Airconditioned, spacious and so so very conducive to learning. I love the sliding desks, although it sometimes becomes an irritance when you place your pencil case on the adjacent desk and it's so easy to just accidentally nudge the sliding-desk and send everything tumbling helter-skelter to the ground. The LTs do, at least to me, seem to have a slight problem with acoustics. A volume level that would have allowed a teacher in 4G to hear me from the teacher's table ( and I sit way at the back, as FAR from the teacher's desk as usually possible ) was barely audible to the teacher from the 5th row of LT4. Then again this might just be because the sound dissipates so much quicker in the LT, which is by far much larger than the usual classroom. Seeing as that my Physics sucks, this is probably the case.

One gripe I had/have is the MJC portal. For those of you who have never had the misfortune of having to plow your way through the digital horror that is the MJC website and accounts-platform, count yourself incredibly lucky. Perhaps due to the high internet traffic of equally kiasu MJCians logging in to fill out their particulars, the MJC website was agonizingly slow yesterday.

Once I managed to miraculously log in, I was confronted by the daunting sight of having to fill in no less than 9 for MJC's stalking-purposes. According to the MJC website, my nationality as a Singaporean denotes that I have an overseas address. While this would be a lovely thing, it unfortunately does not hold true for me. After pondering for a while on what to write in this space ( 69 ScrewYouJew Avenue came to mind but was quickly discarded ) I decided to go with the flow and write "N/A". I also wondered briefly why MJC would need to know my actual Gross Monthly Household Income. Deciding that this would facilitate any attempts to rob my house, I typed in a number and went on my merry way.

It was at this point that the screen automatically reloaded for some strange reason, clearing all my information. Initially choking in rage, I allowed my anger to dissipate. Somewhere out there, my anger has manifested itself and strangled a moose.

After clicking on "Update Particulars", I was treated to the sight of 5 bubbles arranged in circular fashion that would chase each other around. Pausing to think of whether I had possibly taken drugs earlier in the day, I confirmed that I hadn't when those bubbles disappeared a minute later, replaced by a little pop-up that told me that my particulars had been confirmed. It also may or may not have thanked me for the time I spent, but I deemed this unimportant and not worthy of attention. After all, my ultimate goal was to quickly choose my subject combination.

Next up on my list of Herculean tasks was the Medical/Health forms. While it's a pleasant thought that MJC keeps digital records of my allergies, blood type and such, it's also a reminder that in an actual emergency, none of this is going to matter and is thus most probably redundant. Thankfully, none of these fields were actually required and so I skipped them.

Before I could select my subject combination, I had to wade through the CCA/CIP record. Given how arduous and painstaking the process was. Wanting to waste as little time as possible, I wrote CO Secretariat and I have no CIP records whatsoever, connotating that I'm the kind of sick sad bastard that probably laughs at old women crossing the road and has no friends. My Skills and Talents include Drama Performance and absolutely nothing else. I contemplated writing "Telekinetic Strangulation of Moose" but decided that this would hardly compare, in terms of sadistic torture, to the ingenius of whoever designed and coded the MJC website. I can also play the Cello and Piano and have played both for 2 years, because I'm not playing for any stupid event unless I volunteer for it.

In short my CCA/CIP record looked like a bloody mess. Most disturbing was my absolute lack of a CCA record. It sends out the message that I have no friends and probably receive no emails, even spam emails about a ousted Nigerian prince and words cannot describe how I don't need more of that.

Finally managing to click Update Particulars and getting to the Course Registration portion, I was relieved to see the page loaded far faster and had relatively little stuff to fill in. So imagine my catalysmic explosion of pure anger when I selected the dropdown menu and the subjects refused to load. More moose died.

Eventually I finished it and received the confirmation email, informing me that I submitted the information at 8.28 and received the confirmation at 10.05. This is obviously false; I took from 8.28 to 10.04 to do the stupid thing.

But that apart, I love MJC. Choir Auditions and Mass Dance tomorrow, and maybe a trip back to VS to visit and lunch with the juniors. Hurrah!