THE MINISHORTS DILEMMA
No idea what's happening in her life. Kebengangan dalam menemui bahan-bahan yang terus menggunung in front of her eyes, all so many things to do, hao xiang the sky is going to fall on her. Krashen, Krashen! Krashen is a genius but she's more of a genius than him because she thinks its such a blaaaaaaarrrrrrrrddddddddddyyyyyyyy waste of time to pour brain juice over his Comprehensive Input Theory. In efforts to sound scholarly, she looks at her form 1 students and shrieks to the kids "you don't use 'saban hari' when you hold a conversation with a normal friend, do you know that? have you spoken to your friends and said 'saban hari saya membaca surat khabar untuk mengetahui berita dunia'?" They are having such problems having to cope with Bahasa, English and Chinese at the same time and now this stupido maths and science in English nightmare.
What to do, the world is a cruel place, and she feels like crying when coursemates who find out that here's the English Editor who just joined Fajar Bakti starts nagging at her "you guys have to check your books there's so many mistakes you know you have no idea when we set the exam papers and we copy the questions into the papers, then the answers do not tally..."
Hello? You copy the questions from the Fajar Bakti books into the papers? And you don't check the answers? What horrid crap is that? And Minishorts only started working in Fajar Bakti for 3 days, hasn't even started commisioning authors yet, WTF WTF WTF she's just being enthusiastic about having a job at last and here we have teachers who are so lazy they plagiarize revision course questions for final exam papers and coming back to her for mistakes in a book!
"Why didn't you set your own papers?"
"You know lah we need to prove, the parents they are all doctors and engineers and then they come to you and ask you why this wrong, that right, so with the answers from the books at least can prove..."
Minishorts feels like fainting in horror.
Understand lah, you all get paid little do a lot of work, but think about it, time at the office also less, think about it, the world is not very kind to everybody, kononnya your job satisfaction level very high? Not that Minishorts doesn't pity the teachers at all, but having such a conversation with such a teacher gives Minishorts a horrible headache. Don't put blame on Minishorts when its not her fault, or even if it is Minishorts' fault for not checking the books *which were published before she even knew that Fajar Bakti was looking for editors*. My boss is so much smarter than you and the writers who write for us have such atrocious English heck Minishorts bolehlah tulis buku sendiri if only her reputation is good enough. So what if Minishorts mixes up her codes and languages in her blog, you don't really want to see her cuss in a whole lot of *stupid f***ing a**es who you d***headed *a***holes think you are think its fun to dump the blame on the other person* You can choose to make the best out of it. Minishorts hates to say this, but no wonder you have problems gaining respect from parents and teachers alike. Even Minishorts is losing her interest.
If Dr. Ng sees this I think her eyes are going to roll around in their sockets... I'm just venting my frustrations, this is my blog the point of a blog is to write about my feelings about anything in particular. Heh. See I gave her the minishort@urban-flirt address in my AL journal entries and there's just this chance that she will just curiously plunk those keys on the board and visit this *oh so cute* Harry Potter version! Am I overly concerned and rude towards just one coursemate. Yes I was frustrated yes I wanted to hit out at her for attacking me when all I did was 'I can't come so early next week see I'm working ... where? Oh in Shah Alam.... as what? Oh I help out with editing the ELT series at Fajar Bakti..." and then the attacks! Ooooooooh... "of course we use the books to set questions, what you were thinking, this salesmen from all these companies, I tell you its all so commercialised they come and then they give me SOooooooooooo many free boooks what else am I supposed to do with them?"
Minishorts would like to remind the world of the sin of PLAGIARISING and COPYING WORD FOR WORD without REFERENCING, or REFLECTING on the errors of the publication / literature. It is so unscholarly. And what this particular woman has been doing in her examination surely gives a very bad name to teachers.
Why oh why am I blogging so much? So much? When your life just speeds on the tracks you can't get off and you want to put down your thoughts to record before they disappear and then you lose the energy you gained from the momentum. You wanna keep the mind working, working real hard.
Was that like a dilemma? Minishorts doesn't think so.
