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Thread ID: 88609	2008-04-02 05:24:00	NZ/s Asian tolerance	qazwsxokmijn (102)	PC World Chat

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655536	2008-04-06 09:40:00	HK not got a decent education system? You should take 6th form maths there.It's freken hard!!	Ninjabear (2948)
655537	2008-04-06 09:42:00	You should take 6th form maths there.It's freken hard!! I left school 18 years ago, so i won't be taking any maths lessons	plod (107)
655538	2008-04-06 10:30:00	HK not got a decent education system? Slightly Off Topic. My cousin recently came from China. Spent time at an Auckland High School. She ended up coming second in a subject. She had a nervous breakdown and had the urge to give the person who got first prize a good hiding. Apparently this is not the first time she's had this. She also over does things. Stays up late studying to the max. No time off etc. That's how bad it is over in Asia.	bob_doe_nz (92)
655539	2008-04-06 11:12:00	Slightly Off Topic. My cousin recently came from China. Spent time at an Auckland High School. She ended up coming second in a subject. She had a nervous breakdown and had the urge to give the person who got first prize a good hiding. Apparently this is not the first time she's had this. She also over does things. Stays up late studying to the max. No time off etc. That's how bad it is over in Asia. It's worse in japan.Students often commit suidice for failing subjects at school	Ninjabear (2948)
655540	2008-04-06 11:56:00	You should take 6th form maths there.It's freken hard!! Er no, its not. I did Cambridge and it still wasn't hard. To be fair though, my parents moved here for the education too but NOTHING else. Its just too much pressure and too much theory back in India. The pressure there and in HK, Japan and China is absolutely crazy but then thats why they have such brilliant people and ideas.	beeswax34 (63)
655541	2008-04-06 12:16:00	Er no, its not. I did Cambridge and it still wasn't hard. To be fair though, my parents moved here for the education too but NOTHING else. Its just too much pressure and too much theory back in India. The pressure there and in HK, Japan and China is absolutely crazy but then thats why they have such brilliant people and ideas. I think competition pushes you to improve However NZ i like.. For example.. Meh we own the network says telecom.lets just leave it as it is.We are the only nationwide network.Noone can do anything	Ninjabear (2948)
655542	2008-04-06 12:36:00	I was in Sydney for my daughter's wedding in January and my son in law and I went to the Sydney fish market to buy sea food for a barbecue. They did have a wide variety as you say, but the oysters (though they were on the shell) were those crap Pacific oysters. No Foveaux Strait or Nelson oysters - the other kind are only worth eating if you are picking them fresh off the rocks. A related point - I know that a lot of South East Asians (particularly Cambodian) have moved from NZ to Sydney because of the size of the (e.g.) Cambodian community over there, and because of the availability of a wider range of their traditional foods than we can supply here. So good old NZ took them in as refugees, re-united their families, and then they bugger off to another country that is only taking them because they have a NZ passport. I can understand it, but it is annoying when you think of how many resources we have put into them through the fares over here, the refugee resettlement services, welfare benefits, housing, health care etc. I am not arguing that we should restrict our support of refugees, but it still feels crook what has been happening. You can't beat a good Bluff oyster but what a price they are now. I get the impression that quite a few just use NZ as a stepping stone to Aussie or elsewhere.	mikebartnz (21)
655543	2008-04-06 12:45:00	tolerance? why do we need to "tolerate" people separated by race? the whole notion is ridiculous! we're all people: accept others for who they are as individuals. no-one said you have to like them, but "tolerating" a person of a particular race for being of that race is absurd.	motorbyclist (188)
655544	2008-04-06 23:06:00	Yeah my folks placed education as a priority. I was schooled in privately. They aren't on high income but a major investment was in schooling. In Asia I think the schools provides lunch, so I spent a few days at school without lunch .. Anyway, since I was like 8yrs old I spent 4 hours each night on homework. Dinner was at 9pm, sleep was at 11pm or 12am and get up at 8am cos parents were working. Later on maybe when I was 10, after school we ate some food, got changed and then caught the bus home, had the bath ourselves, parents would take back dinner at 10pm (mum would catch the bus home earlier than dad just so that we could have dinner a bit earlier) and we would go to bed like 10.30pm. I heard those who had restaurants the children would work as receptionist, when a customer came in they would stop their homework and deal with them. Then they would continue with their homework. On a weekday when it was not busy, they might just take up a small table near the reception desk to do their homework. One least occasion, we fell asleep at the floor of the tv room, and we put the latch on the door and mum couldn't get in .. so when we finally woked up a nd let her in .. we were told off and spent the night without dinner ..... When I was at uni, I got up like 5am, worked from 5.45am with breakfast to about 9 or 10pm. I did that 7 days. The weekend I may of got up at a later time of 9am. Earlier in the semester there was a bit more time, so I went out in the weekeneds to the shops and stuff, but a few weeks into it, the assessment piled in and then the exams came on .... One thing that helped me was that to see the lecturers before the class started and ask for course details so I could spend a week earlier doing study so I can use that as a head start, in the first 2 weeks, workload was a bit lesser, I would use that to advance myself too, so in that time, I could of read up 6 weeks of stuff in advance. I could self teach myself and start my assignments earlier and hit the library.	Nomad (952)
655545	2008-04-07 01:37:00	Yeah my folks placed education as a priority . I was schooled in privately . They aren't on high income but a major investment was in schooling . In Asia I think the schools provides lunch, so I spent a few days at school without lunch . . Anyway, since I was like 8yrs old I spent 4 hours each night on homework . Dinner was at 9pm, sleep was at 11pm or 12am and get up at 8am cos parents were working . Later on maybe when I was 10, after school we ate some food, got changed and then caught the bus home, had the bath ourselves, parents would take back dinner at 10pm (mum would catch the bus home earlier than dad just so that we could have dinner a bit earlier) and we would go to bed like 10 . 30pm . I heard those who had restaurants the children would work as receptionist, when a customer came in they would stop their homework and deal with them . Then they would continue with their homework . On a weekday when it was not busy, they might just take up a small table near the reception desk to do their homework . One least occasion, we fell asleep at the floor of the tv room, and we put the latch on the door and mum couldn't get in . . so when we finally woked up a nd let her in . . we were told off and spent the night without dinner . . . . . When I was at uni, I got up like 5am, worked from 5 . 45am with breakfast to about 9 or 10pm . I did that 7 days . The weekend I may of got up at a later time of 9am . Earlier in the semester there was a bit more time, so I went out in the weekeneds to the shops and stuff, but a few weeks into it, the assessment piled in and then the exams came on . . . . One thing that helped me was that to see the lecturers before the class started and ask for course details so I could spend a week earlier doing study so I can use that as a head start, in the first 2 weeks, workload was a bit lesser, I would use that to advance myself too, so in that time, I could of read up 6 weeks of stuff in advance . I could self teach myself and start my assignments earlier and hit the library . Obviously, your parents had never heard of "work-life balance", and that seems to have rubbed off on you . Life is for living . You CAN earn a good living at the same time as NOT working 16 hours a day . You just have to be good at what you do and this does not necessarily mean that you have to study for 18 hours a day for 7 years, just to get some hi-falutin' qualification that means nothing a couple of years after joining the workforce anyway . Take it from someone who had a major heart bypass operation at 44 years old . Life's too short - enjoy it . You get about 25000 days allotted to you when you are born - use them wisely . No-one ever said on their deathbed: "I wish I'd spent more time at the office" .	johcar (6283)
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