Last week of boarding! Last week till FACOM too...

I realise I have so much to learn from my batch mates. So many of them quietly working hard for the unit. What I've done is so inadequate compared to what they do. 

Anyway, I think my revision of eoys is slowly starting. Hopefully I will do better than myes.

I hate it when people complain and not take into others' feelings. You know that your attitude or working mtd sucks, but you change it. You expect others to understand, and compromise with you? Wishful thinking.

Yes. We may be insensitive freaks. But why are we so? I guess we already have the answer.

just my wishful thinking.

Sometimes I just feel like blowing up.

YOG

Im going for my 2nd last day of YOG FAD tmr. It passed so fast. I cannot blog about what I did/saw in YOG as it is supposedly prohibited, but I guess the only way to describe it was that I saw many people there...but I only noticed one... Doubt I will meet with that person again.

Today, Hui Jun and I treated someone. And I realised what Ambrose Sir said was right. We as teenagers cant really do much for Singapore. RCY only mentally prepares us for the future, hence it falls under psychological defense.

When I treated that little boy, I found out how little I know about first aid. I know the theory, wash the wound then dress it to prevent it from bleeding profusely ( the boy had a bleeding), but when I really met with the situation, I was pretty much abit lost. It was only under the guidance of the injured boy's mother and another kind stranger that we managed to treat the boy so fast.

I guess, the saying that there are always things to learn is true.

Had an emo start to the day. Watched a movie called If Only, which I thought was supposed to have a happy ending. But the guy died. ...stupid script.

I got infected by the patriotism again. NDP songs are so catchy. I was playing an NDP's song on youtube, where I saw this comment about NS, that Singapore is the only democratic country that practices slavery, forcing ppl to go NS.

I mean wtf.

Yes, NS gives us men a disadvantage when we go back to work. You go for NS for 2 yrs, while women go work, and by the time you get back, oops she's your boss.

Yep. But so what? yea, I'm not that into patriotism myself, but it is something we must do. I will do it just to protect my family and friends. So I have come to the conclusion that the guy who posted that comment is a poor loser with no friends or family. sad la.

Chinese

Many of us students always complain that Chinese sucks (well most of the English-educated do). But instead of always complaining, why not look at the root of the problem?

I recently read an article about an American teaching English in Taiwan. When he first started, he found it very easy to teach, since the students there were well-behaved and quiet, so interaction with the teacher was frowned upon. He later found out that it was because they were used to rote learning, just copying down notes and then using it in the exam.

He had to make the learning environment less formal, in order for the students to become less inhibited.

I think we can also use this in our context. With the MOE initiative of "Teach less, Learn More", Singapore's education policy has steered away from rote learning, to interaction based learning. However, this is not reflected in Chinese, since most teachers come from overseas, mainly China, whose education policy compared to ours is somewhat backward, though improving quickly.

Furthermore, these teachers do not know much about Singapore. Our unique culture is world's apart from what they experienced in China, hence this accentuated gap between teacher and student. I remember enjoying Chinese in p5 and p6, because the teacher that taught me was a local-born one, and was able to mould the lessons to meet our needs.

Foreign talent is a cornerstone to our rapidly growing economy. However, education of the young is also extremely important, and I feel it would be much better if locals would be left to handle this heavy responsibility.

Oh hi. YOG and NDP today. Quite boring. Only the teacher-student games were quite interesting.

Im wondering, 10 years dowen the road, will I even remember that Singapore was the 1st country to host the YOG? I hope so, cos if I don't, it means its a fluke.

Which I hope won't happen. Singapore is after all supposed to be one of the most efficient countries in the world.

Don't feel like posting for the next few days. So bye blog.