Memories...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
ON BEING A PANELIST HAHAI was having fun in lala land this morning when I was woken up on the phone by Kit See, from PA.
Initially i thought she only wanted me to participate in another forum. (I get quite a number of invitations from the PAYM staff now and then) But to my surprise, she was inquiring whether I would be keen to be a panelist myself.
Dialogue's theme ll be on the Education System in Singapore, and whether it has sufficiently trained Singaporeans for the corporate and global world, i think. Outgoing Education and current Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam would be chairing, together with one of the Human Resource Management Professors from NUS Business School, 1 of the MOE Directors, as well as yours truly to complete the panel.
Well, Kit See told me they wanted the viewpoint from a graduating student as well. Haha so I guess i m in. Kinda excited about it actually, coz its the 1st time I m being a public dialogue panelist. And I think it ll be a great experience.
But at the same time, I really need to think a lot about what I m going to say. Frankly, I m quite critical of our Singapore education system, even though i recognize that it does have a lot of merits as well. So I guess the key thing is to try and give a fair appraisal, and perhaps some constructive recommendations.
I would also go around asking some of my friends for their feedback too. =) And bring it up to the Minister during the session. Hope I dun embarrass myself that day haha.
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On a separate note, I just came back from Timber and Cafe Iguana with the PS Honours lads. haha, happy birthday again Daniel!
I think i laughed too much. Now my stomach is aching wahahahahah. All the silly games and trash talking again. Manz, good times like these keep all of us sane in this momentous period of insanity admist the looming ISM/ Thesis deadlines. And yes, it was so enjoyable to make fun of Damien heh.
There's really a lot of wonderful, happening and fun-loving people in our honours cohort. And like what Daniel said last time, if only all of us have known each other much earlier haha.
Well, I guess its better late than never. =)
