I had my marketing class today, and it was fun. My group members, so far, have showed all signs of being good, decent, hardworking people who have great sense of humour (yayness!), and are chinese-speaking. The only thing bad about the class is that I have a du lan tutor. She is very young, has problem pronouncing words properly (leading to much confusion and a make-up class on Sunday scare; she meant Saturday), and has a talent for inducing mayhem. The in-class group presentation stuff is supposed to be simple to explain, but she managed to confused the whole lot of us before we finally figured things out.

I can't help but feel that she is condescending when she speaks. It's hard to put a finger on, but it's there. Even Ghim said he didn't like her.

And she really gave us a 晴天霹雳 moment when she announced that she was not going to let us choose our own group members for the group assignments.

I mean, after all the careful planning to make sure we all get into the same class, I'm going to end up alone in foreign territory? Gods, you must be kidding.

Luckily for us, the tutor also not beri clever. Usually, when tutors want to separate friends into different groups, they make us call out numbers -- a devilishly ingenious idea, because friends always sit together in class -- then group people of the same number together. But this tutor hor, she grouped us by putting the first 5 people on the class list together, then the next 5, and you know how it goes. So Ghim and I got grouped together because the Angs and the Chias are traditionally good friends by proximity of the alphabetical letters (thank gods!). We had to wave tear-stained hankies with Lin Xu and Junxiong, though. They were forcibly separated.

And did I mention that I bump into another friend in class? Am in same marketing class as Jackson. Was so surprised.