teaching 2010
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 (8:31 PM)
never thought i'd do this but am planning to join the teaching profession next year.
gonna apply end of this year. hope i get it...
i'm sorry you are small
Saturday, April 18, 2009 (1:46 PM)
i am watching the repeat telecast of campus superstar 3 grand finale. although i haven't been much of a follower this season, i noticed that whenever comments are sought from supporters of anglican girl 蔡艾珈, they constantly remind her of her petite built.
they like starting the sentence with, “虽然她娇小。。。” but what has the ability to sing got to do with size? where's the correlation?
it's all your parents' fault
(1:15 PM)
many a times when students are caught in the act of undesirable actions, the public often try to figure out who's at fault. i don't recall the witness having expertise in judgmentology.
the pinpointing usually occurs between the 2 or more parties involved and ultimately, some smart-aleck will accuse the parents of not teaching the kids. we are so bred into the ideology that children are incapable of rationale decision-making that in spite of the alarming rate of neurological growth in the new generations of students, we insist on pushing the blame to the parents. this is unhealthy.
knowing that they have little implications to bear on public perception, these evolved rebels may no longer grow under the idea that holding responsibility is necessary. afterall, they are "just students" and "it is their parents who didn't teach them properly".
students nowadays are so intellectually advanced, parents shouldn't be held responsible for every little action they do.
if you don't agree with what i have to say here, it's not my fault. blame my parents.
mind your shirts
Friday, April 17, 2009 (11:47 PM)
i kinda hate clothes with texts on it. it's like haunting you to read it, as if having images are not bad enough.
things get worse when girls wear them and even worse when they have texts beginning near the chest area. images already draw our eyes to them to see what pictures you have on your top. texts simply make our eyes wander longer at your chest area so that we can make sense of the texts.
i realised that texts increase the salience on your chest by such a significant amount, my eyes are often drawn to them without my command. i so often look at tops with texts on it, friends and/or strangers may begin to suspect i am freaking lecherous.
but please give me the benefit of the doubt. i was just reading the texts!
but if your top has neither texts nor images, i'm really just staring at your breasts. i heard it's equivalent to a good workout. =)
造福社会？
Sunday, April 12, 2009 (9:19 AM)
what the...
the innovative japanese strikes again
(9:11 AM)
took the above image at uniqlo @ tampines 1. nowadays, even bras come with wifi functionality. surf the internet wirelessly with your memories!
i mean mammaries.
a message from jet li
Saturday, April 11, 2009 (1:39 PM)
“我很年轻就习惯两边看问题，男人觉得女人烦，女人说男人自私。老板骂员工不努力，员工埋怨老板给少假期。明白了游戏规则我就不会埋怨，埋怨改变不了问题。”
i wasted one year?
Friday, April 10, 2009 (9:01 PM)
time and again, i've heard people telling me going to polytechnic is a waste of time if you are to enter a university.
that's pretty much my situation.
the most popular argument is that 1 additional year is wasted in poly when the jc students already enter university. is that always the case? i'd beg to differ.
the reason behind the idea is simple. jc is a 2-year course while poly is a 3-year course. and if one goes from a life science major in poly to a life science major in uni, it kinda renders the diploma useless when you achieve a bachelor. on a weaker note, we may argue that employers may be more impressed with a poly student who makes it to a varsity. but that is just plain speculation. it can never be proven until someone actually does a survey.
but the above is not really the case. because poly students get additional credits in university, they may end up being on par with jc students. at the most, poly students trail jc students by a semester. and that is half a year. then it may be argued that we might've paid a little too much fees in poly when we end up at the same place as our fellow jc batch of students who paid only a fraction of that.
we all also already know the old and boring argument that poly students can work with a diploma if they don't make it to uni but jc students can't do the same with an A-level certification. then, they'd be forced to go to a private school or overseas for further study.
my case is a tad different. when i went from an internet computing diploma in poly to an arts degree majoring in english language in uni, i was only behind my batch of students by a semester. yes, that is half a year. and guess what?
i only spent an additional 6 months to hold an additional diploma in computing. if my fellow jc friends were to take that, it would cost them another 3 years.
now who's the winner?
some juicy news
Sunday, April 05, 2009 (9:13 PM)
faithful followers of this semi-dull weblog would know i hardly talk about my life here. perhaps even lesser about my love life. 'cause i actually don't have much to talk about. at the same time, i dread revealing too much about myself here. did you notice the lack of photos? at the very least, if repercussions do come of it, i have more time to remain unidentified until a search professional is hired to do a google on me. that's right. i am the south korean golfer.
i haven't felt a certain way in a long while 'cause i haven't met someone who could make me feel that way in that same length of time. a recent discovery roused some emotions which i didn't expect to feel.
i recall many years ago, this certain friend of mine sat beside me in class. we were pretty close back then, till a chinese test where she had difficulty answering 2 of the questions. being seated to my left, she turned around and asked for an answer. i shared my answer with her and she wrote it down happily. moments later, she asked for the answer of another question. i thought cheating for one question was bad enough. i pretended not to hear her and refused to share my answer the second time. being a considerably outstanding student in mandarin in class, she was certain i knew the answer and she knew i just didn't want to share it with her. following which, she decided to stop talking to me.
i was a little affected when she ignored me and it carried on for the next 4 days. on the fourth day when i was at the bus stop on the way home, a friend passed me an envelope with a card in it and told me he was told by her to pass it to me. i opened it and read it. it had something like some checkboxes on why this card is given and she checked 2 boxes. one of which read "i'd like to say hello" and the other read "吃饱没事做". below the checkboxes was a message that said she was sorry and actually wanted to not talk to me for 1 week but could only hold out 4 days. interestingly, she signed off with a question mark, not wanting to write her name.
following which, things were slightly different between us but when we went to different classes the following year, all contacts were gone. in spite of the fact that she was only next door, i don't recall seeing her at all for the next 2 years.
some time after o levels, while working at music junction, i met her again when she happened to walk into the shop. i was really happy to talk to her again. i was waiting to enter temasek polytechnic then and when i heard that she went to tp for the 1st 3 months, i was rejoicing within myself. but she followed by saying she didn't like it there and will be entering ngee ann polytechnic instead. my heart kinda sank for a moment.
we then lost contact again for the next 3 years or so. some time later, she found me on friendster and i was again feeling happy but we didn't really talk much then. later, i found out she was studying in australia and nearing her final year, we began chatting on msn almost every day. but at that time, she already had a boyfriend one year our junior and she didn't seem to recall the chinese test incident. sometimes when she had trouble or worries, she'd confide in me and told me a secret supposedly nobody else knows. to be honest, i don't know in detail either. i just know what she told me.
we said we'd meet up again when she returns from australia. but when she returned, we sorta stopped contacting again. she did drop a message a day after she landed saying to meet up someday but that was the only one message.
i realised sometimes in the depths of my heart, i secretly wished for her and her boyfriend to break up someday so that we may have a chance. because she had a boyfriend, i didn't want to do anything to upset that relationship. my principle is to not get involved with another's girlfriend because if i have a girlfriend, i wouldn't want others to get involved with her either. although i have friends who tell me i should fight for it.
her display pictures on msn were almost never her boyfriend's but somehow it seemed that their relationship were going pretty strong though i do know of a number of quarrels. after some years, i accepted that they were going to be together for long and perhaps going to get married. inside, i gave my blessings. but somehow, i occasionally still hope for something.
some months ago, we started chatting for a bit again and stopped again. a moment ago, i saw a photo album that she titled "beginning of a new life". i was surprised. for some reason, i was afraid that she was married or due to get married. i looked at the photos and captions and realised, she had broken up with the younger guy.
but she's now with someone else and this new relationship started a month ago.
to be honest, i didn't know i still feel that way for her. but i guess i missed my chance again.
the evolution of child pornography
Saturday, April 04, 2009 (11:08 AM)
i just happen to see a news article on a pre-pubescent girl performing pole-dancing in thailand. my guess would be that she's only 8 or 10 years old.
granted, there's no explicit sexual acts performed. but a sexually provocative dance, to me, should still be classified under child pornography. and whoever hired that girl should be charged for at least 2 counts.
1) child labour
2) paedophilia
worse if she was made to do it. and whoever uploaded those videos...
3) distribution of child pornography
i wonder if paedophiles molest themselves when they were young. maybe it's classified under masturbation.
to be like or unlike
Friday, April 03, 2009 (10:53 PM)
just saw a post on stomp that reads, "we need more iconic spots like this in bangkok".
interestingly though, i wonder why do we need things like someone else. and do we really need to be like someone else?
when we don't have it, we complain and say we need to be like them. but when we have it, we are just copycats.
take the singapore flyer for example. we are copying the london eye. worse still, we cannot match up to the yokohama ferris wheel. we should be like them.
it's funny how whoever we are like, we always pale in comparison to someone else. and when we finally match that better someone else, we are just another copycat.
we probably top the world rankings for cynicism. me? i'm cynical about cynics. that may be why i'm contributing to the stats.