Friday, June 4, 2010

University of Nottingham - Lecturers

So looks like I have the mood to blog today.
Time for me to talk about the lecturers who teach me for this semester.

1. English lecturer - Ms. Cecily Mary Eruthayam

- First impression of her: old woman who died her hair blond.
- Comes late for class by 10-15 minutes. And will ask those who come later, "why are you late?"
- Carries out the infamous "Thinking shit sheet". For every task, we all have to answer the same type of question, like: "How did this task influence your thinking about the topic?"
- And there are a few more questions. And they get pretty sickening.
- She will ALWAYS correct grammatical errors. And she hates it when students speak Malaysian English.
- She is one hell-of-a drama queen. Pretty obvious for English teachers.
- Although she has showed a comedy video, and at least she can laugh about things a bit.
To St. Paul students - She looks like a combination of Pn. Shun and Ms. Vimala.

2. Foundation Algebra 1st class lecturer - Dr. K. Harikrishnan

- Seems to like skipping lectures. He twice got a replacement lecturer to teach. The replacement was still good though.
- Has awesome writing (Sarcasm)
- This lecturer: always on time for class to teach.
To St. Paul students - He looks like a combination of thin Mr. Ravi and Mr. Selladurai (Remember the male Indian teacher who died his hair blond?)

3. Mechanics lecturer - Mr. Tan Thian Khoon

- Really short
- My personal tutor
- Has a facebook picture with an elephant behind him
- His first ever lecture, a dog came in into the lecture hall. And all the way to the front! Classic!

4. Light, Wave and Electrons lecturer - Mr. Terence Wong

- Short-sighted and long-winded. Sums it up.
Therefore, I couldn't understand anything since 1st day of class. Bad sign.

5. IT Lecturer - Bavani Ramayah

- Has the most high-pitched voice among all.
- We end up on facebook the whole time during class.
- Her classes aren't any interesting though.

6. Malaysian Studies Lecturer - Ms. Evans Isaac

- Makes the subject a lot more interesting than Sejarah in school.
- Knows the history of Malaysia and some parts of the world in-depth.
- Her grammar isn't that good though.
- Her famous line: "You pay attention, I let you leave class earlier"

7. Chemistry lecturer - Mr. Chiang Choon Lai

- A total hunchback
- Has so much time to watch any movie at all, he'll ask the class, "anyone watched ironman/prince of persia etc." Sure has a lot of time.
- Loves to make fun of the mistakes of students. That's why we all are scared to answer anything he asks.
- One thing very good about him - he lets us out of class very early if there's an exam later in the evening.
- Seems to love hugging people. Thankfully I'm not a victim. :P


Other lecturers:
Mr Balrama - Replacement algebra lecturer. So much easier to understand his methods than Harikrishnan's.
Dr. Teo Lee Peng - 2nd class algebra lecturer. Combination of Pn. Wee, Ms. Lim and Ms. Lai. Except, even worse. As I heard :P

Some of my batch-mates have a few different lecturers, so I can't elaborate on them.
Though I have been such a critic, classes aren't that bad after all :D