We’re Doomed
Sarah: I like fish. They’re like shit. Did you know that Fish is also spelt as Shit if you rearrange the letters? Except without the ‘t’. So Fish should be called Tish instead, so that they’ll be like shit. Hahaha.
Ah, what now? Teachers monitoring our blogs? Mmm.
The Principle, whom I hadn’t seen for weeks, suddenly appears in front of us to threaten us. Should we even think about complaining about a teacher on our blogs, we shall be expelled *dang dang dang*
They insist that they’re monitoring our blogs for the sake of safety and curb us from breaking the law, such as making racist comments. That sounds like a rather meek excuse to me. Nah, they’re monitoring our blogs to curb us from tarnishing their reputation. Teachers don’t like to be proven wrong, but when they are, they kinda know it, but to cloud their shame, they punish the student instead.
Well, reasons actually exist as to why students would even complain/curse about you in the first place. We don’t pick any random thing to yak about. We’re mostly [I'm assuming] capable of hating someone with sufficient reasons.
I’m sure teachers complain about their students too, but verbally between each other instead of online. They’d rather have us complaining about them behind their backs than to have our complaints projected, I mean, shouldn’t they be worrying about WHY the students are angry in the first place, instead of fretting on how to stop us?
The best way to stop us from defaming you is to actually acknowledge your flaws and correct them.
Sure, the student may be at fault as well, but how on Earth did you handle the situation to result in hatred?
It’s just wrong wrong wrong wrong, all over. Monitoring our blogs. I wouldn’t be surprised if Singapore eventually evolves into some Big Brother or utopian sort of society. Signs are showing now, our personal lives are slowly being invaded and watched, and they’re always attempting to instill particular mindsets into us. “Don’t even THINK about…” the teachers and Principle say. They’re becoming the Thought Police, hey, like George Orwell’s 1984!
Just the other day, during assembly, they invited some performers to showcase they’re love for Singapore, most likely in attempt to shake us out of hatred for Singapore which some of us may feel and <3 Singapore instead. Singapore does not have any sort of stable identity, thus they decided that THAT exactly should be our identity. It’s like having your motto as, “I wish I had a motto.”
Basically, they told me to love Singapore. Why? Well, because of all the meepok, East Coast Park, clean and green environment and all the CHAR KWAY TEOW! The way they assume that such shallow and superficial reasons would sway my decision as to love or hate Singapore really disgusts and horrifies me.
If some kid walks up to me one day and tells me that the reason behind his love for Singapore is the damn meepok, I think Singapore will really be spiritually doomed, or maybe doomed to drown in a black hole of stupidity, but by then, Singapore’s economy will probably be bringing in the riches.
Our society increasingly thrives on stupidity after all, following whatever we’re told.
So it won’t matter if the whole of Singapore is merely doing the work because of the meepok, as long as our society’s thriving, who gives a shit right?
Sure, when we were in New Zealand and stuffing our faces with sandwiches and burgers all week, we began to miss Char Kway Teow a lot.
But should that be the reason why I love Singapore? I’m only missing the Char Kway Teow after all. If I could get Char Kway Teow in New Zealand, I wouldn’t have mind living there forever. Good lord.
I’d rather live in somewhere where it’s dirty, deprived from Char Kway Teow and East Coast Park but isn’t leaning towards Socialism and isn’t on the verge of evolving into some utopian society. Let’s all migrate to New Zealand [it's pretty clean over there too!]
Argh I’m digressing.
Back to teachers.
They’re doing all this crap to protect us from the law, or so they claim.
Can’t they realise that with every step taken forward economically, we’re stepping one step backwards spiritually?
We just have to stop being so damn anal. Their excuse of arresting those men for blogging racist comments is the 1964 racial riots. This is 2006, and I’m sure with all the racial harmony themes they throw at us for the past 41 years, we’re not going to reanact another riot. But fine, whatever.
Only fools will follow the herd and allow an impersonal entity to dictate to them.
So my complaints about teachers will not stop. Losers.
I guess it’s not mystery as to why Singapore is placed only one rank below the Middle East for freedom of speech.
I agree 100% wif this entry. The first question that came to my mind was not what Jasmine Teo said about Mildred Yap, but why she said it in the first place.
Ain’t no one gonna check why Jasmine was so pissed off in the first place? Sure, Jasmine may have said some unflattering things about Mildred Yap, but recalling what Mildred Yap said about Bryan Er about a month ago, I’d say it’s an eye for an eye.
However, since we’re tiny little teenagers, we can’t do nuts, so we’ll jus have to get over the insult, no? Ditto that for the teachers, I say.
And yea, we rank below Ethiopia and Afghanistan for freedom of speech. Even the Taliban have something we don’t, sure says a lot, don’t it?