March 2016

Teacher of the Month
This month we talk to Chemistry teacher Mr
Fung.
1. What is your favourite Thai food?
Miang Kham, which is basically a dish where
you load up a pepper leaf up with different
condiments like desiccated coconut shavings,
galangal slices, bird’s-eye chili, raw garlic, and
peanuts, all topped off with plum sauce. You pop the whole thing into your mouth all at
once, yum. Actually, that’s what Miang Kham means in Thai…lots in one bite.
2. What made you choose to live in Thailand?
Actually, my spouse and I visited Thailand several times on holiday before deciding to
move here as one big adventure. We both fell in love with country and the people and
have been here for almost ten years.
3. If you weren't a teacher, what would you be doing?
Working at Google either as a computational linguist or chemist (yes, Google hires
chemists).
4. What kind of student were you?
Total geek. Memories of trying to write “useful” computer programs with my geeky
friends…like one to generate Shakespearean sonnets cuz we din’ wanna do our English lit
homework.
5. What is your favourite sport or game? If you could change one rule, what would you
change? Why?
Badminton. I’d change the scoring rules. Every time you twirled or pranced before striking
the shuttlecock, you award yourself one additional point.
6. If you could swap places with anyone in the world for just a day, who would you
choose? Why?
Anybody who was playing the pipe organ Saint Saëns third symphony. The fourth
movement, whooooaaaaaa….
7. What’s your favourite movie and why?
Moon, a 2009 British science fiction film. It has a lot of my favourite themes: cloning,
exploring the human condition, ethical limits of technology… oh, and the music’s good. I’ve
watched it at least half a dozen times already.
8. What’s the best thing about your home country?
Diversity of geo/ecological environments. For example in California, where I’m from, you
can be in the middle of a desert environment, like in Palm Springs, and then take a 20-
minute cable car ride up the mountain to go snowboarding.
9. What part of being a kid do you miss the most? Taking music lessons.
10. Who was your first crush? Well in 3rd grade I had a cr… hey wait a minute.
That’s a personal question. Okay, interview’s over =P