I recently got invited into Facebook groups like PETITION AGAINST HIGH BUS FARES for POLY STUDENTS and Travel Concession for FULL-TIME SIM Students, a plea for common sense but I didn’t join. What’s the point?

The creators of the groups wrote stuffs like:

It is obviously unfair that SMRT and SBS charge polytechnic students adult fares while JC students only pay 45cents per trip. Are we not of the same age as JC students? Do we NOT travel as much as JC students do? Are our families any better off than theirs? The general answer is NO, Polytechnic students are in fact just average students. Yes, there are elder students who are already working and capable of supporting themselves, but they still hold a very much smaller percentage as compared to the young students fresh from secondary school. I do believe SMRT and SBS are smart enough to not make decisions based on stereotyping thinking, and i certainly do believe that they are capable of being fair and unbiased, so i take it this fare difference was due to negligence in decision discussion and making. A higher fare would very directly affect the students’ moods about school, discouraging students from poorer families to continue with their studies. This could impact the Singaporean economy as the majority of people studying go to polytechnics after their O levels, and a high fare would discourage workers from coming back to polytechnics to upgrade themselves.

and ..

I’m sure many of us feel the need to be recognised as full time undergraduate students who deserve concession for public transport too, just as much as our peers in the public universities. I heard even students, if it is indeed true, of LaSalle College of the Arts get approved as tertiary students who deserve concession.(Pardon me if I’m wrong) So why not us too?

But you think your voices are heard when you write so much on Facebook? Ministers don’t use Facebook (am I right?).

My suggestions

Riots won’t be allowed in Singapore, so don’t even think about it.

I would suggest we all target our school’s students’ union. Let them voice it for our behalf. If not, what’s the students’ union for? 

If your school’s student union isn’t doing anything about this, write in to your school’s student affairs. Remind them that you’re (we’re) all not rich.

Now I know its not easy, but contact the media. Let the media know that you got a few thousand people here that aren’t happy. (Few thousand for a poly isn’t sufficient. At least find 20% of the school population.) Form a group of 10-30 people first, camp at food courts daily to gather signatures and NRICs/Student ID. Let the media know what you’ve got and that they should voice it for you.

And again if this doesn’t work, go suck thumb.

Oh or if you’ve got a better suggestion, let me know. I completed my 3 years in poly and I know, if they wanted to implement what you suggested, they would have done it years back.

… again, good night.

Some nice things in SP:

I am impressed by the efficiency of the Department of Computer & Information Systems (CIS) in Singapore Polytechnic (SP), in carrying out it’s duty in maintaining the IT Infrastructure of SP.The fact that your staffs take feedbacks and suggestions seriously show that their commitment in providing IT infrastructure to staffs and students to the best of their ability … - Read More -

Sometimes when you’re nice to people, you expect nothing in return, or maybe two words “thank you”. Is it so hard to say thank you/thanks?

And they should be more courteous. Really, they should. Instead of rushing me and asking questions like as if I owe you the favour.

I did 2 friends a favour each today.

Not only this. During lunch, I tried to be kind but that didn’t pay off.

Quote from JiaXian’s blog:
in sch food court now.. m so irritated by so incident tt happens in sch juz now. pls girls.. this in a sch,not some pub or clubs tt u wear those mini demi short skirts to flash around. my groups of peeps were slacking around in food court six when they spotted girls accidently flashin their undies.they were gentlemen enuff to go over and tell the girl friends about wad they saw. of course some discussion and commusion was goin on.. kind enuff but a twist of misunderstanding.. in e end,my friend was being confronted by angry faces,n i was called by my hp to help … zzz ..

Something like that happened, not totally 100% exact, but who cares since it’s over and it’s really easy to have the problem settled (with the childish people).

I’ll just summarize it:

• Guy¹, Girl¹ and Girl² were getting themselves a drink at the drink stalls @ food court 6.
• James and I saw a girl¹’s panty exposing.
• I suggested that he tell the girl about it but he’s too shy to do it.
• So I told (childish) guy¹ who was with girl¹.
• We (James and I) laughed after that. (But we forgot about what.)
• Guy¹ saw us laughing and wasn’t happy.
• He came back after 10 minutes to confront me. He brought a friend along too, but that’s no big deal. I despise people who pick up fights for no valid reason.
• Alright. It was solved. Thanks, Mr Edwin Lim, a lecturer at School of Business who gave me advise.
• Later on when we were upstairs (3rd floor), James looked at the guy and he came over, feeling unhappy.
• He wanted to pick a fight again, but I solved it by saying “My friend was just looking around to see who’s around him. Anything wrong?” Again, it was solved.
• This shows they’re purely stupid.
• In between, my protective friend, Jia Xian lost his cool. But I’m not going to write any details. My advise for him was: “Cool down. Your birthday is coming. You surely don’t want anything to happen before and after your birthday.“

Tell me my story was boring. Thanks, I know I wrote it in a boring way, but if you were at the scene, you might laugh your ass off when they talk. They kept on repeating the same old lines I often hear outside. E.g. “What’s your problem? You kept on looking at me.” This was repeated more than twice. Ha.

That didn’t spoil my mood for today. Instead, I had a good laugh at stupid and childish people.

I went to the gym for a short while after classes, with Jia Xian.

Also, I went for School of Business and Sports Club’s AGM, one after another. I only love the food at the end.

Poly50 is coming soon. Very soon. Again this year I’m not participating. (How can I be participating when I’m so weak?)

Training was fun yet tedious.

We’re all bunch of determined teenagers.

Most of us ran

• 2 rounds warm up
• 13 rounds normal run
• 2 rounds warm (cool) down (Is there such a term, warm down?)

I’m glad we all didn’t give up half way. Cheers!