Saturday, October 6, 2007

Outdoor Class

How COOL is this? Taking a break during class WITH THE CONSENT OF THE PROF by going across the road to get a cup of Starbucks coffee (hot choc for me, a non-coffee drinker) and then heading back to bask in the sunlight of a warm fall morning. This particular class is very small, just 5 of us, one absent from the pix. The prof is very easy going and my classmates are all easy to get along with. Being a small group, things are fluid and flexible. We sat outside for about 15 mins, drinking and talking politics. Well, I listened while my prof did most of the talking. The older generation of Americans are definitely not apathetic about politics...he had a lot to say! Can't say the same for students and the younger hoarde though. So I guess the problem is not unique to Singapore. Youngsters these days don't care much for politics and would rather spend their time on Facebook or the internet!

Elizabeth, Danielle, Prof Smith and Byron, who is an undergrad but a very good photog. He's quiet and humble, but very talented.

1 comment:

ahluan said...

thk the Internet/facebk is not without credits. it's astounding the amt/type of info there is online and it's prob the most liberal platform for thoughts, works etc. but have to sieve and sieve.

+ facebk is funny too because it provides an attractive platform (dunno when ppl will get tired of it) for ppl to keep coming back to, and since most ppl go online very regularly, there's like this virtual world for ppl to cross time/space to know how old frens r doing..or to locate folks you just somehow lost touch with over the yrs.

abt youngsters and politics - maybe it's the comfy lives we live that make us apathetic. ppl usually react only when things go drastically wrong.

does the quiet/humble photographer has a website?