last saturday was 'exams-over-watch-movie-day' at youth group. hah
kimbo came too! we watched this interesting show called 'Facing the Giants', and nostalgia just overwhelmed me.
NJ Touch Rug. that 2months was really an experience.
Being always the last runner of RVNP NCO Squad 03/04.. i never thought i'd ever make it to run fast.
but coach angel really stretched me.. and also jingjing, the cesar tracker who taught me how to run when i willingly go to the front to run fart leks every training..
everyone thought i was very zai. run super fast.
but i never did until then..and i dont think they knew this.
i struggle so much every fart lek session.. 4 rounds fart leks kills me!
but im thankful i took on the challenge.
im thankful i was chosen for the first team for J1s to go get killed by others.
it was an experience i'd treasure much. :)
i wish i could just resume touch rugging somehow, some day.. in university?
i hope i can..with that knee injury from training.
just wanna play:)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-i dont know why i always blog when i get an headache. lol.
im going off for church camp on 30th may, but before that.. YINGYING please come back!
hah, im waiting for you, so that kim you and i (and maybe any 05S78ers reading this..) can go get our A level certs together! :) one morning together.. see the teachers or something.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Read the papers today, HCI was chosen to be some technological school pilot project by the MOE.
Primary Schools up to Secondary Schools have been chosen for this trail program, to test its feasiblility for the initiative to be undertaken by all schools in Singapore..
The Primary Schools under the program have what TOUCH SENSITIVE WHITEBOARDS. and a primary school girl commented that it is 'fun and the teacher can play interesting games with them'
I ponder on the neccessity of such hi-tech fanciness in schools today.
I somehow feel that these cool gadgets just become a fad in schools, to capture the attention of the pupils for just a period of time.. and when they get used to this new thing.. they'll still be uninterested or mischeivious as they were if they were so in the first instance. More worrying is that children from low income families who have never really seen such things in their lives, may just spend precious time adapting and adpating to new gadgets that are introduced. They may never get to really concentrate on the content.
But of course, its not all bad.. of course it's flashy, interesting and all that.. but is it neccessary??
An interesting teacher can make a dull subject come to live with oldfashioned black board and chalk
And a boring teacher can just put a class to sleep even with those touch screen white board or whatsoever fanciful things they are going to come up with.
The PRIMARY SCHOOL spent $20,000 or something on the installation of these technological stuff already.
Could the money been put to better use, such as training practical creativity for teachers that would liven up the class just as these technology is aiming to do?
Could the money been used to train students from disadvantaged families, to help them learn basic computer skills that their fellow classmates have learnt at home?
Or probably the school is already doing these, i wonder what goes on in those little schools nowadays that i see my tuition kid so lack of physco-motor skills. and so focussed on getting the right answers for everything in life.. that they are afraid to try. It is not the priority nor responsibility, as many may argue, of the school today to mould the students' life. (although they put things on banners, large prints around the school campus). But why should schools be a breeding ground for such students, capable of 100 marks and incapable of tossing a basketball at a friend?
