Saturday, July 22, 2006
What day is it?
Walk around the school yesterday and ask anyone what day it is. Some will reply "Friday". A miserable few will say "Parents - Teachers Meeting Day".
Only one or two will say "Racial Harmony Day". So sad, this is the first time I am in a school that don't care about racial harmony. Even in Chinese High, where there are only chinese, we celebrate the Racial Harmony Day. Once, we even celebrated it together with WestSpring Secondary School, with a school - wide carnival.
I look at the second last page of Link Aj, they say "WHO SAYS AJCIANS DON"T HAVE FUN?" in capital letters. I look at the "fun" listed. I&E Day. Family Day. AJ Idol. International Friendship Day. Track and field day. 6 activities over 7 months. Not bad!
Lets explore it properly. AJ Idol is not a school wide event. Only those in the right sense of mind to listen to yucky singing will bother to stay up late to attend those stuffs at 5pm or 6pm. There won't be enough time to mug! International Friendship day celebration was just a bunch of AJCians from malaysia and india putting up a performance using MCV lesson. I appreicated their efforts and the dances were indeed nice, but can we call it National Friendship Hour instead? Since in only lasted for an hour. Stop using the word "day" when you mean an hour. Sports day is standard. Every schools have it. What is there to brag about? Sports day is the time of the year where we suddenly realise we belong to a house. Even my primary school don't brag about having a sports day. To be fair, I&E day was quite interesting, where we get to explore interesting stuffs with help from student guides. I think it is the only fun thing for the entire school in this period of 7months. Family Day? While other JC's family day attracted many students from our school to go, our own family day only attracted ourselves.
Fun? My friends from HCI and RJC have more fun. And they are more mug than me too. So where do I stand? Not enough fun and not enough mug? What is so good about that? This certainly does not justify the banner "AJC is simply the best." It is only "just another JC". Its not sucky or lousy, but a long way from the word "best".
*Updates*
Oh ok. I just went to http://www.schoolbuzz.com.sg/ and took a look at the activities. I saw this:
So our celebration is going to be just some performance during MCV again. Please edit the name and call it Racial Harmony Hour. We harmonise for an hour and thats it:)
Only one or two will say "Racial Harmony Day". So sad, this is the first time I am in a school that don't care about racial harmony. Even in Chinese High, where there are only chinese, we celebrate the Racial Harmony Day. Once, we even celebrated it together with WestSpring Secondary School, with a school - wide carnival.
I look at the second last page of Link Aj, they say "WHO SAYS AJCIANS DON"T HAVE FUN?" in capital letters. I look at the "fun" listed. I&E Day. Family Day. AJ Idol. International Friendship Day. Track and field day. 6 activities over 7 months. Not bad!
Lets explore it properly. AJ Idol is not a school wide event. Only those in the right sense of mind to listen to yucky singing will bother to stay up late to attend those stuffs at 5pm or 6pm. There won't be enough time to mug! International Friendship day celebration was just a bunch of AJCians from malaysia and india putting up a performance using MCV lesson. I appreicated their efforts and the dances were indeed nice, but can we call it National Friendship Hour instead? Since in only lasted for an hour. Stop using the word "day" when you mean an hour. Sports day is standard. Every schools have it. What is there to brag about? Sports day is the time of the year where we suddenly realise we belong to a house. Even my primary school don't brag about having a sports day. To be fair, I&E day was quite interesting, where we get to explore interesting stuffs with help from student guides. I think it is the only fun thing for the entire school in this period of 7months. Family Day? While other JC's family day attracted many students from our school to go, our own family day only attracted ourselves.
Fun? My friends from HCI and RJC have more fun. And they are more mug than me too. So where do I stand? Not enough fun and not enough mug? What is so good about that? This certainly does not justify the banner "AJC is simply the best." It is only "just another JC". Its not sucky or lousy, but a long way from the word "best".
*Updates*
Oh ok. I just went to http://www.schoolbuzz.com.sg/ and took a look at the activities. I saw this:
Racial Harmony Day
Details: 1. Student volunteers needed in ushering, handling tokens, speakers, MCs and to take care of setup in the AJC Auditorium for RHD during Mass Civics (21 July for JC1s and 25 July for JC2s). 2. For the fringe activities - to run the activities.
Teacher in charge: SABARIAH (MDM)
So our celebration is going to be just some performance during MCV again. Please edit the name and call it Racial Harmony Hour. We harmonise for an hour and thats it:)
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