There's a new lifestyle club in Bukit Timah, located next to Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Maju Camp. Tacky, with all the pixel art people and smooth designs.
So i kinda signed up for a degree course that'll give me a paper and a little more pushing power to open doors, not that i really want to, but i think i need to. I've finished more than half already and i had to defer 2 courses so that i could indulge in my work as a videomaker. Here's the clause, "this course is suited for working individuals".
Apparently in this club's vocabulary, "working individuals" work 9 -5pm, have a 5 day work week, 21 days of leave, no overtime and the apparent ability to spring up with no pay leave.
Whats got me riled up is the style in which they are enforing their rules for this particular course i am going to take. i have to attend 12 / 16 classes or else i fail. for each class i miss, i end up giving up 5% of my total marks, hence increasing the chance to repeat course. Of course, if i have a valid reason or MC, i'm sure they'll accomdate. or so they say.
Project work is also now more ... streamlined. I now have to log in meeting dates, timing in / out(wtf, this is like NS all over again! do they want a falling-out parade as well?), commenting on work and project members... etc. heck, i might as well hire a secretary to do all that. make it a bombshell secretary at that. No doubt that is a good way to weed out slackers, but it also creates paths for potential backstabbers and distrust amongst project group members. Perhaps in their huge academic minds, they fail to take into caution the danger of the human heart. I've been at the receiving end of backstabs before and i can tell ya it wasn't pretty.
oh, did i forget to mention that this course is suited for working professionals?
Join the club, refreshment benefits to members only.
I quote an anonymous saying "Its the powerless who have to abide by the rules."
Right now, i'm sure i know where i stand. It sucks.
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