just minishorts.

Don't mind me but at the weekend as usual, I'm not usually free to log on to the Net and crap. And besides I'm less sexually frustrated dissed off at work to be so bitchy and feel like blogging to release tension… so I bid you off first.

There is something I wrote at the Bloggers Are Morons site. I want you to go there and read it. Here's an excerpt, just in case.

I think we would have experienced this at least once in our lifetime.
You know. The one where you’re having a meal at the roadside mamak, and a guy comes up to you with a book, saying that he’s from some charity, asking you to contribute to ease the lives of the least fortunate.
And you feel annoyed. In your mind you think, ‘I’m trying to eat something here. I’m just about to dig into this plate of maggi mee goreng, and this bugger just won’t go off.’

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Try to remember this: I'm not asking you to part with your money.

It's the weekend. Somewhere along the way an intelligent person, well, more intelligent than me, so she says, said that philanthropy is best kept to oneself. Now I agree with that. No one needs to know when you're contributing some cash, or kind, or a good thought towards someone else, in society.

So this is what I'm telling you. Seriously, you don't have to care about the Hospice-At-Home programme. I'm thinking, not everyone wants to part with money, and of course, its also quite 'ma-fan' to donate to the blogathon cause, what with all the hassle.

Well it's ok. If you wish us well, it counts. You don't have to love me to support me you know. If you hate me it's still ok to support me. The point is, if you just, sign up and pledge, you should want to do it for yourself.

If you think you can't contribute in cash, well fret not. Like look around? I don't know. Recycle, reuse… give a smile to the stranger you've just met, pick up a stray kitten on the road, help the blind man cross the road.

But if you can contribute, in cash if you don't mind, well, why must you keep all that money to yourself yeah? USD 10 is only about RM37 only nowadays. It isn't much, but it can make helluva difference.

Am working yes I am. But I keep seeing this all over one of the chapters and excuse me but maybe being 20-something, all screwed up and all that has messed up my mind. But here is what I'm dealing with at work now:

This particular chapter aims to teach children how to pronounce words that start with the initial 'b' sound and how to spell the numbers 1-5 in their word forms. The content provides the following rubric (instruction in teaching terms):

Read a story about Ben and learn the following words, phrases and simple sentences:
boy, Ben, books, balls, bananas, Ben and bananas, Ben is in bed

I'm not sure how the word 'bananas' got into the picture. Ideally in an introductory chapter, children should not be given a polysyllabic word that sticks out like a sore thumb amongst its monosyllabic friends. 'boy', 'books', 'balls' and 'bananas'. Where on earth did 'bananas' come from?

There's a song for singing at one of the chapter.

One book, two books, three books, four.
One ball, two balls, three balls, four.
One banana, two bananas, three bananas, four.

OK this isn't nearly as bad. In part of the chapter there's this other section about questions and answers and a few new words are introduced to the child. The Teacher's Guide provides help to teachers and this is what part of it says:

Encourage pupils to respond to questions. Examples:
Ben has two balls in his box. How many balls does Ben have in his box?
Why is Ben looking at the bananas?
Did Ben eat the bananas?

The Activity sheet looks quite dodgy too. Check this out.

Listen and repeat the following.
Ben and his ball.
Ben kicks his ball.
Up, up, up.
Down, down, down.
Ben kicks the ball
Up, up, up.
It is in the tree.
Ben kicks the ball.
Up, up, up.
Down, down, down.
Ben kicks the ball.
Down, down, down.
It is in the box.

OK. That, my friends, is what I do at work. Read things like that.