bad impressions

That "xiao bao bao, da wen ti" (small baby, big problem) show on Channel 8 is really getting on my nerves. And my mum's too. Not that we actually watch it, but the advertisements are annoying.

From a nonfunny and totally serious point of view, why the hell are they telling people that having kids is a big problem when the gahmen is trying to raise the birth rate?

Everytime I see the ad, I turn around and ask my mum, "Was I that much of a problem?" and she goes, "No, you slept all the time. When I put you on the sofa you'd stare into thin air for hours. Everyone thought you were retarded."

For some reason that wasn't very encouraging. D:

But today I am especially irritated with it because it showed a group of kids doing abacus, from that yellow book with the picture of the guy and the girl on the front, and the girls stacking up counting blocks on the back (it's the same picture from nooby books all the way to pro books. Quite cute.) and some kiasu mum waving a Rosyth test paper (I saw the freaking crest.)

So now, Rosyth is going to be flooded with kiasu mums wanting a place in our school, which doesn't really concern me much, considering that Mavis completely disowned us from the time we left.

BUT the CCs too will be flooded with the same said kiasu mothers, wanting to sign their kids up for abacus classes. And I swear, if I have to put up with one more freaking kid sobbing for his mummy and wailing, I will walk right up to him and slap him as hard as I can in the face.

I am bloody sick of having to listen to kids throw tantrums in class, and having to watch the teacher waste time on coddling them because their parents cannot be bothered to discipline their damn kid.

And they're not even learning it for the right purposes. Annoying kids. They piss me off no end.