Entries from February 2007

February 26, 2007

Students who refuse to learn

Poor teachers… surely puking blood cuts short the lifespan?
Take a look at the rubbish that some students write. You can drag a horse to the water but you cannot force it to drink. You can make students sit through class and do their homework but some students just go through motion (not very well also) [...]

February 23, 2007

Campaign for real beauty?

The cynic in me will find it easier to believe the advertisements if they were sponsored by a non-profit organisation, rather than a commercial company such as Dove.
A company with shareholders exist primarily to make money (a selfish motive) and is it fair to those shareholders if the company throws money away without expecting some [...]

February 23, 2007

Green boards once again

In the days when I was a uniform wearing student, the boards were green and teachers wrote with white and coloured chalk. After serving my NS, I entered university and the tutors were using white boards and water-based markers.
Apparently the school teachers have also switched to white boards since that time. Now, the school teachers [...]

February 20, 2007

8 quests completed in 3 hours

3rd day of CNY:
Took a break from the visitations and other obligations of the CNY period and stayed at home WOWing with the wife. We completed 7 or 8 quests in less than 3 hours, a feat unheard of, at least to us. 2 of them were at the last stage and consisted of running [...]

February 19, 2007

Diving off Papua New Guinea

2nd day of CNY:
A relative from the in-laws side chatted with us about the large fish tank he has installed in the HDB apartment and went on to share with us about his fish farm and how he runs a diving company in Papua New Guinea for tourists.
PNG us not a place that many people [...]