Crap

Posted 11:25 AM by Shane
RI is now a sad place. The RI I once knew is gone.

You can tell a lot about a school from how the school is built. When a school is designed and built with love, you can feel the love immediately once you step into the school. RGS is built with love. NYGH is built with love.

RI was built with love.

Has anyone seen the new RI extension at the hall? I think some quirky architect who designed the new RJ must have had some leftover material, and decided, "Hey, why don't we randomly pick a spot to use up these material?"

*closes eyes and points...

"Ah! a perfect spot indeed! Its beside the hall so we don't have to tear down the entire hall, it adds a foyer to the middle of nowhere so people will not use it, it encloses the canteen so RI boys will spend less time relaxing in the canteen and more time studying, and it can still be seen from the whole stretch of Bishan Road, so my masterpiece can be appreciated. Perfect!"

The new extension is a monstrosity. The architect who designed it ought to be shot and hanged. It totally does not fit in with the RI theme. It looks as if someone teleported a concrete block right in the middle of the Albert Hong Hall.

I'm sick and tired of all these mindless construction. It is necessary to add space for students, but i'm sure RI has sufficient funds to do so in a tasteful manner, and not add more concrete prisons for the students? Is RI going to become just another school, where it is just another place for students to study in?

RI was a family to me. I cherished every single day I went there, not just to study, but to learn. To learn about friendship and respect. To learn about honour and integrity. To learn how to love the school more everyday, and to be loved in return. RI is not just a place where mindless students cram for exams everyday, it is a place where boys learn to become gentlemen, where budding talents are allowed to blossom, where the top students in Singapore can be who they are, and not be ostracised just because they are "special". RI students should be proud of the fact that they are in RI. Screw you, talkingcock.com, but RI is indeed an exclusive school where not everybody is able to join. It is a school where only the smartest students in Singapore can join, no matter what their economic status is, no matter what their race or religion is. RI students should be proud of this fact, and hold their heads high when they walk out on the streets. However these days, when I walk past an RI student with his shirt tucked out, uniform a shit fight, I can't tell if he is from RI, Chung Cheng High or SJI anymore. There is no more pride.

There is no more pride.

Pride comes from the school itself. We have 184 years of history to pride ourselves upon.
For a start, stop building concrete prisons for our students.