The World of Tai Tai

It was Customer Day again. Many parents accompanied their children to collect their result slips at school. From 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., the teachers issued result slips to the parents of Secondary One, Two, Four and Five students. As for the parents of Secondary Three students, they were required to attend a briefing by the principal in the school hall from 8.30 a.m to 9.30 a.m. The purpose of the briefing was to keep the parents up to date with the latest school issues. They would collect their children’s result slips from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. During the briefing, I was shocked to hear that a female student had used her mobile phone to take a naked photograph of herself. Naïve and unsuspecting, she had sent the photograph to her boyfriend as a sign of love. The boy, who was also her classmate, had been thrilled by the photograph and, out of recklessness, had circulated it among his friends. The photograph had then gone viral, and by the...

The class is called Three Dilligence. But almost all the students are not hard working. When I am teaching, their hum of conversation overwhelms my voice.  No matter how many times I tell them to be quiet, they ignore me by speaking several octaves louder. PT3 is drawing near, and to address their problem in writing, I give them a lot of grammar-consolidation lessons. However, my efforts are futile because they are bent on not doing anything in my lessons.  My dignity falls into pieces on the floor, and they trample on them with reckless disregard for what I feel. Yesterday, the students made a lot of noise while sitting an examination. I could not contain my anger and stormed out of their classroom, seeking help from the principal. "Were they really noisy?" asked the Principal. "Yes," I said through clenched teeth. " They kept on shouting profanities to each other." "Okay, return to your class," said the principal. "I...

I bought many books recently. (Top)Books ordered from Amazon.com, US: Manchild In The Promised Land, Night Trilogy, Hiroshima, The Satanic Verses. (Bottom Left) Books ordered from Book Depository, UK: The Painted Veil, Under The Volcano, Slaughterhouse-Five (Bottom Right) Books bought at Popular bookstore, Bell's Bookstore and Union Bookstore:Dragon Bone, Saving Fish from Drowning, Twin Flower, The Girl You Left and The Goldfinch.                                      

                                       Do you think the setting of the story you have read helps to make the novel more interesting?                            In my opinion, the setting of Jules Verne’s ‘Around The World In Eighty Days’ helps to make the novel more interesting.             Without the thick jungle, Phileas Fogg’s elephant ride to Allahabad won’t be interesting.  The jungle has an air of sinisterness because it is the territory of the bandits who kidnap Aouda.  Phileas Fogg and Passepartout rescue the princess by cutting open the hut that imprisons her.  The scene of the bandits ...