No I havent gone crazy (not yet at least..) and my keyboard is working fine.. Dear readers, try to pronounce what is written on the title. If u find it a chore, so do I. However, I will not be the one creating this example of poor phonics, I am the one experiencing it!!
Im halfway thru my first wk in school. Let me get on to the fun part first cos it inspired me so much that I decided I had to blog it first thing when I get home. I had my first lesson with my Psych Stats 1 lecturer. Dr S, as we will call her henceforth, is definitely some Chinese lecturer. And her pronunciation of English is exactly as exemplified in my title: Broken and fu**ing irritating..
Btw the title is supposed to be spelt (and pronounced as stated) this way: The Sleeping Clown on You-tube.. And more..Damn unglam
The title itself is an enigma which I will address soon.
I never had so much misery and torture having to last through a lecture. Stats are boring enough and the pain just grows exponentially, with poor delivery. I can understand that Dr S is trying to market herself so that ppl will choose her tutorial grps (she seems v concerned that students will choose the other tutor, if they arent gonna do so, I AM..). In her marketing techniques, she tries to add humour into her delivery and somehow the lecture grp can be observed to be reciprocating her humour with murmurs and decent laughter. Maybe it's just me but I dun find her jokes funny at all.. And her teaching is not the clearest possible. I think I may just skip her lessons in future and befriend the textbook. Also when I asked her a qn, she gave me an "I think.." answer. "I thinks.." make me raise eyebrows as much as replies like "Whatever" and "Anything".. Basically apprehension and lack of confidence. (Again, much as these three replies are used by me sometimes, I really hate myself for using them. And I am trying to refrain from the usage.)
Aniwai I hair enar or torkeng arbao hur..(Anyway I had enough of talking about her)(I can SWEAR she will pronounce it like this, her stressing of plosives and fricatives are really haywire and screwed). Im not yet a full-fledged grammar Nazi like BitchY but at least spare the ears..Now I will talk about myself, again...
Due to the poor delivery, I fell asleep. Nothing surprising... I slept thru half my lectures in JC anyway.. In JC, I always sat with friends who would poke, nudge, kick, slap.. (u name it I have it all) me when I doze. In uni though, I am quite a lone ranger. Maybe it is because I dun want anyone to disturb me during the lecture? Or more probably, it is because I hardly have any new friends to tag along with.. (Im not anti-social really, but the circumstances in uni force everyone to become at most hi-bye friends.. And my old friends are not taking psych mods..) So I fell asleep without anyone waking me.. (It happens on public transport as well when I am alone..)
Ppl who have seen me doze off have probably lost count of how hilarious I look when I snooze. (If u haven seen it, TOO BAD!! cos there will be no re-enactments.. Just count yr lucky stars..)
And today during Dr S's phonetically irritating lecture, I dozed in the most comical way, head arching backwards, mouth ajar... (I observed that I only sleep in this position when I am absolutely tired, which I am due to this poor wk of slp).. Thus I slpt twenty minutes in this vulnerable position.. (I say vulnerable because most pranksters, which I have experienced before, luckily only once, put the weirdest things inside the mouth.) Anyway, when I awoke, nobody laughed at me (which usually happens). They probably laughed enough during my sleep.
Another case happened on Monday when I was on the bus home. Again, bad nights and bad bumpy ride made "zhou gong" a very apt companion.. So I slept nodding.. Then when I woke, two secondary gals who were next to me were just saying "You know, we should have recorded that down and You-tubed it.." At first I was thinking (for both somnolent cases) that the ppl around me can be such asses, especially when they laugh at me.. But then I hardly gave a damn after the first min of being pissed. I was more irritated at myself for giving them the opportunity to laugh at me.. After being pissed at myself, I hardly gave a damn anymore (Been there, done that.. What is another mockery??).. So essentially, Im voluntarily allowing myself to be a sitting duck for laughs without restraint..
Resolution * : Boost my consciousness about self.. ie If I am gonna slp in public, it has to be glamourous... Haha I was just kidding with that.. Basically, stop dozing in public.. (This is resolution * with the asterisk because this is the shittiest yet arguably the most impt resolution I have made of all time).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
First of all, you mentioning about your Psych Stats lecturer reminds me of 2 teachers in JJ. Hint: 2 History teachers. Bigger Hint: 1 with maggie-mee-styled hair, another one who loves to punctuate her words with "Ermmmm." Haha.
I missed lectures in JC man. Yeah, the falling asleep part, I can totally relate too. Haha. Lectures in army are more sleep-inducing cos you're pretty worn out most of the time. I even thought of using the conventional joking way of putting toothpicks to support your eyelids. Lol.
But still, your lecturer's pronunciation is damn humourous la. I hope she doesn't teach English, or worse still, Oral skills. Haha. Looking at the other though, at least you got yourself a teacher who's different! Haha. It's hard to come by you know. Lol.
You don't have any close friends in the lecture? Come on you ought to go on stage and give the lecturer a "lecture" before formally introducing yourself to the rest of the students man. Ok I'm kidding. Don't try that. But then, if I were there beside you, I would probably join you in the "slumber". Two heads (arching back) better than one, right? HAHAHA.
Hey, I think sleeping in public is so cool. It's like an unbelievable feat, isn't it? Sleeping amongst crowds. Don't care what people say about you la. Though I know it might feel embarrassing sometimes. Trust me, I have knocked my head against the bus' windows for countless times and pretending nothing had happened, winking to see if anyone was staring at me. But who cares? Sleep all you want. Snore all you can. At least people without their mp3 players can have another alternative. JK. LOL. Just don't forget to alight at your destination. =P
You don't have to force yourself to make a resolution for this. Cos it ain't any big deal anyway. It's human nature to feel tired and doze off. That only shows you are one of the hardworking social workers out there who's been slogging your ass out to contribute to the society so much so that you need to rest anywhere, anytime right?
On a lighter note, it can also mean you are adhering to your own metaphor of yourself. HAHA. JK!
Anyway, it's good to tap on the "Snooze" button. At least, you are keeping your dream alive. =)
Somehow I rather JC teachers. At least most of them teach better, relatively speaking.. (Maybe Im getting fussier over my education now, thus I expect a lot out of my lecturers.) But ya I miss JC totally. Kind of like the best days I had..
Army lectures are really pretty useless. I dun learn much, and I dun stay awake much either. Maybe if I had stayed awake more often, I would have learnt more. Anyway, even if we did learn sth, its probably not relevant after ORD..
She doesnt teach English. I was actually gonna blog abt how much worse she lectured this week, but I discovered she is really quite a nice, innocent woman. A little too innocent for a PhD holder. She is pretty easily swayed by class influence. The class wants lecture to be cancelled on CNY eve and I think she is gonna do just tt, even though I advised her not to. Nonetheless, she is really really nice and aims to teach the best of her ability. Her language still sucks but I think I shld not badmouth her anymore, and give due credit to her attempts at professionalism.
I dun have close friends AT ALL in school. All that I have are the ones from JC and army. Thankfully I still have them, otherwise I may just become a recluse or sth. I find it really hard to make friends in uni. Nobody is in the same class as u for more than once a wk, at least tts for me. Its really time to be socially independent.
I really rather we both NOT sleep at all. I still find it embarassing, well anyway I still slp in her lecture but less grossly, and half awake, instead of really dreamland kind..
Sleeping in public is fine as long as it doesnt look wrong and we go around lying on some stranger's shoulder. I bonked my head on windows before but I dun really care. Just act blur.
Haha, tts comforting.. Hardworking.. I think its still more of the piggy me, and I dun slp well half the time, so I guess Im just slp deprived.. I like to dream really, provided they do not interfere in my slp. Sadly though, dreaming affects the quality of slp. Thus it is one or the other..
Post a Comment