Thursday, March 31, 2005

CT results coming bad. everyone knows that it's bad, let's not dwell too much into that.

Mr. Koh asked us into a meeting to discuss about the importance of the SC. wad is it really? havent given it much thought really. How about wad to change? wad defines NJ and whether it's worth to change stuff that define us / hold dear to? everyone who runs for council say that they wanna change something but wad exactly? There are after all many consequences of change.

Had some stupid security talk yesterday. ok better stop it before i get jailed for slander, but still, as usual, cant see the pt abt the answers to the qns. some are jus avoiding the qn, others as misty as pea soup. bleah, wad's new? had to endure for 1.5 h odd. and we were generally much better behaved than one of those talks last year. mus be nit-picking when u bitched at us yar?

SJAB Zone meeting today till 2245. haiz sooooo long but strangely, not feeling sleepy or anything. maebe sleep will catch up with me tml. Steven sir said that we should inspire and motivate our members. like make them confident. i totally agree but it's just that if they dont want to motivate themselves, there's really nothing much i can say. still he was very helpful and inspiring. cant really let maris and haising win all the time. no pt in that and the zone's standards would always remain stagnant.

Sapphires programme coming to an end. mrs tan nagged and nagged and nagged for so long. now mus go for make up interview and ms chen's supposed to interview us. goodness gracious me. and we are supposed to know what exactly we want in life and yada yada yada. havent thought abt it yet. how am i supposed to when there's jus so much to do, all the way since sec sch? and there are soo many programmes lined up that i dun even noe wad's happening when and whether it would clash with anything. Welcome to JC life.

Sunday, March 27, 2005

OMG it's been almost a month since i blogged, thx to maldives and then the stupid IE dying on me. mus be my stupid brother who always plays online games and attracted hordes of virus, adware, spyware and the like. brrr. nvr got a chance to blog before leaving for the maldives cos we thought there would be time at the airport. blah wadever. at least my IE's working now and spyware and adware sux.

Maldives was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. On Kudafari, Noonu Atoll, 186 km north of Male, Maldivian capital, I spent 10 (ok, 9) days with 34 other people without internet or mobile phones and only the sun sand breeze and sea! yay!! haha. Life was very simple. Sleep, wake up, eat, work, play. No need to think of time, cos traversing cross the island took only 5-10 at most. No need to think of wad to eat cos u jus ate wad the villagers prepared for you. no need to think of wad to do cos there was always work to be done. It's jus a simple life and the people are nice and the place is beautiful. and the 9-10 days let us got to know each other better cos there was only us to distract ourselves and no major disruptive influences of modern technologies. Even disruption in power and water supply could be overcome with listerine. and there was lotsa fun to boot: night-fishing where i didnt catch any, visit to tsunami devastated islands, visit to uninhabited island and bbqed fish and of course late-night bitching/gossiping in the room or on the net-seats under the coconut trees. oh ya and island exploring and radio channels when moving sand and all the AJC and ACJC activity. haha too bad if u dun understand, cos who knows who's reading this. all the irritating First Aid nonsense and the comcomm guys and log comm and food com ppl. then the IP kids haha sorry. and the villagers. argh. cant stand it anymore. oh ya and the school was so simple and so small. Ppl in NJ, dun ever complain again. actually Aj also and all other schools in singapore. their sch, up to grade 10 (equivalent O levels) is not even the size of 1 football field. Then there were always the friendly neighbourhood stalls of Kuredhi's, Sahtha, Naadu and Moonima's!! and literally kicking up a storm(sand) when the whole herd of us walk through the streets, waking the dead of the island in the process haha. dont regret going, who cares abt common tests? there's always CT 2 but no Kudafari part II.

Kudafari,
in the deep sea,
this is where,
i wanna be.
Kevin sim,
my best companion,
with my backpack my buddies and me e e :)


PS: anyways for the CTs, we(ok at least S6 students) have survived 3 SPAs, 4 A-levels subjects and 1-2 AO-level subjects in the short span of 3 days. Kudos to all of us. left a bit more on mon. all the way.

Sunday, March 06, 2005

ms. V was talking abt branding and corporatisation of education in class on fri, jus before A levels results were released. something abt how a teacher's worth is not in how he teaches but rather in the contribution to the committees that he's involved in. This makes me think of wad LHB is doing to cat high and how the college now wants to manufacture products that are marketable. i certainly dont fancy seeing myself as a product. it's an insult to education. The MOE booth at career fair today also reeked of the branding that ms V spoke of. maebe im biased against them alr. who noes. btw, the career fair wasnt THAT informative.

and i dun agree with wx. so wad if u have to fight for everything? that doesnt mean that u are wretched. and u'd value it more only if it's hard-earned wad. who in the world gets everything they want with the wave of a hand or by demanding for it? it's a life well-lived if u have fought for stuff, stand by ur beliefs. That's jus wad i think :S

Leaving for maldives in 4 days' time. haven started any revision for CTs. kinda screwed but really cant force myself to start. then still got so many council meetings. want to kill arh? things nvr keep coming in. when can they stop? i feel like ponning school this week jus to study, but i cant bear to do it. isnt it ironic to skip lessons jus so i can study? haha.