Monday, October 20, 2008
a day in the sun.

TOTALLY SHACKED from the past two days.
Yesterday's higher chinese prelim was, i suspect, set to kill us. Seriously. It was so freaking hard and to top it all off the fan kept blasting around at the back of the hall, leaving the bunch of us 401 and some 403 people to freeze like fish in the supermarket.

Sometimes I wonder why I study for chinese?

I mean, in primary school, it was so studyable, you could memorize chunks of wonderful phrases from model composition books and still get close to full marks for your compo.

I think chinese made my memory alot better than it would've been if I'd just taken only english or something. I memorised everything, from zao ju to wan cheng ju zi to compo phrases and ways to answer compre questions. It's weird how chinese and english used to be exact opposites, you didn't have to study english at all and still do considerably well :D

EEEEEEEEEKS alright so I confess that I only started liking chinese because of my primary one and primary five/six chinese teachers. Shouldn't be using teachers as excuses, BUT it does make a world of difference when you get a good teacher..... how else did I learn chinese and han yu pin yin in like three months? :D I was chinese-illiterate until primary one when I was saved man. Hahaha.

And sadly this octEopus has very strange and rather negative connations to Chinese. Boring lessons. Teacher whipping out long wooden ruler (i got two hard slaps by my teacher during HAO3 GONG1 MIN2 lesson in pri2 for fixing my mechanical pencil during lesson...). Getting punished in kindergarten because I couldn't read chi and han yu pin yin all the time. Never getting full marks for ting xie. i was that desperate to get a sticker from this teacher I really, really, really, really, really, really liked. B)
SINGING THOSE LITTLE CHILDREN CHINESE KARAOKE SONGS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE BLAZES I WAS SINGING!
Oh and because mummy let me learn dang1 wo3 men2 zai4 yi1 qi3 (the more we get together) in K1 or something, every day after singing the english songs for like two hours i'd obediently go and sing the chinese ones too. Then I listen to how the little kids in the karaoke vids (who don't have the best pronounciation in the world) pronounce the words and just follow. BUT THAT WAS CUTE :D I learnt alot of chinese songs that way and it works. Except that I pronounced hua as WA for about three years >:D

but wait!

I SHALL DO MY higher CHINESE PROPERLY FOR THE SAKE OF MY CHINESE SONGS :)
for superband and for panweibo and for 5566 and for mayday and for xiaojingteng and for caoge and for JJ milubing leehom nanquanmama SHE luozhixiang sunyanzi wukequn FIR y2J yoga etc etc etc! *puts on a very wide angelic smile*


conclusion: hua yu still cool. peace.