Friday, September 29, 2006
Well, I've just escaped madness..the hour of the day that is dedicated to Gre preparation. The Chinese have 4 tutors, 2 Indians, 1 Singaporean and 1 American. Poor them, they are subject to so many different pronounciations! The other day we were teaching them the meaning of the word "Mnemonic". As it turned out the American way of pronouncing the word translates directly to "MotherF~#$%r" in chinese. That's one word they ain't gonna forget easily!
The white board is famous for it's "Gre Corner" and "Quotes of the Day"-2 of them. The Quotes are generally one genuine one, courtesy some famous person, and another, a spin, on the serious one. To Exemplify:
Original:"I was born intelligent, but education ruined me"-GBShaw.
Courtesy H C Tan: "I was born with common sense, but Micro economics ruined me"
Now that I'm down to writing, let me write a little more. I've spent a good amount of the day perfecting my alphabets, including the greek one's. In economics, we deal with a lot of variable. Once we've exhausted all the usable capital letters of English and the greek, we then start using the small. The small letters are generally used to denote per capita figures..
So today, I was finding ways to differentiate between the Capital and the small letters. I managed for all, except for good ol' "C". If I play around with it a little like giving it a dot or a tail, it either looks "greek" , or it seems like I'm denoting the rate of growth..God I'm babbling such nonsense..
On that insignificant note..I'll end. Exam on Monday..Wish me luck!
The white board is famous for it's "Gre Corner" and "Quotes of the Day"-2 of them. The Quotes are generally one genuine one, courtesy some famous person, and another, a spin, on the serious one. To Exemplify:
Original:"I was born intelligent, but education ruined me"-GBShaw.
Courtesy H C Tan: "I was born with common sense, but Micro economics ruined me"
Now that I'm down to writing, let me write a little more. I've spent a good amount of the day perfecting my alphabets, including the greek one's. In economics, we deal with a lot of variable. Once we've exhausted all the usable capital letters of English and the greek, we then start using the small. The small letters are generally used to denote per capita figures..
So today, I was finding ways to differentiate between the Capital and the small letters. I managed for all, except for good ol' "C". If I play around with it a little like giving it a dot or a tail, it either looks "greek" , or it seems like I'm denoting the rate of growth..God I'm babbling such nonsense..
On that insignificant note..I'll end. Exam on Monday..Wish me luck!
# posted by qq @ 5:43 AM 
