Tuesday, January 16, 2007
6:55 PM

ok, the status is that lectures have started but not tutorials, meaning i still have no half assed idea of what i'm doing for business. i've already had 3 (seminar) lessons for my Singapore Studies module Democratic Possibilities in Singapore (oxymoron HA!) and i feel exceptionally unintelligent this new semester. people are so agressive and unfriendly and smart.

we're supposed to do a 200-300 word response to a question posted on the IVLE every week. from past experience i thought everyone would at most do their own posts and do a token reply, but by the time i logged in to check, the thread was already a mile long. everything i was about to say (which i thought was extremely smart and insightful) had tragically already been said. and i had to talk about our land scarcity instead. cripes.

and we had this debate (on our second lesson) where everyone used words like political discourse and pervasiveness of governmental oppression and all you could do was hope for a break in conversation (ferocious argument) so you could say 'BUT I THINK' and hope they let you speak.

i bring you a short example of a post in the ivle discussion:

Is it inevitable that something in the Straits Times will remain in Singapore's historical discourse? It's a bit too early to tell but I think New Media has a major role to play in democratising discourse in an authoritarian society like ours.

-- a classmate best left unnamed for fear of... defamation?

(i would also like to disclaim ownership of the above quote, for fear of... litigation for plagiarism. )
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