Friday, 9 March 2007
Blog Assignment 1:Kindergarten Teachers' Outing
These videos and photos i took were of PAP Kindergarten teachers and principals going through various games and team building events on the 9th of March. The only reason why i even went to the 'Ark: The Adventure Park' was because my mother is one of the teachers. (My mom's in the pink top, can see her swinging in the first video! So proud of her!!!*chuckles*)
The day was fun for the teachers of the different PAP Kindergartens in Kovan, Hougang St 21 and Hougang Ave 1 and along Paya Lebar Road. Surprisingly, I too had fun watching grown women dancing, screaming and doing things they would not even dream of doing. But this got me thinking. This is the first time i have posted anything up on YouTube. I never realised how easy it is for anyone to post anything they want. I was looking at the other video posts sent in by Singaporeans in Tiongson's blog. I was flabbergasted, which is by the way an understatement.
Then it got me thinking even further, we have all these technology, we use them and try to put other people in trouble. This is the Singaporean culture and mentality in its full force. Get others into trouble even though we are at fault. Show the world how ugly someone else is while making us look heavenly. We have become our own directors and who says there is no future in media industry here? I could have taken the videos such that it showed them constantly arguing and complaining. If i had taken snippets of some of the other videos, you would see them as a complaining and arguing bunch. But i did not.
In my opinion, the relationship between Singaporeans and the YouTube has started with the wrong foot. Sullivan (2006) says 'The digital bread crumbs you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like'. So it will be easy for someone who does not like any one of the teachers in the video use their voice, body and re-construct another video to frame them(of course i do not wish for that to happen).
These problems however, were started by US for US(not U.S.A), and will take US to solve them. For one, we must take responsibility for our own actions and NO we do NOT gain anything from pushing others into their grave no matter how much they ask for it.
Some of these videos might be funny but if they are shown to put someone else at fault, then my friends why take them in the first place. Fine if you take them, DO NOT POST IT UP ON YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!
Sullivan, B. (2006) “Privacy lost: does anybody care? MSNBC Interactive. Retrieved on 10th March 2007 from,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/print/1/display
Tiongson, P (2006) “Mobile Phones with Videos - and Singaporeans”. Retrieved on 10th March 2007 from, http://philiptiongson.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/singapores_aunt.html
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Ya, I think some of the videos at YouTube are actually invading people's privacy. There are those that are serious matters, while others are there to make fun of people, where some goes to the extend of being rude. Some of them have real serious issues...
You probably have to ask yourself (if you even care at all that is) whether it's right. As with the case of the bus uncle on the COM125 blog, it is clearly an invasion of his privacy, and to a greater extent the guy who was being whooped by him. But the point of the video is to show that the uncle has some MAJOR problems with being reasonable, and if we were to zoom out, to question if this is the way our world operates now.
So I think it can sometimes be worth invading someone else's privacy at times to call the community's attention to a bigger and more urgent problem. That, however, is highly subject to interpretation. Tomayto tomahto.
"So I think it can sometimes be worth invading someone else's privacy at times to call the community's attention to a bigger and more urgent problem."
So it is alright to lie/kill for a bigger good?
In that case if we zoom out, Hitler was right to kill the Jews because he believed that the world would be a better place without them. I know that most of us think that was wrong. But he truly believed that the Jews were the problem to many issues of his time.
That might be too abstract but the concept is the same. Do bad for the better good.
You have a point, but like I said, good is subject to interpretation. Always has been. Perhaps this is one question that eludes our attempts to answer it.
ooo guess wad? i was telling my mom about what i did, and we had a argument about using the kindergarten's name and stuff...long drawn argument.
Moral of the story: Do not type and tell!
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