7...is the evil number

Out of nowhere, we own 7 dogs now. All ranging from petite Shit-zhu to grand daddy German Shephard. I'm lucky that i'm pregnant that i dont deal directly with any of them in regards of food and play time. Dogs are weird kind of beings that sometimes you can just be so shocked and amazed and cry in awe of their behaviour.

You see, my bedroom is somewhere near the shelters where we keep the bigger dogs in. Out of the 3 huge dogs, two of them literally play with their eating bowls once they finish their food in the evenings. The klonking and clinking noise could happen anytime after 8pm before 8am. It is utterly annoying when all of the sudden your sweet dreams are shakened by a loud thump from the dropping STAINLESS STEEL BOWL onto cement floor. Then the game could go on for hours...



What the dogs did was flipping the bowls upside down so they would sit on the floor and they would just self entertain themselves moving and pushing the bowls around with their "hands". Then the German shephard dog would bite the end of the bowl and flip it into the air and they just glee with happiness when the bowls made noises. Until they accidentally push the bowls into their neighbour's area, which this third dog doesn't enjoy anything like that thank goodness!, then they would stop.

Unless they could literally speak dog's language for the dog to return them the bowls, i wondered to myself.

Puke blood!!

Lord, give me a strong heart that i can finish marking all the compositions and still stay alive and kicking by the end of the day.

People, help me out. Tell me what this student is trying to tell me in her composition. The composition is about a burglary. The first part until "...of my neighbour's house." is given to them and they write the rest. This girl is a Malay. Translate for me. PLEASE~HELP~~~


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Poking fun at M'sia local school

Believe it or not, M'sia's education standard is way below where it should be. Students, especially from Chinese and Malay school, have very poor skill when it comes to spelling, let alone writing a whole set of composition out. Those parents who have extra money will then send their kids to tuition schools for extra English lesson, hoping that their kids can learn something more than merely ABC in their local schools.

In the end, all the responsibility fall on the teachers in these English tuition centres to turn those kids into some English experts. Poor tuition centre teachers! Those kids spent the 5 weekdays and most of the hours in their schools and 3 pathetic hours during Saturday in tuition class and yet parents are hoping their kids would turn out to be genius in English once they come out from that classroom. Parents, use your brains can or not. The learning process takes on all aspects you know?

First of all, their main education in school is all in Malay or Chinese. They adopt to them really well and turn out that they don't like it when it comes to English subject. They will then tend to break the syllables just like how they read in Malay. For example, the word 'together' is to be read in a continuous pattern. But kids from those schools will read it as 'to-get-her'. It's just a laughing stock. It's a sad fact in Asian coutries.

Secondly, not every kid likes English and if they don't have any interest on it, not to mention that they'll even bother to do the homework. They just don't seem to be bothered by what their teachers have yelled the lungs out in front of the class. Teachers are making themselves look like parrots, repeating what have already been said. Without completing their homework and learning through the mistakes, they're heading nowhere. It's impossible for teachers to pay attention on the kids 24/7. Parents are the one who should at least put some effort in to make their kids at least to finish their homework if not guiding through their learning process.

Thirdly, there are only 3 hours allocated per week for them to learn proper English so be considerate, you bunch of selfish adults out there! Encourage your kids instead of pushing your kids like how your parents did to you Ice Age ago!

To show you, this is the spelling test of one of my 11 years old student:

I was stoned. Speechless for at least 1 min looking at the big 0 i marked on the page. Is this the result of the student being lazy, parents didn't do their part as educator at home or the kid is just plain stupid? I'd gone through the spelling list to all of them for 'n' times and kept reminding them for two weeks they were going to have the test and out of nowhere, i got this 0 by the end of the day. Seriously, i'm so cold-hearted.