Exhale

A cat brought a packet of Nasi Lemak into our PES and started eating there. Now there's rice and chilli all over the ground :|

Amaths. Mrs Gek started on Relative Velocity with the class. I think the whole point of Amaths is to thrust ridiculous theories and formulas to the student and try to make it appear logical by representing it with a nice equation. And of course the latter will always consist of a lot of alphabets and weird symbols which look like chinese characters.

Comprehending the incomprehensible becomes much harder when your teacher has a slight problem articulating :| [but she's a great teacher aside from that]

Amaths was brought to the land, sea and sky today.

First Mrs Gek tried to explain the theory using the example of people walking and running on conveyor belts

Pea: ...SO WHERE THE HELL IS THE GUY RUNNING TO??

Then it failed so she used the example of boats in still water.

[Oh. Apparently still water has "speed" too. At least... that's what I think I heard.]

Anjali: But that water is different from the other water!
Mrs Gek: *looking confused herself* No! Its all the same water! Just accept this!
Anjali: *howling* I can't accept it!!...JEANNE STOP LAUGHING.

Then she used the example of airplanes and air speed.

[Apparently still air has "speed" too. o.O]

I think in the end Gwen read the textbook and finally understood.

Gwen: *to Pea* "The trick when it comes to understanding Amaths...is not to listen to Mrs Gek....come let me teach you."

Fatimah and Yueyou started shouting across the classroom: "Jean don't you feel blessed that you don't take Amaths??"

Yes indeed.

posted by Jeanne @ 12:35 AM