I want school. At least I get to eat.
I was suddenly reminded of a chain mail sent to me a few years back. I have a very random mind and it just flitted in and I finally managed to get its otherwise unintended message.
It was about the differences between Heaven and Hell, or something along those lines.
So in hell, there's this room full of malnourished prisoners. There is an abundance of soup in the middle of the room, and the prisoners are all chained and unable to reach the soup. Everyone in the room is given a long spoon, long enough to reach the soup but too long to feed themselves.
So they are all malnourished as they can't eat the food themselves.
In heaven, the same situation is in place. But all the prisoners are well-fed, and you're left to wonder why is there such a huge difference.
Then at the end of the email they reveal the answer to your unasked question: the prisoners in heaven feed each other using the long spoons, so they are well-fat.
But doesn't it just mean that people in heaven are scary? They are feeding you just so that you can feed them, and not because they want you to survive. They are using you just to save themselves, even if they don't like you and would love seeing you starve. I find it scary that people in a supposedly better situation normally reflects their ability to adapt and mask themselves so that they can reach their true intention--to survive.
People in hell are so much more direct. They don't like you, they don't feed you, they suffer but at least their 'values' are not compromised. They don't bend their rules just to get you to help them, they don't expressing their hate even though they suffer for it.
Do we really want to live in a place where everyone's intentions are unknown?
At least in hell you know. You know the extent of their malice and you know how to guard against them, but in a society where everyone masks themselves for an unseen agenda(unseen by you), how are you supposed to defend yourself? The person feeding you might poison you anytime.
Went to school just now, and I finally realized what does school holiday mean for AJC: A break for the canteen stallholders/vendors/shopkeeper/aunties/uncles/whatever-you-call-them.
Seriously, break for the students? Naw, AJC is far too noble to give us a break. I must put you readers into my perspective first though, and I'm trying to not look at this whole shit as a pack of lies. I'm not exaggerating things, and I'm not going to flame the school, but....
here's a comparison between an Average day in Average JC, and school holidays:
Average day: 2hours of tutorial/lecture, 1hour break, 2hours tutorial/lecture, 1hour break, 2hours of tutorial/lecture.
Today(school holiday): 2 hours of lecture, 30mins break, 2hours of lecture, 30mins break, and another 1.5hours of tutorial.
And by the way, the breaks were pointless. There's nowhere we can buy food except from outside, and if we were to travel out for food 30mins is hardly enough.
I was rendered speechless by the timetable, and out of the 4hour lectures I'm pretty sure I slept at least 1hour away. I blame it on the lack of food.
Seriously though, I get released at around 3 everyday. Yea I know that sounds kinda early but I was released at 3 today so it just didn't seem like school holidays for me. C'mon it's just one fucking week, 5 days of the curriculum. =.=
I would rather do without this 'March holidays'. I am serious, and am not saying this out of spite. I would rather have a normal school week and do without this holidays altogether. At least I get to eat.
The only difference between school, and non-school, is that when there's school there's PE. And in holidays there's no PE. That's the only benefits of holidays.
I sound like such a whiny wuss, but I'm serious about the take-away-holidays part. It's either you give and give it well, or not at all. Such a half-arsed approach only shows how pretentious the school/every school is, and as exemplified by the values my chain mail example showed, YOU CAN'T SPELL SCHOOL WITHOUT 'MALICE'(although I just did).
Yea.
-- 3/15/2010 08:08:00 PM
