missed st john training today. as you can see, jiazhe was the DOS. lol. i took this picture from outside the staffroom on the second floor.
pretty fishes at ngee ann poly!
all the stuff we got from the open house! :Dokay, so i regretted choosing to visit the school of life sciences and chemical technology at the ngee ann polytechnic open house which we went for on friday.
even though my initial choice was to take a look at the school of film and media studies, i have no idea how i ended up there, looking at some model of a hydrogen powered car. needless to say, i felt that it was a waste of time due to my lack of interest in the subject. it certainly wasn't wise to make a choice based on whether or not i had someone to keep me company.
i couldn't say i didn't learn anything, though. josephine, nureen and i stood in front of two tanks of goldfish. each tank held two fishes which were of the same gender. the students there explained to us the differences between a male goldfish and a female one.
so we learnt that the males had supposedly longer tails and are of a brighter colour as ompared to the females. also, the student at the booth dipped his hand into the tank, grabbed the fish underwater and showed us the underside of the goldfish. the skin of the underside of male fish is whiter, while the female's would have a brownish colour.
the poor fish was struggling under his grip.
anyway, we went back to the lecture room. those who wanted to go home were dismissed, but since i regretted choosing to go for the life sciences and chemical whatever thing, chrystabel, michelle, ruonan and i decided to stay back and find our own way to the school of humanities. now, that was something much more interesting!
upon reaching the building, we were introduced to the courses that were offered there; diploma in chinese studies, early childhood education, psychology and community services. there were different rooms to go into, and we totally ignored chinese studies, since none of us are interested in becoming a chinese teacher. (we were reminded of elliot saying that he wanted to teach chinese during career day. lol!)
saw some magic tricks and this student introduced as to the community services thingy. which wasn't very interesting you know, but we had to be polite and listen to her. then there were psychology tests.
the setting of the last room we entered just amazed me. it was colourful and looked just like a childcare centre. yeap, you've guessed it. early childhood education. we were just standing at the door, beside some small tables and chairs which were meant for children to use, thinking whether or not to go in, when a student just came and talked to us like we were little kids, pulling us over to join them.
she pulled me and i just let her. so the rest followed as well. but we had fun playing! hahaha. at first i found it a little lame and childish. but after we had joined the circle of people, playing the games which the students had planned, i almost immediately felt like i was a kid again. thinking back, it was funny that a group of secondary school students, together with a few from ngee ann and one little boy, were playing like we were all five year olds.
waited for bus 61 together. we walked down to another bus stop because the bus stop right outside ngee ann poly was so crowded. (i waved to samuel when we were at that bus stop, but he completely ignored me and gave me this blur face! hahaha, so much for being friendly.) but we missed the bus because we didn't see that it had arrived. we were just sitting along the steps beside the bus stop, resting. that was kind of dumb. lol.
i would consider getting a diploma in early childhood education, as you would never be out of job. but then again, i can't imagine handling kids everyday. and my parents want me to go to a JC in order to get into a university, etc. you know, the preferred education route to take, here in singapore.
even though my initial choice was to take a look at the school of film and media studies, i have no idea how i ended up there, looking at some model of a hydrogen powered car. needless to say, i felt that it was a waste of time due to my lack of interest in the subject. it certainly wasn't wise to make a choice based on whether or not i had someone to keep me company.
i couldn't say i didn't learn anything, though. josephine, nureen and i stood in front of two tanks of goldfish. each tank held two fishes which were of the same gender. the students there explained to us the differences between a male goldfish and a female one.
so we learnt that the males had supposedly longer tails and are of a brighter colour as ompared to the females. also, the student at the booth dipped his hand into the tank, grabbed the fish underwater and showed us the underside of the goldfish. the skin of the underside of male fish is whiter, while the female's would have a brownish colour.
the poor fish was struggling under his grip.
anyway, we went back to the lecture room. those who wanted to go home were dismissed, but since i regretted choosing to go for the life sciences and chemical whatever thing, chrystabel, michelle, ruonan and i decided to stay back and find our own way to the school of humanities. now, that was something much more interesting!
upon reaching the building, we were introduced to the courses that were offered there; diploma in chinese studies, early childhood education, psychology and community services. there were different rooms to go into, and we totally ignored chinese studies, since none of us are interested in becoming a chinese teacher. (we were reminded of elliot saying that he wanted to teach chinese during career day. lol!)
saw some magic tricks and this student introduced as to the community services thingy. which wasn't very interesting you know, but we had to be polite and listen to her. then there were psychology tests.
the setting of the last room we entered just amazed me. it was colourful and looked just like a childcare centre. yeap, you've guessed it. early childhood education. we were just standing at the door, beside some small tables and chairs which were meant for children to use, thinking whether or not to go in, when a student just came and talked to us like we were little kids, pulling us over to join them.
she pulled me and i just let her. so the rest followed as well. but we had fun playing! hahaha. at first i found it a little lame and childish. but after we had joined the circle of people, playing the games which the students had planned, i almost immediately felt like i was a kid again. thinking back, it was funny that a group of secondary school students, together with a few from ngee ann and one little boy, were playing like we were all five year olds.
waited for bus 61 together. we walked down to another bus stop because the bus stop right outside ngee ann poly was so crowded. (i waved to samuel when we were at that bus stop, but he completely ignored me and gave me this blur face! hahaha, so much for being friendly.) but we missed the bus because we didn't see that it had arrived. we were just sitting along the steps beside the bus stop, resting. that was kind of dumb. lol.
i would consider getting a diploma in early childhood education, as you would never be out of job. but then again, i can't imagine handling kids everyday. and my parents want me to go to a JC in order to get into a university, etc. you know, the preferred education route to take, here in singapore.
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