Rants

I don't like today. And I actually don't really have the blogging mood right now.

I woke up only 2.3 minutes later. And took a bath which took about 1.2 minutes more. And traffic lights conspire to turned red at such untimely moments which wasted a further 1.5 minutes. Thus, I was late by a grand total of 5 minutes. What? just for school, yea, noob shit school.

And then I was classified as late, and along with all my fellow late comers we were all told to surrender our ezlink cards. Well, it was certainly something unusual for me because this is the second time I was ever late for school in my entire entire life, contrasted with people who have their records moving into double digits. We had to stand at the concourse like mindless sorry people waiting for the announcements to end and our Civics Tutors to come identify us. As they oscillate their heads in simple harmonic motion, they mark attendance and get acerbic.

Well, the sad thing here for me is that late coming would usually result in me getting caught for hair. I think my tutors don't bother (after all, once people get used to a person in one image, they wouldn't really notice a difference, like for example, my ex-chinese tutor is one discipline committee minion who rarely manages to spot my longer than average hair). However, what are the chances of these PJC discipline forces spotting me when I usually walk by another way and not the main entrance. Only on such occasions will I meet them because late coming forces us to walk by the main entrance.

Being late is no big deal. (I thought..) The last time I was late, they just scanned our cards and released us as per normal. This time round, they ordered us to stand in attention and sing the national anthem without any background music. There were about twenty people but the sound produced was pathetic. I was very sure that only me and some two or three other guys were making themselves audible. The girls were hopeless, and refusing to up their voices. It was really an annoying, retarded situation. If we were not audible enough, they would make us repeat, and repeat. Though I still believe that was merely an empty threat, because it turned out horrible, with a good lot of phrase difference and after all it was barely audible. We survived. Same goes for the pledge. I was reciting it loudly, while the others weren't even making themselves heard. Yes, girls, tsk.

And then finally the unreasonable verdict. Those with their cards confiscated had to collect them at the office at 1800hrs, where the intention here is obviously making us stay back for no reason. What a petty punishment for being late. I was not spared of course. It's 1540 hrs and the reason I'm blogging right now is because I can simply run back to school and get it later. This almost totally negates any punishment but it is painstakingly annoying. Rules should be revised and there shouldn't really be much of a punishment for merely being late for 5 minutes. Five minutes is only three hundred seconds, a really insignificant percentage error compared to the entire day we normally spend in school. Be glad I'm there five minutes late because it could be worst. And plus the fact that more often than not, announcements are irrelevant, and morning assembly is just stupid.

I don't intend to cut my hair. Just hope I don't run into those teachers.

Today was the first day after a long time since I used glasses in school. Everything felt significantly better. I mean, clearer. And my world lights up. I can pay some attention in lessons now and I realize the fundamental problem which leads to feel drowsy and fatigued after awhile is because I had been following lessons with my ears and visualizing what's on the board. On top of that, on certain occasions I strain my eyes quite a lot. Aha, now all that is solved.

I really want to bash the entire CCA system, but knowing that I am going to offend the whole world, I better not. I bashed CIP before (you can find it in archives). CIP is merely indirectly forced labor, where you trade time for nonexistent imaginary currency. Yet so many fall into this compulsory trap, this gigantic rip off. this whole conspiracy. It's totally not worth it. More often than not, in most of these activities, we are not really contributing to the community. And again, more often than not, CIP is a subterfuge. We choose seemingly "community benefiting " activities just to level up the hours. But ultimately, no one wants to do the real core, dirty work which will truly benefit the society. And the only way to do that is to be accomplished financially and donate money. Do you think helping the school in their own events is in any way benefiting the community? Well, definitely not. It's just the only incentive the school can have so that they get the help they need.

To people with tons of CIP hours, reflect and look at where those hours come from. Help the library? More often than not, the library doesn't need help. Help school for an event? Think twice, the school is merely making use of you. Where is the link between school and community. I would say entertaining old folks or helping out in big scale events is really worthy of being classed as CIP. Anything that isn't close to that is just self deception. It proves that CIP is just about the helping oneself. It's because if you don't have the hours and you HAVE to get those hours if not your future is at risk. How about say, remove the compulsory tag to CIP and see who actually does anything. Chances are that the numbers will plummet significantly, very significantly. I think the entire system is skewed and abused.

If I'm going to help any way, I'll do it my own way. Helping the library just sounds so corny to be classified as CIP.

One word-SUPERFICIAL.