海,
你随着椰树的摆动,
在翩翩起舞.

海啊海,
这幅由你构成的画,
难道你不为此感到自豪吗?

在翻查资料时, 意外地发现自己这一篇刊登在<<小学好作文 -- 五年级>> (裴蕾编) 的诗, 还有一篇刊登在六年级模范作文的一本书 (裴蕾编) 里的命题作文<<最常到我家的客人>>. 有一种莫明的感动. 事隔近十年, 自己都忘了写过这么两篇作品. 愿与大家先分享这首自己挺骄傲的诗, 下次有机会再把那篇作文传上来.

What burden is that?

The White Man's Burden -- Rudyard Kipling
1899
THE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS


Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden --
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times mad plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden --
The savage wars of peace --
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden --
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper --
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!

Take up the White man's burden --
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard --
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light: --
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden --
Ye dare not stoop to less --
Nor call too loud on freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden --
Have done with childish days --
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!




A history teacher in my first 3 month in JC introduced us to this poem by Rudyard Kipling. I remembered feeling very disturbed when I was reading this, especially when these white people felt an "obligation" to make the "half devil half child" civilised. How well they hide their ill-intentions behind their humanitarian moves.

Recalled this poem again after watching Kingdom of Heaven, even though the theme of this poem is not exactly similar to that of the movie. However ,I must certainly point out the ever-existing sense of superiority that some whites feel about themselves compared to the coloured.

Still feeling very angry...

Prayer for Peace

I watched "Kingdom of Heaven" yesterday in Cineleisure. Never felt so overwhelmed by themes in a movie for a long time.

How ugly Man can be trying to seize control of others' possessions! How fanaticism can drive Man to commit atrocities! How evil Man can be to use religion to mask their greed!

Even though I do not really comprehend the Crusades which happened almost 1000 years ago, the themes in the movie are not remote. Man never learns from history. History repeats itself because of Man's stupidity and ignorance.

Studying "Cold War in the Middle East" during the 'A' Levels often left me deep in thought. I can never understand why the followers of religions that see Jerusalem as the Holy Land cannot treat one another as brothers. Sometimes, it was even depressing then, when I read more about how these brothers fought in the 40-odd years.

Like what the lead character had said in gist in the movie, "Kingdom of Heaven" lies in the heart. It does not belong to anyone of them but everyone who believes in his faith.

However, seeing Lien Chen of KMT and Hu Jintao of CCP holding hands in the historical moment days ago has made me hopeful. Brothers who had fallen out 60 years ago finally decided to meet each other. There is still hope for peace in the Middle East, if they believe that Kingdom of Heaven is in their heart.

Another SYF

又是一年的SYF.

从来没想过还会有机会听到<<义贯千古>> (<<祭关羽>>),

直到今天又在比赛中听到.

心中泛起点点的愁绪.

这首曲子真是让自己又爱又狠.

恨 -- 恨它当年狠狠地在<<爱诗曲>>头上踩了一脚.

爱 -- 爱它的气势磅礴, 荡气回肠, 与众不同.

现在听来,

虽然不及当年德明的来势汹汹,

但也足以让我回味上许久.

看来,

时间真的能让心境成熟, 沉淀.

现在再听到,

更多的是对那一段青涩岁月的无限怀念.

<<我最快乐的一天>>

<<我最快乐的一天>>

"我很开心因为爸爸妈妈花了很多钱来让我快乐 ...... 我才知道爸爸妈妈多么疼爱我 ...... 这也是我第一次感觉到他们的疼爱" (学子A)

"XX送我____ , XX送我____ , XX送我____ ...... 我很感动...... 我今天才知道有好朋友的重要" (学子B)

前天改到了这两个同学的文章, 不知道该怎么去改这样的内容.

我不知道这两篇作文的内容是"纯属虚构" 还是真又此事.

原来现在孩子的快乐是需要用钱来买的, 原来现在的孩子觉得父母在他们身上花钱才是对他们表

示疼爱, 原来现在的孩子是以金钱来决定友情的重要与否, 原来......

很多的 "原来" 在眼前晃过.

为他们修正错别字, 语病, 再提供内容的种种提示, 是否就能改变他们的想法?

我有点茫然......