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Porcelain Heels

New Monalisa Glasses

Before I start one of my little “talks of the day” again. Have a look at the tiny shoes on the left. It was a gift from mum when we went “exploring” last Friday. We walked from Lavender (to collect my new passport) all the way to Bugis and we chance about this pottery shop that sell beautiful potteries and household wares. I just happen to saw this pair of porcelain shoes on sales at SGD 4.90 and it’s a beauty. I don’t wear such heels (to be exact, I don’t really wear heels at all) so I think I’ll have one of these at home to admire.

And surprise surprise… I got myself new glasses with the GST credits from the government. I’m contributing to the economy (this is my excuse for everything now). I got these beautiful Monalisa glasses for SGD 200 (click on the thumbnail to view the full size photo), I love them even though they make me look like a nerd, the lenses are a bit too large for my face but please tell me I look okay. I am starting to feel that the frame is a bit too large but I still love it a lot. It has little crystals at the side. The colour is wrong in the photo though, it’s more metallic purplish pink rather than red and it isn’t as bright as the photo looks. Mr Chewy isn’t going to like it. He hate me in framed glasses. I use to wear frame-less glasses in the past. I place the nerdy photo of myself under the cut, I don’t wish to scare you off you know.

Nerdy Dayna in her new glasses

Please be forewarn that the “talk of the day” starts here. Okay, so I noticed I hadn’t been blogging this week. Let’s just say nothing much happen for the week other than constantly mugging for the exams. I wish examinations would just disappear from the education sector. I would prefer students being evaluated based on projects, team work and their characters rather than testing how good they are at memorising names and numbers. That’s the thing about studying Finance (and maybe some other subjects as well). For example in CF and POBF, there are tons of models to study and their names are darn hard to remember. Jensen Mecking, Brickley, Netter, John Linter and the list just goes on. There are so many names that I couldn’t remember which is which and even if I did, I mess up the years associated with each of the models. A good student doesn’t necessary mean that they have a good memory for such things. I doubt we ever need to know these when we are in the workforce in the future (unless I’m working as a teacher in that area of course).

It’s pathetic when I think of the way education is. When we are taking a private degree, the only strength your lecturers can see in you is how hard working you are and how good your memory is. They don’t ever ever realise other strengths in you. The tag line is “if you don’t understand, memorise it”. I mean what’s the point? I don’t get it. I regretted choosing this path. It’s making me dislike school, making me doubt the existence of humanity. I don’t enjoy studying now. All these hardcore memorisation work is taking a toll on me, it has taken away all the joys of schooling, learning new things and interacting with people. I’m not learning, I’m just throwing those stuff into a human hard disk. And can someone tell me what’s the purpose of this? Please enlighten me. I don’t even know why I’m doing what I’m doing now. :cry: