1) My Best Buy of the Year: Zojirushi BreadMaker
Evidence: I have fresh wholemeal bread EVERY MORNING.
Some more evidence: My mum made STRAWBERRY JAM with it today.
Even more evidence: Fresh pasta, anyone?
2) I am too old for my favourite radio station.
Evidence: It’s tagline: Favourite station for those between 15 and 24 o_O
3) But I learnt grand things from 98.7FM.
Evidence: After Tuesday, the days of the week are WTF (Go figure).
More Evidence: PMS is a legal defense for murder.
4) My favourite quote of the week: “The Ugly Singaporean is one who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” (From the late Mr. S. Rajaratnam)
5) My Grand Question to Educators: If we are so apprehensive of exploring, mentioning or discussing ‘taboo’ issues such as suicide, and thus advocate staying far far away from even writing about a character who commits suicide, then WHY DOES MOE ALLOW STUDENTS TO SPEND 2 YEARS ANALYSING, DISSECTING AND WRITING ABOUT A LIT TEXT that explores the various motivations and ways of suicide? Myopic and contradictory, yes?
6) My Final Thought of the Week: If we study a Lit text that includes ‘Fuck You’ and ‘Fuck Off’, which involves READING it out loud (perhaps even staging it), then would the ‘O’ levels ever feature that passage with those words? Perhaps not in a million years, so perhaps we should not study that scene too hard huh. What if my student writes a play tomorrow and includes the following words: fuck, bloody bastard, go and die… Where do we draw the line between what is coarse, and what is art? How do we answer such questions? Authority is awarded to a professional playwright with a MA from the UK, while 16-year-old students hold no weight?
Oh, education and its ethical dilemmas.
I must be too free to think of these things when I have so much to do.
