Wednesday, November 28, 2007

More than just a teacher.

I remember the first day Mr Stephen Loh walked into our class.
We didn't expect our mathematics teacher to have such and athletic build.
Hence the name Mr Muscle after the dish-washing liquid ad.
He did all he could to make sure we excelled in mathematics, staying back after classes to give us supp lessons.
He was teaching us Linear Graphs, and most of us couldn't draw the graph lines properly. But he never once got angry at us. He stayed back and made sure we got it right. Our maths grades improved greatly under him.
During PE lessons it was the same. He was patient with us, no matter how noisy we were.
Our class received an email after we invited him to our class gathering. It mentioned him teaching at NJC and to drop by and say hello if we enrolled there.
We never thought the next time we would see him was at his wake.

Mr Stephen Loh was more than a teacher.

From the class of 2 Benedict '07, Maris Stella High School

Rest In Peace Mr Loh.

I will miss you.

Well, to me, Mr Loh was a teacher, a friend, a pillar of support. No words could describe him well enough. He seemed so macho to us, seemed so strong, so strong that nothing could bring him down. However, he was hard on the outside and soft on the inside, somehow like a big friendly giant.

He never scolded us as a class, he believed more in using the soft way then the hard way. The only time i remembered him scolding us when he broke up a fight between 2 of my classmates.

I remember going to him toask for extra lessons in maths, he agreed readily. He was unlike other teachers..He had that nothing is impossible spirit in him...When I told him i really CMI(cannot make it), he would nt scold me, but kept ask me to try again till i got the answer. He was an extraordinary teacher, a one of a kind.

I remember complaining to him that the class was too noisy. But he never gave up on us. He had that nothing is impossible spirit in him.

I remember him coming to me to ask for feedback after the lesson he taught us. He humbly accepted our comments. He was really a GREAT TEACHER.

He will always have a special place in our hearts, more than a teacher and a friend.

Rest in peace, you will be remembered and missed.

Your student.CY.
when i heard this news i was shock
and i cant accept this fact just awhile.
eventhough i dont know the five heroes .
budd i still felt shoo sorry ferr them.
its a great pity of losing them.
budd we still need tu pull through this hard time.
i saw mr stephen loh once on 2004.
and thad was my primary school teacher wedding crermony.
eventhough i saw hym just once,
budd whenever i watch the news or fliping thru the newspaper my eyes
will automatically flow down the tears.
rest in peace the five rollers.
loveees,
sadd fellow singaporean. ):