STUDY BREAK?!

Let's not speculate the "Anonymous" where this quote was from.

"I can't even understand the basic parts of Chemistry, much less the acidic parts." - Anonymous

Irony, irony, irony. RJC, from Wednesday to Friday, has very kindly declared a "study break" for all JC1 students to go mug for their Promos. That's ridiculous because the idea is totally presposterous. They need a clear definition - is it a studying period or a break? Don't give me "study break", unless you're talking about study THEN breakdown. Then that's an idea.

And oh, RJC practises double standards too. JC2s are not given any study break, and I wonder why. They have the September holidays which I assume is considered their study break, and hell the September holidays are, well, meant to be HOLIDAYS!! In case the school administration understands not the meaning of holidays, I think www.m-w.com should be on hand to help them out.

Yes go drop the school admin a feedback form with this on the back. We'll see if they know the true meaning of a holiday.

Now the thing is that I don't know if I should look forward to this study break. Because I know I am going to study (yes even WE have promos, we can't talk cock all the time, much as we'd like to) - and if the studying gets too tough, I might just break down. Uh, hence study b r e a k?

Well to be given three days on top of a weekend might seem somewhat of a bonus, but let me tell you why it isn't a good idea to have a study break just like that.

One, study break encourages slacking off. The fact that there's no school will give rise to some people thinking that there's no need to wake up early. And we all know the truth is that there IS no need to wake up early! Thus people will zzzz throughout the day (okay at least I will), and before they know it oops it's 1pm time to go school for the afternoon to salvage whatever shit I can and slowly, surely, we lose precious time. At least with school I'd wake up at seven. (Note: I stroll into school at 7:50pm, assembly's pointless)

Two, it's an excuse for security to leave side gate unlocked. This is going to cause great inconvenience for obvious reasons. Knowing that Elango and Co. are a lazy buncha bastards who only take pride in shouting "EH GET OUT OF THE POOL" or "EH BOY! COME HERE", they are just too lazy to open the side gate. Even if they are on bicycles. I tell you, that is seriously annoying. The school treats them too well, we should take away their silly bikes and get them to start walking about. After all, some of the guards do look like they could do with a diet and some loss of weight. Faguts.

Three, it takes away the romance of ponning classes. At least with schools and lectures, we get to have the excitement of ponning them all. The fun part in taking blue slip also is taken away when an official break is given. Even now as we move into a week before promos, we see muggers not coming to school because they are desperately trying to get their As at home. On the other hand, we have rebels/punks trying to salvage their promos mugging at home. Either way, I find that a more agreeable arrangement because school is more exciting with ponners and all. Giving a break is no kick. No kick at all.

Four, J2s need encouragement. Imagine those poor sods taking prelims and coming up with their faces all white, the least the school could do is to provide some comfort.. in letting them see J1s mugging till their faces are all white! If you haven't seen any J1s mugging until like that, come to the canteen and look out for me. I'd not only have a face as white as a sheet, but I will tug at my hair until I get the answer. Oftentimes, I will just give up. The J2s still need their encouragement, and entertainment.

Five, because some will not even come to school at all. Therefore no school spirit is fostered. At least if you have school, people will mug together after school and foster a sense of camaraderie (hate this bloody long word) and uh, class spirit or whatever. New friends might be made during mugging, especially if A asks B over to tutor C in Maths or some shit like that. Yup it happens. New bonds are forged. Having study break only means people are going solo and individual. Goodbye to esprit de corps. Now you can feel (sic) alone and fail alone.

Five points is surely enough to pass your GP essay. Of course, you'd have to include substantiation but I'm not going to bother here because if I put substantiation I might as well type forever until the study break comes. And no one really cares about mugging for GP by the way.

At least, I don't. The only GP you should mug is GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION.

And even so that is admittedly chicken feed. That's the only Maths topic I like because there's little to remember and when I mug (actually just read through) that topic there IS progression. So yay GP ftw I LIKE IT I LIKE IT I LIKE IT!

A little randomness before I go off.



Trying to do GP bonus question during Maths test. Unfortunately unlike the good old days in RI where they'd award you marks for being brave, they don't let you have bonus marks here unless you get 80% or above for the other section. Fagut RJ tutors, I ended up getting stuck and wrote a "wth" there which actually meant "wtf", but well, you must understand Maths tutors aren't exactly your Lit experts so..

..let's just go for our study break. =)