What is the greatest invention of all time?
My school recently ran a discussion on what is the most important invention of all time. Before I jump to what my answer was, and why, I just want to provide some context. Last term, they ran a similar debate where people had to vote for what one famous person in history they thought was … Read more
Respecting Authoritative Decisions, even bad ones
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about why the (then) recent decisions relating to school prefects and head students were terrible choices. Now I’m going to talk about why I will still respect those decisions. There really isn’t much to be said about it. The fact is that even though … Read more
Bizarre Choices, and the Justification of Them
This post is part 2 of my “poor decision making” series. It’s based on my experiences the weekend of the 12th March, when I was on a trip with my school for its prefects. I talked in part 1 about why I was unfairly the subject of negative bias because my parents were teachers. In … Read more
Negative Bias? The overcompensation for the appearance of bias
This post is part 1 of my “poor decision making” series. It’s based on my experiences last weekend (12th–13th March) when I was on a trip with my school for its prefects. My school recently introduced a system of prefects, and I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of them. The prefects … Read more
FOBISSEA Music 2010 (Part 3)
This is part three (and the final part) in a series of posts. There are many reasons that I enjoyed this trip more than past trips, but the main one I want to talk about is my own personal experiences with the music. (The other main reason is that it was a much more social … Read more
FOBISSEA Music 2010 (Part 2)
This is part two in a series of posts. The organisation on periphery matters (things not directly relating to the music) this year was not as great as in the past. The food was in general just acceptable, although the opening dinner, and the final gala dinner were spectacular. On three occasions during the trip, … Read more
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: or, FOBISSEA Music 2010 (Part 1)
This is part one of a series of posts. FOBISSEA: Federation Of British International Schools in South-East Asia. FOBISSEA Music is a festival in which a large number of talented musicians from British International Schools in the South-East Asian region. Over the course of around 6 days, a large group of musicians meet and rehearse … Read more
48 Hour Film Project
This weekend (starting Friday, 29th October 2010) a group of friends and I participated in the 48 Hour Film Project. It’s a competition where groups from all around the world have to create a movie — write, shoot, and edit — in just 48 hours. They are given a specific genre (we got “Buddy film”), … Read more
