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Do us all a favour
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Though i'm no longer from Temasek Poly , i am supporting this petition though its not very well written but the message is there.
http://www.petitiononline.com/polybus/petition.html
Its true how the government often treat us poly students as "Second class" when compared to the JC students .
Take the SARS incident for example.
JC students get 2 weeks off from school while Poly students get nothing at all ( or a few days if i'm not wrong .. I was still in secondary sch during that crisis ) !??!
What , you mean the immunity of poly students are better ?!
Come on. The bias is so obvious.
I know of the invisible lines of enmity between JCs and polys .
The former has a holier-than-thou aura around 'em and the very wrong perception that poly students are on a lower rung in the social ladder.
In a nutshell : Disdain
The latter finds JC students too smug , conformist and its an open secret that most poly students are there because their O level results cannot make it lah .
Like me :P
But then again about 20% of students score well enough to qualify for a JC but prefers the alternative education route so its really wrong to label poly students so negatively.
Of course not everyone share the same views as me , but grab any tertiary student off the streets and promising them absolute anonymity , they'll probably start ranting about the segregation between the two from my POVs .
I have friends from NYP who ALWAYS complain about the exodus of AJC students always creeping into the NYP campus and eating in their canteens. Their complaints ?
"Wah lao eh , those AJC students , bus fare so cheap liao still come our canteen and eat our food . See , create more queues only . assholes ."
Well , if it was some secondary school students that sneak into their school ( i'm using sec school students as an example because they also enjoy concession ) , i don't think NYP students would even bother to express their ire.
I don't know if its right to label most JC students as smug , but unfortunately , experience tells me that it is true.
From the exaggerated accents to the wrong use of cheem vocabulary to impress ( example : yeah , she's so ironic until she mistook her remote control for her handphone . Then she went to jeopardise it by charging it with her charger ! )
And the indignation thats always present in conversations
fiona : yup .. in lecture halls.
JCgirl : i see.... are they air-conditioned ?
fiona : yes of course .. we're not exactly stuck in the stonehenge period you know .
JCgirl : *gasps audibly* no seriously , i've always had this impression that lessons in polys are held in boiler-rooms lookalikes ..
fiona : but why ?
JCgirl : because the courses all engineering what !!
fiona : you're wrong .. don't you know that there's bio-med , business and design courses too ?
JCgirl : *stands up and her jaws drops to the floor * YOU"RE KIDDING ME !
Okay obviously i made it up but you get the idea .
Ironically , one of my best girl friend is formerly from TPJC . She does exhibit some of the irritating traits of JC students occasionally , but , she's still unlike most of the JC students i've encountered.
What say you , my JC students readers ?
Azrul ? :P
Sammm ?
