Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Have You Wonder Why You Must Work?



Dear Readers, it's me again. This time I look and think deep into what I have been doing everyday. It's certainly much much better then studying at some school and coming out with 0 knowledge.



Let's talk about how Singapore school operate. I've been in school almost my entire life (except for 2 years army). Today I see a major problem in how all the old age teachers, well... let's just say they are above 35 years old teachers who are stuck in this digital world where each of them have to carry a laptop around. They just couldn't catch up on learning all the computer terms. I do not doubt their skills but some of them really cannot communicate with the computer like I can't communicate with programming languages.



Let's look at both side. On the first we have the school:



They are trying to get the fastest and best PC for the teachers and HOD to use. Trying to let the students gain knowledge.



Let's look at the other side. The MOE however:



They are trying to stop virus, spyware, malware, security breaches.. etc. They try to restrict what the students and teachers can do on their PCs. They have this TOKEN for teachers and student log in to accounts that are 'restricted'. They put PC Technician to school to help 'restrict' the computers and help troubleshoot.



My Solution:



MOE should alias with the laptop / desktop vendor to come out with a 'cripped OS' for PCs so the only thing you can do on that PC is to just 1.surf net, 2.do spreadsheets, 3.email, 4.er.. what else? MSN is no no for them.



With this solution, PC problem will be cut more then 60%.



As I'm a deep thinker... the PC Technician would be out of job if this happen.







so next time you want road sweeper to keep their job, generously throw litters on the floor so they can sweep it up.

No litters = No job for them.



Work & Work



Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Choose instant messaging for increased productivity



A new study from Computer Standards and Interfaces seems to indicate
that for collaborative, non-face to face tasks, we do much better
communicating via IM rather than email:

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On average, the IM teams produced one more idea than those using email.
The researchers suggests this may be due to the speed of IM compared to
email.



Saturday, January 13, 2007

More and More Work

Having my first full time job up till now, I haven't really started teaching the secondary students yet. From what I heard, I will be teaching a lot of photoshop and flash.

Life has been about work work and more work. I have to catch hold of all the shit that my supervisor throw and service to all the non IT savvy teachers with ridiculous request like asking me to help them scan 100 pages and put into CD bcos the students is very stingy to buy the 2x $2.80 book.

Just wth is that? Got money buy HP no money buy book?

The secondary students nowadays are quite a farfetched from those secondary days I had. They now have the power of technology and any mistake like crash / lousy planning of timetable, they can just log online and post in straits time forum.

Will I die in their hands? or Will I get killed by my work?

p.s: Thanks Kok, for putting the comment box back.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

more space to put my photos

nicer layout though its an old one

still too tired to update.

Paging for Mr Kok... how to put back blogger comment box ah?

Monday, January 01, 2007

New Year - New Beginning



This are my new year resolution for 2007



1. 1280x1024 - 32bit color screen resolution



2. Don't attend any birthday party, if thou shall attend let there be no present.



3. Thou shall try to be more hardworking



4. Thou shall try to be more holy



5. Thou shall save 10.8k this year



6. To make another resolution next year