梦中情人

met my 梦中情人 today & had the chance to play paintball with him... heh heh...perks of being a reporter...haha :p

had to try very very hard to behave myself. don't know him on a personal basis although i wished i had the chance to, but from the few times i've interacted with him, he's perfect: christian, funny, sporting, talented but too bad, he'll forever just be someone in my dreams.

pictures later when CTY decides to send them to me...

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Onto other things... saw this blurb on STI earlier on... can't agree more that scholars shouldn't just be from the elite schools... they're many many more talented and farsighted individuals with better leadership skills out there. They also bring different perspectives having experienced a different lifestyle. Glad that in my robotics days back in sec sch, i had the chance to interact with peers from neighbourhood schools. Learnt quite a few lessons about life from them.

Having said that, I don't quite agree with the "guile" part...probably more tactical and drivem but definitely not cunning... even if they are, ppl who are chinese educated are more compassionate and loyal i feel. A look at the SME tow kays, even the scheming crafty ones have a heart.

Spread scholars across schools: Ngiam Tong Dow
PRIMARY school pupils who shine should be spread across a range of secondary schools, rather than the two or three elite institutions usually reserved for scholars.
This would ensure Singapore's brightest are equipped with a wider range of thinking skills to tackle today's complex issues, former top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow said on Friday.

He suggested, for example, that those educated at Chinese schools here in earlier years, tended to have more 'guile' as a result.

Most education is in English nowadays, but in previous decades, a number of schools taught classes largely in Chinese. That led to a distinction.

Speaking at a Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) lunch, Mr Ngiam said Chinese-educated Singaporeans generally have more guile and cunning than their English-educated counterparts.

They also tend to be more 'doers' than just 'thinkers', which is an important trait that Singapore's scholar-dominated civil service needs to cultivate, said Mr Ngiam, chairman of Surbana Corp.

He was speaking to 150 attendees at SCCCI's biannual Distinguished Speakers Lecture series at the Ritz-Carlton Millenia hotel.

In his half-hour speech, Mr Ngiam discussed how Singapore can maintain a First World 'state of mind' by being a society with equal access to education and 'driven by passion'.

He also raised the question of whether there was a divide between the English-educated and Chinese-educated in Singapore.

Mr Ngiam, who attended an English medium school, recalled 'a famous speech in the 1960's' made by Mr Lee Kuan Yew, then Prime Minister, now Minister Mentor.

Mr Lee had described English school students 'as gold fish swimming in an ornamental bowl'. In contrast, Chinese-educated students were likened to 'piranhas in the wild'.

Blast from the past...

was googling for something and found my sec sch chinese project by chance.... funky...

Wedding Customs:
http://chinese.sngs.sch.edu.sg/other%20folders/meizai/fengshu/1/COVER.HTML

Singapore Female Authors: http://chinese.sngs.sch.edu.sg/other%20folders/aoyou/bentu234/index.html

Teletubbies turn 10!!!

(Source: Pink is the new blog)

Teletubbies 天线宝宝 turn 10 today! Gosh... it seems like yesterday when I first watched the hyper repetitive show with a baby face sun in sec sch (again! again! k... i was bored)

Lala, the yellow one's my fav... my brother bought me one for my birthday then. Still have it sitting pretty in my cabinet along with Tinky Winky that we got from mcdonalds.

Despite talks of them being satanic and found with rosary beads in them, nothing devious has happened to me in the last 10 years. Hmm...on second thots, maybe my insomnia n moodiness have something to do with them....

Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Lala, Po!


Teletubbies in Singapore @ Raffles Hotel in August 2007


Awww... so sweet...my fav lala with po!

i don't feel well. something's not right.

perhaps i've been working too hard n too long. i'm totally gutted out.

when i finally have a day to myself, i sit down and start crying.

maybe it's a bad idea to study and work at the same time.

feeling fat and ugly too. i binge when i'm stressed n i've been stuffing too many chocolates down my throat in the last 3 weeks. i no longer fit into my jeans. n my hair is way too short, dry n discoloured.

i hate myself.