Also, there's this bit that made me chuckle. It was about the results of a survey given out to, if i remember correctly, secondary sch geps. The good news is that we're conclusively wonderful people with 'admirable personal traits', etc etc... BUT 'seemingly reluctant to enter into political careers'.
 

    Now the govt. spends more than $37,000 per student for his/her time in the gep, nurturing creativity, self-esteem, intelligence (ahem), and what do they get in return? A bunch of self-confident kids used to thinking of their own free will, and relaxed with challenging authority.  And then u think they'll want to enter politics(i.e. join the PAP) in singapore?

its so funny i tell you.

    But this is interesting. Do the geps have a debt to repay? i think yeah... probably. otherwise quite alot more would happily be living elsewhere, enjoying the freedom to breathe.

    Sometimes i wonder, what if geps got together to do stuff... like take over TCS maybe (wish wish)... or even head a new political party (Ahah!)... Then i realise its not like that at all. Going through the same brain nutritioning doesn't lead to any significant cohesiveness at all. Good thing about it, though, is the friends you develop, and end up with. Mentally alike and (likely) mental, its a comfort zone in the whirls of the masses we're learning to swim with now.

    Someone once told me that geps were too cynical. Said something about how it was such a pity those who were supposed to be 'thinking people' didn't seem to care much about social issues, etc.

    I don't know about that. But it reminds me of something 4 or 5 of us got up to, post-PSLE in rosyth. I think we'd just visited one of those insipid Environment Fair-things in fort canning... it had a booth, about animal rights. it had petitions, and leaflets, and pictures of gross injustices done to test lab animals.

    Now the bunch of us 12 yr olds were so affected by the stupid cruelties they told us about, we went back to school and made a pamphlet of our own. Planning to spread an awareness among our peers, thinking 'people ought to know about this', we wrote our A4 leaflets(for people to take home), got permission from teachers and principal, and distributed it around the other primary six classes.

    At the end of that last school day, we went home from Rosyth for the final time, and walking past the classrooms, we saw our little leaflets strewn all over the classroom floors (tables and chairs all stacked up by then). It was like..y'know those [DESIGNER BRANDS ON SALE] leaflets u get at orchard road? Yeah. just all over the place. and in the wastepaper baskets.

    I don't think we're really cynics. It's more of an awareness of the way things go in this world. things change by masses, yet people, in masses, are usually either just animal stampedes, or utterly apathetic.
 

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