after my laptop was revived from its fatal cardiac arrest, it decided to abandon its ability to read and input chinese!!
speaking of which, the school that im teaching in now not only accepts naughty kids, but actually also takes in dyslexic students, meaning students with reading disability. this kind of magnanimity: i admire!
according to e allied educator, dyslexic students cannot or read very slowly as the words appear to them as mirror image/opposite due to the way their brain works. thus verbally they can converse but unable to recognise the words immediately when written. having to read n write in english is already a challenge to them. thus they do not have to take mother tongue in sch, so they have free periods during mt.
however, seriously, i feel tt the time can be better used, like sit in and listen at their mt classes instead of gg to study area. if a man cant read/write, he still have his ability to speak. it doesnt hurt to be more fluent in spoken languages. but then again, pros n cons must have been weighed to come up with this conclusion to exempt them from chinese. studying must be really tough for them. to have come thus far *CLAP* =)
TAIPEI - A jobless Taiwan man released from prison stole a box of cotton swabs just to get arrested again because he "could not forget the police department boxed lunches," officers and local media said Tuesday.
The homeless man in Taipei first stole a pair of shoes on Sunday, was detained and released, the Liberty Times said. He then resorted to stealing again the next day just to get back inside and be fed for free.
"If someone's not doing well and comes in around meal time, we'll definitely prepare food," said an officer, surnamed Wang, at the Hsinyi District police station, which handled the case but again released the suspect, Tsou Hao-lan.
In another sign of the times on the recession-hit island, a man who had been without a job for four months stole a motor scooter and drove it to a Taipei-area police station, the paper said. Taiwan is in recession and economists see more weakness through most of 2009, given falling demand for Taiwan's electronics goods overseas.
(图9: 选手证)
(图13: 与马来西亚队的合照)
