Been travelling around China to recruit Chinese students. About halfway through my journey and am about to leave Beijing to move on to the next city. Didn’t really want to do this as i would be missing classes but because of some staff movements, couldn’t be helped. So I had to swap lessons so that [...]
Archive for July, 2007
From Beijing
Posted in Back to school on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My Ideal School
Posted in Back to school, LA on July 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This week, we started discussing issues in education. Many of the students obviously had strong views on the issues discussed. This is good. One of things I asked them to consider was what would their ideal school. A lot of interesting ideas arose from this.
Of course, this is Harry Potter season and a lot of [...]
The History of Singapore
Posted in LA, Personal on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just caught the latest instalment of the Dim Sum Dollies escapades. Was a little doubtful at first. Don’t usually like local productions that often aimed at cheap laughs usually through crass language jokes. But was pleasantly surprised. There were cheap laughs and crass language jokes. But there was more.
I don’t know about you, but a [...]
More than meets the eye
Posted in Back to school, LA on July 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I know, I know, transformers are the in thing right now. But this is not about the transformers, although it is partly about transformations. This is about cosmetic surgery, an issue brought up by some of the students in class last week. It is also the subject of a follow-up comment to one of my [...]
