trump 2.0

Trump is back

Im not surprised

He's doing these things, if i am to believe the news

1.No lgbtq flag, No black lives matter flags only usa flags 

2. No affirmative action for minorities + firing DEI hires

3. Fired first female leader of the navy

4. Pulled out of WHO

5. Pulled out of Paris climate pact

6. Threatening to take greenland by force from denmark 

7. Deporting people . Sending them home in handcuffs. Or to guatanemo bay which is a torture facility

8. Renamed a mountain so it no longer honours native americans but an imperialist us president 

9. Renamed gulf of mexico to gulf of usa

10. Trying to change the constitution to allow a 3rd term for presidents 

11. He has arrested over a 1000 immigrants already. 

12. Ice fellows are going into schools. Some teachers are inviting ice into schools to nab non english speaking students. 

13. He has fired people who tried to investigate his crimes 

14. He has pardoned all the rioters of the Jan 6, 2020, who stormed the capitol. 

15. A plan crashed into a helicoptor on jan 30. Instead of rallying people together, reassuring them that they will investigate, praising first responders etc, he chooses to politicise the tragedy. Blames obama, biden, democrats and dei hires. With no evidence whatsoever. Under this guy, those who fail will have rug pulled from under them. Asked if reporters expect him to go swimming when they askes if he would visit the crash site. 

16. 2 days later another plan crash in Philadelphia. Like what? 7 people dead now. 

17. musk has access to all social security numbers, private data of all citizens. Those who tried to block his access have been fired. 

18. Tarrifs on Mexico and China and Canada. Next day, postponed by a month. Mexico amd canada giving him what they already agreed to give weeks or months earlier. The only way to deal with a toddler like bully. 

19. 

He says he will end the 2 devastating wars. Hope so

But...hes been 

1. Releasing sale of massive weapons to israel

2. Telling well done to arab nations for taking in Palestinians, can they take more so we clear the place of palestenians. Coz place is devastated. 

Not so hopeful 

Update on 7 feb. 

Gwee Li Sui said it best when he said its like watching a bad netflix series that has signed on 47 more seasons. And its not even a month. He got into official power on Jan 20?

Here's more of his drama 

1. Said he'd accept Gaza from Israel. Clear peoole out to live in beautiful places in neighboring countries. Turn gaza into riveria. No us troops but this miracle will be done

Firstly, who is israel to gift gaza to us?

Then, what about what the people of the land want and are fighting for?

plane horror

Taking a plane seems more risky now than before

Today an American plane just crashed into an army helicoptor in mid air. Clear night. How? 

Recently a korean flight had some bird incident and then lost control,hit runway belly first and crashed into a wall

 179 dead! 

In Taiwan, i think, a fire raged thru the cabin near landing time or something. 

Recently russia shot down another passenger plane.

Those were the disasters. 

Then there are troubled flights. Akshaya, had to suddenly show proof of her parents passports before being allowed into holland. 

We took off late, missed our connexting flight and had to break journey in turkey

Ashwin left his phone behind on our way back

My parents nrarly couldn't board their flight coz the system didnt recognise @ alias

Any smooth journey is truly to be cherished. 

tuesday

You are my Tuesday mornings

The gently lapping waves along the morning shore

The sea teaching us to breathe in and breathe out 

Steady 

 to the rhythm of the tides 

The waves that wash the shore back and forth

dhanush

Okay hes a cool.actor and comea across as humble and shy and super talented. 

But

There are a couple of niggling warning signs 

He may be a chauvanist

1. Why this kolaveri shot him to.success

 But he rode it with anirudh, and left his wife aishwarya behind

2. Promotion of celebration of rowdy baby song featured only him. Suspect he may have been jealous of sai pallavis success 

3. Now nayanthara, hes acting childish to the core demanding money from her use of a 30 sec clip from the movie that shot her to fame . Hes won the lawsuit by the way. Says he even owns the copyright to costumes she wore in that 30 sec clip. Why this kolaveri?

application

Dear god

What is my research focus 

Assessment practices in lit

What do our current assessment practices assess

In Literature we do so much. Explore connextions to self and world and other readers. Think about the inpact of our actions and beliefs on society. 

How much of these do our current assessment tasks allow students to demonstrate 

How can assessment be designed and scored differently 

Bearing in mind the close connection between teaching, learning and assessment, what impact would different types of assessment have on students thinking and learning? 

Inquiry is a key focus of the new syllabus. How can assessment support student inquiry into texts. 

Sharpen my assessment literacy skills 

Research questions

What 

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Langet speaks of envisionments, blai of how we learn to read the world when we 

Talk about how other systems assess

 What i am curious to try and to find out about

-World to self to text connection

-More choice and range of texts 

-multiomodal and comparative

-lrf lpp all broad and wide. Full of rich possibilities. How can assessment be broadened too

- does the current assesment interfere with the joy of reading, experiencing, analysing and evaluating literature . How can assessment support joy of learning? 

- product proxy for process.  But with generative ai, the product can be produced bypassing the process.  What does this mean for literature assessment. Nov 22 is watershed monent that heralded the urgent need for change in how we think about testing.

- assessment to reflect students individual thought..  how to get that

How does a form of assessment impact the way we think about texts and learning

Assessment seems to limit the range od things we could do in lit that would be meaniningful and engaging. E.g. compare works of lit.  Compare multimodal representations of themes of a text... in film, comic book, traditioal text

Allowing for choice in what we do and how we do in lit, after some basics in place. For the expansion of the mind. P

Assessment 

Ib has an oral assessment component

.10 min talk and 5 min q and a. 

I really like the q and a portion. Trains us for interview skills. 

Some quotes lines to use

-oceanic mind:  emotion, cognition fro. Burke

Zwann's model of literary reading

Paul werth text world theory 

habit forming

Wake up 5am

530 exercise for 15 min, read work stuff 15 min

This would build in 15 min exercise and reading time everyday! 

it ends with us my thoughts

Uhm

Ok

Knowing that lively felt threatened during the shoot made it harder to watch

Having said that, its ok. It stays in your head deapite some bad bits

He was a screaming red flag from the beginning from me. Anger. Sex. No relationships. Noay. Impulsive. I dont get why she ever went with him

The back story romance was sad and sweet. 

The blurry nature of the abuse was well portrayed. 

The ends with us part was good

Ending too comvenient. 

2024 review

2024

In a way am glad it's over. 

Akshaya graduated 

Ashwin survived sec 1 

Aishu did well in school

We performed wonderfully at kalai nigalchi

We definitely bonded over the holidays 

I met all my best friends over the course of the year 

My children felt first hand God's protection 

Saro has come to admire ashwin as a young man

I published some poems online, spoke on a panel at Singapore poetry festival 

My dad had cataract ops successfully done 

I watched some awesome movies 

I read a lot of books 

I went on nature walks 

Thank you for a good year God