Xiao Wei

The last day of September..

Perhaps the most fitting line at this moment would be "Wake me up when September ends". Now's is the time to pull up one's socks.

Well, the Formula 1 race has come and passed ever so fast. Some food for thought: although racing cars do not have a horn to show their driver's indignance at others, they are actually the loudest, with 20 of them all racing together equivalent to that of an airplane roaring above one's house, barely just clipping the television antenna.

Last friday was rather interesting. I found a wallet and being the 'knight' I am, searched far and wide to return it to its owner. The rest of the day passed with me on cloud nine. So far, I have reunited 3 people with their lost belongings. So give me a buzz the next time you lost something, it may be possible that I may have chanced upon it. A note to all though, one should consider putting some contact numbers into one's wallet so it makes the Good Samaritan's job easier to return. However, there are those who adopt the "If you lose something, it is gone; if you find something, it is yours". If that is the case, then you may have to accept reality... :(

Blue hair ribbon... Something that has been impressed upon my mind... Therein it will stay...

It is kind of sad... NO! IT IS SAD that school is ending within a week. True that one still would be returning to school to consult the teachers on one's doubts but then, school just is not the same without the company of friends. School life defines one's youthfulness and leaving it is akin to growing old. Boohoo... Alright... Time to accept it and start packing bags for the army. At least we have the guns and the new and improved uniform. And the BROTHERHOOD! ONWARD!

The life of a student... so not exciting..

Well, it is nearing the end of the two year in a tertiary institute and ha.. one does not seem smarter.. The first year passed ever so quickly, such that it was over even before one could get used to such a life.. What's more is that the second year pretty much started off with us with our noses to the grinding stone.. We were leaking blood.. One thing I have got to admit, the administration appears to need some adjustments. You see, there is a significant number of students who by some divine intervention managed to get into the second year even though their subjects are suffering!! This is a cause for concern, given that the top 20% of students are supposed to be here after their previous six years of education. Still, in their second year, they are not faring any better in their subjects than before. If only they could change their subject combination. It would SO benefit them!! imagine getting Us for one whole year and then trend continues in the first half of the foloowing year.. It is such a pitiful life..

I sincerely believe that life is too short to be spent working at computers to research for projects as well as to waste one's valuable eye power to memorise subjects which would not even be relevant to one in one's later career. The definition of the word 'prime' should be change to that between the ages of 15-20. This should be the period where one should be enjoying oneself. Saving up for the future, or preparing for then, by reading up and gaining knowledge is a tiresome process, not to mention one that is very repeatitive. The moment you learn something new, it is considered outdated in the next minute. Wow.. So fast.. Life should be taken a quarter mile at a time for what use is one's knowledge if it is at the expense of one's enjoyment??? In one's old age when one is supposedly supposed to reap what one has sown,, one could be diagnosed with numerous ailments that prevent one from gaining from what one has worked for. Loss of vision, health(today's environment is already so unhealthy with so much pollution; the future would be much worse given the cumulative effect) etc.

Students should be instead encouraged to form social relationships and engage in sports or anything out of the ordinary.. After all, a teenager's life is when he/she is the most physicall active and therefore should maximise this gift to its full potential. Talking about sports, I say if given the choice, many students would prefer to do sports then studies. One gets to do what one likes and gets paid the same, if not more, then his/her academic peers by joining and winning competitions. We have a large pool of students just waiting to release their talents into the sporting world but where are the talent scouts? They simply do not visit schools!!! The end result? Importation of atheletes, deprieving those born and bred here of their chances of making a mark in the sporting arena. Such is life.. Controlled by bigger forces that are more interested in the 'greater good' than the actual overall good..

That person...

The lively personality
The fun-loving nature
The smile
What more can I say?

Can't not help but like
Really, what's there not too?
The boldness, the freedom
Both I see similar in us

HAHAHA.. Yeah right.. Concentrate on this year's important task before you can continue with such dreams.. Chasing those out of one's league..

Only 2 more months to end of school.. 4 months to end of year.. Olympics start tomorrow! :)

Check Up

That was one nerve wrecking experience..

It was rather clinical.. Please go to station 6.. Alright.. Proceed to station 1..

Alot of guys around.. So we all were not lonely.. All in the same boat..

Love it
Intriguing it is
The words appear as such
Even though they mean much
Read it til I'm nearly blind
Alas, I lost the line
True to say
Under all this rhyme
Rhythm is nothing but a dime
Enjoy, this poem of mine

And it is the end of the schooling days..

Usually when students hear the word holidays, it is much cause for celebration. As one gets older though, that one now becomes the dreaded word. We prefer the words 'half day'; it connotates an actual holiday. The holidays like June are no longer ours to control, taken over by extra lessons and us students studying for exams which jump on us the moment we step back through the school gates. Even the weekend is not spared. We have work assigned to us that keeps us busy all throughout that supposed 'rest' period. What a ripoff. Where did the five day work week go? If that is impossible, lets extend the week to a 9 day week and then we truly can have a break!

Last day in school calls for another poem to mark this phase in life. Here goes:

Everybody, your attention please
All studying kindly cease
Take up your consoles and game
Maybe the hols will bring you fame

You study for ten months
Why don't you take a break for once?
Its finally, after all
the time you walk out of school's door

Oh sure, like we have time
A second played we lose a dime
Strain on eyesight
Wallet becomes light

Can't believe I want to return to school
Lectures, tutorials, let's go do
Ready steady
Study!

Friends

For many a night
Restless without any friendly fight
Intelligent conversation
Enagaed in a banter about the nation
Not once were you a bore
Dear you, thank you all!