Friday, April 7
interesting things to note.my parents have spent a bomb on my piano lessons and pianos etc since i was 6? and well, fact is (and i dont think they realise), i have no flair for it. i can work hard at it, but i'd be nothing compared to some people who merely touch the keyboard once a week - during their lesson. sniff. its quite sad not having the talent. ahh well. and i very nearly quit it forever, two fateful years ago. sigh.as i said before, it shall merely be a skill.
will be going to rgs for some chinese talk tomorrow. feel a bit of the irony here - people of the chinese high family going to the raffles family for a chinese talk. its a gep thing, and its DARN LONG, 7.30 - 1.30 , gah. although i do think there're refreshments =D.
yesterday, while on the bus and chatting with tianyuan, i was standing in relatively close proximity to a hci guy and girl. and they were having a rather animated conversation loud enough to reach people within a 3 metre radius. note, this is on the bus.
and guess what they were talking about! yep. geppers.
all i can assume is that the two of them are most probably not from the gep secondary schools - seeing their horribly twisted-gnarled-ridiculous conceptions. first of all, they say that geppers are smart. well to quote it in their words:
the geppers, horh, damn smart one. in class, only they know answers. you see people get full marks, the teachers like one lah! is definitely gepper. silently amused, tianyuan and i stopped our convo for a while to listen to them.(note here: ty isn't a gepper, and even she was amused by their total crap.)
everyone knows geppers arent SMART as in brain-smart-iq-over-160 kind of smart. we're just taught to be different. and the current state of geppers in nanyang ip, sec 3, we arent doing very well at all. we're gifted, sure, whatever. but so is the rest of the homosapien population. gep's a bond, an identity - just like i would say im Christian, and how people from track/basketball etc would say so. something we're proud of being, but we dont look down on other people because they dont have this identity. its not some stupid elite clique with unpenetrable doors - glares at the writers of that article in today which was written a while ago and caused the wrath of many -.
but back to the point. next thing the two hci-ans said that made me really tempted to smack my files on their heads - although they WERE rather tall - was:
geppers are despised. really leh. you see people walk around, then you ask the nanyang girls or hwa chong guys, all the mainstreamers say they hate geppers lor. say the geppers very stuckup. rolls eyes. more clues they've never actually interacted with a group of geppers. despised. maybe we're despised - but only by people like you, darling. okay i shall stop with the ego. i dont think we're despised - there is absolutely zilche reason for us to be despised. i dont think we act stuck-up and ELITIST - glares once more at TODAY - , that is, go walking around the halls of nanyang, do you see random people sticking their noses up in the air and walking haughtily, looking down at you? do you see people strutting down corridors, pushing others out of the way, acting regal and idiotic? do you overhear conversations from TEH ELITES talking about how the world should ban mainstreamers? do you hear them talk about mensa iq questions? (no, you hear them gushing over cute hci-ans in campus superstar.)
"they only stick around themselves lorh. the other people not good enough for them." and we are oftenly accused of sticking around within the gep cohort only. well, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT US TO DO, MAN? we've known most of each other since primary four, thanks to all the gep events and the limited number of schools we can come from. our classes are small, we bond easily, we're given different teachers. just like you bond with the people in your class, then you change class every year, so every year your friends-list gets longer. and longer. and longer. but us, we stick to the same cohort. we are amongst ourselves every year, so duh we hang around each other!
but of course, that is not the case anymore. ip makes us all one big happy family ( to put it in the cliche, spastic-sounding way ). and then there's cca mates. obs-friends. seniors. juniors. friends' friends' acquaintance's friend. and so on and so forth. and we're gradually dissipating, and jc will make us all 'equal' once more in that sense, but please, as if we werent equal before. we're no more recognized as the gep classes, or gep individuals. so seriously, whats your problem?
anyways, my point to that girl and that guy in the 174 bus on thursday, sometime between 6.15-6.45, is that, if you want to say anything bad, or even discuss a relatively sensitive issue, be aware that the bus is three quarters filled with ny and chinese high people, thusly, there is a possibility that there might be a gepper there. think, my dears, think.
this is such an old topic i cant believe i've wasted my time discussing it.
i was green-ed at 11:06 pm
