Chapter 22

Having an account profile for each student is a big help and make the student life a little bit better, the account have many features that help the student big time. I am fortunate that the IT Department and Technological Research Team of our school are collaborating with each other in designing and developing a lot of modern and advance technology system to make everything easy and comfortable for both the school, staffs and students.

While checking on my account directory, I felt someone's presence walking side by side with me and I can smell the same manly scent that I smelt from that handsome man I bumped into a while ago. I might be wrong, maybe he is just passing by and I might be hallucinating thinking about him so I just shook my head and put the silly idea out of my mind and continue what I am doing.

After checking the right direction towards my destination, I felt uneasy because I can still feel his presence on my side and so I decided to sneak a peek on my right side to see who the person is walking almost the same pace at me. And I was shocked to see that I am not hallucinating, it is really the handsome man a while ago.

I felt really uneasy, I think he noticed that I sneak a peak so he turn his head on my side and flashed his captivating smile that make me mesmerize with it.

" Hmm.. correct me if I am wrong but are you following or something?" I asked " pardon me if I am being straightforward and I have offended you in anyway " I continued

" Oh no, you have not offended me in any way to be honest, I think you are kind of interesting person "

" Oh yeah? interesting in what way? "

" I don't know, it is hard to explain but I see you really are kind of interesting " he said and continued by saying " pardon me for being rude, I am Tungsten Renzel Atkinson, just call me Ren "

" Hmm.. Nice meeting you, my name is Lee Eun Kyo Jung just call me Lee " I prelied and introduced myself at the same time

" What a nice name, Lee means gold in chinese, it shows how precious you are to your family " he said

" You have a unique name too, from the periodic table of elements, it means you are a very strong type of person and your strength is immeasurable "

" You can say that, by the way, I would like to be your friend, I hope you don't mind?" hmm he is very straightforward and direct, he does know what he wants and I can see that he would face headstrong until he gain what he wants. I might feel uncomfortable but I can see sincerity from his dark blue eyes, It might not be bad idea to have someone to talk to as an acquaintance.

" Yeah sure, I think we have the same course and have a lot in common anyways, maybe meeting each other most of the time will be inevitable to happen especially in our common subjects "

" Thank you for not rejecting the idea. It is nice to have you as a friend and I want to know you more as the time goes by " he replied

" Where are you going anyway?" I asked him " Are you perhaps heading to the same direction that I am taking to? " I continued, Although I have a guess but it's better to be sure right? There is nothing wrong to ask anyways

" I think so, I am heading to room COMP 1010 for my next class, how about you?"

" same here, lets double the pace speed we have, I don't want to be late on the first formal class and leave a bad impression to our professor"

Luckily we arrive just in time, just as we seated to the back seat our professor Mr. Davis just entered the room. He looks like he is just a couple of years older than us and I can feel a friendly and easy - going aura from him. Maybe having him as our professor would make the class a little bit livelier than the other classes that I have. I might enjoy learning new things and ideas with his guidance.

" Good afternoon everyone, let's start the class by having a little mind trick game " he said " 1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while going to the river. Every elephant saw 2 monkeys going towards the river. Every monkey holds 1 parrot in their hands." he paused and continue " The question is how many animals are going towards the river? "

"Wait, before you answer, the rule is I will give you two chances to answer and if you give me the correct answer in one try I will grant you 5 reward points but if you give me the correct answer on the second try I'll give you 3 reward points and an additional points if you can justify your answer"

With his words about reward points, everyone is doing their best to concentrate in thinking the correct answer. I know the answer and I have an explanation for it but I am having a second thoughts because I don't want to catch everyone's attention this early.

However after almost fifteen minutes of trying, no one gave the correct answer. They have been guessing and have been giving higher numbers than it should be so I decided to answer, hitting to birds with one stone, we can formally start our class and I can earn reward points. I will just use simple words to explain so I won't trigger the curiosity of my classmates.

Having said, I decided to raise my right hand and luckily Mr. Davis acknowledge my gesture.

" Mr. Davis I would try my luck. My final answer is there are 5 animals going towards the river, 1 rabbit and 2 monkeys together with the 2 parrots they are holding. Although if we think mathematically with the given numbers in the statement, it would confuse us in adding the numbers to arrive in 31 animals BUT if we give a deep understanding to the statement and the given question, we will be able to arrive in 5 animals." I said and paused

" Let me explain and express my thoughts on how I arrive in that answer. First, it states that 1 rabbit saw 6 elephants while walking to the river, and so 1 animal is confirmed by the statement 'while walking to the river'" I paused

"Second, although it stated that the rabbit saw 6 elephants on the way BUT it was not stated if those elephants are walking going to the same direction or the opposite direction, as you can see it is not even stated if those elephants are moving at all. Maybe the rabbit only saw those elephants while passing by. " I inhaled before continuing my explanation

" Third, it is stated that those 6 elephants saw 2 monkeys with a parrot on both of them BUT it is not stated if those elephants saw 2 DIFFERENT monkeys each. It might be the same 2 monkeys, just like the rabbit who is passing by on their way to the river"

"Lastly, it is stated that the 2 monkeys are walking towards the river while holding a parrot each, that statement is enough to confirm another 4 animals going towards the river"