Nightmare.
And you thought staying back at 2:15 was unreasonable. Well, I managed to get my hands on the 2007 timetable (and I think it was the more reasonable one, because at one point of time I remember us sec 1s staying back at 2:15) and for sec 3, EVERYONE gets off at 2:15.
Except RP, where there is one day which ends at 3:15.
FUCK.
I hate CCHMS. Why do they have to make us end so late? At this rate, we might as well not eat lunch, since recess is at 10:55, and lessons end at 2:15, and those of us who eat at the canteen, good for you. Those of us who eat at home, it's fucking 3 or 4 plus when you arrive home to eat. Assuming you eat dinner at 7, you won't be hungry at all, thus you'll eat less.
And let's not forget extension weeks and supplementary classes, and SPA.
That means next year, in addition to not getting early holidays (= getting off at October), we will have to begin our holidays LATE. Is this why they have been releasing us early? To compensate for the times we have to stay back in our upper sec time?
And it's not practical! Thin about it: Sec 3 and 4 are the times you have to make the most effort. If school ends at 2:15 (2:30 for some obnoxious ones, and no supp. class), then the walk to the bus is 15 mins, and if you don't buy waffles/bubble tea(highly unlikely, since you'll be hungry), you'll have to wait for the bus to come (5 minutes), then the time to arrive home (in my case, 20 minutes), eat (20 minutes), bathe (30 minutes), prepare to do homework (10 minutes blow-drying), then total time spent will be: 1 hr 40 mins. If you get let off at 2:15, 1 hr 40 mins from then will be 3:55, and you'll work your arse off (as if school wasn't hard enough) till say, 6:45, eat dinner, go up and work your arse off till midnight, sleep, and then the whole cycle begins WITHOUT A BREAK.
KNN.
I assume there won't be any holidays at all, since the March, June, September and December holidays we'll have to stay back for SPA, supp. class, lectures, CCAs, insert academia-related crap.
ARGH.
You know what CCHMS? I really like your lake and the people I met there, but I don't think we match. I want to be free from restrictions and knock off early so I can perform my best without feeling the crunch, and enjoy my breaks as I feel I deserve it fro all the supp. classes, advanced material, especially if I'm taking 9 subjects, not counting arts and PE and whatever have you. We are incompatible, and I suppose it's too late to transfer.
*sticks up huge middle finger*
WHY did I go here??? WHY???
My English standards are dropping, and my Chinese is no better off, I have no interest in the Chinese culture (esp. tea making), and I really hate the deficit equipment we have, if you can call the rusted chunk equipment. The speed of our computers can rival a snail's pace, and a principal who can barely string 3 sentences together without making a pronunciation/grammar mistake is just the icing on the fcking cake.
Add that to teachers who are incoherent, and pretentious IB classes, with pointless classes like ACC, where I'd doubt anyone in modern Singapore will want to engage in discourse whether the last Tang emperor was an asswipe. Unless you plan to be a curator, I doubt you will need to know Chinese history. Why can't we learn other things, like, oh I don't know, social sciences, formal dances, how to interact with others (yes we have an interaction period, pretty stupid that one is). Instead of art, can't we choose what TYPE of art we want: Writing, digital interface, vectors, traditional?
But noo, even though our school occupies a lot of land and sits in the middle of virtually nowhere, we are too poor to even afford to fix the defunct toilets, install working fans, replace that rusty nail and fix those electrical outlets. We have cleaners, but unfortunately they seem to be unable to remove a cockroach's body from the front of the classroom, and we would have to do it ourselves. What is the point of having cleaners if the students have to clean themselves? They would just be a bunch of slobs skulking the hallways pretending to do something, and earning money doing nothing. I would like to add that the toilets aren't exactly clean either-- if there ARE cleaners, I wonder if that used sanitary pad should still be perching innocently on top of a stall gathering flies?
And let's not talk about to 'Grand' Auditorium, for I have ranted about it many times. Are they so cheapstake not to have air-conditioning? If they want to comment about the use of electricity, FINE. Then don't organise assemblies! Don't even open the school!
Stupid cheapstake school. You'd think that this isn't Singapore but some emerging country. They can afford to run a Bazaar (and run up losses), they can afford an iCafe (insignificant, doesn't even LOOK like one, it looks like those carts giving out soup and stuff to the refugees in Cambodia) but they can't afford to fix the fans (one unhinged one apparently just broke off and flew around the classroom, no one was beheaded) and tiles of the toilet?!
Curb the bloody wasteful spending already (please no excursions or extra lessons not in curriculum), for it is more important to be safe and comfy at school without outdoor learning as compared to having a dingy, ratty school but plenty of excursions right?
Oh, and please, mind your grammar. I BEG OF YOU, IF YOU CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH PROPERLY, DON'T HOLD LONG SPEECHES TO TORTURE OUR POOR EARS! 'TIS AN INSULT TO ENGLISH!
Done ranting.
