Amour Chaleur

Photographs from Forever21.com

I’ve to say this new year started off in the least expected way. I guess some Snarkers like Cherlynn or Chien would know, it is not something I wish to repeat again. My mood has mostly been on the gloomy side the entire week. I managed to cheer myself up by doing some retail therapy and this was what I ordered from Forever21.

Tank tops are my favourites and did I mention the fact that I’m a jacket/sweater collector now? Forever21 has the most gorgeous outerwear! It makes me wish we have winter in Singapore. I haven’t been shopping much other than that and nothing exciting in my life either. School has been busy. I’ve lots of revisions and assignments to catch up before my final mocks in March and I’m trying to squeeze out some time to do my revision. Speaking of which, I think I’ve a low level of tolerance towards school related issues lately.

There’s this particular lecturer that I absolutely cannot stand at all. I just wish he will stop bragging about how good he is. He’s not approachable (and I think that’s an extremely serious problem if you are a teacher), unfriendly and shows a bad attitude to his students. I would describe him as one of the most “insufferable” lecturers I’ve ever came across. When will he ever know that giving the wrong answer doesn’t mean that one is not listening in class? I gave up asking questions in class because he does not answer my question at all. He goes on and on about his own way of solving the question and did not give me a satisfactory reply. I find it a waste of time to post questions in class since I wouldn’t get a reply that answers my question anyway. He’s too persistent on the fact that his way of solving the question is always right.

The fact that he brags about how good his answer and his notes are in every single lesson makes me want to puke. I have to say his notes aren’t one of the greatest. I’ve seen way better notes produce by others but then again, it’s subjective since others may find his notes good. All I wish for is for him to stop showing this “know-it-all-best-lecturer-in-the-world” attitude in class. It’s frustrating for me to see the way he condemns a student because he or she can’t answer one of his questions.

He dislike students talking in his class which is understandable but here’s the problem, he once said “If you are talking about the question, you can ask me. If you are talking about anything else, please get out of the class.”. I understand the latter but why aren’t we allowed to ask the one sitting beside us about the question we are working on if you don’t understand his explanation? I don’t see the point in asking him the question again since like I said, he won’t give us an answer/explanation to our question.

Dear Mr. Lecturer, just in case you don’t know, we are not in the army. We do not have to reply “Yes, sir” loud and clear every time you asked a question. We are not your soldiers and you don’t command me to do anything. You asked a question, we reply (that’s if we wish to) but stop insisting us to reply like we are in the army! Have you ever read the feedback forms we left for you? Maybe you should since I think it will do you good. Having years of experience in the teaching industry doesn’t make you a good lecturer and showing that “I-am-king” attitude in class doesn’t make us respect you either.

To convince myself that I’m still hardworking, I decided to continue the “twitpic of the week” posts. I will be posting a photo collage of what I’ve done over the past week to fill up the “empty days” I didn’t blog about previously. My half mocks will start on 30 November thus I’m trying my best not to procrastinate and start reading the huge pile of notes. I’ve accumulated quite a substantial amount of reading which means I’ll basically be staring at my notes for the next few weeks.

On a very random note, I’ve officially broke my first mug in the bathroom today. I am usually very careful when handling glass but I’m such a blockhead this morning. If you haven’t notice, I’ve also increased the font size on Amour Chaleur because my vision is getting from bad to worse. Bigger text makes reading easier for me and hopefully for you as well.

Anyway, I was a happy user of Snaptu till the application decided to disappear from my INQ mini yesterday. No matter how many times I’ve tried, it refuses to reinstall so I switched to Twim now. I’m going to pray hard it continues to work until I get my iphone (hopefully) next year. Speaking of which my LG Viewty is still alive but I’ve neglected it. It’s sitting quietly in one of my drawers now. I might switch back to my Viewty next month because as much as I dislike touch screen phones, I still missed it.

I put my first illustration of pandas up for sale 3 days ago and I’m glad to announce that it has been sold to dear Hannah. Thanks Hannah for bringing the pandas home. I’m looking forward to what you’ve planned out for them.

On an extremely random note, I applied for a transfer of class from Information System & Organisations to Management Mathematics yesterday. I made the decision during my ISO class. I have absolutely no idea what the lecturer was talking about. The tons of theories are just piling up and killing me. It was a quick process, I just filed up a white form, paid 20 bucks and I rolled right out of the class into another’s. I didn’t roll out literally of course.

Anyway, I’m still looking for more contestants for the Site Glamour Contest. If you’ve a website and are interested to know more friends and get your site recognised, please consider joining the contest. I’m also looking for more topics for the contest discussion, so feel free to drop your suggestions here.