Academic intelligence vs Social Intelligence

Well, I have this one 'interesting' friend.
He is damn smart and nobody will dare to doubt it.

But then, few months ago we went on a trip with friends. One day, his sister called him and seemed like his sister had some problems with her husband. I was losing respect to him for a lot of things that happened before but it fell more rapidly when he pushed the phone towards me and whisper to me,"Listen to her talking..so nyap nyap nyap!!"
I was like, What the hell, dude!!! That's your sister sharing her private life with you how could you do something like that??
What surprised me the most was towards the end of the conversation he told her sister,"Yah..be patient. For the moment, you can just go back to mom's place.."
WHHAATTT??!! You are 32 years old for god sake and you tell your married sister to go back to your parents' place???? Guess you couldnt blame your brother in law for divorcing your sister if he chose to do so... So immature!!

The other day, my friends and I went to a friend's wedding and yeah he was there.
It was a typical Indo-Chinese wedding sitting on a round table.
The ambiance was fine, the drinks were fine, and so were the jokes until the restaurant started to serve the food.
The soup!!
Ever since I was a kid my mom always told me not to dip my own cutlery into whatever things we share with the rest of the table unless they are your close relatives, even then my mom still sometimes prohibited me to do so.. Not to let myself get used to it, my mom would say.
I was damn shocked when he dipped his soup spoon into the soy sauce in the middle of the round table right in front of everyone with no guilty feeling. WWHHHOOOZZZ!!!! how old is this guy again???????? T.H.I.R.T.Y.T.W.O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! danggg!!

and yes, he often pees on the toilet seater!!!!! missing some levels of his toilet training back then, I guess...

and if I happen to tell him that I have this weird student he will tell me, "some weirdos exist, Vania. Some people just cant put themselves right in the society. They just cant socialize well"
Well, mate, good luck with yourself!!!



I suppose when I have my own kids Im not going to push them to be academic geniuses...
I want them to be socially intelligent since apparently academic intelligence itself is not enough..