It doesn't happen every day but occasionally I read Barometern, the local newspaper of the town where I grew up. The Editors of Barometern are superstars at putting life back into perspective. Today's news are:
- There are people on the Internet who commit fraud.
-A man bought a bicycle four months ago and now it's rusting.
-It's been snowing.
I've been discussing with my manager whether or not we should be allowed to slap our students into becoming better people!
I have one student, a woman in her 30s, who has been coming to introduction classes for 3 months and still claims she cannot understand "the dog is in the street".
We all know that she understands, she knows that we know that she understands...but she has entered into some sort of teenage rebellious stage where she's just too cool for school.
This is where I think a slap in the face would be suitable...for her own sake, obviously!
A very serious looking, uniform-clad Mr Health Inspector came and knocked on my door today.
-Your AC unit is leaking water.
- No, it's not. It's the AC unit on the 7th floor that leaks. It drips onto mine, so it looks like it's coming from here but really, it isn't.
- No, there's no one at home on the 7th floor so it must be yours.
- Well, it's 11 am, perhaps you should try them this evening.
- No, is yours.
- Ok, well why don't you come in and have a look.
The serious man inspects the AC and concludes that the water is indeed from the 7th floor.
- Ok, so you need to arrange additional drainage for the AC.
- But mine's not leaking. Surely the people on the 7th floor have to deal with this.
- They are not at home.
-What, like never?
- What do you mean?
- Can't you just leave them a note?
- Ah, yes a note. Ok, ok.
- Great. Thanks for stopping by!
With mind-blowing special effects (just look at the youtube clip) and a story-line that would make Tolstoy green with envy, V just rocked my 80s world.
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=VObQfWMgmIMA bit of trivia for you: in the first series, the first language spoken by the Visitors is Swedish. Once the flying saucers have landed(?) an announcement is made through a speaker phone. I believe the first words spoken are "God Afton", which means Good Evening. I think the first meeting took place day-time, so that wouldn't make sense at all...but it's been over 20 years so perhaps I'm mistaken on this point. I'm certain that it was Swedish though!
However, I did recently apologise to a friend for only ever calling her when I am drunk stupid. She replied that it was perfectly ok - better pissed than never!
I gave in and bought one of the mega machines that "also plays CDs". It seems to play every modern format of music known to man (although not necessarily to Marie) out of 5 speakers and something called a sub-woofer (when did this become a word?). I quite like that in addition to being "also a CD player", it is also a radio!
Hooking it up yesterday I was rather pleased with the sound quality. However, I only managed to get sound out of 2 speakers and the sub-woofer-thingie. I will have to troubleshoot today or if worse comes to worst...call a man!
