hmph.

So christmas was rather dry as i expected.

all right, i did get a great dinner and got treated to some uncle whose dancing was totally hilarious and made the whole mini performance much more lively. But didn't go church haha feeling guilty now zzz. and well, i still don't get why i'm celebrating christmas.

mm yeah thanks to liwei for the card. got 2 other small presents too.

and today was BACK TO WORK. haha. normal day. but Kate came over today so we had another 1 hour meeting. but not bad luh. at least that's the part that i actually learn something. i learn how modern educators think and she gave us a little foresight into future education.

basically, until now, she's emphasized on two main points (i think).

firstly, different education resources are created (such as scratch which we are working on currently) not only because we have to cater to different types of learners but more that school is too unrealistic in the sense that doing well in school does not guarantee that you do well at work. In fact Kate said that she had been scoring straight As in all her exams but when she came out she was stumped and lost and that's how she ended up here trying to improve the education system haha.

secondly, future education points to technology. It seems impossible now but she said that she foresees that futuristic classrooms will have indiviual work spaces where people work on different things simultaneously. there will be a centre area where people can present their work and stuff. something like our workspace now. it feels unrealistic now but last time when people taught just by using communication, books were seen as useless and not the way to go. It was believed that books would cause people to be unable to communicate their ideas well. But nowadays, reading books is such an integral part to education that doing away with it would be totally weird.

yeah. hmm.

so after work, went off to city hall for rjco christmas dinner. lol. $10 meal. mm not bad (: quite filling surprisingly. dinner was a lot of talk about NS. zomg. must be able to run 2.4 in 9:44 by end of J2. i'm like 12:34 now?? HAHA omg. i need to reduce to under 12 by the time i go to school. zzz. and i bet i can't even do a single pull up now. den went up to rooftop esplanade to play games. mm stuff like polar bear, concentration and continue the story lol. okay. i was surprised how involved i was even though i thought i wouldn't be. yiusum probably just dragged me in on the first game of polar bear and i never got out lol. and wth 2nd in concentration gets forfeit?? okay luckily forfeit was easy same as shanghai one haha. and continue the story was zzz. nvm...

haha but it was fun. i didn't know rooftop esplanade was a great place to have such games. can try with 4B next time ><

dental tmr zzz.

bye!

Patrick