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Monday, June 05, 2006
/ 6/05/2006 10:48:00 pm HEY the new version of Our Shared Dream is kinda sucky, changes in key signatures and the whole thing sounded weird. -_-" Went TM just now, still don't know what to buy for mum's birthday. Da Chang Jin rocks! Hooooo!! Came across this blog and that guy who wrote this rocks big time lol! shan't say who lah lols. Be prepared, it's a looooooong post... We need a change in leadership.We need a new leader. TPJC needs a new leader. Looking at the current state of affairs, TPJC is in a mess. Our 20th anniversary has not been conducted well and there's only one person to blame. Let's start with last carnival cum open house. There was a criteria that all booths and station had to reach in order to get permission from the school to operate, the criteria was that the games had to be educational. That's stupid. Games = fun. Since when are people attracted to a carnival just because they're showing educational stuff. The strategy of attracting people was all wrong too. It was a carnival cum open house. But what was targeted was only the sec3 and sec4 students, and this was being openly told to the whole school. Again, that's stupid. Being a carnival, you should target everyone in tampines, not just students. Then again, the fun factor is already zeroed. Just walk along the heritage corridor, find the year 1995, look at the carnival 10 yrs ago. Back then it wasn't a carnival, it was a fund-raising funfair, to raise funds for building the auditorium. It was a funfair. And look at the crowd. Admission was free, the same as this year, but tickets were sold at $10, and people could play games, buy food and drinks with the tickets. It doesn't matter if people are paying, they would if they're paying for something of quality, not boring 100% education based games. Its not that tpjc's image has gone down over 10 years, its the change in leadership. Anyway that blue banner at the interchange has got it all wrong, it should be games are free, not admission. Then again, the games ... Upcoming 4th of july is the esplanade concert, paranoma. A fusion of ... watever. For those who don't know, its a concert involving all the performing arts groups, and the final show would be an item by the guitar band co and choir. A piece writtern by the director of singapore idol, mr iskandar. And in case you don't know. This song is expensive. the cost of this song is 4 digits. and whats with the rehearsal at the esplanade. Renting the esplanade cost about 10k? And tpjc is renting it twice?. No wonder we have to sell the tickets at 20 and 30 bucks. Anyway do you know that we're still making a loss? even if we sell ALL the tickets at 30 bucks? Thanks to the 4 digit cost of the song and the 2 bookings for the esplanade. And btw, have you heard the song? Its okay, but its not great. Thanks to our great leader, the song writer has to rush his work 2 months ahead of schedule. Imagine your PW deadline being push 2 months ahead, leaving you with 2.5 weeks to complete it. What do you produce?. crap. Not that the song isn't nice, i've play it and its okay, not great. Anyway, is there a necessity to fork out so much money to have something like this produced? Is the esplanade necessery in the first place? 20 and 30 is student expensive. Why have it at the esplanade when you want your own students to watch it? Have it at the hall, have it at the audi (where we spent $$$ expanding it by, a little..). IF one isn't enough, lets have two session, its within the school anyway and since its a school events, charge it cheap and everyone can enjoy. why the esplande? why the 20 and 30 tickets. Have a in school performance, for the students, have another one at the esplanade, for the rest of the world. Don't be stupid and ask your own students to pay for what you spent, stupid. Is there a need to showoff? 2.5 weeks to receive a score, practise, combine practice, and rehearse for a collegeday is rush. We did it but its rush. Why the need to show it off. Why the need to perform something (the score) that was rush to complete it in the first place. And the score is not complete, there's another half coming up. Such unorganised planning. July 4th is a date too late. Was the student's welfare thought of. Or was it "oh July 4th so they have the June hols to practice". thats extremely stupid, whats common test? something to ignore?. Mr Iskanda should have been contracted early last year and signed to finish the entire score last decemeber and we should have finished the entire performance by now. Lousy planning. Whats with the dinner? Why is it at the final and concluding event? Is it bigger than the concert? Is eating and speeches something that requries more effort than practising and rehearsing for the concert, therefore something to take more weight than the esplanade concert? Or is it just going to be another staff dinner and a speech by you. Does it involve the students? Or will they be slugging it out at your expenses again. Does it involve the school? Or does it involve you. stupid. Wheres the focus. On our uniform? On draw strings and on skirts 8cm above the knees? Where's the focus? On our CCAs and performing arts? Our "niche" areas? Or our academics where it matters. A $6 white carnival tee to buy us over? What is it that matters? 04-05 did not do as well. Your stocks are falling in price, are you just going sell them? Or are you going to ensure that they rise. Such priorities. Did the GOH at the collegeday say anything nice? Did he say that the song was nice? Did he appreciate all the flowers around the school that cost so much $$$? Did he enjoy the banners that were put up that used so much manpower? Did he feel that the catered food was good? Did he sense the effort that we contributed in 3 rehearsals for him? Was he impressed by all these? Was he impressed by you? ... was he impressed by the miserly 22 students who scored 3As?... Where's your effort to help the students academically. We all need time to study. We all need the resource to study. Goodness the econs book in the library by John sloman is only the 2nd edition, and the 5th edition is out already. Wheres the funding for the econs resource. More importantly, where does the funding go to. To the 2 new security guards who so make the school much safer place? To the 24 new cameras installed at every corner of the school? To the new OM who has so improved the level of discipline in the school? to your $6 shirt ? .... stupid Student welfare? Where's it? Where's the promised promise? Are you still eating meals brought from home inside your office, or do you eat from the canteen? Do you wear our PE shirt while having a jog during your weekend evenings, or does it feel uncomfortable? Have you sat inside LT1 and join the students for a lecture, or are you always enjoying the air condition of your office? Do you know of the yazid affair? Do you even visit TPJC.net? How close you are with the school, how greatly respected you are... Was your declaration of the 5th of July as a holiday favoured by the school? And finally, we have a representative from our school in the supergirl competition, thanks to you. cheers. We need a change in leadership. |
