Thursday, August 21, 2008
A typical conversation with my fav pw teacher goes like this.
To him, I am a student who speaks chinese in school and hokkien at home since the day I fooled him. He seems to believe that I lack the basic fundamentals of the English language. Something I found quite amusing.
Him: Your eom got something wrong.....(rambles on)
Me: Nodded my head....kept quiet..
Him: You know what I am talking about
Me: (Kept quiet).....
Him: Sorry but are you a foreign student?
Me: (found out something fun I could do) I....I.....not..foreigner.....Me Singaporean(obviously in broken english)
Him: Really? then how are your gp grades. Do you need help?
Me: I...U for gp.....I dun need help.....
Him: You seriously need help.
Me: I already read one newspaper article a day..... and a page of a story book a day....my english will improve soon.....
Him: Thats not how you learn english.....(rambles on with his sophisticated english to increase his aura of superiority)... Do you speak english?
Me: No I dun't......I speak chinese in school and hokkien at home....
Him: You seriously need help for gp
ME:....(STUNNED)
ZB: (giggles) trust me, he really don't need any help (laughter follows)
Class explodes into laughter.....
Episode two
Him: Can you don't speak chinese in class
Me: kept quiet (forced to speak chinese to keep up with the facade)
Him: Zb I challenge you to five different sports....if you can win I shall treat you to anything in the canteen
Zb: Okay.....(decides on the sport, 4 of which are racquet games which was his forte)
Me: Unfair....You so old...erm...as in experienced...
Zb: Its alright...
Him: I am old!!!
ME: You have age advantage...you are twice as old as zb and you play the sports for over twenty years already!
Him:.....ignore my protests
Him: Lets set a date for this thrashing...what do I get if i win you
me: You get a boost to your ego
Him: Believe me, I don't need any boost to my ego
ME: wah dint know your ego so dua (for ur info, it is big, in case you are like him knows nuts about other language besides english)
Him: Believe me, it is gargantuam
Me: (pretend I duno, start to scratch head)
Him: (feeling superior) Wah speak ang moh with me ar
Me: I practise long long already....
Him: Whats dua, anyway the way you speak it is very vulgar
Me: Look who is talking ( this teacher spits vulgarities at an extremely astonishing rate....up to one time a min when he engages in sports, he will curse and swear whenever he loses a point)
Him: (Silence, walks away, still reveling in the fact that I can't speak English)
Me: (Chuckling at his ignorance that he is the fool himself)
And so pw lessons are such a livewire.
They bring life to the monotony of schoolwork.
What a relief...
And so the drama escalates.....
life can be a burden, but dun ever give up