Saturday, May 13, 2006
dang. i really should finish my arundel tomb so i can slack for the whole of tmr but i'm so tired. econs and econs and nothing but econs the whole effing day. basically woke up arnd 12, then rushed tuition hw then ate lunch then rushed off for tuition. haha david lim rocks!
i'm not being mean here but his pronounciation of stuff can send me and shuf into hysterics sometimes.
mr lim: and so, the weearrfaaiiiirr loss that society experiences-
shuf: (very loudly) the
what loss?
mr lim: (looks confused) weearrrfaiirr loss. weearrrffaiirr? the deadweight loss.
shuf: ..oh......oh. deadweight. (looks at me and bursts into giggles)
me: (laughing my ass off)
she only got it when david lim said 'deadweight'. apparently he was trying to say 'welfare loss'. lols! i can still vivdly rmb erupting into silent giggles the very first lesson because he said '
oliporgoly' instead of oligopoly.
and very confidently too. hahahaha! attending his lessons is like watching a one-man standup comedy in itself. we just TRY not to laugh so hard.
i think he hates us.
ahahaha!
and all the distinctly unfunny and occasionally painfully insensitive jokes he makes. like the one about the vj student who committed suicide. ah wells. cant rmb it enough to put it here.
am watching the 'devil beside you' drama now. its quite funny! and got rainie yang cheng lin too. and before another smartass cracks some comment on her name, yes, its not her real name, and she was from an all-girls group consisting of rainie, windie, cloudie and dunnowhat-ie. probably sunnie or snowie or smth. wait isn't that tintin's dog?! HAHAHAHA
i just can't imagine calling my kid typhoonie or thunderie. lols. maybe hailie. haha i think hailie is a nice name! just not that spelling. i think lindsey is a nice name too. and madison and maddox and aspeth and claire and 100001 other names that will bore you all to death if i put them here. :)))))
anyways. forgot what i wanted to blog about. hahahaha!
went to the history/politics forum at hc on thurs. guest speaker was kishore mabhubani if i'm not wrong. really interesting speaker. i was pretty much enthralled most of the time (although some ppl in the back rows were nodding off. grace even started snoring.)
this is what ppl should come and listen to! broaden your minds!
it was definitely an eye-opener to see so many jc students (and not just the hc ones) enthusiastically raising intellectual questions about america's motives and their foreign policy stuff. i mean, it just goes to show how different jc culture can be. there were rj, pj, tj and hc students questioning the speaker in the QnA session, but how many nj kias?
none.
kind of embarrassing. because i personally know that few (if not none) have enough general knowledge to even think up questions of such calibre. and even if they did, they wouldn't have dared to walk confidently up to the microphone to ask them. how do i know this? i'm one of them. simple enough.
sometimes i really cant help but agree that nj is a mugger jc. all we do is mug and mug the syllabus, and nothing else. i have friends who dont even read
at all, much less read the newspapers (no offence girl if you're reading this). i just think...there has to be more to life than this.
i mean we don't have to delve immediately into all that spiritual mumbo jumbo and try to discover the meaning of life and all that crap, but...hey. studying isn't everything,
much less grades.its about you. yes YOU. its up to you and your character and how you present yourself to the world that gets you what you want and need in life. george bush sure wasn't a high flyer in school.
okay bad example.
enough of this! i'm starting to sound preachy here. ahhaha.
just read shuf's blog about how the facs are starting to gain more popularity and ppl are generally becoming more united in hc. sigh. nearly every other morning here we have to go through painful rituals where the councillors on the podium cheer their lungs out and attempt to create school spirit, while the students below shuffle their feet around and try not to make their snickering too obvious.
and yes i'm one of them too.
the students i mean, not the councillors. do i LOOK that enthu?!
i just wish the councillors wouldn't make it so obvious that they're trying so hard. its embarrassing sometimes. the more you try to force the school spirit out, the more repulsive you become to the student body, get it? just let things happen naturally....and they will! social skills 101.
just attended a funeral wake yesterday.
it was my first time seeing the person.
hahaha. haha. ha. okays not really funny. it was my aunt's father btw.
but the funny thing was, when we arrived, the first block we saw (at the void deck) was all lit up and there was a wake going on. so:
my mother: eh! look they're all there already, we're so late.
my grandmother: it looks like ah wang (my uncle) sitting at the table. ah wang ah!
(bald man comes over): hello....who are you all ah?
we look at each other. (grandmother probably thinking: shit its not ah wang)
my aunt (she came along with us): eh do you think its ah june they all kneeling in front of the altar?
bald man: june? er i'm afraid you might be confused. there's another funeral wake going on at the void deck in the next block.
my mother: har?! isn't this ah june's father's funeral?
bald man: no i'm sorry this is my grandmother's funeral.
my grandmother: aiyah no wonder the picture on the altar look like charbor!
HAHAHA so funny can. it was so damn paiseh and maluing. so we went the other (right) funeral this time. then after a while my other aunt came.
aunt number 2: eh just now got one bald man say we went wrong funeral leh!
unbelievable la! lols. he's probably laughing his ass off at us. my sister was joking that he should put signboards saying "charbor's funeral-->that way", or even just a male and female sign at the different funerals. then i replied "like toilet like that" hahaha!
haisss. anyways. just sat there and ate mentos and msged and listened to the aunties gossiping all night. so tiring. and why am i boring you all with this shit?!
i should be doing my 'arundel tomb' now.
laters!
Yet Lord, instruct us so to die,That all these dyings may be life in death-
