I went out with my Spec course friends on Wednesday and I believed everyone enjoyed themselves at Jurong Swimming Complex for the wave pool, lazy river and water slides. With the crazy bunch of us in the lazy river, I have never capsized more than I ever did. It's about 10 years since I last went there and it has not changed that much other than the much upgrading for toilet facilities.

I also had my hands on KFC's new double down max burger, the one which is advertised together with the Ironman III movie. I would say it's quite a unique concept to have the chicken replaced the bread for a burger. Great taste with the bacon and hash brown, just that I could not eat the top and base of the burger proportionately due to the slices of the meat. A little oily and lack of lettuce but I would say it's a great taste to try out overall!

Somehow, my preferred choice in KFC whenever I patronise the outlet would be the 2-piece chicken. I don't know why but it seems to me that it's natural to eat using my hands when eating 2-piece chicken. Speaking of which, I liked the black pepper flavour which was once a hype back in about 3 years ago but I don't see it anymore in the outlets nowadays.

Talking to my Spec course has never been more entertaining as ever since we always come up with meaningful conversations even though it may sound like crap to another group of people. Plus, that outing made me thought a lot about issues which Saiful considers to be 'intelligent', which actually focuses more on opinions on issues happening in our society and our everyday lives rather than literally intelligence. That was a great discussion about life and it triggered my little brain to think deeper when I reached home. I think that I do shy away from real-time news at times given my laziness, or maybe I'm just apathetic to such things.

I went to work as a ad-hoc facilitator and as I ended yesterday's session, it got me thinking. Schools nowadays adopt the platform of using facilitation to teach students' knowledge on top of the curriculum where teachers teach. Looking at it, it made me thought about the difference between teaching and facilitation and whether facilitation could replace teaching in schools. (When I referred to teaching, I meant the learning in classrooms where teachers teach students and imparting knowledge). A trainer answered my question quite nicely by telling me that teaching is more of a one-way traffic while facilitation serves to let the learner learn by himself with the appropriate level of guidance. While teaching may not be as impactful compared to facilitation since through facilitation, learners create their own experience. Thus, the impact would be more long-term effective compared to teaching. Looking at the time effectiveness, teaching is able to cover more knowledge and concepts within a shorter time compared to facilitation since the learner has to grasp the learning point through self-discovery via an activity. From my point of view, given the fast-pace of life that our society has and the economic need for us to produce skilled labour in a short period of time (about 20+ years for an adult of appropriate qualified skill level), I would say teaching would be more effective compared to facilitation. Nonetheless, facilitation would be useful in terms of imparting of values and skills outside the classroom like social skills. Plus, facilitation provides quite interesting learning experiences at times which I would say is beneficial when it comes to joy of learning. There's no perfect one-all method that works, which we all should know at this time. In this case, I would say that a combination of both serves to be a better solution to make learning fruitful, fun and rigourous at the same time.

Okay, enough talking, time for my dinner, next time!