Well, the lazy worm has offically crawled back to my genes.. have been slacking at home while diligently reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Omg Omg >.< .. it's so interesting and sooo well written, i must say.. i can express how much i love reading this book and i shall continue with book 7 after this. Now, i couldn't wait for the movie and i have high expectations for it. Let the time machine take me to Nov/Dec 2008 for me to enjoy the movie first and return back to may 2008 after watching it. ^^
I have also been working some part-time under amdo*.. Have been facilitating 2 days at springfield secondary last week, 2 days at yishun town secondary this week and hillgrove secondary today. While facilitating a class in yishun, it reminded me of wad qingru had said.. how difficult and how energy-consuming to teach and control such a class.. Deep down, i really admire those teachers who are capable of controlling such class and having the ability to make them listen to you. I define it as an art. Not everyone can acquire this skill. Luckily, i am not the one shouting at the class, the educator(which i will not call them as teachers bcoz i have high expectations of what it takes to be teacher) of amdo* takes the role of teaching and shouting..
Secondary school students are more fortunate now, other than going to science centres and doing community services, they are more exposed to science knowledge. Some Secondary schools employ amdo* to teach their students interesting science and life science stuffs..(Scentsation-- making of soap and perfume during practicals; DNA and gene modeling-- construction of DNA double helix structure and extracting DNA from onions; making medicine from the environment-- Cultivation of bacteria, gram staining and measuring zones of inhibitions using different anti-microbial agents; Exploring environmental technology-- where students have to go on a field trip at sungei buloh to observe and learn about the plants and animals of the nature reserve as well as collection of water sample for cultivation of bacteria). Hmmm, i daresay.. no doubt is interesting to know all these kind of stuffs, especially doing the experiments in which the company made it interesting. But what's the motive behind all these programme catered especially for secondary and primary school students? Actualli, it's very clear to me, which i don't think is clear for the students. it's a type brain-washing to me .. i mean why onli this type of sciences? why not more physics-like? and why even concentrate in sciences? To me, it is indirectly filtering and leading the filtered ones to choose Sc as their major. Well, i also dunno whether is this healthy or unhealthy. Mayb i have no rights to even comment on it.
