just read yingsi's blog, and im happy she's doing good ^^ makes me believe in breaking the mold. very soon, our profession wont be "student" anymore. will it be easy to break away from comformity then? will we be prepared for individuality, or will we fall into cliches?
its a genuine question, a genuine fear. jia you yingsi :) jia you to all future trailblazers.
jia you, joyce. catchup :)
saw a headline just now, "PSLE Math made son sad and lose confidence." WTH IS THAT?! george carlin wouldve rolled over in his grave, and i cant say im too far away in sentiment, minus the grave part. get a load of this shit.
dear professional parent, while i cant say i have experienced the worries parents harbour over their children's academic progress, this is ridiculous. a lot of things are going to make your son sad in life. like probably contracting STDs. freaking out about a psle math paper should not be one of them. you probably wont be around for alot of his SAD moments in life, so FACE IT AND MOVE ON. furthermore if you had brought your kid up with an appropriate mindset he wouldntve been SAD even if he bombed the psle math paper and had to retain in pri school.
i have one last bone to pick with you mr/mrs "professional". to quote your words,"We don't need to do this to the little ones. They will grow out to be as perfect as we are."
firstly, im very sure the little ones have much more potential and backbone than many adults without you campaigning for their rights you big pansy. secondly, having been a "little one" much more recently than you have, i can safely tell you that the kids will grow up fine through any shit MOE or the world throws at them as long as the parents do their job. "shang liang bu zheng xia liang wai", ever heard of that? lastly, WHO ON EARTH SAID YOU WERE PERFECT?? do you think you are perfect? did you hear from someone that you were perfect? did that concept come to you in a dream? jeez, get a life you toot. perfection is an illusion. tell your kid that when he comes home crying with a D in psle math.
thats all i have to say to the grown up.
dear kid of professional parent: good luck. and if by any chance you should become depressed and antisocial because you screwed one of the many exams in life, youre a sorry excuse for a son.
hmm, i must still be suffering from post-promo trauma.
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this is too cool. went out for a walk with family just now, and walked to balestier to see the showrooms of the Vista condo which was about to be constructed. sisters and i were looking at the scaled down model of the condo, when this salesguy in his smartlooking business suit came up and just stood behind us. was about to throw him a weird look, when lynn went.
"JEREMY!!!!"
and so it was!!! and he was laughing his ass off. ohmygoodness. fyi last year lynn and i went to work a one time night shift for toysrus at ue square, and we met jeremy, who was an ex-banker (financial crisis period mah) and was currently doing oddjobs then. quite a fall from grace for him i guess, cos at that time he was temp-ing at an office, printing papers and all that i will always remember him asking us: "the pay is only $5 an hour for night shift????" and we all went "DUH." hahax ^^the poor dude was looking quite scruffy then.
anyway fortunately he looked in better shape now and more at home with the air conditioned business suited environment ^^ jeez, who wouldve thought of seeing him there! ridiculous coincidences. so glad he has been able to climb back up! nice one, man. :D
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went to watch 500 days of summer with mstan, mrchia, mrschia and mssatish on thurs. i thought the movie was great! it was able to convey its message without any mushy scenes or much narration. plus i totally agreed with tom's outburst on the greeting card industry; its pretty redundant. mrchia didnt like the plot though ^^ but thinking back, i guess the plotlessness of it was able to strengthen the director's message, that life was coincidences and not miracles, love is not all flowers blooming and fireworks.
its not a mindset everyone may agree with, but kudos for the end result. i guess it does help that it has a really nice soundtrack ^^
