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Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| Invisible Menace
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By now most of you should already know about the Hurricane Katrina... the killer hurricane that's rocking the east coast of the united states and is now moving inland!! The smallest of the problem was that the MTV VMAs had to be postponed due to the hurricane and heavy rain... Now the people of New Orleans are bracing themselves for what seems like a major and massive flood that will drown out a large part of the city... God bless everyone who's over there... Last I heard a lot of people have already fled when they could but now it's not safe to fly anymore and everyone is just stocking up, moving inwards and upwards...
On a nearly non-related topic... Melbourne is getting pretty strong winds as well... Today was one of the worst since I got here... I was walking slanted and had to literally fight the wind to walk straight...
Good luck everyone fighting the hurricane... Cheers... |
| posted by
WanTse @ 8/29/2005 08:45:00 pm
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| The Problem With Education...
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Who feels like they are lucky to be educated?! Or... Who feels like education is a right not a privilege?! Do you think that modern day's effect on education is good or bad?! Okay... think about it... In present day... education is a must in developed and semi-developed country... and welfare organisation are trying to provide those in 3rd worlds with education... and we all know education is the key to a growing and developing community... It is THE way to spread understanding and tolerance... at least I personally think so... But are "we" actually getting smarter?! What the hell am I talking about?! Compare the "old" ways and the current ways... people used to be thought textbook style... by that I mean we are told this is this and that is that... now it's more like... expand-your-horizon style where we are given questions to answer ourselves... to so called make us feel engaged and participate... Pro... it does make us work and an inquisitive mind creates new ideas... Con... not everyone will work... it's hard to guarantee that a child will "get" the knowledge in the end... at least if it's textbook style they know what's going on... they just never think... Then there's the problem with the miracle tool called calculator... I do thank God that someone invented it... personally it will take me forever to figure out an equation without it... but this only encourages us to not think doesn't it... I mean just punch in a few numbers and vuala you get the answer... Of course there are problems that need thinking but those only come AFTER we are used to using calculators already making it super difficult to solve those complex equations... living proof is me... I really do wish that they would allow us to use calculators for uni math but unfortunately... they don't... and I'm bare surviving... but I'll be fine... And what about languages?! Boy oh boy... the English language is really a depleating language... living proof is me again... well okay so my first language isn't exactly but according to my exam results... my English is supposed to be up-to-standard... But is it really?! If you've been reading my blog... I'm sure you can tell how bad my grammar and spelling is... worst is I can't seem to stop sounding so colloquial... Although... I suppose I shouldn't be complaining about getting exceptional results... but I'm just stating a fact...
Worst of all... Is education spoilling the current generation and continue to spoil the genrations to come?! What I mean is... are we excepting too much out of life?! It's already bad enough for every parent to think their child is super special and will turn out to be geniuses with enough education... but now the children themselves think that they "deserve" to get the best marks... and will one day "deserve" the best work and the best pay... Once upon a time people were just grateful for having a job... now having a job is not good enough... we want high pay... with all the extra-bits like healthcare and what not... and a comfortable environment... Everyone wants power and pride... No one wants to be a carpenter... a plumber... an electrician... a mechanic... a fisherman anymore... We want to be engineers... scientists... doctors... lawyers... accountants... businessmen... Doesn't this make you think that IF everyone in the world were educated... what would the world really be like?! Everyone will be trying to outwit each other so much that we'd end up at eah other's throats I believe... But in the end... I myself am one of those who wants all the luxuries in life... I wouldn't want to end up picking up garbage at the side of the road... I want to someday be earning hundreds of thousands or dollars so that I wouldn't have to lift a finger in my later years... I think I'm the only one who would think of such nonsense... Education is good... or is it?! One question that is just absurd because progress only happens with education... and we can't go backwards now that we have all the luxuries that came with knowledge... However... one has to think... all the great knowledge that men have learnt to enhance have had the potential to be exploited and misused... So is it the problem with knowledge... or the problem with "us"?! We will never know... |
| posted by
WanTse @ 8/16/2005 09:29:00 pm
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Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| New Venture...
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If you're wondering what this is... It's my own version of apple strudel... Haven't tasted it yet but I reckon it should be alright since I've tasted the filling... and it was alright... Green apples... cinnamon... and honey... Last semester I tried my hand in cooking... this semester I think I will try baking... I've already tried samosas... not too bad but it wasn't crispy enough... this is my second project... I'm thinking of making Spanish doughnuts aka churros... I love 'em...!!!! Wish me luck!!! Cheers... |
| posted by
WanTse @ 8/05/2005 10:03:00 pm
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| Civil Engineering... Underated
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| One of my subjects for this semester is Civil Engineering Introduction... Basically... it introduces us to the different sectors in civil engineering... structures... hydraulics... geotech... environment... Tunnelling... Transport... Mining... etc. So anyway... part of the syllabus was to emphasise how underated civil engineers were... "We're" just not appreciated enough until of course it's time to "blame" us... It really makes me think of how things will be once I go out into the "real world"... I just can't imagine the amount of responsibility engineers have to the society... Personally I'm one who's not too keen on responsibility... The less the better... that's my motto... But anyway... we've been recommended to either read or watch this documentary by BBC... It's called "Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World"... It's trully a great documentary... It would make any engineer proud... Made me think... I'm not really the profile of an engineer am I?! Well anyway... just one last thing... Civil engineers are nothing without architects... even though the can design structures but they are often boring... But architects are definitely nothing without civil engineers... their structures just won't stand... For example... the Sydney Opera House... a Danish architect designed the building but when the engineers did their calculation... it turned out that the design was not possible and they had to keep altering the design... and it took about 7 years or something like that to make it possible to build... Cool ei... Hahaha... Cheers... |
| posted by
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