Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Twice i have procastinated, but i guess great determination would always triumph eventually and here i am, updating you on whats happening in my life. Actually, "our lives" would be a more appropriate way to put it as my life outside of school is really filled with nothing more than mundane boring events which i shall not ever blog about. Well, not that theres much significance anyway, but perhaps it would be enlightening (hopefully! or else this first paragraph is a waste of my time and yours) to know that (at least some of) the disgusting rubbish that's happening in my life is not just unique to me, and that kovan and lingzhang and the rest of my classmates are facing them as well.

The first important thing which has happened to my class this week is the new time table. Apart from the obvious observations that student development has been replaced by project work, and that the school is most useless at making cosmetic upgrades to things like time tables, our wednesday tutorials are now held on the seventh floor, and our long tuesday has no break whatsoever until twelve thirty. Incredibly dismayal things to find in a time table, though i must admit i was happy to see that at least our wednesdays and fridays are just as slack as ever.

It has been three months, and there are two new tutors for my class, namely the chem tutor and the project work tutor.

I think its quite a bad thing that we're getting younger and younger tutors for my class. Firstly a J3 probably isnt adequately equipped with the skills necessary for disciplining my naughty and noisy class, and secondly i suspect she wouldn't be able to explain things well, which is especially bad since chemistry is like the hardest science subject we're learning (well harder than physics and mathematics for most of my class, definitely).

As for the PW tutor, there's this fine line which exists between bitchy and bad teachers and bitchy but nice teachers, and it would take time before we find out on which side of the line she stands. Of course i have to acknowledge the fact that so far there isn't any evidence of her being the former. Yet.

I have realized that despite my apparent proficiency in my chinese language, i have never, before today, realized the true meaning of the buddhist quote "saving one life defeats building seven level pagoda". Perhaps the problem is not about how the good karma of building pagoda is less than the good karma you get from saving some dude, but that building a seven storey pagoda itself gives you bad karma. I have never really put myself in the shoes of a staunch buddhist follower, until today. Now lets all close our eyes, no not totally idiot, just a little so that you seem to be closing your eyes but can still read the post. Next, lets all put ourselves into the shoes of this random dude called wentao, who is putting himself in the shoes of a buddhist. Now do you think that when this poor guy (either wentao or the buddhist, it doesnt matter)has exhausted all his strength climbing up seven storeys, and every last ounce of energy has left his muscles, and he is tired to the extent that he cant even enjoy the most interesting possible lesson in the world- physics, would this guy still be praying for all the wonders buddha has blessed the world with? If you are not an exercise freak, you would most definitely not be praying feverishly at this point in time, and instead as a person in the right mind, like me, you would be cursing like mad at the noob who even built the pagoda in the first place. What happens after a while is that each guy who climbs the seven storeys slowly places bad karma on the builder, and the karma inevitably accumulate to ridiculous amounts. Of course saving a life is better! >.<

Lastly, which week could possibly pass without me inventing yet another ingenious suan? No prizes for guessing who was the unlucky victim who was the target of this insulting remark of mine. Of course, it's not that im trying to suggest that the target has sufficient intellect to understand the remark and feel insulted...

Anyway, here is the suan, reduced to yo mamma form:

Yo mamma so dumb, she can move effortlessly through water, because her already rock bottom intelligence cannot be retarded any further by retarding forces.

To the rest of the 2klever peeps, have a nice week :D