ebookland Chapter 562 The knowledge you thought was useless will one day come in handy.
Chapter 562 The knowledge you thought was useless will one day come in handy.
The knowledge you thought was useless will one day come in handy.
I can recite the core socialist values. I memorized them in high school politics class and I still haven't forgotten them. My university professor scolded us for being erudite but incompetent, saying that we couldn't even recite the most basic core values. But I recited them off the top of my head.
During my first internship, because I used to love watching TVB dramas and had followed seven or eight hundred episodes, I could understand Cantonese. Then a client brought a Hong Kong boss to discuss business, and they openly discussed their budgets right in front of us. I immediately messaged my boss, and she was stunned.
[When I watched "Empresses in the Palace," I was particularly curious about the character "刈" (yi) in the story of Xia Yi, the emperor's blood-dripping agent. So I searched for it and it stuck in my mind. Coincidentally, this character appeared in my Mandarin proficiency test. I felt that if I couldn't pronounce it, my score would be low, so I pronounced it correctly.]
I feel the same way. I accidentally learned the full name of ERP before, and coincidentally, I memorized it. Once, during a meeting, the boss asked, "Does anyone know what ERP means?"
I blurted out: "Enterprise resource planning." My boss looked at me with a very shocked expression, and from then on, he gave me the impression that I had exceptionally good English skills.
My grandma loves Peking Opera; I wouldn't say she's been exposed to it all her life, just that she knows a little bit. My grandpa loves calligraphy, he's incredibly good at it. When he was in graduate school, he met two very handsome guys, one who loved Peking Opera and the other who loved calligraphy. Haha, that came in handy! Isn't this a match made in heaven?
"I was in Zhengzhou. In high school geography class, the teacher asked us which river our drinking water came from. I blurted out the Huai River. My classmates looked at me like I was stupid and said it was the Yellow River!"
Because our junior high school geography teacher had taught this, I said it again with great certainty that it was the Huai River. My classmates didn't believe me, so when I said "Huai River," they all shouted in unison that it was the Yellow River. The teacher didn't say anything and just watched from the stage. Then a few classmates realized that what I said might be correct, and they shouted "Huai River" with me.
Later, the teacher told everyone to be quiet and said, "We're drinking Huaihe River water." She also said I was the only one in our grade who answered the question correctly. That made me look really cool! [laughing]
"The week before last, my thesis teacher asked us what kinds of hermaphroditic organisms there were, and I immediately answered seahorses."
My roommate was shocked and asked me where I learned that. I replied: "From a fanfiction post about a seahorse sculpting a daffodil [facepalm]"
"In high school, I was a well-read girl, and my essays were incredibly detailed. Then, in biology class, the teacher asked us a thought-provoking question: 'Besides inducing vomiting and gastric lavage, what other methods are there for treating acute poisoning?' While my classmates were either stumped or slacking off, my voice rang out: 'Irrigation!' I received the attention of the whole class and the teacher [facepalm]"
"Me too. My chemistry teacher asked who the pioneer of nursing was. I knew about Florence Nightingale from reading novels, so I thought for a moment and said it. There were only three people listening, and the other two immediately praised me!"
"Once in high school, during a geography class, the teacher was explaining a problem about Iceland and casually asked: What is the capital of Iceland?"
My classmates started flipping through their books, and at that moment, without even looking up, I blurted out: Reykjavik.
Without exaggeration, my teachers and classmates all stared at me in shock. But actually, I had just read a super short, melodramatic story set in Reykjavik [laughing and crying emoji]
Our ancestors under the heavens: What is this? Compared to us, these later generations are just child's play.
When I was an official, I was assigned to a place where the people spoke a local dialect that my fellow officials couldn't understand at all. They said that listening to these people speak made their eyes see stars, and they just couldn't understand what they were saying despite the chattering in their ears.
But I just happened to be lucky enough to get by, and I thrived in the local area. In less than half a month, I had figured out all the local customs, trivial matters, and complicated relationships.
It's because I had a friend who used to travel to this area as a businessman. He married a local woman, but this guy only cared about her and not his brothers. Ever since they got married, he's been mimicking his wife's speech all day long. He even tells her how great their relationship is!
How can I, an unmarried man in my late twenties, bear this? It has already seriously hampered my career aspirations.