The New Batch...

The new batch of med students who entered UM this year are getting more and more fortunate. The so-called ragging orientation has been so toned down and shortened, that they only lived miserable lives for about 3 weeks. 3 years back, our sufferings lasted 2 whole months! This ragging orientation thingy, as much as this SOMEBODY tries to get rid of it once and for all, will always be there. This is because the perpetual cycle of 'they did it to me once, and I'll get to do it 4 more times' will always remain. No amount of threatening, CCTV monitoring is gonna help. It will just draw the whole process 'underground', and that is where the danger lies. In fact, the more this SOMEBODY tries to 'protect' the freshies, the bloodthirsty seniors get all the more angry and fed up. Thus, this SOMEBODY is actually doing more damage than good. What is done in the open, is usually less horrible than what is done in secret. By banning all these and threatening seniors left and right, room orientation will prevail, and I would cease to comment about that. I would say that I am neither pro or anti-orientation. There is a place for it, but in moderation. It can be seen as a mean by which both seniors and juniors are somewhat forced spurred to get to know each other. Without it, only the rare few will make the effort to approach strangers to get to know them. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm starting to lose interest in getting to know the juniors. Maybe because I'm not one of those who play, scold and make a fool of them. It actually makes me mentally fatigued trying to make conversation which a whole bunch of juniors who are just interested in getting your signature for the sake of fulfilling their 'assignment'. However, I must say that there were a few who were pretty entertaining as well as those who shared my interest in music, manga and anime. Those were the ones who made my day ;) However, I noted something disturbing. Out of the 70 plus CHINESE freshies, only about 17 were from STPM. I am not trying to start a sensitive discussion here. It's just that matriculation and STPM cannot be compared on equal grounds as they are like apples and oranges. Two different things altogether. If this carries on, in the long run, nobody 'wise' would wanna do Form 6 anymore. Unless, as some juniors claimed, they wanted the 'challenge'. Yeah, right. As if... :P

# scribbled by j e l l i o ` at 7/30/2005 01:09:00 PM
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