lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Monday, August 02, 2004
-8:43 pm
Darn I'm irritated. I urgently need to reach my partner for RS and she's not at home! I hope she has done her part for our geog project- that is to do the script for our powerpoint presentation. Our presentation is due tml and I bet she totally forgot all about it (she's always like that). She needs pple to reminder her to do stuff if not she just assumes she doesn't need to do it.
This reminds me of a "joke" that HP nominee- my dear classmate and batchmate- ONG KAR WEI told in her speech today , which I found to made a lot of sense that it appeared to. There was a story about four people named Anybody, Everybody, Nobody and Somebody. There was an important job to be done and Anybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
I think that is definitely a prevalent occurence of our school, and sad to say, sometimes in the board. It really made me wonder (not to be presumptious), what I would strive for if I chose to run for HP. Actually, I can identify the most with Karwei's vision because I share her passion to make an impact on the discipline situation in school, which goes hand in hand with welfare, however ironic it may seem. For one thing, people just do not realise how important it is for them to abide by the rules the school has set for them in their entrance to this institution. Self-discipline is a form of self-regulation, which makes a champion and a successful student in the long run. Students also do not realise how difficult it is for the prefects to
enforce these rules; how painstaking and even guilt-ridden it can be sometimes. There are some prefects who, I'm proud to say, are strong and steadfast in their principals and values, so they would not waver in their positive, "no-double-standards" attitude towards booking.
But however unpleasant it is, I strongly believe it is a necessary measure taken to ensure that our school remains a proper and conducive place for learning. If things were just left to the students, our school compound would be filled with half-dressed students running amok, with wild, brightly coloured hair and goodness knows what. I may sound very diplomatic and politically correct (or lao gu tong), but I'm just a normal student, not a walking advertisement for the school administration. This is not propaganda; it's just my take on how forum on school policies have been going. I may seem conservative, but I am only willing to fight for what I deem reasonable and appropriate to change. The reason our school does not adopt a student council policy like The Chinese High is because the students do not have their basic respect for the school rules and self-discipline required to maintain the sanity of the school. If only students can follow the school rules without the prompting and spot-checks of prefects, then can we establish a trustworthy student council that is able to represent the student population in terms of changes in policy and the like.
We are already 15 years old (ok, maybe 13-16 yrs old) and so I infer that we are mature enough to discern the purpose and rationales behind school rules. When we grow into adulthood, we will still have company protocols and regulations to follow; no exceptions even if you're the boss. Right now, we have not earned our right to the freedom of having things done our way. We can only be patient and abide by the rules of the educational institution in which we are learning, and learn to do things the proper way first. Don't try to run even before you can walk.
PS: to think that I didn't even know what I was going to write about when I first started this post before this began to take shape -_-;
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