Our Red Herring

RED HERRING: irrelevant diversion.

(As found in The Little Oxford Dictionary, my little friend.)

Joshua Phua is one. A good one at it too. The class clown of my class who is always surprising us with his remarks and implications of how everything can be related to a certain taboo topic that involves activities behind closed doors.

I salute thee in some ways for your creativity, Joshua. At least he makes the class laugh a lot.

This is an example of how surprising Joshua's wit can be:

Setting: During Grammar tutorial today, Ms Wee was giving examples of broken English likely used by UTAR students.

On white board, the example sentence: He nervous.

Grammatically, that is wrong. We should add a verb in between "he" and "nervous".

Result: He is nervous.

"Nervous" is an adjective.

But no...

Joshua: "No, "Nervous" is his name, so he is Nervous."

What in the world, Joshua...

Smacks forehead, signs off.