my ajumma notes

Confessions of A Shopaholic was fun. And it's always nice to have a young man with a British accent in the show, ha ha. During my habitual pondering on trivial matters, it struck me that chick flicks have a lot in common with the kind of K drama I watch. So it finally dawned on me that these K shows are just chick flicks in another language and culture. Ha ha, am I profound or what... Some people thought Sam Soon was like a Korean Bridget Jones. I don't really agree but of course there are a few similarities in their characters. I recently watched Spotlight and there you have Woo-jin, the broadcast journalist, which was what Bridget Jones was too. And then there is Kim Sun-ah (Sam Soon) in When It's Night , acting as a Sam Soon-like character but in a museum-national treasures setting... So everything seems to be related to everything... There is also that top-of-the-building scene, you know, when the guy or girl goes to the rooftop to reflect on something (usually bad) ...

Ho ho, I wonder if people are having a nice discussion about dialects in language class. I can more or less imagine what they are saying. Anyway, I do not agree with the various 'theories' that have been spoken of. I am not going to bother going into the theories that will be taught in the language class but I shall just list some anecdotal 'evidence' of my own. I found Mandarin hard and it was not because of dialects because I am hardly a dialect user. Neither did I dislike Mandarin because it was hard. In fact, I had very good teachers in primary school so I appreciated it although it was hard for me. The husband was and still is a prolific dialect user. He had no problems with Mandarin. In fact, As in Mandarin were practically a way of life for him. The boy was a prolific dialect user (rare for his age) in his early years. He did very well in Mandarin in lower primary. Today, he is a much less prolific dialect user (but still a dialect user and still rare for his age...

The title of the article was 'A link between gaming and violence?' The article showed that the link between gaming and violence is tenuous in many cases. TNP? Tabloid? No, our very own Sunday Times . Tsk, tsk... Instead of wasting their time and effort trying to come up with a 'thought provoking' title, the newspaper would serve us better with more insightful and meaningful reporting. I really thought that this article was just cashing in on recent unfortunate events, and bordered on the sensational. It started with 'Three gamers were in the news last week for the wrong reasons'. From what we have been publicly told, however, only one of the three actually did something 'violent'... Why don't they go and find out if the Singaporean lady who hired killers to shoot someone in Phuket is a gamer?! So... Can we have more helpful research into the social impact of gaming (and not just the 'violence' link... or non-link...)? And more insights into i...