8/4/2006 - beginning of yet more conformity

today marks the first saturday in a long time...and the first of many in the next 2 years...yes,honeymoon is over....conformity rules....yes,gone are the fun escapades and adventures...yes,time constraint....bad schedule....increasing workload...JC life is coming full flow...and yes,the sadness of the singapore education system....ever so strigent..ever so rigid..sometimes i envy the foreign education system...yes,i agree im proud and i marvel at the system's awesome way of churning out good results,but on other aspects, i plea for some changes...take for example cca,do we rewally want to stick to one and only one commited cca for the whole school life? take the UK for example,what they feel like doing that day they just do...something i have utmost envy for,they want to play soccer they play,they want t swim they go...etc.....im not trying to say the UK system is better than the Singapore one...what im saying is that Singapore should look into other countries and modify it...granted,our society needs rules to thrive...its been the tradition...so why cant we have them take attendence during the cca but as long as u attend on cca a week or twice its ok? the only difference is ppl can try more than one and stick to more than one....or course...there will be exceptions but what is wrong with that? like the band and all they can continue week in week out...but for the vast majority,the avenue to diverse will help them be creative,imiaginative,adventurous,and of course  happy,instead of just stuck like a commitment to a cca that you like but like other things as well but cant join because of clashes...its just so sickening la...

yesterday was yet another different friday..went home after school....when was the last time i did that? then met hisham,roshan,sujinder,ashiq and sean at parkway....played pool and ate...the social outings are diminishing...the stringency is back...today im home after fencing...going tennis later but thats with family...it means its time to move on...i probably wont see friends ive seen in the last few months or so for a very long time...kind of sad but thats life...life goes on...the sadness of the singapore system....first three months? more like 2...and after all sense of belonging to the school,you leave it for another...sad la...should just stick to one exam...one intake...minimize the painful sentiments...yes,and PW sucks...and the grading of subjects is suspect...cant they be more forthright? or be more creative? even the syllabus and methods of learning are suspect...dont get me wrong the system is sucessful....but in the future we need to be creative thinkers...the question now is...can we modify the system and still obtain sucess we enjoyed in the past? cause the changes so far prove not that much worthy of any praise...