AJI 2010
So concludes the AJ Idol 2010, congratulations to DL, BK, Nai (;
So we were booking seats for the women when the councillors started asking us 'where are these people, no booking, get them here in 5 mins, etc'. But it was weird because even though they said it they didn't bother to reinforce it. And so we just ended up staring at our Newsweek (severely outdated) while trying to avoid any form of eye-contact with them.
So we got away with hogging of seats.
Sometimes I wonder why the council is so screwed up. It's true that council is screwed up--look at the number of empty seats during AJI and the lack of any recognizable form of 'order'. People without tickets could get in--what's the point in giving them out in the first place then?
Everyone was seating on steps and some are even relegated to the gallery. Like, wtf? Can they even see what's going on?
I normally pay attention during assembly because that's the time when you're standing, unable to sleep, and bored beyond words so you end up listening to what others have to say, and from what I heard when the new batch of councillors was sworn in, it wasn't promising. They said to the effect of:
The new batch of councillors would be given training as they would be given the chance of running the I & E Day, AJI, etc etc.
(Background information: AJC is normally saturated with events in the first half of the year, and after that it just goes downhill)
Which begs the question--what happens after that then? Like most annual events, annual events occur ONCE A YEAR. Which means that by the time the current batch of J1s are J2s, they'd pass up their chance of running such events to the J1s in the hopes of training them..
..and what's the point of training them in the first place then if their training won't be used anymore?
This idea of passing on the baton is screwed up on so many levels it's no wonder the lack of common sense in the council board is appalling.
This level of retardicity reminds me of my class dynamics. There's only one dude that's not a Chinese, and that dude is an Indian. One thing he told us was that Indian dances are not limited to only those we see in Bollywood. This places much emphasis on the fact that what we know about a certain culture is only limited to what is most publicized about it. We only know about Indian dances from Bollywood.
Likewise, we only know about Japanese people only from their film industry.
And we only know about Koreans from K pop.(reasons for the retardicity stated above found below)
Every weekday, without fail, I'd wake up to a rather disturbing morning with pop songs from Korea being blasted into my ear because I'm always sleeping in the canteen.
Why Korean? Because we're supposedly doing some shit for the Koreans for YOG. That explains a lot.
Similarly, that explains a lot about Koreans and their culture. I really feel that my knowledge on Korean food and dining etiquettes have been enhanced by random boy/girl bands prowling around and singing songs in a language I can't understand through television sets.
But then again there's no other way for anyone to relate to Koreans because who the fuck gives a shit about another culture? What's mass publicized is what's easiest to publicize. It only makes perfect sense to use Korean pop songs I guess.
But it's just disturbing.
And talking about AJ just reminded me of something else--civics electives.
There's this new shit that we're supposed to do. We're supposed to sign up for courses at 10PM yesterday, which is the AJI night. It's at a first-come-first-serve basis, so if you've got a fast computer and you're at home you can get a course of your choice.
As Singaporeans would have it, the choice courses were all snapped up at 10.20PM, while I was still lounging around having dinner.
The best part about the dinner was that we could SMS our friend's mother who was in front of the computer to help us sign up, so we don't have to be physically at home to sign up ourselves, but as luck would have it...
...I forgot my password. Life's a bitch. So yep, I ended up having to choose a course which I have entirely no interest in, and the course description goes something like this:
Learning Outcomes: Students will learn how to have the mindset of a successful person.
Details: This module explores the attitudes behind a successful person. The 7-X factors:1. I can Overcome! 2. I can be Special! 3. I can Win! 4. I can be Strong! 5. I can do Great Things! 6. I can Dream! 7. I can be Happy!
almost as if to say that I can't have done all these without the help of a 5 hours course, and almost as if to say that I'd become suddenly enlightened with a 5 hour course and become a successful person.
Note the ambiguity of the course: 'mindset', 'a successful person'. It did not state that people who attends the course would become successful, but merely have a 'mindset' of 'a'<--singular, person.
Which means that there could be many other types of mindsets to be successful, but they are only choosing what they view as 'best' for the target audience--ignorant people such as myself. It may not work and they're not confident about it working out at all--as is the nature of all such workshops which aspires to transform a person's life with a mere 5 hour long course.
The course description is such a joke. The only reason why I'm choosing this voluntarily is because it's held in a lecture theatre, which means that there's a chance for me to sleep.
See, that's another retarded thing about AJC--they force people to go home earlier to do something very retarded--get a course as it's on a first come first serve basis. We're enjoying AJI, and AJI ended only at like what, 9 plus? Not everybody lives beside the school. The lack of stimulus for students to build a sense of belonging to the school is disappointing. I kinda enjoyed the event although CHMA was on a scale much bigger than this(the tickets do cost something), it was still fun anyway (;
I am getting really sleepy.
-- 4/10/2010 02:08:00 AM
