21/3/2011
Monday-.- one more day before the common test. We were assigned “weekend homework” of 2 past year’s papers. Sad to say I was in the middle of my 2nd one. *sighs*
Attended a Chinese philosophy class today. For some reason it felt as though whatever the lecturer spoke about the different forms of thinking sounded like the ideals I learnt as a child. He actually went to the trouble of looking for video clips for us to watch. It spoke a lot about him, how much he took his job seriously and how much he enjoyed it. If it was me, I would just play the videos in class and not do any explanation. I mean, watching a video engages the eyes and ears, and it’s a faster way of getting things inside your head. No, but he still did it anyway, and he was willing to explain it again in case we got stuck somewhere.
Finally found a tailor shop in the school today. When I brought my coat in (dropping buttons), the boss initially mistook me for a local Chinese. She even hazarded a guess that I was from the Fujian province. She was surprised when I told her I was from Singapore, and I do have ancestors in the area. She then told me I didn’t resemble one just by judging the way I conversed with her in mandarin, and sharing with her my aspirations for the future. The shopkeeper was a retired seamstress, and she opened the shop in the school compound in the afternoon, saying that business is slow now, given that people would rather buy new clothes then takes them to the tailors for a repair. I guess china’s going through a phrase of pushing out the old traditions and including new ideas into their culture,
Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but sometimes I can’t bear to throw my clothes away. The ones I don’t really like come out looking brand new; the ones that I keep wearing look old. And then I can’t bear to throw the ones I like, and the ones that I don’t I can’t toss them out. Argh.
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