today was very hot. our air con broke down. again. ugh. it was hard to concentrate but at least the fans came in after recess. made the heat slightly more bearable. i've got a lit test tmr! and it's an essay question! that means i have to STUDY. but i think i'll take a leap of faith. i will just read my notes and that's all. the rest is up to my literal intuition. GAH. it's on the last period. and i've got an a.maths test on wed. and i don't even understand sets. how can something so simple be phrased in such a difficult way? ugh. anyway we had a short session today. for like 15 mins. my handstands improved slightly. but only slightly. btw cliff, if you are reading this now, GIVE ME BACK MY TAPE! THE COMPLETE TAPE! yeah i think i've got to start reading Macbeth soon. i'd much rather do unseen poetry cos i'm better at it than some old geezer who was too greedy for his own good and counted on 3 bearded old women to rule his life.
onto a topic of discuission. down at another duty post, the prefects there kill snails. as in maliciously ending their lives by pouring salt on the and watch the shrivel up and DIE. then they laugh and move onto to their next victim. i dunno about you guys, but i'm an animal lover. and i'm very very disgusted at this. they would actually run to the SAC which is in the other campus to get salt, and the use it to kill them. you may argue that the snails eat our plants. if you are a farmer and depend on the plants as a form of income then FINE. though i still wouldn't kill them. i'll make the crops taste terrible so they'll still live and go somewhere else to eat. we don't depend on our school's heliconias and grass as a source of food. one guy said it 'vandalises' the surroundings and makes it less condusive for people to study. that's just a load of CRAP. as if every single year 5 student will inspect each leaf of each plant to see if there's a hole. 'oh, there's a hole here. because of this i'm unable to study and therefore should kill the snails'. rubbish. this applies for any animal as well. mosquitoes that bring harm are different. they spread diseases and annoy me so they deserved to be killed. snails are part of the eco-system and contribute to the welfare of birds and stuff. ok mosquitoes are also part of the system, but they bring more harm then good and there are too many of those annoying little things buzzing all over the place. if we kill, it is out of necessity, and not just for sport. i can safely say i have not killed a single insect (excluding cockroaches and mosquitoes that bring about harm) within my living memory. never. killing cows and stuff for eating is fine, cos it's necessary. but we shouldn't kill those endagered animals to eat cos it's not just mean, but inhuman as well, wiping out an entire species cos you've never tasted Cailifornian condor or Orangutan before. God may have given us dominion over all the animals on this earth, but that does not mean we can abuse it. i feel that it's just mean and SADISTIC to kill things for fun. and these people say 'oh, we're doing the school a favour' where they're real reason is just to kill for pleasure. cos it brings their SICK AND TWISTED MINDS some form of warped fun. sorry this thing has bugged me (lol no pun intended) for the weekend and i had to write about it. leave comments.
