went out for lunch with family today! ate a lot..slept right after that ><" fattening.... but enjoyed lunch with them.
for some reason or another, i felt like i have matured. quite a lot. maybe it's becos my edler bro abandoned us..i meant flew to aus to study..i think i start to become more responsible and want to take care of my family more. talked to my mum on the way to the restaurant (cos the car cannot fit so many ppl so i volunteered to take mrt) yea...talked abt wat's happening recently, the interview and uni..i believ she still believe in me. think she is worried that i would be too busy. but well...i should be able to cope, with studies, H3, SYF, PLAP if i got in..and ahem :p
yea..den during lunch..dunno leh..jiu feel like i need to take care for everyone de gan jue. switching seats, helping them asking and ordering food. dunno leh..last time jiu just care for myself..eat wat i want...but now, will care for them, ask wat they want, help them. ppl do grow up when placed in certain circumstances. maybe not only cos my bro was away that made me more caring, but perhaps becos i was cared for recently and enjoyed it, so i want to reciprocate it to my family and ppl around me too.
and yes, this is my retarded bro LOL. the choptick was from the restaurant and he used it to kiap his hair LOL. RETARDED HAHAHAHA!!! den he also used it to play the human reaction time game with my cousin. joke.




oh, and video convoed with my elder bro today. sang happy bday song for my mum..which was long overdued ><" but still sing liao..and she's still happy lah :]

and wanted to talk abt this but keep forgetting. it's abt my education, teacher and teaching. wat sparked me to think abt this again is cos of one incident that happed last wed. dear A***n L*w, our dear phy tutor, left the class becos some students dint manage to finish their assignment or shld i say, show a sincere attempt in doing them. so he wanted the class to spend time doing during lesson and call him back after that. this..was nth wrong yet. cos i think there's no pt going thru the tut since other's havent do. but it was wat he said the really......made me think that there's smth wrong with our education..maybe not education for the students, but for the teachers.
he said smth along those lines: if ppl from (another class) can finish, if some ppl from our class can finish the assignd homework, and even went further, i dont see why the rest of you cannot.
yes. here's the prob. comparing a class to another class standards has always been a lao mao bing of many teachers. perhaps they think that this will spur the class to do better, but i beg to differ. perhaps it's becos this generation of student do not accept this kind of 激将法 anymore. we are a generation who requires 爱的教育.
also, how can teachers compare student to student? isnt it obvious that diff ppl have diff abilities, and that you cant just make comparison base on diff basis. it is an unfair comparison. for example, a cleverer student requires a lot lesser time to complete his tuts while a student struggling to even understand the concepts will obviously need a lot more time to do his tut. so this isnt really abt the case of time management alrd. it is just one cannot finish his work within that given period. and he has so much more subjects to do too. so comparing students is really a wrong move. even since very long ago, 孔子 also know abt this logic, and come up with 因材施教. so why does teachers who went thru NIE not know abt this simple logic?
furthermore, that teacher of us was only 6 yrs older than us. he had beed thru was we are going thru not too long ago. i think that he shld have similar sentiments when he was in JC. also, students nowadays are really more busy. they have so much stuff to cope. 6 yrs can make a huge diff in the amt of stress students are facing now. yes, there's smth called the H3 (which at his 年代 still dun have). and students have to be involved in many activities to build up their portfolios and the competition now is more intense as compared to 6 yrs ago. but why is he doing smth that students dont like to us? perhaps he was just desperate. afterall, A lvl is this yr, and that every teacher hopes that their classes can obtain good results, which perhaps give them comfort and let them have confidence in themselves that they are good teachers.
but wat students really require is not a teacher only good in teaching, but a teacher who can inspire them to study. isnt that wat is portrayed in many advertisement for recruiting teachers? yes, to inspire. a teacher will be more sucessful than her other colleges if she can inspire her students instead of just ensuring they have good results.
so, is there a prob with the education teachers are going thru? in this fast changing world, everything is changing. the MOE keeps changing the education for students, changing syllabus for students, but have they tot that they may also need to change the syllabus for teachers too? so as to suit the needs of the newer generations of students? perhaps this is smth that MOE shld really address.
of course, all these are just my own opinions on these little incident, and other ppl may beg to differ. but, i've made my pt.