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.

To have an irrationale sense of hope,
To draw inspriation from small things and to inspire great things,
To take risks when no one else dares and to not take risks when everyone else does
To understand that change is the only constant....
and.... to not give up when u find urself back at square one

Yes, to be back at square one, my bg music has been changed again to the first bg music i've ever used on this blog. The name of the song insignificant, for it would not make a difference if i stated it explicitly. The most important thing is for u, the readers to be moved by the music....

There is no emotion
There is peace
There is no passion
There is serenity
Quoted from the Code of Jedi

Disillusioned? I dun knoe......

You know how life works? From the second we are born, we are thrown into a world of infinite complications that makes u forget how to live. As a child, we follow our instincts and live for life, but as we grow up, we become more entangled into this complicated world that we lose our focus. Sometimes, we just need to remind ourselves that while we are living every second, we are indeed too dying every second. The notion indeed should jolt u awake....

It was in the afternoon. The sky was overcast, the corridor was dark as a result. There was time to spare, thus I walked to a glass window and stared out at the sky. Feeling bored, I suddenly thought of an idea. I leaned forward and whispered through the glass window to the sky, " send me a raindrop". As if answering my prayers, it started to drizzle. Then the first raindrop arrived, splattered on the glass window. I placed my hand over it as though catching it and traced its descent down the window to the edge. Then, it started to fall again, away from the window. I watched helplessly as the raindrop fell......down into the hand of a person scurrying for shelter. When i looked up again, the glass window was filled with raindrops. My vision was blurred and the glass window slowly dissapeared, allowing the raindrops to fall directly on my face and into my hands...

Sometimes, it takes more than just courage.

A crazy Sat

hehe, I was in sch yest for a total of 14 hours and outside home for a total of 16 hrs. thts two-thrids of a day. lol, but it was quite fun yest. Prac in the morning, sectionals first. bing liang came over and i was playing chun1, dong1 and taiwan zhui xiang on the sound system, Slacked thru sectionals, only to practise some parts occasionally. Guess everyone is still suffering from post-SYF syndrome. Orchestral prac was quite okae and lao zhou managed to finish chang2 hen4 mian2 mian2 somehow.

In the afternoon, there were interviews. While waiting for my turn, watched the publicity comm do up the banners outside the CO room. There was an flurry of action at first as they couldn't get the paint cans open. In the end, we used the hinge of a door as a lever and a hammer and a screw as battering ram to get it open. lol, talk about creative and innotive solutions.
Next, went in for interviews. The qns asked were quite okae, it was smooth-sailing for me at least for most parts of the interview. It was only nearing the end tht i start to shoot myself in the leg. lol, in layman terms, making contradicting statements and being unaware of wat u are saying. lol, it's amazing tht words can at times provide the magical touch to an expression and yet at times fail you and make u look stupid.

After the interviews, continued helping the publicity comm with the banners as I was staying for the chinese drama production at night. lol, as I was pointing out to kevin, the daji banner looks like it consist of an abacus, an orange apple (the irony) and a triangular glass evalator from Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Well...not tht I'm complaining but..... In any case, kudos to tbe publicity ppl for putting the effort and doing such a great job.

At night, went with shan, deng, vin and zj to watch jing4, mirror in direct english translation. Deng came with his lion dance ppl which include..... So, we were like choosing a seat quite a distance away from him. U knoe, we were trying to cut down sg's power consumption, but deng insist on sitting rite in front of us, making us guity of excessive power consumption. lol, he better help us pay our power bills.
The play was damn funny and rather meaningful. Talks about this two ppl who were unhappy with their present life, so they "swopped lives" thru the mirror. Lawrence, Rich and Tan Long were seriously damn funny as they cracked one joke after another. I believe everyone would agree that Tan Long's impersonation of an Indonesian maid brought the house down. The play finally ended at 10.15pm, and i finally reached home at 11.45pm, obviously drawing disapproving stares from my parents. (Not to add tht I skipped a family function to attend the play)

THe rains and thunderstorms keep coming in these few days tht I reckon nature has caught a flu. lol, in any case, rain seems to be able to add colour or just a different perspective to RJC. RJC looks more beautiful in the rain, just like how it looks nicer at night than in the day. The feeling is just totally different...

Just wishing that u were here with me....

There was a thunderstorm today. The rain was indeed harsh, the wind merciless. Nature has its own ways of doing things that I seem never able to decipher. Just like today...

i am lagging terribly behind in tutorials and essays that these few words that I type can be considered miracles. 2 hr of math tmr and trigo tutorial not done yet. Go there, stone and die if get called. lol, i need some motivation to do tutorials and PW is indeed a waste of time. Just came up with my part of gpp just now, totally crappy as i really didn't knoe wat to write. Not the topic's fault, not my group members' fault, it must be the deadline then. Indeed, ask me to wrtie when i'm totally unispired and tired only results in crappy work. For now, lets stop here and continue with my trigo......