Tuesday, July 10, 2007 . 5:01 PM
Every staff is entitled to take 4 courses from the school every year. This is 1st course that i ever had which doesn't require me to sit infront of a pc. I usually restricted myself to taking computer-related courses, i simply couldn't give up my msn :p Labels: depression, life
This course is about recognizing the symptoms of some mental illnesses and how pple can actually help etc. I signed up for it bcos i wanna know more about it so as to help my mom's depression. Actually throughout these few months of reading up more about psychology/psychotherapy and years of understanding my mom's condition, i found myself more and more interested in all these things. Something that started as hoping to understand wat my mom is going thru became a personal interest. I think part of the reason being, i've personally gone thru it with my mom, i understand how pple may feel ard their friends/family members who are suffering from depression and i also understand the symptoms of depression. I realised that i wanna help more pple understand their own condition, esp those pple suffering from depression, altho i'm not a qualified counselor or any sort.
After going thru this course, i realised that my mom's depression compared to many other mental illnesses, considered quite ok. Not say her case very mild...cos she exhibits most of the symptoms, but other illneses seems even worse and harder to treat.
Anyway, everytime i go for a course myself and of cos it's usually on my own, there are always new and interesting things that happens to me. The very last time round, i had a course and i met my sec sch's maths teacher there. There's always a wondrous amazing feel to meeting your ex teachers and attending a course together. It's like we have come a full circle. From being student and teacher relationship, we have evolved to colleague to colleague relationship. It's just kinda weird. Cos in my heart, of cos i hold her in high esteem and respect, but at the same time, she's talking to mi like an adult (of cos) and we were discussing about life, marriage, church...kinda put one's perspective of things in different order.
This time, my ex Physiology lecturer, Prof Wong happened to take the same course as me. U know in Uni, there were so many modules and each module we had so many lecturers, it's almost impossible for the lecturers to actually develop a deeper student-teacher relationship. In fact, i also made sure i was just a passerby in my Uni life. I was quite uninterested in studies and i was only there to get a degree and that's it. I considered it quite redundant to develop any relationship with any lecturers.
The course started on Monday, I saw him and it muz have been nearly 3.5 years i haven't seen him tho i've been in this school for so long. He introduced himself as Wong. It was pretty rare to see any Profs/ academic staffs taking courses with us non-academic staffs actually. I tot he looked familiar. And he sure sounds familiar, i mean his voice. I was racking thru my brain, thinking he could b one of my experimental teaching assistant (which i had many..in the course of studies). He was wearing so causally during the course..Then i checked the list of staffs that was given to us and realised he's A/P from Physio!! Ahh...then i remembered. But i didn't talk to him till he came and talk to me during the break today. I was so astonished when he asked if he had ever taught me before.
I couldn't believe that he would remember me, given my resolution of being 'non-existent' in school. He was really nice. We talked like we were old friends. He had absolutely no airs around him. We even went for lunch together. I mean wow.....
It's really nice. I think wat's so nice is the fact that he remembers me. I remembered that he and the other physio lecturers came up with this idea which i think was kinda stupid. They made us run up and down the 6 floors of stairs and then measure our ECG ( heart rate, pulse rate..) -_- I remembered talking to him about it. Bcos my ECG was apparently not very 'normal' so i asked him about it and he said there's nothing to worry about, sometimes some pple can b alittle off from the ideal ..
ANyway..that's the story...
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