Saturday, February 25, 2006
i finally got quite sick of seeing my "haha"s and my "..."s throughout my entries. maybe it's just today, a more sombre mood i'm in. i guess to some extent it reflects a sort of personality trait of mine, but sometimes i admit it gets a little overbearing. especially when see 10 million "haha"s when your days isnt exactly going very well.as with the growing trend of each week, i spent saturday lazing around and loafing in front of the televison. discovery channel and NGC are really quite something actually. the amount of information one can get just in one hour is bewildering. it provides guilt free entertainment for me because now at least i'm sort of doing something constructive while i relax.
no tennis for me tomorrow either. courts have been booked for a tournament. dang. so i guess it will be another day in front of the tele for me. its really high time that i start to run. but i really need to run with someone. i need the push from someone to get me started. otherwise, the next ten months or so will be spent lounging on the couch trying to absorb more general knowledge that i can handle.
speaking of watching stuff on tv, i just watched [the assassination of richard nixon>] today. it's been quite a while since i've watched a movie whose whole emphasis is not simply to tell a story. the beauty really lies in the though provocation that it forces upon you once the credits start rolling. recently, most movies i've been watching have been rather typically hollywood films and its starting to get a little bit too boring. i'm really looking forward to [munich]. so anybody would like to be my movie buddy for that?? *hint hint*
i've just asked my sis to borrow [vera drake] for next weekend's "couch fest". i think it should be quite suitable for a gp lesson screening. ah it's really times like this where i feel kinda sad that i will not be teaching gp. sure math is something quite spectacular and beautiful (yes i noe, very cliched superlative) but at the jc level, math is more of a tool than an artform. i admit that there is a certain critical level of interest that any respectable teacher should invoke in his or her classroom, but really, to try and attempt to convert every "non-believer" into a fanatical connoisseur of math is really quite, for lack of a better phrase, a dumb thing to even think about. just like in the arts, there will be people who do appreciate it and those who think that it is a complete waste of time money and resources. the most important thing in life, i guess, is really balance (or BAAALORNCE as oura used to say). there is really only so much that one can really hope to achieve in invoking interest in math, whereas in gp, the grounds for exploration are almost infinite. alot of poeple believe that creative thinking in our students (or lack thereof) is a result of having a "textbook crunching" science and math cirriculum, which is true to a very small extent, but i think creative thinking is really something that can be best developed in gp classes. as long as one can formulate an opinion about an issue, and than translate that into an argument considering all sides of the story, then one has already the capacity for very creative and original thought. i've always loved gp lessons, and i'm kind of sad that i dont get to do the things that we used to do in gp class any longer. it's funny how when i try to strike up a conversation in the context of a friendly banter, most people would mistake that as a attempt to incite an argument. i've almost given up trying to talk about anything other than the most senseless routines of daily life and crude jokes to some them. so when on occasion i get into the situation of a nice exchange with gerri or roon or others who would indulge me, it really makes my day.
wow. enough of my crapping. i feel so awkward trying to tpe in grammatical sentences but i think it really is necessary. my grammar and more importantly spelling and vocabulary have been on a rapid decline since jc. i really hope i dont end up as someone who speaks both terrible english and terrible mandarin. ok. time for some mangoes. ciao!
{10:25 PM}
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