Of the Unexpected Compliment and the Hilarious Mistake
And so it began..the longest day of the week..Tuesday...and i hate Maths lessons..Mainly because of Mrs Lee Yan Yan..the way she smiles at you seems to pierce yr eyes...trying to communicate with you tell you that you are stupid...that whine when you dont know how to answer her mathematical questions..that constant nagging which follows are just some of the irritating stuff about this teacher..she's a good teacher i guess..in terms of the way she teaches..but you feel intimidated in her class..especially the guys in our class im sure..always asking us questions and naming us in front of the whole class.when asked how to find the angle between two vectors i knew the formula..however i didnt know how to explain or describe it..and she assumed that i didnt know it and thought i was stupid...even though she didnt say it but hell.."You are Dumb!!" is written all over her damn forehead..and that pretty much made my day..Great huh?However that anger and frustration drove me to finish my econs essay outline in the library during break...For some reason when i am sad or angry things tend to be finished faster than usual..so i guess i should ask my friends to piss me off during the As?hmmm..that'll be extremely helpful and productive for me..(Heh..)Anyway,during break i was in a foul mood..and obviously the air con in the library..(The temperature control must have gone haywire and rapidly decreased..)didnt cool me down at all...though the outline i wrote was crap...and eventually proved to be crap but however..i finally finished something that ive never thought i'll finish...at least thats what i thought yesterday night when i was desperately trying to finish the outlines,while sitting on my bed at 12am and a splitting headache..Nevermind that..today during econs tutorial i actually managed to answer most of Mr Teo's question..and that is a big step for me indeed..he is such a great teacher...Like Jia Ying and Shariffah mentioned yesterday at my place..Mr Teo is the kinda teacher..when you ask him simple questions..he will answer it...unlike most teachers which will start to nag at you for the simple fact that you forgot such an easy point...To them basic foundational questions shouldnt be asked and that you are expected to know them already...However Mr Teo never questions your intelligence by questioning your memory..Great teacher..I owe you one man..;) Anyway,so we were having tutorial when he stopped for a break...(Which is a relief because even though he is a great teacher he's lesson can drag on and on nonstop sometimes...)He started talking to us about the test we took yesterday..and the results...He did not reveal any results whatsoever but he said that almost everyone he marked passed..(Almost..)well that's the best thing ive heard all day since that only means that my parents wont be getting the letter from the school..which means that i wont get another lecture from my mom..which also means that i will be able to enjoy my CNY...anyway,then the most unexpected compliment came..he said,"Oh Weilien you passed..You got the highest for MCQ if im not wrong..."And i was like,"No shit?"i think i screwed up for my structured..left one of the 6 marks questions undone..and i actually passed?well im just glad..and what he said later on is even better and more encouraging..he said,"I also dont know why you needed to take the test..."(Or "Donch" know...:P)Hahaha..o hell thanks Mr Teo..No wonder yr email is happyteo@hotmail.com..you really do spread happiness..hahaha..Anyway,today during Chinese the chinese teacher asked WenLai to go to the office to get "Zhong1 Lu3"(Oil Palm Trees..)Its supposingly the title for a book..and its supposed to be a compiled version of the good chinese essays by our own students..however WenLai didnt know that she was refering to books and therefore she rushed off to the office looking for anything that looked like a tree...(No i am not exaggerating..)And we started reading this passage distributed to us earlier in the day and totally forgot about how long WenLai was taking to come back..until she suddenly appeared at the door...And in her hands was this red basket with the teacher's pot of plant in it...When she said Zhong Lu she meant the books and not the plant...and she immediately kneeled down on the floor and started laughing like mad..(And tearing..)Half the class bursted into laughter while the other was still trying to figure out what WenLai just did..And she had question marks floating around her head...I was already laughing my lungs out and couldnt stop laughing even after 10 mins..It was soo funny to see the way she screwed it up because of her being..herself...it was so hilarious...Its definitely up on the top 10 funniest things of 2004...hahahahaha..

Quotes of the Day:
Jim Feingold,' The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don't go to it, it comes to you.'

[Nicholas van Orten loses a shoe when climbing a fire-escape ladder.]
Nicholas,'There goes a thousand dollars.'
Christine,'Your shoes cost a thousand dollars?'
Nicholas,'That one did.'
---'The Game'(1997)