Saturday, October 7, 2006
Philo and Phil-Ho (This is gonna be a long post so read all the way down!)Today during Philo we watched a most interesting movie, while one by one groups of 4 were called out for dialogue observation. My group screwed up discussing on whether crossing the road when it was a red light was morally wrong. According to Mr Low we didn't use enough of the philosophical theories we had learnt. Ah well, back to the show. "The Island" is about this secret company in 2019(thanks and no thanks to wenjie for the exact year). Well what this company does is they clone human beings and keep these clones in a hi-tech world, where everyone wears like the same white outfits, and there are cool hi-tech stuff like a toilet bowl which can do a urine test on the spot and give you tips on your diet etc. which are flashed to you on a little marquee screen above your toilet. Freaky. These clones don't have a bright future though. When someone in the real world needs an organ transplant, there will be this scam lottery, and the so called "winner" will so called be sent to this island, which of course doesnt exist at all. Instead, these winners actually get themselves cut open(quite gruesome) and their organs would be removed for transplant into the body of the human in the real world.
The clones in this little futuristic world don't know that they are clones, and don't know their true purpose, until Lincoln, played by Ewan Mcgregor, witness one of these "trips" to "the island", and knowing that his friend Jordan 2 Delta, played by Scarlett Jonhansson had just won the so called lottery, he warns her of the danger and so together they try to escape, entering the real world and in the end...(Warning: No spoilers, too bad)
During CLE, we welcomed a most suprising guest back to RI. Yep Phil Ho was back, armed with his usual bow tie and bluetooth headset. This time he wasn't here to give a talk on teenage crime and how people would cry in front of him after he buys $100 toys for them. This time the self-proclaimed talented speaker Mr. Ho would give us a talk on career development. I guess he was genuine in the message he was trying to bring across, but a hint of arrogance and contradicting statements just marred the genuinity of what he was trying to impart to us. He was almost showing off to us his acheivements in life, proudly showing us his wonderful career chart, the comments other people gave about him, the people from all walks of life who engage him for talks. I mean ya, we know you are a successful man and we respect that, but there is no point going on about your acheivements. Also, he said that "contentment" is the real wealth, but as the talk went on he gave random distracting comments on how people pay him $5000 to have lunch with him and how people even pay him $25,000 just to give a talk. Accompanied with hard to read powerpoint slides and a short i don't know for what video clip, his talk on a whole didn't appeal entirely to me, although this guy does have substance and is genuine in the message he's bringing across.
This is not a personal attack, and I am not purposely insulting him or being seditious and asking him to arrest me. It's just my personal opinion on how he presented himself. Whether you agree or not, it's up to you.
Anyway aside from that Oral Comm today was quite interesting i guess. First Mr Yeo started off with how wonderful he found 2M's play, and commented that they would win. No way man our class rocked. We owned 2M and 2Q and we will win! =D Haha. Then, he gave his usual life lessons, and then we did a feedback form. I personally feel that Mr Yeo has been a very inspiring and no doubt entertaining teacher for this entire course, and is definitely a par above the other Oral Comm teachers we have had. and then for the 2nd half of the period he picked random pple out to speak on impromptu topic. I was damn suay lor, I was going like please not me please not me then, "Can I have Mr Ng, Jarrell." I was like wtf, and then i screwed up talking about what it's like being an only child. -.- However I must say Abel and Pek were very good, especially Pek, who talked about the "disturbing" side of China. Then it sparked off into a talk about the state of cleanliness in China. In China, their public toilets are sometimes just a dug out trench between two walls where the crap will pile up until the rain comes to wash it away. Then in China, the kids have these flaps on their pants, and when they wanna *coughs* let go, they just open the flap and let go wherever they are, whether in a train station, or on the streets. Also on the streets, you can have mucus splashing at you while you are going through a "dodge'em" with piles of mucus on the floor. And in the lower classes of train stations, you can have peanut shells all over the place and pple who smell bad squezzing into trains with you. Eek.
What a long post. -.-
