Chinese < English? How about a big fuck you?
I cannot understand why some kids are so stubborn. I cannot imagine what gives them the illusion that not saying sorry when they're in the wrong is an appropriate way of exhibiting pride.
If you did something wrong, you better fucking apologize. If my kid shows me cheek by like...watching porn, I sure as hell would cane him until he is limp and senseless. Kids shouldn't be allowed to watch porn until they're 14. They sure as hell should learn how not to get caught too. If they aren't able to mask their lustful activities, they ought to be caned for good measure.
I just saw for myself a case of sparing the rod and spoiling the child. A cute little female toddler did something wrong (tore some homework or some shit, I don't really know), and her mother told her to apologize to her victim. Her mum didn't even scold her on the spot for vandalism, she simply asked her to do what is only right and reasonable--apologize.
She refused, and just went around doing toddler-ish stuff, trying to digress or act cute or otherwise diverting attention from the fact that she did something wrong and didn't apologize. It was entertaining to see how she was trying to get off the hook so I looked on. After awhile, her mum didn't seem to forget the blood that was owed and asked her, insistently, to apologize.
She refused again. Then she started bawling and crying and sobbing uncontrollably, and eventually she burst a vessel or something and her nose started bleeding and she still refused to apologize. At this point when she was bawling, her parents were trying to placate her with sweets and tidbits and whatnot. It was disturbing. If I did something wrong and refused to apologize, I'd get rewarded with bruised legs and the embarrassment of it when I go to school, not sweets. In fact I'd be rebellious just to get sweets. OK maybe not.
I'm not perfect. I know I do things that piss people off and I apologize when it's my fault and sometimes I apologize even when it's not my fault because sometimes, it's the right thing to do to avoid any sticky/awkward situations. My pride is worth a lot, but it's not right to build it on other peoples' pain. I do stupid stuff all the time. I don't behave in a socially acceptable way most of the time. Like I said, I'm not perfect.
I'm only flawless.
Which I'd attribute to the hell of a childhood I've been through, which consists of being whipped by a variety of objects (from hangers to belts), being thrown like a marble around the house, and death by being suspended over a boiling pot, steamboat style.
This makes me wonder: Would that toddler turn out all right when she grows up? Would she know about EQ, about the importance of apologizing, and when is it appropriate to stand up for herself? Would she be able to tell when to do the right thing?
Is it possible to teach all these without proper caning?
If we were to extrapolate what she's like now to what she'd be like in the future, the future for her is bleak. But who am I to judge?
I came across this and I found it quite interesting. There are other pictures like these around of course, and what's most disturbing is that they are normally posted on pages which have airy-fairy names like "A picture paints a thousand words" or something equally profound. They try their best to stick to posting pictures or photos or whatever, but they normally end up posting a picture...of words. Like the one I'm posting below:
This "picture" doesn't come from an album or page that tries to sell itself as an album/page advocating pictures, but I'm just saying that most do. It's really retarded how they do it. I could come up with thousands of pictures this way by simply framing up certain words and declaring it to a picture. I don't even know how to articulate this properly.
Someone pissed me off too. He posted on Facebook:
A casual study would make the vast disparity in rationality and eloquence between the English- and Chinese-educated obvious, thereby proving the superiority of an English-language education.
Oh really? And what casual study may that be? If he were to write that for any GP paper (which is weird, general paper paper?) he'd probably write out of point and fail because he couldn't substantiate, and if simply declaring that any "casual study" could substantiate his point, I could also say that "This guy is an idiot because the newspapers said so".
Eloquence? What eloquence is he talking about? I went to search on the definition of eloquence and it is basically "the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness." WHICH COMPLETELY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. If I don't understand French, I can't say that French-educated people are not eloquent BECAUSE I DON'T FUCKING UNDERSTAND FRENCH. How the fuck do you even judge "eloquence"? I could say that the French language sucks, and that the French are not eloquent, but it's like I'm saying that chickens are tastier than mammoths BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW DOES A MAMMOTH TASTE LIKE.
If you don't understand a language, or if you only have an elementary grasp of the language, you cannot grasp the nuances of the language and thus find the language ugly. The "picture" I posted above should exemplify how the Chinese language can be eloquent in its own right, especially in point number 4. I'm guessing if I showed him that picture he would catch no ball.
But then again he might be more retarded than I imagined and meant that Chinese-educated people are not eloquent in English as compared to English-educated people. Then I'd pronounce this as "case closed" and move on in life.
But then again maybe this Facebook friend of mine is quite shrewd and took into consideration the fact that the US (a fine example of an English-educated society/government) owes China (a fine example of a Chinese-educated society/government) a lot of money, so much that America's problems becomes China's problem because USA is "too big to fail".
Yep. China is stupid (and thus irrational) for throwing so much money into a bottomless pit.
In other news...
Some random bird shat on me some time back this week, and my friends all around me were quite surprised by my good luck and made no attempt to hide this surprise of theirs. So they told me "whoa you damn lucky". I've heard of the theory of birdshit = luck, and if this is really true, I wish you all the best in your A levels and that's the extent of goodwill I can provide.
-- 11/06/2011 04:51:00 PM