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小学生造句

My brother shared this with me and both of us had a good laugh at the students' sentences. Thought I would post these excellent 造句 to share.

题目: 原来

小朋友写: 原来他是我爸爸。

老师评语: 妈妈关切一下


题目: 好 ... 又好..

小朋友写: 妈妈的腿 ,好细又好粗...

老师评语: 那到底是细还是粗？


题目: 陆陆续续

小朋友写 : 下班了，爸爸陆陆续续的回来。

老师评语: 你到底有几个爸爸呀?


题目: 谢谢....因为 ......

小朋友写: 我要谢谢妈妈,因为她每天都帮我写作业......

老师评语: 原来你的作业是妈妈写的!!!!!!!


题目: 难过

小朋友写: 我家门前有条水沟很难过。

老师评语: 老师更难过......


题目 : 天才

小朋友写: 我３天才洗一次澡。

老师评语: 要每天洗才干净~~


題目 : 一… 便…

小朋友写: 哥哥一吃完饭，就大便。

老师评语: 造句不要乱造...


題目: 又.....又.....

小朋友寫: 我的妈妈又矮又高又瘦又肥。

老师评语: 你妈妈......是怪物吗?


題目: 好吃

小朋友：好吃个屁

老师：………


題目: 况且

小朋友：一辆火车经过，况且况且况且况且．．．．．

老师：……………



min on Tuesday, February 26, 2008


Make History! Seek Your Fortune In Singapore!

Dim Sum Dollies: The History Of Singapore

My first encounter with the Dim Sum Dollies was at the theatre production Little Shop of Horrors. When I saw the advert for The History of Singapore last December; I knew I had to catch it together with Chris and I am glad I did. I was laughing hard from start till finish as the Dim Sum Dollies re-told the history of Singapore in their irreverent dim-sum-dolly way. The first act was dedicated to Sang Nila Utama. He was very relak prince who loved to sit under the coconut tree and play music. In the end, his mother had to shame him into sailing away to discover new lands in order to do his country proud.

The next major act was about Sir Stamford Raffles signing the treaty with the Temmengong in the background while the Dim Sum Dollies donned their sarong kebaya and had a discourse about - you guessed it - Sarong Party Girls (or commonly known as SPGs; a label which my friend Alex inadvertently blurted when he knew I was dating Chris. To set the record, it was Chris who had first approached me and I do not solely date Whites!). The Dim Sum Dollies said the ang moh (pronounced with a slang annggg mohh) smelled better with cologne while the local men always smelled of kiam cai (preserved salted vegetables). Then they practiced speaking good English "How delightful!" and "Charmed!" (which they mispronounced as chamed - which means "damn it" in local Hokkien dialect). Obviously, as part of the SPG steorotype, they discussed about having that one chance to impress an ang moh and live a happily ever life in a foreign land. Chris was disappointed that Sir Raffles did not even get to speak a line but I told him that the SPG mentality from the British colonisation was definitely of more humor value.

It was a very good theatrical production because they had integrated current happenings into the re-telling of Singapore's history; spoofing the F1 races to rickshaw races, emphasising Singapore's free tax entrepot status in the past versus high GST taxes now and how integrating opium houses, gambling dens and brothels makes it an integrated resort!

The turbulent 60s when Singapore was forced to leave Malaysia was made fun of too. Hossan Leong (chopsticks) acted as Miss Singapore and sobbing how she can longer participate in Miss Malaysia pageant. How is she to determine her beauty when there is no one to compare herself with? Then the Dim Sum Dollies came on the stage and re-assured her that everything is fine; they will have a Miss Singapore pageant with different constituents. It was hilarious seeing Miss Aljunied, Miss Desker Road, Miss Geylang Lorong 4, Miss Toa Payoh decked out in the stage in their pageantry fineness (especially when 6 of them are guys wearing figure-hugging cheongsams).

This is a highly recommended production; I find it proud and heart-warming when Singaporeans make such fantastic shows where we get to laugh at our eclectic history mixed with quirky Singaporean habits and steorotypes. Like how they ended their final act; the Singapore Girl is truly a great way to fly.



min on Saturday, February 23, 2008


SOP: Standard Operating Procedures

Sometimes, I wonder if there is something severely wrong with me. Or I just rub people the wrong way.


Why would someone want to spend 45 minutes debating whether to write a SOP? It was just a simple suggestion to write procedures for a trading program which we are going to implement. Yet, he wanted a debate on why it was necessary to write procedures and how it would be detrimental when Audit came around. I did not understand his argument; how could it be detrimental when Audit would want to see the procedures as comfort that we are documenting our processes?


I relented and said we could make it an internal document not meant for release to Audit. He did not give up; picking another argument that it was pointless because we did not have procedures for the other bits of work we do. So it went on and on; me trying to explain my suggestion and him slamming each explanation. It was getting nowhere and there was another colleague in the discussion; I did not want to waste everybody's time insisting my way (even though I knew I had made a valid suggestion). So I gave up.


I stated that it was merely a suggestion and if he saw no point in me doing it - let's just forget about it. I do not want to be pushing for a suggestion which he saw no value in.


He said: "Ok, let's do it."


Honestly, I think I must have offended him in some way. Working with him is like trying to slam my head into a solid wall of bricks.


Why would someone be so un-cooperative and difficult? I cannot comprehend and am beginning to miss the great people that I used to work with in JPMorgan.




min on Tuesday, February 19, 2008


We Are Their Heaven

My ex-colleague and career mentor, Linda, recommended me this book, We Are Their Heaven; Why The Dead Never Leave Us by Allison DuBois. Allison is a medium who can communicate with the dead (the book calls them people who have crossed over) and the book chronicles her experiences helping the living receive messages from the nether world.


The book has stories about spouses who have died before their partners, about children dying before their parents, about parents dying before their children, about murdered victims and about suicides. A common message which the dead would want to communicate to the living is to live happily because we are their heaven. The dead never leave us because they want to see family and friends whom they love live life happily after their passing. They may not be physically around to communicate but they do partake in our happiness.


Allison devoted a section on suicides; people who have died from suicide often do so due to chemical imbalances in their brain. They experience so much emotional pain that they see death as the only solution. Often after death, their spirits gain much more clarity than they were alive. Although they express regret and grief at their loss of lives, their spirits never felt freer.


An interesting concept which Allison brought up was how the dead do sometimes communicate with us or enable events to unfold in such a way that creates happiness.


I am leaving for Sydney on 05 Feb (Tuesday) onboard the Airbus A380. My family was on the waiting list since December and we had given up all hope of spending Chinese New Year overseas. Even the Gold90 morning radio show reported that all tickets out of Singapore during Chinese New Year had been fully sold. Somehow, the travel agent who had put us on wait list decided to submit our request again and we finally got our tickets two weeks ago! It was truly by sheer luck that my family and I are leaving for Sydney; I believe people in my family who have crossed over are looking out for us.



min on Saturday, February 02, 2008