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ministry of enslavement announces project work to be reduced

The ministry of enslavement (moe) announced that project work (pw) workload is to be reduced. This follows the complaints of many students that the workload of pw is too heavy and what they learn is crap.

A student gave an analogy, "We have to look for shit, pick up it up, process it, put it on paper, and wrap it up in a file to be given to moe to digest!"

Students also laugh at the daft idea of submitting many drafts to their scrutinising tutor (ST) because one of the rules of pw is to show work towards improvement. The ideology? You can't give good shit if you haven't spend enough time churning it.

The most xia-lan part about pw, it seems, is the oral presentation.

Student Boh Tak Chek exclaimed, "Wah lau, at the end of pw, we still have to perform oral to the moe langs you know!"

Oral officials said they love to trap students with rheotorical questions like "why must we be goody goody and not plagarise?".

"The oral performance of students will be gauged on the students' ability to swallow such hard, sticky questions down their throats," an moe ass-essor was quoted saying.

To the students' relief, it is confirmed that filing procedures will be reduced next year. This means that students don't have to spend hours crapping their minutes and evaluations.

"I spend more time bull-shitting on paper than on the toilet bowl," a student moaned.

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 1:55 AM 0 Comments

Hahaha... I read the students' feedback transcripts for some jc. If i were to relate jcs to collogne, this jc will be 'Contradiction'!

So much for slapping itself in the face =p

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 6:23 PM 0 Comments

Went for vjc open house with juniors today. I was really impressed by the school facilities. Basically the whole school is air-conditioned. All classrooms, hall, even some science labs are air-conditioned! The library was carpeted and equipped with comfy sofas! 10 times better than jingxian library! The sch is comparable to acsi. Of course the canteen isn't air-conditioned... hall's air-con isn't those ceiling mounted type but it has many air-con units! I bet it can be as cool as ac's audi. Considering the $24 sch fees, it's really value for money!

And the new IP classrooms were super. Nicely tiled and they look like artist studio. Spot lights instead of fluorescent lights. Look more cool than acs classrooms.

The teachers are friendly, the people are nice and the sch culture is gd.

Anyway I was assumed to be a sec4 acs boy. It's good to be young again!

went to nj next and we've got nothing more to say. saw the 'lioness' (pun intended). she wore an evening gown, high heel shoes and... permed her hair blond. *pukes

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 11:22 PM 0 Comments

This morning, there's this joker, who wrote "teenage textbook", that came to hwa chong to crap. His 1-hour long idiosyncratic speech was filled with lame jokes and practical jokes out of the different faculties in hwa chong (unfortunately he is an old boy). Criticising rj as a joke shows how petty he is. When he said that the S7s weren't laughing at his joke because they have no sense of humour, I thought it was the exact opposite. It is the majority of Singaporeans who have no humour and chose to laugh at his lame crap. Either that the laughs were sacarstic and to give him the much needed encouragement to bullshit for 1 hour.

After this "enlightenment", i got back my Maths paper today. passed overall.

Was nervous but kept quiet. There were many apparent A students claiming that they were very nervous and suggesting that they will flunk. Then concerned friends would counsel them by saying how good their results were and there wasn't a need to worry. I thought it was bragging rather than flapping. Obviously they would have calculated their approximate scores immediately after the exams and knew they would have gotten an A. But humans like to hear nice stuff.

Others were truly nervous because they were really on the bringe of flunking, and did not utter a word.

Then the results came. The A students complained instantaneously that they are angry and disappointed because they did not score 90+ marks like the literally creme la de creme. What's wrong with feeling and admitting that you are happy with your results? Again, the deep-rooted chinese mentality of hypocrisy and self-denial. This behaviour pisses more people off than if the A students were to admit that they were satisfied with their results. If they were sincere about their disappointment, my heart goes out to them as they have to learn the hard way that life is imperfect.

During the chem lecture later, one S7 guy sitting 2 rows in front of me was frantically copying his friend's scores from a classlist (*gasp!). It's so tiring to look behind your back while you're walking forward in life...

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 4:09 PM 0 Comments

Was quite surprised today when I went to take a bus to school today. The shortworking bus-stop plates have been SMRT-ied all the way from Upp Bt Timah Rd after Woodlands Rd all the way to Bt Timah Rd. They must have done it last night.

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 10:55 PM 0 Comments

Counsel idiosyncratic (acs ib) teachers too...

An article in the Straits Times forums (10/1/04) complaining about teachers from a top independent boys' school. Evidence from the article shows that it is obviously, acsi, particularly acs ib and supposedly newly employed ib teachers:

(1) "The boys are grounded in such subjects as Philosophy and Character Development." Which school offers these subjects? The International Baccalaureate!!

(2) "My son's class dislikes this teacher so much that they rejoice when she is absent from school. One boy even goes to the extent of reading the obituary every morning to see if her photograph is there." Only acs boys will do stupid things like this... i've been there, done that

(3) "During one lesson, she held a whiteboard marker in her right hand while gesticulating to make a point. She inadvertently pointed her middle finger at the class and the boys laughed." Unintended taboo actions tickle acs boys most. Acs boys laugh at the stupidest and lamest things. (But it's still quite funny to me though)

(4) "Another teacher in the school has the unpleasant habit of pulling students by the back of the collar or using whatever she has in her hands to hit the boys when they pass by her without greeting her." Only ACS boys are so courteous!

Somemore the england used in the article so cheam... must be from ACS la!

posted by 23degreecelsius @ 11:10 PM 0 Comments