Sunday, March 28, 2004 :::
what's up with smu and their advertisements? i think they are trying too hard. today's straits times ran an article on them, featuring the poster kids smu uses on their ads, in poses which allegedly signify smu's traits - creativity, flexibility and empowerment.
i especially found amusing the guy who did the handstand and claimed smu taught him to look at things from all angles. bleh. why would anyone want to look at anything from all angles? would you want to let your will and determination to be withered away listening to every opinion? would you want to allow your passion and enthusiasm be doused with working on every nitty gritty detail of your plan, losing the vision meanwhile? would you let the momentum of your plan be crippled with analysis paralysis? the person who spends his time checking the clouds and discerning the wind will never sow any seeds.
i say make your decision, hold your ground and fight. i would rather maintain a narrow perspective, my own perspective, and bulldoze my way through than to gather all resources on the subject, spending years on analysis and prediction, and then coming up with a theory-perfect plan which was compromised to fit everyone in.
i think smu is over-emphasizing on its difference with the other two more-established universities. for one, the definition of different means it's just not the same. it doesn't even necessarily mean it is better. for me, different folks, different strokes. just because seminar style teaching in universities is a novelty in singapore does not equate to lecture-and-tutorial style being inferior or just for " normal " people. though i blame the current education system for producing people who can't think and ask questions, and seminar-style teaching's open atmosphere is a major plus point, put togther a bunch of eager-eyed misguided people who can't stop talking and asking questions just because they are supposed to be loud and be heard and ask questions in seminars, and what do you get? a bunch of " different " failures, or worse, a bunch of student leaders.
who is to judge what is good or bad? not me, but i find smu's attempt to suffuse itself with an aura of youth and liberality laughable, the idea of getting its students to leap off chairs in victorious poses extremely ridiculous, when their counterparts are offering serious and proven systems and courses and focusing of making them better.
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::: posted by Richard Wan at 5:00 PM
Thursday, March 25, 2004 :::
i'm finally back from prowling changi airport! but it's only the first day, one more month to go. argh. but anyway, today had been real fun. imagine a bunch of japanese tourists alighting from their bus, and then rushing back up to grab their cameras when they saw us fully armed. then they started flashing wildly ( the cameras, not them ). while we were prowling the transit area, a woman was looking at us worriedly and playing with her hands nervously. she then approached me, looked at me intently and asked with a shaky voice if this was a routine patrol or if something had happened. i replied that it was just routine and there was nothing to be worried about. she looked relieved. it was then i saw the LCD TV screen behind her. she was headed for jarkata.
i think i probably saw more SIA air stewardess today than i ever did in my whole life. i think they are HOT! it doesn't matter that the foundation they use on their faces is thicker than the camo cream i use to camo my face during my garang days, or that some of them are already slightly old. i'm just so attracted to them! it must be their kebaya. the thin-fabric clothing with purple orchid prints that hugs on each of their figures. and some of them are low-cut! the forefathers who created this traditional dress must have great foresight. i really find all SIA air stewardess look real pretty in their kebayas. no wonder SIA is the flight of choice. most people like me would choose my flights based on the air stewardess only.
something i noticed through hours of careful delibration. why do all the air stewardess have to shake their bon bon when they walk around? it is causing a major distraction, and guys who say they go the airport to study or to defend it are probably lying. one last thing about the kebaya though. the skirt of the kebaya ( is it called a skirt? ) cannot be too short. it must nicely cover the ankles to look just right, showing off the pretty feet in those cute sandals. nice.
congratulate me quick! one more month of air stewardess! yay!
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::: posted by Richard Wan at 12:51 AM
Sunday, March 14, 2004 :::
why does the government go to such lengths to convince us that our chicken and eggs and all poultry stuff are not contaminated? it is not as if we are much troubled by the scare most other countries are facing, in actual fact, the feeling we have about this is the pretty much the same we have for all other issues - apathy.
who cares? after all, the Government have served us well all these years. with the ability to pick itself up after every major crisis, economic or civil, without even much of a hoot given by the average man in the streets, what's a little chicken virus? good gracious none of them attempted to eat chicken in public to demostrate their faith in their policies. we will probably be eating McChicken looking in awe.
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::: posted by Richard Wan at 7:50 PM
