Thursday, October 13, 2005
//[i_'heart'_u]\
was on the bus.. goin home. and daniel ong played Thubthumping (if that's how u spell it and even pronounce it) by... chumbawamba(if i'm even right). it reminded me so much of the kids at sharmini's jazz class. those little devils... and well, it reminded me to - them.
cL, xm, and the two wans. i miss them terribly... it's been months since we all last met..
had econs lecture this morning. and ting didn't seem to teach as enthusiastically. he was a little off track, i felt. not as in topic wise.. but not normal of him to teach that way. shows that he was gettin a little bored maybe. yeah.. and my mind drifted to what rahim said. "everyone can be a teacher"
i agree...
Everyone can be a teacher;
Anyone can fail as a teacher.
doesn't that jeapordise our education? having teachers who can learn how to be a teacher, yet fail at being a teacher? it's an irony. i bet most people who go into NIE don't like to teach. or at least, teaching has never ever crossed their minds - until they got rejected from local universities. so they just enroll into NIE just cos it's a joint programme with NTU? that's what i think... not necessarily true. but from what i see, it usually is the case.
Anyone with a diploma can teach at ITE. easy money. stand around and talk nonsense probably. and anyone with a Degree can teach at polytechnics. what you get.. are people like *i won't mention. but there's a few eminent characters* we don't learn anything. is that good? so that we don't even get the chance to get spoonfed? we have to learn everything by ourselves? is that a better way to learn, actualy? and does that really lead to creative thinking?
i had this little debate with dave on msn quite a while ago. about how southeast asia aren't creative. we were comparing models in thailand and singapore, since he was residing in thailand. i remember a few people saying thailand is a great place that develops creative talents. and encourages media development (creative industries) - but dave thinks otherwise. he thinks thailand kids are very spoonfed. information needs to be presented straight in their faces. but again i remember seeing textbooks used in singapore being sold in thailand's bookstores - oh, so their system is modelled after sg's education system? i didn't think singapore was a creative country in the past, when i was younger. but as i got older, i asked myself "how do you define creative". dave asked me that. i couldn't answer. the conversation turned silly after that. he said "u can't answer cos u aren't imaginative".. and we went on to talk about the EIC takin over south east asia and the commonwealth countries. probably why we're so controlled and "unimaginative" and "uncreative" was because we were a british colony. nah.. of course not. but that's beyond. haha...
things are good at school other than balding over calculus. am close to sharel now.. we can talk quite a lot. and i realised whenever we sit with daniel gay, we always talk about fitness.... food... and today, pornography. and there were 2 lecturers sitting beside us. but.. oh well.. let it go.
so tell me... cl, wn, wt, xm.. when will i see you again? not nov 14 i hope?
Dreamed a PuRpLe
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