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Eight Random Facts About Me

May 23, 2007 – 1:23 am | 14 Comments

I was tagged by Sebastien, the author of Chron­i­cally Sick But Still Think­ing I Think (best draw­ings in the blo­gos­phere, but he hates rab­bits for some rea­sons…), on this meme.

Where I Think Some People Are Just Plain Stupid

May 15, 2007 – 2:08 am | 3 Comments

While wait­ing at the garage, I read The Sun, a rag with a lot of bull­shit in it. It’s cheap (25 cents) but it’s bad. Really bad. The Sun pet themes are usu­ally : war is good, high taxes are bad, gay mar­riage is evil, gas is too expen­sive, any­one who doesn’t speak Eng­lish or isn’t of Eng­lish back­ground is a ter­ror­ist or an ille­gal immi­grant etc. Come on, I’m talk­ing about a news­pa­per which call “youths” “punks” !

The Teacher And The Test Dilemna

May 11, 2007 – 12:39 am | 5 Comments

My stu­dents are office work­ers. I’m not — and their field of work and the arcane of the ubiq­ui­tous bureau­cracy can be bewil­der­ing for a rookie like me. Like when I was fil­ing up for another teacher last week for a Canada Rev­enue Agency class. So I came into the class, intro­duced myself and asked the stu­dents to do the same, one by one.

How To Get Rid Of Telemarketing

May 10, 2007 – 12:38 am | 8 Comments

I’m cook­ing some red pep­pers when the phone rings :

- 喂，你好，黄先生系唔系屋企?

I hate bloody tele­mar­ket­ing, espe­cially in Cantonese.

Ten Things I Can Do

May 8, 2007 – 2:48 am | 7 Comments

Ten things I can do, from speed read­ing other… er… weird skills.

They Did It

May 7, 2007 – 1:53 am | 8 Comments

They did it. They elected the most intol­er­ant, ego­cen­tric, self­ish, use­less politi­cian. He is the new pres­i­dent. I’m def­i­nitely stay­ing in Canada.

The Interview

May 6, 2007 – 1:13 am | 5 Comments

Seb, a fel­low blog­ger, just sent me these ques­tion to answer… just keep in mind I just spent the night design­ing learn­ing plans for my stu­dents and that it’s fairly late ! I’ll do my …

I Am A Passenger... And I Ride And I Ride

May 4, 2007 – 1:41 am | 7 Comments

I have an ongo­ing love & hate rela­tion­ship with cars. I like cars. They hate me.

It all started when I was 17. After I com­pleted the com­pul­sory 50 hours dri­ving ed, I reg­is­tered for the test.