After months of planning and extensive work, this is the result. Not much to look at or even a very good skin.
But you gotta admit. Its pretty awesome.
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Lets do this once more, from the top... With feeling this time.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
RP will never tell you that you're wrong. Everything you do is right. If you absolutely feel you have to whack someone right now, go on, just justify the process.
To justify my means and ends? Think about it this way, Amelia always said "my parents would never allow me to go out with a guy from ITE." Which, in response, a certain friend raised the point, "What's wrong with ITE?!" He has a point. I'll go into that in a bit.
ITE, is not the end of the road, RP has taken in a lot of ITE students, and they are perfectly normal. More than that, they excel in class tasks. Not everyone is bad, not everyone there smokes. Most do, but smoking is more of a pasttime than a habit. A friendly offer for people around. You don't have to accept it, but just taking a bit of your life out to share a smoke with them, its out of courtesy. And they do appreciate it. To be treated as an equal. Of equal standing. RP does that to its students. Everyone is always cut down to size, or brought up to par. No student is left too far away or too far ahead. And that is what makes RP work.
You leave ITE to come to RP. You leave St Pats to come RP. You can leave Innova JC to come to RP. Forget where you're from or who you were then, RP does the same to all. You'll have confidence, self-reliance, teamwork and the ability to empower your teammates. It all doesn't matter. You're an RP student now. You're part of Team RP.
RP is a living, breathing society, it runs on its people. I would have loved to go NP or NYP, assuming they would have taken me. But now, if I knew my life now, then. I would have turned it down, RP all the way. Pro-RP, as Timothy put it. RP is a brotherhood, no one ever fights. Perhaps small conflicts, but its easily settled.
The seniors are never judgemental. They won't skip out on you just for looking funny. They are always around to assist you. And in RP, if you feel like it, and you're a student, pick out someone, anyone, talk to them. Its encouraged. Never feel alone. How's that? Yell and scream and someone's always around to say "What's up?" Got nowhere to go on friday? Use the library, walk up to anyone, ask if they are free, if yes, do what you like. Anywhere, anytime, any place.
That is RP SEG for you.
So what made Claire any different? The point was in saying "No matter what happens, I stick with you." Blind trust in a really crazy plan. Not always a bad thing.
But what really made a difference was the last few lines as said by Claire's "bro", "No matter where you go or what happens, it doesn't matter, you're still my friend" And that gave me the will to press forward and pretend I'm good enough to be in RP.
Listen to me when I say it. Claire, Felicia, Amelia, Jia Wei or ZW, I will work hard, I will make it to the honor roll of RP. If I'm not on it, I'll get pretty damn close. And Amelia, there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it. You wanna know why? Cause I have the will and my classmates have faith. I asked that of most of you, I know my friends, you did have blind faith, with no promise of success and continued to support my cause.
Thanks Feli for taking time out to give lessons down at coffee bean, wasn't easy teaching me, but I assure you, I took in every minute and every word you said. I remember having to drag you away from a good day's sleep-in just to play games, or just to sit around.
Thanks ZW for blindly assuring me and always being around.
But thanks Amelia, cause you set off this domino chain, and I assure you, when I get better at all this, when I'm working onboard an Airbus A380, perhaps as a flightplanner, or even a pilot, you damn well remember that you should have just went along with blindly trusting my plan than to think a slip of A4 paper labelled by MOE is going to dictate what I do with my life. Cause life or limb, I will do as RP says, I will use my strengths to gain leverage against the weaknesses of others. Its not wrong, I'm just doing what I have to.
And you, remember this clearly, if you listen to what someone else thinks of the people you hang around with and judge them based on education levels or based on looks, then you seriously need to schedule an attitude check. Cause if you have no faith in what a person can do, just by his own ability and hidden talents, then what makes you think everyone around you will honestly believe you have faith in god? Hypocrisy has its limitations. Know them.
Yes, bullshit now comes in cans, new colors and also new textures, in case you'd like to hang it on walls as well.
That is an RP SEG Arseloch for you. Defiant to the very end.