quick updates
1. My kids in the Storytelling class that i've been teaching had too much candy or something this Tuesday, cos they were being really cheeky and noisy, refusing to listen to anything that i was saying and as a result the class was really chaotic. I know it's partly cos i'm such a pushover when it comes to kids and am really bad at disciplining them, but that couldn't have just been it. It was so frustrating. Once again, my heart went out to all the teachers in Singapore. How do they do it? One teacher to a class of 40 kids with no teacher's assistant or any other kind of support.
2. Found out that i got a job working at a bookstore, but it only starts March 6.
3. Later that same day, found out that i got a job working for a medical journal. I started on Thursday. It involves some editing, but also a lot of data entry, photocopying and other such fun stuff.
4. I have the flu, again.
5. I spent 2 days at a new job doing a bad job of pretending not to be sick.
6. Went to a forum today (see previous post). It was awesome, depressing and exciting all at the same time. Singapore political prisoners shared stories about their lives and struggles in student politics, opposition party politics and as political prisoners. Michael Fernandez showed a notebook that he compiled of his writings in tiny tiny print on toilet paper...the only way he found to write cos writing implements were not provided (even though political prisoners are technically entitled to those privileges). He also demonstrated how he was force-fed while on a hunger strike. The discussion revealed simmering discontent among many. It felt like a slow rumble, very gradually gathering strength.
7. More filing tomorrow. Good night.
Free all Political Prisoners!
2. Found out that i got a job working at a bookstore, but it only starts March 6.
3. Later that same day, found out that i got a job working for a medical journal. I started on Thursday. It involves some editing, but also a lot of data entry, photocopying and other such fun stuff.
4. I have the flu, again.
5. I spent 2 days at a new job doing a bad job of pretending not to be sick.
6. Went to a forum today (see previous post). It was awesome, depressing and exciting all at the same time. Singapore political prisoners shared stories about their lives and struggles in student politics, opposition party politics and as political prisoners. Michael Fernandez showed a notebook that he compiled of his writings in tiny tiny print on toilet paper...the only way he found to write cos writing implements were not provided (even though political prisoners are technically entitled to those privileges). He also demonstrated how he was force-fed while on a hunger strike. The discussion revealed simmering discontent among many. It felt like a slow rumble, very gradually gathering strength.
7. More filing tomorrow. Good night.
Free all Political Prisoners!
posted by burgers and durians at
11:41 PM
3 Comments:
Yes, free all Political Prisoners! I am reading Assata's autobiography, speaking of PPs and those who continue to struggle and resist despite such brutalness. I am sometimes amazed at the brutality in this world. Like what is going on in the Philippines. We were at a rally yesterday in protest of the de facto Martial Law, of the numerous new detainees. Gloria is shaking in her boots--she is having to repress the people even more. It is so outrageous!
I miss you. I am glad that you have this blog up. Too bad about the flu. I know how you feel. I have been "sick" for weeks--cold, flu, you name it. And I am getting sick of being sick. I don't want to work, I don't want to be around other people, but can't really stop.
Anyhow, keep up the blog. Hope the kids behave!!
e
Heya,
I am making lentils and the smell of them cooking made me think of you. You would especially not like these. They have onions galore!
Congrats on the (seemingly) numerous job offers. Some of them sound pretty cool.
Echoes on "E" regarding the situation in the Phillippines. It is a fucking outrage and the mobilization against GMA has been inspiring to see.
-jlefty.
hey "e" and "jlefty",
yeah that is crazy about the phillipines. it's kinda interesting though - similar shit is going down in thailand right now (in fact the anti-govt rallies are reportedly much bigger), but i haven't really seen it reported in the online canadian media i've read. wonder why. could be because thailand is not as strategically significant to north american imperialist interests. or it could be overshadowed by the other big world stories - iran, bush in south asia, etc.
anyway, i don't miss being sick and i don't miss lentils, but i do miss you guys!
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