hmm. went to kino yesterday. blur person that I am, didn't notice that everything was 20% off. was wondering why the queues were longer than serangoon and bukit timah roads put together. couldn't leave without getting the book that i specially travelled there to get of course. the most valuable book i've gotten in a long while, for more reasons than one.
sigh. hesitation and thought make life complicated.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
right. i haven't blogged in ages. SORRY MARIE!
It's just that I have no problem doings that might not be necessary but unfortunately tend to have this aversion to doing things that I need to:) So... An update yeah?
It's 22th June. I'm currently in Singapore. Closing ceremony was 4 weeks ago and I still remember each moment clearly as though it had just happened yesterday. It's funny 'cos it seems really far away...
yikes. update more later. have to sleep if i want to get up in time tmrw!
It's just that I have no problem doings that might not be necessary but unfortunately tend to have this aversion to doing things that I need to:) So... An update yeah?
It's 22th June. I'm currently in Singapore. Closing ceremony was 4 weeks ago and I still remember each moment clearly as though it had just happened yesterday. It's funny 'cos it seems really far away...
yikes. update more later. have to sleep if i want to get up in time tmrw!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
the hopeless blogger
yikes. 2nd post of the year. *smiles sheepishly*
Spring break ended 2 days ago, not that it was really long though.We were off last saturday right through wednesday, 5 days in total counting the weekend. I went to Budapest for the break, staying in a hostel for 2 nights, later travelling up to ishak where my room mate stays.
It was interesting, 2 asian girls going around hungary alone, knowing not a word of hungarian nor anything similar to that. Thank goodness that the worst consequence of this was ordering exorbitantly-priced chicken liver without knowing what it was:)
Other than that, last saturday officially marked the end of winter for me, with 4 weeks of cross country skiing culminating in a 28km ski marathon, which i miraculously came out of ALIVE! thought that i would have had to stay in a mountain refuge my whole life and subsist on wild berries and fruit.
In retrospect, i had a great time, learning how to ski, and having a lot more practice falling:p I guess that it's really time to buckle down to some serious studying now... till very soon i hope!
Spring break ended 2 days ago, not that it was really long though.We were off last saturday right through wednesday, 5 days in total counting the weekend. I went to Budapest for the break, staying in a hostel for 2 nights, later travelling up to ishak where my room mate stays.
It was interesting, 2 asian girls going around hungary alone, knowing not a word of hungarian nor anything similar to that. Thank goodness that the worst consequence of this was ordering exorbitantly-priced chicken liver without knowing what it was:)
Other than that, last saturday officially marked the end of winter for me, with 4 weeks of cross country skiing culminating in a 28km ski marathon, which i miraculously came out of ALIVE! thought that i would have had to stay in a mountain refuge my whole life and subsist on wild berries and fruit.
In retrospect, i had a great time, learning how to ski, and having a lot more practice falling:p I guess that it's really time to buckle down to some serious studying now... till very soon i hope!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Time to ponder
The best part about holidays back home must be the absence of any possible work-related meetings, practices and rehearsals which are quite impossible given the fact that everyone's scattered around the globe.
A true holiday is indeed one where there is time aplenty to read books that there never seemed to be the time for, to think about issues that always seemed to be displaced lower down the priority list by other seemingly more urgent issues.
Or perhaps it's just poor time management that has prevented me from thoughts for a long while.
The One Laptop Project was something that caught my attention in the DigiLife section of the Straits Times. Without a hard drive and various other functions that add frills and cost to the conventional laptop, the One Laptop laptops currently cost $188 a piece.
Simple yet enough.
In the pilot project, these laptops were distributed to elementary school children in Arahuay, Peru, many of whom come from families that subsist on this same amount each month.
Although teething problems are and have been a given, the benefits of this programme seem plentiful. The biggest perhaps would be the fact that information and sources on the internet and endless and free.
Wikipedia alone, save for the occasional bias and inaccuracy, provides a strong foundation for the education of a child in a society where textbooks,up-to-date ones at that, and underqualified or simply-too-busy teachers are a luxury.
With the proliferation of online teaching materials, one can learn everything from matrices to mitosis to medieval history to modern Malaysia, giving rise to a well-educated and informed society.
And yet, the setbacks are substantial. Energy sources, internet access, internet safety, technical support... More importantly, will this change the lifestyles of people for the worst?
Just as the internet stands for educational information at one's fingertips, it can also mean various forms of undesirable information such as pornography. Who, if not the teachers and parents(many of whom themselves are learning), is trained to deal with this?
Indeed, this could be well complemented with an essay on whether the internet has been a boon or bane to society.
But for now, the plan to bring easily accessible information to children around the world especially in nations with a poor education infrastructure through a common medium that is relatively well established and certainly extensive sounds like a promising one.
A true holiday is indeed one where there is time aplenty to read books that there never seemed to be the time for, to think about issues that always seemed to be displaced lower down the priority list by other seemingly more urgent issues.
Or perhaps it's just poor time management that has prevented me from thoughts for a long while.
The One Laptop Project was something that caught my attention in the DigiLife section of the Straits Times. Without a hard drive and various other functions that add frills and cost to the conventional laptop, the One Laptop laptops currently cost $188 a piece.
Simple yet enough.
In the pilot project, these laptops were distributed to elementary school children in Arahuay, Peru, many of whom come from families that subsist on this same amount each month.
Although teething problems are and have been a given, the benefits of this programme seem plentiful. The biggest perhaps would be the fact that information and sources on the internet and endless and free.
Wikipedia alone, save for the occasional bias and inaccuracy, provides a strong foundation for the education of a child in a society where textbooks,up-to-date ones at that, and underqualified or simply-too-busy teachers are a luxury.
With the proliferation of online teaching materials, one can learn everything from matrices to mitosis to medieval history to modern Malaysia, giving rise to a well-educated and informed society.
And yet, the setbacks are substantial. Energy sources, internet access, internet safety, technical support... More importantly, will this change the lifestyles of people for the worst?
Just as the internet stands for educational information at one's fingertips, it can also mean various forms of undesirable information such as pornography. Who, if not the teachers and parents(many of whom themselves are learning), is trained to deal with this?
Indeed, this could be well complemented with an essay on whether the internet has been a boon or bane to society.
But for now, the plan to bring easily accessible information to children around the world especially in nations with a poor education infrastructure through a common medium that is relatively well established and certainly extensive sounds like a promising one.
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