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Thursday, March 24, 2005
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Rules and Regulations
Various rules and regulations are bothering me like hell these days. After I got caught by the hostel management for the second time, I actually turned to think a lot about human rights, personality, adaptability, rigidity, temperaments and so on. Sometimes I feel the rules are inappropriate and lack of logic.
For example, I don’t see the reason the hostel office asks boarders to return their keys and access cards when they go back home during school holidays. It causes inconvenience for the boarders especially when they come back in the early morning and the office is not open. The office people gave an absurd reason for asking for keys and the cards, they said they might want to rearrange the rooms during holiday when the new boarders come. Anyone see the point? How could they rearrange when the boarder is not moved out yet? As if the office holding the key they are holding the security.
The hostel management has the right to reject all your applications. They could easily tell you the request is unacceptable because it’s not valid, but in fact we poles apart definition on “valid”. We are require to submit “late-coming-back” form and “staying-out” form in two days advance, and during the two days waiting, they will try their best to prove that your reason is not valid. This usually happens when you are going to somewhere not in your school.
Nobody wants to take the responsibilities and they just minimize the chance for boarders going out to stay or coming back late. Once I was stuck at the hostel gate since nobody wanted to give me the permission of staying out. The teacher on duty informed my teacher mentor, and my teacher mentor immediately informed the hostel mistress, she appeared in front of me but couldn’t find a way to stop me since my excuse was so “valid” and even they believed so. However she simply informed the hostel master and office manager, in the end, everyone was aware that I was going out to stay on the day. I should have told them the probability of me being murdered is really very low and if I lost my way to come back I am capable to solve the problem since I know how to dial 999.
I don’t have the intention to be a staying-out queen in the hostel and I tried my best not to break the rules, I sign forms before I go out, I surrender my hostel pass when there is necessary, but the time I had done one step they asked for another. For staying out, they asked for parents’ letter, guardian’s letter, I submitted, they still asked for MOE letter and school letter. I was not going to somewhere far for a long period. What they had asked for is superfluous.
And they have the rights to do what they want to. They enter our rooms for checking without our permission and didn’t even put a notice saying that they may enter our room. All I feel is my privacy is no longer an issue when I am here as a boarder. Even my parents are supposed to ask for permission to enter for checking! And the one who has checked my room even pasted a note on my door saying that I should put my luggage in the store room, should clean the hairs in the washroom and so on. I’m not allowed to arrange my things in the way I like. and years before they even restricted the type of posters you paste on the wall in your room.
It maybe right to say that I’m responsible to be a good student and I’m supposed to submit good academic results to MOE since they pay for my studies, but when it comes to regulate my personal lifestyle, I just can’t accept. The hostel management even threaten us by saying they will send letters to MOE if we break the rules. The time they found their notice board had been scribbled by someone, they made an announcement to warn the someone that if he/she is not come out to admit his/her scholarship will be terminated. What a powerful warning , they always think the scholars in the hostel are offered too much, and they are good for trading, all the rights are reserved for MOE. Our money supplier, our boss. OMG.
My teacher mentor criticized me about being impudent to the office manager, I’m sorry I can’t be sober whenever I feel my legal freedom is restricted. I’m appreciate to the teachers’ concern about our safety, perhaps there is something wrong with I myself, for being disobedient and rebellious, and spoke to teachers in a harsh tone.
When they try to counsel me, I should just keep silent, and never argue back I’m just very polite, I listened to them and sometimes I even argued. Why didn’t I show an ignorant face and just do nodding, it’s no harm to do that because I don’t have other ways to protect my self-esteem either.
There are something I’m pretty sure about, firstly, I’m not a kid like what they treat me as. Secondly, I do not need counseling, I teach myself by experiences to live a way.
1 Comments:
i've decided tt it's never wise to make u angry. ;P actually u must be the most sober&logic-sounding person tt i've ever known. even when u're angry. but u & i have the same kind of outburst in tempers.. i think. no wonder so matching. hahaha.
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