WELL FUCK YOU TOO!

I hate this bloody system and their stupid, BLOODY INFURIATING shithead habit to just make their own bloody decisions without consulting any of the people who are REALLY affected by the choices made. Who gave the management the right to decide for thousands of students that a shift in the school term would be a good idea? Who did they ask? WHO DID THEY POLL?? "The young are our future. The next generation...et cetera et cetera bullshit.." And do they really give a FUCK?? We're all just bloody pawns for their fucked up economy and their fucked up utilitarian society aren't we? Were we ever ASKED if we would APPRECIATE much less WANT a change in the school term? Did they ask the students who have to earn their own keep if giving them a shorter vacation was a good thing?

Do people even realise how UNreceptive and UNcooperative our society is to schooling kids who need or want to earn a part time salary? Do you see many jobs available for us who will allow us to work say, 3 or 4 hours a few days in a week so we have time to deal with school and other areas of our life? As far as i know, part time jobs require a minimum of 6 hours a day (of course there are those other jobs where the working hours are at night, but those generally do not end particularly early); after travelling and slaving, do students get enough rest?

You ask why there are so few enterprising people in Singapore? Where are the opportunities? And i don't mean after you graduate. Are we exposed to a creative society? Even when we go out to work, how many people can say they have flexible bosses or superiors? How does that foster creativity? With 10-or-more-hour work days, will we have any time outside to be creative? To bother with innovation, to be enterprising? We have families and relationships to maintain, we have work, pursue leisure; how many hours are there to really do anything else?

Growing up in such a structured, non flexible system, and in an Asian society, stressing discipline and respect (commonly in the form of not questioning elders or superiors, being "polite" which is not to say anything "out of place") where does one find the space to fit in innovation, enterprise, creativity? In a society where decisions are made for you even before you know of the existence of the choice, even when the decisions will not affect the people making them, are really not UP to those people to make especially when they make NO EFFORT whatsoever to find out the repercussions and responses, where does questioning and striking out on one's own fit in?

Has anybody noticed that ANY and ALL interactions with parliament members or other government officials who APPARENTLY go into schools to discuss issues are never satisfactory? Does ANYONE notice that the honest, pertinent questions are never answered? Leaders do not admit to not knowing the answer. People who are supposed to guide us would rather opt to twist us round their little fingers, twist our objections, play merry-go-round with our questions and never actually answering the inquiries. 'how do you intend to do this?' 'well, we are not just carrying it out yet and this is just an example of how things might be. There are many ways to look at it.. My analogy might not be the right one..' REALLY NOW??? So WHERE THE FUCK IS THE PART WHERE YOU ANSWER MY SIMPLE DIRECT QUESTION AND NOT GIVE ME FUCKING BULLSHIT THAT A TEN YEAR OLD COULD SPIN??? Just because you go around campaigning and pretending to talk to students doesn't mean everything will be fine and dandy. If you will not see this generation and answer their queries which are so obviously valid and very intelligent, if you would rather treat the future generation as the past, as an unquestioning, accepting, easily satisfied generation, as one who can easily be fooled into believing your 20 lines of crap is an answer to a straightforward question, then good fucking luck to you. Are we supposed to be enticed into staying here where we have no say in the future or the governing of this country that is supposed to be ours?This is how this country strives to achieve openness? Is that the definition of a transparent government?

How does an individual make himself heard when even a voice of thousands is ignored. When we are made to grow up not thinking, not questioning, but merely to accept and go with whatever is placed before us, how does an individual make a difference?

Does the future of this country mean so much that they ignore the opinions of this generation? I'd like to see someone give me a straight honest answer to that.

This is our democracy.