Friday, 20 March 2009

• Breathe.

  my mom told me to go down to the dining table to complete some chinese cloze passages, and offered to help me
  with my substandard chinese.
  i have spent 37 minutes checking out the meanings of all 4 options to 3 questions. everytime i ask my mom what a word means she goes "check the dictionary"
  oh yay that helps!!! by helping me you mean ordering me to check the dictionary? whee i didn't know the dictionary existed!!!
  then i got so frustrated with chinese i wondered why i wasn't born and bred in China. saves me a whole lot of trouble since mandarin would be my first language. but no not really i would struggle with english.
  then i check out the meaning of 墨守成规 in the dictionary and i don't understand the meaning given.
  so i asked my mother about it again and she said "read it out"
  so i read. and i asked her for the meaning.
  "well, does it mean ....?" (tinge of annoyance in her voice)
  "if i knew i wouldn't be asking you"
  "but i don't understand what you just read to me"
  okay, i'm sorry.forget it. i resorted to checking the english-chinese dictionary and it says "hidebound by convention"
  what on earth. why must they use such profound english?
  yea i get that hidebound = conservative/narrow....inflexible?
  and convention = 1. agreement/contract... 2. rule? 3. meeting?
  maybe i should just take my pick and come up with my own definition of the.....what. proverb? phrase? o.O Narrow meeting!!
  how am i supposed to know! i'm sorry for being so asinine and useless. oh gosh this is such a torture. i need my A1 for Chinese Os.
  i've given up asking my mom. she's all like "can't you see i'm baking! why are you asking me now!"
  so much for asking. ok if you're baking why did u get me to come down!
  i still have no idea what 墨守成规 means. oh geez. 
  doesn't help that my house has ALOT of distractions. including my mom's blending machine that's whirring.

  p/s: hoodstars is so gay. i might switch:P

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