Thursday, March 15, 2007
toilets and tuition
I survived my first day of tuition!
The mother asked no questions and the child followed everything i said.
Granted that the child just scrapped through his CA1, i believe that he wants to study and will work hard!
And to think that i was so nervous that when i got to the block 20 minutes earlier than the stipulated timing, i didn't dare go up. Instead, i sat at the void deck, intending to wait at least 10 more minutes.
It was then that i felt my stomach cramping and i knew i had to find a toilet stat!
I didn't want to use the student's toilet because i felt that it would be weird, so i half-ran to the nearby petrol station, and luckily for me there was a toilet there.
I had a sense of foreboding when i saw the toilet paper vending machine thing outside the toilet, but ducked into the toilet after making sure no one was watching.
It's very paiseh you know, being spotted going into the toilet of a petrol station.
You know what's more paiseh than that?
Being spotted going into the toilet of a petrol station with the intention to shit.
And that's what happened.
My sense of foreboding came true. There wasn't any toilet paper on the roll!
I thought i could dart out of the toilet to dong in a 10-cent coin, and duck back in real quick without being spotted but noooo, a couple of malay dudes decided to walk right across my path.
At first they didn't see me, and i thought, "ok, maybe i can quietly take the toilet paper and go back in so they won't see me," but oh, the machine made a sound so loud that it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand.
I turned around and the malay dudes were already looking over and laughing at me!
I felt humiliation to the extreme ok!
Can you imagine me trying to look inconspicuous while waiting for the machine to spit out a meagre length of toilet paper?
Alamak!
Labels: shit, teaching, tuition
Thursday, February 08, 2007
hossan and homosexuals
What a provocative title eh, and no, the two are not connected.
Anyway, it's late and i'm bushed.
Blog again!
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Went to watch another play with the gang on Wednesday.
This time, it was Multiple Personalities Disorder!, a one man show by Hossan Leong.
The ratio of the number of plays versus the number of movies i watched this year is now 2:0.
Back to the play, it wasn't as fabulous as Chestnuts, but it was quite enjoyable nonetheless. I know it's been said to death, but it's true that the funniest bits were the ones when he was himself, bitching about this and that.
The parts where he played someone else at best induced a chuckle out of me. Others were plain unfunny. But then again, he's a multi-talented actor/singer/comedian, and people will flock to see his show.
We sure did.
I aspire to have my own show someday, where i just talk rubbish like i always do and people will laugh, even though it might be a little bit rude. But then again i'm not multi-talented, so people might not flock.
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I read on the newspapers, also on Wednesday that there's been a new breakthrough in the study of why homosexuals exist.
The article debunks the belief that being gay is by choice and claims that homosexuality is biological. Scientists study rams and found that significant portions of the group were either asexual, bisexual or homosexual.
This could mean that while Jack and Ennis were going at it brokebackedly in their tents, outside, the rams were having a romp too.
In case you don't know, rams are male sheep.
The article's quite interesting, highlighting not only the scientific breakthroughs, but also those in the social point of view. They question whether society would easier accept gays if they come to accept that it's not a perverse sexual preference, but just an additional sexual orientation.
Eh. So chim.
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I've been hard at work sending my resumes to whatever japalang schools i could find that's remotely situated around my area.
I hope i didn't sound too desperate. But my sentbox looks damn desperate.
If i don't get replies soon, i'm gonna send another batch of those emails out to schools further away from me.
But i realise that even if i get a relief teaching stint, i'll be jobless during the June holidays!
Anyone have any good lobangs?
