Sunday, March 9, 2008.

Strangely enough, 2 posts within less than 1/2 an hour. And of considerably different mood.

From Jerald's blog:
compare and contrast. hasn't the education system taught all of us to fall in love with this tool?

great! now let's exercise some of it.

Here's a short excerpt of what Mr. E Wigeysingha wrote about the Rafflesian Spirit in "The Eagle Breeds A Gryphon":

"The Rafflesian feels for the school because his destiny lies with that of the school.It is that strange feeling that surfaces when watching a softballer make a home run, the hockey player sounding the boards with a well-timed shot or a drum major catching his falling mace, that reaches its height especially when the school team is down and struggling to come back from behind."

Now here's what's in the handbook:
"The Rafflesian feels for the school because his destiny lies with that of the school. It is a powerful emotion that surfaces when watching the softball player make a home run, the hockey player sound the boards with a well-timed shot or the rugby player successfully race across the field to score a try. The feeling reaches its height especially when the school team is down and struggling to make a comeback."

well there's been enough talk going around, i guess. We fight for what we love even though we have been removed from the picture time and time again. Since recognition is something we hardly get, we'll just do without it and get used to it. We recognise ourselves, as all five of us are made of nothing less than passion and power.

The spirit fading? no, it's just divided into a whole lot of smaller parts and locked up.
Instead of asking ourselves what the school can do for us, why not ask what we CAN do for the school.

We need change (coughOBAMAcough). The spirit of sporting glory is entrenched within the Rafflesian Spirit. But how about the spirit of musical pursuit? How about the spirit of the Uniformed Groups' discipline?

We need more support. We need to convince the populace that RI is not a sports school. We need to take drastic action to remind the people up and down there that RI has other CCAs too.

We start, by making sure that we actually respond to the commands by the parade commander properly.

We start, by making it compulsory to go for concerts, just like it is compulsory to go down for match support.

We start, making sure the left-out CCAs do not become forgotten.

It is time we did something.

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