Saturday, April 28, 2007

Why are some people so shameless

At the very moment I'm writing this a friend (if I can call her that) from China who was my coursemate is asking me what to write for her assignment. Can I pass her my previous assignment? "Because I don't know what to write, I need some ideas," she says.

And this is not the first time, throughout my three years in Melbourne it is the same thing.

Ok, asking me for ideas is fine, but this is what annoys me. She blatantly asks me for my previous assignments and essays I've handed in before. I wanna tell her, like, there is such thing as plagiarism and I'm definitely not letting you copy my work which I took like, weeks to do.

But you see, since I'm such a nice girl and hardly wanna look like I'm so selfish I tried to help whenever I could. She has, in fact, took my previous essay before and till this day hasn't returned it.

What broke the camel's back was that one fine day, she called me at like, 9pm at night and said "Sarah, could you help me proofread my essay and give it back to me by 12am?" Man, she is SO thick-skin to treat me like a servant. But lo and behold, I agreed. Only because I wanted her to fill up a survey, I needed a Chinese participant. I took one hour plus to edit her work (because it was crap English, sorry but true), I dunno why I even bothered, she must have taken not more than 15 minutes on my survey.

I really don't wanna be racist, because I'm Chinese too, but only China students do this to me. And to another friend. And to heaps of other people I've spoken to before.

And whoever is reading this so happens to be that girl I'm talking about, I say: STOP IT YOU ARE BEING SUCH A.....%$*$%&*

Copying my work is a poor substitute for your stupidity. And shaming all your fellow countrymen of whom I'm sure some are smarter than you.

Friday, April 13, 2007

random pictures

I'm kinda bored and need a break from thinking about when my next deadline is. So here are some old pics of me and my family..

That's my little bro sitting in a car boot.


That's me and my brother who is, erm, frowning at me for I dunno what reason.

That's my little sister sitting on a toboggan with my mum hanging on to her. Taken on the French border of the Pyrenese.

OK enough pics for now, gotta go somewhere. More next time...