Council what?

RJ continued with its signature high-handed way of making a mockery of things with the just concluded council investiture this afternoon. With all due respect to the councillors, I do not see the point of this event cept for it maybe acting as a photo-taking session for the parents who are here for a "once in a lifetime" glory of their children. Just exactly what is so significant about their handover that they must make the whole J1 cohort and teachers stay back and watch them do it? Not to mention that they took like 1 hour of CO prac when concert is like in 2 days.

To make matters worse, they started off a long string of speeches that began interestingly enough but soon became long monotonous droning. the principal made a comment that goes "Leadership is not a zero-sum game". lol, let me first explain a zero-sum game, it basically means that ur enemy's loss is your gain and vice-versa. A simple example of zero-sum games would be chess, checkers and so on. To lead on from the point, I don't see how leadership in RJ(at least in the sense of Council), do not fall under this catergory. Just look at the election process, would you say not that if a candidate did badly for the interviews, it is not to your benefit? would you say that if a candidate screwed up his/her campaign speech, it is not to your advantage? Then wouldn't the enemy's loss is your gain condition stand and thus classifying leadership under a zero-sum game.

The other speech that actually made an impact was the opening speech by the new council presisdent. Note: It was an openng speech. I was basically whiling my time away when suddenly, the opening speech of hers turned into a thank-you speech and caught my full attention. She started thanking the AV club ppl and so on for doing up the investiture but lol, aren't you supposed to set the direction and inspire the ppl in the opening speech? I mean, if u really want to thank them, the emcees can do it for you or u can do it next year, when the council is dissolved. Anw, thts besdies the point as her speech was I could only say "well-rehearsed and articulated". From the voice, the passion to lead and serve was sorely lacking and a great turn-off. I foresee a stable council in the next year, but it would be one that would be satisfied with the status quo and do things by the book, but well, "tried and tested methods" are often more effective.

The last part of the investiture was 2 item put up by the new council to impress the student population, but well, I was indeed impressed. I so sincerely believed that their dance is choreograhed in such a way that a wave effect is constant throughout and there would be a canon, u knoe like the normal canon u hear in music, playing a variation of the meleody or the melody itself behind the same melody by a certain time. After the dance, they sang a song, another self-composed batch song. Again, like all other times i hear ppl singing in mics in Rj, the mics seem to have something against the lead singer, keep making it sound off-tune and pathetically soft and weak. At the end of the day, my conclusion: the artistic abilities of the council is far beyond mine that I couldn't understand a thing. Likewise, they wouldn't understand(or choose not to understand) a thing I say.