i am still so sleepy.

so i told myself if i get up now, i will allow myself to blog first then take a bath then go and start my day. i will not be blogging later on because i have statics test tomorrow. hall bash tomorrow too!

anyway, i wanted to blog about my day yesterday. i woke up at 1pm. i freaked out. i was supposed to have my singapore studies discussion session at 12. fortunately there's another discussion session at 2-4pm by the same tutor, so i could attend that. but that means i would have to miss my maths lecture at 3-4 pm, but that's ok because it's only for an hour, attendance is not needed, and it's in the webcast anyway.

so that's exactly what happened to me. i went for another discussion group. i was happy after the discussion because it proved one thing: I ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN! hahaha. yep yep.

for the first hour ms. lisa carried on in giving her own comments about the assigned readings, which is quite useful becuase we could use those concepts for our term paper. after that she grouped us into four, in order for us to discuss the two questions written on the handouts. i was grouped with three singaporeans.

the questions were about singapore's national identity. the first one was whether we agree with PM Goh's statement that Singapore is only a state and not a nation. i told my groupmates i disagree. i said it all boils down to how you define a nation. based on the definition given in the handout, singapore is definitely not a nation. but i argue that there are other ways of defining a nation, just like what ms. lisa was discussing just now. she told us about the conceptual approach in defining a nation. this approach has four dimensions, and i feel that the psychological approach applies to singapore, wherein the nation is an imagined community. (hey, remember my post where i was grappling with what 'imagined community' is? haha now i get it.)

my groupmates had different answers. the two girls seemed to agree with PM Goh, while the guy's stance is like mine, i think. their reasoning is mainly based on the article about PM Goh and didn't inject what Ms. Lisa had said. that's why while i was explaining my thoughts i felt grilled (their eyes were all on me, for one), and i felt unsure because i was the only one in our group who had that idea.

but guess what? when we regrouped and discussed as a whole class again, the tutor had exactly the same answer as mine.(imagine the smile creeping up my face while ms lisa was explaining). turns out members of the group adjacent to us also had a unanimous idea, same as mine. i also got wonderful insights from other people, so in sum, the discussion group went well.

i missed maths lecture right, and next was CN1111. listening to the new lecturer is painful. he speaks in super-singlish accent. oh, torture. but he's kind. ok.

then at night KR had TGIO. fun fun! KR Rockers are really good. they play real MUSIC, not merely noise. we sang the KR Goodnight song twice. it's this mushy, touchy-feely song where everyone has to put his/her arms around the persons next to him/her, be really close with each other while singing the song...

A family...a family...that's what we are...

imagine KR residents forming a very big circle and doing that. brings out the tremendous hall spirit we have and the feeling that everyone is important, as well as a sense of belongingness.

ok i have to take a bath now...happy day happy day. i declare. haha.