When i was young (like single digit YOUng..in Primary school) , i was as pesty and irritating ,just like the current Me . (Just picture a much smaller size Me, short hair and Red hairband .) I guess my teachers were always rather preoccupied with me , more than the rest of the students in class . As usual , im always the one asking lots of "peculiar" questions that one may selom hear from a kid or any kid in that case . Ok in order to let you get a better idea..Reminising~->

MAny years ago , during a science lesson when Jolyn was in Pri 4, class : 4/3

Teacher(forgot her name liao) : So class..the reason why flowers are colourful is because they want to attract bees . For the pollen ..*blah blah...helps the plants spread the seeds...*blah..
JOlyn: (raising her hands up high waving impatiently and before the teacher could call upon her ..Jolyn decided to just ask her question out loud ) Huhz?? CHER i don't understand! How do you know bees are attracted to flowers because of their attractive colours?? Scientist can talk to the bees meh?? Then what if flowers are plain yellow or yucky green then no bees will go and suck the pollen ar??

Teacher : ????? Eh...because the scientists have done many experiments on bees and flowers and they realised that flowers with more attractive colours attract more bees . Thats how they come to this conclusion .
Jolyn : Just because of this experiment?? (unconvienced) But..just because the results telly with the scientist's objective does'nt really mean that it is because of that what .(ok i don't know what simpler word i used for "telly" but its the same meaning .) Maybe colourful flowers have nicer smell??
-The rest of my classmates got confused by my sudden outburst and my "weird" questions . They starts to stare at the teacher and at each other . Suddenly, every child who was nodding vigorously when the teacher was teaching just now , seems to have second doubts . Teacher upon seeing this , got rather frantic and decided to get my questions over and done with -ASAP .

Teacher : (teacher was at this point of time rather exsperated with my endless streams of nonsensical questions. ) Its in the textbook , so it must be correct . Next time if u become a scientist then you tell me otherwise okay? Ok class lets carry on .
Jolyn : ??? (Jolyn was extremely unsatisfied by this patronising answer but she was used to teacher being irritated by her peculiar questions hence she let it go but continued to mumble to herself ) But...the scientists don't know how the bees really think what ? How can they be so sure it's because of the colour? Just because of this experiment? My grandmother can do lots more experiments to prove many other theories ar . ( haha ..the grandmother part was fabricated )
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remember the time when we used to have "journals" for us to write anything we want , on an excerise book? I remember that on one particular entry , my form teacher was so amused by it that she read it aloud to the class and said that it was the 1st time a student have written something so true but yet insignificant , all in a funny way . (When i was writing that entry , i was full of anger and was upset at the "adults" hence it was'nt meant to be a funny entry ..i wonder why she thought so . ) It goes something like this..

Today , i got caught for talking to my partner in class again .(excuse for this kiddish language as i have to write this as close to that entry as possible..hence do not think that im trying to act cute. And yes since young im already this talkative hahaha) Becouse teacher says cant talk in class as she is teaching . But i want to ask Peishi for the answer to the math question , i don't know how to do. I know if i ask teacher i would be scolding by her because she just teach that in class then she will say i never listen . BUT I DID! i just forgot . Teachers very funny..they say in class cannot talk but then don't want to answer my question . And want to scold me when i ask my friend becouse i talk. Then how? Teachers aslo say cannot talk when your mouth is full therefore during recess we cannot talk aslo , becouse it is considered impolite . Anyway , recess time so short , so many people , by the time buy food liao , no time to eat. Where got time to talk to my classmates? If got time we go play zero point liao lo. Then after school ends , everybody go home liao . Whole day in class , teachers don't want to let us talk , then we call each other lor. Must act as if im asking questions about schoolwork , if not my mother will not let me use the phone . Talk on the phone for awhile then my father always scold me aslo..say we always see each other in school , why come home still must chat to our friends? (I knew that i was not the only kid getting this sort of "scoldings" from parents as i have heard similar complaints from my friends before hahah) But the truth is not that ! Teacher says cannot talk at home , we cant talk properly during recess and at home aslo cannot . Teacher thought we can chat at home , parents thought we chat in school .Then when can we talk and not get scoldings??

(Really sorry for the many expressional errors that you have seen .And as you have just withnessed , Singlish is innate in me since i was young i guess..it just comes naturally . hahahhaha )
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Till now i find that entry rather true , a perspective that remains till today.
My childhood in Jurong Town Primary must have been a torturous experience for many teachers who have once taught me . Thats why they say teaching should be a highly respected vocation .To whom who stated that , i salute You . With students like me , thats why Panadol has high profit margins yearly and is still increasing . hahaha..On the other hand , this does'nt mean whatever i mentioned above was simply "kiddo's thoughts" , because till now i still agree with those perspectives , in a less amaturish thoughts though(which is more mature way of thinking lah) . So were you like this in the past? Can you identify yourself in any of these scenerios or viewpoint? Or rather how was your childhood? Care to share ? :)
6:34 PM