Revolted
One of the last-minute Top 10 Delivery Tips given to us, in fact the first of the 10, is "to be passionate about your topic and let that enthusiasm come out". That is exactly what I can't achieve for our presentation topic tomorrow. Several layers of reasons:
1. The grammar is wrong. Either "a new message for the public about xxx" or "messaging the public about a new xxx". Actually even the latter sounds odd. It's the public, or the students, or the industries, or whichever third party, that we send a message to, not xxx. It's like everytime I think back about the title, a mental block comes on and totally obstructs understanding for all that we are doing. That's not good.
2. Oh yes we are young and revolutionary, and tomorrow let's all speak of ideas that make the bosses shift in their seats. But I guess we aren't revolutionary enough not to comply with the event at all. The whole thing had been an amusing idea born out of the big one's converstaion with another big one, then the littler ones took it as an order and go all abustle arranging the event sequentially. At every step they take out a little spontaneity and add in a little corporate formality. (Oh gosh how sick and tired I am already at the sight of men in long-sleeved shirts. Allowance must be given to women who have more choices in the variety of their attire) It's really an all-day seminar; but of course they put a pretty name to it, call it a "retreat".
3. Talking about students and education is fine. I've always been more comfortable with people younger (or older for that matter) than me than with peers anyway. But really Singapore's education system is all set. The ones up there know what they are doing and know all the "buzz-words" by heart. Flexibility. Creativity. They think it's essential to make JC students independent and critical and matured by diluting their focus and emphasizing all sorts of peripheral activities. Fine. Go ahead and do that. Produce the students of their ideal. Students who pursue the same "passions" and develop in the same manner of excellence in our closely-monitored education system. But they are still bespectacled, uniformed, having identical goals. It really isn't all that exciting to go "enthuse" (what a word) such kids. Even if our "messaging" works, I wouldn't be proud of it. So I can't "deliver with passion".
It's just the monotony of Singapore which totally gets to me once in a while. How much diversity can Singapore really offer? or afford? It's a high energy state situation we have here, with plans made for scaringly long terms and any changes and disturbances are magnified. The bosses do have to think, think and rethink to make sure Singapore stays at the high energy state. If I keep that in mind I'll forgive.
1. The grammar is wrong. Either "a new message for the public about xxx" or "messaging the public about a new xxx". Actually even the latter sounds odd. It's the public, or the students, or the industries, or whichever third party, that we send a message to, not xxx. It's like everytime I think back about the title, a mental block comes on and totally obstructs understanding for all that we are doing. That's not good.
2. Oh yes we are young and revolutionary, and tomorrow let's all speak of ideas that make the bosses shift in their seats. But I guess we aren't revolutionary enough not to comply with the event at all. The whole thing had been an amusing idea born out of the big one's converstaion with another big one, then the littler ones took it as an order and go all abustle arranging the event sequentially. At every step they take out a little spontaneity and add in a little corporate formality. (Oh gosh how sick and tired I am already at the sight of men in long-sleeved shirts. Allowance must be given to women who have more choices in the variety of their attire) It's really an all-day seminar; but of course they put a pretty name to it, call it a "retreat".
3. Talking about students and education is fine. I've always been more comfortable with people younger (or older for that matter) than me than with peers anyway. But really Singapore's education system is all set. The ones up there know what they are doing and know all the "buzz-words" by heart. Flexibility. Creativity. They think it's essential to make JC students independent and critical and matured by diluting their focus and emphasizing all sorts of peripheral activities. Fine. Go ahead and do that. Produce the students of their ideal. Students who pursue the same "passions" and develop in the same manner of excellence in our closely-monitored education system. But they are still bespectacled, uniformed, having identical goals. It really isn't all that exciting to go "enthuse" (what a word) such kids. Even if our "messaging" works, I wouldn't be proud of it. So I can't "deliver with passion".
It's just the monotony of Singapore which totally gets to me once in a while. How much diversity can Singapore really offer? or afford? It's a high energy state situation we have here, with plans made for scaringly long terms and any changes and disturbances are magnified. The bosses do have to think, think and rethink to make sure Singapore stays at the high energy state. If I keep that in mind I'll forgive.
posted by Azzurra | 9:39 AM
2 Comments:
i think the leaders are really trying very hard to think.
Kind of impressed by their commitment level in trying to think.
But theirs is a hard question.
just glad it's all over. luckily i'm no longer in PSC, otherwise i'll be doing this kind of presentations all the time!
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