Important Lesson

as part of my course work, i had to go into a school to observe how students in classroom situations. so i was in this class where the students were given a worksheet each. guess what the title of the worksheet is...

"Fingering Skills"

i kid you not.

no... it was not a course in Sex Education... the subject was Elements of Office Admin and the students were taught to finger the keyboards of computers not...

and the students were asked to type this passage. and when i looked closer at the passage, lo and behold! it was some NE insidiously worked into the lesson. the passage was about how the Singapore commandoes stormed a hijacked aircraft when it landed in Singapore. the article was gushing about how effective the commandoes were and how that demonstrated that Singapore was indeed a "shrimp with teeth" whose bite can really be painful.

with all due respect to the commandoes, we all know that that particular attempt was not as successful as it was made out to be. credit then to the people in Mindef Public Affairs (or whatever equivalent that they have in that time) for giving the story such a good spin.