Thursday, August 21, 2008.

i'd much rather have the rgs style of exams, man.

it's rather tiring having to go through projects, long school days, assignments while having to mug for tests. for once, i'm feeling the pinch of such a lifestyle.

and now 1 week of the double-killer fortnight is over.

but it's the easier week.

next tuesday can kill any sane person. next wednesday can kill any insane person as well.

but i shall persevere. I chose not to quit Japanese, so this is my "punishment", and no matter what, i will last the final stretch.

And to think this isn't even the final stretch.

Ahh my posts are getting random. and incoherent.

i need time. to watch olympics, to sort out my itunes (which is 14 days long and has 36+ GB), to get myself organised, to mug chem, to (attempt to) compose... i need time.

And they do not manifest themselves anytime soon.

anyway this year's prefect elections are horrid. Not cause of PB (obviously not, cause as far as I see it they have been doing a good job getting the system up and running), but cause of the candidates.

There's been an email circulating around RI students. I'm rather impressed by it, yet it raises a big issue that needs to be settled - democratic or aristocratic governance of school bodies.

To be honest, I'm a proponent of the latter. RI guys, no matter how smart they are, are still immature, n00b (yeah gaming "jargon") and thus unworthy voters. We don't know half the people up there. We vote based on a few pieces of campaign poster paper and 1 minute of "fame". Is this what we should do?

Similar to CCAs as well. Many decisions led by students are hardly "brillant", and the so-called "worthy" people the majority (blindly) select are hardly up to the task. In the end, both leader and CCA suffer.

Can we have a return to aristocracy? Stop embracing the "ideals" of democratic thought when in a school body, and realise that we NEED to be pragmatic and be a realist.

scrap the idea of election.
and give the time used for election speeches to us for mugging.

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