i realised no one seems to blog anymore.now its usually mel.even i'm not blogging as much. oh whatever.
chinese paper was okay. finished in half the time or so?
lit paper was tiring.the area between thumb and index freaking cramped up as i was frantically writing my last parag within the last minute or so. wanted to go crazy.might have repeated myself or smth,but the length itself looks fine.
had a class discussion about the class. like woah, seriously intense okay.i swear i thought weixin looked/sounded like she was on verge of tears.
the entire heated discussion stemmed from a certain teacher complaining to the chairperson.
like, in the whole class, except for just one person, everyone had valid reason not to go fr the hockey game. and like, its not like we hate hockey or anything, or that we didn't celebrate along with the school when we did win. believe me, when i saw on fb and msn on stc winning,i was like, HAH, stc hockey rocks man.and we're girls too.
but like, most people in class think that th sch pampers hockey to no end. when it's their finals, wah, sup shiok, one period off fr th whole school, buses provided TO and FRO the stadium, etc etc. but say performing arts? well because i am frm performing arts grp and i dont know about other ccas. performing arts, syf day itself. no one knows unless people from that particular cca tells them, or when they go missing fr the day or smth. when they achieve say , a gold, everyone's like yay,congratz.end. they don't really go like woah..XXX cca is super pro, i'm super proud of whatever hard work they put in.
if they don't do well, like fr band, people are like, yeah, ok, whatever. they don't go like hey for all the effort they put in, what they actually got doesnt matter half as much as the bonds formed, or hey, they stayed back till 8, came back on saturdays, they worked super hard, and go like jiayou or smth. they go walao, prac until like that still cannot achieve, they very suck hor.
it's stuff like this that doesnt really help keep our morals up does it? they say they support us, but once the results are out and it isnt what they want the support seems to dissapear.
niche sport. that's cool. we all know everyone in stc is proud of our hockey and floorball team. but the other ccas? no one seems to care. we don't know when tennis finals, or bowling finals, or track and field finals are. its just like performing arts. only hockey seems to count. yeah, niche sport, but does it mean the other ccas dont matter anymore? it's like everyone knows theres so and so cca, but no one cares about it until the results are announced in sch fr their recent competition. yeah thanks man. thanks fr the support. so much that there's only one bloody working snare drum in the bandroom that has a stand so short that most of our perc cant play it.
who ever said 2d has the best attitude? the best EQ? the best behaviour? because a whole ton of people think so. teachers think so the most, and keep trying to hammer it into our brains, so much that i think, sometimes,we do it just to prove you wrong. yeah we have the highest PSLE scores, yeah we are supposed to be the best of the best in the school. but hey, since when did grades equate into behaviour? if you research a bit, not all the geniuses in the world did fantastic in school. albet einstein is a great example. he was a bit loony in fact, but you cant deny that when you say his name, the first think people think about him is, genius, crazy or not.
i mean, as long as we maintain our grades, is anything affected?no. even if we don't, do we affect you in anyway? no, you can carry on with your life, taking it as just another trouble class in your teaching life. a teacher goes through so many, why is it that we seem that much worse behaved just because we supposedly are smarter? why is it that people keep comparing us to other classes? one of the things we hate the most? complaining, comparing. always saying you should be better than this, other classes are better already. well, sorry, have you had your mother nag before and you just hated it and wanted to ask her to shut up? imagine that, but with different people. maybe its because its said so much that we just comply. nagging is supposed to be for your own good isnt it? but saying oh other classes are better than you so much maybe gets it drilled into our heads so we no longer want to try, prove you right for all we care. really, for all you said, all the stuff that makes us want to scream and say shut up, that's us, its none of your business, maybe its you that made us this way.
each class is different, some classes have a clique issue, some an attitude issue, some have a noise issue, some have a grades issue, some dont have an issue. as someone who has been there, done that? instead of constantly telling us our problems, why not telling us why you think we are like that? how we can change? but really, it still might not help.
we're teens for goodness sake. don't most, if not all teens have issues? don't they want to comply with their peers? well we are a class, and we do comply with our classmates? we learn to laugh along with our classmate's antics, joke with them, have fun with them. we're sorry if its at the wrong time, the teacher isnt around and as good, fun loving teens, we don't have much of an intention to sit down, silent as a mouse and read a textbook while we hear the cricket. sorry, it doesnt happen anymore, sorry to burst your bubble. even if we do that, we probably arent reading textbooks anyway. in a good, or at least better light, you can call it class bonding, or learning to express yourself. yeah its kinda forcing it, but i do think its kinda true. if not for all th noise we make and all the talking in class, laughing, sleeping, we wouldnt be the two dee we are now would we? imagine us sitting serenely at our tables, our classmates no longer in sight, answers and questions are all model answers and questions, and say danii doesnt make a sound, like she's xiulin or something. no one's eyes glazes over even during the most boring lesson ever, no one falls asleep. wouldnt every teacher love that? yeah, i bet they would, but that wouldnt be a class ,it would be robots. cliques would exist anymore, during recess, everyone sits in REGISTER ORDER. canteen queues are two straight parallel lines. everyone is just a perfect little student who does what she is asked to. if you want that, go to some parallel universe to find it, you won't find it easily.
maybe it's just a case of excessive stereotyping and teacher just LOVING their model students after all.
and hey, if you managed to read th post without stopping, you're good.