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Thursday, January 11, 2007
11:33 pm
currently doing chinese homework.
2 compre passages. =.=
while doing i remembered about something to complain about mother tongue once again.
the chinese teacher really makes my blood boil.
she expects us to subscribe to the chinese newspaper.
yes, i know, it *SHOULD* be useful *TO NORMAL CHINESE-SPEAKING FAMILIES* to help improve their children's chinese.
you know
why???
that's cause they've got the gist of it already.
and at the least they CAN speak chinese.
in addition, they have their parents to help them if they don't understand what the heck the newspaper is saying.
sry ms seet, but i've got to take these anger out on something (my blog, in this case).
*all "you"s indicate a certain chinese teacher*
PLEASE la.
1. i'm the only one next to my *YOUNGER* sister who takes chinese lessons. my parents don't know ANYTHING, okay? not even 1 to 10. they can't help me.
2. i don't want to have any tutor for chinese. and that's because i know i'll degrade my other subjects. know what? i'd rather get a zero for this subject than to have my other subjects have their grades lowered. in fact, i've planned from long, long ago to just fail my chinese 'o' level. it doesn't hurt, u know? i've enough experiences to tell you that.
3. since pri sch and even till now, reading what they call "simple" chinese comprehension passages are super and too difficult for me. how do you expect me to read something that has characters that i've never seen before in my life in it? cause i don't know what the hell they are, i can't even search them in the freaking dictionary. and how exactly do you expect me to improve from there?
4. my family's really having some financial problems right now. we're unstable. and we have to fund my bro who's now in college in US. so how can you freaking expect us to subscribe to something that NONE of us CAN read?! omg use ur freaking brain if you don't have a heart!! do you think i talked back just now cause i'm just like the rest who can't care less?
5. is chinese gonna freaking affect my going to overseas for my further studies? even if i *might* (least likely) stay here, i'll continue in POLYTECHNIC. sorry, but i've no intentions of going to a junior college. so chinese doesn't really matter, does it? i'm going to forget all about it when get out of school. take ms phay, for the perfect example. she studied and memorised blindly just for the sake of o levels is because she wanted to go into a JC (but not in my case). and look at her now. she basically forgot all about it. my point is, it's useless when u're not interested.
6. if you're going to say that right now china has the biggest influence or increasing economy and thus it's important to learn it, it's okay if i will not get a high-paying job in the future. money isn't everything. i don't care if i have to live in a small hdb apartment (IF i even am going to stay here forever). in the first place i too have no interest in working in a big company. of course it'll be nice to be rich, but i don't care. i've lived out enough problems to withstand it. and i happen to love being a minimalist. so, knowing chinese is again not in my priority list.
7. my brain can contain some other much more useful stuff than that. something more informative & challenging like the reformed theology, psychology (what my brother is learning right now) or philosophy. and they're so much more interesting too. definitely not what you teach the class: basic values of a human being, from what that i can understand. know why? cause you're not teaching me ANYTHING. i know it all already. it's all common sense. it's in every human who has a conscious. or maybe you're like a certain traumatic male maths teacher in the school who maybe got into some trouble with the students in the past before and thus he's become like that right now. (and it's not only me who think this way. not just the
students. don't think i say this from just a student's point of view.) don't know who? nevermind.
there.
for ur freaking sake, i'll stop writing and continue doing your freaking homework.
