I, Amber Brown.
The past week has been taxing. For the ignorant, I've decided to take up a job offer in my primary school. It doesn't require me to do much, and I'm thankful that I can reserve my brain for more intelligent and meaningful discourses regarding moral values and dick size. But it's been taxing as this is taking out time--precious Runescape time, from my curriculum. How do I make up for it? By playing overnight.
I sleep 5 hours a day now. It's terrible. Work starts at 9, but I wake up at 7 just to rejuvenate myself that out there, in a virtual world, there's a character earning more than $6.50 per hour. And that makes me feel better about myself.
Now I know the importance of education. If you don't study hard now, if you don't have proper certification, you can't get a good job and have a good life without feeling that you're doing stuff and writing reports to make someone else rich.
The staff are nice of course, and my job scope ranges from laminating papers to reading books.
Yes, I'm getting paid to read books, I feel like a professor in literature right now.
That's the only redeeming factor so far. I can't help but feel proud of myself--that I can earn money by reading books. The only reason why they need me to read books is that they require some questions to be set. The teachers can't read the books themselves because they have their own shit to do, so who do they call?
Ghost busters. I'm not complaining, I enjoy reading, even if the content is juvenile, even if it doesn't really make me wonder about life, humans, and their mysteries. I'm content with reading the Percy Jackson series (The Lightning Thief, and The Sea of Monsters). There are also books meant for lower primary students, which I've had the misfortune to browse through, but I guess I can live with it.
In fact, I can't believe what they're making kids go through.
There's this book about "You can't eat your chickenpox, Amber Brown", or something equally stupid. The protagonist, Amber Brown, enjoys starting her statements with "I, Amber Brown", as in
"I, Amber Brown, am one excited kid."
"I, Amber Brown, am down with chickenpox."
"I, Amber Brown, am moist with desire."
(as quoted from the book)
It's infuriating to see this level of narcissism (and possibly some kind of assertion of her own identity, reflecting an innate insecurity of hers), but I guess that's only to be expected, seeing as it is a book for children.
But I digress--that's not the reason why I don't find the book appropriate for kids. The short story was about how this girl, Amber Brown (duh), was trying to patch things up between her parents who are filing for divorce. I'm not very close-minded, but
1) I don't think divorce is something kids can understand, and seeing as the book is probably meant for Primary 2-3 students, I don't think they can understand the rationale behind divorces (besides themselves being irritating sacks of shit). Adding that element is kind of pointless, because they'd either not understand what's going on and why, or
2) they might freak out.
Never mind. I'm more interested in Percy Jackson anyway. Happy Chinese New Year, HUAT AHHH!!!111!!!
I'm not sure if I want to sleep now or not. 5.18AM, my parents will live long.
I, Alastair Lee, am tired.
-- 2/03/2011 04:55:00 AM
