This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
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I r teh backzors. Yeah, it was all just a hoax. Not even the slighest shaking here. :[ We've been following the news closely, and its pretty sickening to see the death toll rising every day. The students here are doing their part to help the victims, and everyone (including us) is doing our part by donating. On TV, nearly every single channel is showing a video of the destruction and the rescue workers fervently doing their job, while playing nationalistic music in the background and urging everyone to unite in this time of adversity. Immersion's ending tmr, and i must say its been a pretty...unique experience sitting in to the China lessons. I used to think that all Chinese students were muggers who listened to lessons as if their life depended wholly on it, had no life and spent all their free time mugging extra. Thankfully they proved such a stereotype false. They aren't very different from us, they go to Mac's after school, and they play weird games and friendly-fight for fun too. I think their school life is actually slacker than that back home, since they don't get much homework and nearly no projects and get to sleep at like 11 pm provided they're not cramming for tests omgomg. Or maybe it's just that they're Sec 2. Their discipline is much worse than i expected though. They chat a lot during lessons and don't even bother listening to the teacher, which makes our stay more interesting i suppose since they like to niao and shout out random stuff. xD We sit in for four periods daily, and today they managed make two teachers give up teaching. On Monday, our first day there, they also pissed off their Politics teacher enough that she simply left the class in a huff. (That resulted in the scolding from their FT when the earthquake struck.) Their lunch kinda sucks though. Unlike ours, theirs is catered and served in lunchboxes, in other words they have to chow down whatever the caterer decides to serve up. Which is generally edible in most cases, but nothing much more than that. Makes me appreciate the BSC food much more, and the canteen food back at HCI canteen seem like heaven. Gotta run now, some bigshots are apparently coming over from Singapore to visit us so we're supposed to clean up our dorms for their grand arrival. D: |
'Twas teh winnar at 8:34 pm.
