formulae: hop + e

Thursday, February 24, 2005

wow. so results will be released on monday. what's my first thought?-cannot pon run
second thought-there'll be econs presentation in audi on mon.

im typing this load of rubbish at my uncle's house. this load of rubbish is not the only load of rubbish.

just browsed through the moe education booklet today. its great for updating us on the oh-so-frequently-changing local education system. so unfair. they never mention that you can take lep in jc. anyways they also never talk about aep and mep. except in secondary sch.

so sad. chinese from this year onwards will focus on"speaking, listening and reading." the changes now will also "reduce the character list, reduce emphasis on memorisation". this is to allow "weaker students to catch up." eh? how come we dont reduce the number of words for spelling in primary school? how come there are no changes to allow those weaker in english to "ketchup"? why? cause there is nobody weak in english in singapore. everyone are english experts and we spout perfectly fluent english. everyone will get A1 for english in secondary school. and get a for gp in jc. it is also extremely evident that singaporeans are so well-versed in english that we dont have to make changes to the system such that we can allow "weaker students to catch up." so sad.

anyway, of all the changes to chinese teaching, i think the greatest blow was to allow people to go to university with a d7. its funny how they are talking about trying to get teenagers to place emphasis and generate interest in chinese and yet they make this change.

picture this: a person is drowning in a pool and you see him. then you shout for help and wait for people to come. when you see someone running over to help, you throw a rock into the pool and hit the drowning guy and kill him.

the only small consolation i read in the booklet is that you can now opt to study HCL in primary school if you are good in chinese, even if you dont meet the mainstream criteria. and that schools can opt to teach more subjects in chinese. though not much people are probably going to care.

ha.ha.its so ironic. here we are struggling with our native tongue and there its said that in the future you can opt to study a third language if you want to in secondary school. we cant even cope with our own language and we are encouraged to pick up another. ha.ha.

im sick and tired of all those who say chinese sucks, theres no use for it and stuff. its ok if you are weak in it. but its not when you dont make an effort to improve and yet try to escape from reality by joining those who are trying to run away from the subject they are weak in. im also sick of those who tell me im wasting my time and i should take up sciences or computing so that i can earn big money next time. i can live in a big house, drive a big car, buy big things (ok maybe branded things), spend big money. its for your own good! they say.

i mean, if you depise your own language, that's your problem. you cant speak your native tongue. that's your problem. and you try to geh-kiang by escaping from your own language into the arms of another foreign language. that's your problem. what's worse is that the arms slap you in the face and tell you that you CMI in their language. that's your problem. but please dont come and tell me that im wasting my time and i should give up studying chinese since i can already do that cause i cant earn big bucks unless i study physics or go into engineering or computing. cause thats my problem. if you think im wasting my time, so be it. laugh lah.

i cant make it big by studying chinese? at least look at your own son first please.