Sunday, April 09, 2006
Ignorance is NOT bliss.
I found this on J's blog and decided to plagiarise it. Apparently it's being published in one of Taiwan's few English newspapers. Wonder how reliable it is... need to evaluate its reliability by examining its provenance, tone, accuracy of content and purpose, also not forgetting to do a cross-reference with other possible sources and our own contextual knowledge! Heh.
Anyway, this is the article....
"Three Found after failed quest for Karate Master
Three Singaporeans were found safe on Thursday after getting lost on what they said was a mission to find a legendary karate expert on a snowly mountainside in Japan.
One of the three men told police in Hirosaki that they had come to Jpan after his dying father, a martial arts expert, had ordered them to seek out the karate master.
"Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away," one of the group, aged between 25-50, was quoted as saying..
All three were dressed in light clothing and huddling in an abandoned car when they were rescued from the slopes of 1,600m high Mount Iwaki in the early hours of the moring after calling for help on a cellphone..a police spokesperson said..
"Neither police nor local people konw of anyone running karate classes in this area," the spokesperson added."
Disregarding the reliability of it all, and allowing the purpose (if it is to make Singaporeans look stupid and jeopardize our reputation) to come through, I really felt a huge sense of shame after reading it, especially this.
"Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away,"
You don't have to be a Geography teacher or Geog student to know that Japan is so much LARGER than Singapore! Hello? Where have you been?!! Between the ages of 25-50 somemore! They should at least have several years of compulsory education! And even then, with the load of information through globalization, they should at least be more knowledgeable and aware! The only justification I can think of is, them being lost on the cold mountain and freezing, coupled with fear made them lose their mind and say dumb things like this. But it can't be... cos they would have had to plan beforehand. But apparently they didn't, and were too yaya payaya... wearing light-clothing while searching on a snowy mountain.
Argh... are their ignorance for real? Is ignorance really bliss? Apparently NOT in this scenario!
Geography IS IMPORTANT, people.
Geography teachers are important too! Heh.
Anyway, this is the article....
"Three Found after failed quest for Karate Master
Three Singaporeans were found safe on Thursday after getting lost on what they said was a mission to find a legendary karate expert on a snowly mountainside in Japan.
One of the three men told police in Hirosaki that they had come to Jpan after his dying father, a martial arts expert, had ordered them to seek out the karate master.
"Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away," one of the group, aged between 25-50, was quoted as saying..
All three were dressed in light clothing and huddling in an abandoned car when they were rescued from the slopes of 1,600m high Mount Iwaki in the early hours of the moring after calling for help on a cellphone..a police spokesperson said..
"Neither police nor local people konw of anyone running karate classes in this area," the spokesperson added."
Disregarding the reliability of it all, and allowing the purpose (if it is to make Singaporeans look stupid and jeopardize our reputation) to come through, I really felt a huge sense of shame after reading it, especially this.
"Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away,"
You don't have to be a Geography teacher or Geog student to know that Japan is so much LARGER than Singapore! Hello? Where have you been?!! Between the ages of 25-50 somemore! They should at least have several years of compulsory education! And even then, with the load of information through globalization, they should at least be more knowledgeable and aware! The only justification I can think of is, them being lost on the cold mountain and freezing, coupled with fear made them lose their mind and say dumb things like this. But it can't be... cos they would have had to plan beforehand. But apparently they didn't, and were too yaya payaya... wearing light-clothing while searching on a snowy mountain.
Argh... are their ignorance for real? Is ignorance really bliss? Apparently NOT in this scenario!
Geography IS IMPORTANT, people.
Geography teachers are important too! Heh.
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 8:19 AM 
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quoting the age as falling between 25-50 makes it a little dubiously fishy... 25 years is a pretty big range, don't you think? =)
Yeah, it's not a reliable source, I would say. But 25-50 is probably cos there's some uncle and some punk who teamed up on this ignorant venture.
"one of the group, aged between 25-50, was quoted as saying.."
but it is referring to ONE member leh... that's why it's fishy. heh. *anal teacher*
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but it is referring to ONE member leh... that's why it's fishy. heh. *anal teacher*
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