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00 I Aiya, why do you want to take up the Honours course?
04 S Er, why ah, I guess ... mmm ... by taking this up I'll earn more (ha ha) ...
12 the salary scale will definitely be better ... yah, erm that's one reason, another reason I guess,
18 being offered, I just want to take the opportunity to try ... yah ... and erm, I mean before that,
25 when I was doing my degree, I I did think of ... I mean, I did, I did, I did erm think of just fin- I mean ...
33 stop studying after my, I mean my degree programme ... been tired a bit, I mean, tired of t- studying already,
39 so erm that's why ... I mean, erm ... but then, after being offered, it's like, changed my mind and erm ...
48 was thinking, OK, just try lah ... yah, then quite a few of my friends are in here also ... doing their Honours ...
55 yah, so there are, there are companies ah ... I have companies with me so I guess ... er won't be so lonely,
61 and then erm, we can still help one another to, to ... in this programme ah, yah ... then erm ... mmm
71 hopefully this one year, will learn a, learn more things ... and um, yah, before going out to teach,
81 for life, I guess (ha ha) ... er ... mmm.
86 I So do you think you'll stay in your teaching career for life?
90 S Mmm ... staying in here, I guess, till now my mindset is yah, I will ... because this is already my second job ...
98 yah ... I I I won't say career, I don't know far I can go, but I guess it's my second job and erm ...
104 I doubt I will switch again ... I already had a big ... jump, I mean big ... big big change ...
111 from engineering to teaching, yah, it's totally different, so erm after studying, including this year of Honours,
120 I'll have, I would have five years with NIE ... another five years of bond after that, and I don't think I want to ...
129 start something new again and learn something ... new, I guess, so teaching will be ... a lifetime thing ah,
137 but it's whether after the five years, five years, five-year bond ... will I want to stop ... I mean erm ...
145 teaching in schools but go into tuitions ... or or ... private teaching or what I don't know, maybe,
154 but ... first thing ... I mean for now, it's definitely I hope to stay as long as possible ... in teaching,
162 that means I need to enjoy teaching, I need to be able to teach well also ... because ... till now
170 I still feel that I lack the ability to teach well ... first of all, it's in managing the class ...
176 I guess that is really very important ... if you can't manage a class ... you can't really teach ... yah ...
183 so that's one thing that I need to brush up on ... yah ... yup ... mmm, teaching is definitely very challenging.
194 I So out of like the few subjects, English, maths, science or arts, what is your favourite?
199 S My fravourite subject to teach ah ... aiya (tch) ... don't know lah, I guess ... mmm ...
208 I thought Maths would be something easy to teach, because ... it's fixed ...
214 I mean it's pretty fixed lor, compared to English that is quite ... er ... living, you call it living ...
222 yah, so erm ... yah, so I thought maths was ... would be easier ... while for science ...
229 it's like er you need to r- read widely, because students can just ask any questions about ... anything,
237 yah, and erm ... I guess I I I still ... erm lack the ability to answer questions ... spontaneously, so called ...
248 yup, so erm ... which subject ah ... I guess I have no preference now, I hope I will enjoy teaching all,
256 all of them as in English, maths and science, while for arts, mmm ... I guess arts, OK lah, one thing I can enjoy,
268 I mean maybe I will like arts is that it's not exam, it it's, that's, it's not ... there's no exam, you know
275 things like that, but erm teaching lower primary arts is quite all right, they are k- still ... they still like arts ...
281 but erm upper primary I guess need to motivate them more ... um and then and that require you to be able ...
289 you yourself being enthusiastic about the subject, in order to influence others, mmm ... to enjoy it also.