Juugo

I would have go into a tirade of lengthy explanation on how ungodly boring and useless yesterday seminar was, but I lack the time. It’s sad, but yeah, I barely have enough time to sit properly, while listening to some cooing music, and type.

So I’ll give you fortunate students who did not attend yesterday’s brilliant seminar a little insight. I was a little relieved at the sight of air-conditioners being turned on in ‘Bilik Anjung Bestari 2’ (what a name for a plain room with only the bare essentials, such as the floor, the ceiling, and of course, the air-conditioners).

The stupid thing is, even though they have CHAIRS in the room (and plenty around the school, I’m sure), we were forced to sit on the floor (as usual) and our legs were feeling a little uncomfortable and cramped after a long time. Long time. LONG time.

Idiots. Enough complaning ‘bout the room – here’s a quick rundown on the seminar:

- I didn’t wear my spare pair of spectacles, but the Indian guy who was preaching us looked a little bit distorted to me. Apparently in Sri Lanka people actually bothered paying him USD$1000 per day to give a talk. Wtf.

- He went on for approximately 5-6 hours (excluding the breaks we get) talking about memory-enhancing techniques. Right. I believe my memory is bad (trust me, when it comes to trivial subjects I forget things better than anybody’s grandma).

- He went on saying that we should ‘make a ridiculous-sounding story’ to remember things, and even went on to teach us the numbers 1-10 in Japanese using some stupid story of having an itch, rubbing it on a rock, or something (I won’t bother remembering it as I can remember the numbers [and many more stuffs] without using utterly ridiculous stories and techniques).

- For example, his version of 1-10 in Japanese is:

1 - ichi
2 - ni
3 - san
4 - shi
5 - go
6 - roco
7 - shishi
8 - hachi
9 - kyuu
10 - juu

First of all, there is no such thing as ‘roco’ (he called it a rock-o, to suit his stupid ridiculous story), as ‘co’ does not exist in the Japanese list of phonetics. And ‘roco’ is way off than the original number 6 - roku. Geez.

And ‘shishi’?? WTF. I somehow find this highly insulting because not only is he teaching Japanese numbers WRONGLY, he amplified this stupidity and ridiculousness further by SNEEZING ‘SHISHI’ (somehow, don’t ask me how a sneeze could sound like that) to suit his equally stupid and ridiculous story. The correct word for the number 7 is, either shichi or nana. Kono bakayarou.

That’s it. I don’t see how exactly I can apply his methods to ‘study smart’, as if my current methods I’ve been using for some time aren’t ‘smart’ enough. If I were to create an epic ridiculous novel for one subject, say, Biology, it would have over 10,000 pages containing nonsense.

As for today, I went out almost the entire day. Nothing much to say about bowling since I didn’t play it (it was fully occupied as well, as half of the bowling alley was closed for maintenance/construction)—ended up walking around with Shawn and Andy (Shawn wanted to get a present for his dad), ending up at bookshops.

We went to visit Astrodome where Saravana, Ting, Aaron and a whole lot of girls – Jessica, Sarah, Geok Leng, Tharshini, Justine, etc, played futsal XD The turf was fantastic! Was barefoot and it felt great, I could have made a camp and slept there as well.

The only funny (depending on your humour) incident that happened was when Andy was the goalie, and he taunted ‘Harry Potter Harry Potter’ (==>___>==) and I was at the penalty line. I swung my foot hard, the ball somehow aimed for Andy’s face (“Harry Pot—BANG”) and on hitting Andy’s face, bounced to his right. XD His lower lip was bleeding though, but dried minutes later.

Went searching for free trial contact lenses during tuition (during the prayer break, went with Angela to the optical shop downstairs, but you need to pay RM20 for it) and after (went to my former optical shop, but they were gonna close and they could provide me with one pair which wouldn’t be ‘as clear as my spectacles’, but didn’t wanna bother them as it will take some time), without any success. Guess I’ll just wait for the lenses I ordered from my mother’s brother’s wife’s sibling to come.