This morning I forgot my tie. No big deal. I just had to go back home about half a block to get it.
But it made me think. What a stupid unnecessary anachronism from another era the tie actually is. I can’t see an end to this silly madness - no one’s actually going to stand up and say “There are other ways to look smart, you know, we don’t need this shiny cloth”.
Anyhow, back to lesson preparation.
We’ve just returned from an overnight stay in Singapore’s holiday island Sentosa. None of us brought bathers/togs/swimmers/swimming-costumes so we didn’t get wet, except when Asher fell over when he was running around one of those special water installations in which the water spurts out of the ground.
We went to the Underwater World where I found that the Chinese words for “stingray” and “jellyfish” that I’d be using up to now might not be the standard ones - mind you, whether Singaporean Mandarin is an indicator of usage in China itself is another question…. so please, if there are any Chinese readers out there, please tell me the words for these two creatures of the sea. Unfortunately I can’t type in Chinese using this computer.
I’m still without an easy way to post photos on here until we return to Melbourne.
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