Accepting the fact that life is offering so much imperfection, I am not used to grumbling about it, particularly when it comes to dealing with people you handsomely detest. It is funny that, being a lecturer myself, I am so much uncomfortable with my own lecturer in my master class. Now, I am going to declare war with him, for ten reasons:

1. He gave the course outline few weeks after the semester began
2. He seems to be very playful with time-management (especially classroom punctuality)
3. He teaches as if we know everything what he says (easily put, syok sendiri)
4. His teaching is haphazard (simply put, he blabbers all the time)
5. His instructions for any assignments are vague, confusing and irritatingly mysterious
6. He usually digresses ‘intelligently’ when answering to my simple questions
7. His explanations are lengthy and hardly down-to-earth
8. He always asks me to redo the assignments (which means another burden)
9. He sometimes discriminates his students (his ex-students versus fresh ones)
10. He calls only his few favourite students in the classroom (senang cerita, pilih kasih)

Morals of the story:

1. Knowing that I concurrently experience similar sentiments that my students feel in the classroom, I am hoping that I won’t do those ten things (that my lecturer does to me) to my very own students
2. Realizing that, for some clever reasons, I might be at fault (not my lecturer) and that I can do something to remedy the coldness in my master class, I hope my students will do the same thing – accepting my weaknesses and limitations, and therefore being able to do something clever in the classroom, rather than solely blaming me for all their non-performing behaviours in the classroom
3. Whether we like our lecturer or not, they still hold most of the coursework marks (all we have to do is to learn the art of human relationship)

“Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand”

~Samuel Goldwin~