Impel, down.
I used to like GP a lot. Not because I found the subject easy, but because I found the teachers fun, and lectures/lecturers more meaningful(I like dreaming).
Not anymore.
Approximately 120 students got suan-ed by the bloody lecturer on Thursday I don't know what was he trying to do or perhaps he was trying to be funny when he said that the retest students shouldn't even be in J2 in the first place, probably because some people were sleeping, he assumed that it's all the retest students. Right in my case though. That riled me. I mean like, OK, it may be true that AJC has never organized retests before(citation needed), but I'm quite sure AJC hasn't had retain rate of around 20%. The school was doing us both a favour--no need to deal with retaining students and having to account for the high retain rate which isn't characteristic of AJC, and students don't have to repeat.
So what that lecturer said was kinda fucked up because he seemed to think that the power tilts towards the school and that all of the 143 students owe their lives to AJC, and so they(we) should listen to his boring lecture. He had to resort to suan-ing 1/4 of the student population and attributing his failure to captivate attention on the retest students. What the basket.
Oh well. Not much of a loss anyway. I hardly pay attention during lectures.
Most gamers, or at least people with common sense, knows this: Levelling up takes a long time as you get more and more proficient with the skill you're practising. For example. in Runescape, from level 1 to level 2 requires 83 XP. From level 98 to the highest level 99 takes around 1.3million XP. It gets harder to improve on what you've improved on. So, most people train evenly because it gets harder as you go up.
In Travian, there are resource tiles. Most people would build all their resource tiles up evenly, to earn more resources per unit time and thus reaping in more resources eventually.
To the main point.
I was caught in an argument with our new GP tutor. I'm trying to think where did I not make sense, but I couldn't arrive at a conclusion because I thought(and still think) that I made perfect sense. I don't see a reason for her denial of my brilliance, so I'm going to organize everything that transpired here, and hope that you reader(s) would be the judge. I tried asking a few classmates but none of them really answered my question.
It all started from a friend's use of the word 'inevitable'. He claimed that the building of casinos in Singapore is inevitable. Though I don't really have any reason to help him with his point, I didn't like her face and I wanted a bit of action so I jumped in.
Basically, these are my points:
1) Casinos help bring in tourists, maximizing the tourism industries' ability to earn money.
2) Governments are all interested in maxing out the amount of money they can earn per unit time.
3) So casino = bring in tourists = bring in more money = government want.
This was her rebuttal:
1) Don't really need casino, there must be another way although we both don't know of any other ways.
2) Cash in on Singapore's technological capabilities.
Completely irrelevant. If Singapore is so technologically advanced, it'd mean that it's harder to cash in on that sector because, as mentioned earlier, it's harder to improve on things that you've already improved on. You want more money, you look around at the industry that you think you can earn more from, and then you zam it. That's logical, that's human. She completely missed my point, and accused me of missing her point.
I..really don't know what to say. I was really interested in what she had to say about boosting the tourism industry without the use of casinos(she said that herself, but she doesn't know how to). So I asked her 'How? I want to know', to which she replied 'You have to think , this is GP, I cannot think for you.'
If I could come up with an idea to boost the tourism industry without I'd probably
1) be recruited to PAP or something.
2) not be in AJC.
I remember I got damn pissed with her, but I think I kept my tone even and I asked her this, after she told me to think for myself how can the government boost the tourism industry: Then what are you here for?
She was like 'I'm very upset with you you know Alastair?? Why are you so stubborn??'.
When teachers fail to bring out the best in you, it's time to turn off. Something similar happened to CX(same GP teacher), but at least his class helped him out. My class wasn't so...willing to participate.
I can, however, rest at ease because of my more extensive vocabulary as compared to hers: I know the word 'Impel'.
Handed in some bloody newspaper article which is our weekly assignment, and when I got it back the word 'impelled' was circled and ?-ed. Slightly bemused, I checked with some other friends whether they know the words, and I kinda found out it's quite ulu. So there. Now I've increased your word bank, and your vocabulary is definitely better than a certain GP teacher's in AJC.
-- 1/23/2010 02:43:00 AM
