this whole examsss period is making me really dreary...
i seriously seriously wanna get over and done with it!!
on ligher note, i'm glad i'll be flying off next sem, or rather end of the year.
maybe it's cus of this that i feel so wanting to break free. gosh.
ok i should get back to studying.
looking forward to hectic preparations and all after the exams.
oh and i've got my housing alr!and i've 2 caucasian roomies. seems like it's gonna be exciting..
updates sooonnn(((:
three things i missed abt Singapore (after coming back from my stong trip at 3am today)
1. Clean toilets (proper sanitation)
2. Good food that makes me satiated
3. Lastly, efficient transport system - definitely not railways.(my longest and most gruelling journey on the train if not for awesome peeps to fill up the day)
updates another day!
drained.
ok time for updates!~
i've been employed as a teaching intern at nas...it's been for the past 3 wks.
well i would say that time passes quick. soon it'll be 10 weeks and sch will start yet again.
in brief:
-1st week of the internship has been brisk and eye-opening. went to those N(A) and N(T) classes with my english lang teaching mentor. she's a great cher i must say-compassionate, firm, caring almost all the qualities of a gd teacher you can think of. no wonder she's always been given these challenging classes in e sch. the end of the wk we celebrated (nt such a gd term but cant think of a better one) mr chua (P's) farewell. LA(vp) is like taking over him as P. we spoke more to the current vp than the p. only on his last day did we get to have a quick chat with him...he's like setting up a new sch in sg. sci n tech one and he's gonne be a p again.
- wk 2: meanwhile LA gave us the 'opportunity' to be attached to korean exchange high sch pupils from incheon! well i had a pretty gd experience with all of them and the girls actually gave me farewell gifts on our last day. the prettiest gift i got was this colorful box and in it were stationaries, food, chocs etc! the rest is mostly korean handmade bookmarks. we bought packs of chocs for the 90 of them to share too. :) incheon's principal mistook me twice for being their pupils and spoke to me in korean somemore. he even told LA and LA jokingly told me to follow them back. do i seriously have the korean look? my 2 other interns said i did but my other frens said no. but well if i do i dun mind either! korean or chinese? take ur pick...haha. and the korean DM he's like such a masculine and tough person. whenever he spoke to the students, he commands such respect that i'm amazed- they'll just keep quiet and listen to him just a few sec after he opens his lungs. i dont think such a DM exist in our local context. somehow i think it's our students. they grow up too fast - too mature for their age maybe that's why i don't see the innocence i see in these korean students. they're much older (17 yrs old) than our sec sch students but they behave in such a candid way u wont get to see in our students. well what can i say?cultural difference or the env we were each brought up in? haa.. next time if i get to go korea the DM says we can meet up with him at incheon intl' airport!
had my dance cca session. the girls were practicing for the upcoming tapestry and i helped them to record videos during the practice. recognised afew girls from the classes i'd went to.
-wk 3: which is now. the sch (or rather LA) gave us 2 projs to complete. what a wonderful job! gotta come up with a video n ppt plus planning of an integrated curriculum which might be carried out by ourselves to test water. on top of that, im also starting my lesson plan for nxt term on expository writing. urgh. piles of stuff.
results were released today. wasnt that crazy to camp at 12am to check and i heard from ct that the system was jammed till 1 plus and only hostel ppl get to log in 1st cus it's sch compound. he is one of those kiasu ones who camped, slept super late and got groggy today when we saw him. k well dropped slightly but im still satisfied. will try harder nxt sem! ((: was talking to x abt exchange prog cus she went hk instep.it's pretty fun to hear experiences but im glad i didnt make a haste decision to accept my india trip(with only 1 other person whom i dont know) the previous round so am planning to try for instep n gip nxt sem again... hopefully i can make better choices then. shall see.
at the same time im alr planning what mods to do for nxt sem. econs peepz shall discuss tgt again.
till then!
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death, as soon as it occurs, cannot be bad for a person.
because there is no longer a person.
death causes suffering, there is no doubt about that.
but we hate
death because we confuse the pain that many feel just before dying. and the grief of those left behind, with
death itself.
when i die, i cease to exist.
if i cease to exist, how can
death be a bad thing for me?
as epicurus wisely says '
death is of no concern to us, for while we live it is not present, and when
death is present, we no longer exist.'
the negative side to
death is a lack of
life.
and lack of
life only matters because of what we can do with it -
life in itself has no value.
therefore,
life is sacred.
we only desire
life above all else, because without
life, there is nothing else.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
the evidence we get from the outside world all comes thru our senses.so if we can doubt what our senses tell us, which we can,then we can doubt our whole experience of the outside world...
Saturday, April 26, 2008
hoho...
i've been mia-ing this blog for 3 months!
anw... i guess it's been pretty eventful ever since sch started-hall prod, smif... my recess wk was gone just like this and yes i felt that i haven't done much...
im trying to work on my creative juices now coming up with a marketable product...sth that is feasible, viable, whatever. i now realise the toughness of this knowing that i'm
not a person who's full of ideas...anw i came across this product online "pill towel". it's pretty cool cus it actually comes in the size of a pill and when you need a piece of tissue/towel paper just take the pill out and wet it with a few drops of water and bravo! it turns to a full-sized paper towel. now im thinking of how to incorporate this into a mktg plan...woah.
side-track a lil...
the past wk has been hectic. in fact i think this month is gonna be hectic for me. practically all my mods have projects which are gonna be due end of the month or rather, 2 wks from now. argh. so many unconclusive discussions that we're still working on.
and yea just a few days ago i went for gip interview! and i really really do hope i get to go switzerland-my 1st choice for exchange 1 sem... but then again as i was thinking thru it these few days if i do get it some plans are a lil screwed for next sem.cus im like in the running for iic main comm and if i do get it i cant make my contributions. also, i wont have a room to stay next sem but then again i can re-apply when im back just that im leaving my roomie behind... and im trying to find my subject matches in university of st. gallen which i have a hard time searching thru their webpage cus it's all what's offered last few semesters and im trying to get in touch with their bachelor's program in charge...seriously mind-boggling. i thought my subject coordinator could actually ease my burden but no! so fine.
well well...many many things i cant get it off my head.
Saturday, March 08, 2008