Just a quick shout-out to the Tembusians who are heading to China to march some 250km across the Gobi desert. Might I add they are crazy? A kind of crazy that deserves some respect though. Especially since they are doing this for a cause. They have blogs too. Check them out here: Kelvin, David, Yan Rui. (I'll update if I find there the others'.)
A side note, it also occurred to me that this Gobi March would be the kind of initiative that could be considered an Interest Project. Apparently that idea has caught the attention of some others, so I might be writing up a more detailed proposal for IPs soon.
If I'm not too lazy there'll be another post soon. Hope everyone is having a happy summer break so far. And to the crazy people going to Gobi – all the best!
Monday, May 27, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Keeping Our Tree Alive
I think most of us will remember the minor controversy of the renaming of Angsana College to College Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT). A family made a generous donation, and the college was renamed. It was a sudden change – and I'm not sure how the Angsana guys initially reacted to it, but they've seemed to have settled into it.
Even though this was Angsana that was renamed, it was an issue that unsettled Tembusians as well. Word has it that we're open to being renamed too – it's all a matter of how much money comes in, and from who.
This of course does not sit so well with all of us. I think the college has already embraced Tembusu as part of our identity. The Tembusu tree has become a running metaphor to how we visualize the college. We're an ecosystem, the college our home. The deep, mossy green has become our colour. We may branch in different directions, majoring in different disciplines, but we all have one common root – Tembusu. Our Houses are nature-themed, named after endangered species of animals. Our rector is Champion of the Earth.
Even though this was Angsana that was renamed, it was an issue that unsettled Tembusians as well. Word has it that we're open to being renamed too – it's all a matter of how much money comes in, and from who.
This of course does not sit so well with all of us. I think the college has already embraced Tembusu as part of our identity. The Tembusu tree has become a running metaphor to how we visualize the college. We're an ecosystem, the college our home. The deep, mossy green has become our colour. We may branch in different directions, majoring in different disciplines, but we all have one common root – Tembusu. Our Houses are nature-themed, named after endangered species of animals. Our rector is Champion of the Earth.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Orienting Orientation
Hello one and all, exams are finally over! Hope yours went well. Anyway, I thought it would be good to get back to the discussion on orientation. As mentioned in my previous post, many seniors seem to have a certain disappointment in the current juniors for not having contributed as much as expected. Somehow, this has been attributed to the design of the their orientation program.
I am not even sure how that makes sense at all, but the line of argument is: grouping participants according to their future Houses during orientation predisposes them to be under-contributing members of the college. Obviously there are missing premises there but I can't find them.
I am not even sure how that makes sense at all, but the line of argument is: grouping participants according to their future Houses during orientation predisposes them to be under-contributing members of the college. Obviously there are missing premises there but I can't find them.
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