Just had a hair cut today. I was getting bored of having to comb down a crap load of hair so I decided to get it trimmed a little. It looks OK. I got the sides trimmed to around a size 2 and the top is like a 4. It looks good in my opinion and makes me ‘stand out’. 😀
As for the cost of the hair cut, it cost me $500NT which is around 10 pounds. That is quite cheap in terms of a UK comparison since I got the following:
- A ten minute back massage
- They washed my hair twice (Before and after)
- A stylist recommended me a few hair designs
- The girls who were cutting my hair were pretty hot XD (<3 Taiwanese girls)
I really don’t know why they gave me a back massage, but hey, I’m not complaining haha. I guess that is covered in the price, since $500NT over here can buy you a lot more in for example the UK with just 10 pounds. So I guess in that sense it covered everything I got.
There was this really hot chick who kept staring at me as if I didn’t notice lol! She kept talking to her colleague and looking at me, so I felt a little nervous while getting my hair cut. But that same chick came to wash my hair after my hair cut was done, so it was all good. I just wish I could speak a little more conversational Mandarin.
Hopefully I won’t get too many bad reactions in class tomorrow about my hair lol!
Anyway’s, I didn’t go to Nantou with my friends today to the Tea Festival. I couldn’t find it in me to go and I was too depressed. I didn’t want to make my friends and the others there depressed as well. So I just stayed in by myself and slept most of today. I should have gone for a run … and I should have studied, but I wanted to take a break. The test I had on Friday was very demotivating and demoralised any sense in wanting to learn Chinese.
Site update
I screwed up the commenting system, so I turned it off altogether. In fact I didn’t turn it off, I just completely deleted the ‘commenting’ code, so it doesn’t exist anymore. I guess I also had enough of people spamming my blog with spam comments. (I had 3,000 comments on my comment queue with most of them being spam comments. (I haven’t installed Askimet yet)
I also am testing a few plugins for WordPress to see how they play out. Or I’m actually trying to find a decent community plugin for my website over at “armour.ws” to fully replace my web-forum which isn’t doing so well. So it is pointless having it there altogether. I really am not good at building up forums and in this day and age forums have literally become obsolete, with only a few of the big forums surviving the wave of social networking biggies such as Facebook and Twitter.
Test results tomorrow
I am dreading my test results tomorrow.
I already know I didn’t do so well in the speaking test and I already know I didn’t do so well in the writing test. However I don’t know to which degree how badly I did in the writing test. Kind of like a ‘fingers crossed’ and whatever result I get … well I just hope it is higher than 70%. If it is around 70% I will be mildy happy. 😀
It is making me feel really bad and I really don’t want to go in tomorrow. I just feel I am not learning much when going in. I just wish I had a different teacher. Next semester I should have a change in terms of teacher. If that doesn’t work out, then I can only contemplate that there is something wrong with me and I’ll have no excuse in blaming a teacher…. teaching style.
To also demotivate me even more my teacher said “You are not going to be studying next semester?”. This was after completely decimating and ruining my speaking test. She asked me that question straight after I fucked up in my test. I was like… umm no, I’ll be studying next semester as well. Then she explained that one of the teachers had told her that I was joining the military. Though I corrected that, I said in Mandarin I have to go into the military next year. But fuck me did her saying that demotivate the fuck out of me, it felt to me as she was saying, “You suck, you won’t be coming back next semester, will you? Or… “We don’t want you here next semester.” – I mean even before I answered her fucking question, she crossed me off as not joining next semesters class, I had not even answered her, so she had to correct her mistake. (Sorry for the bad language if you are reading this, I don’t usually swear… I am just frustrated over this) So yeah, that kind of sucked.
What do I mean by not learning much?
I feel if I go to the library, I can learn a lot more Mandarin within the 2 hour period of I time if I had gone to study instead in class. When I am in class the teacher fucking talks using Mandarin in vocabulary we haven’t even learned in the book. I mean I appreciate she is trying to teach us Mandarin and broaden our vocabulary, but even when I ask my classmates WTF she is talking about they are as equally confused or are not even 60% sure of what she is saying.
I mean if I got the grammar which I admittedly suck at, my test score would be a lot higher than currently is. That is kind of what is screwing me up at the moment. Where with English I know the grammar off by heart. I don’t even think about subject, verbs, nouns or any other grammar placements. I am used to writing in English without having to know these grammar order.
