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Passion Sunday

For Christians across the world, this is the start of a long and treacherous week that Jesus of Nazareth faces. He strolls on a mule into Jerusalem, and worshipped like a king. Its ironic how the course of our lives can change so much as did Jesus' in one week. I remember strolling into school in year 7, thinking these times would be the best of my life. Oh how wrong I could be. Oh how life seems to make a mockery of us as time ticks away. Time. The one entity that humans cannot control. We can control our belief in God. We can even predict the weather. But we cannot change time. The one thing most humans want to do is change time. Change an event that happened. "I wish I didn't do that now". I know one thing I would change. Ever coming to this fucking school. It has been mental blow after blow like a pack of wolves gnawing at your delicate and wounded skin. Why does Jesus' death have an end and my curse does not? This hex on me where everything seems to go wrong. I must be the laughing stock in heaven and the guinea pig in hell. I think Nadarajan put it very nicely in his msn nickname, "Heaven won't take me and hell's afraid I'll take over."

Djpailo

Exams

The feeling of anxiety has started to creep in. Everyone but you seems to have started revision. With only six weeks or so left till the exams, the magnitude of what faces us has finally hit home. 12 fun exams to do this May/June. Orison Swett Marsden wrote:

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage by which you have maintained the struggle against the overwhelming odds"

I think that justly sums up everything that we face. Can we exceed in these exams? Well, 100 years ago man thought the earth was flat and that our galaxy was the universe. 50 years ago, DNA was discovered which opened up a whole new world of science. Only yesterday you learnt something new in your subjects. Mankind seems to have struggled for answers throughout our existence, and where finding the answers for these exams may seem an insignificant spec next to the whole of mankind, they all add up. Just remember that the only difference between genius and insanity is the success by which it can be measured.

Djpailo

Bullshit

Yeah, I know, how ironic that I am having a rant about bullshitting, considering that I do it all the time. Hypocrisy at its worst, ranting at its best. So swazza calls me to his office during lunch, and starts asking me about what happened. After everything that has happened, no apology has been made, and then people wonder why I am always so pissed off? He just warned me not to vent my frustrations out on the teachers and then proceeded in telling me I can talk to him about anything, during which he smirked. Like wtf? Winston Chruchill brings some form of justice to this, "War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can". Maybe I''ll just bide my time for now. It feels like the school is trying to sweep this into the closet. Justice seems to carry away through the winds, just as I told Mary "I'm like a spec of dust drifiting threw the air against the prevailing winds, searching for my destination...". Why is it that the school always blames you? I mean, I if someone pissed you off, you would get angry wouldn't you - its just a natural reaction. So how they can dare to accuse me of being angry before the lesson, God only knows. Ha, now isn't that ironic. That's the sort of answer that Mr. Y would give. Maybe I did listen in his lessons. Maybe I did speak up for myself. Maybe I did do the right thing. Maybe justice will overcome this obstinacy and the transition will be complete.

Djpailo

Boring Physics trip

Are school trips ever really that much fun? Everything that I expected to happen, happened. We went there, got lost a little, heard some boring talks and fell asleep. Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather have gone to school. There's a whole pile of work to do now. It's like a growing mass of paper and books that I have to complete. Why the fuck did we just go on this trip, randomly? The talks were so boring, you lost interest after five minutes. Some of the talks were outside, and as usual, it was freezing cold. Why the hell do I seem to have the worst luck. I think I have issues with the big guy upstairs. Come we take this outside? Oh wait, I forgot, he won that round, I froze to near death -.-. The one highlight of this trip was indeed the planetarium. We sat back in the most comfortable seats at an angle that made us look upward towards the ceiling which had projected images of space. It was surreal to be honest. Man, if only I could have a bed as comfortable as that. After that we had another talk and saw this pipe thing. Now when we saw it, we all wanted to know what the fuck it was lol. But then the guy proceeded in talking for 20 minutes, and by the end of this, standing there doing nothing, I still didn't have a clue what the pipe was. Like wtf? Why must we persevere in listening to these people. Why must we be forced into learning things we don't care about. Perhaps if people learnt things we enjoyed, then more people would pass in their exams. I mean, its common sense right? But when did common sense come into anything...

Djpailo

Pissed Off

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself, for who you are, where you come from and what you believe in.

Martin Luther King wrote, "The negro will only be truly free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive selfhood his own emancipation proclamation".

In General R.E, most people know I walked out of the lesson. Most of you are probably wondering why. Can such actions be justified? Yes, they can. In times of persecution by the Romans, Christians would still do what they believe in. If I believe in something, I will stand up for myself. I believed what Mr. Y did was wrong. He knows it, and I know it. When you start ridiculing my culture, my heritage and my skin colour, not only do you oppress my fellow countrymen but you oppress me. I did what I had to do. I only hope that you, the reader, would stand up for what you believe in. Maybe the world would be a better place for it.

djpailo

Chemistry - Must of been high...

Revising. You often hear that its meant to be good for you. Looking on the surface, it does seem like a good idea. Yeah, I might revise to do well in my exams. Yeah, it may make me organised. Oh how I do like slating these stupid misconceptions. I spent a whole fricking hour revising for my Chemistry test. Five sides of notes. Every single area covered through my notes. So guess what happens when I walk into the exam? I cant answer a fucking question. Like wtf? Why bother revising, working your arse off, coz you don't have to do any of that and still fail. What a fucking piss take. Oh wow, I now know how bromine reacts with sulphuric acid. Wow, I'm really going to use this in my life. When I'm talking to a girl I'm gunna use that as a fucking chat up line aren't I? Coz I musta been high picking Chemistry...