So today was the day my exams started...Slept badly last nite, was real tempted to call Crustacean who was mean enuff to tell me to listen to her phone ringing in order to fall asleep i.e. she's not gonna pick up...Then, i made the mistake of not visiting the toilet before the exam even though i had the time to and i had to go within 5 minutes that the paper commenced. 5 MINUTES!!! The air-con in SHEARE's-freakin-cold-HALL was blasting like it was 17 degrees...I mean, please...we know Christmas is comin but we're in the middle of a freakin exam!!! Whoever set the temperature of that place ought to be shipped to Antartica. Then the girl in front of me kept flashing me her grandmother undies whenever she leant foward to write. Please girls...unless you have a nice bod and undies to complement pls pls pls DUN ever wear a tee that's too short for you...Needless to say, it was very very distracting in a bad way.
I think i answered the 1st question ok...But the 2nd question was like ???
It had to do with how english in SEA needs to be taught in terms of multilingual goals and local contexts and not as a dichotomy between English and local languages...And we were supposed to say if we agreed with this solution and why...I said that i agree with the position that ELT in SEA needs to be grounded in local contexts but disagreed with the implication that a dichotomy is necessarily a bad thing.
It was only during lunch that it hit me what this question was really about. It was about glocal english education and how we should be looking at teaching an english that is intertwined with local languages since english is no longer just a western imposition but a locally adopted and adapted language. Wah!!! I really wanted to kick myself man!!! KENA SAI!!! !@#&^%(*)!! You know, the frustration at knowing that you could have done better is absolutely killin me now...I thot i could score on this module...but with a bloddy b- on the group project and now this, the most i can hope for is a B+.
The only saving grace today was my LIP project and presentation grade with claudia. We got a nice A on the former and an A+ on the latter...That was really satisfying...So i went to Orchard to kinda celebrate and take a break from work...But the thot of the stupid question 2 just kept on bugging me and i lost all urges to shop...So i'm writing this post now to try and get it out of my system...
Had the chance to sample PJ Harvey's White Chalk album...In the past i would have bot it straight away but recently i find that my taste in music has been shifting quite radically over the past few months...I dare say it's a reflection of the kind of state i'm in. I think i'm a much happier and contented person now than before and so i no longer dig as much, the dark brooding self-piteous music of some artistes. I'm actualli quite into good ol' top-ten kind of music these days...and this surprises me cos i used to realli hate bubble-gum pop.
Man, i realli hate exams...
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