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Brother Charles twitched his brows while looking at us, “Das ist Frau Barbieri aus Italien…” His eyes widen as he pronounce the word Barbieri, Bar-BIE-RI! (His eyes started widening at the middle…. @-@) It was German Class at SXI and boy was it something! We started of by learning the basic pronounciation of the letters. There was one letter worth noting and that is the umlaut “O”, the “O” with the two notches above it. It is pronounced as oe…and that as it like when you feel like throwing up and you go…oe..My throat feels really funny when I tried to read that..ha ha! Maybe it is because my tougue is so tied to English! After the lesson anyway, I felt really toungue tied (in the literal sense) as though I have just read aloud Dr. Seusses’ Cat In The Hat a hundred times! Anyhow, class was really fun and although German language is not everyone’s cup of tea but Bro. Charles makes it all exciting to learn by inserting his words of wisdom on how the English language is connected to the German language, making it pretty interesting! I guess the greatest asset about the German language to us students is not about visiting Germany, but the free education! Ha ha, all the better for us to save money with! Lol!

I’d also like to wish everyone a happy cny! Ya, I know it’s a bit late not but what the heck, ha ha! For all my friends out there, I wish you guys a prosperous year, namely by collecting more angpows this year! Ha ha! More angpows more properous mah…. =P

Update 15/2/06:
Ack, apparently there’s no free education anymore. Thanks to iQing LifeFeel for informing me! Oh, and sagen sie bitte here mean please repeat that again. That’s what Bro Charles always ask us to do at his class. Bis später!

Friends, we need them, but even with friends, there’s still something missing within me, a gap that is now only filled by loneliness. I feel incomplete, as if something dear is torn to me, sometimes…I guess there’s always that time when we feel down and unloved, even when everything seems to be going right for you. The loneliness within, consumes me…slowly…

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Comments on the Star Newspaper Article On 8/1/06 entitled “US and British Pupils In The Same Boat”

Imagine this, a small kid carrying a backpack as big as him. That’s how Standard 1s look like on their first day of school. Yup, school bags are getting heavier and heavier nowadays and we poor students have to bear that burden, literally, on our backs!

Without lockers at schools, most students have to drag them heavy bags back home every single day and that may result in having our so called “future generation” looking like something from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Excessively heavy school backs have always been and issue that have been addressed countless of time and yet, nothing has been done about it. The reason of why the school bags are heavy in the first place also sounds ridiculous. Think about it, you lug a 200pgs book all the way to school, simply to let your teacher tell you to look at 2 pages in it. Then you lug it back home again, the back breaking cycles continues. Yeah, having a broader banded school bags sure helps but isn’t it better to just instead lighten the load of the contents of the bag? School bag manufacturers are laughing their way to the bank by promoting broader band school bags (with some “space age technology”, no doubt…) with hefty prices and having parents no choice but to pay top bucks for the health of their little one… Yeah, school studies must also be balanced and that also explains the amount of books to bring for that short amount of time, can’t argue with that. So here’s my point, why don’t, instead the publishers make the books lighter? Here’s a really great idea that I have for some time now, why don’t you publish the book in such a way that it can be separated into chapters? That way, you can just carry 20pgs of biology instead of the lugging a whopping 300pgs book? Multiply that 300pg book with an additional Chemistry and Maths and you’ll get a grand total of 900pgs, weighing around 1.5 kilos! That’s how important is it to change that way the book is printed! Also, for goodness sakes use a lighter type of paper for printing! Currently, Longman Pearson STPM Chemistry is my text book and because of the photo paper, it weighs around a kilo each! I dread the day when there is Chemistry, Biology and Maths on the same day because it means having to carry 2 Longman Pearson books and a 300pgs thick maths book. With a 1 litre bottle in my bag, that totals to about 4kg in my back and that does not include exercise books, foolscaps, etc. The worst thing about the Longman Pearson books are that with such great quality paper, the only resort to printing 10pgs in colour and the rest are in green and black! Really a waste!

So publishers, get working on creating more student orientated textbooks, not just its content but also on its physical aspects as well! My school sling bags just tore off the other day (just after 6 months)…so you get the idea on how heavy students have to carry each day…ouch! XD

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