Thursday, October 14, 2004 @ 14:29
number seventy-one
i just can't set my mind to study for this last final day. it's too hard. freedom is only about 19 hours away. the countdown has started. 19 more hours, 19 more hours, 19 more freaking hours to freedom. can't wait.
but now i have to work, study, read, learn. and damn i can't do that because i have been staring at that darn book for about a week already. and i'm seriously sick of it. so i'm posting now to waste/burn some time.
since tomorrow's the chinese paper, this post shall be dedicated to chinese.
you know the blood flowing through your veins, it's chinese blood. well, if you're a chinese that is. so it's our duty to learn our language well, right? even i can't deny that. i'm a chinese, so i have to learn chinese. that's who i am. so we got the learning part all sorted out. we have to learn, to fufill our royal duty.
it's not that i do not want to learn my language. but look, sometimes it just gets very pissing trying to study it right? you have to agree with me on this. it IS pissing, especially when we have to MEMORISE to get those curvy lines/straight lines into our heads. it's easy for some of you all i know. just chuck the whole thing into your mind. poof! you're done. but what about those that do not do so?
you see, you all do not have to memorise at all. it's just that the way to score in chinese tests/exams is to memorise. which is bad, if you do it the way you all do it.
surveys were conducted about the chinese learning issue. and the students are saying that they do not like chinese. why? because they have to memorise a lot of words. so if you are not happy with the way we have to learn, then will learning chinese be fun? no way.
but it's all about to change. yep, no more memorising. now the focus is on speaking and reading and not so much on writing. we still have to memorise, but only the important words. as for the rest, as long as we know what's their meaning, we can write the word out, we can pronounce it, then it's fine.
1435. should i go study already? read for the rest of the afternoon and then practice xi zi at night. they say that you can remember things better if you study them at night. well, i'll go try that out. i think it'll work.
all the best for tomorrow.
and party after that.
so come on, tell me.