i have about 3 or 4 teachers that pop into mind right away

Mrs Teo: incredibly warm and encouraging and really devotional in her attention, ideal Mom vibes

Mr Koh: strong personal sense of aesthetic sensibility, would introduce us to all sorts of art/music/literature that wasn’t on the syllabus, punk rock vibes and no-nonsense, “you can do better than this” class of challenging encouragement. Always gave me the sense that there was more to everything than I knew.

Mrs Goh: just felt very real overall and I remember she had really strong feelings about like, women struggling in the bottom 10% of world circumstances, which I carried with me

Mr Wong: chemistry teacher with a very irreverent sense of humor, swore a couple of times, sang opera, another “you can do better than this” + “there’s more to the world than this” instigator