Friday, March 26

Priority Given: How do you interpret this sign?

As we take public transport, there is always a sign to remind passengers to offer seats for those incapable, with children, pregnant, and old. Such that in Japan:


Give your seat for:
1. Person with injured arm.
2. Person holding a child.
3. Pregnant women.
4. Person with injured leg.

This is certainly a hoax. Thanks to the person with such creativity and share the laughter!
Old joke, yet to amused me.


Cheers for the day!

Tuesday, March 16

Alice in Wonderland 2010

Alice's adventure in Wonderland, novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1865, is all about story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.

After 145 years, Alice has grown up as 19 years old young lady and return to the magic world again -- Alice in Wonderland 2010.

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is the daughter of Charles Kingsleigh, a wealthy man who planned to find profitable shipping routes through the world in the 19th century. At her age of 19, her father passed away, while she is in the middle of junction...feeling trapped in a world of proper etiquette...
Alice is taken to a garden party, where it is hoped that she will accept a marriage proposal from Hamish, the son of one of her father's business partners. However, Alice soon grows distracted seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat nearby, and rushes after the strange creature...and she enter the world of wonderland again...that she thought all were only her dream as her father told her so...

Returns to the wonderland but the Red Queen has taken over, banishing the White Queen to her own domain, and taking her vorpal sword. Alice has her destiny to end the Red Queen's reign of terror...
Alice turn out to be warrior and killed the big giant dragon...so the White Queen get back the dynasty of wonderland...Alice return to the real world and she finally decide not to marry Hamish, and continue with her father mission shipping to China.
Full synopsis

I was watching 3D version. The creature is nice...art work is good...but the story plot is rather unsatisfactory... Alice was a cute girl, the wonderland should be more wonderful with magic and spell... but there were only "Drink me" and "Eat me" that turned Alice small, big and then again small and big only... The weird creatures in wonderland mostly were English speaking animals and human that in variety of outlook, such as cute fat boys, thick eye brown white queen, short and big head red queen, etc... Only the smiling cat I like the most, with its special ability to turn into smoke, disappear and flying in sky..

I prefer the original version of little Alice in wonderland, at least with little fun time and enjoyment in the wonderland...and I feel that its weird in a fairy tale that cute girl become warrior to bodily fight with giant dragon...

Saturday, March 13

Loser

Recently, news from Buncombe County, North Carolina, a mother complaint that teacher bullied her daughter by humiliate the little girl (about 12 years old) with "Loser" marking on her assignment.

When this has become news to the public, people are discussing about it everywhere...some say that the real loser is the teacher..teacher shall be fired..poor kids...while some but less standing at the point of the teacher, this may be an overacting mother...

 
Well, first possibility is that this teacher may be crazy and good for nothing but to bully and humiliate a little girl.. Second, teacher may trying to do his job right, but the attempt may sounds inappropriate for the mother. Teacher writing a "loser" and underlined twice, may shown that he was so mad or disappointed with the student. Teacher teaching the knowledge to student and how far does student absorb and apply in the exam also indicate how successful a teacher is. Bad result of the girl may be due to her bad attitude in learning, and thus the teacher may try to push her harder by using harder "words".

Nevertheless, not every parents can accept the way how teacher teach their children.. just as not everyone agree to a policy.. over protected child can never growth.. let them face their challenge themselves... instead of using your power as parents.."teach" the teacher how to be teacher?? But what will happen next? Even the teacher suspended, the children are the loser still.."I can ask my mom to teach you how to teach me, sir!"

Teacher and parents shall stand together.. communicate and respect each other.. for good of child.. and our community..