The exams of today, are not simply just a test of academic abilities. For one, it tests our ability to hold in our pee and shit and think. For 2, it tests our ability to shit and pee before the important things take place.
How does the exam test that? They restrict you from going out to the toilet 1 hr from the start of the exam and 1 hr before the exam ends. For your information, most examinations are less than 2 hours.
Now, i understand that they want to prevent cheating, but that is just stupid.
After a math mock, i remember a teacher went up to the front and said: ''You shouldn't go to the toilet 5 mins before the exam ends! We don't allow that! Also, you should use the time to do your exam! Don't waste time!''
Now, imagine you are going to shit your pants, but barely. Just imagine it, disgusting as it may sound. Now you frantically rush to the door, reaching for the toilet. But then, an invigilator stops you.
''Let me go to the toilet! Please! I'm shitting my pants!''
'' NO! ITS THE RULES!''
''Please! I'll be back in 5 to 10 minutes, just let me go and it will save a lot trouble!''
''NO! DO YOUR EXAM! DON'T WASTE TIME! ITS THE RULES!''
''No seriously, i need to relieve myself. ''
''NO''
''Alright, i know you want to prevent cheating. YOU CAN LOOK AT ME SHIT! HAPPY?! NOW LET ME GO!''
''NO! ITS THE RULES!!''
The exam is evil. 1st, you have to pay an exorbitant fee to stress yourself out. People pay the service industry for excellent service. For exams, you pay people to spit on you. Perhaps worse, is that you are FORCED to pay.
I don't get the reasoning behind ''not going to toilet = save time''. Seriously how is going to the toilet so i can refresh myself and think better a waste of time? This is exactly why this society is so fucked up. People grow up following the rules without understanding the reasoning behind the rules. Then they just follow, and enforce it on people who knows nothing, who then grow up to be like them...
''You have to go to school, and study every hour of the day and week until you grow up because apparently it makes you rich somehow''
''Don't stand up to that evil king, because he kills everybody, and apparently everybody hates him, but we don't know why we listen to his every commands''
''Cut your hair, because apparently the rules say that the less hair you have the more disciplined and the more you are a good person.''
''The iPhone 4 is the most popular phone, so it is the best phone. Everybody says so.''
I say bullshit. The people enforcing such rules are like batman in the following video:
Exams
Whose fault?
A problem of food wastage... whose fault is it?
Lets say, there is a child who don't like to eat veggies. When he doesn't eat the veggies in his meal, whose fault is it? 'The child's fault!', you say?
You are wrong!
1st party at fault: The cook.
If a person doesn't like to eat veggies, it is because the food tastes bad. Why does it taste bad? Because the cook isn't able to deliver a dish that is of the consumer's taste. The cook sux.
A good cook will be able to cook any ingredient and make it delicious! (assuming the ingredients are edible in the 1st place, duh) A good cook also knows how to make full use of his ingredients. Feeding his recipe to a child who will throw away the food =/= good use of ingredient.
2nd party at fault: Parents, or whoever brought that kid up.
When kids don't eat a particular food, the parents blame them for being picky. Don't waste food!
In actuality, the parents are the ones wasting food. They totally know that the child hates the food. Why deliberately pick a food that the child hates and not other alternatives? There are so much types of food in this world.
2nd. Why does the kid hate the food? It's because the parents didn't give him/her the food that tastes good. For example, i love cabbage. But in actuality, most cai fan cabbage doesn't taste that good ;_; . The reason i still like cabbage is because the cabbage i have eaten the 1st time actually tastes good.
Which is to say, they are force feeding kids to hide the fact that they are incompetent in choosing food, or cooking them.
3rd party at fault: The restaurant/menu.
When you order western food, do you order the chicken chop for the chicken or for the salad? The chicken, for obvious reasons.
In short, if i order chicken chop and don't eat the salad, its not because i like wasting food. I didn't order it in the 1st place. So why did you serve me salad?! The menu is inflexible and the restaurant is in the wrong for setting the menu.
Of course you can say that i know salad is inside so why don't i switch it for beans? I still blame the restaurant. Because:
1. The menu didn't write the option of changing. (just look at KFC menu, they write we can switch mash potatoes for cheese fries... if we pay more)
2. For extensive customer service you could have asked.
3. I don't like any of the veggies so theres no dif. Menu is limited.
4. If i choose to remove the salad the price won't go down... I'm lazy to ask. Restaurant failure for not considering the customer's point of view.
Cheating in exam
Estimated chem p2 : 40/72
estimated Phy p2: 45/72
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2 days ago (during the maths exam), i thought. You know that people can make apps on the GC?
Everytime, those examiner just want to check whether you cleared, they just check whether your GC got the ''Cleared for Singapore'' thingy. So basically, if you make an app which shows that screen and just that screen, you can cheat!
During exams you can play super mario on your GC! Because the exam hall is so big unless you raise your hand nobody will notice! Not even students because they are doing their exam!
Oh American police...
My prediction of my grades:
Personality
Today, i thought about my personality. My personality is one who is unsocial, dark, maybe shy, lazy. Hmmm...
Is that right? Something seems wrong. The me that i know isn't that negative. But why do i categorize my personality as such? Isn't it because that is how others see me as? Then, my personality should be different from people to people. My personality in front of my parents. In front of teachers. In front of classmates. In front of friends. In front of strangers. In the internet. On my blog. Talking to myself...
Persona, a mask in society.
If you think about it this way, no matter how i act differently from how you imagine, you shouldn't be surprised.
The me today is different from the me tomorrow and yesterday.
The me in front of you is different from the me in front of another person.
Bits and bits of impressions of me form my personality. But in the end, is this how i know myself? Hmph. Maybe the way i'm acting and thinking now is partly because of how others think of me but not what do i think of myself. I don't like this. Getting controlled by society... Not only my life but my personality as well..
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I'm dead for my prelims @_@. Not that i would normally really care but society has this much expectations...
Damn the old people who control society.
And damn it. Why does society equate results as one's worth. If you get good results you are a good boy. If you show likable personality you are a successful and impressionable young man. Damn the selfishness! They just wanted to see results that are good to themselves. In the end how much worth is the 3 stick figure 'A' worth to me? Naught! Zero! Nothing!
Surely, when i get good results i feel good. But that is only because they stop pressuring me. They stop bothering me. In the end... i feel so empty. The amount of time i spend on is just to get... this piece of shit? What do i hope to achieve by getting this laminated paper that, depending on how many stick figures there are on it, can make people think '' This is an impressionable young man with a bright future.'' or ''This is a stupid fool, i should leave him alone.'' No matter what they think of me, i don't care! Fools who judge base on sticks should remain fools. But why does my life have to be affected so?
Of course i know the answer to that question. Because i am poor and do not have social influence on people in the world. If only my parents had groomed me the proper way to earn money = power... instead of following stupid society... Oh. Just in case you misunderstand. It's not that i desire a lot of money. It is just that society desires money to remain, and that it is representative of power. What i want is power. Call me selfish for wanting to change society to suit myself... but what is wrong with that? In the end power prevails. those who don't have power are swallowed by those who have it...
Ahhh!!! Why won't the stupid people of this world start to become smarter?
As expected...
I have wasted my saliva. Talking to my mother just proved that she indeed doesn't understand me.
She doesn't understand that her son doesn't work well under pressure.
She doesn't understand that her son is different from other people in what he likes.
She doesn't understand that her son is someone who doesn't like being forced.
She doesn't understand that her son, on being forced, likes to do the opposite of what is told to him.
She doesn't understand that her son thinks that there is no point in going to school.
She doesn't understand that her son has no aspirations.
I told my mother, ''I have no desire to go to the university.''
Big fuss.
''How can you say that?! That should be your dream! Your responsibility!''
Selfish! How can that be my dream if i have no desire to do that? How is that my responsibility when she's the one who pressured me into going to the university?!
Shortly after that, i asked her, why was i born then? Why did she give birth to me?
She smiled and tried to avoid the question, saying its a natural thing.
Pfft. She doesn't understand. She thought i was asking about sex education. What i want was to hear the purpose of my life. What was she thinking when she decided to give birth to me. Was her answer a selfish one? Or was it because she loved her own flesh?
She then continued, ''How can you give up?! This is your golden opportunity! Your only job now is to study!''
She doesn't understand. I wasn't giving up, and i repeatedly told her that. Having no desire to go to the university IS NOT the same as quitting school. Hahaha. How wonderful is school. I have no back road anyway. Once i quit i have no other skills that would help me live. So much for education. They force you to go through a grueling 10 (+2) years of it. Then you realize, if you quit, you have nothing. There is only one path to go.
Yet, why doesn't anybody understand that simple logic that what they teach at school is useless to helping us survive? Why doesn't my mother understand?
The conclusion was that my mother is an idiot.
I shouldn't have said anything to her in the first place. Now she is doing exactly everything that will make my life miserable and fail.
Pressure.
Forcing her own dreams on me.
Telling me what to do even when i have no desire to do so.
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What's the use of such a life? The system made by humans can't be changed by humans, even when everybody realizes its uselessness. ... Everybody? Or is it just youths? The adults are useless. Once presented by a bigger power like the government, they become cowardly. They have no desire to protest. They have no desire to improve. ''Just follow the flow. Do what everybody else does.'' Thats what all adults do. Even when they have the power... The rich and powerful are like this as well. Just because they are already settled, they don't give a hoot. With the system being given to them, they abuse it and turn it into what is convenient for them. ''Just follow the flow. Do what everybody else does.'' Thats why the current system doesn't improve.
What i fear now is that i would grow up to be such useless adults. Or that i am the only one having such thoughts. What if even my friends doesn't understand this? Haiz... I can only blame the education system for being successful then, if i ever become such an adult. If they successfully turn everybody into having such thoughts. Not having aspiration. Just doing what everybody else does.
I want to fight the system. But what power do i have? Everybody, even i, think like this. ...but what can i do to persuade them? By destroying the government? Becoming a terrorist? Becoming the president? Going by the flow then changing it from within will never work. I will just be swallowed by the system. Even if i become the most powerful man in the political system, this will never work out well. If there is any God or Devil here, i don't mind giving my soul away if i can obtain power. This life is useless as it is, just going by the flow, anyway.
Singapore news + ''favorite food''?
This has been bothering me for a while... but Singapore TV news is damn slow isn't it?
Last time, when they announced that people reported that there are reception problems with Iphone 4... i already knew about it. About few days ago.
Today, they reported about Japan's oldest person actually being dead for 30 years already, while collecting more than $100,000 of pensions.... I already knew about it 1 week ago.
Why is it called news if i already know about it? Haiz... In fact Singapore TV has nothing of interest to me. No interesting channels, repeated broadcasting, requiring a license just to watch TV... I wonder why people still watch TV in SG.
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This has been bothering me for a while also.
When people talk about their favorite food, i always wonder how people can give straight answers.
For example, lets say that someone says that his favorite food is Chicken Rice. Who cook that Chicken Rice? Which Chicken Rice stall? What mood were you in when you eat Chicken Rice?
In other words, the problem lies in that the answer isn't specific enough. One stall's chicken rice tastes differently from another stall's chicken rice. Also, what mood you were in when you ate that chicken rice and decided ''Chicken rice, i choose you!(as my favorite food)'' is also important.
Also, its also pretty inaccurate to just say a food name as your favorite food. When you choose what is your favorite food, there is definitely one time where you ate that food and thought that it was damn nice.
But if you think about it, what if the person whose favorite food is chicken rice 1st ate chicken rice at a chicken rice stall that sells the most disgusting chicken rice? He would then avoid eating chicken rice anymore because of the trauma.
So what made him make chicken rice his favorite food? He ate nice chicken rice the 1st time, then continued to eat it, because its nice, presumably from the same stall. Then any other chicken rice that is worse than that particular stall becomes bad chicken rice.
So, when you say what is your favorite food, please answer in this way:
''Chicken rice from XXXX. Btw, on XXXday its not that nice because XXXXXXX.''
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