Thursday, August 25, 2005

It's been a tiring week, as mid sems are approaching. My first paper will actually be Macroeconomics next thursday at 6pm, hopefully can do well for all my papers! I've been spending the mornings in school studying instead of enjoying my beauty sleep. Luckily tomorrow I shall be able to sleep in a little later instead of going to school. Heh heh heh...

Feel like commenting on 2 of my lecturers today. The first is my Macroeconomics lecturer, Dr Sam Tang. He speaks with a weird accent as he's from Hong Kong. When the semester first started, we could barely understand him and kept laughing at all his mispronounciations. Now we are pretty used to it and still can only just barely understand him. An example of a thing he says will be something like," And now we wirr jaw a gaph, and see the leaction of the interest wate in the short one, medium one and long one." (And now we will draw a graph and see the reaction of the interest rate in the short run, medium run and long run) As you can probably imagine, such a learning environment is not 100% conducive and we are not learning at perfect equilibrium nor efficiency.

Another bloke I shall talk about is my Marketing Law lecturer Peter Sinden, who happens to be my tutor as well. During his tutorial, his pattern is normally like 10 minutes of talking about his old war stories in the courtroom which bears no relevance to our tutorial, 1 minute of the tute, 10 mins of old stories again and so on and so forth before concluding the tute with a "We will go through the problems we cannot cover next week." One problem is that he has been saying that for the past 4 weeks.

Besides the fact that we are not able to learn everything we are supposed to in the tute, his old war stories are darn boring and seem to be heavily embellished, even I have better courtroom sagas to speak of them him from my 1 year stint in the law firm and I was not even a lawyer. Can't wait to finish this unit and hopefully not see him for the rest of my life here.

Now one thing that comes out of all these is why we are paying so much fees for these academically qualified teachers who cannot teach if their life depended on it? Even though some people says that Sam Tang is really trying very hard to teach and you can see the effort showing, it is still a fact that he can't even speak the language well. If I try to pay my school fees but didn't get to pay it in the end, I have no doubts that I won't be able to continue my studies. If a student tries very hard to study for O levels but still fail, can he/she say "teacher, I really try very hard but I still fail leh..."

Why is my father paying through the nose for inferior quality goods? Why? Why?

Chui know, like that... No choice no choice...