I will be lumping a few topics together in this post. I am doing this cause I realise that most people do not dig past the first page of my blog due to the way I structured it. One post a page, usually means that no one will bother to read the next post....
I think I'll start with this advertisment that I saw at the bus stop. There is this advertisment at the bus stop that is advertising for the speak Chinese campaign. Well, nothing wrong with that I suppose. They got three well-known 'stars' (Note the inverted commas) to pose around and take a photograph. The photograph was later edited to have the words "讲华语 is cool"...
Sure, nothing wrong with that either, but the bottom part of the advertisment got to take the cake. The bottom part of the advertisment talks about the background of the stars they have chosen. As it is an advertisment to promote the usage of Chinese, I expected the background information to be provided in chinese. I was wrong...
For no apparent reasons, they had decided to go and type out their background in English. Wow, like that is really going to help in the promotion of speaking in Chinese. Ya, there are people out there who refuse to speak Chinese because they feel that Chinese is a lost cause (which, I believe is largely thanks to the effort of the governement around the 1970s). So anyway, the advertisment is aiming at Chinese, who have lost their roots and decided to stop speaking Chinese. I think this is a correct assumption...
I think its a very sad situation. For one thing, the way schools taught Chinese a few years ago won the good game award as they did not provide a solid foundation, making the route to learn Chinese really hard. Add to the fact that there are programmes like Chinese B, and you'll make people who aren't interested in excelling in Chinese to totally heck care it...
And I still can't get over the fact that that advertisment is about 99% filled with English words... Wow, promoting Chinese... Hang on a second, I think I am thinking in English when I read that advertisment...
Next story...
On Thursday, the SCs were called in to do ushering at Victoria Concert Theater. After the whole thing, well, we went home, obviously...
I guess its just one of those sessions where I am the most energetic and the rest are going to die. Its kinda sad. You try to get everyone to join a conversation where you are the person leading it, but in the end, no one really cares about you, simply because they are too tired. It's this point that I do not understand, why is everyone so tired when I am so energetic?
I don't want to hear the usual:" Cause you are super active what..." reason again. I mean, its getting stupid isn't it, I have more energy then you, I can sustain longer than you, I am more enthusiastic and more hyper-active compared to you all........
I think its dumb, cause I believe you all can join the conversation with small comments. I mean, don't you think its funny if five people stand together on the MRT, wearing around the same thing, looking at the ground and not talking to each other...
Its dumb, isn't it. We are usually called in to lead the sec 1s when they come in, and to do that, we need lots of energy, to play with them, jump with them, lead them on... and yet, our energy level depletes so fast when we do ushering? Perhaps what my mother said was correct, when you like to do something, you'll enjoy it more than when you feel that doing it is a chore...
Our duty is to serve the school, maybe we should not see it so much as a duty but rather as a special thing that is given to us. Don't you think we should try to make it feel like a happy thing to do rather than a chore. I believe in that way, we would feel more energetic about the jobs we are given and do it to the best that we can do.
End of story 2
Today, I was queueing in the canteen when a fellow SC asked me whether or not I could buy for him/her...
I was seriously pissed off, and my friend who was queueing with me is pissed off as well. I mean, SC already have a big enough problem trying to maintain discipline in the school (thanks to various individuals) and I don't want it to become harder when people in the committee whom are supposed to be disciplined break rules as well....
Its not that I am being an idiot, its just that, please be more responsible with what you do... Its really sad when this sort of things happen and immediately after the things happen, you'll have to defend them when those friends around me start throwing criticisms...
Please think before you act...
I don't want this office to end in a bad shape, and I certainly don't want to start disciplinary action when office is about to end...
Discmon
Friday, March 31, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
On my class...
After a post on the forest and nature, its time to go back to school things...
After sort of boycotting the class blog due to the class saying that the three of us were posting crap and should stop posting, I noticed that the blog is starting to rot, in fact, I can smell that familiar odour of decomposition...
Seriously, the last post was in 17 March, and mind you, there is 36-3 people in that blog who can/will post...
I wonder if they still feel that we are posting crap, I mean, we were the few people who was passionate about the class blog as an avenue for all of us to have fun, to talk about the fun things and the crappy things in class. If they feel that the class blog should be reserved for criticism and things to finish off from things that happen in class, than I do not think there is much we can do about it, can we?
Of course, even if I do not post on my class blog, I can still fire away at things I see on my own blog, which is much better maintained than my class blog. (which is dying because the last few post that was posted is by the three of us, and no one bothers to post anyway)
For one thing, I do not think that breaking the school rules is something to be proud of...
When someone breaks school rules, a few things can happen:
1. I am not around, and you don't get caught, then nothing happens
2. I am not around, you get caught by a teacher that will catch people, than you die
3. I am around, I tell you to stop breaking the school rules, you continue, I piss off, teacher come in, scold you and accuse me of not maintaining the school rules
4. I am around, I tell you to stop breaking the school rules, you continues, I piss off and yet I cannot use the Management diary because the person who owns it is breaking the rule himself or is heck caring me...
I mean, its a very sad situation isn't it. We make life difficult for each other. How?
You break a rule, I stop you. You don't listen, teacher come in and scold you...
Doesn't it makes life hard for you...?
So, to all the people in class, stop doing this things:
1. Eating in class
2. Drinking coloured drinks in class
3. Kicking the ball in class
4. Using the mobile phone when still in school
I mean, what is the problem with this simple rules? Don't you think they are easy to follow... Sure, you are older than me, you have attitude problem... and you eat in class. I know that there is only one SC in class and the chairperson do not care, so what?
I'm sick of it. Everyone is going "it's off" (handphone rule) whenever you all are short of humour to amuse yourself... Sure it's fun, but it get irritating after a while...
And seriously, there is no point trying to substitute a word for what you are doing at the moment. Do you know that it makes the person kicking the ball and substituting words look like a idiotic git?
Scenario 1
"Stop kicking the ball"
"I'm not kicking, I am slicing/dicing/hitting/bouncing/slaming/being an idiot by substituting words when I know that I am breaking a school rule"
Its dumb isn't it...
And why do you have to eat in class? You are the cleanliness rep yourself...
Remind me again, who was the one who volunteered to be the cleanliness rep? YOU! What is happening now? Your poor other cleanliness rep have to do the dirty job for you. I know you got low patience for others, you don't really consider other people's feeling and you have been disillusioned by the way the class handles cleanliness.. So? What's your problem? Attitude? Fine, I am fine with that...
I've been very relaxed with all of you, cause I know its a bit pointless to go and make sure you all don't break the rule. I take this stand, that is, as long as you don't do it in front of me or get into trouble with teachers, I won't go and specifically go and mark you all down...
And it gets really saddening when your management diary is not operating because no one bothers to record. Even that duty defience system is not working cause no one gets recorded. And besides, lots of people think that nothing will happen to them even if they get recorded...
Well, if you think I have mentioned about you in a bad way, I don't think you should still be smling after reading finish this post...
If you are, go and stare into a mirror and ask yourself whether or not you've been an idiot...
And yes, that comment which I talked about last time (the sponsorship thing) is posted by someone I've talked about...
Talk about class spirit...
Ya, over my dead body...
Discmon
After sort of boycotting the class blog due to the class saying that the three of us were posting crap and should stop posting, I noticed that the blog is starting to rot, in fact, I can smell that familiar odour of decomposition...
Seriously, the last post was in 17 March, and mind you, there is 36-3 people in that blog who can/will post...
I wonder if they still feel that we are posting crap, I mean, we were the few people who was passionate about the class blog as an avenue for all of us to have fun, to talk about the fun things and the crappy things in class. If they feel that the class blog should be reserved for criticism and things to finish off from things that happen in class, than I do not think there is much we can do about it, can we?
Of course, even if I do not post on my class blog, I can still fire away at things I see on my own blog, which is much better maintained than my class blog. (which is dying because the last few post that was posted is by the three of us, and no one bothers to post anyway)
For one thing, I do not think that breaking the school rules is something to be proud of...
When someone breaks school rules, a few things can happen:
1. I am not around, and you don't get caught, then nothing happens
2. I am not around, you get caught by a teacher that will catch people, than you die
3. I am around, I tell you to stop breaking the school rules, you continue, I piss off, teacher come in, scold you and accuse me of not maintaining the school rules
4. I am around, I tell you to stop breaking the school rules, you continues, I piss off and yet I cannot use the Management diary because the person who owns it is breaking the rule himself or is heck caring me...
I mean, its a very sad situation isn't it. We make life difficult for each other. How?
You break a rule, I stop you. You don't listen, teacher come in and scold you...
Doesn't it makes life hard for you...?
So, to all the people in class, stop doing this things:
1. Eating in class
2. Drinking coloured drinks in class
3. Kicking the ball in class
4. Using the mobile phone when still in school
I mean, what is the problem with this simple rules? Don't you think they are easy to follow... Sure, you are older than me, you have attitude problem... and you eat in class. I know that there is only one SC in class and the chairperson do not care, so what?
I'm sick of it. Everyone is going "it's off" (handphone rule) whenever you all are short of humour to amuse yourself... Sure it's fun, but it get irritating after a while...
And seriously, there is no point trying to substitute a word for what you are doing at the moment. Do you know that it makes the person kicking the ball and substituting words look like a idiotic git?
Scenario 1
"Stop kicking the ball"
"I'm not kicking, I am slicing/dicing/hitting/bouncing/slaming/being an idiot by substituting words when I know that I am breaking a school rule"
Its dumb isn't it...
And why do you have to eat in class? You are the cleanliness rep yourself...
Remind me again, who was the one who volunteered to be the cleanliness rep? YOU! What is happening now? Your poor other cleanliness rep have to do the dirty job for you. I know you got low patience for others, you don't really consider other people's feeling and you have been disillusioned by the way the class handles cleanliness.. So? What's your problem? Attitude? Fine, I am fine with that...
I've been very relaxed with all of you, cause I know its a bit pointless to go and make sure you all don't break the rule. I take this stand, that is, as long as you don't do it in front of me or get into trouble with teachers, I won't go and specifically go and mark you all down...
And it gets really saddening when your management diary is not operating because no one bothers to record. Even that duty defience system is not working cause no one gets recorded. And besides, lots of people think that nothing will happen to them even if they get recorded...
Well, if you think I have mentioned about you in a bad way, I don't think you should still be smling after reading finish this post...
If you are, go and stare into a mirror and ask yourself whether or not you've been an idiot...
And yes, that comment which I talked about last time (the sponsorship thing) is posted by someone I've talked about...
Talk about class spirit...
Ya, over my dead body...
Discmon
Destruction of forest...
The week is coming to an end...
The forest beind my house is also coming to an end...
I was walking home along this short-cut that cuts through a railway. The railway belongs to KTM, a malaysian railway company. Even though this is Singapore territory, the Malaysian government owns the land that are near to the railway. This causes the area near the railway to be mostly jungles and forests as they do not really care to develop this area.
I love the scenery and the immersing into nature feeling that you can get whenever you walk there to go home. The big trees there and the huge area that the wild grass had colonised is something that makes me feel relaxed. As I was walking home along that short-cut, I was shocked to notice that on one side of the railway, all the wild grass there had been cleared. All that was left was barren patches of land, with caterpillar tracks imprinted on them, showing exactly what machines had left this destruction...
I had stopped just before the railway track, looking at the destruction of the once green forest. The men there, whom I believe are the supervisors of this, motioned to me that there was 'no train'.. Like I was interested in that... Another person who was taking the path home was also shocked by the destruction seen there. Both of us stopped and just looked at the bare ground in silence...
I feel sad because that area forms an integral part of what I can see out of my bedroom window and its a great feeling everytime you see it. They say that people who lives a busy life prefer to want to live in the rural areas to enjoy life. I guess I am one of those people, those people who prefer a comfortable life compared to a busy life...
Ya, I know that the forest had brought a bit of trouble, especially during the dry season where forest fire is common, and there are occasional invasion of insects (which became worse after the forest is destroyed as the insects home's are destroyed and they just invade your house)... But I think that aside from this, the view is great, the feeling is great.
It would be a sad thing indeed if the forest is to be cleared off...
Discmon
The forest beind my house is also coming to an end...
I was walking home along this short-cut that cuts through a railway. The railway belongs to KTM, a malaysian railway company. Even though this is Singapore territory, the Malaysian government owns the land that are near to the railway. This causes the area near the railway to be mostly jungles and forests as they do not really care to develop this area.
I love the scenery and the immersing into nature feeling that you can get whenever you walk there to go home. The big trees there and the huge area that the wild grass had colonised is something that makes me feel relaxed. As I was walking home along that short-cut, I was shocked to notice that on one side of the railway, all the wild grass there had been cleared. All that was left was barren patches of land, with caterpillar tracks imprinted on them, showing exactly what machines had left this destruction...
I had stopped just before the railway track, looking at the destruction of the once green forest. The men there, whom I believe are the supervisors of this, motioned to me that there was 'no train'.. Like I was interested in that... Another person who was taking the path home was also shocked by the destruction seen there. Both of us stopped and just looked at the bare ground in silence...
I feel sad because that area forms an integral part of what I can see out of my bedroom window and its a great feeling everytime you see it. They say that people who lives a busy life prefer to want to live in the rural areas to enjoy life. I guess I am one of those people, those people who prefer a comfortable life compared to a busy life...
Ya, I know that the forest had brought a bit of trouble, especially during the dry season where forest fire is common, and there are occasional invasion of insects (which became worse after the forest is destroyed as the insects home's are destroyed and they just invade your house)... But I think that aside from this, the view is great, the feeling is great.
It would be a sad thing indeed if the forest is to be cleared off...
Discmon
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Holiday lost its holiday...
The holiday (if you can still call it a holiday) is really coming to an end (it hasn't even started for me)...
I feel that after this four long years in this school, I have lost all meaning of a holiday. Go on, ask me for what I think about holidays and what to expect during one. My first thought is homework. Regardless of how long the holiday is or how short the holiday is, the teachers will always pile you on homework. Homework, doesn't it drives you mad?
Other than the apparent phobia against homework, the homework that is given by the teacher isn't well explained. For example, a few weeks back, I received a math homework that is probably there to test your english. The question goes like this:
A cylinder with height 4cm and base 2cm......
Er, base 2 cm?! So, the diameter is 2cm or is it the radius that is 2cm...?
And it doesn't end there...
There are a lot more examples out there, such as this one that I just received and am scratching my head over what I should do with it:
I have to select between two candidates to support to be a student councillor. I am selected to write a letter to the person whom I do not intend to support. The question states that I should not indicate the REAL reason why I am not supporting the person in the letter so as to not hurt the person's feeling...
Ok, I see two reasons (which there is only two anyway, unless you consider the funny sounding name).
1) The person's characteristics will not allow the person to look after the welfare of the students.
2) I choose to support the other person, so I cannot support this person...
I would say that both are REAL reasons, and both of them would hurt that person's feeling anyway... So what am I supposed to write? You suck?
Ya, fine, a week is a lot of time for you to finish your homework. That is, if you don't consider things like camp, job week, school things, meetings called by teachers...
Ya sure, and for a lot of people out there, their holiday is simply equal to normal school day, aside from the fact that they do not need to face everyone in class most of the time. Technically, each subject gives us three homework... WOW. That is equal to 3*8=24, and I won't be surprised if it gets even more than that...
And how many time do we ever get our holiday homework back? Well, I remember a few times, but most of the time, after the holiday homework is handed up, it disappears... And when we mean disappear, we really mean disappear. Gone, vanished, with little to no trace. How am I supposed to know how I had fared on my holiday homework? Though a series of unfortunate events? No thanks...
Sure, I had been ranting on holiday homework and homework itself... But don't you think that lots of people don't really like the school, like they are treating it as a shell, and the only thing that keeps them going are the people in it. I mean, come on, what's the problem? Why do we have such a hard time trying to get the school together? Blame it on the people who don't like the school? I do not think so...
Does homework and liking a school links together? Probably...
Especially when you get buried by homework, even during the holiday... So much so that holiday has lost its meaning for me... What's the point of holiday when all you ever do before the holiday start is to dread about the homework you are about to receive?
Discmon
I feel that after this four long years in this school, I have lost all meaning of a holiday. Go on, ask me for what I think about holidays and what to expect during one. My first thought is homework. Regardless of how long the holiday is or how short the holiday is, the teachers will always pile you on homework. Homework, doesn't it drives you mad?
Other than the apparent phobia against homework, the homework that is given by the teacher isn't well explained. For example, a few weeks back, I received a math homework that is probably there to test your english. The question goes like this:
A cylinder with height 4cm and base 2cm......
Er, base 2 cm?! So, the diameter is 2cm or is it the radius that is 2cm...?
And it doesn't end there...
There are a lot more examples out there, such as this one that I just received and am scratching my head over what I should do with it:
I have to select between two candidates to support to be a student councillor. I am selected to write a letter to the person whom I do not intend to support. The question states that I should not indicate the REAL reason why I am not supporting the person in the letter so as to not hurt the person's feeling...
Ok, I see two reasons (which there is only two anyway, unless you consider the funny sounding name).
1) The person's characteristics will not allow the person to look after the welfare of the students.
2) I choose to support the other person, so I cannot support this person...
I would say that both are REAL reasons, and both of them would hurt that person's feeling anyway... So what am I supposed to write? You suck?
Ya, fine, a week is a lot of time for you to finish your homework. That is, if you don't consider things like camp, job week, school things, meetings called by teachers...
Ya sure, and for a lot of people out there, their holiday is simply equal to normal school day, aside from the fact that they do not need to face everyone in class most of the time. Technically, each subject gives us three homework... WOW. That is equal to 3*8=24, and I won't be surprised if it gets even more than that...
And how many time do we ever get our holiday homework back? Well, I remember a few times, but most of the time, after the holiday homework is handed up, it disappears... And when we mean disappear, we really mean disappear. Gone, vanished, with little to no trace. How am I supposed to know how I had fared on my holiday homework? Though a series of unfortunate events? No thanks...
Sure, I had been ranting on holiday homework and homework itself... But don't you think that lots of people don't really like the school, like they are treating it as a shell, and the only thing that keeps them going are the people in it. I mean, come on, what's the problem? Why do we have such a hard time trying to get the school together? Blame it on the people who don't like the school? I do not think so...
Does homework and liking a school links together? Probably...
Especially when you get buried by homework, even during the holiday... So much so that holiday has lost its meaning for me... What's the point of holiday when all you ever do before the holiday start is to dread about the homework you are about to receive?
Discmon
Connections in Animania
Samurai 7 just ended on Animania...
And the ending was great, they left the things that are supposed to hang, hang in the air. I especially like the last part when Schiroji pointed out that it was the both of them who survived again and than Kanbei said :"The peasents were the one who won the war..."
Great ending...
And after puzzling over the connection issue over the anime series over the last three months, I finally sorted it out...
When Hellsing and Twelve Kingdoms were being shown, the connection between them, other than the particular fact that they are both back from popular demand, is that they both focus on spiritual things, things like kirins, vampires and so on and so forth...
The connection between Samurai 7 and Twelve Kingdoms should be slightly easier to connect. They both talk about rebelling against the government/capital and there are quite a bit of killing in each of their last few ending episodes...
But personally, I think the current new anime, Witch Hunter Robin would link better with Hellsing, since they are technically talking about the exact same thing...
Figuring out connections post... Like to keep it short...
Discmon
And the ending was great, they left the things that are supposed to hang, hang in the air. I especially like the last part when Schiroji pointed out that it was the both of them who survived again and than Kanbei said :"The peasents were the one who won the war..."
Great ending...
And after puzzling over the connection issue over the anime series over the last three months, I finally sorted it out...
When Hellsing and Twelve Kingdoms were being shown, the connection between them, other than the particular fact that they are both back from popular demand, is that they both focus on spiritual things, things like kirins, vampires and so on and so forth...
The connection between Samurai 7 and Twelve Kingdoms should be slightly easier to connect. They both talk about rebelling against the government/capital and there are quite a bit of killing in each of their last few ending episodes...
But personally, I think the current new anime, Witch Hunter Robin would link better with Hellsing, since they are technically talking about the exact same thing...
Figuring out connections post... Like to keep it short...
Discmon
Monday, March 13, 2006
The things that happen during job week...
The march holidays just started...
Celebrate? Jump up and down? Bounce around? All in the mood to rejoice in the holiday for one week?
No
At least, I don't think so...
I can see directly in front of me, a bunch of notes, paper, books and countless ink pots...
Holiday homework...
Great...
Should be pretty easy though...
Anyway, I am not here to lament on my homework situation (which is pretty bad anyway you see it), but rather to talk about my final job week and the visit to my old school campus during this last few days...
This year should mark the last year that I am doing job week. I think that this job week has been specially arranged by some higher being as a lesson in life and in our principles. I had been doing job week conscientiously for the last three years. For the last three years, job week had been about humour, fun and jokes to share among your brothers. A typical joke would be:
I went to this house and asked for a job
Scouts:"请问你有没有工作给我做?"
Person:"我不会讲华语..."
Scouts than proceeded to ask:"Do you have a job for me to do?"
The unfortunate reply was:"我不会讲华语..."
The person reply was a bit off. Anyway, you could imagine what the last three years of scouting is like already for me during job week. This year is really different, and I'm still wondering whether or not someone had prepared it specially for me.
The day started with me looking for jobs as usual. As I knocked on the door and asked for a job, the old man who lived there said :"Ah, Job week. I do not believe that it will teach you how hard it is to earn money" and he goes on and on on why job week does not teach the scouts the hardship of life. He told me that we all (meaning the people born in the 90's) was born with a silver spoon in our mouth and does not understand how hard it is to earn money. He goes on to tell me that he was once a scout...
I mean, you can imagine it don't you... Your last job week, with people telling you about why they think job week is not a good way for you to learn about the hardships in life... Its very philosophical...
Anyway, end of story number 1
Afterwards, we went to another location and continued to do our job week. The three of us was looking for jobs when this household, whom does not have a job for us, invited us in to take a drink and relax. Apparently, it was because they said they had a job for us...
Anyway, what happened soon after was beyond my imagination...
They were going to preach to us. They were going to tell us about god, Jesus Christ...
I had no problem with that, but isn't it weird. As you are doing your job week, you get invited into a house to be preached about christianity...
Anyway, I feel that this thing is arranged, somehow. That God had wanted me to meet with this sort of people to lead me back to Him... For my friends, they weren't really interested...
And I am scared of them. When we told them that we had a quota to hit for job week, he asked us for our quota and than said:"I invite you all to come here tommorow, and then you give me one day for me to introduce Jesus to you. After that, I will give you $200 to let you hit your quota"...
That caused my jaw to drop, and after I went home and told this incredible tale to my mom, she said that this people who were preaching have brought it too far, and preaching should not be done like this...
Anyway, its way too much of a coincidence for me to have my last job week be filled with philosophers. One for job week itself and the other for Christianity... Go figure...
After I called it a day, I realised that my location was very close to the place where my secondary school used to be. I decided to pay it a visit and see how it is now.
From what i could see, the basketball court that used to be there beside the auditorium is being replaced by a football field. The canteen and hall is being rebuilt, the carpark has become occupied with building but the gate is still there. As I continued walking down that stretch of road which I used to walk everyday from school to the nearest busstop, I walked past Gate 2. Gate 2 reminded me of many things, about the time when I had countless gate duties with Clara, and how I from there really got to know her... About the good old days when we had newspaper collection and had to deposit our things there...
But the saddest story would go to the scouts and guides who were there last time. The shed that used to house our wood, is now replaced with a power house...
And than, there was Pandan Reservoir...
There are some comments around that says that our school result will drop because of Feng Shui. Last time there was water and good surrounding, but now, we are getting hacked by the shadows caused by the mrt line and the MRT itself...
I miss Pandan reservoir, and the sea breeze that are generated by it. Other than providing a cooling sensation when you wait at the busstop, it provides a scenic view when running our 2.4km...
If only we would be going back there...
But than again, as a lot of people says :"Life must go on, and on and on and on...."
I guess I should say that to myself as well...
Life must go on...
Discmon
Celebrate? Jump up and down? Bounce around? All in the mood to rejoice in the holiday for one week?
No
At least, I don't think so...
I can see directly in front of me, a bunch of notes, paper, books and countless ink pots...
Holiday homework...
Great...
Should be pretty easy though...
Anyway, I am not here to lament on my homework situation (which is pretty bad anyway you see it), but rather to talk about my final job week and the visit to my old school campus during this last few days...
This year should mark the last year that I am doing job week. I think that this job week has been specially arranged by some higher being as a lesson in life and in our principles. I had been doing job week conscientiously for the last three years. For the last three years, job week had been about humour, fun and jokes to share among your brothers. A typical joke would be:
I went to this house and asked for a job
Scouts:"请问你有没有工作给我做?"
Person:"我不会讲华语..."
Scouts than proceeded to ask:"Do you have a job for me to do?"
The unfortunate reply was:"我不会讲华语..."
The person reply was a bit off. Anyway, you could imagine what the last three years of scouting is like already for me during job week. This year is really different, and I'm still wondering whether or not someone had prepared it specially for me.
The day started with me looking for jobs as usual. As I knocked on the door and asked for a job, the old man who lived there said :"Ah, Job week. I do not believe that it will teach you how hard it is to earn money" and he goes on and on on why job week does not teach the scouts the hardship of life. He told me that we all (meaning the people born in the 90's) was born with a silver spoon in our mouth and does not understand how hard it is to earn money. He goes on to tell me that he was once a scout...
I mean, you can imagine it don't you... Your last job week, with people telling you about why they think job week is not a good way for you to learn about the hardships in life... Its very philosophical...
Anyway, end of story number 1
Afterwards, we went to another location and continued to do our job week. The three of us was looking for jobs when this household, whom does not have a job for us, invited us in to take a drink and relax. Apparently, it was because they said they had a job for us...
Anyway, what happened soon after was beyond my imagination...
They were going to preach to us. They were going to tell us about god, Jesus Christ...
I had no problem with that, but isn't it weird. As you are doing your job week, you get invited into a house to be preached about christianity...
Anyway, I feel that this thing is arranged, somehow. That God had wanted me to meet with this sort of people to lead me back to Him... For my friends, they weren't really interested...
And I am scared of them. When we told them that we had a quota to hit for job week, he asked us for our quota and than said:"I invite you all to come here tommorow, and then you give me one day for me to introduce Jesus to you. After that, I will give you $200 to let you hit your quota"...
That caused my jaw to drop, and after I went home and told this incredible tale to my mom, she said that this people who were preaching have brought it too far, and preaching should not be done like this...
Anyway, its way too much of a coincidence for me to have my last job week be filled with philosophers. One for job week itself and the other for Christianity... Go figure...
After I called it a day, I realised that my location was very close to the place where my secondary school used to be. I decided to pay it a visit and see how it is now.
From what i could see, the basketball court that used to be there beside the auditorium is being replaced by a football field. The canteen and hall is being rebuilt, the carpark has become occupied with building but the gate is still there. As I continued walking down that stretch of road which I used to walk everyday from school to the nearest busstop, I walked past Gate 2. Gate 2 reminded me of many things, about the time when I had countless gate duties with Clara, and how I from there really got to know her... About the good old days when we had newspaper collection and had to deposit our things there...
But the saddest story would go to the scouts and guides who were there last time. The shed that used to house our wood, is now replaced with a power house...
And than, there was Pandan Reservoir...
There are some comments around that says that our school result will drop because of Feng Shui. Last time there was water and good surrounding, but now, we are getting hacked by the shadows caused by the mrt line and the MRT itself...
I miss Pandan reservoir, and the sea breeze that are generated by it. Other than providing a cooling sensation when you wait at the busstop, it provides a scenic view when running our 2.4km...
If only we would be going back there...
But than again, as a lot of people says :"Life must go on, and on and on and on...."
I guess I should say that to myself as well...
Life must go on...
Discmon
Friday, March 03, 2006
Great errors...
Have you ever wondered why we always think about the bad things? I am guessing that it is human nature that we do this things, that we continuosly remember the wrong things that certain people had done.
I find that i focus a lot on the wrong things that people had done, but can you imagine errors that are overlooked by more than one person, and that you eventually find the error sitting in front of you face after it has supposedly been checked?
In fact, many errors have ocurred since the beginning of this year. Right at the start of the year, we had VR socks. The problem with this socks is that the colour of the socks were wrong. They were of the opposite shade. It caused quite a bit on inconvinience to the sec 1s as the sec 1s needed to queue up a few days later to change the socks they had purchased.
End of story number 1
Second story started with publications.
For this one, there are various little small stories as there are really a lot of error abound.
Firstly, when did hui xin council became the 25th council. For all i remember, I entered the council in the 25th council, and Hui Xin was the president of the 26th council... But yet, in the publication, it is explicitly stated that Hui Xin is the president of the 25th student council...
Other than those errors, picture errors abound in that same piece. For one thing, the picture of the sc investiture used is definitely wrong. I do not remember seeing Jason in the 26th(or 25th council for that matter) council, and i definitely remember that we only had investiture in the carpark for the 27th investiture. What has happened was a mass of confusion in my head as i try to recall whether or not this was the 27th or 26th council that i am in now....
And that is for the student council section.
Dear old Lian Quan even had a bigger surprise in the book. He is the president of the mindsports club. Unfortunately, I guess his long lost twin brother has decided to take over the post as the president of the mindsports club is explicitly stated to be Thng Lian Chuan...
Obviously, there are a few more. For one thing, I do not quite remember the school offering the subject Biography to students. Apparently, our great biology teacher is able to teach another subject that combines both Biology and Geography...
And there is one more, which according to our english teacher is a slip. They spelt Treasurer and than Assistant Teasurer...
Tea-surer. I can see it now, someone who keeps the tea leaves in a cupboard...
That about wraps up the errors found there...
But you may ask, what is the point for me to list out all the errors here? The point is that, we must try to minimize errors in important things, especially year books that are given out to the whole school. Can you imagine the Sec4 students last year, looking through the year book and seeing lots of mistakes? Can you imagine what they would feel whenever they look at the last year book they receive from the school?
I think its a very sad thing for that to happen...
I mean, we strive for accuracy in English, but here, we have a year book published by the school which is fraught with errors...
Its a bit ironic isn't it...
Discmon
I find that i focus a lot on the wrong things that people had done, but can you imagine errors that are overlooked by more than one person, and that you eventually find the error sitting in front of you face after it has supposedly been checked?
In fact, many errors have ocurred since the beginning of this year. Right at the start of the year, we had VR socks. The problem with this socks is that the colour of the socks were wrong. They were of the opposite shade. It caused quite a bit on inconvinience to the sec 1s as the sec 1s needed to queue up a few days later to change the socks they had purchased.
End of story number 1
Second story started with publications.
For this one, there are various little small stories as there are really a lot of error abound.
Firstly, when did hui xin council became the 25th council. For all i remember, I entered the council in the 25th council, and Hui Xin was the president of the 26th council... But yet, in the publication, it is explicitly stated that Hui Xin is the president of the 25th student council...
Other than those errors, picture errors abound in that same piece. For one thing, the picture of the sc investiture used is definitely wrong. I do not remember seeing Jason in the 26th(or 25th council for that matter) council, and i definitely remember that we only had investiture in the carpark for the 27th investiture. What has happened was a mass of confusion in my head as i try to recall whether or not this was the 27th or 26th council that i am in now....
And that is for the student council section.
Dear old Lian Quan even had a bigger surprise in the book. He is the president of the mindsports club. Unfortunately, I guess his long lost twin brother has decided to take over the post as the president of the mindsports club is explicitly stated to be Thng Lian Chuan...
Obviously, there are a few more. For one thing, I do not quite remember the school offering the subject Biography to students. Apparently, our great biology teacher is able to teach another subject that combines both Biology and Geography...
And there is one more, which according to our english teacher is a slip. They spelt Treasurer and than Assistant Teasurer...
Tea-surer. I can see it now, someone who keeps the tea leaves in a cupboard...
That about wraps up the errors found there...
But you may ask, what is the point for me to list out all the errors here? The point is that, we must try to minimize errors in important things, especially year books that are given out to the whole school. Can you imagine the Sec4 students last year, looking through the year book and seeing lots of mistakes? Can you imagine what they would feel whenever they look at the last year book they receive from the school?
I think its a very sad thing for that to happen...
I mean, we strive for accuracy in English, but here, we have a year book published by the school which is fraught with errors...
Its a bit ironic isn't it...
Discmon
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