sometimes, you just have to shake your head and wonder


From TODAY Newspaper, 20 March 2008

Can you teach someone how to get over a broken heart?
The Social Development Unit (SDU) thinks so, and to start them young on marriage, it has teamed up with two polytechnics to offer students pro-family modules as part of the school curriculum.
Since the previous academic year, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) have offered courses taught by trainers from SDU.
NP's module, titled Understanding Relationships: Love and Sexuality, got second-year student Isabel Seet curious enough to sign up for it last October. Besides getting two academic credits, the 18-year-old learnt about cross-cultural relationships, online chatting and, of course, getting over a broken heart.


SDU's message to youths is this: Don't let love play second fiddle to setting up a career. "Because if you wait until then, sometimes it'll be a little too late," Minister of State (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Yu-Foo Yee Shoon said yesterday at the launch of the "We Are Married!" campaign at Raffles Place

oh. my. goodness.