Warning to Mr Kok and any IELTS band 9 people reading this
Please bear with me my unforgivable grammar mistakes dotted all over this post and for my very immature ideas which I use to write this post. Mr Kok, you're free to comment on any grammar mistakes I made...lol (this being the first one - use of slang and non-standard English)
Dedicating
A hopelessly non-band-9 essay to an amazing band 9 teacher
Who is this Mr X who has the honour of being taken "a back"?
What is he "deng deng deng"-ing in the class?
THE FAREWELL OF DEAREST
LECTURER MR KOK TUCK MENG
(Calvin and Nick, why you two who sit in the frontest row of the class forget to put the title?!!)
Dating 03 December 2008 of the Gregorian calendar (pronounced as "/ˈkæl.ən.də/" and not "/ˈkæl.æn.də/") from 1500 hours to 1800 hours, 24 Malaysian Public Services Department (PSD) scholars of class Architecture Group 1 (Batch 2008) who studied in KBU International College Room A610 were having their last English class with Mr Kok Tuck Meng before taking a very important examination known as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) which their lecturer Mr Kok TM took it very seriously and to quote him "I'M NOT JOKING!" *shows his set of teeth*
Oh Woei Song, I've just committed your mistake of writing one sentence which constitutes a whole paragraph. In my opinion, I'm rather doubtful that the above sentence is a complex-compound sentence. Anyway, cut off the formality and start glorifying Manglish, Malaysian English, the "-lah"s and the "-mah"s and so on... (Ginger, does this remind you of anything? hehe...)
It all started after Mr Kok tortured the Arch 1 students with horrendous and confusing IELTS Listening and Reading exercises. At his mercy, we were given a break. Nick the class representative and Song went down secretly to Secret Recipe to buy a blueberry cheesecake only to leave the as RED as Lola's two and a half feet tubular sex Secret Recipe bag in front of the class.
Meanwhile (I hope I used this word correctly), Calvin the assistant class representative was busy writing and checking the thank-you card for Mr Kok, which he thought Calvin was selling some drugs to alleviate the pain resulting from IELTS. Anyway, Calvin was actually scrutinising for grammar, spelling and syntax of the card. He was afraid that Mr Kok will get a myocardial infarction when perusing the card for interesting comments, especially seeing Nad's spelling of 'antics' as 'antiques' and Aqil's confusion between advise (v) and advice (n).
Having observed our weird actions of hiding things under paper and whispering in soft voices with excited faces, Mr Kok, I guess he knew that we were scheming up to something and decided to let us off earlier in anticipation of a non-surprise party. Mr Old Nick then presented him the error-all-over thank-you card and took out the cake.
Admittedly, Architecture Group 1 students are very smart. Poh Hui and I lighted up the candles but do not know what is it for, so they gave an excuse that it represented the six months Mr Kok taught and tortured us. Nadhirah was even more clever, she changed the Happy Birthday song into a "Thank You Thank You Mr Kok" song.
Here is a cool video of the song we sang...
courtesy of Mr Wang Woei Song
Then it was photo-taking session...
Again all the wonderful poses of Arch 1 students declaring their love for Mr Kok
And of course a picture of Nick, Mr Kok and yours truly...
Mr Kok
We thank you for all the animated scenes you have for explaining a new word to us with all the "deng deng deng" cliche
We thank you for sharing with us the idiosyncrasies of your managerie of students with names like Wolf and Tiger and neighbours who sit on the roof and take a taxi to college every day.
We thank you for letting us to watch truly "eye-opening" movies such as Kinky Boots and Little Voice as movie review.
We thank you for informing naive students such as us of laptops, security, maids who wash dishes in the washing machine and how to exercise bluffology for IELTS speaking.
And above all, we thank you for teaching us with much dedication, passion, diligence and sensitivity.
Back row [guys] : Calvin@Cal, Aqil, Izzat, Jin Jyh@Ginger, Aizat, Firdaus@Ali, Hafeez
Front row [gals] :Poh Hui, Nadhirah@Nad, Azreen, Asma Hani@Honey, Suraya@Sue, [Aiyoh, I don't know who to name the girls in order-lah], Nasuha@Sua, Nadia, Athira, Izzatie, Hooi Yiing, Ainin Leong, Najihah, Nur Hafizah, Nurul Aain, Farah Amelia.
Squatting [guys]: Nicholas@Old Nick, Woei Song@Song
Indeed, family and friends we have become with Mr Kok.
Thank you again Mr Kok
WE MISS YOU!!!
P.S. Arch 1 students...
feel free to comment and add your memorable moments as comments!
[This is the end of the IELTS reading test and thank you for reading. Prepare to be flabbergasted on Christmas day which is 19 calendar days after 6 December 2008. Your band scores shall be delighting you always. This is not an advertisement for Canon. Thank You!]
