Such a nice place you have. But why do you speak like a Chinese person? Do you deliberately do that? You are such a handsome fella. Try to speak with a better accent. Singapore accent but a nice one.

Sad truth...always the teacher that try their best and be vocal abt it will always be marked...good that u left n be at a better place now

I like how honest this whole conversation is

Ya i agree. Pple like him and me cannot last in MOE because we cannot be quiet blind followers. We just cannot

Mr Tham is kind of like a father figure to Dew, which he didn’t have in his childhood

we need more Mr Tham

Such a gems. From a NT class last time and know how hard it to be the form teacher of NT classes. Legend. Such a waste that he not a teacher anymore. More student will benefit from him.

This 2 videos of interviewing Mr Tham brought back so many fond memories. We are truly so blessed to have him. I remember when my family had financial issues back then and I couldn't bear to ask my mum for extra money to buy a calculator for math. When Mr Tham know about it, he got me the calculator right away. He didn't just give me a calculator, he gave me a chance. A chance to study well and it motivated me to thrive. I graduated NT with mostly As and 1 B. I continued to make education my first pirority. Fast forward now, I am a first class honours degree holder that I can be proud of. I am truly thankful to have him as our form teacher who cared so deeply for each and everyone of us. Thank you Mr Tham ❤️

Really enjoying this solo series! You’re a great host Dew, able to make your guests feel comfortable even while asking candid/difficult questions and somehow still managing to keep things fun and humorous throughout 🔥

Great episode and very inspiring!

Im grateful & appreciative of u, Mr Tham for being however uv bn towards all ur ex-students. It’s singapore’s loss to hv lost u. I cant get over d failed appraisal uv had for being d best educator/protector. U went miles & beyond for them kids all. Ur parents had to thrive to hv u fully-schooled to be a teacher whom had toiled daily for ur students only to be ruined over an unjust appraisal & ur future as a teacher went down d drain juz like dat. Wicked. I hope these episodes uv had with d successful Dew, ur ex-student u can be proud of, be part of ur resume to better qualify u whom is already qualified to be whatever u want to be in dis life. Thank u for existing, Sir. May u, wife & family forever be blessed with all d good life has to offer. Hoping all ur ex-students remember ur deeds of endless kindness & reach out to u till now & in all their growing years to come.. 🙏🏼

What's this teacher's name? Cool guy.

in terms of whether we do we take our teachers for granted, it depends though. I had brain/head injury back when I was in sec 4 which was a decade ago. throughout the years I had memory loss, I totally forgot about the accident as I spend the first few years after the accident just lying on bed watching tv shows thereafter I would just sit on the living room sofa and watch all the local drama, k drama, countless KZbin videos and picked up diy handicraft . it started of of muscle shrinking and forgetting my way home. I kept throwing up and barely eat, when sleep deprivation hits, I had trouble understanding lessons and brave my courage to tell my teacher I was struggling, he told me to go see doctor over at imh so that I could get extra time during exam, but I kept getting bullied by my classmates daily with endless pranks, was followed home by them as when I closed the door, they would kept banging on the door while laughing and they moment I opened the door they have already ran to the lift. got a little depressed and scrap the idea of going to school as I have very strong feeling of danger. the danger refers to feeling unsafe as I told my teacher about it, he laughed and said they're just joking and ignored me. I had memory loss so whenever someone mentioned school, I would have unpleasant feeling about it. when I was told by my doctor after seeing her right after the accident for nine years, last year, she said I have pituitary gland damaged, as throughout the years she always said she very sure I have brain tumour even though the MRI scan I did didnt show any issues. thereafter I kept dreaming blurry vision version of the accident. it repeatedly daily for months until I asked one of my classmates if she remembered, she didnt saw the accident but saw I was walking to the general office myself and head home and since then the next time I came back to school with walking difficulty due to muscle soft like jelly. she mentioned that she estimably knew who was the one who did it as it came from the group of class bullies who also bullied her which marked our sec4 depressing one. she told me that the reason why I got into such mess where I got head injury and now pituitary gland damaged, was due to form teacher's cant be bothered attitude, which make me realised it all just make sense now, I remembered he was always hiding in the pe equipment room during pe lesson. my classmate told me that my mom seek help from the wrong person as teacher was the type that doesnt do anything about it, but general office only allowed her to get help from teacher which she visited the teacher for help on why I suddenly didnt want to go to school. then I Facebook message him as I somehow suddenly remembered all of us in the class bought insurance that year, he mentioned the claims have to be done on that year. I told him the accident happened during his lesson, he immediately gave me angry face emoji and blocked me. I was still going through pain from the brain every now and then, I had to ask around, majority told me just to ignore the teacher's terrible response/attitude as majority expected such response from him, which I didnt as I remember he was okay type of teacher which gives me a very fatherly vibe of teacher. I had strong feeling that pituitary gland damaged was due to the accident, as else why I would have walking difficulty after the accident. my doctor insisted that I have it since birth, but I googled search which led me to head injury which was why I slowly managed to remember everything. because right before last year, I completely have zero reclamation of that year. then last month I saw my uncle who was hospitalised as he have heart failure, the doctor prescribed him potassium chloride for just few time, which I have been taking the medication for a decade, so I was very curious and google search it since doctor and pharmacist never once detailed explain what was this medication were for, and shockingly I found it was patient with heart failure or head injury. from there it made me very sure that the dream I had repeatedly for many months were really what I have went through. it all made sense now because after the accident I had very frequent large amount of nose bleeding, I asked my doctor who said it was normal, which I just live with it, when it finally stopped having nose bleeding, there I was told pituitary gland damaged.

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these kinds of teachers are gems.

What a legend

The Fact that he remembers the names shows his delication.

Yes, I agree. Telling kids to apologize without explaining the reason why they need to do it will only make them say it just to get it over with.

Can share more about dad’s participation with the kids. Eg; hands on dad or laze around kind of dad. Would love to see more !

hi dew hope you can do something on EPL when the new season start. it will be nice if is a weekly show. not seen any done by any local youtuber.

We definitely need more episodes

Mr Tham - Loh Keng Hoe here tyvm

Boomzzzz 🤯

anyone know what happen to just saying kl

I’m from the Philippines and I will never get tired of watching these ppl

PPHS is only eligible for couples with combined income of 7k. Divide by 2, that’s only for young fresh graduates.

Mr Tham has his heart in the right places even though his methods are unorthodox (smashing handphones 😅). It is a waste that he didn’t continue his educational journey with MOE due to workplace politics and lack of support from the school to invest in NT stream students

As transgender myself, I went thru gender reassignment surgery myself Every trans person journey are different and how your body react/ recover from surgery is vary, it’s helpful to go seek few doctors before deciding which doctor Recovering from surgery definitely not easy but it’s not end of the world, but it’s like pain that worth going through Always live your truth ❤

Becca is really really crushing it in this conversation.

Ignore the previous comment. Do NOT film me😂

She looks abit like hian hao tan wife...debbie. The eyes

Great interview, thks a lot Dew.

W episode

glad dew produce this! lurve this talk!!

Thank you Mr Tham! I am so proud to be part of the Technical class from 2005-2008. ❤ Thank you Dew for recalling the old good memories!

Dew, a gd one this is. invite ur classmates nxt..! Nice to know how evryone of ur classmates are gettg on after all these yrs & especially coming frm NT stream, nice to know all d gems in them.

Very respectable teacher! You were very lucky to have him as form teacher

Would love to see an indian represented here too on this show. A good show tho

I honestly hated my secondary school experience but teachers like him reminded me of the good ones in my school

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What he said about secondary school staff politics is very true. The amount of gossiping & backstabbing that happens among the teachers is insane. A lot of petty insecure people out there who are unfortunately the ones influencing the minds of our young

please invite munah!!!!

Thank you both for your roles in nurturing and positively impacting the community in Singapore. It's truly inspiring, and I appreciate it.

Very dedicated teachers whom you will miss/realise after graduation.

Good episode

this brings back so much memories of my primary and secondary school days, before I got into secondary school, psle was tough for me because I have zero tolerance towards additional stress from teacher. as all along whenever I need help, teachers would give out the help I need without additional pressure. but when I was in p6, the teacher was striving to have the entire class to aced so that she could teach the first class the very next year as she kept mentioning she want to ace her portfolio. she would set up additional lessons on school holiday, then additional remedial for students poor in grades and followed by doing gardening, I was way too tired compared to usual school days, I ended up in hospital as I had pretty bad headache which I found I have thyroid but too young to start on medication. I ended up retaining p6. which was my first time encountering a lion teacher who would kept yelling at us sometime with vulgarities which I didnt understand back then and find it offensive instead. I was so used to previous teacher's teaching method so she gone wild that I didnt follow her teaching method while her eyeball looked like they were gonna drop out, which she didnt even teach me at all as rest of the class previous year was taught by her too, hence she seldom teach. my mom tried to talk to the teacher but the teacher was horribly rude. my mom had to sort to looking for nearby family service help. which then the teacher became way less scary and stopped screaming at us or threw our homework out of the classroom window and had us go down four floors just to retrieve it. I was in standard class retained into foundation class, I passed my psle into normal tech, which I only need three extra points I could get into normal acad.then when I was in sec 4, I got hit in the head during pe lesson which I broke my neck while walking out of the field nose bleeding, there supposed to have two pe teacher and one pe equipment teacher but none of them were around so I took my bag to the general office and saw my pe teacher who helped to call my mom but left before my mom arrived, my mom had zero idea what happened and I was in a blur state. on the way home I kept tripping, the moment I reached home I fell asleep without cleaning my nosebleed and woke up on the third day morning.my memory failed drastically as I couldn't understand even when math teacher tried to personally 1 to 1 teach me. I got bullied by classmates with lots of pranks like hiding my bag somewhere else in the school during recess and got followed home. i kept throwing up and my leg muscle shrieked which became soft like jelly. I had walking difficult which no one in the school help or show empathy. I stopped going to school even when teachers came to my house to persuade me, I only went for English oral, listening and papers for n level because I was dealing with sleep deprivation, depressed only after the accident which my self esteem became low as I get scared easily. since then I didnt further my studies as it tick me around six month to year to walk normally because when my leg muscle shrink, im walking like toddler learning how to walk. principal saw my neck was so swollen after the accident and told my mom to bring me to polyclinic to get referral to hospital to get tested for thyroid which the principal was spot on. I tried getting job but never got past an interview. until I was around in my 20s my dad's friend recommended me job but I discovered I have brain fog and sleep deprivation got worse as totally unable to sleep which I quit on the second day after discovering I had to cover 4-5 persons job. then my doctor told me I have pituitary gland damaged without any details on what it meant which led to that the head/brain injury back then were the cause of it. and last month, my uncle who had heart failure hospitalised because he wasn't feeling well and called the ambulance which luckily he did as they change up the medication and got rid of breathlessness and appetite got better as for many years he was feeling weak didnt have mood to eat and eventually we all persuade him to carrying on his appointment in the hospital he was hospitalised in as its much nearer to where he stays, when he called the ambulance himself while unwell, told the paramedic to bring him to the hospital where he have been seeing but was told that they're required to go to the nearest one instead. I saw he took the medication same as mine that I have been taking for the past decade, and found that through google, it's meant for either heart failure or head injury. my doctor been arguing with me when she said I have pituitary gland damaged was due to having it since birth. but I felt that it wasn't just that which led me to googling it, it stated head injury, back then I told my mom I dont remember having any, and for many months I kept dreaming of the accident of how I got hit in the head which snapped my neck and my nose bled very frequent for many years and when it finally stopped, doctor then said it was pituitary gland damaged because my mom questioned her before that I nose bled so much and so often, its ver alarming but was told its nothing, nothing to worried about. one thing im glad was finally remember what had happened back then because so many people were so untruthful when trying to find out, majority told me that I qualify for disability due to my condition but looked for nearby fsc, social worker, all turned me down as they dont understand what was pituitary gland damaged as someone slide into my dm telling me to look for help especially its considered as disability but tried asking my doctor but she doesnt know such thing. my doctor only mentioned that my stress capability were only 20% of what majority could handle.

I love this episode

why dew so awkward? he looks worried

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This is exciting. Cannot wait for part 2