Saturday, January 28, 2006

新年快乐 (Happy Chinese New Year)

Due to an excessive amount of post that was posted in full complete english, i thought i should change that tradition for the purpose of today...

真奇怪, 我怎么突然会讲华语了???
(我本来就会讲华语的...) -.-"
把这些华文字打进电脑很累因为非常的不习惯...
都怪我汉语拼音发音不准...

反正今天我不是来骂人或酸人的...
所以就长话短说:

祝大家新年快乐, 年年有"鱼", 学业进步, 事业成功, 快高长大, 早生贵子(!), 万事如意...(还有很多别的祝语...)
还有忘不了得:"恭喜发财,红包拿来..." (我没有这样没有礼貌...)

其实,这已经不是长话短说了....

Discmon
光碟怪物(!!!)/迪士蒙(!!!)
(名字意译)/(名字音译)

Friday, January 27, 2006

27/1 incident...

This post would be really ambigious as i will not be talking about the details and things leading to this post...
If this post does not make any sense to you, that is good for you and me, so don't hard press yourself to understand this post. Its just one of those post where i don't want everyone to understand what i am talking about...

I think a lot of us are already a bit tap out, especially after today over various incidence, which unfortunately all goes back to the mystical mobile phone.
You could either say that this piece of technology is either a saviour for mankind or the destruction of the school rules...

After today's incidence, i was reminded of something that Mr Koh had said a long time ago...
Mr Koh was talking about people in the american school, they can bring gunes to school, but they can't use it...
Lets compare this to our school, we can bring it to school but we can't use it... How easy would it be to control it???

I mean, come on, if the thing vibrates and shakes, are you really going to leave it in your bag and ignore it until you step out of school? I don't think so, particularly after what i had seen in class...

I remembered i was very critical of the loophole in the rule when Mrs Look clarified it the first time ( I will not search their bags unless they use it in class) and later on when they changed the rule, i wasn't exactly excited...

Don't you think it is weird, you bring it around but you can't use it. Isn't that equilavent to bringing a time bomb around and praying hard that it won't explode any time soon...?
Seriously, i would rather they make one firm statement, yes or no... Stop going in between, with the you can bring, don't get spotted law...

Sigh~

Discmon

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Reunion dinner 2006...

Hey people, the reunion dinner is officially over. Need to thank you all for helping me clean up the house... and also for your adventurous attempt at trying to locate my house. This goes to out to all those people who had a really tough time going to my house.

Actually, being a part of disco had somehow given me a reason to look foward to the times ahead. I especially remember the times when the letters that the seniors had given me had helped me pass through those troubled times. When i was down and depressed, argued with my parents or friends over things, when i am stressed out by those freaking homework that the teachers throw at us, those letters of encouragement, encouraging me to stay the way i am, the good old energetic person whom does not fail to light up the days with enthusiasm...
Those things are the things that kept me going.

I finally realised that a gift can really go a long way...

And here, have to thank you all for making this chinese new year reunion dinner a good one. At least, we were less pitiful in the light that we have meat this time and we got lots of food leftover...

But i guess that i am going to start my criticism all over again. Better to get it over with before the new year starts...
Ya, i know that some of you all feel that you all are out of place in this sort of reunion dinner, but that is not a good enough reason for you all to stay inside my room all the time. I mean, what's the point of staying inside my room if this is a reunion dinner?? So that you all can find some interesting private life story to spread around? If that is it, than i am sorry to tell you all that you all will find nothing other than lots of souveniours that people had given me and i kept over the years...

I mean, what's the point of pointing out the difference between us? You people had already missed the council photo taking session, and that's one of the reason why i did not want to buy the council photo... A council photo with various members missing... Come on, i thought we had always emphasised the fact that once you were a disco member, you will always be one. Its like i am going to repeat myself all over again, an earlier post where i was commenting about this situation... Ending your council life is not equal to closing the book and thinking that you were never a part of it... But i guess that is what is happening now...

I know you all feel more free now that you are no longer tied down by the council, but that isn't a reason to separate yourself from us...
But i guess its already a bit too late to talk about this, isn't it...

Anyway, I want to thank you all for being such good people. My parents were quite happy and amused by the fact that you all thanked them in the end... I never knew my parents were able to mess around so well with you all. I don't think they were a bother during the reunion dinner...

And i guess that should end the tradition where we only go to a friend's house for reunion dinner when their parents are away...

Discmon

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

The Peer Support Programme and various thoughts associated with it

I thought that there would be a need to address this issue, but i had this weird feeling that this issue would only be fully worked out in the next council, which is the 28th council...

But anyway, treat this for the record ok?

This thing is about the Peer Support Programme, which from now on would be known here as the PSP (not the Playstation Portable, Thank You...)

Orientation is now officially over, and on our debrief, we question the purpose of the PSP in the orientation programme. It would take a really long time to explain about the PSP and the PSL and their primary purpose...
But to take the icing on the cake, the PSP is set up to give support to the sec 1 and become their mentor and their friend. Thus, also due to manpower shortages, they were included in the orientation programme to help out with us.

However, because of certain problems, such as lack of communications between the SC and the PSL, many problems had occured... And we had a sort of thrashing out of problems session there during the meeting...

I am here to outline my views on the situation:

Strengths of the PSP
For one thing, the PSP currently contains only Sec 2 members. As their role is to provide support to the Sec 1s which have just entered into our school, by making sure that the age gap between the two of them is as small as possible, effective communication can ensues. If the age gap was too big, like what is happening now in SC, as sc have all the levels in it, some things would not be talked about effectively.

For example, Sec 1s would have absolutely no idea what is Gunbound as Gunbound is now outdated in our school although it was an 'in' topic back in 2004 and for those who were in sec 4 in 2003, the 'in' topic might have been Magic: The Gathering... which not a lot of people really plays now (I play it)

And for another point, the other levels would be more busy with their studies. The sec 3s are finally stepping into hell where homework hill becomes homework mountain, and the sec 4s are facing the haunting which will change them into zombies, the O levels...

So the sec 2s are more free than us to take care of the sec 1s...

And this leads into my greatest concern...
What will happen next year?

Ironically, the PSP greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. If the PSP becomes the SC model (with three levels) than it loses its purpose other than supplying the manpower that we may be short of at times of need...

If we let some sec 2s drop from the PSP when they enter sec 3 and recruit new sec 2s, it will suffer the same thing that it had gone through this year, where they find that they do not have enough seniors to learn from...

And the answers that we received during the meeting does not really provide a really good solution. If the sec 3s in PSL becomes their advisers, are they taking part in the things as well? Than if they don't take part, than won't the new sec 2s also be unable to learn from their seniors (if there is one in the first place...)

And than, we drop back into their purpose again. Is there a need for anyone to support the sec 1s after February. For one thing, most of the classes in previous batches are quite independent of the SC by the time they reach February, so will the PSP suffer the same fate as well, or will the PSP instead affect the progress at which the class bonds itself together...

So, lots of question but no answers...
I know i am a failure to not be able to provide an adequate answer to any of the question, but lets hope that these questions will ultimately be solved and that the PSP would not run into so much problems the next time around...

Discmon


Monday, January 09, 2006

When did SC have a communication problem???

I thought that before i start, i should wish everyone a Happy Hari Raya Haji. If not for this holiday, you would not be seeing me here typing this article, but you would definitely see me attacking the homework mountain currently located on my desk...

Anyway, i wasn't really planning to write this like for a few days, so you most likely would not need to endure a really long article like last time when i had inputs from a lot of people...

The thing i am going to write about today is about the meeting that we had today, the meeting is essentially a debrief of the orientation week...

We were closing the debrief and than we started talking about the attitudes of the SC...
If you had been paying attention to my post, i had been complaining about the latecoming that had been happening in the SC. Now, I feel like adding a few more, ponning meetings (Notice that ponning here means that the reason you are absent is either invalid or isn't there at all) and discipline, which i believe i had been complaining since 2004...

This two things that i am adding happens to affect each other. For the debrief we had today, we have about 30 odd people. Aren't surprising, even though our council strength is about 80... This is as the sec 2s aren't around, they got their PSP thing (Peer Support Programme) and some of the other comms had ponned...
And this attendance thing had been around for quite some time, ever since orientation preparation started (last year december)...

But i don't feel like talking too much about this...

What i feel like talking about was the discipline over the sc. I mean, the people in disco had enough of seeing the sc break the school rules. It makes their job really difficult even when the other comms aren't even helping them catch the offenders...

I mean, how many SC had wore ankle socks over the holiday when they came back to school for whatever heck they have to attend? How many SCs care about the fact that their belts are strapped properly... And how many SCs play or allow people to play Basketball in school-U...

The list can go on and on, and what does this got to do with the meeting?

Other than the fact that we were talking about the attitude problem, Choon Yan helped transmit a message from Anna (which we later found out wasn't really from her) which asked the SCs present at the meeting to stop making our job so tough and that discipline is not limited to disco but to all the other comms as well...

The problem with that is that, our main target audience isn't there. As i had stated earlier, they had ponned......
In fact, this thing that i was talking about, we were originally supposed to talk about it way back in 30/12/2005... But i guessed the teachers forgot or er, shifted it to the back of their brain.

So, what's the sc problem, attitude, or the people in there...
Like what one of my other friends said :"To gain the student trust back, the SC needs to be reformed"

I wonder if that would ever happen...

Discmon


Friday, January 06, 2006

End of orientation week...

Its been a really hectic week, what with the new batch of sec 1s coming in and the CCA open house which just ended today...
To tell you the truth, i am really exhausted... and am really glad that the orientation week is over.

The first day of school started badly enough, with the sorta last minute plan in sorting the sec 1 into their classes in the hall. It might have been because i had missed the briefing, but seriously, others should know more than I do and yet they don't seem to know what to do either...

And i think talking about that reminds me about latecoming...
It seemed to have become a tradition here, that by asking people to meet at 6:45am would lead them to appear at around 7am...
This phenomenon totally boggles my mind. For one thing, the people that we are asking to meet here are SC (student councillors) so aren't they supposed to be on time for tasks... It would seem weird if the students whom elected this SCs into office would take that lying down...

And this phenomenon doesn't seems to end there, call a meeting with some people and be prepared to be dragged by about 10+ minutes just to wait for people...
Weird eh?

And it ain't over yet...

To tell you the truth, i was not really excited by the fact that we were going to do sundance all over again... (it had been bugging me for three years, and we're doing it again?!) Of course, i would have been happier if they had reverted to the old version, but i guess you can't have everything in life right?

I am fine with dancing it once or twice, but six times in the morning is overboard... You know that something is wrong when you are helping each level to dance the sundance and well, it just tag me out...
Maybe its because i got AP on that day...
And then class performance had sundance (OK, it is getting overboard, but sundance for class performance is fine with me)

And today was CCA open house. All of us was a bit tagged by that fact that the sec 1s are visiting our booths the whole day...Of course, we entertained ourselves by making fun of the other uniformed groups.

For NPCC, we were tagged by their flag pole, so we rebuilt our flag pole to make it about three times their flagpole height.
For NCC, we were deciding whether or not we should send a bunch of people there saying that the fire that was over there was actually set up using our fire as their lighter spoilt (really shows that they are unprepared eh?)
For St John, we had a really fun time collecting their stickers (as usual) and than using it to form words like "Join scouts"

Ok, that practically wraps up orientation week... and i should just shut up for the time being...

Discmon

Monday, January 02, 2006

Happy Birthday!!!

Argh, physical and mental exhaustion from the plane flight back was too great...
So, i was unable to post another post in 2005...
Its over anyway...

Think I'll do it anyway..
Happy Birthday to my blog, Happy Birthday to my blog, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to my blog...
Ok, its a tad bit late, by about 2 days in fact, but its the thought that counts right...
And if you all are preparing any presents for my blog, I'll be waiting...

Oh ya, and good luck to all you out there for 2006, not a really good start, what with explosions in France and Indonesia, better watch your backs people...

Good luck, and best wishes to you all...

Discmon