Monday, June 04, 2007

yes so well what a nice monday morning, welcome to the start of a new week.. i have this feeling that school will take some getting used to again.. holidays = no long fixed days seeing the same people (no offence to those i hang out with) = good = gail is happy. yeah..

so wells anyways, last week got news of cai lao shis passing.. and it was like, what so fast, so soon? i mean the last time i saw her was like, when i was in sec four? i didnt even say hi properly.. and now, yeah. i guess fewer people will remember her cos she was less of a.. character than gk goh, but yeah well shes one of the teachers whom i remember better from my primary school days.. you know, with that same unchanging hairstyle, same clothes, same familiar gait, same smile.. and you know what kinda sucks a little, probably the last thing she saw/heard of me was that i slept during chinese lessons cos when we ran into her we were sorta groping for things to say (at least i was) and my friend just had to say that i was falling asleep in of all classes, chinese.. i mean yeah well i think i did fall asleep in her class sometimes, but still.. i dunno, i wouldnt go so far as to say she inspired me to like do well and blahblah, but id like to think that she really wanted the best for us? okay fine which teacher doesnt.. or maybe it was just wishful thinking on the part of a nine-year-old.. but anyways. heres what i remember best about her..
we always sat like on the floor with the tables along the edges of the classroom right.. and then theres this hao peng you (good friend) newspaper/magazine thing that always had exercises that we had to do.. and so its like shui mei you zuo gong ke (who never do homework) and then the other people will go like xin ya.... kinda thing.. yeah, okay so that day wasnt any different, went to school not doing that thing, again.. then we got back some exam paper and she was like giving out prizes for like the top students, and the zui jing bu (most improved) and then like everybody was like guessing guessing until like practically the whole classes name was called and then so it was me heh. *sheepish look* hmm yeah so i got a ruler and i got to wear the mo fan xue shen (model student) badge thingy for a week (which i always thought went to the same guai people every week haha..) and then when the lesson continued she found out that i didnt do the thing so she took back the badge heh.. *sheepisher look, if thats possible* it seemed like a pretty big thing, getting that ruler back then.. but oh wells. and there was this ting xie/mo xie thing which she gave me 20/20 even though i had like one mistake.. i think it was cos i always failed because i thought that even when i studied some, each wrong word minus half mark right, i ended up getting like single digit or even negative, so better if i just dont study right, just get zero.. yeah, i thought that was really nice of her..

so yes anyway went for that bird park thingy which ended us up with plucking dead leaves off plants.. never want to do that again.. but anyways what i wanted to say was, maybe they shouldnt even have zoos and bird parks and whatnots in the first place.. if people want to see animals they should go see them in the wild, or at least semi-wild, not in captivity.. we were like watching that birds of prey show thing, and the guy was saying at the end something like, so dont you think these birds are rightly called the kings of the skies? and it was like so, oh my gosh what on earth are you saying?! you cage these birds up, make them do tricks for little scraps of meat for our entertainment, when these birds were born to soar the thermals? yes, really, it was really nice, exhilerating, to have this beautiful bird with a wingspan larger than the length of my arm, fly past me just centimetres from my face.. i mean, when confronted with the sheer beauty of nature it just takes your breath away sometimes.. you take these proud birds and break their spirit, allow them to fly the same meagre paths over the heads of gawking humans day in day out, when they were meant to fly with the amongst the air currents, nearly reaching the clouds.. where they were born to, and equipped to, hunt and to kill, you make them parade their "skills", hunting for rabbit or snake that is not real.. oh yes wow, kings of the skies indeed.

Bonjour. Si vous voulons me chercher, vous êtes venu au faux endroit.

Monday, June 04, 2007

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