*ahhh*
good ole, lazy, bumming around sunday .. wonderfully awesome breezy, mild, cool, drizzly sunday .. i love rainy days, especially ones that come with the mist or the fog .. it somehow brings out the tranquility of this chaotic world ..
in any case, i was just taking a break from my homeworking and the normal stuff that you do on sundays to catch up with life. and i realized, that i spend A LOT of time doing homework and reading. i mean, seriously thing about it. ever since i was, oh, i dont know, as far back as some time in elementary school, i remember having a million homework set due every single day. and thinking back to those strict chinese school teachers back home, with those really, really thin and scary looking "rattan" sticks, not doing your homework will almost always land you in trouble. one wrong answer gets one smack on the butt. although, my 6th grade teacher came up with the weirdest of ideas to punish us "smarter" kids. i probably should describe to you how this went.
in 6th grade, our home room teacher divided the class into 3 groups. i was in group 1 aka the smartest. and being a group 1 member, every time we did anything in class, be it Maths or Malay, or English, or Science, we CANNOT get any wrong answers on any of those in-class exercises. and i mean, NONE! it was good practise i suppose, for those UPSR times, but man, all the pressure and stress that i had to go through to make sure that i didnt get anything wrong ... and if you got something wrong, depending on what group you are in, you got punished differently. my teacher devised this, really sadistic punishment where the "punished" would stand in front of the classroom, bend down, and she would flip up our pinafore-uniforms for a few brief seconds to display to the entire classroom, our cotton panties. mind you, she probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't an all girls' elementary school, but still .. you weren't allowed to wear shorts underneath those uniforms either, and if you did, you risk the chance of exposing your bare buttocks when she yanks down the shorts together with your panties .. !
among other things she made us do was to walk like a duck across the school field, AND we had to make it look and SOUND like a real duck, sometimes, we had to do it across the front of other classrooms, which was really, really embarrassing.... other times, she would make us put our arms around the big, huge palm trees outside in the school yard, kissing it ... hehe.. oh the good old days...
why are we talking about this anyway? oh yeah ... homeworking and me spending a LOT of time doing it.
*sigh*
i've been a student since 1985. it is now 2004. that's almost two freaking decades! that is like, 90% of my lifetime. my goodness ... didn't realize i've been at this for a while. i guess when you're that good at it, you just keep on doing it without really thinking about it. i wonder if i will go any further with this whole schooling thing.
ok well enuff rumbling. i gotta get back to my ERDs and DFDs. and try to figure out this stupid normalization thing.
good ole, lazy, bumming around sunday .. wonderfully awesome breezy, mild, cool, drizzly sunday .. i love rainy days, especially ones that come with the mist or the fog .. it somehow brings out the tranquility of this chaotic world ..
in any case, i was just taking a break from my homeworking and the normal stuff that you do on sundays to catch up with life. and i realized, that i spend A LOT of time doing homework and reading. i mean, seriously thing about it. ever since i was, oh, i dont know, as far back as some time in elementary school, i remember having a million homework set due every single day. and thinking back to those strict chinese school teachers back home, with those really, really thin and scary looking "rattan" sticks, not doing your homework will almost always land you in trouble. one wrong answer gets one smack on the butt. although, my 6th grade teacher came up with the weirdest of ideas to punish us "smarter" kids. i probably should describe to you how this went.
in 6th grade, our home room teacher divided the class into 3 groups. i was in group 1 aka the smartest. and being a group 1 member, every time we did anything in class, be it Maths or Malay, or English, or Science, we CANNOT get any wrong answers on any of those in-class exercises. and i mean, NONE! it was good practise i suppose, for those UPSR times, but man, all the pressure and stress that i had to go through to make sure that i didnt get anything wrong ... and if you got something wrong, depending on what group you are in, you got punished differently. my teacher devised this, really sadistic punishment where the "punished" would stand in front of the classroom, bend down, and she would flip up our pinafore-uniforms for a few brief seconds to display to the entire classroom, our cotton panties. mind you, she probably wouldn't have done that if it wasn't an all girls' elementary school, but still .. you weren't allowed to wear shorts underneath those uniforms either, and if you did, you risk the chance of exposing your bare buttocks when she yanks down the shorts together with your panties .. !
among other things she made us do was to walk like a duck across the school field, AND we had to make it look and SOUND like a real duck, sometimes, we had to do it across the front of other classrooms, which was really, really embarrassing.... other times, she would make us put our arms around the big, huge palm trees outside in the school yard, kissing it ... hehe.. oh the good old days...
why are we talking about this anyway? oh yeah ... homeworking and me spending a LOT of time doing it.
*sigh*
i've been a student since 1985. it is now 2004. that's almost two freaking decades! that is like, 90% of my lifetime. my goodness ... didn't realize i've been at this for a while. i guess when you're that good at it, you just keep on doing it without really thinking about it. i wonder if i will go any further with this whole schooling thing.
ok well enuff rumbling. i gotta get back to my ERDs and DFDs. and try to figure out this stupid normalization thing.
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