aarrrgggghhhh.....monkeys

It’s been countless times since lucyriver told monkeys not to eat during lesson, be it sucking a sweet or chewing a gum or littering on the floor. lucyriver’m real sick of all this. There’s no improvement at all. One monkey ate a sweet in the class and lucyriver asked him to spit it out and stand on the chair. Then, he deliberately threw pieces of paper at other monkeys with lucyriver standing in front of him. lucyriver promoted him to stand on the table. lucyriver told him to stand properly or else he and lucyriver are going to end up in the headlines. Well, it did manage to send the whole room laughing. He’s not a bad monkey just naughty and cheeky.

In other training room, yesterday, lucyriver didn’t let three monkeys enter the room as they were late after recess. lucyriver was late for five minutes and they were even later than lucyriver. So they stood at the doorway until the lesson almost finished. lucyriver told them if they are late again, better they don’t show their monkey faces or else. For the first time, they really listened to lucyriver! lucyriver didn’t see them until five minutes before the end of lesson. Stood at the doorway, again, and then gave lucyriver the most hilarious reason. Two of them accompanied one of the monkeys to do his ‘big business’ in the toilet. lucyriver sent their names to be punished. lucyriver really didn’t want to do that but lucyriver don’t want them to climb up lucyriver's head.

praises don't cost a thing

lucyriver’ve never really knew that a compliment from a monkey can really brighten up the day and livened up the spirit. A monkey says that lucyriver’m beautiful, well, it doesn’t matter that in reality lucyriver am not. lucyriver have no idea that it really touches lucyriver's heart.

lucyriver too must learn to praise the monkeys when they have shown their effort. A praise could really bring something to those little hearts. Moreover, praises cost lucyriver nothing yet they are priceless.

Have you ever been praised by your monkey trainers? If you do, do you still remember how you felt at that time.

past tense verb game

lucyriver played a verb-past tense game with the monkeys. lucyiver was real disappointed when some couldn't define the meaning of some simple verb like sell. One even asked lucyriver if it is related to red cell or white cell. lucyriver could have passed out. What the hell was lucyriver teaching them the past one year and a half. lucyriver feel real pity for them and lucyriver's heart sinks whenever they ask something that lucyriver presume their standard would have no problem understanding it.

One more thing is, no matter what lucyriver do, they still talk to lucyriver in local dialect which most of the time lucyriver couldn't decipher the meaning. Gosh, like gorilla and kingkong talking to each other.

Lately, lucyriver have been a bit strict with them. lucyriver can just feel they are starting to climb up lucyriver's head so better break their fall first before they make it to the summit. The male monkeys, lucyriver have to keep reminding them to tuck in and button their shirts and not to put their legs on the chairs. Some will carve or better lucyriver say draw motives on their hands or arms. Well, what lucyriver am to say about that. That's their tradition. Tattoes on the body. lucyriver will just threaten them that lucyriver will practice lucyriver's drawing skill on them too if they do so, with permanent marker pen. lucyriver was thinking, Hello Kitty will surely look cute on the monkeys.

spring cleaning

Our kingdom of the flower fruit mountain was having a big clean-up today. Monkeys get to go home earlier. Some had ‘homecoming’ while others chose to stay. Those went home; particularly the female monkeys must be having the phobia of staying at the monkey hostel since the sad tragedy of the two monkeys where their boat capsized last week still shrouding the atmosphere. lucyriver admit, lucyriver myself for the first two days were thinking of them as well as the light went off. lucyriver was wondering if they would appear outside the windows or would they show up at the library, returning their borrowed books, well, just lucyriver's freaky imagination, they didn’t borrow books anyway.

Browsing travel pictures, lucyriver's feet have gotten so itchy that lucyriver wish so much to just pack lucyriver's bag right away and fly. England would be really nice, lucyriver’d always wanted to go there. Paris, Hokkaido, Nepal, Tibet and even Bhutan, the lists are endless. Yet, the money sign $ will always be the thing that relinquish the desire, and not only that but time and companions.

Finding a travel companion who has the same passion as you have is more difficult that climbing the mountain. If you ever have one or you travelled with one before, count yourself as a lucky person. When friends are together, talking about going here and there is so easy but when you intend to put it into action, everyone has his or her own reasons for not being able to make it.

Money to lucyriver is something that lucyriver don’t have luxuriously. However, if you, lucyriver's friends, invite lcyriver to a trip, lucyriver will break the piggy and go with you right away. To lucyriver, if you wish to do something, do it now or else you won’t do it. Or you might miss the chance.