So, an article got put up sometime ago about a guy who committed suicide because of the size of his sexual organs. Which is just utterly stupid. Not because the guy committed suicide, but because the Straits Times decides it would be a good idea of plaster something like this all over the front page to make a mountain out of a molehill. Thanks to them, we'll be seeing the Forum page being filled up with nonsense like this. Kind of in the same way they devote pages and pages to the upcoming elections, which nobody really cares about anyway. If you're living an okay live, you'd simply vote for the status quo. But I digress. Where education is concerned, you'd get the idea that the newspapers just have so few issues to publicise that they feel a need to blow everything that happens out of proportion. Examples of these would include the Nan Chiau incident, which is going to spoil kids everywhere ; The SJI-ACS rugby affair which lasted over a week for no apparent reason ; And the teenagers-having-sex article, which is going to make parents more suspicious and protective, and hence irritating, than ever before.
The point is, the education system is broken, but the bits that are publicised are the parts that need no fixing. I'm sure people who have actually been teaching for years know the difference between disciplining a child and unnecessary violence that overzealous parents who are more concerned about making their kid snobby and well-off. If you want to find a chink in the education's armour, write about how PW is the stupidest waste of time EVER, or how mother tongue standards are dropping horrendously, not about how students love each other too much. That's pretty damn retarded.
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I just saw a video a friend took of the central judging of secondary school military bands. And I can tell you it's pretty damn amazing. These bands actually engaged their school modern dancers to come up with steps for them. I forgot which school it was, but the fact that they actually played the star wars theme and marched perfectly into a darth vader face is incredible. Well, not much else to say here. Just random stuff.
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A coffeeshop is a microcosm of human life. I might sound like a stalker/eavesdropper/loser here, but sitting at a coffeeshop listening in on the conversations people have can be really interesting. Firstly, I saw a group of girls walk in, and I think "okay, they're pretty hot I guess"(probably due to dress sense) and their conversation proceeds to completely be a turn off because I realise they're talking about whether the guys in their class are going to look sexier when they start wearing long pants. Fair enough.
The next thing I hear is a group of old men yakking away about their sexual prowess in bed, and the hottest prostitutes on the streets. One of them then proclaims he has to wash his dentures and runs to the toilet. Which is rather strange, and leads me to silently declare not to visit that toilet. Ever.
Next, we have a pair of men drinking and discussing random issues, which is okay. Till I realise that one of them is a two-pack a day smoker -and- a teacher. Granted, if I was teaching in an ITE, I'd be smoking too. At this point, I decide I'd had enough and go off. The point of all this? If you're bored, go listen in on other people. It's rather fun.
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In other unimportant news, I failed my NAPFA, am not planning to study for a maths test tomorrow, and am starting to get a bit worried about the choir situation, with my dislike for certain people shooting up like the RenMinBi, and also being worried about being overheard making certain comments which might lead me to doing a repeat of a stupid incident last year. And for those who still don't know, there IS a tagboard at the bottom, I'm just too much of a bum to shift it up. I might consider changing the template though, the content isn't angsty enough for the blog. Oh yes, and my parents are noisy fuckers. They probably get joy from hearing their own voices.
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It seems I've given up!
The point is, the education system is broken, but the bits that are publicised are the parts that need no fixing. I'm sure people who have actually been teaching for years know the difference between disciplining a child and unnecessary violence that overzealous parents who are more concerned about making their kid snobby and well-off. If you want to find a chink in the education's armour, write about how PW is the stupidest waste of time EVER, or how mother tongue standards are dropping horrendously, not about how students love each other too much. That's pretty damn retarded.
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I just saw a video a friend took of the central judging of secondary school military bands. And I can tell you it's pretty damn amazing. These bands actually engaged their school modern dancers to come up with steps for them. I forgot which school it was, but the fact that they actually played the star wars theme and marched perfectly into a darth vader face is incredible. Well, not much else to say here. Just random stuff.
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A coffeeshop is a microcosm of human life. I might sound like a stalker/eavesdropper/loser here, but sitting at a coffeeshop listening in on the conversations people have can be really interesting. Firstly, I saw a group of girls walk in, and I think "okay, they're pretty hot I guess"(probably due to dress sense) and their conversation proceeds to completely be a turn off because I realise they're talking about whether the guys in their class are going to look sexier when they start wearing long pants. Fair enough.
The next thing I hear is a group of old men yakking away about their sexual prowess in bed, and the hottest prostitutes on the streets. One of them then proclaims he has to wash his dentures and runs to the toilet. Which is rather strange, and leads me to silently declare not to visit that toilet. Ever.
Next, we have a pair of men drinking and discussing random issues, which is okay. Till I realise that one of them is a two-pack a day smoker -and- a teacher. Granted, if I was teaching in an ITE, I'd be smoking too. At this point, I decide I'd had enough and go off. The point of all this? If you're bored, go listen in on other people. It's rather fun.
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In other unimportant news, I failed my NAPFA, am not planning to study for a maths test tomorrow, and am starting to get a bit worried about the choir situation, with my dislike for certain people shooting up like the RenMinBi, and also being worried about being overheard making certain comments which might lead me to doing a repeat of a stupid incident last year. And for those who still don't know, there IS a tagboard at the bottom, I'm just too much of a bum to shift it up. I might consider changing the template though, the content isn't angsty enough for the blog. Oh yes, and my parents are noisy fuckers. They probably get joy from hearing their own voices.
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It seems I've given up!
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