Last week, I bought 3 new fishes from Qian Hu Fish Farm. The picture shows one of them in the quarintine tank. Please see if you can identify the type of fish this is.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Monday, 9 February 2009
Interviewer: Good Morning, Miss Kinnian.
Miss Kinnian: Good Morning.
Interviewer: Being the former teacher of Charlie Gordon, how do you feel about Charlie before the operation?
Miss Kinnian: Charlie used to have a good nature, was interested to learn and was eager to please others. Charlie was a sociable person who liked to be with friends. When I first saw him, I was surprised how he managed to find my learning school all by himself. I found out later that it was due to his motivation to learn to read and spell and to be smart. Charlie asked many people where he could go to learn. I was very happy to have him as he showed genuine interest and tried very hard. I was unsure if he should take the operation in the first place as I thought that Charlie would stop communicating with others and that he would change to a anti-social man.
Interviewer: How did you feel about Charlie after the operation, during the first few weeks?
Miss Kinnian: Good Morning.
Interviewer: Being the former teacher of Charlie Gordon, how do you feel about Charlie before the operation?
Miss Kinnian: Charlie used to have a good nature, was interested to learn and was eager to please others. Charlie was a sociable person who liked to be with friends. When I first saw him, I was surprised how he managed to find my learning school all by himself. I found out later that it was due to his motivation to learn to read and spell and to be smart. Charlie asked many people where he could go to learn. I was very happy to have him as he showed genuine interest and tried very hard. I was unsure if he should take the operation in the first place as I thought that Charlie would stop communicating with others and that he would change to a anti-social man.
Interviewer: How did you feel about Charlie after the operation, during the first few weeks?
Miss Kinnian: After the operation, I got to coach Charlie personally. During the first few weeks, I learned a lot more about Charlie and felt happy that he was given this opportunity to prove himself. I felt a lot of pity for him as he was bullied by his so-called friends and yet he still treats them so well, not understanding that they wanted him around to make fun of him, due to his trusting nature. Charlie also behaved very nicely to me and it was nice to be able to talk to him as an equal. I was sorry that somebody with such a good heart would be manipulated by the society so that they could laugh and make fun of him. Charlie was stilll good-natured then, and could communicate well with me.
Interviewer: How do you feel about the Charlie-Algernonn experiment as a whole?
Miss Kinnian: I do not think that it was successful. As Charlie got more intelligent, Charlie treated me less nicely and could not communicate well. All Charlie did most of the time acquire more knowledge to benefit himself. Soon, by looking at his progress reports, I could see that Charlie was getting more proud and arrogant. I felt very sorry for Charlie as he could not communicate. When he started his mental degression, he made me feel bad when he asked me to go away. I think that Charlie felt very bad about his mental regression as I heard from Miss Flynn, his landlady, that he was very violent in his room and refused to go to work. Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur had also stopped giving Charlie his salary after seeing that the experiment was a failure. It made me feel bad on how they treated Charlie like an animal instead of a human being. If Charlie had not gone through the operation, he would not have to be hurt this way.
Interviewer: Thank you for your time, Miss Kinnian.
Miss Kinnian: It was a pleasure to meet you.
Interviewer: Same to you.
Saturday, 7 February 2009
The Taximan's Story
1. The main irony in the story is that the taximan is against the way the younger generation who get tourists as their boyfriends for money and for love, when he makes money from them. The taximan makes a lot of money out of these girls and tourists for his daughter to get into university, and yet the daughter was actually like the people he made money from.
2. The themes raised from the story were love, disobedience and discipline. The taximan was very happy that the daughter managed to get good grades in school and was prepared to send her to university as he loved her very much. However, the daughter disobeyed her father and went with her friends to befriend tourists and stay back to make love. The father felt that he did not discipline the daughter well, like his father who disciplined him by caning. The taximan beat up the daughter in his anger and locked her up in her room for three days as he was ashamed of his daughter. The taximan wants to provide for his daughter but the daughter wants to have fun instead of studying hard.
3. Yes, as many other teenagers are behaving this way as well. The taximan drove many people like his daughter around to hotels, and thus the story is believable. Also, the taximan was not very educated and the grades may have been forged by the daughter to trick her father into thinking that she scored very well. The taximan also knows of many other kids who behave that way.
4. The taximan is a person who cares alot of his own family. This can be seen through how he works to get money to support the family. The taximan even drives people round and round and charge them by the meter so that he can earn extra money. However, when people bargain with him, he gets angry, as he has less money to support his family with. I feel sympathy for the taximan, as he has to work so hard everyday to earn a bit of money so that his daughter can go to university . However, his daughter refused to work and instead disobeyed him.
5. Yes, as many teenagers nowadays behave like that. His daughter should not have cared only for fun and should have put herself in the shoes of her father, who worked so hard so that she could go to a university. She could have instead tried to study hard and persuade her friends to stop their ways and try to study hard as well.
6. I feel sympathy for the other girls that boarded the taxi, who gave the taximan a lot of money they earned from their boyfriends. They were throwing their lives away and as their parents were not aware of what they were doing, they did not intervene. The taximan should have not drove them to their destinations and instead asked them to go back home, instead of taking advantage of their money. They might not be able to make a living in the future because of that.
2. The themes raised from the story were love, disobedience and discipline. The taximan was very happy that the daughter managed to get good grades in school and was prepared to send her to university as he loved her very much. However, the daughter disobeyed her father and went with her friends to befriend tourists and stay back to make love. The father felt that he did not discipline the daughter well, like his father who disciplined him by caning. The taximan beat up the daughter in his anger and locked her up in her room for three days as he was ashamed of his daughter. The taximan wants to provide for his daughter but the daughter wants to have fun instead of studying hard.
3. Yes, as many other teenagers are behaving this way as well. The taximan drove many people like his daughter around to hotels, and thus the story is believable. Also, the taximan was not very educated and the grades may have been forged by the daughter to trick her father into thinking that she scored very well. The taximan also knows of many other kids who behave that way.
4. The taximan is a person who cares alot of his own family. This can be seen through how he works to get money to support the family. The taximan even drives people round and round and charge them by the meter so that he can earn extra money. However, when people bargain with him, he gets angry, as he has less money to support his family with. I feel sympathy for the taximan, as he has to work so hard everyday to earn a bit of money so that his daughter can go to university . However, his daughter refused to work and instead disobeyed him.
5. Yes, as many teenagers nowadays behave like that. His daughter should not have cared only for fun and should have put herself in the shoes of her father, who worked so hard so that she could go to a university. She could have instead tried to study hard and persuade her friends to stop their ways and try to study hard as well.
6. I feel sympathy for the other girls that boarded the taxi, who gave the taximan a lot of money they earned from their boyfriends. They were throwing their lives away and as their parents were not aware of what they were doing, they did not intervene. The taximan should have not drove them to their destinations and instead asked them to go back home, instead of taking advantage of their money. They might not be able to make a living in the future because of that.
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