propping up a dictatorship / dun you want a blue burqa?

i'm finally home! It's been a almost a week back, the and hiatus from mugging
lasted barely more than 2 weeks. for the second consecutive year, i'm am now
coaching the 公教 dictators for the VJC invitationals shield since xander's still launching his own crusade against the procrastination demons over @ NUS. i can't believe i actually spent the entire week mugging and trying to
fathom exactly wtf does cultural assimilation entails. Case prep week is really a bitch. Doubly so when u have to prep both for the prop AND the opp side for the same fucking motion. in chinese this is probably called 自相矛盾 or 'turning one's spear upon one's shield and see which koyak first'. every argument which you conjure for one side, only adds on to your paranoia regarding the cogency of ur arguments on the other side. and as if that wasn't enough, after all this shitload of work, only ONE of the three preliminary round debates is on the prepared motion, the other 2 are impromptu. KNNBPCB....

there're somethings which just never change with the gong jiao dictators. and if anything at all, it's that each batch just gets more and more wrong. ok, last year, there's kk who swallows his own fist, fengyao who sends the wrong vibes to pre-teen girls, and shaun who lied down in the middle of the road ostensibly to impress some girls after last year's VJC invitationals. not willing to bite the dust by their predecessors, the 2006 dictators are showing great potential of usurping their seniors' claim to being the wrongest batch in cat high's debate team history. first there's the ever impish andre (who's 16 next year btw) who despite his proud declaration of that he finally grew some LJM (go figure) still hasn't shown any signs of physical nor mental maturity, and finally there's bryan chan who would randomly start speaking mandarin in a super husky voice in the middle of debrief and pursues a passion in scribbling LJM all over Andre's trackbook. every training session will somehow end up as an indoor soccer game with andre kua running around half-naked doing all his weird stunts, and with the rest using him as a life-size action figure.. haiz... why...why like that one???

oh, and as if that wasn't enough, we've got a resident team retard ho wee seng who appears to have a very warped concept of mating rituals. ok, u see, IJ TP came down to our place for a friendly spar earlier today, and for like the first time ever, wee seng seemed unusually enthu about doing the timekeeping for the girls, and started sprouting random nonsense throughout the course of the debate, and even started pointing middle finger at Tze Kai why he was doing his speech. i understand 14 year old boys are inherently hormonally charged and would go to great extent just to get the attention of girls, but wee seng.... haiz...

speaking about the friendly debate, the whole session just seemed to be missing something. and it only hit upon me after the friendly that during my time, whenever we go down to someone else's place for friendlies, the hosts will always provide some refreshments for the vistors. which was probably why the IJ TP team seemed rather surprised that the friendly just ended at that. in hindsight, we were totally atrocious hosts, and when i questioned Andre about the protocol for friendlies now, he just gave a nonchalent 'yah, got drinks. but so? we boh chup one lah' social dysfunctionality - the dictators just upped their wrongness

and tomorrow we're gonna have another friendly spar with St Nicks. the original plan for us was that we wanted SN to come down for a friendly so it would save us the trouble of travelling all the way to the ulu ulu realms yio chu kang since we've travelled away for the last few times we sparred them. but NO! the SN ppl die die dun wanna come down to bishan. and the reason only became clear after i called up Bryan just now to confirm the venue for tmr's friendly. it appears that the SN liason told bryan that the parents of the SN debaters were reluctant to 'let their daughters step inside an all-boys school'. WTF?? it's either that SN is experiencing a change in their school philosophy towards religious fundamentalism, OR Cat High has recently established some notoriety as a institution that consistently produces sex fiends. u know it's yet another tragedy for gong jiao when even a sister school has lost faith in the morality of its brother school. why am i not surprised if SN decides to don the habit or the burqa together with their blazers for the debates on saturday *tsk tsk* hmm, a blue burqa with pinafore... hahaha that would certainly be the defining fashion statement of the year.

speaking of which, i actually found a photo i took way back when i was in 1st 3 months in JC. Long before Blinkymummy or King Meng's sartorial tribute to the blue pinafore, i already paid homage to the revered deep blue in my own little way hehe.

circa 2000. the virgin undergrad then. the quinessential Big Blue

now i wished i had wore another pinafore over my head as a habit or used it as a burqa.....