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Waste money
posted at 06:54 am on 08-06-2009
1. Phones 600/yr
2. Buy organic food 182/yr
3. Skip extended warranties 150/yr
4. Music on Itunes (get it Dwwf don't buay song me la) 10/yr
5. Buy only starbucks coffee 960/yr
6. Bottled water 237/yr
7. Housekeeping 900/yr
3000+/yr?
Clothes
Tier 0 - Pasar Malam CCK/Woodlands Value$ ($100)
Tier 1 - Converse/Kappa/Giordano/Bossini/Hang Ten in CCK ($300)
Tier 2 - Reebok/Adidas/M&N/Element/Billabong in CCK, Anchorpoint and Tampines perhaps ($390)
Tier 3 - Nike/DC/Asics/Jordan/New Era ($1000?) Ooooh
Tier 4 - Prada/Gucci/LV... ($10000?) Wooo no!!!
And oh well, I have saved just over 1000 recently but I have to buy some necessities so I am left with only 500 bucks. What to do, I think I should just spend it all on Nike shoes and forget about everything! Why wear LV, not comfy leh...
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Compo Draft
posted at 10:36 am on 07-28-2009
‘A good student is the product of a good teacher.’ Comment.
Q – Comment
T – Education, esp. the relationship between the teacher and the student
K – Product – the end result…
Introduction: Good teachers transmit their experiences to students, through their passion in their areas of expertise, flexibility to overcome learning challenges in the class, ability to integrate curriculum and content, and the connection to the students. They are able to improve the learning experience of the students that they teach in classes. However, it is possible that the statement does not happen. There are still possibilities that good teachers can still produce bad students, and bad teachers can also produce good students.
Paragraph 1 – I agree that good teachers, with their ability to connect to the students through their areas of interest, can definitely result in good students. As long as the students absorb and internalize the subtle know-how and skill sets in their teachers’ through classroom instruction, it is a sign of success in the students, from the teachers’ perspective. An example would be made in Lalit Goel, who is the professor in Circuit Engineering, in the School of Electronic and Electric Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU); he won 2 “Teacher of the Year” awards from NTU for his attention and concern towards his students, in a dignified yet humorous manner, improving the level of competence in his students in Circuit Engineering in the process. Without the humor in Prof Goel’s lectures, it is possible that his lectures will be dry and boring, impairing the process of learning in a boring and uninteresting subject like Engineering. With good teachers, it is possible that good students, through their increased motivation and better understanding of concepts, will result.
Paragraph 2 – Good teachers also encourages their students’ passions, through their flexibility to help students to overcome their steep learning curves and inspire them to achieve their innate dreams, hence inspiring them. All students eventually face problems and obstacles when it comes to the learning of new things that stop them from attaining their desired goals, and it is the role of teachers’ assistance that such barriers can be lowered, and then overcome eventually. Take the case of self-made millionaire and motivational speaker Adam Khoo for example; with the help of a neuro-linguistic programming program by his mentor Ernest Wong, he overcame his odds as a neighborhood school student to ace his business administration class eventually in university, before starting his own business that, in turn, inspires and motivates more individuals, like what his mentor did years ago. Only good teachers can light the fire in the students’ buckets, and making them useful for the needs of society.
Paragraph 3 – However, bad teachers may also have good students, whom themselves may challenge the incompetence of their teachers, eventually exceeding them. With sufficient self-determination, they are able to create their own futures, independent of the courses steered by their teachers. Bad teachers result as some teachers may not have the patience or flexibility to guide their students, like Reverend Engle who called him ‘addled’. Almost no one expected a young boy expelled from an elementary school would turn out to be the most prolific inventor, scientist and businessman ever to walk on this world, but that was what happened to Thomas Edison, who summed up his life on Harper’s Weekly in 1932: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." He overcame his adversities for a lack of formal education to achieve through belief that he is able to bring good things to life*.
Paragraph 4 – Good teachers can also have bad students, under unfortunate circumstances that they cannot control entirely within their means. Bad students can disappoint their teachers, who put in effort to try to positively influence them. This is evident in good teachers like the acclaimed poet and professor Nikki Giovanni. One of her students included Cho Seung-Hui, who murdered 32 people in the Virginia Tech Massacre on 16 April 2007. Despite Giovanni’s best efforts, she couldn’t teach Cho as he wrote ‘menacing’ writings and did sexually provocative acts like photographing his female peers’ legs, and eventually gave up on him, through ejections from her classes.
Conclusion – Eventually, it is up to the combined efforts of both students and teachers to maintain a lively, engaging learning experience. Good teachers can definitely be assessed on the basis of the achievements and progresses made by their students, but ultimately, it is the amount of effort put in by both parties that create opportunities for both the students’ and the teachers’ future, opening up new possibilities and frontiers in learning.
*The long-time tag line for General Electric, the largest company in the world as ranked by Forbes, which Edison founded.
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When can I give it up>.<
posted at 10:05 am on 06-30-2009
I feel sad --- I feel controlled playing SC4 as well as Nations and Nationstates.
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