Tuesday, October 14, 2003

lessons learnt

anyone who's done project work topic 1: blast from the past, would definitely agree that the part about the lessons learnt is an absolute pain. it's no different for me. up till now, refining the 2nd draft and preparing the final copy, my group has yet to truly identify and phrase correctly the lessons learnt. it's impossible, really, to get hold of exactly what the tutor wants. and it drives me nuts.

why is it so hard to identify the lessons learnt from a certain situation? usually things are more or less straight forward, and we should just be able to pick the lessons off from the surface. so, why are the tutors and examiners making life so horrendously miserable for us?

some of the lessons i find i could learn from the past 4 days of slacking were pretty obvious.

1. do not put off what you can do now till later
last thurs saw the eton hellers happily heading off to plaza singapura for crepes. since we had a pretty satisfying dinner, we decided to have the crepes after walking around for a while. "for a while" turned out to be something like 3 hrs, and by the time we reached the crepes shop, they were all out of dough. bummer.

2. big teeth, dimples and low rider jeans maketh the dj
jamie yeo (really popular dj from perfect 10) paid my senior a visit that very same night to hand her a stress buster kit. all us eton hellers really acted like true dungus, waiting for her, taking pics...the guys were literally drooling over jamie. and no wonder too. she looks prettier in person than in any of her pics. big teeth, dimples, low rider jeans and the works. she bid us a "teary" goodbye some pics and a signed fhm pic later. oh yeah, i had a pic taken with her. will post it up once choon han sends it over.

3. do not eat too much meat at the steamboat barbeque
lack of fibre=constipation

4. bring a camera at all times
i usually lug a camera around but for some weird reason, didn't do so when the girls went out on saturday. we went to china town and clarke quay! explored a lovely fort canning park by moonlight too. sigh. ended up getting berated the entire night...

5. always be prepared to have your perceptions changed
the house committee and basketball team went to jurong stadium yesterday to cheer for the 1st asean wheelchair basketball championships as a cip (community involvement program) activity. i have to admit that i expected things to be rather dull, but things turned out otherwise. although we were pretty much the only spectators there, we cheered our hearts out, and my guess is that most of us rather enjoyed it despite our grumbling. the singapore vs philippines match was really fierce and exciting...and i found myself totally immersed in the game. we'll be supporting the event till the finals tomorrow.

see? the lessons learnt from everyday happenings are far more easily identified than stupid project work lessons!

so much for project work teaching us about real life.

lishun at 9:37 AM

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