ThE cOw AnD i: November 2005

Thursday, November 03, 2005

I am...hm....

2 things on my mind today...1) What makes an Institution worthy? 2) The miraculous toddler phase in growing up...

I have just finished reading an interesting article online, on Singaporeans being perenially stressed...Good work i should say...Usually i would just delete those emails, but today, i decided to take a quick look at it...Here's an interesting paragraph "So we work. We work like dogs through primary school, like cows through secondary school and by the time we hit University, we’re working our asses off like freaking cart horses." A skeptic sense of humour with a stinge of sacarism...Oh yeah, so what makes any Institution truly of their 'acclaimed' status? Their professors? Students? What does tertiery education entil in actual fact? If, at the end of the day, the students produced are not employable, ur students would have lost an edge...What went wrong in ur way of education? Can you still call urself a Top notch university? When a course is made to be academically challenging...What becomes of a student's mentality? What becomes of his other attributes? To balance off her view points and (probably to avoid being called an extremeist so as to ward off any troubles perhaps), the writer ends off with this statement "At the end of the day, Singaporeans should quit being the eternal pragmatist and start taking up activities solely out of interest. " Yeah, true true...But it is society which deems what is success and what is failure. If you can be oblivious to ur surroundings, then you can truly say that...If you can withstand going against the norms, then well said...you are on ur way to living the life you want. But how many of us can do that? The story goes one full circle...Perhaps it will take a catastrophe to make policy makers realise that they should perhaps, slow down, and listen...take our words seriously...students do not make a joke out of their life....So meanwhile, it is back to slogging, from dogs to cows to horses...And when we work, we shall become Balrogs...

2) It is an enjoyable experience as well as an amusement watching 3 year old kids grow and walk with them in this phase of life...The innocence of childhood, the mischief of an un-distorted mind...the raw output of a child, of humans in its purest form...What can be better?