Happy Teachers' Day (advance)

was surfing the net n came upon this funny n entertaining page. click for larger view




Translation for Page V :

I know chinese is not easy.
Not as easy as you want it to be.
Being able to Speak chinese is fortunate,
it will be unwise to lose this ability.
I hope you heed my words.
The world revolves around the english language
to be able to speak it means certain employment.
Yet i feel quite frustrated at the situation.

Nanyang girl: What are they doing?
HCI fella: I have no idea.
Nanyang girl: And your leg hair has grown long again.


ain't it cool?

It takes courage and confidence...

It takes courage and confidence to do well in this sadistic japanese tongue twister.

Courage to take part, confidence to do well ;)

http://www.glumbert.com/media/tonguetwister.html

10 things I might consider doing whenever I get bored ...

10th on the list ... housework

9th ... blogging *duh*

8th ... meddle with my plants

7th ... read something (magazines, books, etc)

6th ... sleep

5th ... play with children (my own lah)

4th ... watch TV

3rd ... eat junk food

2nd ... play computer games

TOP OF MY LIST ... meddle with my fishes !!

Yup, I have such warped sense of priority ...

Fireworks~!

Fireworks, from National Day n SFF'06 (Singapore Fireworks Festival). I supposed lots of u went down to view it, just sth to share for those who din see it. Pls click on the photos for a larger view.
This is SFF-Italy(0508). Dam chio. See the colour mixture? Neon White. with some smoke too. but so pretty lah.
LOOK! so many at once, from low to high de. n even the merlion is enjoying the show too.
National Day. The National Stadium radiating light into the sky. LoLs. but the overall reflection very nice!!!
Whoa! Red Sea in Singapore!!!
Another dam chio photo. would be nice to use for postcard lah, with the fireworks n CBDs together.
SFF-France(1208). Went down to watch this one only.. All the photos taken from http://forums.clubsnap.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31 cuz I dun have a camera but anyone who wants to buy me one can do so. :)
The starting of the show. this photo view is from Marina area. see the reflection in the water? n the bright stars thingy? those are the fireworks being lighted up in preparation to fly n light up the sky.
Rare sights of the fireworks shower! Gold in colour, blinking at u.
The middle, when there were the colourful ones.
n more colourful ones. this is the view that I saw, from Benjamin Sheares Bridge.
and then the reddish pink ones. the colour nicest de.

oh.. I sat on the railing of the bridge(the ones nearer to the car lanes lar) n u can feel it vibrating when the fireworks "BOOM" de. the whole bridge vibrates lor. n then there's another kind, that doesn't spreads out much like spider legs de.. but glitters like siao n then forms a ball of gold dust b4 disappearing.. but photos of those are not nice.. only viewed by eye then nice. n there were some fireworks(low ones) shooting out from the water de. haven't seen photos of it cuz I think most cameras were aimed at the skies.


& yes, examinations are coming le. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

SDG's practice run

Team SDG had another opportunity to practise their XD games today, with Joe and Jean around to observe and give their feedback.

Joe and Jean did such a good job that I basically had nothing much left to say :)

Anyway, I'm able to help you guys from SDG in some of the highlighted areas, including
- stage presence
- game instructions and rules
- facilitation (I have some ideas to make things easier for the facilitators)

But for now, concentrate on your exams first :)


P.S. A big "thank you" to all of you who came down today, and a "thank you" to ELPAM for volunteering to help out with SDG's event. It's encouraging to see you guys stepping in to help out, even though you're not required to.

~~FootPrints From MunYing~~

Woa. Nee n Johnny posted pics. Yea. So hear I am with my pic. Haha. ^^

Anyway, wanna say tt 'I Luv Coleman'. Not tt kind of love (duh), but love his presentation!! Way to go Coleman. It was a really meaningful presentation that really awaken the inside of me. Sort of. *Claps Claps*

I really liked the short and sweet style of the presentation, so unlike what we always do. I think we should really learn from there. It's nice to hear abt the thinking and thinking and thinking thingy. I think I'm a person who thinks a lot too. Esp about wad other's actions mean to me, what others think of me etc. So ^5. Let's think together.

N the one about 'who to listen to..'. Cause everyone would give u different opinions about different issues as everyone has different perceptions. So sometimes, I think we should really ask ourselves what do we exactly want. N the part whereby we only hear the heartbeat when we listen to our heart is soo hilarious. Haha. Luv tt one especially.

Den there's something about Coleman talking abt his frens who passed away back in those years. Expected Coleman to be very emotional when talking abt tt, and yea. A bit emotional. But I think we really learnt a lot from there, to treasure our lives and do whatever we want to before time's running out. So yep, just do it is rite.

Last of all, the part about the 5Cs and 1 non-C. Haha. Think I nid to build Up confidence after hearing abt it during my exit interview.

Thankx Coleman and Max for the whole of the I & E journey. THink I'd really learnt a lot. ^^

Footprints from Johnny

THINK, THINK, THINK, but not too much...


Seriously, i gave a good thought over what Coleman had said during the official last day of our I&E journey. I realized that he’s the kind of silent killer in those movies, hahaha, given his ability to THINK (thank god he didn’t fall to the dark side, haha). I’m also glad to find somebody who thinks that he thinks so much that sometimes the real task on hand didn’t get done. Sometimes, I just procrastinate too much and opportunities are lost. “Just do it” we may say but how many of us really got the courage to “just do it”. Maybe I need to come out of the box I put myself into, I found out that I can only expressing more freely without strange stares from people, I need to build on a different kind of confidence, I must say. =) Thx Coleman.

The way he planned the slides is simply remarkable (once again showing us he knows what’s the general response of the crowd), expecting us to laugh at which slides and continue with “this is serious business!” haha, interesting. Also, I must say the friends he mentioned during the slides, that part hit me hard. I thought, yeah, value our (my) life, often we (I) always say “damn sian, wah lao, life su*ks” This once again reminded me another story, a girl always complained that she does not have enough shoes to wear, until one day she saw a man without any legs. We must treasure lives, (haha, heard this over and over again.) even though you may believe your life su*ks, but once you think of people worse off than you, you may start to think again, is it really su*kie as I thought? Thx Coleman.

The “system”- I talk this topic among my friends a lot, “the system we are in, the whole society we are in is flawed, and it needs more improvements, etc” (and sometimes I just cursed and swore) Coleman touched it again, in a more subtle way, “who’s advice to listen?” “hidden agenda?” well, I can’t talk about this much, cause I’m just another failed product of this system, I cannot complain much about it because this will be posted on somewhere where a lot people can see, I’m cautious, haha. What I want to conclude is that, just make the best out of this “system”, try to THINK for yourself, what’s wrong and what’s right, rather than allowing yourself to be part of the flawed system. And this I&E module is something different from what I have learnt from this “system”. Thx Coleman. Clap Clap Clap. HOOOOO. JTYS =)

Footprints from Hui Nee

I dunno if I noe that I got inspired by his talk... maybe I did but I haven't figure out yet. But Coleman sure gave a talk which I would say was interesting and funny with this sense of humor in it. He plays with words like "I think a lot. I think I think a lot." n these gives this humorous effect. well, he may not talk a lot, but can see that he observes a lot(if I'm not wrong). thnx for being there when we held our boardgame playing, though U din play... okay.. all were supposed to play, especially chee hao.
Max, thnx for being my mentor for this module. I sure din regret choosing this class(although I is randomly pick de cuz no more EM). U have guided ELPAM thru the whole thing, not exactly directly telling us the answer but just letting us find it ourselves.
BOTH OF YOU HAVE BEEN GREAT!!! THNX!!!

我不知道我是否有因Coleman的那一番话而有所领悟，或许有吧，但我还没发觉。但我可以很肯定的说，Coleman的那一番话很充满一股幽默感，也很有趣。他用了“我想很多。我想我想很多。”等词汇给予出一种幽默感。他的话说的并没有很多，但我看得出来他一直都在观察我们的一举一动。谢谢您在我们举办活动的那一天支持我们，虽然您并没亲自出马玩. . . 但这个游戏我们本来打算要让全班玩的，尤其是Chee Hao。
Max，谢谢您作为我这一科的导师。我一点也没后悔选择一班（虽然当初是因为没有EM了而选的）。您带领我们走过整个过程，并没有直接给我们答案，而是让我们自己找。
你们二位都很棒！谢谢二位！！

there.. sorry but my written chinese isn't very fluent, cuz out of practice le.
note: pls change encoding to Unicode(UTF-8) to view Chinese words(can change by right click or from View.)

Something from the Short, Fat and Ugly ...

Hi Class,
I do not know about you, but I was deeply touched and greatly inspired by Coleman's closing encouragement. You never know how much a small compliment makes in encouraging people to accomplish amazing feats ... so if you will so choose to drop a line of encouragement to Coleman (can also driect to me also lah !), I would love to have your comments.

Please title your posting : "Footprint from XXXXX" (replace XXXXX with your name lah)

Loving you always,
Max

Week 16: SDG rehearsal

Just a reminder, all of you have agreed to come on time at 2.45pm next thurs (10 Aug).
(Only Sherlene is excused.)

The friendly folks from Actionpreneur will be coming down to observe SDG to see how they facilitate.

Thanx, Cliff, for volunteering to join SDG as a facilitator! The rest of you are also welcome to volunteer!

C that i developed!!

Hmmm kinda busy this few days with projects and tests... and sometimes forgot abt blogging =/
So now come blog!! nt too late hehez be4 class..

Hmmm the c i developed most shld be creativity ba..
Most IS also let us have chance to build up creativity.. but i&e let us organise events and somehow do our own business... so this enable me to have a chance to tink about wat to do and brainstorm with my groups to design the games and make a innovative event =)

Some other Cs i develop is collaberation... my grp is a 8 man team... surely each and every1 have diff interest different point of views... however till now we are still working great together without and dispute or conflict... yea so can say Every1 in the grp collaberate well...!

Confident ma... i am just shy =X...

Our actual event still some time away so i tink shld be able to gain somemore C during this period~~ -)

Week 15: Please bring your laptops

Hi Class,

I would really appreciate that you bring your laptops for this Thursday's class so that if you still have any outstanding submissions for IELS, you may complete it on the spot and submit to me immediately.

Coleman and myself will be giving you an exit interview which can either be personal (Coleman and myself to you) or public (as a class), let me know which is your preference.

If you have not already given me your blog posting entitled "Which of the 5 Cs I developed most through my I&E journey", please help me by making sure you get that done before class, otherwise I will get you to share it in person and then make you blog about it ...

SO!! Lessons at 1:00pm as per usual, please be punctual, Okay ?

Love,
Max

THE C I DEVELOPED MOST?

The C that I managed to develop most would have to be courage( though most of the time I still lack of some). :p

Its hard not to have courage when mounting an event cos its like you jus got to speak up and present the best to everyone out there. For instance, I had no idea what to say to the kids and how to get the balls rolling during the workshop. There’s no other choice but to think of something and build up your courage to get things started. Without courage, I guess nothing could be accomplished. :C