Friday, July 07, 2006
"Wei kiat, did something happen to you during the June holidays?"
So said my GP teacher today, when she discovered I was the only one in class who bothered to go to IVLE and attempt the GP reading materials on freedom of speech. Ultimately, it is one of a normal blogger's favourite topic.
Anyway, the first 4 questions regarding an incohesive passage was quite hard to answer, so i answered in an incohesive manner. Then I was too lazy to do the AQ before promptly falling asleep.
Strange how work can induce sleep. I should be able to make a fortune selling homework as remedy to those with lack of sleep.
Anyway, I am now desperately looking for music to fill up all those extra minidiscs I bought. It may not look that good in the photos, but they were real chio in real life. I may even be purchasing some cute MDs from japan, just to add on to my collection. Currently more than 5 MDs which are blank.
I think the AJC authorities had problems understanding art. The current colour scheme looks cool, but the shade of green they used on all the doors reminded me of military bunkers. I'm not the only one with such thoughts. HOD of phy also mentioned it.
Life has became more and more stressful for me, as there were always a never ending list of todos which exclude school work. This is alarming and highly unbearable as there are tonnes of maths and physics tutorials to catch up with. Its pretty lucky that really only had to bother with 2 subjects: maths and phys. The rest are too easy to give a damn.
I went to 0705 recently and found them talking about the guy who mailed to the press regarding the sex talk. While my name was quoted without my prior knowledge, he purposely send in his letter to destroy the school's reputation. Shouldn't something "nice" happen to him? Still i felt he is a damn cool guy and led eventful life, being backstabbed by friends and all. He even actively seek out the vp to talk to her about possible suggestions and changes to the school, although nothing seemed to work.
On the tagboard he mentioned that the "late dismissal from afternoon pe" was fixed due to a petition, and we can see from this that the school is willing to accept suggestions. For god's sake. This is not a suggestion. This is an error fix. In programming terms we call it "debugging". When something went wrong you had to fix it. Suggestion is a totally different thing.
While talking about those active anti-ajc sentiments out there, I must be careful not to input anything on my own, or be disrespectful to the school, since the VP had warn me of the terrible consequences. So I'll only be commenting on what other AJCians are saying.
Anyway, there was one point i found really misleading. The VP told me that the brief period of pest problem was due to students eating in classrooms:
However, in The Chinese High School, our wonderful councillors successfully pass the motion of allowing students to eat in their classrooms. Even when chinese high has the largest school campus in the whole of singapore (More than 10X AJC's) we never once experience any pest problem. So I think the VP was wrong here. Students eating in classroom won't give rise to pest problems. Anyway, the pest problem was recitified, and I was too lazy to email her for clarification. Anyway, in AJC, it would be safer not to eat in classrooms since our councillors are less efficent. I understand that nothing in a neigbourhood school (AJC) can be compared to an individual school (TCHS) so I shouldn't really compare the two.
Ah.. All this blogging has gotten me nervous. The government had already sent the message with many examples; the racist cartoons, Mr Brown, etc. Say one word wrongly, and you die. We can watch racist movies (Da Vinci Code), watch and talk about PAP election and policies (All those TV shows with the 2 Lees), but not view a shorter video from the SDP, post racist remarks or enjoy any real freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech has corroded to such an extend that freedom of speech (class licensing and all) is just another system of control in Singapore.
Someone got struck by lightning when he was using iPod, and he publicity accused Apple. Did Apple sue him? No. Talking about the negative aspects of AJC lended me in the VP's office and threats of expulsion. No way in hell I am going to do it again.
I'm slave to control.
So it seemed, that the safest thing you can post on your blog in this decayed Singaporean Society are photos you took yourself. Which is what I am doing. Meaningless uninteresting photos. Then later without a good alternative for information on the internet, whats left but the state controlled media?
We were just one step short of having a 2-way telly-screen.
Anyway, the first 4 questions regarding an incohesive passage was quite hard to answer, so i answered in an incohesive manner. Then I was too lazy to do the AQ before promptly falling asleep.
Strange how work can induce sleep. I should be able to make a fortune selling homework as remedy to those with lack of sleep.
Anyway, I am now desperately looking for music to fill up all those extra minidiscs I bought. It may not look that good in the photos, but they were real chio in real life. I may even be purchasing some cute MDs from japan, just to add on to my collection. Currently more than 5 MDs which are blank.
I think the AJC authorities had problems understanding art. The current colour scheme looks cool, but the shade of green they used on all the doors reminded me of military bunkers. I'm not the only one with such thoughts. HOD of phy also mentioned it.
Life has became more and more stressful for me, as there were always a never ending list of todos which exclude school work. This is alarming and highly unbearable as there are tonnes of maths and physics tutorials to catch up with. Its pretty lucky that really only had to bother with 2 subjects: maths and phys. The rest are too easy to give a damn.
I went to 0705 recently and found them talking about the guy who mailed to the press regarding the sex talk. While my name was quoted without my prior knowledge, he purposely send in his letter to destroy the school's reputation. Shouldn't something "nice" happen to him? Still i felt he is a damn cool guy and led eventful life, being backstabbed by friends and all. He even actively seek out the vp to talk to her about possible suggestions and changes to the school, although nothing seemed to work.
On the tagboard he mentioned that the "late dismissal from afternoon pe" was fixed due to a petition, and we can see from this that the school is willing to accept suggestions. For god's sake. This is not a suggestion. This is an error fix. In programming terms we call it "debugging". When something went wrong you had to fix it. Suggestion is a totally different thing.
While talking about those active anti-ajc sentiments out there, I must be careful not to input anything on my own, or be disrespectful to the school, since the VP had warn me of the terrible consequences. So I'll only be commenting on what other AJCians are saying.
Anyway, there was one point i found really misleading. The VP told me that the brief period of pest problem was due to students eating in classrooms:
thanks for your alert to the rats, that is precisely why the OM has
to stop students eating in the container blocks. Now you can see how a
small inconsiderate group can cause a lot of inconvenience to the community
at large even thought the college is putting in so much manpower to do the
cleaning.
However, in The Chinese High School, our wonderful councillors successfully pass the motion of allowing students to eat in their classrooms. Even when chinese high has the largest school campus in the whole of singapore (More than 10X AJC's) we never once experience any pest problem. So I think the VP was wrong here. Students eating in classroom won't give rise to pest problems. Anyway, the pest problem was recitified, and I was too lazy to email her for clarification. Anyway, in AJC, it would be safer not to eat in classrooms since our councillors are less efficent. I understand that nothing in a neigbourhood school (AJC) can be compared to an individual school (TCHS) so I shouldn't really compare the two.
Ah.. All this blogging has gotten me nervous. The government had already sent the message with many examples; the racist cartoons, Mr Brown, etc. Say one word wrongly, and you die. We can watch racist movies (Da Vinci Code), watch and talk about PAP election and policies (All those TV shows with the 2 Lees), but not view a shorter video from the SDP, post racist remarks or enjoy any real freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech has corroded to such an extend that freedom of speech (class licensing and all) is just another system of control in Singapore.
Someone got struck by lightning when he was using iPod, and he publicity accused Apple. Did Apple sue him? No. Talking about the negative aspects of AJC lended me in the VP's office and threats of expulsion. No way in hell I am going to do it again.
I'm slave to control.
So it seemed, that the safest thing you can post on your blog in this decayed Singaporean Society are photos you took yourself. Which is what I am doing. Meaningless uninteresting photos. Then later without a good alternative for information on the internet, whats left but the state controlled media?
We were just one step short of having a 2-way telly-screen.
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