I have just arrived back from Nanjing, China. It was a good exchange programme over there. Really see lots of difference between the students in Singapore and in China. The mentality in Singapore students are getting kiddish, while over there students have known man-eating world environment outside. The students aren't able to contact their family for more than 6 months. They only have the chance to meet them during summer holidays. Amazingly, I get to see students coming from different provinces of China. Nanjing College of Information Technology is ranked first in Jiangsu province. So some of them had to take an 8 hours journey to get back home. Imagine the time spent over school than in their own family.

The education is very horrifying. You either get educated, or get into working life in early age. Getting into working life isn't easy either. With only secondary school education, the average payment per month is only 500RMB. That is roughly SGD$100 per month. Imagine you surviving with that amount. Another factor would be they have to work and study at the same time. Having the fact that they aren't with their family. Which means there is no allowance. You have to be independent at an early age.

One of their student even said that they admire for our carefree behaviour. I would rather say that students in Singapore are being pampered. If students failed, to most is retain and study again. They will always have the 'I-Have-Lots-Of-Time-To-Wait' mentality. What's more, they do not have any subsidies from government like Edusave. All fees have to be paid by themselves. They were rather shocked that partially of our air ticket was being subsidised. Just hope that Singapore students will knock some sense into their head. Sickening.

Reached home, I continued with my Mr. Brain drama.

We have two kinds of smile. When we're in a situation where we want to smile, an area related to our mind in the frontal cortex of our brain controls our facial muscles to create a natural smile. This was the first kind. On the contrary, when we force ourselves to smile. The locomotive centre of our brain controls the muscles by giving out an order to "SMILE". But it doesn't go so well. It becomes an awkward smile.

That is the last knowledge that I have learnt from Mr. Brain. I would say that the last two cases were the most exciting ones. I have known how spilt personalities interlinked. Likewise for the last episode I learnt that the only two chances that a blood cell type can be the same is when you have identical twins. The other will be through bone marrow transfusion. All DNA will have the same as the donor. Interesting! Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 23:31