The Bus Is My Other Car.

HC's celebration was *cough, there's still room for improvement. The musical performances were good but the skits were rather lame. When friends said that the concert was better than what they saw in their alma mater, I wondered how sucky teachers' day can get. There were councillors on duty to keep us from slipping out. What's the point of resorting to this when the main audiences for the concert were teachers? And the organisers were an hour late. You can't blame us for leaving early because we had to pay tribute to teachers who made it possible for us to study in hc!

Anyway...
Went 'home' today... to acsi. Saw long-lost friends... Those from acjc somewhat turned out tall and big sized.. I was dwarfed. Time was just right for us to pack into the packed auditorium to watch teachers' day concert. There was a magic show this year... drong and f tan were called on stage and there were some suggestive scenes. Then there was the familiar trio! The skit was specially catered for graduates and I was touched that the teachers remembered us. the 3 teachers, who acted as ACJC students now, were still as funny as ever. Skit was targetted at ACJC students for 'ponning' lessons to return to acsi.

It's a strange feeling thinking that, one year ago, I was sitting at those chairs watching the concert and staring at the seniors who came back from time to time. I just marvel at how time flies and oh well... I'm happy in hc but I can never be as happy as I was in Ac. Once you see the ugly side of humanity, nothing can make you as happy as before. Just miss those days.

Squeezed my way through the crowd into the staffroom. met ms chew. didn't meet other teachers sadly.. the staffroom was empty and locked by the time I finished eating!

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Life's getting crappier than ever.. we're getting a five-day week and a reduced syllabus, so teachers can teach less and students can learn more... those bloody CCAs have to be cramped into the pathetic 120 hours along with homework etc. Then, Sats and Suns are reserved for pure resting, or, since you have no school on Saturday, why not do more homework? *sigh. reducing working days without reducing workload doesn't work out. but the syllabus going to kena chop... thinking of going home early? fat hope.. the school's organising some cheesy inspirational and character-building courses for us to fill up those 'empty spaces' carved out of a syllabus cut...

OH PLEASE, just let students and teachers rest!!

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 9:44 PM 0 Comments

Went to Sentosa today with the Taiwan Exchange ppl.. Saw the way they threw tantrums. So we hosts owe them a living? Are WE supposed to clean up after them? The japs were at least a million times nicer in terms of courtesy.

And someone should really learn that he has a good host. He doesn't have to sleep on the floor and hard mattress, has a room to himself; has a host who brings him around; a host family who takes good care of him, painstakingly explains what the heck is this 'little red dot in the sea of green' to him, showers him with good food, ensures that he is 'zen zen'(*jap, means absolutely) ok and talks to him about his homeland.. All these efforts, and yet, he doesn't appreciate it. What did this host family get for closing one eye to his short-comings? More attitude problem and no word of thanks. Only a chinese phrase can describe this: shen zai fu zhong bu zhi fu. He needs a friend to tell him that his host is unhappy before he can wake up his idea. Even so, I observe not much changes. I think not having manners is unredeemable.

Absolutely appalling.

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 9:57 PM 0 Comments

Yesterday had our first Notes Xchange session at Weekeat's house. alan was drooling over hc's econs notes; weekeat was groping over for hc's and rj's chem & phy notes; me and jeremy were stunned by AC's SOLID gp reading package.

Then we went to Taka to makan. dinner. Shopping centre was very empty, so we assumed that S'poreans were either at the stadium, watching NDP at home or shopping in M'sia. Most likely the third activity we supposed...

Special thanks to weekeat for lending us his house and photocopier; his parents for serving us delicious hot dog buns; alan for organising this event and providing free 80gm paper; my brother for transport; jeremy's dad for transport; and others who have helped in one way or another. last but not least, we would like to thank God for putting us into good schools.

To God be the glory, the best is yet to be.

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31July was HCJC's very first and last funfair... things were really cheap. I tore off the $2 portion of my coupon for a CAN of coke when I was told it was selling for $1! And the haunted house cost only $5?! Very cheap. Funfair was quite big and successful.. many patrons.. very good, in fact, for a first-timer.. but only raised about $110k.. HC should learn from AC on how to rip people off.

Screwed up HCJC's N'day Day ceremony.. Though the flag wasn't raised upside down due to my 'excellent' eyesight, the rope entangled unfortunately and my hand wasn't nimble enough to undo those knots. In the end the school flag wasn't raised to the top and mr song told me (jokingly) to practise raising and lowering the flag on Saturdays from 7 to 9am. I thought he understood that the experience was traumatic enough for me already, so he spared me the scolding and pumpings which would otherwise been issued.

As if the earlier experience wasn't 'suay' enough, I got caught for sleeping at the student's lounge during the celebration. Whilst others wrote fake names and classes, I was STUPID enough to write my real name and class (2 tight slaps for honesty and wasting my education ACS). Luckily the DM was understanding... cos the night before we had to recieve our taiwan buddies from night safari... and it was quite evident i was a panda the next morning.

A pity I ain't really enjoying myself over the N'day weekend... sigh. But what I would like to say is ACSuperstar was REALLY good... can just die! Didn't waste my $12. Felt very happy for my alma mater for successfully advertising their production - the auditorium was fully packed! And I paid my part by BUYING a programme leaflet.. it's $1 per piece (wasn't a rip-off surprisingly).. I thought it was a good enterprise although I know ppl from other schs will sure complain. Almost every audience bought a piece. what a good way to ensure that such pain-stakingly printed brochures don't end up in the rubbish bin, cover fixed costs and maybe earn some profits.

Attended a NDP dinner last night, courtesy of weishan (*thanks a lot)... It's a free dinner, so you know what's next =p. nope, not free lunch, but rather free labour... By the way, I thought that the emcees and the cast should use correct ENGLISH instead of that horrible Singlish... I mean, if singlish is used sparringly, it is still ok, lar!

Finally, a Happy National Day! Don't go M'sia jalan jalan, support our own economy leh!!

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