Currently reading Detective School Q (探偵学園Q). I thought I better start reading these comics and return them to my friend because the books start to collect dust under my table. Hehe. Enjoy myself before I start work again. And to relax my mind, stop thinking bout the coming driving test. I don't know how to write book reviews. All I can say is, I'm reading the third book right now, and I've enjoyed the first two books. Its plots are captivating. Though I must say, it kind of lose out to Detective Conan because the lead character isn't all that attractive.

Let me show you the lead of Detective Conan


Now, you must be thinking I find conan cute because he wears black specs. ok, I don't totally deny this. But minus this, he still has got more charisma. Partially because, he's smarter. In Detective Conan, it's more of Conan running an one-man show. Wheras in Detective School Q, they work as a team. Anyway, if you have time, just read both.

Above pictures from Anime News Network

Blogs are popular among teenagers nowadays. I came across a few secondary school students' blogs by continuously clicking on "next blog" on the top right hand corner, and each of them has this long list of links, which I assume are blogs of their friends, who I assume are around that age. Lots of assumption, but I think I'm right. Just for your information, the girl who made this forever friends template is only 14. She has created lots of other templates. It's kind of impressive (to me, at least) that someone who is eight years younger than me can do something which I can't.

It has been quite some time since I watched a documentary. It's on gifted students in Hong Kong and the difficulties they face in their studies. Parents and teachers of such students were being interviewed, as well as psychologist, who presented such problems in a more factual manner. People thinks that gifted students are blessed with great intelligence, hence the problems they face are being neglected by outsiders and hardly any help is given. Gifted students tend to get impatient and emotional rather easily. They'll often stick to what they think is correct, hence, it'll be rather difficult to convince them otherwise. Frustration comes in in occasions when they strongly feel that they can do something, but results turn out otherwise. Parents find them hard to discipline, because such children aren't all that obedient afterall. One mother was so depressed because of her two gifted children that she almost wanted to commit suicide. These students themselves find life miserable sometimes, because nobody understands how they feel. When it comes to studies, they find routine school work boring. To them, education should be about them learning what they want to learn, with external help and advice given when needed, and not schools spoon-feeding them with information and making them follow the syllabus all the time. To them, their own decision making is important. They enjoy the company of people who are around their own intelligence level, because only such people can understand how they feel.

Anyway, I found this very enlightening somehow. Too bad I missed the first half of the show.