Sunday, February 8, 2009.

disclaimer: actually i wrote some of this post on fri (on the mrt trip from cineleisure to school i spent some time thinking about this and emoing), but withheld it for the o'rientation post (refer below). but after some gepper discussion with a fellow gepper i guess i want to blog about this. apologies if it's a little dry, i need to get this off my chest.

i dunno how many times we've discussed this, but my OG seems to be rather interested in the topic of GEP. why so i'm not too sure.

but apparently ramasamy (and i believe a LOT of other people) can tell if a person is GEP or not JUST BY LOOKING at the face. he was rather accurate at that, and that (and a number of factors) seemed to make GEP people different from non-GEP people.

honestly it's quite true to a certain extent.

but i guess it's overabused. people start having GEP-phobia, people start stereotyping just because a person is/isn't GEP, people start ostracizing GEPpers.

in the end what happens is that GEP and non-GEP people become 2 separate species of people.

then discrimination occurs.

i read somewhere that "the best form of praise you can ever compliment to a gepper is "you don't look gep.""

that, seriously, is cruel.

is being GEP that wrong? just because GEPpers were isolated from the world for 3 years doesn't mean they're a totally new species of people, a separate organism right?

honestly, why on earth must there be a form of separation between GEPpers and non-geppers? is it correct to ostracize a bunch of people and laugh at them just because they scored a bit higher for a small test done years ago?

and are GEPpers just different? NO!

how on earth can GEPpers be truly different? will you ostracize a person if he/she just scored 1 mark more than you? does his/her brain truly think differently? will he/she morph into a completely different creature as soon as he/she signs the form and accepts GEP?

NO!

then why the fear about being with a gepper? are all geppers some kind of monster, abnormal freak about to swallow non-geppers up?

we are perfectly normal! some people play dota, some people slack, some people sleep, some people sing in the bathroom. just because we did well for one test or two doesn't mean we don't carry out what normal people do!

really i sometimes wish i wasn't a gepper.
(but i enjoyed gep, truly, from the bottom of my heart.)

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