Here’s a pic Lime gave me clearance to post, from our Autumn wanderings. Awww, ain’t it sweet? Yeah, yeah, I know, shut up, Gord. Anyway, click on it to see a little more detail. Oh, by the way, this is also a reminder to myself to get cracking and post some of the many, many photos I have sitting around on my hard drive. I am hoping to get that done in the next couple of weeks, but final exams take precedent to everything else till my grades are handed in.
Month: December 2004
My Future Lives
This week, the question is mine, and for once it’s pretty short: If you could choose five nationalities to be born into in your next five lives, which ones would you choose? Now, having said this, it’s pretty hard to think five lives into the future. You know, it’d even be hard to choose my next life strategically. So I guess I’m going to do the reverse of what Kim Stanley Robinson did in exploring history, and I’m going to make up a future history in which my future lives are played out. Future Life 1: A Brit during the …
The Big Test: Suicide and Educational Reform
Jeff, over at Ruminations in Korea, has a very interesting and informative (and saddening) post about the pressures on kids writing the Uni entrance exams in Korea, and the suicides related to it. All I have to add to it is that not only does the nature of this form of University admission create a ton of unnecessary pressure, it also atomizes students and forces them to reject the idea of cooperative learning, a pattern that stays with them for a long time (I see it in my Uni classes all the time). Not only that, but it (along with …
Emuling TV and movies…
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on things: working on my ghost story, working on camp stuff, testing students, and marking essays. So after days full of these things, I feel like watching some shorter things than movies. Let alone Bollywood movies, even standard Hollywood or Korean movies are long for me at 2 hours. Of course, I’ve watched a few films lately; notably, the Bollywood movie Devdas, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, and Madhuri Dixit—a great movie, though it’s really, really long, and quite miserable at the end. Why do true lovers sometimes fail so …
Simon World’s Roundup
Just a reminder: even if it’s blocked on your school server, as it is on mine, the roundup over at Simon World is always worth checking out. Simon linked to one of my posts on this one, and he’s got a more recent one out here. Via Simon World I was led to Jodi’s page and a very interesting post about the Asian practice of “saving face”.