Thursday, March 23, 2006
Human Writes Essay
Just before the holidays, the English head of department (remember, I CANNOT mention names, that horrible blog fiasco of yester-week has given me the self-censoring jeebies) approached me and asked me to enter an essay competition one of the universities was hosting in conjunction with one of the centres for Human Rights Law (that means I can't mention the university nor the centre, in case anyone from school googles those terms and somehow ends up here. Paranoid much?)
I was happy to do it, and I slaved over it for an entire day. No kidding. The English HOD wanted me to enter the competition solely because she knows I'm from Singapore and wants someone to write about the Singapore government. (Oh, thank you very much for not using me.) "A-hem, as you know, the Lee Kuan Yew Government is very controversial, so I was hoping you could write about that..."
So I wrote about the ISD and ISA - it's very disillusioning, and I cried reading about Chia Thye Poh's story. It's not right.
Unfortunately I just read through the essay and I think I've gone way off topic. What should have been an argumentative essay turned out to be an informative essay. Aiyoh, how? I fail my Sec 2 English issit?
I was happy to do it, and I slaved over it for an entire day. No kidding. The English HOD wanted me to enter the competition solely because she knows I'm from Singapore and wants someone to write about the Singapore government. (Oh, thank you very much for not using me.) "A-hem, as you know, the Lee Kuan Yew Government is very controversial, so I was hoping you could write about that..."
So I wrote about the ISD and ISA - it's very disillusioning, and I cried reading about Chia Thye Poh's story. It's not right.
Unfortunately I just read through the essay and I think I've gone way off topic. What should have been an argumentative essay turned out to be an informative essay. Aiyoh, how? I fail my Sec 2 English issit?
# posted by me lah @ 10:25 am 
