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'.
