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Sunday, August 28, 2011

foreign talent and being presumptive

At the night class that I attend, there is this group of foreigners classmates. I don't have much opinion of them except for one of them who seems to like to ask the lecturer questions just to show off how much he knows, and as a result delaying the pace of the lesson.

Being a night class attended by working adults, we have classmates rushing down from work and joining the class after the lesson has begun. So this foreigner classmate of mine was seated near the door with an empty seat next to him. One after another, classmates coming in late asked if the seat was taken, and rejected on all occasion by that foreigner. As the clock ticked by and the seat was still empty, I started to think what kind of selfish person he is. People were trying to settle down fast and he wasn't making things easy by reserving the seat for who, "good brothers"?

3 hour passed and his friend finally entered the classroom, settling down in that seat.

When you have bad impression of a person, it becomes harder to be objective on his actions. Well, you might have heard of this Chinese story about a man missing his axe and suspecting it was his neighbour's son who stole the axe.

My mind needs more training.

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4 Comments:

  • Well, being late for 3hrs and having your friend hold your seat for 3hrs, all for the sake of attendance... might as well don't attend that day's lesson.

    By Anonymous GF, at 8/28/2011 09:39:00 PM  

  • well marking attendance is important, cos some people are sponsored by company. If absent, they may have to repay the company. Also, if you don't hit certain percentage of attendance, you don't get the cert. Then they distribute different reading materials each time.

    By Blogger chillycraps, at 8/29/2011 06:53:00 PM  

  • I usually hear the foreign students in my class ask each other (in Chinese) whether they understood what the lecturer just went through. I always thought: "You're there for what? Ask!" but it turned out that, they don't understand English much.

    By Blogger Themuxicbox, at 8/30/2011 12:27:00 AM  

  • i think it could have been more productive if they improve on their language skill first?

    By Blogger chillycraps, at 8/30/2011 03:20:00 PM  

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