ipod nano.

there's a new member to de family.. de ipod nano.. n its juz gettin greater.. cool.. but think its gonna cost around $350 in spore.. n it comes in both 2GB n 4GB size..

neoprints.

today we had pw meetin for written report.. i felt so accomplished!! really!! coz wr was really bothering me for de whole of this wk.. n now i juz feel so eh.. free!! haha.. :D

ong went to apple shop with me after pw.. lurve macs now.. they rawk really.. yishu lurves apple like how she lurve japan.. n tat means i really like it a lot a lot a lot a lot.. i lurve macs!!! lalala.. but too bad.. im still usin windows now.. awww.. n ong went with me to kino.. yay!! my 2 lurves in one day.. first apple then kino.. so i bought myself a taiwan version of prince of tennis bk16.. a very sleek look as compared to de spore version.. but somehow i think i like de spore one better..

n oh.. coz i then read finish de whole comic on de train.. then so i was like quite tired when i was reachin yew tee.. so i juz close my eyes n i sort of fell asleep standin.. haha.. actually i always do tat.. then i dropped my prince of tennis so loudly on de floor.. i tot sleepin while standin is normal.. but this lady beside me was so shocked she said rather loudly to de guy beside him 'aiyoh.. 现在学生站着也会睡着！' not in de sacastic way.. but sth like 'oh.. so poor thing..' kind of tone.. felt so malu n so i nv sleep after tat le.. n my poor comic bk..

n one line i learned today: 'too much of smtg makes one sick'.. true.. too much lookin wont do de harm lah.. but tokin abt is gettin rather tired.. juz let me quietly look k? i try not to bother u all too.. :)

n yday bathin i suddenly tot of de tagline from 无间道II:

这是最好的时代……这是最坏的时代…… 我们走向天国……我们走向地狱…… 被遗忘的时代

人始终是会变的，只是看我们选了什么路。

chinese.

haha.. de tv's beside me now n they are showin this informative show or watever its called lah.. oh.. 十分头条 then this episode's abt foreign workers hu are bullied.. then this social worker called 'fan bo han' was interviewed.. his eyes are so damn huge.. to add up to it, he doesnt blink!! haha.. was starin at de tv screen waitin for him to blink.. but he doesnt!! strange guy.. or perhaps he is too nervous to blink already.. n somehow he looks like someone i noe..

haha.. so today i was watchin 有话就说.. n today's topic is abt learnin chinese in schs.. so they were like discussin whether it is de method of teachin tat will affect u or de teacher alone tat will affect ur willingness to learn chinese.. of course i got a lot of things to say lah!!

methods tat put students off:

1. 习字
this is one necesssary evil.. 习字 helps.. but it juz suck.. so how?

2. lookin at powerpoint slides of chinese words..
haiz.. i dun think powerpoint work for chinese.. really..

3. 课本
some passages are nice.. but some.....


seriously i think de teacher affects too..
a chinese teacher must at least:

1. Know his/her stuffs
first.. if my chinese teacher dun even noe basic chinese stuffs i immediately switch off le.. i mean.. u dunno wat im gonna learn then how u teach me? so if a teacher really noe his/her stuffs it really impresses de students to want to learn.. dun juz read off straight from some vocab bk/dictionary/website.. it will only juz mean u dunno ur stuffs..

2. Dun speak other languages other than chinese durin lesson.
speakin other languages other than chinese juz wont motivate de students to.. i mean its de only time we get to speak chinese durin lesson then why dun make full use of it?

3. Dun be a frog-in-de-well.
chinese teacher=out.. haha.. but face de truth.. very often we will think this way one.. so why dun chinese teachers update themselves more often.. knowin what is 5566 is not enough.. at least noe wat they do!!

4. bonus: speak decent english language too..
dun shake ur head hoh.. but seriously u must hav once been put off by chinese teachers' lousy english right?

5. bonus: be either an enigma or make urself belong to de bunch of students u are teachin
somehow enigmas will produce gd students.. i wonder why.. if u cant be one.. then at least make de students feel tat u 照 de students.. how to explain this.. somehow like a gang-boss will 照 their brothers.. last time in sec sch i used to hav this teacher hu will really 照 us.. so of course we respect him..

6. return homework in time..
accordin to reliable sources (me n my friends) chinese teachers are de teachers hu take de longest time to return assignments.. be it comprehension or compo.. it sometime takes up to half a yr for a chinese teacher to return a homework.. haiz..

7.last but not least
of course is de gd old 热忱

in de mean time.. even if u hate chinese.. support 元卫觉醒.. :)

http://www.avex.com.tw/awaking/index.asp

learnin touchtype recently, seriously i suck so much at it tat my typin speed of touch type is only 75cpm. yucks. so slow. but i really wanna master it so tat i can type without lookin at the keyboard. urgh.. this is takin a damn long time. i think 5min has past since i started typin. it is hard. maybe i will revert back to my old ways very soon.

hah. this is better. my 2 finger way of typin.. k lah.. not 2 but mainly my forefingers are movin.. sometimes maybe de others will help here n there.. haiz.. touchtype is super duper difficult!! but i found a gd freeware online.. its called stamina.. not rigid.. very useful.. coz it actually improved my touch type speed n decrease the number of times tat im staring back at the keyboard.. urgh.. now tat im bothered to learn touchtype i think my typin position now is so ugly..

but accordin to de developer of stamina, touchtype if mastered can help reduce hand fatigue.. so i guess i shd learn. lah. a round of applause for yish coz de first n this paragraph is done by pure touchtype!! includin de punctuations!! okie.. but im typin at snail's pace.. lalala..

haiz.. so nth much happened today.. xinyu, huiqi n me went bk to mug today.. but total failure.. all we did was to laugh laugh laugh.. n i think kaishyuan's spy was listenin to us.. coz when we tok abt kaishyuan this woman was starin at us.. ahh.. so scary.. n ive lost all interest in studyin now.. durin terms i was still okie with muggin.. but now im juz too lazy to do anything.. haiz.. im a pig.. laze around learnin touchtype..