I Love My Country

I think I have been driven crazy by my tutee's mother. Hahhaa.

Somehow, i feel that I will be asked to do a presentation on Singapore during my exchange studies in the National TsingHua University of Taiwan! Hahaha. Thus, I have been thinking about the "presentation".

Okay, i think i am insane! hahaha.

I went to Youtube to look for a few videos and I found that I really do love my country!!! Hahaha. I feel that I will miss Singapore when I am in Taiwan. Okay, that is a little far fetched. I may not be able to go to Taiwan too. I still need to wait for their approval!!!

Anyway, this is my favourite song!!!



I love this song because it's really patriotic!

Even though I dread the weather of Singapore and I always complain about her lack of attractions to visit, i still love my country.

However, i feel that Singapore is the no longer the country that i know!! I remember I only have 1 or 2 classmates from China when I was studying in primary school. However, I found out that there are more and more students from China around me as I grow older. I feel that there are even more foreigners then locals whenever I take the train. This is my country but I dont see locals!!! Why is this happening!! A few days ago, my Malaysian friend said that 新加坡 is now 中国坡! Hahaha.

Seriously, i dont mind foreigners who really love Singapore! These foreign talents are what we really want. However, we are getting many who are just here for money. Every year, thousands of foreigners become Singaporeans but they dont have a sense of belonging to the country. I think these foreigners merely recite the pledge and sing our national anthem and they will be handed their pink IC! In Korea, foreigners who wish to become Koreans need to at least stay in the country for a certain amount of years. They will also have to sit for exams which test them on their command of the Korean language and history.

Shouldn Singapore make all new immigrants go through such tests? I think these new immigrants should be tested on their English speaking skills and the Singapore history. I think they should be even tested on Singish! For example, what does "Dont play play and Mai Xiao Xiao" means? Hahaha.

Even though I really hope that Singapore will have less foreign talents but I know that this is definitely going to cripple our economy. We will have a really small population of around 3 million. Companies will close down due to a lack of demand, our overall GPA will decline and no one wants to take up cleaning and construction jobs!! I really have no solution to this! Anyone has a solution to this?!?! The Japanese are really patriotic and they make it really hard for foreigners to become citizens and thus, they are facing a economic downturn!!

I think we should have a "Give Birth to 3" policy! It is just insane to ask Singaporeans to have 3 or more if you can!!! The Singapore government should paint a beautiful picture of having 3 children and Zoe Tay should be made the ambassador for this campaign!!! Hahaha.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, TAXIS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SIT 5 PASSENGERS INSTEAD OF 4!!!!!

The government keep asking families to give birth to more kids but taxis can only sit a maximum of 4 passengers. This is being so unreasonable because families of 5 cannot sit in a single cab when they wish to take a cab. They will have to sit in a different cabs and this will increase their expenses. Their kids are still young and they cant possibly take the train. Furthermore, you need to take a look at how crowded trains are!! Their babies will probably get flung of their hands when kiasu passengers rush to get into the train!!

Anyway, having 3 kids is really the optimal amount of kids to have. First, it is at least above the replacement level and a 4 or 5 room flat will be able to accommodate 5 family members!!! A car cannot even accommodate more than 5 passengers (Unless it's a 7 seater), so it is really crazy to get people to give birth to 3 or more!!!

The government should really listen to my advice. Start campaigns on "Give birth to 3!" Make Zoe Tay the ambassador now!!! Hahaha. With more babies, we will not have to rely on foreign talents. Hahaha.

Anyway, do you realise that the Singapore government dont really love to perserve our culture!

First, they kill all our dialects. Then, they hope that Singaporeans dont speak Singlish. Then, they renovate all our wet markets and hawker centres. I dont know what they wish to do next.

Singaporeans who dont speak Singlish? Isnt that weird? This is our culture and it's a form of national identity!!!

I dont understand why wet markets and hawker centres need to renovated and they become so clean, neat and tidy. Rents are raised and hawkers leave and we dont get our good and cheap food. The Singapore government wants everything to be clean, neat and tidy but they do not understand that hawker centres and wet markets that are too clean, neat and tidy really lose the human touch!!

Taiwan is a country where there are the most number of entrepreneurs. That is because the Taiwanese can just "own" a stall in night markets if they wish to sell their handmade stuff. Even though the police do arrest and fine them, they dont really enforce the rules on these "hawkers" and make sure that they never return to the night markets. With the great variety of stalls in the night markets, it is no wonder that night markets are voted the most worth visiting attractions in Taiwan. In Singapore, you need liscenses for everything and everything must be arranged neatly. Even in the markets, stalls cannot place their items OUT OF THE LINE!!! Hongkong has bad urban planning. Streets are messy and buildings just spring out of nowhere. However, there are still many photographers who wish to take photos of the streets of Hongkong!! Thus, i guess this really explains my point. Haha.

Okay, i am tired. Hahaha.

Even though I complain about Singapore, I really do love Singapore! I feel that our country is really safe and we have little smokers in Singapore. Hahaha. I just hope that our country will progress. I also need to give some credit to the government for developing the economy well. I guess this will not be my main concerns if the unemployment rate of Singapore is about 10% and our overall GPA is only 1/2 of Malaysia. Hahaha.

The general election is coming soon. I am so excited. I love politics.

Okay, i know this is a random entry.

BYE~!

慈母多败儿

I know its really really not very ethical of me to complain about my tutee on my blog but I really cant help it!!!

I am so annoyed with my tutee's mother.

She is a crazy woman!!! Insane shit!!!!

She hopes that I dont give homework to her daughter because her daughter has a lot of homework from school. She hopes that I end on time because her daughter will be really tired.

Isn she insane!!!!

I thought mothers will be really happy when tutors stay longer than the stipulated time to teach their child!! This mother is seriously crazy. Her daughter is a student and her priority is to study. She should be working hard. I seriously dont think that she has lots of homework. I dont remember having lots of homework when I was in primary school!!! I understand that times are different but another tuitee of mine doesn has any problem finishing my homework despite coming from the same school and also being in Primary 4.

Okay, that is all fine if her daughter is already scoring Band 1 for her subjects!

However, her daughter is not doing so!!!! Her maths is really poor.

Even at primary 4, she is still unfamilar with the 3 times table!!!

"What is 7 times 4?"

My tuitee will think for a long long time and know what her reply was....

"21"

OMG!!!!! How can you expect me not to be strict with her. She is in Primary 4!!!!

She doesn know why 242 can be divided by 2 but why 547 cant~! OMG!!!! Isn this worrying!!!

That's still fine. What's more worrying is her mother!!!!

"XXXX, do you know the meaning of increasing order? Increasing order means from small to big." Apparently, she had arrange the numbers from big to small.

Guess what was her reply!!!!

"But my mother say increasing order is from big to small." OMG!!!

Be prepared for the worst. "老师，这题你教她，她不会做。Why is 4 a factor of 12?"

"Oh, because 12 can be divided by 4."

My tutee started writing down her answer in your work book and she pause suddenly because she didn know how to spell divided.

She turned to her mother and said, "妈妈, how to spell divided?"

Mother: "EHh........D.................E.....D..I"

OMG!!!!!!

Okay, that is still fine.

Her mother has really gone insane today. I was complaining to her about how inattentive her daughter is in school but I guess she doesn know how serious the situation is!

"你知道她上课一点都不专心吗？她在她的maths课本里做的问题，她都没有做对，但是她mark她自己对。所以，她上课的时候一点都没有专心。"

OH~~!!! Come on~!!! PREPARE FOR HER ULTIMATE ANSWER!!!!!

GUESS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!

COME ON!!! GUESS!!!!!!

GO ON!!! GUESS!!!! YOU WONT GET IT RIGHT!!!

THIS WAS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!

"所以我才请你来啊！所以我才请你来教她!"

OMG!!! That is exactly what an irresponsible parent will say. I was so annoyed with her words. She needs to take up parenting lessons!!!!

Teacher: Your child is not behaving in school. He is really rowdy and he is disrupting the class."

Irresponsible Parent: That is why I send him to school. You need to teach him!

Isn what she said similar to that of what an irresponsible parent!!!!!!

I was already fuming mad and she suddenly to add oil onto fire.

"我觉得你应该多鼓励她，可能换一个方式，不要这么凶．其实，我觉得你的教学方式根本没有学生可以接受!"

OMG!!!!!

THAT IS SO DISRESPECTFUL OF HER!!!!

I really feel like giving her a slap on her face. She needs to wake up! 慈母多败儿!

She really needs to take up parenting lessons!!!! Her daughter's future will be ruined in her hands!!!!

Crazy woman!

When Jay Chou was young, he hated to play the piano. That is because his mother will sit beside him and cane him whenever he starts to slack. He hated playing the piano so much back then. However, he is now grateful to his mother for all that she had done! Can someone tell me why! He composes his songs now and he is now one of the greatest singing sensation in Asia. He owes it all to his mother!!

What about my tutee's mother?!?!

OMG! I need to stop now before i get really infuriated.

Bye!

INSTEP (Part 2)

In my previous entry, I mentioned about me missing the chance to go for my exchange due to the strong competition but I found out that there release of the exchange placements were actually yesterday instead of the 8th and 9th of Feb. Hahaha.

Anyway, I received an email from INSTEP yesterday.

OMG!!!! I was really nervous when I opened the email.

Tada~!!!!!



Read what I had circled!!!!

"Congratulations Students. After careful review, we are pleased to offer you an exchange placement in the International Student Exchange Program (INSTEP)"

Okay, the very next thing I had to do was to go the NTU website to check out if I got the school that I wanted.

I had placed City University of HongKong as my 2nd choice but I very much prefer to go to Taiwan for my exchange.

Even though we were told that we seldom get our second choices but FREAK accidents do happen!!!!

Forunately.....

I got a placement at the National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

WOO~~!!!

Mom is thrilled too.

Because that means that she will be able to visit me during her holidays!!!!! Hahaha.

I hope nothing goes wrong and I will be able to head to Taiwan next semester. There are hell lots of admin stuff to settle!!!!! Argh!!!!

Okay, it's 1.28am and I need my beauty sleep.

Bye.

Random

I am a little disappointed because I dont think I get to go to Taiwan for my exchange next semester.

Competition is just too strong.

I am still left with one more day.

I really hope that I will receive good news tomorrow!!!!

It's fine if I dont get to go for my exchange. I will work harder this sem and go to Taiwan in Year 2 Sem 2.

Anyway, I was heading to my friend's birthday party when someone suddenly stopped me.

"你好，我觉得你长得很高，而且我觉得你应该还蛮上镜的，你要不要成为我们公司的模特儿?"

OMG!!!! I wont be that stupid to think that I can actually be a model.

Of course, i rejected.

"我一点都不帅，不可以成为你们的模特儿。真的不用紧。"

Know what was her reply.

"没关系，我们公司模特儿不是伸展台的模特儿。我们也有平面和广告，你可以留下你的联络号码，让我们的工作人员通知你。"

OMG!!!! 平面!!!! I pity the photographer who has to do the photo shop for me if I really did a photo shoot. I wonder how much effort is required to make my skin clear. Hahaha.

Anyway, this was my reply.

"真的不用紧。其实你近看，我的皮肤真的很差。我真的不适合"

The lady insisted on having my number even after me pushing my cheeks closer to her eyes. Hahaha. She must have felt that I am really gullible. Hahaha.

I am seriously not that stupid to believe that I can be a model.

The lady actually passed me a name card and their company is in Dhoby Ghaut. Anyway, I have already threw their name card away. They will most probably talk me into paying the company a few hundred dollars to get my model cards done if I really go to their company for the interview. Hahaha. I am not that crazy.

Anyway, I enjoyed my Chinese New Year really much and it's time for me to go back to my books.

I need to do really well this semester because I may not get to go to Taiwan for my exchange. Wahhhh!!!

Okay, i need to study now. Bye.

迎新春

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

I love the Chinese New Year but I hate to do spring cleaning!!!

That is because my nose is extremely sensitive to dust and I will start sneezing once I start my spring cleaning.

Furthermore, my room is always in a mess!!!!

I dont usually pack my room and it's in a real mess yesterday when I decided to embark on the torturous process of spring cleaning.

I wish I have a maid to do this for me.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH!

THIS IS HOW MESSY MY ROOM IS!!!! HAHAHA.

Hahaha. I didn deliberately mess things up.

YESH!!! I know it's darn messy!!!

Notice that my blanket and bedsheets are of different colours. Hahaha. That is because my whole room can be really dirty but my pillow case MUST be really really clean. Thus, I make sure that I change my pillow cover once a week. I do that because Show Lo says that changing pillow covers will give you better skin and I thought it made sense too.

Please do not say that my skin is bad because of my untidy room.

MY SKIN WAS AT IT'S WORST WHEN I WAS IN ARMY!!

Despite my bunk mates and I cleaning our rooms and changing our bedsheets every week, my skin was still close to rotting!!!! It was really bad!

Now, many of my friends have said that my skin has improved despite me having an unitdy room!!!!

I know it's quite an irony because I feel that a clean pillow cover is crucial to having a good skin but not a clean room......

BUT BAD SKIN IS MOST PROBABLY DUE TO GENES~!!!!!!

I remember our Sergent Major will always ask us if we will let our cupboard tops be filled with dust when we never did our area cleaning well.

Actually, I am sorry but Sergent Major, my cupboard and shelves top are always this dusty!!!

Okay, I know it's a little disgusting.

Anyway, I did my spring cleaning and my bedroom is now really really clean.

TADA~!!!

LOOK~!!! My shelves are so clean.

I really did a great job.

My new bedsheet looks soOOO yellow!!!! Hahaha. I didn know that it will turn out THIS yellow. I feel a royalty from Thailand. Hahha.

Once again, Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!

I hope you guys will enjoy this festive season!!!!