went to stef's bdae party yesterday with janice. stef is my church fren and jan knows her from sngs. swedish meat balls are yummy but the highlight was the chocolate fondue! she bought that machine whatever u call it! temptations are hard to resist. mmmm.. haha

but was shocked to see joanne too. she knows stef. hmm.. small world! haha. gd to see old frenz around. still cant forget the chocolate fondue. hmmmmm... hahaah.

saw today's paper. it featured the notorious nus business sch advertisment. IT SUX. seriously, it doesnt only reflect badly on NUS, it reflects badly on Singapore too. if you are good, you are good. there is no need to reinforce that point. BUT NUS business is ranked no. 92!!! and the gal in the advert shrieked in delight when she saw that letter and ignored others like wharton.... hmm interesting! in that case, smu should not link their courses to wharton. smu chose the wrong school man! should be NUS!!! i am not anti-NUS here. in fact i am proud that NUS is getting more recognised. this is good and it reflects well on the education system in singapore. however, pls do not tarnish that dark-horse image by having lame, cheesy adverts. too diabetic for me.

saw the new maths syllabus for jc. feel that some of the topics are fun! like methods of difference. it is a fun topic done by the f maths students in the past and it is do-able for the normal math students too. but i am quite amazed by the graphing calculator part. students are expected to key in some numbers and expected to throw out the answers from it but not know what happened and why. take for example, matrices. in the past, this is done by the f maths students. now, the students are supposed to use the GC to find the solutions to the matrices without knowing why and how. in the old syllabus, we have to work out manually to find them and i feel that this tests the thinking process, no doubt tedious. but whats the purpose of using the GC without knowing the process. but on the whole, i feel that the change is generally better but that means much more is expected from students. arts students are going to suffer unless u r really proficient in maths.

heavenknows

11:25 PM