Wei Kiat's Blog

Before some body starts talking about 7 habits of highly effective teenagers that are so freaking obvious, infringing of copyright and undoubtly not applicable to AJC students, she should bear in mind that those people running around the school are not teenagers. They are slaves to the society and were given slave treatment.

1) Be Proactive.
This is merely an illusion created by those in power, for those who are not in power. By asking AJCians to be active and creative in shaping the school and imposing so much restrictions that nothing signicant can be done by the students, save for a few graffiti here and there, the effect of illusional freedom is achieved. Students are now happily controlled, even thought the dumb ones do not know that.

2) Begin with the end in mind.
When life comes to an end, we die. Henceforth, this habit can be used to explain the student's tendency to commit suicide at the slightest provocation. This holds true even for students outside AJC. As long as anyone is part of the Singapore Educational system, they are more aware and more keen for the end than anyone else that they always have suicidal thoughts in their mind. Students in Singapore always have the end in mind.

3) Put First Things First.
This habit teaches us how to prioritize our tasks and what we want to do. However, a major flaw in this seems to be that the definition of "first things" cannot be defined by students of AJC. This is because of the fact that they are merely slaves to the school. A computer game may come out on 13/5, while your teacher gave out a homework on 14/5. However, if the teacher was told that the homework was not done because you were playing the game, he or she would definitely stresses the importance of "Puting the first things first", despite the fact that the game came out first. Only teachers have the right to decide on what are the "first things", in which most of the time, the "first things" refers to the endless stream of school work, which effectively take up most of your time and does not exercise the creative potential present in anyone. Teachers are not creative creatures as they are the very victims of the same system, and they would like to see that their kind is being passed on.

4) Think Win-Win.
This is the toughest habit to practise. It is impossible for the school authorities and their slaves to be benefited at the same time. Despite the slaves having to pay for the school fees, and teachers are getting paid, common facilities like the air-con and overhead speakers in the homeroom can only be operated by the teachers, although they did not pay for it in anyway. There are even law enforcers going around the school to switch off the air-cons. Until the day when the school wakes up and discover that running a school is really about looking after the welfare and developement of the students, and not of the teachers, win-win can never be achieved inside the walls of AJC.

5) Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood.
It is important to understand the instructions given by the teachers. However, there is nothing in this world that can be fully understood, the slaves have to be contented with only the first part of the sentence. The second is there only as an illusion of care and concern from the school authorities which never exists.

6) Synergize
Synergizing is highly important for slaves of AJC, as it allows them to work as a team and achieve higher results, while using the same amount of feeds.

7) Sharpen the saw.
It is always important to sharpen the saw, so that when the day comes to take the saw out, the school authorities will be done with in a split second.

By following these habits, all AJCians will grow up to be effective slaves to the society.