LOVESICK AVENUE
Monday, November 17, 2008
shrinking world
Al mio amore
have we been to reliant on technology that it had become part of us? i sit and wonder. lie and ponder. what has the world come to? look at me, i sort of feel that i need to use the laptop on a daily basis. be it chat, Friendster or Facebook or just looking around, i feel the need to stay connected. but to be too reliant on it, it had never came across my mind.
With the paperless system in RP, I'm getting sick of reading off PowerPoint presentations. i can seem to bother. i mean, you do the maths. one day at least there will be 3 PowerPoint. one facilitator's, the rest would be students. it is to the extent that the facilitators themselves labeled the point where they explain their PowerPoint the "6th P" or in English, the 6th presentation.and that's only for one day.
if u have full attendance, which always happens during the 1st few weeks of school, it will mean all 5 students presentation plus the facilitator's. this would simply mean listening to 5 things again and again, but u wont be sure if all the 5 are correct until u hear the last one. worst is, if we have a open ended problem. all the 5 teams might have 5 different presentations.isn't it too taxing for the mind to be able to focus for all teams when its already past 2?
that's not all, then comes the test. the UT. hurgh! this is far most one of the most irritating thing that we have in the school. I'm not sure if they are really testing us on our understanding or our memorisation skills. they allow us to refer to the 6th P, but sometimes of of the crookedness of their mind, i find "incomplete" slides. i done mean its not done or something. what i meant was instead of helping us, the slides throw us questions. questions that if answered correctly, will answer the test questions. Lame, but true. this is how the whole system work. its like a must to have a personal laptop to keep up with all these bombardments.
that's just for the academic part of technology.now to our daily life. do you notice that all of our monies are being controlled by these artificial technology? look at it these way, when we deposit it through the machine, its like as if we are feeding the wall. then in that same time, we magically see the amount we have being deposited into our account. and in the same short period of time, our monies can be used halfway across the world with the press if buttons. it may sound cool at 1st but when u think of it, it kinda spooks me. money nowadays travel faster then our jet plane.
socially, its even scarier. have a look at the guy across the street. he looks like a geek, he walks like a geek, but he's like the most coolest guy on the net. or he could even be a serial rapist. or a porn addict. or even the best hacker Singapore ever produced. the anonymity that technology has veiled us, one could only imagine what can be done anonymously. this is brought worst by social friendship websites such as Facebook and Friendster. one could desperate enough to have multiple accounts of each, each with different description of himself but none are real.
sometimes these social website , it becomes the modes of getting to know the world. getting to know people with the same interest, same ideas.until sometimes i feel a bit suffocated with all these around. i mean its rather hard for me to keep up with all these. but i still try to. this is how bad one wants to feel connected.
till then
Lovesick Avenue
have we been to reliant on technology that it had become part of us? i sit and wonder. lie and ponder. what has the world come to? look at me, i sort of feel that i need to use the laptop on a daily basis. be it chat, Friendster or Facebook or just looking around, i feel the need to stay connected. but to be too reliant on it, it had never came across my mind.
With the paperless system in RP, I'm getting sick of reading off PowerPoint presentations. i can seem to bother. i mean, you do the maths. one day at least there will be 3 PowerPoint. one facilitator's, the rest would be students. it is to the extent that the facilitators themselves labeled the point where they explain their PowerPoint the "6th P" or in English, the 6th presentation.and that's only for one day.
if u have full attendance, which always happens during the 1st few weeks of school, it will mean all 5 students presentation plus the facilitator's. this would simply mean listening to 5 things again and again, but u wont be sure if all the 5 are correct until u hear the last one. worst is, if we have a open ended problem. all the 5 teams might have 5 different presentations.isn't it too taxing for the mind to be able to focus for all teams when its already past 2?
that's not all, then comes the test. the UT. hurgh! this is far most one of the most irritating thing that we have in the school. I'm not sure if they are really testing us on our understanding or our memorisation skills. they allow us to refer to the 6th P, but sometimes of of the crookedness of their mind, i find "incomplete" slides. i done mean its not done or something. what i meant was instead of helping us, the slides throw us questions. questions that if answered correctly, will answer the test questions. Lame, but true. this is how the whole system work. its like a must to have a personal laptop to keep up with all these bombardments.
that's just for the academic part of technology.now to our daily life. do you notice that all of our monies are being controlled by these artificial technology? look at it these way, when we deposit it through the machine, its like as if we are feeding the wall. then in that same time, we magically see the amount we have being deposited into our account. and in the same short period of time, our monies can be used halfway across the world with the press if buttons. it may sound cool at 1st but when u think of it, it kinda spooks me. money nowadays travel faster then our jet plane.
socially, its even scarier. have a look at the guy across the street. he looks like a geek, he walks like a geek, but he's like the most coolest guy on the net. or he could even be a serial rapist. or a porn addict. or even the best hacker Singapore ever produced. the anonymity that technology has veiled us, one could only imagine what can be done anonymously. this is brought worst by social friendship websites such as Facebook and Friendster. one could desperate enough to have multiple accounts of each, each with different description of himself but none are real.
sometimes these social website , it becomes the modes of getting to know the world. getting to know people with the same interest, same ideas.until sometimes i feel a bit suffocated with all these around. i mean its rather hard for me to keep up with all these. but i still try to. this is how bad one wants to feel connected.
till then
Lovesick Avenue
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