Saturday, September 27, 2008

WEALTH(Money aint a thing...??)

One thing that i have learnt in life is that life is tough without money.Many people refer to it in many different ways;Paper,cheddar,the green leaf...e.t.c but no matter how you refer to it,never believe anyone who tells you money is nothing or as we like to put it in slang "money aint a thing."That phrase is just a bunch of lies coming from broke people trying to make themself's feel better.I for example used to have a lot of money not very long ago.My parents had long lectured me to spend my allowance wisely when i arrive here in Malaysia.All Batswana students studying here in Malaysia were given around P19000(roughly around RM9000) as there allowance t0 carry them for three months.Yes the money looks like it would last a lifetime when you look at it in writing but wait until your first withdrawal from the A.T.M...!!You will ask yourself wether you ever had RM9000 in your account or wether the bank is swindling you!The money will start flying off the tip of your fingers in ways i cannot describe.Every day a bus picks us up from where we stay and takes us to the mall,at around 18:30pm and on almost each of those days i'd make sure i left with that bus.When i passed by a store and saw something i liked i wouldn't even hesitate for a second,i bought!I bought everything from clothes to tech-gizmos and when i was done with my shopping i'd end it off with a meal from mcdonalds.For about three weeks i didn't even buy food to cook at home.I'd have a take away away for breakfast,lunch and supper.When i saw my friends making their groceries and buying gas so they could start cooking at their houses i'd just think to myself "i don't need to do that!I got money!Where has all that money gone right now?Going to the mall is now my worst nightmare!Right now i have less than a quater of the original money we were given yet we have like two more months before we can start being given our allowance on a monthly basis.If i managed to extinguish more than three quaters of my allowance in like three weeks,how the hell am i going to survive on the remaining one quater for two months!I don't even want to face an ATM right now.I got to watch every single RM1 in my wallet.People,money is a thing and life's tough without it,believe me!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

my english experience

I have always liked English since primary school,from the teachers to the subject itself.Even my results showed that i had a passion for the subject.Things only started to change course when i started junior school.The teacher wasn't that bad,just that her style of teaching was very boring to the extent that you would just fall asleep before she even proceeded with her schedule for the day.But nevertheless i still managed to get good grades come the final exam.All along i had though my junior school teacher was boring but little did i know what senior school had in store for me.The first few introductory lessons were not that bad,with her passing jokes every now and then during the lessons.We wrote tests every month which were used to judge wether a student really understood what was being said in class or they were just pretending.We did fine for the first few months but things started to change course during the most crutial hour of our senior time.Her teaching style just started to bore us.She was teaching us like she was teaching a primary student,i mean,even a toddler wouldn't laugh to the jokes she passed in class.Even though our marks started to drop badly,no light showed her that maybe something was wrong with her teaching,she just proceeded with it.Every time i looked at the timetable and saw that English was there i would just get turned off.I lost interest to the extent i did't even care anymore wether i failed anymore.When the monthly results came and i had failed i would just fold up the paper and throw it away.That was the end of me as far as English was concerned,my marks kept going up and down.Even though i credited it in my final BGSE exam,it was not the grades i had wanted to earn.If my primary school teacher had seen them she would have been so disappointed in me.