Nov 24 2009
It’s amazing how Facebook has helped me reconnect with my former students (whom I had tutored for English and other subjects). Many of them are thousands of miles away but Facebook has brought us closer. It gives me joy to see many of them grow up into adults and now are getting a good education [...]
Nov 23 2009
A friend was lamenting to us that with the present system of education in Malaysia, the students are very much spoon-fed. Many a times the teachers or lecturers would use an overhead projector to project prepared slides for the students to copy the notes from. One teacher friend told me that they have been given [...]
Nov 20 2009
It is really upsetting to see so many children screaming, running and crying all over the so-crowded Genting Resort. I was just wondering why these children were so misbehaved and how their parents could stand such a thing. I remarked to my daughter Esther sitting beside me that I am very thankful that our four [...]
Nov 01 2009
This may be an embarrassing topic to write about but I felt compelled to blog on this. It has to do with sex education in schools. A friend’s daughter has had her menstruation for the first time recently. She decided to keep blood-soaked sanitary pad in order to show it to her part-time maid (also [...]
Oct 27 2009
In a matter of months, I will be 50 (half a century), or should I call myself a semi-centenarian. One of my children thinks that I’m going through some kind of midlife crisis when suddenly out of the blue I started to be a little high-tech. Until about a month ago I was lousy in [...]