Able to reach the deepest recesses of one’s consciousness, it’s known that the fresh-scented smoke from Miss Loi’s therapeutic joss sticks has got a calming effect on troubled students’ minds, soothing ruffled nerves on those stressful eves of major exams to let them see the light, when they finally realize at the death that (a + b)2 is NOT a2 + b2.
In these carefree days of the December Holiday Jφss Sticks Sessions, however, a stressful eve of the next major exam is perceived to be still far away.
As a result, this calming effect (coupled with Singapore’s lovely December weather) can sometimes go beyond soothing troubled nerves – gently carrying the unknowing student into an advanced state of thought, where his mathematical spirit departs the body for a (presumably) better place …
as demonstrated by ability to see through his arms.
… where such defining moments are usually captured by Miss Loi to add to her collection of evidence behind those mysterious abrupt ‘artistic” strokes in students’ workings.
Tsk tsk.
