Sunday, February 11, 2007
My JC
Seems like i seldom blog about my past nowadays.. maybe now i should relish my favourite JC.. :)I come from the JC where ppl thinks that we like to "stone" alot since our uniform is the colour of the stone.. hiak hiak.. but i beg to differ.. we were fun-loving ppl ok? i remembered the times we spent gossiping after school, the times we spent in the Library hiding from the very fierce librarian, the times that we stayed behind and consulted our cute tutor.. i had a lot of great memories there. a place where friendships were formed, ppl from all parts of singapore gathered, a place where crushes were shattered and formed, a place where i gained confidence in myself..
Why the sudden mention of my JC? i dropped by my JC the other day, and i was astonished by the changes i saw.. the culture is no longer the "stoner" culture.. the canteen was very much alive.. the porch is now renovated to extend the canteen and it looks like a fast food joint next to the road.. impressive.. there's a new tutorial room block, and i guess all the tutorial rooms are finally airconditioned? gd AND bad, especially if the guys in ur class love to play basketball under the great sun and sweat buckets.. *faintz*
Also, they have the integrated programme in place, meaning that some of the students are very much younger than the crowd we used to have. teaching practice such as creativity, integrated curriculum is quite a WOW factor to teachers especially..
i'm quite glad that my JC class still more or less kept in contact, and i'm quite glad to be able to get to meet with my JC civics tutor in NIE. He's been a great help and a positive mentor, motivator and encourager to all of us.. everyone loves to hear of news from him. :)
JC is where i got the motivation to go on.. every now and then when i look back, i remind myself that the achievements then can be extended, can be reproduced.. i was good then, i hope to be better now!
i don't find any problem with the system, where hardworking students are rewarded with fantastic results.. even if u undergo drill and practise way of learning, at least u are better at the knowledge aspect of things. CR is an example. She's our top student in class, she is very hardworking (usually finishing the tutorials way before us) and very humble (lend us work to copy readily, doesn't boast of her intelligence and hardwork) and she has got great leadership skills (president of the IEEE in Uni).
Sorry i've got to digress.. i love ppl with great leadership skills. and i look down on those that don't (i think i'm one of those who don't have the innate talent of leadership in me). some ppl can be great speaker, mugger, writer, philosopher, but they will go nowhere cos they are not able to manage ppl. to rally for help and support. they are not likeable by ppl, and they might even be very self-centred.being a good leader puts u in better position to negotiate, and you will have more talent with u than a one-man show might be. becos u can manage the talents u have on ur team, a better war is fought.
nevertheless, we must recognise that some people are talented in some ways but not in some other ways. for me, i feel that i am talented in growing fat, talented in hello kitty love, talented in acting cute (just kidding!)i am not talented in sports and fast games, but i can be creative and see things from other aspects too. i feel that i have the slight talent in singing which can be improved on if i go for singing lessons (i must be dreaming.. lol..) i am definitely a talented listener, cos i feel that being able to listen renders me to talk less and think more through the process. and thinking is very important. Some ppl are definitely talented in being very self-centred and doesnt take a step back to see the things they missed out on. and i am talented in procrastinating cos it is now 11 pm and i have a test at 830 am tml and i haven't studied for it.. maybe i have a talent for the module? we shall see.. LOL..
to be continued.. when i feel like it.
| posted by clouds at 10:43 PM
