Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The cows....

from my fren...Evon
The cows....

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICANISM
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the
other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised
when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating
you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent
quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to
milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote
for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is
the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

My High School Biology Teacher

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教育是精神事業
updated:2005-11-11 16:43:58 MYT

退休3年了,在獨中32年的教學生涯,可說無怨無悔;雖然現在兩袖清風,但在精神上卻感覺到很 “富貴”。我在北馬、中馬和南馬都執教過,甚至回到同一間學校;該校的校長挖苦道:“好的教師,應該是從一而終。”,同事也譏笑道:“好馬不吃回頭草!”,我只能抱著:“難行能行,難忍能忍,難捨能捨。”的心理;一直教到60歲才自動宣佈“退休”,後5年是我的養老金。

在我能行、能看、能聽的情況下,我該享受一下“黃金年華”呀!乘搭火車有特別的優惠,心情好時,我一鎮又一鎮去溜躂,欣賞鄉鎮的山河景色。過一個“自在與自我”的人生;我沒機會去過陶淵明的“悠然見南山”的田園生活,也沒能力去效法李白的“莫使金樽空對月”的瀟洒過一生;在獨中執教,除了奉獻一切外,仍然要為華教“犧牲”再“犧牲”。

在這3年的旅途上,卻出現了許許多多的奇遇:在小販中心進餐,時常會遇到有人替我付錢,想要向他們道謝一聲也沒有機會;有一次留宿在一家旅店,第二天想付房租時,管理員說:“有人給你付了!”這人是誰?我一點也沒有頭緒;在旅途上遇到一點風寒,向一家私人藥房求診,拿藥的小組說:“醫生說免費”,這醫生到底在那間獨中我教過?在候車亭等巴士,時有在面前停下一輛私家車,車主伸出頭說:“老師要去哪裡?我載你去。”這一切的一切都是別人不能感受的喜悅。

我最喜歡在淡季時,乘旅遊巴士上雲頂,在雲霧中“打坐”,感受生命,欣賞生命和享受生命;去餵“老虎”機,也是一種“養生之道”,20元的金盾是最大的 “布施”,一粒一粒去餵,每吐一次,就發出歡悅的聲音,聽了心情特別開朗,總是餵多吐少,最終面對著“老虎”機在發呆;有一次在旁觀玩的陌生人,送我一杯金盾說:“老師!送給您去玩。”想要看清楚是誰?他走了。

只要你認為教育是一份良心工作,你才能發覺到:“教育是一種精神事業!”


星洲日報/副刊‧文:韓金井‧2005/11/11