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Saturday, January 19, 2008
♥ Saturday, January 19, 2008
The most exciting part of the year isnt it. Where community members purport to be involved and passionate about plans they dont seem to care about subsequently? Where ideas are thrown about, toyed with argued..and when it gets too tiring (which by the way, the record has been for about an hour and a half this year), we end up taking a vote. I enjoyed myself at this year's taking down notes. These are the notes i took down and yes, this phrase was coined by Reader's Digest but let me use it anyway: Quotable quotes. Thats right- quotes so unbelieveably profound or hilarious that i feel some sense of obligation into putting them down. Colin, " purest of intentions may not be one of God's will". Profound i wrote. That was during his half an hour prayer marathon where we had to keep silent for i dont know....a little too long. "Vision doesnt change, but mission changes." - Kenny. Well, that is something i better remember. But how do i do that? I mean COME ON, we change missions all the bloody time. Take today for instance, we were voting on whether or not we wanted to uphold a certain structure we agreed on one year ago? To me its just really really funny."Youth. Question mark."- Kenny. Well its just idiosyncratic of him to use the word 'question mark' to things that he is not too sure on. Quite a distinctive feature of him i would say. Probably the only thing that distinguishes him from the many other faces and voices in the room."We're more gifted than we think."- Marie. Well, for teaching, as i suggested, we are as gifted as we think. Or maybe more? Hard to imagine that though since we put ourselves in the ranks of geniuses."we must see the BIG PICTURE in things."- Colin. I found this hilarious. Its like that will be the opening statement to any of his arguments and well the best part is that he seems to suggest that we are one myopic bunch of toads not knowing the world is a bigger place than the well we live in. Maybe thats wad visionaries do. Or charlatans."It would be NICE if we had more information." - MelTan's comments to Metanoia proposal. A reflection of a thorougly uninformed ignorant and aloof community doesnt it."huh plan? What plan?"- Mel Tan's response to whether they had a plan as to where the ministry was headed. So meltan."Are we just a knowledge library?" - Fang Long's question to what teaching ministry is. He is damn good with these analogies, metaphors, pictorial depictions of concepts. And frankly i loved it because it seemed to be controversial."Fang Long you talked about CHEMISTRY."- chemistry-enthusiast colin's reply to comments on relationships. I saw Alvin and Joshua looking at each other knowingly and guffawed. I was amused."Will it be me?"- Alvin's imputation of what Meltan thinks about during core election. All in all it was rather titillating. Had an argument with Joshua over who should do canteen when he suggested that i do it because i bitch the most about canteen. Please, its ridiculous. If i did it, there wouldnt be food. I am not even willing to provide food for free, ask me to organise some event in which people bring food for free? You must be kidding.And so he ended with " Ah eat your crap la." The perfectly christian way to end a conversation isnt it? Oh well actually that is a good suggestion.. if i actually talked some crap about canteen, i believe it can actually sell man. Make it satirical or something. Im sure will be able to profit. And of course the climactic showdown of whether or not we should have re-elections this term! Gee i never would have guessed that could be smth so contentious. But of course, after a while, people felt that there was no point talking about this anymore. Why dont just vote. So what is a community? A bunch of people talking. And when the talk gets tough, the tough gets voting. A perfect democracy! Oh i forgot and one that punishes! See, we cant bitch too much, or compain too much, or well analyse too much because that has consequences! BItch about canteen? YOU DO THE NEXT CANTEEN. Bitch about coming early? YOU BUY BREAKFAST. hmm we should have one where if one talks too much, he should stand at the corner and pull his ears. Structure, eh?
