About my Valentine Day? haha.. as usual, me, myself and no one else. Nonetheless I enjoyed it even though it's not a holiday. I could feel the love all around. I will write about single hood and love when the mood is right. So stay tuned alright!
For Chinese New Year break, till now I am still lounging, lazing and enjoying. Again, this year I can't go back to visit mum and instead having a long break to recharge myself. For those of you who miss me too much, a few shots here specially for you ok! I took it with my friend and his family during our Chinese new eve outing.
Some of you might remember I mentioned about this friend of mine in my earlier post and about his son being 9 years old. Unknowing( maybe knowingly haha..) I am an uncle of 9 years old boy. And look at the photo, supposing if I married about the same time with my friend, my child will be this old and this tall..Oh no.. but I am happily single still(self consolation)..haha..
"Sai, you know if only me and my wife, we can live comfortably in Yangon but for the sake of our son's future, we gotta get out of our comfort zone and come here.""Aren't you putting your son in ILBC? I heard they use Singapore curriculum and texts and teach in English?
"It becomes just a commercial school and profit oriented institutions where the riches flaunt their wealth. They operate with scarce human resources with limited qualified teachers. Young teachers with speedy-graduation-universities degrees whom themselves uncertain what all about proper curriculum's rule the class rooms. After so much of frustration, we got no other alternatives to get our son through a proper education, here we are" lamented, my friend's forward-looking and educated wife.
That gives me the answer why we could feel the ever-increasing presence of young Myanmar children and their parents in Singapore. In early years, we could see only post graduate students doing masters in higher institutions like NTU and NUS and very seldom in polytechnics. Getting just a diploma was not on the cards of many Myanmar students. Then during the post 90's years, a certain thing forces them out of the country to seek for proper education elsewhere starting from the children of the more influential, elite and well-to-do families. Giving the different entrance criteria of two different countries, the brightest Myanmar students (also not so bright, but having means to come out) end up in Singapore's Polytechnics.
Then, now..the young children in primary and secondary schools are here in drove. The country is not prospering yet parents are sending their children off for basic education elsewhere. If our economy is rising tremendously and prospering, seeing this phenomena is nothing questionable. It's natural that if you are wealthier, you want something better and prestigious. I think, it's time for the officials to evaluate the dire states of our education system and do something about it. Saying so, I am afraid there might be a ban to send our young overseas for a proper education.
Oh dear...I got carried away. Sorry, I should be writing something light and pleasant to go well with my title, fab feb huh...
And ya....just an update.my friend, Khaing Bwa managed to secure a work pass and working here now. And needless to say, he becomes a member of the rat-racing communities and we hardly can fix a time to meet up. haha..
2 comments:
glad to see you back. recharging yourself is great but should not take long as it can bring you lazy :-) (just kidding)
thanks..it's exactly happened to me..haha
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