December 27, 2004

what is the title?

Think I am back to my old self. The old self that loves blogging. So people, I guess you are in luck again. But slowly, I felt that inner thoughts are far too abstract and mind wastage for me. All I can think now is reading my books and slacking through my whole holidays and it is no joke that I will do that. For the official report of what I have done this week is as below.
Firstly, I have went out four days out of seven days, which I felt was quite stupid because I went to orchard for like 3 times this week, not that orchard is a very nice place to hang out but it seem to be a norm for teenagers to go there now. (P/s: I am still a teenager!! Haha… just want to say it a few more months before I officially step into the era of the twenties. It is kind of scary though but age is something that comes naturally, I think)
Was sort of thinking how should I celebrate my Christmas this year, without anything is mind is sort of bad because I seriously don’t know what to do. Gift list are suppose to be up already but my mind is too caught up with my new hobby which is reading novels from an author named “yi su”. I think I am having an addiction currently because I have been reading her novels for the past week and I managed to complete five of her books. It is quite an accomplishment since I know I dread reading storybooks but something just attracts me to her style of writing. Don’t ever think they are love novels because I think they are just imaginary, ideal life that not many will achieve, maybe 1 % of the whole population in the world or even non existent. I think that love novels are just a fraud, making life seem so darn interesting and without worries. Couples bicker about stupid small things and always, a happy ending. I seriously don’t think that I would be having that kind of life so I just stick with realistic authors. The author I just mentioned is more of a realistic writer. She portrayed life with different difficulties and make me have a different perspective of life. Not that it had changed me totally but small changes will lead the overall change in life. ( I am really sorry but I think I am starting to write rubbish) However, I will still recommend the books she wrote to people who like Chinese novels and realistic ones. ( p/s: she has wrote over 200 novels until now and I think they are still publishing her books)
So much about my new found hobby which I am glad that I have enjoyed. Nothing beats a relaxing day without anything to do, drinking my milo and reading my books with one or two pieces of biscuits to chew on. Now I know why life is worth living. Heeehee…. Next on due is is is is….. I am not sure what I want to say. Let me think for one second…. Okay, I shall talk about the new “hot” topic that has been going round in the newspapers these few days. If you saw the newspapers in recent weeks, a lot of them were about Chinese in Singapore. Apparently, the government has discovered that Chinese in Singapore are not so well conversed in mandarin and some even think that Chinese is just an idiotic subject that pulls down their grade. I recognize that there are exceptions but the rising number of people who are feeling that mandarin are useless are increasing in great speed. thus the government set a policy where more subjects will be taught in Chinese so that the usage of Chinese will be more evitable. However, I think that this will not help a lot since that people will surely have difficulty adapting to the change, even if they are very well adapted to the Chinese teachings of certain subjects like mathematics in primary school, they have to readapt when they go to secondary levels. Do you even think that it is feasible to do that?
From what I know, mm lee thought that anybody could handle two languages, which certainly proved wrong looking at the situation now. My mum commented that what they want is people who are fluent in their English, have their creativity thinking but still holding on to their Asian values, like mm Lee. But if everybody has the intelligence of mm lee, mm lee would have been a nobody then. Life is full of contradictions. I knew that my Chinese was far better then my English ( not because my command of Chinese is very good but vice versa) thus I was wondering why I can’t really improve my English. When I asked my mum about it, she told me that Chinese is harder to handle because we have to remember every stroke of a word whereas in English, we will be able to write out the word based on the sound of the word. I pondered whether this is really true but after a while I simply gave up because I knew that interests have to play a major role in it. When you are willing to put in the hard work, you will certainly reap results. Maybe I should just face my problem that I have been trying to avoid this problem for as long as I lived. I should seriously think what I should do with it. Maybe I should read novels or something likewise. I am not too sure whether I will execute my vague plans in the future but I will seriously try my best.
I am too lazy to continue today. Maybe I will continue some other times.
Cheers!
( it was suppose to be a long time ago)

2 comments:

Wind said...

hey hey, just saw your comments at my blog. glad to see you blogging again! anyway, i've just came back from thailand, and haven't been blogging for a long time liao.

for an update of what i've been doing, visit my photo page at http://client.webshots.com/user/nkfoong

see you around :)

royal_kiwi said...

haha.. U finally posted again.. I almost gave up checking for ur new post u know..University can be really tough because U r after all in a place where the highest qualification ca nbe obtained throughout the whole of Singapore. It is pretigious to b even inside.. rite? =) Happy NEW YEAR!