2 conversations

Last overheard conversation:
2 aunties on bicycles at a traffic junction just outside the whopping big new national library

(translated from chinese)
auntie 1: wah look at the new library.
auntie 2: they built it according to fengshui you know.
auntie 1: they make it so easy like that. see drawing already can build.
auntie 2: aiyah if you study before very easy to build what.
auntie 1: ya. right right. like sew clothes like that. i study drawing and i can make the clothes and people think very difficult.

heehee. charming.
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Last funny story heard:
GPteacher teaching students from top 5 JC.

teacher: blahblahblah middle east fighting over oil blahblah arab-israel etcetc.
students: (blank look)
teacher: (jesting) you know what is oil right?
students: (sheepish looks)
teacher: you know where oil comes from right?
students: (blank)
teacher: um....you know, fossil fuels?
students: (blank)
teacher: it comes from dinosaurs. grarrr roooooarrrrw.
student: (shock) you mean dinosaurs are real?
teacher: (hiding shock) er.....ya.
student: (dismay) when i watched Land Before Time they were cartoons...I did not know they were real.
teacher: um... let me tell you about the Ice Age, and how the comets came down and killed the dinos.
student: (scribbling earnestly) wait wait...how do you spell comet?

cLAPclapclap. the wonders of our education system. :)