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“I am a very shy girl, but today I danced in front of everybody.”
When I was in middle school, you couldn’t have forced me to dance in front of any crowd (more than three people) even if you offered me a lifetime supply of magical …
Newer: Mid-Autumn Festival →
Last week was the Mid-Autumn Festival, where Chinese folks eat mooncakes, light stuff on fire (see above: a floating lantern about to be released), and take an obligatory glance or two at the full moon.
One of the teachers at my school invited Charlie and I …
Malaysian Knowledge
See the picture above? Those are all exam prep books, which consist of ~100% of the bookstore’s books.
In my town of 160,000, there’s not a single bookstore with more than three shelves of non-exam-based books. And I have yet to discover a single quality typo-less grammar book. The latest:
No wonder the lion’s share of my students don’t read for pleasure. It’s a bit hard to be enraptured by the latest version of the Form 3 PMR practise test workbook on a lazy Sunday morning.
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