Letter #42

1-November-1951

pp.175-178

Chui Kim is now in nursery and TSU thinks its a waste of time cz all they do is play and sing and sometimes learn a word or two but he still lets her go

TSU is complaining that school is being to lenient for Weng Khim and that they don’t teach enough so he he is being hard on his son

Weng Khim says chinese is hard, he is good at thai and math

WK says teh chinese master is hard to please and that learning thai is more fun

TSU admit that chinese is hard but he will still teach his son

WK is quick with his hands, he helps work around teh shop with ME, he is good at it but doesnt seem to enjoy it

TSU is worry that WK wont turn out like him because of many influences such as AB, his friends and the thai

WK criticise his Chinese teacher and praise his Thai teacher

His thai teacher is a girl and he even compared her beauty to his mom which made ME jealous

well ME is too absorbed with Meng Chu

Bak li oy maid merl

TSU doesnt like Meng Chu, he said she is unattractive and plain and more

WK spurted that his chinese master should be fire cz he alwasy hitting and inching them like some god, he is just an employee

TSU didnt like the sound of that and says he should respect his teacher and that the teacher only does that for the student’s success, he also ask WK who told him this

WK said Lim his friend told him

LIm is rich, his father is a gold merchant

WK suggest that TSU could teach him chinese but TSU is too busy

TSU doesnt like Lim being friends with WK and told him to trade seats with other

anyway the cute thai teacher (her parents are chinese) stopped teaching and married and WK not so happy