Some thoughts after work

I have been thinking a little about the role of writing in our lives.

It seems that many of us do neglect this skill, including myself. I have actually started this little blog with the intention of practising my writing and expression of ideas. But sadly, I have not had the luxury of time; or is it that I am just not disciplined enough to spend the idea to write?

In my interactions with some colleagues and peers, I am not sure if I am making an accurate judgment, but what I am hearing from them is that they actually "like to work" but "don't like to" to communicate their ideas. That's interesting. If this is the case, how then do you expect others to know what you are doing, and how interesting are these cool stuff you are working upon? People only get to know how cool that new thing is when you present it wisely and clearly to them, with proper engagement.

Anyway this counts as a more colloquial post. I'd hope to be writing more in proper argumentative format, presenting various points and perspectives about issues or reflection about my work and interests. Wonder what sort of traffic this would bring in.

Observing others' last semester

I nearly forgot that there's one more topic that I may expound upon, and that is - just random life observations that I make here and there.

Am sitting around school these days although I have graduated, and am still observing many of my friends doing their design project. As usual, they were fed the familiar narrative of needing to slog and be very private about design ideas from one of the faculty.

I am not too sure if our education system systematically forces all of us, impressionable young people, into thinking that life is just being an unfeeling robot, devoid of all humanity and emotion and care for others. Since the time a young Singaporean enters school, he or she is only judged by his/her academic performance. And thanks to the need to enter a better school via credentials, good results are not really enough - a fetish for co-curricular activities and involvement develops. People vie for roles of club presidents or to be in students' councils, and many who are elected are but popular people and not truly people who want to serve the community and/or have the best SME or organizational skills.

As I got to university, similar structures are in place for people to pursue such accolades and narratives. In certain areas, you notice a "role-reversal" - people who were not really vocal and active in JC or Poly or Sec Sch suddenly becoming key figures in building the "vibrant culture" of the university, while those who used to be active became quiet figures. It's really funny. All these educational institutions promise us a vibrant academic journey and community, but what happens is that when people are put together they are likely to be judged and measured upon various scales. Judgment is a necessary evil and we all agree upon it, but can we teach ourselves to see that societal and monetary value of a person does not cause our innate worth as a human differentiated?

My dream is that, even if we were to continue to embrace the capitalist state of an economy, can we learn to detach monetary value from the worth of a person? Every day I go back to tap on some wifi and air-con and library links, I see this cleaning aunty, and I really think that we should ought to value her as much as the HYSYS we are working upon. But what is sad is that some students see her as a hindrance... my friend, she's there to clean up the mess you make by buying Macdonalds into the computer lab, and you turn around to hate her? I hope we can learn to be a society that looks less at all these metrics, and embrace one another's innate humanity.

Introduction

I have been thinking of opening this blog for some time coming, and I hope that this is the time that I may follow through with this concept.

小弟开始要在博客学习怎么写作。可能“写作”这两个字用词有点不恰当。More accurately, I am keen to use this blog as a space to practice my articulation of ideas and arguments. Some of the pieces written on this blog are bound to be poorly-worded or malformed ideas; but I hope that many of the writings would be a platform for further engagement and discussion.

I wonder whether I'll just get general ad traffic and unnecessary bots visiting this page. But if you do stumble upon this page and if you are keen for a discussion, please leave a comment! You are more than welcome to.

Topics of discussion and exposition are likely to centre about theological issues; contemporary world issues; Christian living and modern society (especially with respect to Singapore since I live here); work and Christian life; morality; existence of God; maybe even science and technology.

I'm not a genius at designing webpages, but when I have the time, space and opportunity, I may reorganize some of the content on this blog. I realize that labels are great ways to keep tab of discourses on issues. Hopefully I can make full use of them.

hello world.

testing the line break.