于丹

I'm beginning to be a fan of 于丹, a professor from 北京师范大学 (Beijing Normal University, a very renowned teacher training college in China.)

I can never imagine myself reading Chinese books, let alone Chinese books on classics philosophy. I'm actually drawn to the books she wrote. Although I took a long time to read them, I really enjoyed them and learnt a thing or two from old chinese sayings. Wow.


She has written 3 books in this series

1. 论语心得
2. 庄子心得
3. 论语感悟

Read this first two. Hope to finish the 3rd before my next semester of night studies start in August. ( Yeah, my reading is slow) Then again, 欲速则不达. I'm taking my time. It's not how much I have read, It's how I have learnt.

Then again there is always the dvd. ha ha.

For snippet of the intro lecture:
http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/video.jsp?videoId=VIDE1202286926340461
here is the link to the series of the 3rd book:
http://space.tv.cctv.com/act/platform/view/page/composePage.jsp?pageId=PAGE1197624456765101

alternative: go to youtube and search for 于丹.

Some more pic of ACJC

During the holiday, went back for video editting course. This is 1 of the 2 courses for the holidays. Damn! On the one hand, they are interesting, they are useful , they are blah blah blah.... (you can give one quadrillion reasons) BUT!!!! it is the holidays!!!!!!!!!!!! it is the holidays !!!! ( imagine a whining , unreasonable kid on the floor of a toy store )

If the management or MOE people are reading this, just a humble suggestion - shouldn't we have some form of regulations to control the number of courses and meetings to be held during the holidays.

We already have protected time for school and departmental based discussion - called the white space . How can we call it SPACE when it is already filled ?!?! (overflown actually - it is really difficult to book a slot for meeting, I heard.) Anyway, shouldn't we have protected time for holidays as well?

So I'm making the best use of time to take some really nice ( 老王卖瓜，自卖自夸) photos. Here is a nice angle looking at ACJC. Well, for achievements, I totally agree that The Best is Yet to Be ; for workload - the worst is yet to come. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.



Well, before the video editting ... we have to record some video. I'm told this video camera costs 12K or something. Of course my hands tremble when I'm handling it!This is the new Centre of Performing Arts (CPA) building. I was officially launched a few days ago.


Some more random pics:

Singapore River Raft Race

Time really flies, it is the annual Singapore River Raft Race again. And it has been 5 years since Unity scout troop first participated in it.


What never fails to amaze me is how rafts are decorated according to the happenings of the year ( actually they are encourage to use recycle material - that is the original idea , I think)



Formula 1 racing( there were actually a number of them, but is was so crowded I manage only to take picture of one of them):
Year of the rat:

Happy Feet?

It has been some time since the last post - random photos

Yes, it has been some time I last posted. And the last few posts are expressions - with words and more words. It is about time I post some pictures :


Raindrop or teardrop

Taken at Bus stop opposite Jurong East Library

It is a long winding road


Amidst of hustle and bustle life of pubbing, and busying office people rushing among so many banks ,and Ka-ching ( sound of cash register --- money, money ) at boat quay, here is a scene behind all the touristy and $$$ glam. Old houses, big container dustbin, bicycles ...


Big Lizard

Taken on the way back home, near Chinese Garden MRT station.