Dear students, “Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you―with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities.” Kristin Neff Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself During this time of the year, you may be hurrying to finish […]
Dear Woo Singers, A belated but very warm welcome to Lee Woo Sing College! You must have studied very hard in the past few years with a clear objective to enter the University. Now, you are successfully admitted to one of the top Universities in the world. Congratulations! But does it mean that you have
Second Home During the graduation ceremony last week, our master invites the graduating Woo Singer to take the college as their second “home”. At that moment, I was thinking what would it be like to be a second “home”? Then a few lines of lyrics in the song “North” by Sleep At Last (YouTube Link
Dear members of the LWS community, Time flies! I feel like I blinked, and the fall term has nearly come to an end. It has been a busy, productive and fun term, despite all the challenges that we face due to the COVID pandemic. We were able to do some teaching sessions in person, although
Dear Woo Singers, Imagine there’s no accompaniment in life The most familiar piece of cello music by Johann Sebastian Bach, the unaccompanied cello suite was actually written in 1720 but was only revealed to the world 170 years later in 1890. The world was astonished by the premiere of the suite as no one was
Dear Woo Singer, The year 2020 has seen significant challenges, marking a shift in how we live and learn and revealing how COVID-19 has profoundly mediated our school life. As we continue to navigate the disruptions caused by the pandemic, we spend a lot more time at home, which in return pushes us to use
Dear Woo Singers, Autumn is here and the weather is great for outdoor activities. I had a chance to hike and watch the sunset recently. The grandness of nature reminds me that I am just one mini, tiny part of the universe. When we get caught up at work or in our relationships, we become
Dear LWS students, The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new experiences and challenges to us. The classes have switched to eLearning, and the use of VeriGuide becomes the routine for submitting the online assignments. Some students teased that the VeriGuide is a dummy academic integrity system that can be faked by merely modifying the vocabulary or
Dear LWS students, Starting from this month, a monthly sharing “G.E. Meditations” will be delivered to you in which I would like to share my thoughts and feelings. I hope you enjoy the coming issues and please do not hesitate to share with us your own thoughts on them. Thank you. A Process of Perfecting
The Colours of Life Out of the eight hundred paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, forty of them are his self-portraits. By creativity we often mean no repetition of what we have done before, yet that’s exactly what Van Gogh did literally — he kept re-painting himself, albeit he found excitement each time he did so.
