Sunday, August 12, 2007



Yes, I promised Danial a cheerful entry. But I never promised not to do an introspective one =)

Plus, even Yang En has managed to type out what is, I guess, his version of an emo entry . I like to think that my reflections have inspired others to start looking at themselves more instead of preferring to remain shallow and only enjoy the happiness. Without even understanding why they're happy.

Every emotion is wonderful. To be happy is good. To be sad is good. To be relaxed is good. To be angry is good. Every emotion is so distinct, so full in its own way. Without any of these emotions, how happy can you really be? Isn't it really true, that to know happiness, you need to know sadness? How can one be happy without being first sad?

And perhaps, people have misunderstood my previous previous entry about technology. Apparently, I have either not made my opinion clear enough, or these people lack the basic understanding of the English language.

I am not against technology, I am against a technology-dominated society.

Got that? Today's Wii'ing session with Kegan, Jo-Ann and Jo-Shen proved that even with technology, conversation still exists. And that's fine. That's perfect and fine and dandy and tip-top, really. As long as we're still talking, as long as we're still human inside and outside, I'm happy. Enough.

Now, Vincent's attitude today was really a kick in the balls, the 'proverbial' low note to our ice-skating elation. His do-what-I-want-attitude truly disgusted me, and I'm not afraid to say it. Why fear putting it in my blog? I won't get shot for it.

Of course, it might not be such a wise decision to post problems about VSCO members, but even though I said that actual speech trumps all others, the ability to type out, re-arrange and read all our thoughts ( as per blogs and such ) is undeniably useful. Certainly helps makes things coherent, and definitely makes the actual speech far easier to deliver in a structured manner. Plus, if the juniors cared ( and I use 'if' because I'm sure some don't actually care ) and read my blog ( which they should because there's way loads of stuff I put here that I don't care to say out loud ) then they'll begin to think for themselves too, which saves so much time. Beats screaming and shouting at them.

I do not see why Vincent would push his SL duties to Wee Bian. It's not pushing part of it, it's pushing all of it and if anyone would like to contradict, Vincent has admitted it himself. For confirmation, ask Yang En or Alphonsus, or you can go hear it from the horse's mouth, I'm quite sure someone of his dignity and stature would not deny his own words, unless of course he wants to admit he's wrong. But then again, he's not wrong about the duty-pushing.

Apparently for him, it's enough to give the excuse that he'll take responsibility for whatever's happened. Ok, so now that Tan Bo Yue attendance is in shambles, we can scold Vincent. He'll 'take the responsibility' which means the scolding, shrug it off with his thick-skinned-borne indifference and not do anything about it. Wow, how mind-blowingly responsible of him. Taking the scolding ( which he deserves ) and not doing anything about it. So why not just take away the SL post then? After all, his passion lies in Student Conducting ( not that he does a fantastic job at it either to tell the truth ) and [sarcasm]of course he doesn't have to do what he doesn't like. This obviously justifies him failing Physics. [/dry sarcasm]

That failing physics reason is something he provided himself so again, don't call it a personal attack. Of course, if at this point what you are concerned about is not that I am pointing out the problems but whether I am personally-attacking him then please either re-read, re-think or close this window. I will not deal with people who cannot be bothered to think and instead try to drown me in their shallow-minded reasons.

Well then, if we were to take away Vincent's SLship, then he'll be only the Assistant Student Conductor. Problem is, he'd take over everything Bryan is to do, and Bryan can only do his SL duties then. Now, isn't that being selfish? Not only are you rejecting the post you are given, but you would take away what another person is to do? Moreover, he is still the assistant student conductor.

In addition, Vincent still had the cheek to throw a bitchfit about not getting administrator status for the VSCO website and posting privileges for the VSCO Blog. His reason? He has been taking care of it. Well darling, if you can't even do your basic duties right, don't bitch about it. Further more, that was done on your own initiative. So don't expect people to thank you for it because if you really did it for those motives then shame on your thick-skinned face. Plus, he was complaining that his own initiative was 'not rewarded' and that he might as well 'not take anymore initiative' ( quoted verbatim ). Well, if he wants to be bitchy and hissy and prance around crying and whining over this issue then he doesn't deserve it anyway =). When you do things on initiative, you do it to better the organization or the purpose.

Of course, it is not as if he couldn't have gotten administrator status if he had bothered to think properly and ask properly. But instead, he chose to go out all-guns blazing and instead shot himself about 50 times in the head and foot. He has a sprained ankle, but the bullets sill haven't penetrated the thick skull as far as I see. If he had bothered to ask properly, in a logical, methodical and diplomatic way, I see no reason why he should have been refused administrator status. I mean, I can definitely get that administrator status if I want to, but I don't need it and neither do I want it. I'm just pointing out that it's perfectly obtainable, if you don't screw yourself up. Vincent did just that - screw himself over.

To deal with his problem, I could have just followed his stand. I could have defended every opinion with 'it's my opinion' and said that 'you have your own opinion and mine's different' and therefore it totally justifies my actions. Ok then. I feel that you need to be bombed and tomorrow I will bomb your house. Of course, just my feeling that you need to be bombed cannot possibly justify me actually bombing the house. But according to you, it's justifiable and you obviously cannot be angry with me. It's justifiable, remember?

And in that case, society can just go to hell. What are moral values for? What are rules for then? Rules would just be 'his opinion' which 'differs from mine'. So I'll go around shooting people 'for fun' which is MY OPINION?

But of course, to deal with someone's attitude problem is not to emulate his attitude problem, but to show him the flaws of it. Somehow I have no doubt that Vincent, when reading this blog, is going to be angry and call me a bastard and proceed to blog an entry of his own. And I will of course respectfully read his blog and still I will stick to my opinion. This will prove that I not only have my own opinion, but that I can look at the same issue from another person's point of view, reason and weigh the options, and still stick to my opinion. That's not stubborness. When you can logically and methodically explain your thoughts and processes, that's called smart.

Ideally, Vincent will realize that he is wrong which will be one step towards his maturity. Next, he should apologize to Yang En and Alphonsus for stressing them out so much, and then assuring them that he'll be much better and more (truly) responsible in the future. Then of course he should actually do his job.

Ideally of course.

What will probably happen is that Vincent will use my reasoning of 'smart' to defend his opinion. I will bring it to his attention right here that ( and I will copy and paste ) "When you can logically and methodically explain your thoughts and processes, that's called smart." is what I said. So he can think and try to explain until his balls explode and still he will not be able to come up with reasons to explain his behaviour. But now that I've mentioned this, assuming that he has read this far and I believe even he has that amount of common sense to read ahead before shooting himself in the foot ( again ), I believe that he'll be torn between both routes.

If he takes the first, then he admits he's wrong and that I'm right, but at least he'll be the better for it. And if he takes this path, it'll be in sincerity, so I fear not any 'backstabbing' of sorts.

If he takes the second, then he still denies his wrong. But will he take this? I doubt it, because that would prove that I can predict his thoughts and action plan. Would he want this? I doubt it. Either way, he's still wrong, and I've predicted correctly. So why wouldn't he choose the first option, where he actually gains something from it? He doesn't have that much spite. And if he does, I have far more venom.

These two actions are his only plausible possibilities. Of course I have considered others, but there's no other route he can take that won't have me ( or us ) shooting down that plane the moment it even starts to fly. He could again think until his balls explode and still be unable to.

So Vincent, I know you're reading this. Because if you're not, then you're really even more hopeless than I thought and in which case this entire post about you is mostly wrong ( except for this paragraph ) because your stupidity has exceeded, or fallen short of rather, my expectations.

Pick the correct path yeah? No one really wants to see you having to suffer. And deny it not, you will suffer if you try to go against us, and I myself will take care of that if no one else will. Be smart, and just choose what's behind Door Number 1. I'll tell you the answer : Maturity and the correct decision.


Now that that's taken care of, I can go to sleep and prepare for the mugathon tomorrow.

As Jonathan Tan Ze Sheng, Victoria School 4E 2007 has so succinctly put it:
'All Hail Mugatron'