what the hell??

tt was actually my first reaction when i saw d Qs for d bc exam paper..

what the hell??

d Qs. especially for 古文. were damn difficult. as if we hadn't already known tt it's EXTREMELY difficult to get a 1A in chinese..

let me show u an example:

竹杖芒鞋轻胜马, 谁怕? 一蓑烟雨任平生.

as if it wasnt bad enough to not understand what tt meant..
d Q asked us to translate it to modern language. GOODNESS.
maybe yun hui can do tt..but definitely not me.

ok.tell me how u're gonna translate tt to modern chinese.
d first part was especially urghhh..

i was lk..
bamboo at war with mango as shoes?? n beat d horses easily???
okay..WHAT THE HELL??
so i tried my VERY BEST for tt to make sense..n it was difficult i tell u..
i th d teacher can fall off d chair laughing while marking our papers.

we were even expected to know what FEELING d poet was trying to convey. omg.

i couldnt help thinking tt only d person who wrote it n those from tt era knew what d passage was talking about.

huiyo..y make life so difficult for everyone??
we're only average students with no particular liking whatsoever for chinese language from tt era.
so. y not set simple Qs?
students get high marks. teachers get praised. d whole world is happy.
isnt tt much better??xD



* btw. im juz complaining bout d Qs.
totally no intention to offend anyone in anyway. juz afraid tt ppl who r into chinese history or sumth will th tt im condemning it. xD



miang.