Monday, December 07, 2009
7:19 pm
Whooo...book sorting/distribution SL ended today. NTUC used textbook programme a.k.a. cheap labour. Experience i had was sorta good, compared to whatever other people experienced. No angry parents, no irritating/kiasu parents, no totally blur parents/students, which is good, for me at least. I really gotta say...some of the people who were taking the books are sooooo selfish/ungrateful. They shout at you if you give them the wrong book, knowing that its not actually our job (we're just volunteers, its not like we work there or anything) to help them get the right books, they hoard (stockpile can also be used, but i'll use the less degenerative version so as to not make them look too bad) books into large boxes (yes boxes, not just plastic bags, or those trolleys that people use when going to the market), some people guess to sell but im gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say that theyre using it for tuition purposes. Of course there are the kiasu parents who grab a whole armful of assessment books (i pity the children) to be used at home. Im glad my parents dont hoard assessment books for me to do (especially chinese), if not i'll probably be somewhere between life and death. And of course some of the other volunteers were...err...complaining? Though i suppose who wouldnt.
Well, of course like in every good essay there must be some form of balance, and of course not all parents are that evil (notice "that"). Most were really quite nice, chatting and joking and all that. Not all were kiasu, not wanting to take more than what they needed, maybe one or two guidebooks for chemistry but nothing significant. A lot couldnt find the books they wanted though, especially for the less popular subs like...combined science for sec 2s? or some publishers of music/dnt/english/home econs. It was confusing. Too many publishers, too many subjects, too many levels to sift through. No one took any tertiary books though, even though they should be worth the most money (if they wanted to sell the books that is...). Oh yeah, some people just came in for fun, just to look at books (*cough* kaypo *cough*), then look look look, take like 1 or 2, then leave. Like got nothing better to do like that...lol.
Saw a lot of books that i used last time. The whole time i was like, hey i used that book, cool, then i would flip through abit, them put it back. Saw pokemon books o.o brings back memories. The others section was the most interesting, a lot of random stuff like well...pokemon books (yes they are interesting. Go read them), Digimon books, game guidebooks, really old dictionaries, really new dictionaries, storybooks, and...other stuff.
Anyway, after all of the book-ing, went to novena to have some lunch (no catered chicken rice for me) with kel, sam, ly and FOC. Ate donuts wheeee, and other stuff. Took a reeaaaalllllly long time, yup. Bought more donuts to bring home then went to some adidas store to check out shoes (cause i really need tennis shoes). Didnt buy anything though, all the shoes that i chose didnt have my size... This shows that i made the right choice, cause no size means its popular, which means that the design and colour of the shoe is niiice. Took awhile cause kel and sam bought stuff too, then went home after.
Oh, my room like...doesnt have much light now, so im practically ruining my eyesight while using the computer. Theres something wrong with my room light, it just wont turn on. The bulb didnt blow, so must be the sparking mechanism...which means that i wont have much light for a few more...days? or a week i guess. Crap.
Ah yeah, then theres holiday homework. LOTS and LOTS of it. Not just one or two pages, no..., MILLIONS of em. Ok not really...trying to make an impact. But yes there is alot of homework, and im not even halfway done. In fact, i barely even started. Its sooooo difficult to do...omg. Its like all challenging questions. Its gonna be a loooooong holiday...
Oh well, im slacking now anyway.
*sigh* how many mercedes/bmws drove up the slope today...
brendon...
