promos are over.
preparing for open house RJ now. kalaidoscope its called
dumb name, dumb event.
more than half the peeps coming will never step thru the rusting gates of RJ again.
anyhows, there's nothing much to see.
if yer a gal, u came to chat with older friends
if yer a guy, go ogle the dancers who are older than u, and u'll never get them.
then again, most of them are positive airheads.

so maybe some will come to see their friends. some just extra enuff to crash the event
bottom line is, its a dumb event, where u try to attract ppl into choosing RJC
as if that needs to be done. kids these days are so carried away by academic success they probably dream of coming to RJ.
dumb.

whihc brings me on to the MOE, parents and students. and the clash of interests between them.
the MOE wants better trained students. they want us to know more, and be able to do more.
Parents want us to succeed, to perform well. Good grades, nice record, good testimonial blahblahblah
the combined effects of this, we get all sorts of programmes such as IPW, CIP, PEARLS and so on and so forth.
each time round they make any changes, there's always the plan by the MOE, and criticism from parents.

in a perfect world, parents would look out for their children. unfortunately, this is by no means a perfect world.
parents dont listen to their children, and are more interested in what they think is best for the child, than what the child thinks is healthy for himself, or herself if u insist on being femininist and really anal.

its kinda like saying, i know u feel the pain of being shot by a bullet, but really, i think its best if u didnt get painkillers, u might get addicted or some bullshit like that. so anyways, sandwiched between the demands of parents and state, children find themselves squeezed dry like lemons. don't we all just feel wonderful now? anybody just ralised why teenage suicide rates are going up?
well done =p

but twhats the real problem here? the students dont get a voice to air their opnions. and even when they lose it and snap, nobody listens. thats the real problem. and dont tell me about students councils and the like. they're even simply elected. the powers that be, which we disagree with, have the right to veto.

aint that a joke, the sole check we have against their abuse of power, and they have the veto on anyone they see as unfit. arbritrary, unfair, undemocratic the list goes on.and obviously the radicals arent going anywhere. telling the teacher he/she is wrong is not going to earn u brownie points. school prefect? yea right.

so why do the youth of today suffer? nobody listens with enough interest to stand up for us. they call it rebellion. for us, its survival.

if yer an adult reading this and u disagree, 2 words. FUCK OFF.