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Monday, April 28, 2008
this, was what i found in my email. it nearly had me laughing out loud.
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and etcetc. like, omg? farnee? but i must applaud them though, for always coming up with new stuff..
anyways. i think this weeks pretty coolish is several ways. first of all i get to feel the floor vibrate again. no, not from road construction and whatnot, but from real wonderful vibrations. havent felt the floor vibrating in a looongg time. err although the sound produced doesnt quite tally with the vibrations felt in the soles of the feet lah but oh wells. and pluss, i get to play elgar again. now is that awesome or is that awesome. *gringrin* although i suppose some of the magic is kinda lost. but maybe its gotta do with the mind cutting out the not-so-nice bits and pasting over the nicer ones or something like that.
anyhoo. life can never be very dull with my mother around. tedious, yes. roll-eyeish, yes. eyebrow-raising, definitely. but not dull. not quite. here's how todays conversation went: why you put your leg on the other chair while you're eating?! thats where you sister learnt from! put your leg down! the sui gao nice to eat right!
all in the same breath. like, wow. amazing sia.
11:04 pm
Sunday, April 27, 2008
sunday is such a relaxing day lessonwise. it is so amazing that it is still possible to end off the week so nicely compared to the week's craziness. its like a reminder that there are still easy to teach people around. not perfect, but wonderful nonetheless. no bargaining, no whining, no outright refusing to do stuff. theres was like one week, we had this mini-debate thingthing about what is the smallest unit of life/organism or something like that. it was, so fun+funny+grin-inspiring. but the only thing is that, with such a good student, the only reason that she doesnt improve is that i really do suck. oh dear. i hope she really does improve though.
anyways, right now im feeling a bit freaked out by what our schools are doing to these students though. its scarey, really, the amount of work that theyre expected to do. like, omg? crazy? no life? i mean like seriously, test paper overload. and its the same from school to school though some more than others. seriously ah, if every student diligently does his/her schoolwork ie. tons of test papers, and goes to the teacher to ask whatever he/she doesnt know or cannot do, there would really be no need for tuition. of course, the teachers would be a lot more overworked lah. but anyways. yeah. but really, no need for tuition. at all. afterall, "PSLE is practice-based"
omg, you really have to check this out. like, omgomgomg what on earth is this person suggesting! like, hellohello! as much as i like reading this kinda stuff in fiction, id like to believe that where i live, such things do not happen. either that or please, id rather not know. OKAY, that sounds so retarded i cant believe i just said that. but oh wells.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.
sometimes i wonder what i am doing, really.
10:04 pm
Thursday, April 24, 2008
okayy. so i provoked my mother to the point where she said okay fine you want to move out, you move out or something to that effect. which was kinda strange, considering the rather rosy outlook things were starting to get recently. even stranger is, i dont feel anything. nada. what happens happens. its been in the works for way too long anyways because....
1) i am not going to do anything i dont want to do
2) dont blame me if you want to be a perfectionist alright? i am at home alot of the time already and if you wanna get somebody to come by to check on the hired help when youre not in singapore because youre overly fond of micro-managing, then well fine.. it really isnt my problem, is it?
3) i am not going to turn into the perfect daughter just to convince you to finance my education.
4) and hello. who's the one who's having an issue with me not entering uni this year. youyouyou. frankly, i got it all from you.
5) and besides, if you can do it, i can too.
11:01 pm
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
i was over at my cousins place to help her with math earlier and since her mum came back early they were like being the wonderful relatives they are and went: oh so why dont you stay back for dinner? i was so relieved that i had another lesson after because i could actually have a valid reason for refusing. not that i dont like my relatives. not at all man.. theyre really nice cool people who even grow and eat their own bananas. talking about cool, i dunno if ive ever said this before, but this is the aunt who got featured in the life section because she stayed up in a tree cos she wanted to paint some leopard. hmm. wow. how many people can say that theyve got a tree-dwelling aunt. the paintings now hanging in st mary of the angels church.. in its crematorium or something, if anyone wants a look. anyways, just nice the shuttle bus to the mrt came so away i went. but i did stay long enough to find out that.... my aunt won some facial/hair/beauty dunno what in some lucky draw she helped organise today. and that apparently, the amount of shampoo you use shouldnt go beyond the size of a 20-cent coin cos any more than that youre wasting your money and it gets left on your head, attracting more dirt the next day. and, youre suppose to shampoo twice cos the shampoo doesnt really mix well with water or sth like that.. (i generally use two generous dollops, imagine that) and that my uncles practically drowning trying to juggle his work and his mba. aaand. he did manage to make me feel a little bit guilty when he asked me about my mum and her masters, if shes still on it or anything and i went i dont really know and he went, oh shows how interested she is in her mother, huh (to my cousin)
anyways. yeah. i dont like small talk. or even talking to people im not gonna talk to for a long long time. its a little bit weird. its either, hey we're gonna be talking to each other to rather some time to come, i really bother about what youre saying.. or okay we're never gonna meet again so well yeah no harm being uber-friendly. in between is like .. errr rrr rrrr .... . ... .... ... (not morse code or anything) sadly most people fall in between and i dont really know what to do with most conversations these days.. ho hum. speaking of which, the auntie who cleans the lift lobby of blk 27 and i, we've kinda gone past the zao an thing, like she asks if ive eaten and vice versa.. and the other day she was telling me about how these young furniture movers purposely dirtied the place, like they left handprints high up on the lift doors, so high that she cant reach.. and how she scolded them going something like "ni yao wan ma? auntie hui gen ni wan" which i didnt really get but oh well. she was saying how theres not much food to be had around here and stuffs not nice to eat cold etc. and i offered lunch on the spur of the moment. but now im like kinda regretting it heh. i dont mind her having my lunch, but.. i would really appreciate it if it came without the talking.. i mean, i could certainly do without the oh is it raining? *checkcheck* hmm. maybe not. or a drizzle maybe. did you bring an umbrella? you still going out? well yes, i am, thank you very much. and yes i already know its drizzling. and yes i brought and umbrella, i just cant be bothered to open it. i walk faster without it anyways. oh and by the way, if we keep this up any longer, im really gonna be late. cant be helped that i leave for the morning lessons the same time as when shes doing the lift lobby where i stay. but oh well. shes just trying to be nice?
you know what? i think, after next week, im gonna have such big gaping holes in my tuesday and thursday afternoons/evenings ill be so lost. and that p5 boys lessons on those days would seem longer than usual with nothing to look forward to :( believe it or not, those days have begun to be mini mid-week grab-poles.. shuckies, how now brown cow?
not that i particularly support sdp or any party at the moment, but isnt it just a leetle bit farnee. well this is the country we live in. oh yeahh oh yeahh.
and while we're at it, this is so awesome i dont even know what to say..
haha so well all this youtubing led me back to mc frontalot. omg nerdcore is waay cool. how could i have forgotten about it for months?! i must say though.. more than a little of their appeal comes from the idea that this stuff if created by people who build their own computers just for kicks, or for whom science fic and computer gameas seem almost real.
anyways, this guys pretty funny too.. in his book he goes
The Greek poet Hesoid, writing in about 700 BCE, says that when the god Kronos had cut off his father's penis and testicles. he lobbed them into the sea. The circle of white foam that resulted (who knows what his members contained) created Aphrodite, the beautiful goddess of sexuality. Zeus, the father of the gods, gave her some fairly sound, if sexist, advice: "No, my child, not for you are the works of warfare. Rather concern yourself only with the lovely secrets of marriage."
besides being funny on its own, its kinda slightly alarming because our annual strings concert is called Kronos! which is like, kinda strange right? i wonder if anyone knows our concert is named after some god who cut off his dads genitals :/ speaking of which, this years kronos! is on 1 may i have 5 tickets k..
7:49 pm
Sunday, April 20, 2008
in chinese they are this thing which goes
tian xia mei you bu neng jiao de hai zi
right?
12:27 am
Saturday, April 19, 2008
it is sad that when asked to create sentences with the words "worthless" and "overjoyed", the immediate answers a ten-year-old gives are something along the lines of "some people say that life is worthless" and "never really felt overjoyed.. not really.." but who's to blame then. nobody? everybody?
11:22 pm
Monday, April 07, 2008
ALRIGHT FINE. i am refusing to let all this make me uhh.. depressed. (for the lack of a better word. i hate that word. so overused and wrongly used by so many.. and here i am adding to all of that)
on a slightly eggy note, this morning i tried that egg and toast thing that V makes in V for Vendetta. it was pretty awesome. not that it was pure heaven or anything. no, i dont think ive found any food that was pure heaven yet. but it was cool, yeah. and really easy to make too. easier than french toast even. i found it really really hard to dip the bread in just the right amount of egg the few times i tried to do it. now im thinking of doing an (unhealthy) english breakfast for my family.
oh. and by the way. the new season of the apprentice started today, not that i caught it.. went to catch some play about four people in a lift.. life, death, and how we subscribe to the norms and customs of society i guess.. rather coolios stuff, though not entirely original. i thought amy was pretty darn good though! anyways. yeah i used to rush back from kap during the O level studying period just to catch that show. the tasks and all were pretty cool summat, but the really awesome parts were the boardroom sections where all the claws come out and its kill or be killed. although some of the things they do hmm. they just have to watch one or two seasons to find out what diedie not to do.. like assuming complete responisibility for something that was not entirely your fault.. which is like, somewhat insane right.. like hello, who does that. (but believe me, there are) and he's like oh okay so well, since youve already dug your grave, my job is so much easier. you're fired. and cannot say that everybody is to blame also. no good no good. cannot always push responsibility. and he likes to include one or two of those wacky (maybe) creative guys with slightly less convincing business acumen (remember brent from season dunno what) who somehow get kicked out pretty much early on.. yeah, he does have a soft spot for them.
12:58 am
you know what. i dont know why but it feels so shit when i hear that people applied for the thing(s) that i wanted to apply for but didnt. i know, that is like so stupid right. its my own darn fault i didnt apply, not anybody else's. it just feels so sucky applying anywhere with wishy washy grades. even though i just might have chosen to the same thing even with better stuff but oh wells. but ALL OR NOTHING. how can you feel good about applying somewhere you really really wanna go to with results youre ashamed of? sometimes i feel like telling my parents.. omg, im really sorry alright? it couldve been so right.. i didnt mean to.. .. didnt plan on.. umm.. sucking so much at stuff. *finishes lamely* of course, i could always apply the next year, or even the next next, like my uncle suggested. do something that would utterly shock/upset my parents, like go backpacking for a year or two or sth. yeah.. why not right. especially since ive wanted to do just that since like forever.. but to save up and pay for my own education instead. but dunno. what other people say has gotten into my head somewhat. like stopping studying for a year is really detrimental to your future or something, according to just about every adult (besides that uncle)who's wanted to add his/her dunno-how-many-cents-worth.. i mean, its just a year in a life of many right? but why does that feel so.. not entirely wrong, not definitely right either..
hmm. so. a big question mark on the month of august for the year 2008 for now.
12:17 am
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Has anyone seen the new MILO bus stop advertisements lately? Now the theme is you can have it anywhere, or something like that. Did you see the one with this boy in a science lab holding a MILO packet in some uniform with a black and green stripey tie. hmm. now where have i seen those colours before. *scratch head* anyways. It struck me as so so wrong. I mean, oh my gosh. Yeah well awesome idea you have there, but didn't your science teachers ever tell you that that is like, so wrong wrong wrong? Never eat in the science lab. That is like, the golden rule. Or well one of them anyways. I mean like, c-o-n-t-a-m-i-n-a-t-i-o-n. Sound familiar? There are like test tubey things and beaker (i think) and even a tripod stand thingthing and coloured liquids in the test tubes.. couldnt guess what ions were in them or anything, kinda forgotten that part of chem quitequite long ago.. (probably food colouring or sth though) yes, even with that wonderful chem teacher we all loved breathing down our necks.. going "ya ya papaya" and "be good" and all her other favourite phrases while we quaked away in our seats. i remember there was once (one of the many times) our class was like so deaded and not answering she went down the rows asking question. and then when it was my turn she was like, what bonds do metallic substances have? or something like that. and i gave some lame answer which i koped from one of the people in front of me because i totally had no clue because i had been having trouble keeping awake (yes, even in her class) and combined with her fearsomeness, that made me very very blanked out. turned out the answer was METALLIC BOND. like, wow. that is such a genius answer. anyways. poor kids. they might get kinda confused as to what to do in a science lab.
the ads reminded me of this time when we went for mrs ho's "training" thing, i was kinda.. horrified, a little, at all the pseudo-science.. and math that was going on.. although i didnt really care much about the math. i felt really really bad for the kids. and to think they bandied the word quote-unquote "professional" as though they were really deserving of the term. like. oh, my, goodness. but okay lah. better than no training at all? but what's really worse was when one of my students told me that his teacher said that the word rarely means not at all. like completely never. like omg. retraining. please. and soon.
aneeeways. this blog is so funny it makes me laugh without trying. i dont even know im laughing, its so funny even though its only about food. speaking of edible stuff. i put an egg into the freezer today and it froze! and cracked. like how if you make ice cubes theyre always bigger than the volume you put in. something to do with water getting an open hexagonal structure when it freezes or something. although when i tried to imagine all those dipoles and bond thingies it kinda didnt quite work out. explains the Excellent grade for chemistry. anyways, the egg outfroze the shell and it cracked. pretty cool huh. i suppose it would still be edible though. after it melts or something.
the water increasing in volume when it freezes is so P4 science syllabus lah. everything else shrinks when cooled or something like that. this, is such an occupational hazard, or whatever you call it. now i go around thinking.. oh papaya tree ---> lobed edge! the other one is maple! male and female parts on different plants! the other example is maize! oh hibiscus ---> jagged edge! the other name for jagged edge is toothed edge! the other examples are rose and balsam! and coriander, i suppose.. which i just bought at funorama but now ive nearly killed it. byebye, herb bread.. or dreams of herb bread at least.. and previous term was oh lookie, the moon ---> waxing, waning, crescent, gibbous! earth between moon and sun or moon between the other two! come to think of it, SA1 is round the corner. i know its a month, but when you see people once or twice a week, that works out to be only a couple of weeks away. oh shuckies.
and of course, a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to qi. *gringrin*
1:34 am
gail.
loves anything new
gets caught up in causes, events, loves
but doesn't do anything about them.
professes to be a supporter of the green movement
but leaves the lights on
disapproves of mcdonalds
but eats there anyways.
godwise, the jury's still out.
schoolwise, fass rocks my socks
but why do i have like a ton of work to do?
familywise, i guess theyre/its great
we just need to figure out what to do around each other?
freindswise, hey you guys are awesome.
blogwise, realises that the profile section is crappy
but doesn't know how else to fill up the space.