Today is special. Firstly, it is our first IS lecture by our Chinese lecturer (Ms Xiaoling). Secondly, this is the first time in my life (in my memories) that I visited a doctor out of Singapore!
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Lets talk about the IS lecture. The lecture topic is about introduction to Hubei.
As for details about Hubei, I shall not write down here as everyone is able to find the information easily from books and internet. Instead, what I realised that the Chinese lecturers teaching style is rather different from Singaporeans. It seems to me that their powerpoint slides/learning aids etc is packed with information. Reason being they would like to give as much information as possible to students. Also, they don't give NOTES!
For Singaporean style, it is about giving notes and lecturers explaining the main points, rather than explaining every single point of each topic. Ya. So please don't be surprised that an introduction session powerpoint has 174 slides!
Later on, I realised that the main reason behind the difference in teaching style is the difference in teaching directives. For Singapore, I believe everyone should know, 'Teach Less, Learn More", or should i say, learner-centred learning. However, for China, it is about 'Teacher/Lecturer-centred learning". As such, Chinese teachers/lecturers would always pack their lectures/sessions full of information because in the eyes of the students, a good lecturer is a person who explain every single detail to the students. Anyway, since China (or should I say WUST) is 'teacher-centred learning, why do they don't give notes? LOL. Maybe they do, but not for our lectures. haha.
Anyway, speaking about our lecture, I did feel a bit sad for our Singaporean students. Not exactly 'criticising' them, but they did showed that they have a poor understanding of Chinese history and culture. It is rather difficult to give an example here.
However, I cannot exactly really fault them. There isn't a subject in Singapore schools like Chinese Culture or Chinese History. Or should I say, not all schools have. As far as I know, for some SAP schools, there do have a subject (compulsory) like Appreciation of Chinese Culture, where certain Chinese histories are being taught too.
Probably I am more concern about the lack of interests in Chinese History or Culture by Singapore students as a whole, as we are Chinese. =( Kinda a bit of waste actually.
Let's move on. After the lecture, we went back to our rooms to tidy up our stuffs and have a rest. It was then I decided to go and see a doctor (after discussing with my mother) as all the medicines, cough lozenges etc are not taking effect. At 2.30pm, Mr Puah, Mr Wong and the Chinese lecturer (i think she is HU Lao Shi) accompanied me to the School Hospital at the other side of the Campus. YEA. Serious, u will know when I post the photo.
THE HOSPITAL DOES NOT LOOK LIKE ONE FROM OUTSIDE!!!
Anyway, the experience of visiting a doctor is rather different. In that 'hospital', there is only 1 doctor working. Anyway, that doctor don't really look a doctor. Serious! I got a feeling that the doctor job is just to prescribe medicine to patients who are unsure of which medicine to buy! Sorry! =P LOL. Let me briefly describe the steps of visiting a doctor in WUST (or China).
1) Pay a registration fee of RMB 0.50 and get a consultation slip
2) Queue up and wait to see a Dr.
3) See the Dr and tell him/her what are you feeling bad about your body (anyway, the doctor suddenly got interested in me(as in asking me a lot qns) because Hu laoshi told her I am from SINGAPORE. LOL)
4) Get the prescription and bring the slip to the pharmacy counter
5) Pharmacist will tell you the price of the medicine and pls go to the registration counter and pay
6) Collect your medicine! =)
Anyway, I wanted Antibiotics actually. But the doctor, for safety reasons, did not give me. Instead, she gave me Roxithromycin. However, here is the irony. I checked with my friend later at night. GUESS WHAT. He said actually Roxithromycin is a type of antibiotics. LOL
Just to conclude, a different experience in visiting a doctor with MBBS (Singapore) and someone from China! LOL.
That's all. Stay Tune, Channel 5. (just being random)
