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This video is hilarious, it would be good if you can understand what they are talking, but even if you can’t it’s still very funny.

Talking with a friend of mine (via emails) about the mad Korean who killed 33 people in a US university reminded me my own unhappy memories during my school time in China, although my experience shares little resemblance with that Korean as they mainly come from unfair treatments I had from mad teachers.

In China, some teachers have little respect for their students, it’s not uncommon for certain teachers to verbally abuse and physically punished their students for their ‘bad behaviours’. What even worse is that some parents actually support this unfair treatment of their kids, they think that kids should be punished like that so that they will learn from it. Obviously, I was often a target of mad teachers because I was never a conventionally good student and was very naughty sometimes. I’ll give an example to illustrate why I resented certain teachers so much.

When I was 13 years old we had a group physical exercise competition between classes in my school (it was a strange thing anyway). Because I couldn’t perform the physical exercise well, I was picked out along with another student by a mad female teacher to not participate in the competition for the class. She called me ‘deficient by nurture’ in front of the whole class of around 50 pupils after she announced that I was not going to represent the class. Apparently the other guy was called ‘deficient by nature’ by this mad teacher as he’s seriously overweight, and thus could not move his body elegantly. But because I looked completely normal she assumed it must be a result of nurture without knowing bad body coordination and bad memory at remembering movements can also come from nature. On one other occasion, she also described me as ‘a turtle showed up when the well became dry’, I couldn’t not believe she could say something so offensive, I would have probably killed her if I had a gun.

My animation skills have significantly improved since my last post on my fish animation. The above animation is one I’ve just made in class.

A guy made some funny cartoons about babies, above is one of his cartoons. It’s interesting to find something like this in the evening…

Today, in our class we were taught to do a simple animation. This animation (the picture above) is supposed to have a fish swimming pass the trees with bubbles floating upwards in the water. But unfortunately I made a mistake with the fish in the beginning, and ended up with the trees passing the fish instead and also my bubbles are not floating but jumping! I felt embarrassed that I made something like this in front of other classmates.

I’ve often noticed people in various tube stations trying to sell their used day travel card after they finished their journey, I thought it’s a clever and easy way to recoup some travel expense. So, today, after I finished my train journey and checked out, I looked around at the entrance of Stratford tube station and noticed a small Indian man standing next to a ticketing machine, I thought he looked like someone would want to buy my travel card. So, I decided to try my luck for the first time, I approached him and asked if he wants to buy my card for 3 pounds, but he looked a bit astounded after hearing what I said, told me that he actually works for the station and I should not be doing that, I was then a bit embarrassed and said to him to not worry too much and left. This is definitely not the first time this kind of stupid things happen to me. It’s really annoying that so many other people doing this sort of things can always get away with it, but whenever I try to do it silly things would happen.