Endoh’s Dungeon

What do you guys feel about it? Is it even a viable option and necessity in Singapore? And even if we implement such a curriculum requirement, at what stages of our schooling life should this be implemented?

As a bunch of us sat through the post-service lunch discussion, our conversation drew weird stares from neighbouring tables at Singapore Expo. If we were to do an open presentation of this idea, I think we are going to draw even more stares from the public. Maybe because we sounded too novel…

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It’s another sleepless night after doing up the charts so I decided to spend time reading up on bloggers feedback of Mas Selamat’s escape again. One post from Ian’s stood out from many others, because the rest hardly inspire or explore any deeper assessment of the escape. And Ian compiled a couple other blogs, of which I would briefly mentioned one by one.

For a start, why do I focus on the Gurkha Contingent and not ISD? The reason is simple, my heart goes out to the two Gurkha guards who were thrown into the limelight for the mistake they have committed. Particularly so, for that one single Gurkha guard who was ear-marked for his time-delay.

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My niece came back from school on Friday with tears and sulking for the rest of the day. After a little pressure, she began to told me how her teacher labelled her as “lazy”. I asked if it was anything to do with late homeworks, she said no. Apparently, what triggered the teacher off was her ink-printed name on her assignments.

Basically, I bought her a self-inking printing kit and taught her how to use it much earlier, when school started for a short while. She brought back all her books, because her teacher has requested for all pages to be identified by their names and class. There were 5 books, each with more than 100 pages. Gosh, I can’t even imagine myself writing my name on more than 100 pages as an adult, what about a kid? So I bought the printing kit from Popular bookstore, on my way back from my Sunday service one day.

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I have never written on Mas Selamat, but I began to see why his escape has made such a big mockery out of Singapore. Due to past work experiences in Civil Service, I actually felt I shouldn’t be commenting so much because a part of my heart goes out to that poor prison warden. Very little guessing needed on how this escape will affect his career by using the Court clerk as an example, in the case whereby a convict was given extra strokes of the cane.

How many times do we have to be told to look into the past? Very ironically, this has become the trademark of our country. In a way, I have to agree that “accidents” DO happen, and WILL happen. For the case of Mas Selamat, the incident wouldn’t have taken place if he was locked up in isolation and restricted in access. And why shouldn’t a terrorist suspect be held in a maximum security facility, even if it’s meant to be rehabilitative?

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So much so for our education and free world, that such incidents are happening again and again. I guess it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with our education system as a whole regardless of our country of origin. Even in Singapore, such an incident occurred several years ago. In Australia, there was even a girl who was gang-raped by 5 teens, who were nothing more than 17 years old when the crime was committed. If there’s anything that needs fixing other than terrorism, it gonna be our social values and respect towards another human.

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