Relentlessly Superior.

Monday, November 30, 2009
[4:56 PM]

I've been extremely caught up with school that I haven't had time to keep up with the things that are going on around me. Blame it on ignorance as well. Yes well among most of my friends I am probably the only one who doesn't seem to give a hoot about the latest top models, the names of the political ministers, current world affairs, pop culture etc. Keyword here is seem. It's not that I don't read. I do and I love filling myself up with such knowledge. But I don't put in the effort to remember them. So what I read I will only know then and there and the next day I would have forgotten all about it. It's humiliating, certainly not a habit a future educator should adopt and practise. I feel embarrassed most of the time when my friends talk about these things and I'm left in the dark. It makes me feel stupid even though I know I'm not.

Anyway as I was saying, I haven't had time to keep up with the latest so now that the exams are over I have all the time to catch up. Been reading much about local stuff, same old but still interesting and never ending debate on freedom of expression, foreign workers, education mostly, things that The Online Citizen is excellent at in providing alternative views. I just finished an article on the absence of a 'Singaporekini', an alternative independent platform that ought to exist, much like 'Malaysiakini'. I see it as an indirect mockery projected towards the lack of freedom for expression here. Kini means now in Malay. One reader not knowing that commented, "What is Singaporekini all about? Singaporeans in bikini?" Talk about ignorance (referring to myself as per para above), that has got to be the comment of the day.

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