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Yes folks, you guessed it. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus is the book that I am reading now. Call me a slow coach if u like as I understand that this book is first published in the year 1993, I am at least 13 years late. Despite of the fact the book is a bitz old and hardly edited ever since the first edition is published, it is not outdated. :) I still can identify with many things that is described in the book. Yes, call me a hard core Martians if you like. Just as I was typing this post, I committed a mistake, and what is commonly seen as a sin by a general Venusian. Here it goes...

*Mama went to have the egg beater fixed for $3, and decided to text the function of the egg beater by baking a cake*

Me: you baking a cake?
Mama: yup. testing the functionality of the egg beater.
Me: *clap clap*
Mama: what is that for?
Me: you want to test the functionality of the egg beater, u could have just crack an egg and try it out, why go through the hassle of baking a cake?
Mama: -.-|||

There I go again as a pure bred Martian offering "better" solutions instead of listening to my mama, a pure bred Venusian and making her feel cherished.

*what it could have been if i put what I have learnt in the book into practice*

Me: you baking a cake?
Mama: yup. testing the functionality of the egg beater.
Me: Great! Does that mean I have cakes to eat after I come back? *grins*
Mama: ok, I'll save some for you.
Me: ^^
Mama: ^^

That way, both mama and I will be pleased. Hmmmz.. I guess I still have a long way to go to inculcate that "appreciative, cherishable, and listening" nature in myself ya? cheerios for me. ^-^ At least i realised that i made a mistake now. Had it been 1 week ago, I will still be scratching my head, not knowing why mama is pissed. ;P

Before I lose it (whatever "it" is), I thought I better document down some encouraging moments of teaching. Not that I intend to stay in teaching, but I guess I will need this for me to last through my remaining time as a teacher. 1 more year to go as an NIE trainee, and 2 years 4 months more to go after training.

To start off, I thank all you folks whom I have taught for the past few months. Sorry I cannot mention names as anonymity is the utmost concern as mentioned in the first post of this blog. You folks gave me the "wrong impression" that teaching is easy by being the most angelic students I have taught.

Here are some pictures of the best work that I have so far. I am impressed. I wouldn't have done any work of this quality.



Also... thank you folks for the cards and the memorable gifts that you have given me. Thank you folks. You folks are the reason why I teach. (:

Today's briefing is said to be compulsory for all taking Bio, Phy and Chem as the CS. As Bio is my CS1, I thought I had better go...

Briefing started at 10 am.

"Briefing for Physics... blah blah blah" *ok.. i shall switch off, since it does not concern me...*

"Briefing for Chem... blah blah blah" *ok.. i shall switch off, since it does not concern me...*

"That's the end of the briefing. Thank you for coming"

I look at my watch. 1030 am.

No Bio, I come for 30 min briefing for what? travel to and fro for 4 hours for a 30 min briefing that does not concern me...

I feel cheated

It all started out with in fresh day, with a freshman (me), in a fresh semester, at a fresh chapter of my life. After a series of useless briefings with the standard, yet useless introduction to lectures, I decided to have my administrative things done up by checking into my hostel, and here it goes…

I am supposed to pay $320 upfront at the office of finance as a gesture of acceptance to the hostel I was allocated. Hence, I went to the office of finance…

“OH~! You are an NIE trainee, this is not the place you should come! You should have gone to thee NIE office of finance, this is the NTU office of finance.”

Fine.

*at the supposedly NIE office of finance*

“OH~! They have shifted place! Quite long already, you didn’t know about that?”

*OH~! You mean as a freshman, I am supposed to know?”

“OH~! I din know that… this is my 1^st day in sch…”

By this time, its already time for another round of useless briefings. I decided not to be late for the briefings and do up the stuff after briefings.

*4.30 pm. Briefings ended. AT the office of finance, I see a signboard*

CLOSED

SIANZ~!! In a fresh day in a fresh semester at the fresh chapter of a freshman, I feel totally rotten.

Guyz, imagine this scenario. An environment with this gorgeous lady. She is looking seductively at your direction. As she approaches you, you see that her eyes are longing for a passionate kiss… And as fallen human beings, you cannot help but to oblige. Both of you soon engage in necking… And this sets the scene of a commercial advertising for…

COFFEE MAKER.

Dots… Dorts of all dorts… I nearly fall off the chair when I saw this. Well done, whoever the advertising manager is. Come on… I admit that most guys are simple, but definitely more complicated than that can? You wanna sell beer to us guyz, you find gorgeous ladies. Wanna sell cars, you find bikini babes. Want guyz to come to your pub? No problem, the answer is to find bikini babes and dance on the dance floor. Now wanna sell coffee maker? Yes, you guessed it, use a lady appearing to enjoy the process of necking as the advertising picture for the coffee maker. Same tactic applied to market different products. Where is the creativity? What is the logic?

As I was discussing with my colleague, we came out with some possible logics.

1. Women are coffee makers, kids are coffee.
2. Coffee makers are like women, Men generally long for them.

Neither of the logics seems to explain that. Perhaps my mind is too small to be able to conceive the logic behind it…

Is it by any chance that the coffee maker shown in the pic is has a metallic tube (see red circle) squirting white foam in the coffee cup done deliberately?

Thanks. Whoever the advertising manager is. You made my imagination run wild. As I have always told students. Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge builds on what we can understand, and imagination builds on what we cannot understand”

I cannot understand…

For the benefit of those who did not know, I met a minor accident last week. For some strange reasons, most listeners to the story will find the events leading to the accidents more amusing than terrifying. And the story goes...

Once upon a time, I am blessed with this hamster. Her name is Jolin. Ever since Jolin come into my life, she has been sharing the same room with me. Life has been tough for me and her. Nonetheless, I continued to provide for her. Her accommodation, her daily needs, etc. One day, as I come back from work, I discovered Jolin is no longer in her cage. Jolin escaped~! I searched the house for her but did not manage to put her back to her comfy home. Jolin went missing from then...

The one day, mama called me to tell me Jolin was found. But Jolin is no longer the same Jolin who can run the wheel, Jolin can no longer give me the curious inquisitive look whenever I walk past her and Jolin can no longer run in her favourite hamster ball. Jolin died of exhaustion, hunger and thirst...

As I was driving my friends van then, I thought of how Jolin look. I remembered her pinky button nose. I remembered her perky whiskers.

*PIANG* Before I know it, I bwang-ed my friend's van in the midst of thinking of Jolin.

That's it… Jolin is gone. $300 is gone for bwang-ing my friend's van for repairs.

U will always be remembered, Jolin, occupying the ever special place in my heart which no other hamsters can take over... *sniff*

Did this for fun. The theme? "Abide in Christ", literally. The word "abide" in the word "Christ" :)