Friday, April 08, 2005
hi bx.. here goes.. updates from my life.. :)
i attended my first malay lesson last night.. it's a really fresh experience.. feels like you are being thrown into the deep end of a pool.. drowning in the foreign vocab words and weird sentence structures (whereby malay's "ball me" :bola saya: means "my ball").. different pronunciations.. having adults as your classmates.. looking at classes from a totally new perspective.. learning has never been so challenging, for everything is brand new.. you have no foundation upon which to build.. perhaps we have been too acustomed to just piling knowledge on top of what we have already learnt.. it seems like an amazing feat how many years ago, at the tender age of 4 or 5, all of us embarked on our journey into this whole new strange world of words with zero knowledge, and perhaps with a more open mind, and of course, willingness and courage.. good thing was shulin, my rj classmate, was there too! imagine my surprise when i saw her.. :) the world is small!
today, i finally decided to act instead of just dream.. always dreamt of getting 4 more tuition assignments a week.. so that i can at least earn $1000 a month.. so i printed 5 posters.. advertising my tuition services to 5 different blocks in my neighbourhood.. luckily i have not gotten any prank calls.. and unluckily, no one has called to ask about me.. *sigh*.. felt so maluated to go around pasting posters at lift lobbies.. those residents would look at me as though i am some alien or loanshark.. *bah*
also went for my basic theory lessons this afternoon.. once again, thrown into the deep end.. either my brain has degenerated, or it is really confusing.. things about changing signals at roundabouts.. the 4 rules when travelling at a junction.. when you turn, you're supposed to turn into which lane.. which lane to go first.. when to stop when to go.. oh gosh.. the theories are enough to baffle me.. looking at the screen and trying to figure out which vehicles go first already took me half a day.. i think i will just get stuck in my car at a junction in real life.. really confusing.. at first i bothered jotting down questions i wanted to ask, but as the lesson proceeded, i decided my questions were endless, so i didn't bother jotting down anymore.. heck with it! i'm pretty certain i will get into some form of *near-accident* because i need to think which lane's vehicles need to go first.. haha.. wonder how practical will go when my theory is already a big mess.. and best thing is i booked my evaluation on mon.. i am so going to fail BASIC theory evaluation.. bah.. *mei lian le* haha..
getting pissed with japan.. why do they have to distort history like that? by doing that, they are admitting that what they did in the past was so hideous and inhumane that they do not even want to admit it! they are really irritating.. just confess to everything and get on with your life and future! what's so difficult about that? everyone has made mistakes.. although theirs was a grave one.. but as long as they have learnt their lesson, it's ok! the japanese should learn about what their ancestors did! it's only right that they know! they make people detest them more when they try to distort facts to hide the truth.. this "protectionism" is not going to get them anywhere.. tell the truth, be sorry about what you have done in the past, emphasize that that was in the past, things done by your ancestors, not you, hence you do not have to bear the brunt of the 'attacks', learn from that lesson, and then move on! as simple as that! i am sure this is not too difficult for the jap gov which had managed to devise ingenious ideas for torture in the past!
