AJ Bash.
There are times when you flip through the newspapers and feel inadequate. That's because what's reported shows a certain inability of yours to excel in a certain aspect of life.
Then there are also those reports that make you go like 'What the fuck, what's your point?'
And there are those reports that have both qualities combined.
A few years back there was this dude who managed to get a C for O level chemistry. Sure, it doesn't sound impressive enough to be reported, but that dude was a primary school student.
OK, good job, congratulations on doing well in O level Chemistry.
Moving on, we now have a dude who, at the age of 13, got...
Straight A's in A levels.
A 13 year old kid, A's in A levels.
I'm rendered speechless.
Wow, I nearly failed to promote, and I was 17 when I took my promotional examinations. Then here comes this young dude who comes along and pwns my ass flat. I'm not even sure how should i react upon reading this news. I felt totally steamrollered. In the previous example of the O level chemist, there is at least some form of consolation, coz I did better than a C in O levels so it couldn't be said that the boy is 'superior'.
But in this case, I..don't really want to know what to feel about it.
Then the newspaper report went on to talk about how this dude excels in other aspects of life, like learning other random bullshit that typical Singaporeans stuff into their children.
The more I read, the more pissed I felt. Pissed because I don't really understand what's the point of all these. OK, the boy can go to university now. But what kind of friends would he get? As in, there's this huge age gap of at least 6 years, and I'm quite sure he isn't sexually active enough to bone the university girls right? And even if he is, would the girls accept him? He is that young, underaged, and protected(prohibited) by law. There's no way he could have any form of meaningful relationship with anyone in university, so what is he going to do till then? Push on anyway? Is life all about education?
How is he going to get friends?
I don't know about you, but if I were his age and his friend I'd probably be very weary of his brilliance. It'd be tiring to hang around with someone like that. I don't know. Is it a blessing or a curse?
So, what's the point?
Oh and we're always so caught up in reading about his glamorous life(glamorous in a way, he did make it to the newspapers after all), but what happens after the collection of the results remains a mystery. There's no follow-up on the O level chemist's life, would there be one for this dude?
Would this prompt kids to aim for A levels by 13years old? Do we really want kids to learn this fast?
Had college CIP on Thursday. That's the last day of orientation for the JC1s, and I almost feel sad for them and the impending loss of their identities as they get sucked into AJ's spirit of sucking, until we met VJC. No, it's not any form of self-doubt that made me stop feeling sad for the JC1s, it was when they started doing weird cheers to compete against VJC. I mean like wtf? Uh, get a grip on yourself? Just because you 'know' how to cheer doesn't mean you have to cheer when you see foreign people, just like how just because I have a dick doesn't mean I go around raping people.
But I do. OK, phail example.
Damn malu-ating. Seriously. We were at East Coast Park, and VJC is so damn near ECP. Wtf you don't go to another person's backyard and start peeing all over it and claiming that it's your territory. Even dogs don't do that. Wtf AJC people, wtf.
Which reminds me, AJC loves making students suffer.
CIP on Thursday, and last day of orientation being on a Thursday, would mean that Friday is still a school day. OGLs then have this impending sense of doom, like 'omgwtf a lot of homework to catch up on tomorrow :c'
Normal students like me would also go like 'wtf we do so much shit today then tomorrow still need go school'.
Normal people with common sense would make the decision to have such an activity on Friday, to let students feel better about themselves. Even though the number of school days is the same, at least they would be able to delude themselves and thus make themselves feel better--but no! AJC smacks you right in the balls, and if you're a female, in the eyeballs.
And this whole college CIP shit also showed a very kiasu side of AJC. Every class has a slacky day, otherwise known as CCA day, aka Wednesday. That's because most CCAs are active on Wednesday, and AJC tries to follow one of the simpler rules on student welfare by allowing students to actually have lunch before the start of their CCAs. This is very encouraging, and has been encouraging and remained (only) encouraging for the past year I've been in AJC. But because of the college CIP, the school conveniently swapped the timetable. We had Thursday's timetable on Wednesday instead, because the school suffers from guilt-conscience when there are happy students.
Here is a simple comparison between Wednesday's timetable and Thursday's timetable:
Wednesday: Ends at 1.45PM.
Thursday: Ends at 4.45PM.
Oh I was reading newspapers only because I was waiting to buy my school uniform. Which was a disaster in any way I could think of. I was released from school at 1.15PM so I went over and checked whether there's stock for pants my size or not. None. Was told that new stocks would be arriving at 2.30PM so please wait until then. OK, so I waited until 2.30PM and, like everything AJC stands for, it was late. The van came at 3.15PM.
And upon restocking, I went up and asked for my goods, and as characteristic of AJC, there is nothing my size on the van. They then proceeded to tell me that I should leave my name and phone number down.
Wow, I stayed back for 2 hours just to write down my name. What the fuck. Can't AJC get anything done right? Not even the sale of uniforms? Which truth be told, has a sucky quality to it. My hands have molested many pants(and what lies beneath), so I could discern between the good and bad quality pants. From what I can feel, AJC has the suckiest pants to feel. The texture is all wrong. Fuck my life.
I am OK with sucky colours, I mean, I didn't come to JC to attend a cosplay or something. But having something comfortable to wear is something else.
I'm not being angst-filled because I wasted my afternoon, but I think it's grossly unfair that we place so much faith in the VP's words. She said 'Today is the last day for sales of uniform' or something to that effect. And I thought that was the case hence the rush to get scammed. And I got scammed even more because the Retailers of Sucky Uniform are coming back next week.
Moral of the story: Don't believe what the school administrators say.
Can't AJC stop sucking?
-- 2/06/2010 02:08:00 AM
