Tuesday, November 22, 2005

"I don't belong here"

A day after my Biodiversity exam...and I feel pretty fine. Well...fine to realise that yesterday's exam was pretty ok...Prof Pandit actually REPEATED 4 questions (or more) from the previous sem's paper...verbatim! Before any of us start saying things like, "He must be really lazy" and such about Prof, let me help us recall something he said on his first lecture. "I don't care how much you score, what I am concerned with is what you takeaway from my classes"..."If you make even a minute difference, I think my job as a teacher has been done".
What I was really inspired was an anecdote that he told us about when one of our class mentioned that her teacher discouraged her from being a vet. "Let no one tell you not to dream. A teacher of all people should never dash your dreams". You rock Prof! =)

Quite enjoy what I'm studying,...Culture and Society. I must say that I've been made more aware to the fact of the national identity being portrayed in state-created rituals, used to reinforce the multi-culural, and more importantly, multi-racial ideology in Singapore. What we take for granted may not be ours to keep, if the government does not retain its hold on power, and use the acknowledement of multi-racialism as a key tool of control of its ethnically-diverse people.
OK. Enough of "Soci-Talk". For those people who think that life in NUS is crazy...just a mode of morbid inspiration, based on the Radiohead song "Creep". Enjoy...
http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/

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