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I have a few things I need to address.

1. What is so wrong with the word fuck? Seriously, does it sound bad? Is it degrading? Think about it.
* Fuck can be used as a verb both transitive (he fucked her) and intransitive (she was fucked by him).
* a active verb (he really gives a fuck),
* a passive verb (she really doesn`t give a fuck),
* an adverb (she is fucking interested in him) and
* a noun (she is a fine fuck).
* an adjective (she is fucking beautiful).
Noooooooooo It's not! So what's with people being so strict with the use of such words? Fuck them.

2. The defination of right and wrong. Any concept of "right" and "wrong" has to be made in relation to the society in which it was made. It`s all relative unless you can find some greater authority to show us the universal truth of what is right. You may think, as I do, that men and women should be treated as equals, but the Catholic Church does not. But those values do not extend beyond opinions, and neither is technically more "right" or "wrong" than the other. You FEEL it is wrong. That's my stand. Everything is all relative to one thing or another. Does killing people really show that killing people is wrong? Does suspending a student show that playing truant is a serious offence?

3. So why not clarify what defines the rules and guidelines eh, Sirhan? I mean, afterall, it is in my good intentions that I decide to do so, afterall, the school wants me to be a good boy. So why not tell me what is wrong and what is right? (refer to 2) Anyway. I ask because as a student, I feel that almost anything could be wrong. Further, how do we asses whether something is wrong? Any act, no matter how innocuous could become wrong, and I could easily find myself contravening the rules/guidelines inadvertently. Similary, I reqiure some guidance on what constitues right. Afterall, all acts done by one is one's expression of what one deems right and wrong. Furthermore, there is no Universal right and wrong. Hence, for me to subject to your rules, I feel that it is only fair for me to understand your rules and guidelines. So why hold back? Why the reluctancy?

4. ST Forums Thursday May 12, 2005.
'Affective divide'? People support PAP Govt.
""yes, Singaporeans should take courage from people like me[Michael Heng Swee Hai]]. Prof Chan Heng Chee, Kishore Mahbubani and others who all our lives had been outspoken. From time to time we get beaten up but that is the price you have to pay."

"You must first do your homework and be prepared to defend yourself and be prepared to acknowledge mistakes if you're wrong.

"Cowardice is not the answer. THe answer is to be prepared to say what you believe in, and to do it in a responsible manner.

"You must never be reckless in the sense that you must always take into consideration of the larger interests of the society."

I must admit. The government is adept at creating cowards out of the innocents. School takes too much "thinking out of the box" out of students, take for example in my recent post, the excerpt.

Posted by kj at 8:47 PM | Permalink

Except from http://sophistication.easyjournal.com/entry.aspx?eid=2518814

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics. For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer.

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work uut the height of the skyscraper.

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sqrroot (l/g).

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up.

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building.

But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

The student was Nils Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel prize for Physics ..

I love Physics too ` X)

Posted by kj at 9:19 PM | Permalink

Ha! So I get suspended from school. Whatever. On accounts of 5/6 charges? What nonsense. Sirhan sure is good at coming up with nonexistant reasons for suspension.. I agree with anyone who thinks so too! I mean, which idiot sends students home in the middle of the day to show that going home in the middle of the day is wrong? gee.

For the more ignorant ones, what happened on monday, 9th may 2005.
Sirhan had already forementioned that I would be visiting him on monday. It's not like I care whether I'd be seeing him in the first place. So yadayada. After an exchange of about a few words regarding suspension. Then later, after assembly, he sent me to wait for him outside the staffroom. So the obvious thing for me to do would be to wait there. Having received my copy of today's ST, I figured that I would do something productive while waiting for him. So when he arrived he asked me to keep the copy of ST, and I did. But guess what? He decided that he would be taking my ST permanently temporarily. And, the only reason he gave me was that he did not suspend me to read newspaper. What sort of fool wouldn't know that. Only the smarter ones would contemplate what the fuck is suspension about.

Why do people throw people out of the class to show that misbehaving is wrong? Hey reality check. It only serves the purpose of those who itch to be out of class. Ignoramus. Guess who? You.

So after a cute confrontation between me and him to which he said that me trivialising stuff is redundent, and that the mentioning that everything is important, which included him raising his voice to extreme levels in attempt to scare me off track. I kinda feel the contradiction that what the school has worked so hard to teach me - Prioritising. Hey, if everything is important, which do I do first? That's when trivialising comes in, fool. Apparently, the school didn't teach you so well so much so that you're teaching us so well eh? What a joke. And the raising of his voice only shows that he is UNABLE to beat me in a proper arguement of words. What a loser.

Then he comes and asked me why I skipped the paper, I was sick of course! Bloody fools, I'm not going to hell - Liars go to hell. Go figure, liar.

So I get two pink forms, It's not like I care in the first place. Not going to matter to me. Really. No, I'm not consolating myself. So I give some stupid signiture, simply because I feel that I'm undeserving of such greatly coloured forms eh?

So he sent me outside to stone. yadayad. Figured I could walk around simply because it's suspension FROM CLASS. Hey, compare a Ppt in which particles of solid is suspended in liquid, they're free to move around right? Hence, I decided to follow the movements of solid particles. lol. Besides, it's the permanent removal from class, and not that I'm dictatored to sit there.

Upon further "discussion" with brother micheal, they figured that they would be sending me home until my mom decides to show up. Yay.

Here's what I feel.

1. His accusation of me making up my own rules.
When questioned, he had to conjure up a rule, he assumed that I had came up with - leaving school without notification. a. If I had such a rule of my own, would he even have seen me today? No! I would have just taken my attendance and left school. b. When asked for other examples, he was unable to reply. c. The time taken for to conjure up a rule, simply shows that he has no knowledge, and no support. Without substansial evidence, he was therefore unable to come up with a rule that I have made.Hence, it was a baseless arguement and slander, of which I have no intention of sueing him for. P.S. I did leave school without notification last friday as I thought no attendance was taken.

2. Pink form number 2 - Disrespect.
Here's what happened. I was sitting outside the staffroom waiting for him, deciding to do something productive, I decided to take out a copy of the newspaper that I had ordered and read it. Without my notice of his arrival, I carried on reading the papers until he told me to keep them. After requesting me to keep the papers which I happily abided, he said that he would be confiscating the papers. When asked why, he simply said that he suspended me not to read newspapers. To which I responded whatever, and mumbled, "f..."
a. At assembly, he told me to go to the staffroom to WAIT for him, although before that he told me that he WOULD be suspending me. Since he hasn't suspended me from school yet, and his last order was for me to wait for him outside the staffroom. Hence, I was following his instructions and never disobeying him.
b. He did not give a proper reason to which why he was confiscating the newspapers. Furthermore, he did not define what I had to do during the suspension yet, and suspension HAD NOT started yet. He just told me to wait outside. Hence I feel that he was being unreasonable, and anyone being treated unreasonably would be frustrated, and out of impluse would be angry and lead to vulgarities being spewed.
c. When he told me when I was given the pinkform, he said that I had said vulgarities to him which is totally out of his own assumptions. Why? Because I was cursing MYSELF for the fact that I had such an unreasonable person as a HoL. And not scolding him whatsoever until now.
d. The confiscation was somewhat similar to daylight robbery. Would you not have cursed the situation you were in if you were robbed? Although you might say, take it in your stride. Think back again, what would you really have done? Personally, I would have just ranted and complain and just walk away.

Further proof of his unreasonable shows that he REFUSES to listen to me. He attempts to intimidate me to shut up, by raising his voice. Many teachers would be able to testify to that. The conference room isn't soundproof. Therefore, injustice has been done, and I was unable to do anything because I was not given a chance to express myself.
3. Pink form number 1 - Leaving school without notification.
Just to save you some of the trouble, I did leave school without notification. Not much to say about it, must admit I was ignorant and irresponsible on my part, and ignorance isn't bliss.
4. Suspension from school - Not doing 1 teacher's 2 assignments.
I DO DO my homework. It's only a minority of homework that I have not done yet, and that it has been overdued for quite some time. Furthermore, not doing 1 teacher's homework doesn't prove that I'm showing defiance and that Sirhan is obviously over generalising. As mentioned, I do homework. Hence, this reason is invalid for suspension from school.
5. Suspension from school - Not doing Mrs Nevina ho's work properly.
I had already given my assurance to higher authorities that it would not happen again. And no, it didn't happen again. It just happened that Mrs Ho marked one of my papers later, which I did not put in any effort into it. You can compare the dates, the date at which I did that work of her's was way before the confrontation of me and the higher authorities. Hence, this reason is INVALID because me doing work improperly has NEVER happened after the confrontation.
6. The signiture on the Pinkform.I signed it the way it was signed because I feel that the 2nd pink form was unnessecary, undeserving in fact. Because of such unfair treatment, I refuse to admit that I'm due a pink form. Why did I do it on both then - consistency.

Eat that.And eat a war of words that's at hand. Follow that up with the fact that you're going to lose. Maybe I'd prefer JLiew as a HoL, compared to the stupid, fat and unreasonable ass. Whee. Fat ass.

Posted by kj at 11:49 AM | Permalink