Today was quite an interesting day. During lunch-time, I got an sms from Ms Vignesh. She said she wanted to talk to me. I asked her what she wanted to talk about. And she said, "about the suffering of teachers." :P My heart sank. I thought, 'bleah shouldn't have talked to her about it yesterday.' Cos a reporter rang up and asked if the teachers I wrote about wanted to be interviewed. So had to ask her. Well, she said that she couldn't cos she was a civil servant and apparently if you were a civil servant, you couldn't write to the forum or complain to the press about the government and stuff like that. Yar. Apparently she hadn't known about it before we told her cos she doesn't read the straits times. And she's a GP teacher! Reads BBC and stuff like that instead. Ah ok. I asked if she was going to scold me and she said no (I'm a scaredy cat). So I went down to meet her. Saw her in the atrium looking at some art pieces. Yar so she didn't scold me. First thing she said about it was that it was well expressed, and I was like "huh? No what." Ok. So she said that many teachers were happy about it (heng arh) and that I just had to be more careful of the media. Cos their main purpose isn't to push a cause but to get people to read the papers. So was quite dangerous. Have to have tact. Haha she pointed out something else. That she'll have to work on cause and effect for GP soon. Cos mine was a little off. I manipulated the facts to suit my purpose, which was quite true. She told me that since I did this, I had to protect the people I wrote about. Cannot get them into trouble. She said that at my age, she was even more of a rebel than she is now. She sort of mellowed with age, but she would never lower her ideals. Then at the end, she said something which I find quite astonishing. She said that an article like that was the best present she had received as a teacher. Better than all the chocolates she gets during teacher's day. Wow. Hadn't really expected that. So touching haha. :P

Ok next incident. When I went to the range today, lee said that from tomorrow onwards, he doesn't want to see anyone with draw-strings or pins or untucked blouses. If not he'll punish whoever who disobeys the ruels. And cannot enter the range. Don't know what's up with him. He seems to think that we all should become ideal shooters and ideal NJC students. Ideal. Perfect role-models for the rest of the school. Why? I've no idea. And I don't like it.
The thing is right, I don't see the rationale behind not allowing draw-strings. Draw-strings prevent the blouse from looking untucked and it doesn't make one look untidy. Even if you tuck in your blouse, there's a possiblity of it becoming untucked. Unless you tuck it really in. Which would mean looking like a nerd. And if all NJ students look like nerds, no one would want to come anymore. We'll be a laughing stock to the rest of the JCs lah. Imagine, everyone having their blouses tucked really in and with skirts which go below the knees. It just doesn't look right. Conformity to rules which don't make a lot of sense. Typical Singaporean. 'These are the rules! Therefore you must obey them!'
We didn't have this sort of thing last year. Wonder what came over the school administration. A uniform just has to look decent. As long as you look neat, it's ok. Hey I see more guys with untucked shirts than girls with untucked blouses! Why?? Cos guys don't use draw-strings while many girls do. Haiz whatever lah.
I've been guai for 16 years of my life. I've never gone for a single detention session, never been booked in my life. Can't I just be a bit of a rebel for 1 more year? And then again...whoever said I couldn't? I just don't like the rules on attire. Hrmph. :P