Relax Week

There is a lot of irony with the school and the RJC 26th Students' Council.

Unless you have been walking with your eyes closed for this week, or you've been ponning school four days in a row (good choice) or have basically been passive to your surroundings, I'm glad to inform you that it is RELAX WEEK in RJC. Time for you to RELAX!!

No, who can we possibly kid. I'm pretty sure more and more people around school are getting stressed up. The irony (Fe-y) lies in the fact that Chemistry Week coincides with Relax Week. Like WHAT THE HELL! The ideas of Chemistry and Relax are so.. polar. They are like electrons repelling each other. How can you have Chem Week and Relax Week on the same week?

There you go. The irony of RJC.

But Chemistry Week aside (with me successfully completing all the Chemistry crosswords ftw), Relax Week probably doesn't have the effect that the councillors might want to achieve. Okay I say this in the viewpoint of a councillor, so no doubt it might be a bit biased. Because I bet the Relax Week Comm wouldn't be very relaxed either, setting up rooms and all for the relaxation of fellow students.

But I do have this inclination to offer suggestions - which I will only do so here and not anywhere else because I doubt the Council takes kindly to include in their minutes the sort of trash I'm going to produce now. I can assure you, however, that this quick-fix solution is going to make everyone very relaxed. So there.

First up, WHY IT ISN'T RELAXING:

ONE: The AVPR where all the para para machines and the Xboxes are too far away to be convenient for students to go there and have fun. Face it, relaxation does not come from walking all the way from the canteen (focal point of the school undoubtedly) to Block A. Plus it doesn't help the gay Chinese men from the construction site just opposite the road are staring at you as you prepare to go relax yourself in the room.

TWO: The Med Room is badly named because who on earth would want to meditate outside curriculum time? True, meditation is taken as a viable option at times, but only during Maths or Chemistry or Physics or Biology lectures. Actually, any lecture. Outside of lectures most people would either want to sleep or just slack. If you want quality sleep, what you want is to be able to sleep in peace. They should just freaking take the councillors on duty OUT of the rooms. Which helps both sides because a) without councillors, no one's watching you so you can sleep. imagine being watched while you sleep! wth! and b) councillors also won't have to stress doing bloody stupid duties. Case proven.

THREE: There's still classes. Even though RJC has got 19 golds from school nationals, evidently the administration does not think that's bloody enough to warrant at least a half-day or a No Morning Assembly like we had in RI. Hell, last time Mario (Mr Wong) had a nice time calling holidays and learning how to celebrate victories. According to a certain unnamed RJC PE teacher other schools with 6 golds are already declaring a day off just so they could relax. In RJC you get your Relax Week while having H3 Maths up to half past six. Now you wonder who's doing a half past six job in trying to get everyone to relax.

Now this would be MY PROPOSAL for RELAX WEEK:

1) Let's be realistic, we can't call off a week of school, so let us do away with Friday. This way at least I can blog through the night like there's no tomorrow. Friday is a day of relaxation, and so we should not be stressed with the burden of school. For those who thinks it's near promos and wants to mug, councillors will be allocated to confiscate mugging materials before they (=the muggers) go home on Thursdays. Muggers will definitely bring their notes everywhere. That way, they will have no choice but to relax on their off-day. Cruel, but yet relaxing.

2) Get the bloody machines at the canteen and tell the ice cream man to go to the stadium. Games should be done at the canteen so there will be a relaxing atmosphere. Like I'll buy my food, sit down at the table and watch any total jackass trying to dance his way to para para fame. Then it also provides entertainment and amusement for all the students chomping away on their food. Especially if, as mentioned earlier, the guy is a total jackass AND especially lousy at the game. Humour is the way to better living, so let's have games at the canteen please.

3) Cushions at LTs, NOT at obscure rooms that no one's going to go. See, they just got this whole load of councillors to bring this whole load of cushions to school but it's under-utilised because you have to go to some deserted faraway seminar rooms to make use of it. If you put it at LTs, it will definitely be put to good use. Students seeking sleep during lectures will have it their way. And councillors should be responsible to ensure that the lecturer does not scold a student for sleeping. After all, it's Relax Week and relaxation is of utmost importance. (Doesn't apply to Chem Week though - that's just the way things work.)

4) Chase the librarians/fagut teachers out of the bloody library and let's have a party in there every day. Okay I've longed to get this out of my chest because let's all be frank with each other, RJC library is perfect for Counter Strike. Like REAL LIFE Counter Strike. The circular structure and the stone steps make it lovely to run up and down wielding a gun. And for virtual gamers, the computer stations down there should be nice to play CS too. Let's take over the library and chase out those silly women who believe that libraries are meant for mugging and reading. Sometimes you gotta learn to let go. Since this is Relax Week, the library should not be a library but a SANCTUARY. Now this is uber fun I feel like hijacking the place tomorrow.

5) NO TESTS. Very important. Because I failed Econs today and I do not wish the same thing to befall on any other unlucky soul who is taking a test this week. Even if you are damn smart, Relax Week is Relax Week and so no one should take any chances of failing tests. Tests are stressful by nature anyway.

6) NO HOMEWORK. Enough said.

Then of course there are many others more I'd love to list and I'd love to continue on but this is all fantasy. And there's Chemistry tutorial due tomorrow so I'm getting out of my dreamworld now. I hope that the next Students' Council will seriously consider my suggestions. If not I'm going to take over the world myself. Well, at least RJC.

RELAX!