I am damn cute.
We had some flag day for the Singapore Cancer Society. And under the reason for collection, I wrote, unpretentiously, 'CIP hours'.I think it's only fitting for me to write that since it's like the only reason any normal student would do flag day under the hot sun for. CIP hours come in the form of library CIP, which isn't a waste of time at all, because librarians are all slackers and don't do their jobs properly, thus the need for students to 'chiong library CIP'.
Seriously, I've lost any respect for anyone who chiongs library CIP, because I don't see much of an involvement in community projects, only training for their future jobs, which would be that of a librarian. CIP was created to make students more involved in the community, but doing library shitwork? Nah, it's just bullshit there.
I really don't have much to say to anyone who spams library just for CIP hours--you're missing the entire point of CIP. I hope you choke. I know many people who actually do that, and get away with it. Nothing much to say, really. I'd only lament the fact that Singapore is getting more and more morally degraded.
Speaking of morally-degrading stuff, we were at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, in between that and Plaza Singapura. There were like a lot of teenagers, wearing skinny jeans, walking around smoking, smooching, getting ready to fight and all. As people who read my earlier post know, I don't like skinny jeans. I don't see the point in killing your own balls to prove that you had them. And smoking is simply suicide, an act I definitely have no wish to be involved with. I don't see the point in getting tar-filled lungs. Substances used to make roads should never be in the lungs of a human.
Anyway, it was quite chaotic. I didn't even dare to act cute to get people to donate money. I initiated the 1000smiles campaign, and was backed up by Kaisheng. It was something like this: Stone and smile and hold the donation bag up for passers-by to donate. The smile must be rather much of an ear-to-ear grin. It looks stupid and retarded, and attracts a lot of attention. It's fun. People from across the road looked over and laughed.
Stupid people looked at us and commented on 'Don't act cute lah!' or something along those lines. Bastards. You don't want see then go away lah! Simple logic also don't understand. Just go die lah.
If you don't dare to hold up a donation bag and walk around with that grin, don't complain. You have no balls, and so you have no rights to complain. You don't have any reason to talk, so just shut the fuck up. Losers.
Kaisheng wanted to give up after that incident in which we got shouted by a few Malays for acting cute, but I encouraged him. Like..'Don't let other people's opinions get at you! There are many people out there, one may think that you're a bastard, another an asshole, some, an angel, others, blah blah blah. Are you going to let them affect you?? Have more confidence in yourself!' And we got back to our smiles and carried on.
And the people actually donated! And the other students from other schools also laughed at us when they walked by. I think we were being clowns, but at least people laughed at us for our antics.
I like brightening up people's lives. I mean, people normally go around soliciting for donations like approaching you directly, and sticking to you till there's a donation, right? But what if you choose to stand at one side, smile, and just let the passers-by make the choice themselves? I think that this is a much healthier way of soliciting for donations. People won't get annoyed, might ignore you, or laugh at you and as a result, get their lives brightened up by 2 weird Cat High guys.
One in a student leader shirt.
Bless the Crescent girl's who donated to me. A lot, too.
It must be due to my cuteness.
Here's a picture, a true testament to my degree of cuteness:
By courtesy of Leonard, who took the picture.
I won't upload to stomp!, but anyone can just download and upload it. This is meant to be a hint, since I'm not supposed to upload it to stomp! myself. I made a pact with Kaisheng. He's the one on the left.
Oh. And I was at the Toa Payoh Library just now with Kaisheng and Leonard. We were approached by a girl, who was on a roll to have more well-wishes for the patients of Down Syndrome. She told us more about Down Syndrome, which has something to do with the 21st chromosome(which shouldn't exist naturally), resulting in retardation mentally and physically.
I found her contradictory. I mean..she told us that we should treat them as normal human beings. I confirmed this fact. I held my mini-debate with her.
Me: 'So we should treat people who suffer from Down Syndrome as normal humans, right?'
Her: 'Yea.'
Me: 'So why should we write these cards? I mean, I won't write cards for normal humans what..'
Her: 'Oh it's OK. You'd know when you grow up.'
This snippet of the argument is the main point of it lah. I mean, if we were to treat them as normal human beings, we shouldn't write cards and give them special attention. I even checked with her whether we should give them special attention and treat them in a special way, but she said no. So is writing cards and all special? Wouldn't she be contradicting herself? Shouldn't I be in a debate team or something?
What the fuck was she playing at? I don't see how much older she is from us lor. And just because she couldn't explain her inherent self-conflict in interest, she went ahead and attacked my age.
Look, seriously. I have nothing against Down Syndrome patients, or anything against writing any form of well-wishes for them. But I just think that if we were to treat them normally, we should just accept them as part of the Singapore population.
I got rendered speechless at the statement that I'd grow to understand.
Thanks for nothing.
One more thing to note about these pretentious people. She started off with 'Do you all know that yesterday was the World's Down Syndrome Day?'
It was yesterday, a thing of the past. And now then they start to collect well-wishes.
So sincere.
By the way, I was about to upload a picture of the uriners in Cat High. But WX did it already =.= so if you want to see wassup with Cat High, go wenxuan's blog.
-- 3/22/2008 09:52:00 PM