Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Reviving this place

Just felt like showing some nice use of language, and of course it's because it's posted by our well-liked teacher Mr Tan Chibi (aka 陈矮人老师 or チビタン).



And some other thing which niaos KFC on facebook. Putting stuff like this in JPG prevents people from googling them out.


But just to niao the writer, his "萃" and KFC's "恺" is typed wrongly.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Tired of life

4 years in junior high, 3 years of repetition, feeling so tired of the never-ending work that comes. 1 thing is that they've got nothing to do with our results, for tests test people on whether they are exam smart, rather than whether they study. The undeniable facts in the sciences does give a reason to do those homework as they help remember the facts better, but for humanities and languages? No way. Why should we even do case studies of outdated cases when there are so much stuff on the newspapers for us to read? Plus, the teacher didn't even prepare her own resources, and simply provided a link to another teacher's online learning portal. Nevertheless, Chinese is still the most boring subject, there are so much stuff that are worth doing in my life that can improve my Chinese but MOE and the Chinese teachers just chose to waste our class time by telling us to do 理解问答,应用文 and 作文, all of which have retarded marking schemes that never tests on a student's Chinese standards. Furthermore, the government even came to a conclusion that students cannot learn Chinese properly because "CHINESE IS TAUGHT IN CHINESE"! What a joke. If we were to get some of 金庸's books and talk about every bit in detail, like what we did for English literature, I am quite sure that no one would be bored of Chinese anymore. So in the end it simply boils down to MOE's stupidity. Even IP schools that supposedly escaped the control of MOE that reflected nothing good but stupidity, there is still Chinese O Levels, which getting an A at would not help the slightest bit in simply giving us some hope at answering one question at the interview conducted by Peking University. When Singaporeans blame their low standard in languages on education, it just ends up with the government assuming about what went wrong and adding more stupid policies that make Singapore's language education more stupid, and probably one of the reasons why I hate Singapore so much. These crap homework that I am doing is just inhibiting me from doing other stuff, like MOP. Loving school so much more than e-learning, when I am already hating school so much.