TR EMERITUS

Back in the days of my first marriage, everyone wanted me to become a teacher. My parents felt that I had an “academic” personality rather than a commercial personality. My then wife and her family kept drilling in the fact that teaching was an “iron rice-bowl,” and then there were people told me that teaching was great... 

I was having dinner with my family just a couple of days ago in my AMK neighborhood coffeeshop when a group of people wearing PAP's white party uniform came to our table and left a bag of "goodies" which has a logo of a charity organization, telling us "Happy Mother's Day, this is a little present from our MP!" (Spoken in Mandarin). Well... 

I remember catching up with my oldest friend, who had transitioned from a corporate law career into teaching. She mentioned that in the course of new job, she actually had to “sweep” the school she was teaching at. She then reminded me that back when we were kids being a “sweeper” was something that parents always used...