At this age in my life, I wonder about how transient life can be, the power of inheritance, my attitudes towards what I want in life, what things truly matter, especially on plane rides.
When I am in Singapore, I think about life in Abu Dhabi.
When I am in Abu Dhabi, I think about life in Singapore.
This last week in particular, I keep thinking about the parallel of my day in Singapore. For example, on a Sunday afternoon, I would have been eating brunch at the local coffeeshop, drinking kopi siu dai ka C, and then perhaps do some grocery shopping, finish the Sunday Times, look forward to going for a run at the beach with Kenji or perhaps do a bike ride to ECP with Steve. These little things - I miss the most. It was so so so nostalgic when I was back last week, to just walk through the neighbourhoods of Pasir Ris and Tampines. I miss my mum.
Maybe at the 1-year mark, most people do get homesick?
And SG is always about relationships and work for me.
I went back for Yifang's wedding, and Zhihui and I co-emceed together, with Daphne and Lips coordinating the wedding. It was really a very good time as we have worked together as a team before. Really happy for YF and Ivann, and even even feeling more blessed by some of my dearest friends. I had so much fun with ZH... so much... thank God for beautiful friendships, and laughter always. While I fell really sick through a bout of food poisoning, I also totally recovered within 1.5 days. Too much to express; too much to remember - of this great week in Singapore.
Some of my favouritest people in the whole wide world.
Going into office was superbly good too.
So I've taken on a new role and challenge at work, by looking at the Future of Learning for the CET sector. This is not crystal-ball gazing, but through my readings, observations, I find myself asking some key questions:
- The human species - we have the innate ability to learn, don't we? Structures, institutional systems are created to provide some form and shape to "how" we can learn. But isn't learning intuitive? A baby learns right from Day 1 how to respond and get his feed when he is hungry. For us adults - how do we continue to learn best so that we can "future-proof" ourselves? What assumptions can we challenge and are we brave enough to say that some of what we have put in place might not have worked out as well as we had hoped it would be? How will this future look like?
- Can we create and shape the future of learning in our world, especially through the many advancements in technologies and breakthroughs (which will continue to happen in our generation and the next ones to come)? I believe we can - because there are simply different societies and groups that have advanced further and brought greater good to humanity, because they create, they innovate, they learn and adapt faster and better.
- How can we then, as an organisation, define and scope out what might create the ripple effect, for the future of learning?
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