on a side note, here's the updated WSC 1-Day Hack cover for the new season.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
My WSC journey so far.
After watching The Last Emperor(and the very useful commentary from Mr Lim), I find myself empathising with Pu Yi. It must have felt very bad to be abandoned by the ones you love, not to mention being a prisoner for much of your life. The movie was very informative and offered a great insight into the life of Aisingoro Puyi, the last Emperor of China. The lessons by Mr Lim also were a great help, especially when he spoke about the state of politics in China before, during and after WW2 (Mao went a little crazy when he got to power ). This segment of the project was very interesting. Especially how we saw Mr "Mandate of Heaven" and his horribly-accented Japanese "friends". The introductory history lessons also gave me a good idea of the context that we are studying. The fall of empires not only relates to Qinshihuang-kill-the-scholars empire or the i-want-your-land-so-give-it-to-me-or-i-whack-you empire of the Middle Ages.
I think the syllabus content is quite easy to understand, but there is a lot of content and takes up a lot of time, which is quite hard given our packed schedules and workload and we also have competitions like Schools Nationals and SYF to train for. I think it's quite hard to mug through all the notes. Especially with 345728278252652523 things to remember. And the visual arts (non-film) notes. I really don't know what Realism is, have the slightest impression of what Impressionism is and I have no tommying idea what impasto has to do with the Fall of Empires. Figures. I was never good at art anyway.
I think I need a power drill to drill some sense of art into this thick head of mine. Honestly. I also think that I need to start my DRA about...now. Yeah. I'll go research on how Gorbachev jacked the entire Soviet Union by instituting reforms which the Russians/general Communist population/Lee ShaoWu weren't ready for.
I think the syllabus content is quite easy to understand, but there is a lot of content and takes up a lot of time, which is quite hard given our packed schedules and workload and we also have competitions like Schools Nationals and SYF to train for. I think it's quite hard to mug through all the notes. Especially with 345728278252652523 things to remember. And the visual arts (non-film) notes. I really don't know what Realism is, have the slightest impression of what Impressionism is and I have no tommying idea what impasto has to do with the Fall of Empires. Figures. I was never good at art anyway.
I think I need a power drill to drill some sense of art into this thick head of mine. Honestly. I also think that I need to start my DRA about...now. Yeah. I'll go research on how Gorbachev jacked the entire Soviet Union by instituting reforms which the Russians/general Communist population/Lee ShaoWu weren't ready for.
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