The person who has inspired and influenced my Life

I did not had any person in mind when receiving this task to complete the blog post. There have been many people I met throughout my 20 years of living. Some stayed, and some left. Thinking back, this person may not be someone who changed my life a lot, but someone who had taught me things in life and impacts the people around her with positive influence. She was my primary school form teacher and also my maths teacher, Miss Phua.

At that age when all of us first entered primary school, we were all innocent individuals. Miss Phua taught me maths for the first two years. She was a very caring and thoughtful teacher to our class. Her outgoing personality made positive impression to most of the students and gave an image to be someone approachable. I remembered that we only had three subjects back then, which were English, Mathematics, and Chinese. Maths was something I used to dread most. It felt like an ordeal having to deal with calculations, not to even mention that analyzing patterns which was even worse.

Miss Phua noticed that I did not have any interest in maths as the subject was new to me. She gave me advice on how to look at the subject from another perspective and understand how the sums work. From then on, I practiced on my sums and maths became my favourite subject till now. Learning maths throughout these years have helped and guided me a lot in terms of thinking and analytical skills. The reason of having the passion to learn maths had gave me a path in choosing the engineering sector to continue my studies in polytechnic, and even now in SIT.

Despite it was a short time spent with Miss Phua as she had to leave the school for personal reasons, I felt that she was someone who inspired me in a way and giving the best she could for her students. Till now, when I look back at our class photos, it brings back a lot of good memories to me.

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