Although mum has taken care of us for so many years, today at Changi Airport, when I see her venturing off with her new-found friends cum classmates, telling us we can go home (when we were there to see her off), I am not without a sense of role-reversal, that my mum is finally independent and she will be going alone overseas.
Our present world of technology and English could be very prohibitive to my mum's generation, so as we grew older and learn the tools of our world, but as the world changed increasingly faster, to my mum's generation, this world becomes more and more difficult to comprehend and they therefore stayed out of it and many never learnt to use a PC, surf the internet or use a mouse.
The YAH (Young at Heart) course is therefore a sort of conversion to the modern world so that the older generation can embrace and appreciate what technology, the world of internet, emails has to offer. The first step normally is the hardest and that's what this course aims to do, to encourage many to take this courageous step.
2 comments:
GB,
I am sure your mum will have an enjoyable and fruitful trip.
Is this course (partly) conducted by Huang Mingde? I have heard him mentioning about this course on 1003.
ws
Hi WS, you are right. Mingde is one of the lecturers. YAH is also known as 快乐学堂。
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