Tragedy Of A Fallen Ex-Teacher
Well, if you are just curious about what had happened, you can always flip back to The New Paper, Thursday, 24th August 2006. Sting Stung.
Nonetheless, I can still post my comments, my thoughts, anything that concerns me on this blog, can't I?
Well, in summary, he was found guilty of consuming ecstasy and was charged 7-months jail. WHAT????? You kidding me????
I have more, though. Like he was seeing this guy whom he met from a gay website, then was planning to sleep and have sex with him at one of the hotels in Geylang.
WHATTT????
Haha, I didn't believe that, either. Even until now I was still thinking about it. Was that true? Duh, of course it was. It was on the newspaper. How untrue can it be? But oh well, it was the most shocking news I have ever heard in my life.
"Hey, I just found out that my ex-teacher is charged of 7-months jail"
"Huh? Why?"
"He consumes emily"
"Really?"
"Yeah. He was caught when he was about to sleep with some guy"
"Huh?"
"To have a drugs and sex night with him"
"You sure?"
"He met that guy one a gay website"
"Gay website?"
"The thing is, he taught me when I was in sec3"
"What?"
"Uh huh, he drove a BMW, dressed smartly, and was quite handsome"
"Huh?"
"He is gay, though"
Lol.. Nope, that conversation's just made up. Haha. But the facts are true.
He taught me Geography when I was in sec 3. From what I know, he taught the Normal Acad students English too. He then transferred job to MOE Headquarter to be a curricullum planning officer when, for whatever reasons. After that, another teacher took over and since then, I never noticed Geography class for being so interesting. We seldom see him after his transfer though, but when our school celebrated its official opening of its new building, he did manage to come to celebrate it together.
Cindy, Riah, Mr. Kho, Me, Valen
during the school's official opening ceremony
English Activity Room, 30 September 2004
In secondary school, he was the most hi-tech teacher I ever remembered. That time, he seldom taught us in classroom. He conducted his "lectures" in the AVA room so that all of us could share the air-con. He used PowerPoint slides to teach, he used the visualiser instead of the whiteboard, he even printed lecture notes for us. He bothered to call all to the new foreign students (I was one of them back then) just to have an orientation talk, he sometimes cracked jokes like having the 6th finger when you eat Gardenia bread (ok most of his jokes were not funny -.-")
Some girls might think he was quite good looking (duh, compared to the other Misters in school who are far much older than him -i think he was still around 26 back then-, of course he was the most OK one -.-") He seemed normal and lived a happy life back then (we had no idea that he was gay you know...).
And yeah.. Eagle house rocked. (it contradicts most results but oh still... haha)
Ok. So what caused all this troubles?
Let me quote from the paper:
"But three years later, he asked for a transfer to the Ministry of Education headquarters, where he worked as a curriculum planning officer.
In his mitigation, his lawyers, Mr Subhas Anandan and Mr Sunil Sudheesan, told the court that this switch 'marked the start of our client's troubles'.
Kho suffered from severe depression and sought various means to alleviate his condition, said the lawyers.
To make matters worse, he signed up for a master's programme in education management at the National Institute of Education a year later.
His inability to balance his work and studies with his social life sparked his depression. He eventually did not complete the programme.
Kho's lawyers said that his 'quest in discovering a means to manage his condition led to him talking to strangers in certain Internet relay chat rooms'.
They said he regretted his 'foolish errors' and has since enrolled himself in various rehabilitation and counselling programmes.
Kho's lawyers also added that he quit his job so that he could seek proper medical treatment.
'I want to move on with my life. I just want to seek treatment first,' Kho told The New Paper."
Sir, things are not over yet.
Ganbatte..!!
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