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thank you for never failing to put your heart and soul into everything you do for us ♥️ even on days where we can see that you've reached your limit and are running on fumes, you always try your best to make sure we're getting something valuable out of every lesson.

ej history dept forever 🆙🆙

please have a good break!

-angie

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hi mr azhar and mr lee,

thank you for everything that you guys have done for the cohort amidst your veryveryvery busy schedules, never failing to squeeze time for consults for us. and also even after 29273820 tutorials, yall still try ur best to conduct lectures and hype everyone up which is rlly impressive😯 thanks for all the memories!

-kx 22a1

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to mr lee and mr azhar

thank you for making the past 2 years of history so interesting and fun with the interactive seminar style lessons which required our active participation and the interesting debates and dress up sessions. I really enjoyed every history lessons and would look forward to coming to school just for history lessons.

to mr lee,

thank you so much for guiding me the past year, always answering my questions both in class and outside class with sincerity. hope you had a good december break even with the new syllabus planning :)

- Vivienne (22-I6)

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dear mr azhar and mr lee,

thank you for taking our cohort for history for the past one or two years!! we appreciate your hard work and dedication though it may not be apparent during our lectures/ tutorials, hope that you guys will get a well deserved break this year end 🫶🏼 we can all see your passion for the subject and are grateful or even inspired by it. thank you for making our jc life that much more enjoyable and fruitful ☺️

~ audrey I6

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hi mr ahzar and mr lee! i cannot express how grateful i am for having such incredible and dedicated teachers in ej😆😆 lessons would not have been so enjoyable if not for y’all and though it must have been difficult to handle so many of us, thank you for always being supportive and patient with our growth 🌱🌱 hist department rly god tier 🆙🆙 hope the teachers can take this time to rest well too!

-ze xuan e1 ☃️☃️

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History itself is a subject that would be rather mundane if it were taught using only notes and lectures. But what made it such a wonderful subject to learn was the effort that you both had put in to brighten up every lesson. Not only did I anticipate every History lesson that I had each week (that's why I would always rush over to be the first person in my class to attend the lectures and tutorials), I also found it much more easier to remember the useful information shared with us in class thanks to the fun methods you use to teach us. Thanks to Mr Lee's straightforward methods of teaching, I was able to clear discern the dos and don'ts in essay writing, and thanks to Mr Azhar's entertaining ways to teach lectures, I was able to better absorb key information and learn how to apply them properly. Overall, it was a blast having you both as our History teachers as you were able to help hone our historic skills to prepare us for A levels while creating valuable memories that we can look back at and cherish as part of our EJ journey. I feel that our future history cohort is in good hands. As teachers leading the students along a path of uncertainty known as the A level History syllabus, please continue to guide the children of the future and spark interest in History within the hearts of the young. Once again, thank you sooo much for your efforts to help us grow😁😁😁😁

Yours sincerely,

Vishva 22-E3

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hello Mr Azhar and Mr Lee!

honestly history was such a pain in the ass I almost used a hammer to hit my head (ref. 2023 paper). but thank you for making lessons enjoyable when we did fun stuff like build the Lego and smoke stuff and abuse the #malaysiaboleh phrase.

thank you for taking the time to plan lessons and painstakingly find individual memes that encapsulate our mistakes to flash on the slides, these little moments during our postmortems make history lessons so much better haha (tbh I am still amazed how the age gap doesn't reduce ur ability to make jokes that we actually find funny hehe)

thank you to both of yall for accepting my consult requests and replying my messages about basic stuff :-) it's these moments where I feel safe in making mistakes and really had a great experience learning in EJ

thank you for marking our work so diligently and perservering and finding your way out of the smoke and bullshit (welcome to clear skies) and marking with no sleep, #respecc

thank u for making us chuckle down to the last day and for all the encouraging messages I can't tell u enough how much the Jiayouuussss everyone means to me after a shitty paper :-) and for suffering with us and empathising with our shared hate for CB (Cambridge)

and finally thank you for sharing with us ur personal lives and just being genuinely good and really cool people that I would gladly remember and look up to as my history teachers 4 life😎

~jazelle

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thank you soso much for the past 2 years of history lessons! i am very grateful that we are not just taking away content knowledge but also much memories, laughter and joy ❤️ the past 2 years under your teaching has been wonderful, thank you for all the super interesting and creative classes that made my school life more exciting and fulfilling 😝 wishing you both the very best for the new year! 💪💪

love, joy

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Thank you Mr Azhar and Mr Lee for being the best history teachers one could ask for ☺️☺️☺️. Your lessons always made history easier to understand and appreciate despite the difficulty and complexity of the subject. If History was as tough to study as this I can't imagine how challenging it must have been to actually teach it.

Most importantly, thank you for going above and beyond in all aspects of your teaching. From cosplaying as dictators in lectures and spending countless hours doing marking and consultations, to supporting us right up to the very day of our exams. Thank you for putting in such a remarkable amount of effort to bring this subject to life, without which history would have been nothing more to us than a stack of notes about the distant past, or a grade to be attained and forgotten.

We might not remember all the mugging we have done for this subject these past 2 years, but we will certainly remember everything you've done for us. I might not remember the key dates of the south china sea dispute or recall all the UNSGs, but i'll always remember the fun i've had in your lessons. Taking history has undeniably been an uphill battle, and there have been countless times when I've felt like I'd hit a wall without a way to improve. But looking back, in hindsight I truly believe that the learning opportunities have all been worth it, and that i'd do it all over again. How lucky we are to have had teachers such as you.

ken i1

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Dear Mr Lee,

Thank you for imparting so many wonderful knowledge about history and driving us to keep doing our best in history. I appreciate the effort that you have put to teach every one if us and I especially appreciate you keeping me and Haydn up to standard with the many essay sprints that we kept doing. Hope that your next batch cherishes your efforts as much as I do as I cherish our experience together as student and teacher as a part of history as well. All the best!

Yours Sincerely

Wen Yi (22-I1)

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to mr Lee and mr azhar,

the both of you have truly helped me (and hopefully many others) to appreciate and enjoy the subject more than i have ever been able to. sure, the subject was really painful in many ways… from struggling at a barely passing grade to slowly climbing my way up, i have the both of you to thank for improving my results :)

tutorials and lectures were quite fun, especially when the two of you go the extra mile to make funny and interesting lessons (i personally really enjoyed the times the two of you dressed up, or made us dress up).

academics aside, history has really taught me to think critically, to assess words/sources (especially in a war-torn world today) and to be able to come to nuanced perspectives. i always have those moments when watching the news with family, discussing political events and thinking ‘wow, history actually thought me something more than just the past’. so thank you, for imparting such valuable lessons to all of us.

i wish the both of you all the best for all that comes in teaching the future batches, and hopefully the results do not disappoint.

mr lee and mr azhar = history 🐐🐐🐐

- nisa 22-I1

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helloo!!!

thank you so much for the past 2 years HAHA we’ve learnt a lot under you guys 🤗 Thank you for always believing in us in everything HAHAHA & for sacrificing hours of sleep and rest to mark our stuff hehe

thank you for making me love hist more such that it’s something I look forward to and would go to school for every day HAHAHAHA yall are really incredible and thanks for making ejhist one of the best decisions I’ve made in EJ 🥰 will never forget you guys :””)

& mr lee: thanks for everything from replying my messages at 12++, looking at the essay outlines to imparting your vvv wise “be stronger than your excuses” to us🙏 truly did work throughout As LOL! but fr thank you for your support, 110% effort and dedication :)) 😆 (also thank u for not giving up on my handwriting HAHAHAHA😅)

<3 lorraine (22-E3)

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thank you mr azhar and mr lee for your efforts in teaching us, for making lessons interesting and taking the time to do consults with us and overall making this h2 history journey less painful (still like the subject, doesn't mean there wasn't suffering) :) thank you for always pushing us to do better and for your clear guidance in how to improve. i'll fondly remember the silly roleplay assignments, the shrines during A levels and the dressing up before our history papers because it showed your dedication to making this subject enjoyable and also to showing your support for us through our exams, which i am so grateful for.

to mr azhar specifically, thank you for going the extra mile to mark my extra essays and even corrections, reviewing my essay outlines and also answering my questions through text. and also a big thank you for entertaining my "why can't we just print more money" in class that one time :)

thank you for being part of this jc journey <3

~ xiao hui, 22-o4

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thankuuu so much for trying your best to reply to all of my annoying online requests and questions especially when i’m q sure everyone is doing the same thing…. thanku for all the comments and feedback thanku for all the irl classes and for bringing so much unhinged energy to the class/cohort. thanku for trying to provide as much as you can to all your students and for being so present for everyone. thanky for being so encouraging and sweet as alw!! ej history fr hits diff!!!

bethany 22-A6!!!

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Thank you for making history so fun haha even through all the dry stuff! The patience to read through some of the stuff we write is really something lol. Also sorry for submitting Egyptian hieroglyphs for 2 years (:

Evan 22-A6

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thank you for bringing so much joy to our history lessons and making them something to look forward to every week. Your hard work and patience (and constant encouragement !!) has certainly made this subject so much more bearable, even enjoyable 🤩🤩 for us, despite being in the face of a daunting examination like the A levels. thank you for showing us that studying history isn't just about memorizing facts or vomiting content 😭, for opening our eyes to the greater meaning of history and for showing us that having fun can be a part of the learning process. Learning history will never be the same without your (historically accurate) role playing, your passionate storytelling, and merciless roasting of our cohort 🤯. (In the long-term), I will forever be grateful for these short(-term) 2 years and will always be thankful to have once been a student under your tutelage :)) #CONTINUITY don't forget us hehe <3

~nicole (22-E3)

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Thank you so much for teaching me history for these past 2 years, you really made history interesting for me personally. In the beginning, I was abit hesitant about SEA history, seeing it as quite dull and insignificant l, however your graphs really helped me to see that history does not only include the superpowers, but small nations also play a big role in shaping the course of the world. It opened my eyes to the history of the region I live in and better understand the context of why politicians do what they do. All in all I've couldn't have asked for a better history teacher for my JC journey, hope you continue to inspire more batches to come :)).

Zheng Xun 22-O4

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thank you for being so patient throughout the 2 years for mr azhar and the 1 year for mr lee in teaching us history,, whilst there were times when yall complained about the endless essays to mark (with rather frustrating answers) yall never failed to be there for us, rain or shine, to guide us patiently through our silly mistakes. thank you for not giving up on us, preparing those 60-slides-long presentations and even making jokes during lectures to inject some laughter into the rather mundane, repetitive days if jc. no matter the results, i hope i do not disappoint your efforts and hopefully am able to repay your patience and care with whatever grade i get😭 thank you so much again and we will forever be grateful for having the two of yall as our history tutors,, couldnt have asked for more❤️

- zhi shan, 22-U1

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dear mr azhar and mr lee,

thank you for being the most driven history tutors we could possibly ask for, going the extra mile in every lecture, tutorial, even pre-a level setups.. even down to the tiniest things like the personalised feedback (dear name, why xx?) for every. question. part. thank you for demanding the best of us, pushing us further than what we imagine ourselves capable of, and for propelling us toward excellence.

special shoutout to mr azhar for being u1’s tutor and stepping in more than you needed to.. and going the extra mile of taking both sects of o1 and u1, then splitting us up by class to give us your undivided attention. it’s little things like this that truly made this history journey special.

thank you for your guidance and leadership 🫡🫡 we’re blessed to have been under your (semi-totalitarian) administration.

🤍 christie

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hi mr azhar and mr lee,

thank you for always trying to make history interesting by spicing up our lessons! frm dressing up to giving us posters after every exam, they’ve boosted our morale and motivation so much. even though it is very tiring to lecture on top of all your responsibilities, you always try to crack jokes, make us laugh and keep us awake during lessons (even when you’re fasting mr azhar!!) a great big thank you especially to mr azhar who checked in with me, sympathised and offered his help next year, it means more than you know and made me feel less alone and helpless! i hope it’s been a pleasure to teach us, as it’s been a great fun having y’all as our teachers 🤭🤭🤭

- best, renee lim (22-u1)

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Thank you for the (political) tutelage that you have given us throughout these two years, whether that is on showing relevant context of our sources, giving non-strawman counter-arguments, or just being stronger than our excuses. I truly enjoyed the lectures and tutorials that both of you have poured your blood, sweat, and tears into.

I hope that my handwriting was not too much of a struggle especially by the end of the papers... and you could see how your help has improved my essay writing skills and ability to consciously show historical concepts. I was personally dying throughout the economy chapters because of the amount of numbers I needed to memorise instead of relying on easily memorised dates and years which was able to bring me through the political history chapters, but the periodisation and lectures allowed me to know a fey key percentages that allowed me to smoke the rest of my essays with concepts.

I hope that you have enjoyed talking about the antics of Boo-Boo Ghali, the shenanigans of the oil Arabs, and the corrupt governments of SEA as much as I had listening to them. Have a good rest before going on to spread(the revolution) and enlighten(re-educate) the next batch of students on history.

-Justin (U1)

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thank you mr azhar and mr lee for being such amazing history tutors😢 i have had my fair share of pretty good history teachers back in secondary school, but being taught by you two especially has allowed me to look at this subject through multiple lenses. the tutorials (though arduous to prepare for the most part🤣) has allowed me to appreciate this subject in a manner that is not just limited to being an A level subject. i am so grateful for the guidance of you two, because you guys have instilled confidence in me to be able to approach this subject more bravely, creating room for a love for history to rekindle and motivating me to do well.

i still feel so bad for the times where i felt that i didn’t do you two’s guidance justice, and for that im sorry🙏🙏😭 but other than that i really feel that if i had been taught by any other teacher(s) at any other school, i won’t be able to approach history with the same amount of confidence, curiosity, and liking that you two have instilled in me. thank you so so much🩷🫡💂‍♀️

-ying hui, I1

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A political cartoon published by Mr Azhar, May 2022.

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A political cartoon published by Mr Azhar, May 2022.

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I sincerely express my deepest gratitude for allowing us to be under your wings through these 2 years. Perhaps more than that, I am thankful for being spared from a death penalty on a handful of occasions.

On a less/more serious note, I really do thank you for the guidance and the patience you have given us, the laughs and the memories you've created along the way. From the roleplays, to going "Ok I can see how this can work, perhaps using a better context" in most tutorials, to the rhetorical "So how could we periodise our arguments? Maybe through (suggestion 1)? Or (suggestion 2)?" questions to trigger more critical thinking. Which I still lack the content to execute on.

Personally, my brain really is not hardwired to remember dates and names and events and taking History for the past 4 years has been tough. But because of tutors with so much passion like you, the interest alone has pushed me through it all. I don't think I can overstate just how grateful I am.

"Make History or Become History" has been a running motto for me, a joke stemming from not doing so well in Hist. I can say that you have certainly made history. Thank you for everything, Mr Lee. Thank you for everything, Mr Azhar.

- Jing Yi, 22-O4 ^-^

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thank you mr azhar & mr lee for being the best history teachers we could ask for! i think i speak for most of us when i say a-level history is one of the most gruelling subjects to go through but you guys have made it fulfilling and memorable for us. so much work must go on behind the scenes but your dedication really shines through it all, from dressing up to lift our spirits and finding creative (and hilarious) ways to conduct lessons, to the little things like always being so willing to clarify our doubts or write "<name>, good job! Why <mark>?" on every single script. both of you have shown so much thought in the way you attempt to understand us and help us improve in a targeted manner. beyond learning to make memes, count the number of years since the formation of ASEAN, and spell out Boutros-Boutros Ghali's name in full, i've gained so much insight from your classes that goes beyond timelines and GAs. i'm really so proud to say that i was a part of ej history, all thanks to you guys :)

hope you guys have a good rest! (very much deserved, especially after squinting at our handwriting) and thank you for everything <3

- yu xin (u1)