Monday, April 02, 2007
In my own imagination 10:48 AM.
On saturday, i went to watch the annual international muay thai competition held at Jurong stadium. Well, we arrived at 3pm and got so pissed when we learnt that the show actually starts at 7pm...-_-...SO we sat there and waited for the show to start. Well, but at least we got free tic..haa
I measured my weight yesterday. TO my horror, i only lost a pathetic amount of 1kg....Shit....After some analysis, i realised why this happened....Firstly, i've been indulging on fast food very often for the past 2 weeks. I didn't know that fast food is so bloody metophorically virulent. Secondly, i stopped drinking the Japenese Green Tea. That's why i only lost 1KG despite carrying out my usual exercise regime every night.
Fine, i'm going to stop eating fast food from today, and i'll be buying bottles of Japanese Green Tea; for the sake of losing weight.
Next, i wanna talk about an article which i came across ytd on the SUNDAY TIMES. It was about THE ARENA. THE ARENA is a TV programme whereby it is a competition which involves debating. This competition is opened to all secondary schs, and most of the top schs in sg took part(excluding ftpss) . It was sacastically claimed and proven that students from international schs are better than local sch students when it comes to debating. Well, debating is all about a person's mind. Whether he/she is able to think with a flexible mind. Of cos, he/she has to be very well read. But what's the point of being well read when you just adhere to the rules and don't think out of the box?
In the article, some people were interviewed. They shared the same sentiments of why singaporean students actually lost in debates. A teacher in an international sch said ''......in foreign schs, students are encouraged to challenge their teachers to a certain extend, wheareas in singapore, it is marked as disrespect to do so...'' Omg, how much more can i agree with this? Many ppl are discussing thsi issue about the Singapore education system being too old-fashioned and literary dead. That's why since young, local students are being brought up in a culture whereby they have to abide by everything, and that's why Singapore is low in production of originality, and highly in need of foreign talents.
Schs in Singapore often preach that people are the only resources which the country has, and therefore education is important. But what's the use of having a prolific certificate, but the cert holder is actually a mind-dead person who only follows the crowd and has got no creativity? Thus, the cert turns pseudo, isn't it?
This reminds me of an incident which happened to me in sch last year. Whereby i challenged a sch staff who tried to abuse her authority on me. Well, it was a horrendous incident and i do not wish to talk about it here..All i know is, after challenging her, she dared not attempt to bully me anymore.
Ok, i didn't go to sch today. Well, i hv a bit of sore throat la. But i hv to study later in order to remunerate for my absence for today's lessons..
Next, i wanna talk about PE lessons. To add on with what i said in my earlier paragraph, the literary dead style of Singapore's education system, this does not exclude PE lessons. In singapore, PE lessons remains the same as 40 years ago. Push ups, sit ups, 2.4km, shuttle run, games, etc etc....Why can't they come up with something new? Esp long distant running. Aren't they aware that running actually weakens a person? gosh.
In fact, after term 2, PE lessons shd be exempted for graduating students, and it shd be substituted with academic-related lessons. Studies shd be our top priority now.
On friday, it was speech day. I realised tt the prefect mistress kept on staring at me. Well, i know, she must be thinking why didn't i report for duty. But the head-prefect didn't even ask me to report for duty, does she expect me to go to her and volunteer? Pls, if i do this shows that i am trying too hard to prove my capabilities. I dont' need and i dont want..I will never ever prove my capabilities by doing prefectorial duties whereby those duties are literally
sai gang (shit jobs).
So i reported to sch as a student audience instead. Then, the moment i sat down among the audience, i began contemplating. Then again, i saw that the surrounding people were actually my classmates and the joy that they hv.
And so my thought process went : I've been a prefect, doing duties at events and during every morning's assembly. It has been 3 yrs ever since i last became an audience in sch, where i can sit down and just simply wait for things to start, and go back to class then start studying. I began to realise that this is actually a pleasure, i can just simply don't care about event progressions and stuffs(esp in a budget sch which they are not willing to sacrifice).
Therefore i felt that i was very foolish to be a prefect. At the end of the day, it is the L1R4 points which follows me. Although it's from a dead system, but at least we can pursue our tertiary life with it and we can carry on with life. But with those few cca points of being a prefect, does it help me at all? Yes, perhaps a little. But overall, academical results are the more important ones.
The prefect mistress always preach that studies shd be our top prior. But she is contradicting herself. She's still throwing jobs to graduating students and she doesn't care about our studies at all nowadays. haiz...
Okok, enough, i've got to study already...
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