Saturday, July 22, 2006
today, for the second night, i beat all the guys who alighted at the same bus stop as me in walking into the estate. haha. yesterday there were 3 and today there were 2. and i managed to walk faster than them. yay! i simply love winning guys in doing things. even absolutely stupid things like this. haha. though this sounds very childish, but heck! as long as i won them. :) hah!
met s and an for dinner today. was quite fun. havent had such conversations for a very very very long time. i love it. can increase my general knowledge. we were discussing about driving and our holiday destination. ahah. i cant wait for it man! rarrr. i also cant wait for our big day to come! not that me and someone else are getting married. the big day is when we buy our cameras. !!!! which means parting with more money. rarrr. but it's a necessity. oh well. oh ya the barley at yakun actually doesnt taste that bad. hurhur.
i've been wanting to write lots of stuff here but i realise i cant and hence i feel quite pekchek about it. hmpf. really have been waiting for quite long already. rarrr. probably next week la. when we meet personally. really quite pekchek. okay.not quite. very.
yay i'm working again next week. it's good. forces me to plan my time properly in the mornings and of course my school work also. i like being busy. it seems to bring more meaning to life than staying at home all day waiting for time to pass before going to school. my work involves art. :) so naturally, it's more meaningful than working in like say, macs. you get to show children that art is actually not difficult at all. it doesnt matter whether you think you have the skills or not, so long as you've the confidence and you're not afraid to draw and paint, and then finally be proud of the end product. art brings joy and colour to the children's life. it definitely beats doing maths or chinese all day long. it's the only period where they're free to talk as they do their work. of course not when the instructor is talking la. it also help them to be more aware of their surroundings. one day they might just forget that leaves are green if all they do is to stare at their worksheets which has only four colours - white for the paper, black for the things printed on it, approx 80% grey if they're using a 2b pencil, and red. more red if they there're more mistakes. okay maybe they wont forget that leaves are green, but they wont realise that they're actually many different tints and shades of green. leaves are not monochromatic. the age of the leaf and time of the day determines what the colour of the leaf is. heh. i didnt really have many art lessons in primary school. cos over at aitong, the school's only interested in getting good results. therefore, art period, which is often taught by chinese teachers, is always used for more chinese lessons so that it can live up to its reputation as a sap school. now, times have changed. schools are engaging external instructors to teach their kids art. not only the children, but also to train the teachers in this aspect. think this a good move by them to promote the arts to children and even in the heartland. i dont quite know what the art syllabus in schools is like right now, or if there's even one. when i was in primary school, we drew stupid things, like chinese new year, or a day at the park, or my favourite cartoon character. i guess there wasnt really a syllabus. we just did whatever the teacher felt like asking us to do. these days there's einstein. the bald guy who hosts the kids central show cow and crayons. yes, he teaches the kids how to draw cute and nice things and even has a magazine. but at the end of the day, all the kids produce similar drawings. sometimes i dont know what's the point. it doesnt encourage the children to imagine, create and explore new ideas. sometimes children are so afraid to deviate(is it correct word and correct spelling?) from the original or make mistakes that they die die also must follow exactly how einstein draws then it'll be correct. this is totally not art at all la, though it involves drawing. hmpf.
right. enough said already. seh already.
yay cg tmr. i'm playing and i'm the chairperson:) yayye.
night lovely people!
met s and an for dinner today. was quite fun. havent had such conversations for a very very very long time. i love it. can increase my general knowledge. we were discussing about driving and our holiday destination. ahah. i cant wait for it man! rarrr. i also cant wait for our big day to come! not that me and someone else are getting married. the big day is when we buy our cameras. !!!! which means parting with more money. rarrr. but it's a necessity. oh well. oh ya the barley at yakun actually doesnt taste that bad. hurhur.
i've been wanting to write lots of stuff here but i realise i cant and hence i feel quite pekchek about it. hmpf. really have been waiting for quite long already. rarrr. probably next week la. when we meet personally. really quite pekchek. okay.not quite. very.
yay i'm working again next week. it's good. forces me to plan my time properly in the mornings and of course my school work also. i like being busy. it seems to bring more meaning to life than staying at home all day waiting for time to pass before going to school. my work involves art. :) so naturally, it's more meaningful than working in like say, macs. you get to show children that art is actually not difficult at all. it doesnt matter whether you think you have the skills or not, so long as you've the confidence and you're not afraid to draw and paint, and then finally be proud of the end product. art brings joy and colour to the children's life. it definitely beats doing maths or chinese all day long. it's the only period where they're free to talk as they do their work. of course not when the instructor is talking la. it also help them to be more aware of their surroundings. one day they might just forget that leaves are green if all they do is to stare at their worksheets which has only four colours - white for the paper, black for the things printed on it, approx 80% grey if they're using a 2b pencil, and red. more red if they there're more mistakes. okay maybe they wont forget that leaves are green, but they wont realise that they're actually many different tints and shades of green. leaves are not monochromatic. the age of the leaf and time of the day determines what the colour of the leaf is. heh. i didnt really have many art lessons in primary school. cos over at aitong, the school's only interested in getting good results. therefore, art period, which is often taught by chinese teachers, is always used for more chinese lessons so that it can live up to its reputation as a sap school. now, times have changed. schools are engaging external instructors to teach their kids art. not only the children, but also to train the teachers in this aspect. think this a good move by them to promote the arts to children and even in the heartland. i dont quite know what the art syllabus in schools is like right now, or if there's even one. when i was in primary school, we drew stupid things, like chinese new year, or a day at the park, or my favourite cartoon character. i guess there wasnt really a syllabus. we just did whatever the teacher felt like asking us to do. these days there's einstein. the bald guy who hosts the kids central show cow and crayons. yes, he teaches the kids how to draw cute and nice things and even has a magazine. but at the end of the day, all the kids produce similar drawings. sometimes i dont know what's the point. it doesnt encourage the children to imagine, create and explore new ideas. sometimes children are so afraid to deviate(is it correct word and correct spelling?) from the original or make mistakes that they die die also must follow exactly how einstein draws then it'll be correct. this is totally not art at all la, though it involves drawing. hmpf.
right. enough said already. seh already.
yay cg tmr. i'm playing and i'm the chairperson:) yayye.
night lovely people!
TheServant
12:50 AM