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Friday, May 26, 2006

HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!!!

Wooh!! Yay yay yay!! Let's jump around and celebrate!

Ok.. except for the fact that i'll be spending my hols studying like Jason Fox, it still sounds better than going to school.

Top 5 things to look forward to:
1)World Cup!!!
2)Church Camp
3)Famine Camp
4)X-Men 3 and Over the Hedge
5)Sleeping normal hours

Oh yes oh yes!! This refresher comes just as hang in the balance of going to be penged. It's such a joyous feeling and a huge relief to know that you can wake up after 7am and not be caught by anyone for late-coming, forced to sit for a useless whole period outside the general office. (Honestly, this 'punishment' has no corrective value) Anyway I had fun reading my newspaper while waiting for 45 minutes of my life to pass on tuesday morning.

Relief also flows through my veins coz I just finished all my SPA exams forever in my life. This useless assessment has no educational value, where Bio skill A is pure memorisation of a whole experiment comprising 11 components and vomiting everything out onto a piece of foolscap paper during the exam.

You're supposed to design your own experiment but you end up stuck in the pit of rote learning all over again..

I tore up my Skill A SPA notes and scattered the little bits of confetti-like remnants into the nearest dustbin I could find. Had a campfire been nearby powdery paper ashes would have risen to the sky.

What in the world is MOE thinking man??!! Who's the smart alec who introduced SPA!!! It does nothing to educate the student and only raises our already high blood pressure. The bigshots of education should personally attempt the exam to understand the frustration of us consumers of education. Hey I sound like an immature brat who doesn't appreciate the joy education brings me, but my frustrations stem from School-based Practical Assessments (esp Skill A) having no educational value(therefore it shouldn't belong in the education system). Nil, zero, non-existant. Even skill D is pure regurgitation and skill B, C or whatever is so inaccurate that students end up faking their answers just to get the "correct" graph.

Sounds like Hwang Woo-Suk. Maybe this will give our nation some training in producing a 'scientist' as famous as him in the future. =)

SPA should be abolished.. and throw in PW too. Again the noble ideals of PW are not being achieved in the real world. Hello.. it's a waste of time. I conducted a poll of about 8 classes and 7.5 agreed that PW had no benefit to their life in anyway at all. Educators.. you have to be a student to understand the frustrations that we face in the education system.

Of course our Education Minister (affable Mr. Tharman) and friends would never experience what we go through coz the red carpet is rolled out for them everytime they visit a school. Principals etc. also activate their "Welcome Welcome, it's an honour to have you here" mode. Add in a nice big smile (real or fake) for effect.

Save the stressed up Singaporean JC student.

But let's be grateful here. Although the education I get is screwed up in the 2 ways above.. At least I get an education. I thank God for that. =)

Recently, my blog's been depicting the dysfunctional side of growing up in Singapore. To that some credit could go to mr brown. Visit www.mrbrown.com to examine why. And while you're at it take a go at the podcast on "No more bird" and Tur Kwa. Oh man.. they cracked me up in class along with half the male population in 05S61. (some liguistic skill geared towards Hokkien would be useful-maybe you could get translators in the form of elders fluent in Hokkien)

My beloved J1s are going to Perth in a week.. Karma Chalets, Kangaroos and all.

"Where the bloody hell are we?"

Yes we're coming over with our nice tourist dollars in 7 days.

Wish I was going. But it doesn't matter.. Actually nothing temporal here matters. Only that which stands throughout the eternal sands of time will matter and i'm trying to put those things at the forefront of my life.

Bon Voyage J1s. I love your batch. =)