umop ǝpısdn ǝɟıl ʎɯ uɹnʇ: September 2008
The Joy Of Teaching
Thursday, September 11, 2008











goodness


language fusion

snapshots of the very interesting happenings in class.


Better In Time
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Things are looking up once again. I know, things have always been ever looking up (once again) but we do definitely have our down times periodically. I was doing some random reading during N level invigilation today when i chance upon this very pun intended article regarding the recent interest on housing foreign workers. Very invoking, accompanied with that wicked tinge of humour.

Residents of Serangoon
"We shouldn't let them infiltrate our neighbourhoods. They might rape our women, sleep with our maids and rob the poor. They will cause our property to depreciate in its value too."

Residents of Jurong
"If you don't set up the Quarters in Serangoon, are you implying that you're going to build more Quarters in our estate which is already infested with them?"

A resident of Bishan
"I'm against the building of the luxury condominium in the Bishan estate. From what i read in papers, people living in such housings are extremely rude, snobbish and they will definitely look down on us, living in the HDB flats opposite them. They will jump queues at chicken rice stalls, buy up all the wines at convenience stores. They will drive their Posche and parade the roads and make eyes with our women. And they will also inflate the prices of prawn in our wet market. Futhermore, with these skyscrapers towering over us, our property prices will plummet. I insist that our little HDB haven be protected from all these outsiders which wil corrupt our way of life." (wrt the foreign worker issue. how cynical)

Not the same thing?
Yeah, right.

A feasible study suggested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to set up a foreign worker village which is self contained, a "win-win" situation whereby they could lead their way of life without causing much distress and discontentment amongst heartland Singaporeans. In my opinion, that is akin to putting them on a far strung foreign-land, when they are already in a foreign country. That is so much for that benevolence and sympathy.

So where do we house these foreign workers? I look at them with much sympathy too. Afterall, they have contributed to our economy, toiled long hours to build our HDB apartments, the schools our children study in, kept our estates clean and green. Yet, we are just so stingy with that bit of graciousness to acknowlegde and thank them for their efforts, and sad to say to the extent of depriving them of that little space to live and work in.

But to house them in the backyard of my neighbourhood?
No, thanks.


The Pursuit Of Happiness
Monday, September 08, 2008

The Pursuit of Happiness

We live in a world of consumerism, one which emphasizes on the wants rather than needs of one. It is so fast paced, so realistic, so materialistic. It has evolved to this stage whereby everyone is hopping onto the bandwidth of that hedonic treadmill whereby their pursuits are endless.

We want Gucci. We want iphone. We want happiness. We want love.
The list is endless isn't it?

These wants distort the many simple values we used to live for. Think, a birthday. Friends would visit one's wishlist to try to take stock and strike off items on the birthday boy wishlist. Why do you even bother for a wishlist in the first place, birthdayboy?

Because we all, want.

So what about that hedonic treadmill we tread on? - The pursuit is endless.
We have iphone, we want iphone3G. We have happiness, we yearn for love.

Only the bests survive today. Are you one of them?

Define happiness - the quality or state of being happy.
i had a difficult time defining what happiness meant to me.

But now, for me, happiness is to be happy. okay, rubbish i know.
I am sure i'll find my happiness someday somewhere.

Oh well, my friends and i were en route NUS today when we caught Spellcast on the TV. Goodness, i really really cannot spell. Very proven.

And oh well well, i hate being ignored. Tell me that


Nostalgia
Sunday, September 07, 2008

i happen to be meddling with my blogger dashboard when i chance upon the 4/2's blog. its last post was actually in 2006. thank god we are still meeting up periodically. for a moment, i miss the class and our nonsense alot. reminising about secondary school life because i'm leading a rather mundane life now.

been rather cranky these recent days.

three deep breaths,
i am fine already.

shall visit lasers, semiconductors, simple harmonic motion, kinematics later.
very random, i know.

and i just realised i started blogging in 2004!
that's long isn't it?


Humanity
Friday, September 05, 2008

it's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice.

something in life has intrigued me greatly, hence the call for this long awaited post
(just an excuse for not updating)

It's very interesting to note how some individuals can get on with life honouring his very anti-social acts and being seemingly oblivious to them. Wait, the irony lies in himself being the world's greatest joke without his knowledge. Fingers pointing, tongues wagging, but his ears being placed on Pluto, where itself has ceased to be associated in the league of the planets anymore. How interesting!

Sidetrack, i am really very very bad in my spelling. :(

And life has been cool, yeah cool these days. Yes the weather being cool, and nothing upbeat in my life. Except from some diabatic stuff integrating my life, i am still largely cool (sweetened).

"It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever stars."
- Addison Walker