Carbon DrawingI really enjoy my Visual Arts and Creativity course in NIE. Every week we meet to discuss arts and creativity in education, and then engage in creating some artwork. Here's a photo of my work this week. It's very fun. The lecturer placed this wooden model (lower torso only) in the centre of the class, then threw some cane wound into a circle on it. We were supposed to draw as we wish, and the point is not to draw something realistic, just our impression on the theme of movement. We did a few rounds form different angles, and we then had to pick the one we liked most to share. Haha, it was really fun just doodling away without a care in the world. Very therapeutic. A fellow classmate told me it looked like a chinese painting. I thought so too, perhaps it's because I learnt chinese painting before, that I created something which resembles a chinese painting? I think MOE should allocate time for all students (not just lower sec students) do art or music every week. It's very releasing. And no, it shouldn't be graded.

My reply to this guy who made this statement that engineers and mathematicians are not known for their creativity (read that letter here) has been published! Here's my letter (as published by ST, somehow I think they 'corrected' my grammar and I don't really agree with the correction).

I REFER to the letter, 'Stress language and creativity, not sciences' by Mr Patrick Tan Siong Kuan (ST, July 15).

In it, he made the comment: 'Mathematicians and engineers are, unfortunately, not known to be great creative thinkers.'  read more »