Wei Kiat's Blog

Today when i strolled to ABC Junior college from the mrt station, witnessing many innocent and naive first new intakers who will be spending the first 3 month of their Junior College life in ABC Junior College, I can't help but sympathiese with them while looking at their hopeful faces, yet secretly, i longed for one of them to walk up to me, to talk to me, so that i can unleash all the displeasure and discontent i have painstakingly endured in my stay in AJC. Deep down in my heart, i long for their sympathy.

Few teachers in ABC junior college are nothing short of a rotten egg. When you first look at them during your first 3 month's stay, they smiled like angels upon you. Their prefect, flawless exterior cracks 3 months later, when you find yourself stuck in a hellish nightmare of rotten teachers. Their smiles disappeared, replaced with senseless droning and wrongful instructions often leading to confused students and poor quality of work. For example, a certain old lady who teaches GP in AJC who looks like she is going to retire soon is fond of giving wrong instructions and reissuing them when everyone had carried out her instructions. Stimultaneously, she was often seen to mistake a electronic calculator for a overhead project remote control.

Being a teacher in ABC junior college is not joke. The teachers get to slack as much as possible, through the strong emphrasis on SDL which in my opinion benefited the teachers more than the students. During Holiday workshops, teachers are treated to lavish and delicious mouth watering catered buffet food, while students are left to rot at home mugging. It is a wise choice on the student's part to give up their reliance on their teachers, hence fulfilling the school's aim of having independent learners. However, the students went too far when school spirit was killed and students became mindless A-level drones. AJC's school blog is named Muggers United. A fiting name for the blog of a junior college where students unite spiritually through their senseless mugging.

Facilities in AJC is one of the worst. While other JC enjoys air conditioned fully functional gym while we enjoyed a gym with only a threadmill, and equipments which such rusty hand grips that we need to wear gloves in order to use them. Extra care has to go into working out in the gym. Not for our own safety of course, but that of the equipments that may fall into pieces any minute. Getting feedbacks from various students that our smallish canteen is indeed too small, the school decided to extend the canteen, by building a shelter and some tables and sits directly outside the toilets. Using this extended canteen, we place our life on constant anxiety as rain drops fall through the sheltered canteen and the screws on the chairs drop off every moment. Yet, this is still a luxury compared to the regular canteen, where more bird droppings fill tables and chairs, than students and their belonging. The school's library has a long record of not having anyone borrow everything from it, partly due to the long line of muggers that presides the school population, but also the lack of books worth reading in the library. It can be safe to say that any primary school's library is much better equipped than that of AJC's. Library, a powerful place where knowlege and wisdom is shared, offers none of such things, and your laptop cannot be brought into it.

Poor time table planning has always plagued the entire AJC student population. With long days and irregularly spaced out breaks, one has to have a strong stomach in order to survive. You can enjoy a day with breaks scattered equally througout the day, or a day with your break and lunch with only 1hr in between. Of course, nothing beats having a break at 8.45am and having nothing to eat till school dismisses at 2.30pm. Recently, in order to cater for the interest for the students, the school shorten all periods to half an hour, instead of 45minutes. This is a great news, if not for the fact that all lessons now occupies at least 2period slots, making lessons to be one hour. In fact, students cheering over the shorten time table will be interested to discover that our breaks has shortened from 45min to half an hour, the only single period "lesson" we have in a day.

Having said that much, tommorrow is another school day, and it will soon me time to drag myself into hell again. Nothing beats placing myself into a challenging environment and learning how to adapt to it. Thats what the new prinicipal said today. So i can only guess that life will be much more interesting and challenging from now on.

I can't wait.