Jakarta Trip 20-25th December 2010

Day 1: 20 December 2010, Monday

Fly with Robin, Falcon & the rest of my family members to Jakarta. It takes only 1 1/2 hours. The approximate travelling time from home to school next year!

Check in to Batavia Hotel@ Barat. The first night wasn't great, the frequent power failure gave me a sleepless night.

My Favourite Things

December 14, Tuesday

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favourite things

Cream colored ponies and cream colored strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favourite things

Girls and white dresses and blue satin slashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eye lashes
Silver white winter that melt into spring
These are a few of my favourite things

When the dog bites
When the bee sting
When I'm feeling sad
I will simply remember my favourte things
And then I don't feel so ooo bad.

Spidery Achievement

10 December 2010, Friday

Today I covered 3 chapters of calculus lecture notes and 4 tutorials but that was not all.

The greatest achievement I had today is:

MY SPIDERY CONQUEST.

Michelle's odourless insect killer is the MOST useful things in our room

second will be the vacuum cleaner.

True Or False

8 December, 2010 Wednesday

Just cleared my first paper Algebra this afternoon. Guess what's the hardest part of the paper?

True or False Questions.

I remember when I was young, how I love true or false questions, I used to score pretty well in it, but now they are so tricky and difficult! ARRHH! I think most of my marks today are lost through those.

Well, these problems don't just happen in exam papers, they happen in real life too. When we were young, it was easy to tell true or false, but as we grow, we learn to think and see from other perspectives, then things become complicated. There were no clear right or wrong, true or false, black or white, it was all grey areas and dilemmas.

When I was young I knew that lying is just bad, but now I'm not really that sure. It all goes to the two words "it depends". I learn to look from both perspective, not just the act, but the motivations the psychologies of it. Sometimes, instead of having the sense of injustice, I feel sorry and pity for the accused.

I always believe that children have the most sincere and truthful answers.

A place to study

7 December 2010, Tuesday

The release of Zi Han's exam result- Fail.

The desperate voice of hers reminds me of myself a decade ago when I was in the same shoes as her - wanting to go into a school and learn so badly but was denied of this simple opportunity. There was a sudden urge within me to cab down and help her to look a a place to study. Isn't that what a teacher do? To help a student who wish to learn. [ but I didnt :( ]

I miss these desperation and desire for school. I wish I still had them now to learn because of that eagerness instead of the fear of failures. The plain pleasure and joy of knowledge.

Hakuna Matata

HAKUNA MATATA

To all my NTU/NIE friends who are studying hard for the exams,

The Lion King has send me to tell you "HAKUNA MATATA".
It means no worry.

GOOD LUCK

Broken language switches

5 December 2010 (Sunday)

I can't remember if I dream in English or Mandarin.
And Now I can't decide if I count in English or Mandarin.

My default programme does the table of multiplication in Mandarin, and the rest of the function in English.

This is what my mind speaks when doing a mental sum of [(8x8)- (2x5)]/2

Switch: [(8.8.64) - (2.5.10)]/2 = pause
Switch: 64-10=54/2= pause
Switch: (2.2.4/14/2.7.14)27
Switch:27

I need an electrician to fix my broken language switch.