Disgruntled

The anger didn't hit until I repeatedly heard the complaints and displeasure from those around me. This new system is throwing everyone off their rockers. Initially the fact that most of us weren't granted a room in the first round was an easily accepted fact that the incoming batch of female freshies were from the dragon year. Dragon year = baby boom, an easy enough equation to understand. 80% for the freshies?! Ridiculous. The argument being that if you are going to fill up the halls with 80% freshies who's gonna be running and organising the events in hall? The freshies can't do that, as their names states they are fresh into hall, they need guidance.

The first event that is going ka-boom is our very much-awaited yearly event FOC. But I guess this year it's gonna be more of a headache than previously. For one you've got a shortage of people, especially when you get people pulling out of the committees knowing that they can't get a room next year. Why do I have to help out when I'm already out of hall? So here on one hand you probably will have more freshies and on the other you already for a fact know you'll have less seniors. How? Luckily you have the people that are willing to help even though they are no longer residents. Then come the next problem: since they aren't residents they won't have rooms, so where do we accommodate them? We happily suggest function hall and function room, saying they could bring sleeping bags and camp a week there. So every morning these seniors will scramble awake to pack away their barang barang, carry it away to wherever will accommodate their stuff and stay enthusiatic while running the games for the freshies who were comfortably sleeping on proper mattresses. The irony of it all. Seniors do the shit jobs and at the end of the hall get treated like dirt and thrown out of the hall. No wonder people choose to pull out of hall.

Subsequently you have committees run by young, inexperienced residents and then they question Why are they doing things this and that way? Well, for your information, there's only a limited number of seniors available to guide them. Most of which who COULD HAVE helped are heartlessly denied a place back to build on what they've started. Some argue that we need to move on and let the younger batch continue what we left behind, but to so abruptly and suddenly cut us off is unreasonable. I'm not talking about just current year 3s but also a number of year 2s.

In some of the year 3s I've seen people slog their hearts out for the hall, jeopardising even their own studies. And just because they were away for the last half a year for attachment and exchange, doesn't mean they've forgotten the hall they've stayed in for 2.5 years. Just as we were returning, we find ourselves locked out and barred. Whoever locked the gates know it themselves, feigning ignorance to the scarifices made for the hall previously. It makes no sense is deciding a person's worth by just 1 year's contribution. It's just not fair.

The lack of appreciation for the seniors inevitably will lead to the diminishing numbers of active alumni in the future. If that's the risk they are willing to take, then I can only wish them all the best.

Talking about this makes my blood totally boil. Sincerely I wish the next JCRC, FOC, DnD and ad-hoc committees good luck. You'll need LOTS of it to work things out.