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01/03/2004
i've been thinking abt this blog entry ever since e morning, it is a relief to be able to post it now.

'Good Morning Mr Lim Siong Guan, Head, Civil Service, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties in Prime Minister's Office, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance....'

tt was the introduction most heard of this morning, mention several times in a space of an hour.. today was founder's day and it's the awards ceremony rewarding students for a years' hard work. but i felt tt it was worth it to be coming to school, because the speech made by Mr Lim Siong Guan, Head, Civil Service, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties in Prime Minister's Office, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, was full of substance... and i think i've learnt some pretty important lessons from it.

i guess life is about what we have learnt, and plenty of wakeup calls, reminders and just being careful not to fall onto the wrong side of the law.. life is about keeping to what we've learnt, configuring what we've learnt.. eventually becoming better persons. Mr Lim Siong Guan, Head, Civil Service, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties in Prime Minister's Office, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, he's a president's scholar and he's just the top brains. looking at him, a small guy, but what comes out of him is big, at least, it hit me big.

he touched on the topic of learning and youth. we've learnt all we need to learn in kindergarden. there's no need to learn any more.

wash ur hands before you eat.
put back what you have taken.
do not take things without permission.
greet your friends in the morning.
clean up after you are done.
take an afternoon nap..

these were just some of the examples he quoted. quite true don't u think so? we have all learnt all these things, when we were so young, so impressionable.. how i wish i could be a child all over again, learn all these lessons well and proper, and perhaps, may have been able to avoid making all the mistakes tt i've committed.

if i'm not wrong, Robert Fuller( if i got tt rite) will have more on e topic tt we've learnt all we need to learn in kindergarden.

and it is all these simple rules, tt as we grow, we find hard to keep to and even go to the extent of forgetting them. perhaps, growing up and ageing is a scrouge in itself..

another incident tt touched me pretty deeply was on the subject of learning. youth n learning. how is it tt we have become all so jaded.. y have we subjected ourselves to our own cocoon, and is it really true that many of us have just decided to stop learning and decided tt we know all there is to know.. it's horrendous, such attitudes if they do prevail in considerable ways. it is such a barrier to new things and novel situations.. if we have put a cap on what we need to know, we shall never advance.



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