I woke up this morning, to an extremely horrible and devastating piece of news.

Wang Lao Shi was going to quit being a teacher in Nanyang.

It came to me as a huge shock, I never thought that she would really quit so soon. I wish her success in her new job nevertheless.

Who is Wang Lao Shi to me? She's a really special and wonderful coach, young and fun teacher and a nice person to speak and chat with as a friend. It might be due to the fact that she is younger than the other teachers, but I've always had this feeling that she treats her students as friends, rather than well, students!

I remembered when she first taught us in Secondary One, she was quite nice I guess, but she PMS-ed a lot, and many of us didn't like her. We gave her the nickname: Wang Witch (some kind of a remade version of Wicked West Witch I think). I didn't exactly hate her, but no one likes it when a teachers storms into class on a hot and humid day, and starts scolding the class like, "Hey, I'm angry and I don't feel like teaching you."

In Secondary Two, we approached her... and requested her to be our OM Coach. Firstly, it started out really blandly. We weren't very close to her, nor was she extremely close to us. Rehearsing sessions at the boarding school and our weekly meeting sessions were not what I would call fun, or rather, it was stressful. I remember her asking us, "Are you really sure you can do it?" and "Do you guys really wanna go to Shanghai?" and without doubt, we would answer her with a "YES!" like innocent, pure Sec Twos. And maybe that was when she felt our determination. Meeting sessions became really fun (though not quite productive) and rehearsals often ended on a happy note, and we started joking around with one another.
Before we knew it, we were off to Shanghai with our props and costumes, ready to rock the stage. We never expected we would have achieved something. 2nd felt like a faraway dream when we first started out, but when each of us took that plaque in our hands, I'm sure everyone felt the same way as me. We did it.

In Secondary Three, we embarked yet on another mission - OM Shanghai'12. This time, it really wasn't easy. Even though we had the experience from the previous competitions, everyone was separated into our own classes, and no one was in the same class as one another. Our talented scriptwriters, Jingwen and Jessica had decided not to join us this time round and this posed as yet another problem for us. There was little communication amongst all of us, and we all know this journey ain't gonna be as smooth as before. But Wang Lao Shi stood by us and kept pushing us till the very end. Honestly, deep down, I knew we might not win anything and told myself to stay strong, but when we actually got 3rd, I was surprisingly happy about it even though I kept crying and crying.

Wang Lao Shi, even if you're going to be gone, I will always respect you as an awesome coach, for being there and giving us a push when we needed one. 王老师，谢谢！