My Unedited and Unabridged Version of Sulking

TO THE DEAR IDIOTS SITTING AT THE TOP UP THERE: (yes you, government)

In lieu with your decision to cap the subjects at 10, allow me, as a student about to take my SPM exam next year, to tell you how dismally stupid your idea is.

Firstly, the limit is too restricting. Please look at the urban schools as well besides your residential schools and rural areas. In the packages given to us by our schools, pure science streams and art streams have to take 9 subjects automatically. You're currently asking us to pick ONLY 1 subject like that. How is that fair and just for all students? What if I want to take English Lit because I like English? What if I want to take accounts because I'm considering being an accountant besides a doctor? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT? ARE YOU GOING TO SAY WE CAN'T DREAM AND HAVE CHOICES?

Next, what kind of gauge do you have that many students are taking so many subjects that they are overshadowing other students? You are only looking at EXTREME cases. I make friends with a lot of seniors, and the amount of subjects on average that they take are only 12. How many students are going to take 16 or more? Some extraordinaire can do it, but majority of us would get a brain hemorrhage from all that studying. You are being pessimistic in believing that all of us are crazy study freaks. For goodness sake, look at the bigger picture!

Furthermore, what gives you the right to decide how well we're going to cope with a subject? Just because 1 student can't handle 12, does that mean the rest of us can't? How is this going to benefit us when we're not allowed to learn what we want to learn? You are merely trying to blanket up what you think is a problem, and pass it off as a viable solution. What we can or cannot do is up to us to decide, not you. We know ourselves, we're old enough. If you think those residential students need help, give them APPROPRIATE HELP, not USELESS HELP.

Your reasoning for putting this unnecessary tight limit is because you say residential school and rural area school students don't have the facilities and the teachers, but doing this affirmative action isn't going to help anyone. You are merely smothering up the problems of the rural school and residential school students. They don't have the resources, GIVE THEM RESOURCES. Don't have the teachers? GET THEM THE TEACHERS. You are not solving anything by putting a cap on the entirety of students. Taking away the freedom of choice of students is not going to benefit who you want to benefit, because in the end, those students don't get to learn, they don't have your facilities, they still don't have your teachers. If that's the case 10's going to be a problem still. Are you going to lower the limit down to 6 then?

I don't deny that some students are a bit whack in taking that many and just for the As, but then this current cap doesn't solve your problem. If you don't want it to be about As, then use other factors as well. Take into account co-curriculum. Instead of marking and deciding scholarships based on As, do it an average mark basis. Take the amount of marks totalled from all the subjects that person took, and divide it by the number of subjects. But don't take away freedom of choice, or at least put a more feasible limit (12 is good).

I hope you people up there have ears, or else these voices down here aren't going to be pretty. (remember, we vote next election)

The Problem With Exams

It isn't like me to go online on the Saturday just before exams start. Usually I'm forced to bunker in my room to study. Somehow or the other, I'm turning into quite the procrastinator.

But lets leave procrastination for a separate topic.




EXAMS.



1st, we are deprived of our usual entertainment (parents don't understand that teenagers don't study past 10 at night)

2nd, we are asked questions we wouldn't use in real life (seriously, what's the point learning how mitosis is performed)

3rd, it saps us of our strength (studying late nights is bad for our bodies...)

4th, we are plunged into boredom (no TV and PC allowed remember?)

5th, we are stuck with mental blocks (like mine in blogging rite now, that's why this topic)





EXAMS, BE GONE!

dying to try
to put that extra mile
procrastination...

On the matter of the past

Ah yes.

I forgot.


IIUM debate.



Time to come clean.







Well, it's not that extreme. Just I feel like blogging about it.





Let's start off with the most obvious point:

ALMOST EVERYONE AT THE DEBATE CAME DOWN WITH FOOD POISONING ('mua included)


it's never happened before, but lady luck dictates.

Poor IIUM people were scurrying around doing damage control.



now we move to the day by day chronicling :D

1st day
-long sleepy intro talk; slept then to replenish energy
-insistent LEO people calling (that was my fault though); problem was solved
-won both rounds of that day (1st round trashing[uniforms were a practical rehearsed topic thanks to wira]; 2nd round harder but was clear win)
-stomach still in good health because didn't go to banquet (thank the gods wherever they may be)

2nd day
-won 2, lost 1, final round was silent and left us worried (we lost the humor round, confound it)
-john was there for half the day and gave the judge that gave the win to the other team a poor score(didn't affect the poor man much since he was judging in the finals)
-quite snappish during the last prep round due to fatigue
-reached home at 12.30
-stomach had horrible adverse reaction 3 times in the middle of the night; clear signs o' diarrhea.

3rd day
-we broke 10th place and may have had to go against our sister(nay brother; they're mostly guys)team, but there was a miscalculation and we were re-ranked 11th(other team no change)
-got charcoal pill from Pn Angie and water retention pill from John. Siew and El found a quiet place for me(with diarrhea) and Daniel(high fever) to sleep till next round(at 2)
-unfortunately both teams lost at octo :(
-no worries. Cam hogged in the classroom afterward.


shit happens. But.


I don't regret it. seriously.


even though the school's not paying back my cash and I got scolded at by the LEO people.


still.

This is one of the best experiences I had.

it took the form 5 team to break 10th.

this year it took a form 4 team.

I see a bright future. No matter what anyone says about winning everything.

So. that's that.

all you people
who believe that winning is everything
go f*&^ off
cause you don't know the true meaning
of experience.

Drowning

One word says it all.









I'm being swamped.


Soon I will asphyxiate.



Choke to death and turn to a lifeless corpse.











Why the sudden dark perception, one asks?(I just read john's blog so sue me)






Elementary, my dear Watson. Let us examine the evidence.




1st. The MAIN, OH-SO OBVIOUS C.O.D.--------- EXAMS. now that's a killer.


2nd. The crunch of time to start preparing for MPS and camp *gasps* (I asked for it so)


3rd. My obvious financial crisis ( I NEED TO CLAIM FROM WEICHERN)


4th. And actually, one which I also am asking for. DEBATE SEASON MAY NOT BE OVER. (keyword : MAY)


Not to mention other various causes.................................................................











All in all, fellow gentlemen and ladies, the cause of death is clear.











The victim is CLEARLY. drowning. UNDER PRESSURE.




just like all the other students out there :)

everyone, it's crunch time
say your prayers