Friday, March 03, 2006
ok so im in like one of the best schools in singapore. this doesn't necessarily mean that im the best, it just means that there are other people that are better than me. anyway, let's take a tour round the nice school of raffles institution.
first, we start at the main gate, at bishan street 21 in bishan new town in the east of singapore in southeast asia in asia on earth in the solar system in the milky way...
sorry i detracted. so when you enter the gates of this prestigous school, you will see this big green building on the right and... white metal sheets on the left. now you may think: that can't be raffles institution, it is such a good school! i should go right!
wrong! on the right is another school called raffles junior college. ah you go there after four years in raffles institution. so now you follow the left road, which coincedentally is called 1 raffles institution lane. fascinating, isnt it?
so when you are travelling down the road with the very nice name, you see apartments on the right and more metal on the right. isnt raffles institution a school, you may think. fear not, the school is undergoing the process of renovation, when they tear down half the school to make it better for us in the future...
ok so we turn to the apartments on the left. occasionally, you can hear people. occasionaly, you will hear some cheem chinese words that they speak at the speed of a firing machine gun. yes, that is where the chinese scholars live! they come from china and they are prodded at everything except english and they take chinese lit.
if you have noticed, on each of the blocks there is a name. well, on the block called hullett, remember that all of the students in hullett hose own every other house.
so then proceeding down you can see a nice block by the name of the Shaw foundation ceremonial hall. there's nothing special about it, i mean it's where we eat our food lor because our canteen is being demolished now because of the renovation. there are occasional events happening there like the recent prefect's investiture. but other than that, its a boring old hall. the airconditioning is quite screwed up there too.
on the right is the junior block! my class is there lol and im in Sec 3. its called a junior block too... the school is weird. in there there are nice roms like the computer labs which turn into LAN centres everyday with people playing halo and maplestory there. there are english rooms where you can like act and there are seminar rooms which are basically classes with a nicer name and carpeted floors.
so if you continue walking you will reach a four way junction. There, you may or may not see this security guy called elango. he is the security guard in our school. the main one anyway. so, he is the butt of many of the students jokes because he often goes into super stealth mode...
turn right at the four way junction and you will reach this place called the design centre. its just behind the boarding houses! there, there are there big rooms where people learn to draw, use machines, make stuff, and things to do with designing (duh). and above it, there is a gym. actually, more of a multi-purpose hall because there are rock walls, gym equipment, table tennis tables, judo mats, so its not really a gym in its own right.
if you had went straight at the four way junction and then turn right, you would have seen this big building with nice glass windows and a nice porch with three rectangular parking lots there. That is the Admin block, where the teachers have their offices and the big shots in the school like the principal and the 3 vice principals have their office. Funny, Raffles Institution has a population of about 2000. Why would they need 3 vice principals?
also, you can see this white bust of some guy folding his arms. He is none other than...
Stamford Raffles (duh). This guy was the one who founded Singapore and this school. No wonder this school is so cool, no?
so if you proceed right from the nice guy you will see this corridor, and another block on the end. Now this block has a very specific name. It is called the Senior Block, where the Seniors have their classes. Funnily enough, there are Juniors in the Senior Block. And there are Seniors in the Junior Block. Weird right?
going back to the bust, and going down about 50 metres before turning right, you will then see another block, but this block is much smaller. This block is called the Science Block, where the Science Labs are. In the labs, you get to do loads of nice stuff. You can make things explode, burn, spark, fizzle; you can weigh things, cut things, drown things, cut up things; you can inhale oxygen, you can inhale carbon dioxide, you can inhale sulphur dioxide, you can even inhale chlorine gas! however, don't blame me if anything happens to you.
back to the bust again! this time, proceed left to a oval-like red thing. That is our very own track! Now the track is where people go and run around for tests, competitions and whatever lame reasons they can think of. Also, the softball guys and the rugby guys train there on th efield in the middle of it.
beside the track, you will see this small green field with nice grass. No! it is not grass! it is this nice material with this cool name of "The Astroturf". cool name eh? however, recently, because of tthe increasing number of people playing and sliding with their coolio soccer boots on the field, the field has come to look like the field at Stamford Bridge without the mud.
Behind, there is some more white metal. and behind, the horrifying thing is that the building has been smashed up! Actually, that was our old canteen where there was a lot of nice food. Now, all the food is crap. There was also the hall there, but it was squeezy and hot despite the aircon. so i suppose it was good and bad that they tore it down.
oh, and one last note. around raffles sometimes you may see men in blue shirts. They are the blue brigade of workers, the workers that are rebuilding this school for us.
isn't raffles a nice school?
posted @11:24 PM
