LaSalle College International Surabaya
Imam Bonjol 115 Surabaya 60264 Indonesia

The LaSalle College Group is a Canadian based network of International institutions specialized in education. The group presently operates colleges in Canada, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Morocco, and Philippines. The main campus in Montreal was founded in 1959 and stands as Canada's largest bilingual private college-level career training institute. LaSalle College International Indonesia was established in 1997 and the main objective of this institution is to provide international level education in Indonesia, especially in Design.

INTERIOR DESIGN LECTURERS

JOB OPPORTUNITIES
LaSalle College Group is a private corporation with international subsidiaries in various fields. LaSalle College Group is expanding and the upper management is seeking for Lecturers. If you are a person who is motivated, you stand out for your structured work methods and high degree of responsibility, you have an exceptional ability to develop and maintain good interpersonal relationships, you like to make a difference and are creative; then you are the person we have been looking for.
Currently we are looking for

INTERIOR DESIGN LECTURERS (SURABAYA BASED)
•Graduated from Reputable Interior Design Program (local or overseas)
•Able to teach in English
•Has experience in Interior Design field is preferred

GENERAL REQUIREMENT:
•Willing to move to Surabaya , residents of Surabaya and the nearby cities are encouraged to apply
•Min.2 years experience in the same field
•Fluency in English is a MUST
•Age between 25 - 35 years old
•Can work with great ease under stress and pressure
•Can function ins id e a team, as well as able to assume leadership
•Outgoing personality
•Strong leadership, systematic and analytical thinking, having good judgment in problem solving and able to follow up

Please indicate your expected and current salary. Send your application, CV, portfolio, certificate copies, recent photograph and contact phone number (please mention the code on the email subject and your name) before 30 September 2008 to:

HRD LaSalle College International
Jl Imam Bonjol 115 Surabaya

Note :
- Only candidates from Surabaya will be prioritized
- Only candidates willing to be located to Surabaya will be called for an interview

Bet you didn't know that!

Contract again, sitting next to Sally (who just had a freak out cos she was looking for her callus on the wrong hang) and Bronwyn who is definately fitter than I am.

We're discussing total failure consideration and how to recover monies paid/damages. Sally is so bored she's staring at my screen, yeah that's right. THAT'S HOW BORING THIS CLASS IS!

Luckily, I write the most exciting and thrilling blog on this entire planet, maybe even universe, that during the next hour of contract she will be entertained as she will be able to read this post. Yeah, you know it. :P I bet she agrees.

Apparently, if there is not TOTAL failure of consideration, (ie there is only a little failure of consideration), then there's no claim for damages for your side of the contract. Or something like that. I honestly don't understand this class and if anyone would care to enlighten me, that would be fabulous.

Honestly, what on earth does that mean? Does the lecturer realise that she is speaking at twice my fastest talking speed and she is the lecturer and not me? Does she realise that if she is speaking faster than me then there is no way in hell that anyone less than a superhero would be able to comprehend what she is rambling about?

Lecturer is now asking us a question I didn't hear, which means I can't answer it and whoever answers it correctly won't make any sense to me either. Should I pay attention? Well, maybe, but it doesn't make a difference - this lady truely makes no sense, even though I have copied down all her notes and everything she writes and all major points she mentions. SLOW DOWN CRAZY LECTURER LADY!

Man this post is below par, sorry little choo choos (my followers), I hope I haven't let you down too much!

I shall now return my focus to the crazy lady at the front of the lecture theatre - hopefully I'll learn something.

Farewell my little choo choos!

p.s. Sally & I hae numbuts. We're numbats. Haha. What a pun. Poor effort.

There are two basic choices - do the masters part time over the course of two years (working three or four days a week in a job, fitting the studies round that) or defer for a year and work full-time until September 2009.

Both options have pros and cons:

Part time starting 2008 - PROs

• My skills don't get rusty - languages have a habit of doing that really quickly
• I have the certainty of a career path
• I can get started now without having to postpone my 'real life' for another year and f!ck about in a McTemping job
• My motivation doesn't have the chance to wane

Part time starting 2008 - CONs

• It's going to be bl**dy hard finding a decent part-time job that I can stick with for two years
• Part-time jobs around here are generally less well-paid than full-time jobs
• I might end up stretching myself too thinly
• I've been ill over the summer, so if I crash and burn, it's not just studies, but work and thus money that go down the pan

Defer for a year - PROs

• I have the chance to find a well paid full-time job for a year and save, save, save!
• It gives me a chance to look at other career options (see below)
• I can re-apply for funding
• I can look at applying for a PhD as opposed to a masters and gain back my 'lost' year

Defer for a year - CONs

• It leaves me in the same uncertain state that I'm currently in, and which is currently pecking my head
• I still have to do extensive work and reading to make sure I don't get rusty and fall behind in the field
• I'm gutted at getting so close to starting the course and then having to take a step back

I'm so torn - I need to earn enough money to fund myself for the next two years, no matter what happens, and it's proving hard and tempting me to look at other career options. As it is, my masters would lead me down a purely academic route - masters, PhD, post-doc... Fulfilling as this would be (and believe me, I think it would), it would leave me flat broke for the forseeable future. I specialise in German and the rate at which undergraduates are applying for German courses is plummeting. 610 people in the UK this year are starting German undergraduate degrees. 610!!

Having said that, once you're through the masters, there's usually a good level of funding available to PhD students, simply because there aren't so many of them. So I'd be almost (the words of my appointed supervisor) guaranteed funding for that. Hmm, famous last words?

The other option would be taking law and working towards being a barrister. This is a fairly new idea, but one that's been met with enthusiasm by people who know me. I'm not entirely unexcited by the idea either - it just frightens me to start again in an entirely new discipline. Although it would lead me down a professional route and not an academic one (this being a negative thing, for someone who has had her heart set on a career in academia), it would provide a good salary and allow me to do other things with my time. Holidays, photography, actually being able to give people gifts, eating out... All this vs. academic fulfillment. It's a hard toss.

I haven't told so many people about not getting the funding, actually. I'm completely ashamed, although I've been assured it's nonsensical, arbitrary marking. As I said, my application was rated the best of the thirty submitted by the language department at Manchester, and yet my application was rated '4' by the AHRC. There are six categories, '1' being the bestest ever application they've seen, like ever, '6' being an atrocious piece of waffle that they could barely read without vomiting. I got a 4.

I have to decide soon, what to do. Registration is next month, and with it, around five hundred pounds in tuition fees. My dad has offered to help me with the majority of the fees, if I want to do the course part-time over the next two years, but I don't know if i can live with that - he's flat broke too.

This whole thing is what I wake up thinking about at night. And I just gave you the simplified version!

Im so tired when i got back from school, cuz recently i have an assignment from teacher that my group have to compose a song out of a poem .

Difficult No ?

I have been brainstorming ever since .

My English Trainee teacher gave the class a selection to choose a few diffrent ways to present the poem in  , which is

1) Blog

2) Cartoon Strips

3) Role-play

4) Letter Writing

5) Compose a song

Letter writing was already chosen , and so is Role-play

So  choice No. 1 - 2 -5 is out for grabs. But Choice No.1

No one wants to choose Cartoon Strips is because No one in the class can draw well except  Me , Fazira and Brendon .

Fazira is down with a Fever  and we can't just create a Comic/ Cartoon Strip in one day .. Brilliant  .. = = "

No one wanted to do  Compose a song  so everyone is rushing to take Choice No.1 and there are 3 groups after it ( Mine , Brendon and Godzilla/Bitches Group )

Dramatic is it not ?

Brendon's group have chosen Blog , so that leaves mine and godzilla .

At first my Group wanted to do Blogging but then , Wouldn't it be a walk in the park (to me its just kindergarten stage ) ? Besides  .. there are alot of competitor , so marks will be a little difficult to obtain it in the highest form if the other group is better and yours suck .. they might completely over shadow you .

So my group has chosen to Compose a Song , which is the hardest among all ,

But of course im not so stupid to just pick that cuz i have my reasons , and one of them is that .. My english teacher's lecturer will be coming , so i might want to do something diffrent to impress her  , And .. if this plan is carried out smoothly , the ticket is there to get full "formatif" marks or at least a decent score .

this will be interesting ..

Besides , it would be an Honor To watch Godzilla (s) present the blog ,using their so called " Bombastic" English that they are much famous at , especially coming out from the mouths of people who have terrible sense of clours (LALAs) .. i let them have the bate , knowing that they are too cheap to do anything and  i pity them for having such low marks .. so why not ?

i couldn't care less,

So , Tomorrow i will be bringing my coffin guitar to school .. so wish me luck !

i will keep you readers out there informed as soon as i get a chance to blog ,

till then ,

-Saruchan-

QUALIFICATIONS

· Masters Degree in Hindi Literature 1^st class, Mumbai University, 1989

· Diploma in Marketing & Advertising, Xavier Institute Of Communications, Mumbai, 1989

· A Regular Member of Film Writers Association. Membership No: R- 6417

PROFESSION

JOURNALIST / SCRIPT WRITER

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

“THE FILM ON SAFE DRIVING” for EICHER was Awarded the Best Film at The International Road Safety Film Festival organized by the Ministry of Surface Transport, India from among 33 entries from UK, Europe etc. in Jan ’07.

GHAR EK MANDIR

A Daily Soap on Sony TV for Balaji Telefilms. Dialogues

Nominated as the best serial in the first ever Indian Television Awards [ITA]

AAMRAPALI

A period drama on DD 1 for L.R. Entertainment

Nominated at the Indian Television Awards [ITA]

WORK EXPERIENCE

AS A SCRIPT WRITER (1995 Onwards)

STORY & / OR SCREENPLAY & / OR DIALOGUES

CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS / UNDER VARIOUS STAGES OF PRODUCTION

FICTION

MUKTI

A feature film for K Sera Sera. Co-written with director Ajay Phansekar

DUNIYA PAAGAL HAI

A Comedy feature film to be presented by Crescendo Music. Dialogues

MOOLPURUSH

A Comedy feature film Co-written with director Ajay Phansekar

NON-FICTION

HAZARDOUS GOODS TRANSPORT [RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD]

A short film on Hazardous Goods Transport for Reliance

DRIVER’S TRAINING FILM

A driver’s training film for Gantry operations inside Reliance Refinery, Jaamnagar

HAZARDOUS GOODS TRANSPORT [EICHER MOTORS]

A short film on Hazardous Goods Transport for Eicher Motors

EICHER GENUINE MOTOR SPARE PARTS

A short film for Eicher Motors to promote the sales of their Genuine motor spare parts

AIRED SERIALS

HOTEL KINGSTON

A weekly soap on Star One. Dialogues.

KABHI AAYE NAA JUDAAI

A daily on Star Plus for Deepti Bhatnagar Productions. Dialogues

AAMRAPALI

A period drama on DD 1 for L.R. Entertainment. Dialogues

SANSKRITI

A Daily Soap on Star Plus for Cinevisttas Communications. Dialogues

SHAGUN

A Daily Soap on Star Plus For UTV. Screenplay

AAP JO BOLEIN HAAN TO HAAN AAP JO BOLEIN NA TO NAA

A bi-weekly on ZEE TV for Cutting Edge Pics. Anchor Links

KANYADAAN

A Weekly on Sony TV for Balaji Telefilms. Dialogues

GHAR EK MANDIR

A Daily Soap on Sony TV for Balaji Telefilms. Dialogues

Nominated as the best serial in the first ever Indian Television Awards [ITA]

BANDHAN

A Daily Soap on DD Metro for Balaji Telefilms. Dialogues

TARA

The most popular serial o Zee TV for Tracinema. Teleplay & Dialogues

RAAHAT

The first Daily Soap on Zee TV for Tracinema. Dialogues

YUG

On DD 1. A Daily soap on India’s struggle for Freedom. Dialogues

KASBA

A 26 Episode Weekly for the Health Ministry Of India on DD .Producers- Project Smita. Story, Screenplay & Dialogues

10 CIVIL LINES

A weekly on Sony TV for Tracinema. Dialogues & Screenplay.

DIL DHOONDTA HAI

A weekly on DD 1. Dialogues.

CHANAKYA

A Daily Marathi thriller on E TV (Eenadu TV). Story & Screenplay

HERO UNCLE

A Comedy on DD Metro for Tracinema. Dialogues

CAFÉ 18

A Campus Story on Home TV Tracinema. Dialogues

RAJA AUR RANCHO

A thriller on DD Metro for One Minute Films Prod. Story, Screenplay & Dialogues

LABELLAS

A Campus Story on BI TV for Tracinema. Dialogues

NON FICTION SHOWS:

MR & MISS BOLLYWOOD

A talent hunt on Sahara One. Anchor links for the 1^st January 2005 show

MACHALE DHOOM

Anchor links for Sahara One 1^st January show on the Musical Stage show at Royal Albert Hall, London.

KALAM

On DD Metro. A heart to heart chat with renowned writers from all the fields – Literary, Films, Fiction, etc.

CITI HULCHUL

Daily News, Views and Happenings program on the Citi Cable for Tracinema. Research & Script.

MOVIE MAGIC

A Film based Show on ATN. The first of its kind to include Top 5 songs of the Week and a Film Review, apart from the regular features like the Interviews, On Location and a Photo Shoot.

PEHLI MULAQAT

Among the first Film Based Shows on Sony TV. As the name suggests, it spoke about the various ways and means adopted to make the Hero and Heroine meet for the first time.

EVENTS / LIVE SHOWS:

GHANTE KI TUNING JAMEGI

A Live Contest on Sahara One, Deewali ‘04. Anchor links.

GOVINDA AALA RE

A stage show by Govinda in New Delhi shown on Zee TV. Anchor links

CORPORATE FILMS / DOCUMENTARIES:

A Road safety film for EICHER [the manufacturers of Heavy Motor Vehicles]

A Corporate Film on Shukra Jewellery for R K Swamy Advertising.

A Short film on RCH (Reproductive & Child Health Care) for the Govt. of M.P. to be shown in all the districts of M.P.

Assisted in the Corporate Film on NBCC (National Building Constructions Corporation, Delhi).

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

Wrote a Serial for Sahara India. A music based Serial that spoke about the Hindi Film Songs that were based on the Classical or Folk Music. Anchored by the renowned Santoor Player and Music Director PT. SHIV KUMAR SHARMA (Shiv-Hari)

KASBA- A Serial based on the so called Dry Subject (Health Related) and being praised by the Various NGO’s and Govt. Agencies and shown across the SAARC Countries.

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English, Hindi, Gujarati & Marathi.

STRENGTHS

Capable of Translations & Transcriptions.

From English, Gujarati, Marathi to Hindi, From Hindi to English.

Can take overall responsibilities on all projects from Concepts to Execution. Handled various genres of TV from Films, Music, Soaps, and thrillers, Daily News / Views Happenings etc.

AS A JOURNALIST ( Dec. 1989-1997)

· Freelanced for Filmfare – A Times Of India Publication.

· Assistant Editor for the Film monthly – PRIYA. Published by Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. (1990 – 1992 )

· Senior Sub-Editor for DOPAHAR KA SAAMNA, the Daily Evening News Paper. Edited the Sports Page. ( 1993 )

· Assistant Editor for a Socio-Political Magazine, Published by Key Publications, the Publishers of CUISINE. ( 1994 )

· Freelanced for THE TIMES OF INDIA (Channel Times), MIDDAY, SCREEN (An Indian Express Publication), THE HINDUSTAN TIMES, DAINIK BHASKAR (Indore) – 1993 – 1997.

Expect more than the average share of comments on this one.

Ken Smith, a lecturer at Bucks New University, says that common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use rather than being corrected.

Mr Smith says the most common mistakes should be accepted as "variant spellings" and include words such as  "arguement" for "argument" and "twelth" for "twelfth".

He lists the 10 most commonly misspelt words, which include "arguement" for "argument" and "twelth" for "twelfth".

Mr Smith, a criminology lecturer, says his statements in the “Times Higher Education Supplement”, follows years of correcting the same mistakes.

"Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea. University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell”.

"The spelling of the word 'judgement', for example, is now widely accepted as a variant of 'judgment', so why can't 'truely' be accepted as a variant spelling of 'truly'?"

Mr Smith also suggested adding the word "misspelt" to the list and all those that break the "i before e" rule - weird, seize, neighbour and foreign.

He goes on saying that he is not asking people to learn to spell words differently but rather: "All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelt words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling".

วันก่อนไปยืนอ่านหนังสือ(ฟรี) ที่ร้านหนังสือ (ซึ่งเป็นพฤติกรรมห่วยแตกที่ไม่สมควรเอาเยี่ยงอย่างเป็นอย่างยิ่ง)

จำไม่ได้แล้วว่าอ่านนิตยสารอะไร แต่จำได้แม่นก็คือมีสัมภาษณ์ใครสักฅน(ที่เป็นดาวรุ่งพุ่งแรงในเรื่อง....อะไรสักอย่าง)

สิ่งที่เขาพูด ประมาณว่า 'ผมมีเพื่อนอยู่ฅนนึง วัน ๆ เอาไปแต่เรียนหนังสือ ไม่ทำอย่างอื่นเลย สุดท้ายก็ได้เกียรตินิยม แล้วก็ได้บรรจุเป็นอาจารย์มหาลัย... ผมไม่รู้ว่าถ้าผมเป็นลูกศิษย์เค้าผมจะได้เรียนรู้อะไรนะ ฅนที่ไม่เคยออกนอกห้องเรียนเลยจะสอนชีวิตของโลกภายนอกให้กับลูกศิษย์ได้อย่างไร'

ประเด็นนี้น่าสนใจนะครับ

ผมก็เป็นฅนหนึ่งที่เชื่อว่า การเข้ามหาวิทยาลัยคือการเรียนรู้ชีวิต เป็นการเรียนรู้ที่จะเตรียมตัวสู่โลกภายนอกจริง ๆ

แต่ผมก็อดโต้แย้งตรรกะดังกล่าวข้างต้นไม่ได้ ที่ว่าฅนจะเป็นอาจารย์จะต้องผ่านการใช้ชีวิตจริงมาอย่างโชกโชน

ถ้าสมมติตัวอย่างให้สุดโต่งไปเลยนะครับ ถ้าชีวิตโลกภายนอกมันสำคัญมาก ๆ ขนาดนั้นจริง งั้นตั้งเป็นวิชา 'ประสบการณ์จากโลกภายนอก' จริง ๆ ไปเลยเป็นไง?

พอผมลองจินตนาการเล่น ๆ แบบนั้น ก็พบข้อติดขัดหลายประการครับ เริ่มตั้งแต่..

..จะเอาอะไรใส่ไปในเนื้อหาบ้าง

..จะจัดลำดับการสอนอย่างไร

..จะสอบเพื่อวัดความรู้ของนิสิตนักศึกษาอย่างไร

..ความรู้อะไรบ้างล่ะที่คิดว่าจำเป็นสำหรับการออกไปสู่โลกภายนอก

ไปจนถึง...แล้วเราจะรู้ได้อย่างไรว่าฅนที่มาสอนเป็นฅนที่มีความรู้จริง ๆ (ซึ่งในกรณีที่เป็นวิชาปกติ มันง่ายกว่ามาก ใครที่ได้คะแนนดีในวิชานั้น-เช่นได้เกียรตินิยม- เราก็อนุมานได้ง่าย ๆ ว่าฅนฅนนั้นน่าจะมีความรู้มากพอที่จะถ่ายทอดให้ฅนอื่นได้)

กล่าวอีกนัยหนึ่งก็คือ เวลาผมจะไปเรียนอะไร ผมคงต้องการที่จะได้วิชาความรู้เรื่องนั้นเป็นหลักครับ (อ่า ถ้าจะเถียงว่าเด็กสมัยนี้ไปเรียนเพื่อแค่ให้ได้เกรดดี ๆ อันนี้ไปเถียงอันเอนทรี่อื่นนะฮะ) ถ้าอาจารย์มีประสบการณ์จากภายนอกที่จะมาบอกเราได้ว่า จะเอาความรู้ที่ได้ไปปรับใช้อย่างไรก็เป็นเรื่องดีครับ แต่ผมคิดว่า ผมไม่ได้ไปเรียนมหาวิทยาลัยเพื่อที่จะต้องการรู้ว่า 'โลกภายนอก' มันเป็นอย่างไรแน่ ๆ ยิ่งไปกว่านั้น 'ประสบการณ์' เป็นสิ่งที่ผมคิดว่าสอนไม่ได้ในห้องเรียนครับ

เพราะฉะนั้น ผมคิดว่า แนวคิดที่จะให้อาจารย์มีประสบการณ์ภายนอกมาก ๆ การสอนใน 'ห้องเรียน' จะได้ทำให้นักเรียนเรียนรู้ประสบการณ์จากชีวิตจริงได้ เป็นความคิดที่ผมคิดว่าไร้เดียงสาพอสมควรครับ เรื่องแบบนี้มันจะได้จากการเรียนรู้ด้วยตนเองเป็นส่วนมาก ผมคิดว่ามันคงดูตลก ที่มีใครสักฅนเชื่อว่า ของแบบนี้เอามาป้อนใส่ปากในห้องแล้วนิสิตนักศึกษาจะรู้ได้เอง (คล้าย ๆ บอกว่า สอนวิชาศีลธรรม จริยธรรม แล้วจะทำให้ฅนเป็นฅนดีอัตโนมัติ โดยไม่มีกระบวนการอื่นรองรับเนี่ยแหละครับ)

(แทรกนิดหน่อย: เพื่อนผมฅนนึงเคยเปรย ๆ ว่า โห นี่ถ้าเราเคยเป็นเมืองขึ้นต่างประเทศเค้าบ้างนะ เราจะได้เก่งภาษาอังกฤษได้ง่าย ๆ เลย เนี่ยขนาดฅนใช้พม่าที่บ้านเราอ่านบางกอกโพสต์ทุกวัน เราเองยังไม่กล้าแตะเลย--> ผมฟังประโยคประมาณนี้แล้วความดันพุ่งปริ๊ดเลยครับ โห มึงคิดได้แค่นี้เองเหรอเนี่ย คิดได้แค่ว่าต้องเป็นเมืองขึ้นเค้า ถึงจะเก่งภาษาต่างชาติ มักง่ายนี่หว่า [แต่ก็สมกับเป็นฅนไทยดี ชอบอะไรง่าย ๆ] ทำไมมึงไม่คิดบ้างว่า ถึงเราไม่เคยเป็นเมืองขึ้น ก็ขวนขวาย ฝึกฝนด้วยตนเอง จนเก่งได้เหมือนกัน....วะ?)

ถ้ายกตัวอย่างให้เห็นภาพชัด ๆ ก็คงอารมณ์ประมาณว่า เราไปเรียนวาดรูปกับครูที่เป็นจิตรกร พอดีครูฅนนี้ทำกับข้าวไม่เป็น... ส่วนตัวผมแล้วคงไม่เดือดร้อนอะไรหรอกครับ เพราะสิ่งที่เราอยากเรียนคือวิธีวาดรูป เราไม่ได้อยากเรียนทำกับข้าวกับครูฅนนี้สักหน่อยนี่นา?

กล่าวโดยสรุปก็คือ ถึงแม้ผมคิดว่า การเรียนรู้ประสบการณ์จริงเป็นสิ่งสำคัญ แต่ปัญหาของผมไม่ใช่ว่าอาจารย์จะไม่ใช่ฅนที่มีประสบการณ์มากพอที่จะถ่ายทอดให้เราได้หรอกครับ ปัญหาสำหรับผมจริง ๆ ก็คือ ทำอย่างไร... ที่จะทำให้นิสิตนักศึกษาหาทางเรียนรู้โลกภายนอกนอกเหนือจากที่เรียนในห้องเรียนได้มากกว่า

ใครที่คิดว่า เวลาไปเรียนมหาวิทยาลัย แค่เข้าเรียนกลับมาบ้านอ่านหนังสือสอบให้ครบสี่ปี ไม่ต้องทำอะไรอย่างอื่นอีกก็ได้ชื่อว่าเป็นบัณฑิต'ผู้รู้' แล้ว

แค่คิดก็พลาดแล้วละครับ

Prof. Barnett, writing at the conservative-libertarian blog The Volokh Conspiracy says that the materials show that "[Obama] is a smart guy, and an exceptionally fair-minded teacher" but "they tell us little about his core beliefs on the very sensitive issues covered by these courses." Considering these materials are taken from courses he taught to students, I think that is a good thing.

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We are saddened to report that Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose last lecture [See EA 10/01/07], titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," became a viral video on YouTube, died yesterday at the age of 47 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Doctors told Pausch last August that his cancer, which was in remission, had recurred and that he would live only three to six months longer.

A month after hearing the dreadful news, on September 18, 2007, Pausch delivered the lecture that would become his legacy. He regaled students and colleagues with a tour that was both heart-wrenching and amusing of his attempts to live out his childhood fantasies. Some he managed to pull off: experiencing zero-gravity, helping to design attractions for Disney World by participating in its Imagineering program and writing an entry in the World Book encyclopedia--on virtual reality, his expertise. Others didn't come true, such as becoming a pro football player. He alluded to teaching as a way of helping students live out their dreams.

The video of his last class, which came to be known as "The Last Lecture" and surfaced on YouTube late-last year, has been viewed nearly 3.5 million times. The lecture became a best-selling book with the same title.

"I'd like to thank the millions of people who have offered their love, prayers and support," Pausch's wife, Jai, said after his death. "Randy was so happy and proud that the lecture and book inspired parents to revisit their priorities, particularly their relationships with their children. The outpouring of cards and emails really sustained him."

But Pausch told his students that it was his children – Dylan, 6, Logan, 3, and Chloe, 2 – for whom the speech was really intended.

"I knew what I was doing that day," he wrote in the introduction to his book. "Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children."

Aside from his Internet fame, Pausch is best known as the creator of Alice, a program that allows children to create 3-D animations. Carnegie Mellon's president Jared Cohon said of Pausch, to CNN: "His love of teaching, his sense of fun and his brilliance came together in the Alice project, which teaches students computer programming while enabling them to do something fun -- making animated movies and games." IBM fellow Grady Booch praised Alice for the ease with which it teachers young people computer programming in an interview last month with our technology editor, Larry Greenemeier.

Pausch also cofounded Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, which according to its website, brings together technology specialists and artists to "produce artifacts that are intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience/guest/player/participant." [Link]

I regret to report that Professor Randy Pausch who gave the famous "Last Lecture" has lost his battle to cancer.

For those of you who are not familiar with Randy, he was a Carnegie Mellon computer-sciences professor who, in September 2007, gave a lecture entitled "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams".  This lecture was part of the "Last Lecture" series in which professors imagine they're giving their final lecture before dying.  However unlike all the others professors before him, he was the first to give the speech after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.  He was dying of pancreatic cancer.

Despite the potential for the lecture to be morbid and preachy, it was just the opposite.  He tricked the audience into learning an invaluable lesson by entertaining them with his real life experiences, contagious smile and sense of humor. 

Live your life the "right" way and karma will take care of the rest. 

Maybe it isn't "karma" for you... maybe you believe in something else... BUT the point doesn't change. 

Anyway, his lecture was amazing as was his message and I can honestly say that his words have changed me - dramatically.  And I recommend that everybody watch his lecture or read his book.  You, too, will be a better person for it.

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and then...  ( okay, no photos today! i'm not in the mood :( )

halfway through lessons went to find Mike G. ohboy! he's my favourite lecturer actually. why? its fun to "play/communicate" with him! well, we went to his room and he offered us "mothballs" (pretty tasty actually, but a tad too sweet) oh and he still say other weird funny stuff. lols.

after lessons went to "No Sugar Added" for a event/talk on love. lols. well, invited by miss pau. okay, it was pretty fun i guess? and left later on at 5.15pm for tennis. why? cause i have a hunch SYOW might be there.

and BINGO! :D it makes me happy to see SYOW in fact. and somehow i can sense something? hah.

ohwell, later on tennis. and kana trashed by the guys doubles luh. i'm really impressed with Lionel's tennis skill! he can volley and do the overhead smash so super well! WOW. i think there's high hopes for nyp guys team. well, the positions are more or less settled and i'm so nervous about this coming friday!

and tell you what, i fall today. yes, on the court. right in front of 22 pairs of eyeballs. OMG x438129054752451098451!!! how embarrassing since there's no such thing as a "graceful fall", haha. and thanks for all the concern, really. (you know who you are!) now, i'm having such a horrible abrasion (w/ bleeding, but it stopped already) sigh. the last time i had such a bad abrasion was when i was in primary 5. when i first started roller blading :( anyway, it sucked to fall. ARHHHHHHHHH!!!!

so with all the good and bad things, what sort of day is it today?!

Well, Melissa is such a very nice lecturer. Having a lecturer who knows everything and anything about this module and teach without following the textbook. With her precious 10 years plus of experience, she is always very excited and eager to share her knowledge with us. Her lectures never fail to interest me and she's such a warm and pleasent lecturer. The school should have more of such type of lecturers.

After school today, I went down to Raffles City to shop around since it's still the Great Singapore Sale. As I got on the MRT, this song started to play on the radio... "Pure Shores" by All Saints from the year 2000. I looked out of the train and saw the sun shining so brightly up there but suddenly, there's a tinkle of sadness in me. The feeling of sunshine shining brightly on me makes me wanna melt in tears. Maybe it's too hot?

There's this guy neatly dressed in shirt, tie and pants boarded the MRT at Outram and he was standing beside me. I was surprised when he spoke to me. His name is Gerald and he told me he's a newbie doctor.

We spoke for quite a while and conversation started like this:

• Gerald: Hey, what's wrong?
• Me: (quite stunned)
• Gerald: You don't seem alright. Are you ok?
• Me: Err.. Yup...
• Gerald: Are you feeling sad?
• Me: Nope, i'm not. (smiles)
• Gerald: (smiles back) Your eyes and your expression seems very sad just now.
• Me: Haha... serious?
• Gerald: Yup, you look more cute when you smile.
• Me: Oh thanks...

We spoke for a while more and I alighted at City Hall MRT. It's so nice of a concern doctor to chat with me. So many pleasent people I met today. Still, I feel kinda weird today as so many people were giving me a funny type of look. Wonder what's wrong...

Chilling Out to: Natalie Walker - No One Else

`lush;-

The fact that hip-hop music has changed the face of American and world wide culture has for many years been common knowledge. However, in the beginning stages of hip-hop culture, the messages and themes in the music were far different than what is dominating the marketplace today. What was it that shifted this powerfully influential art form from one of empowerment through story telling, to one of blatant self-degradation and misogyny?

In this powerful and controversial lecture on the current state of hip-hop, Essential MC will deeply explore the overt and hidden messages in popular hip-hop music of the day. Where does the responsibility lie? Is it in the hands of record company conglomerates, music video outlets and radio stations, the artists, and/or the actual fans? This presentation will enlighten future leaders to make more conscientious decisions as to the sound vibrations that they allow themselves to be so heavily inundated with.

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• To empower the next generation of leaders to take a stand for what they allow to enter their psyche through audio and video suggestions
• To illustrate how we, as members of the hip-hop community, have allowed for self degradation and misogyny to be acceptable components in our every day lives
• To encourage young decision makers to take responsibility for the lives that they create for themselves, by understanding the power of the subconscious mind.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:

• The short and long term effects of being inundated with negative music and video imagery
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• The importance of creating art that not only is free and self expressive, but also empowering and uplifting.

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