Recent polls have shown that a fifth of the americans cannot locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is? Watch Miss Teen South Carolina answers and fumbles. I think she’s really nervous and it wasn’t easy to come out with an answer that would appease the Americans.
US Americans? Is that what they call themselves in US? I believe our education. (more…)
I took this picture at my cousin’s. He had this really big 3D puzzle that attempts fairly to redraw out Manhattan in 3D. It has the World Trade Center towers and the Empire State. It doesn’t come with a plane, but it comes with a free yellow cab.
(New York stands on top of the world.)
My cousin placed New York on top of the world map, allowing New York to occur most regions of the world. At least South America can still be seen.
Just like my previous post, Stephen Colbert tries to talk himself through. Quite convincing actually. Now I start to not trust Wikipedia that much. I guess it’s a double edge sword - you will have more people contributing your articles, you will also made it easier to put false information into them.
Wikipedia can still be trusted I feel, but don’t quote it that blindly. Always go to the actual source if there is one to verify how true it is. But of course, for normal geography schoolwork, you can always follow blindly. Your geography teacher knows nuts about what you write in your homework. You just need to make it sound convincing. The elephant population has increased in Africa, not because it really did increase, just because some menace is behind his computer typing nonsense into a user-contributed encyclopedia.
I saw Cockroach’s result slips and I was quite jealous of it. He did pretty well in my opinion especially in terms of class ranking. Well, my school results… Let’s just say that they aren’t really the thing I am proud of. My parents weren’t pleased with my results. They (the results of course) kinda sucked.
I wasn’t good in many subject. Take a look at my results and you’ll probably figure that I’m below average.
(My result slip during secondary 4, mid year. Click to enlarge.)
I am consistently lousy in Chinese language. My English is crap even though I’m at position 8 as my reading is the one that saved me - I can’t write English, but I can read them all out to you.
And my geography… I made good pals at the geography remedial class with the 2 fellows who fail too - and guess what - we sit side by side.
I never really undertstood Mathematics, I got good results sometimes and lousy ones on other times. Before I entered secondary 4, my Additional Mathematics’ results was 29/100, that would be a miserable F and I almost got kicked out of the class. Physics and Chemistry was nothing worth mentioning too.
And I brought the same result slip you see back home. Note the positions in my class. I got scolded quite badly and my mother thought - and still think - that I am a bad student. She tells me to do better and play less computer games. I don’t know why she has an impression that I was playing games anyway.
There’s nothing great about my conduct too, my teacher finds everyone okay and give a good remark. In the end, I graduated from secondary 4 with L1R4 score of 12, L1R5 score of 15 and entered a polytechnic which I later didn’t do too well.