Of the Song Dedication
Thursday.The weekend approaches.For some reason i woke up,tired.And i mean,tired.Exhausted.Didnt really know why but i did not manage to wake up after i turned off the radio clock.I kept on sleeping until Dad woke me up.By the way,he's back from Taiwan.Glad to see him around again.Anyway,so i got to school extremely tired.During Economics i was already dozing off,dying.Not to mention the long and awful Maths lecture that followed.Our school's Maths department came up with a mentor system.Whereby teachers from other classes will be the mentor of weaker students.I do not deny that this is a pretty good idea.Considering the fact that it opens up a way for students to question different teachers and opinions when dealing with a maths problem.Anyway,Mr Kooi's lecture ended early.Just as we were about to pack our bags and head on down to the canteen for an early break,the HOD of maths walked onto the stage and told the crowd to hold on for a minute,and that she had an important thing to announce.It was an analysis of the results of last year's J2's results.As we were still early,nobody complained.She started off by placing a table on the projector,showing the results of the pass year students.Especially the 2003 batch.She started talking about how bad the arts student did,how they merely obtained a F while the science stream students generally managed to obtain an AO pass at the least.She highlighted the percentage of students of three particular classes and showed it to the whole LT.Fine,that's alright.Since she was refering to last year's batch,i dont really care.Then she went on to the list of students who would be taken care of under the mentor system.She flashed the list of students,and that pissed a lot of people off.Why?Firstly,they were all Arts students.Secondly,their names were openly announced to the LT.Not that anybody cared.However,I dont think it was the right thing to do.She took the paper off the screen,and said,"Actually,Im not supposed to show you this."And she placed that piece of paper back onto the projector again.So once again,the names were flashed in front of everyone.Of course,our class had a couple of names up there,and it wasnt very nice of her to reveal their names like that.Yeah,they might be weaker in maths,but by putting them off like that was definitely wrong.And that's only one of the numerous stupid things the school did.One of the policy the school implemented was to close the toilets on the centre block because the school wanted to save water and electricity.Why is it stupid?1)The number of toilets might have decreased,but the number of people using the toilets remains the same.So you end up having the same amount of people rushing to the toilets at the end of the school,and the amount of water used remains unchanged.2)The toilets are still opened even after the implementation.Sometimes,they would be locked with the lights on.3)Cleaners use running hoses to wash the toilets and leave it on even when they are drying the wmirrors.4)The fountain is still on.Enough said.The principal clarified that though the number of people using the toilets remained the same,by decreasing the number of toilets it makes the lives of the cleaners easier.However,the aim of this whole thing is to save electricity and water.Not to make those cleaners lives easier.Stupid.Anyway,so everyone got really pissed off at her,and she basically became the topic of the day during Maths and CT.During CT,we had to bring magazines,and find pictures which suited our idea of a ideal school in 2009.I must admit that my group did a pretty good presentation,making the class bursting out into laughter.Of course,the A1 people were there as well.I pointed to a picture of an astronaut on the moon and said,"Geography Fieldtrips of 2009.Then i went on to talk about future textbooks.I pasted a couple of pictures of the cover of Rolling Stones Magazines.It had Britney spears posing almost nude on the covers.I pointed to them one by one and said,"Textbooks.Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday and Friday.Students wont forget to bring them,ever."Which sent the class roaring with laughter.Anyway,during the break we went down to the canteen.The ground was literally vibrating with music.It was the college's Friendship Day,and they were selling roses and friendship bands.There were a lot of song dedications as well,and the councillors were blasting the music at the back of the canteen.It was pretty crowded,and we settled down at a table at the corner of the canteen.The girls went off to buy food while me and Rachel stayed at the table.As i quietly sipped my Milo from the bottle,my name was announced over the stereo system.I almost choked on the drink,and stared at Rachel.She stared at me as well,and i asked,"Did i hear my name?"She said she did.Haha.What a weird thing to happen.I dont remember anybody dedicating any songs to me.I dedicated songs to people before,when i wrote into Perfect 10 back in Secondary School.However,never on an occasion like this.LiuYin and WanJun came back with their food,and they said that they heard my name as well.Haha.Oh well,probably it was just some other guy with the same name.(Or girl.)Whoever it was,if it was for me,thanks.Probably just one of my friends whose names i did not catch.Haha.Cool.