Light, easy read. Was meant to be a speech in the public speaking competition I was part of this afternoon (although I did some alterations). However, have a look through!

*Hellos and greetings, with some apology in advance in case of any accidents concerning projectile spit + some comments about how the Public Speaking contest is turning into a ranting corner because a girl before me just happened to have a speech with quite a similar (but not exactly) speech as mine.*

1. Rubbish everywhere.

I am not kidding. One time, me and my coursemates, the TESLers, came into a classroom, in the afternoon (after lunchtime), and there ware pizza boxes everywhere! They’re sprawled on the table with all the glory rubbish could possible achieve: few pieces of uneatened crust, and upon closer inspection, pieces of green capsicum, presumably picked out from the pizzas by vegephobic and (now) constipated students.

I do not understand the rationale in those students leaving their thrash behind like that. The fact that gnaws on my side the most is that these are UNIVERSITY students. Aren’t we educated enough to take care of our thrash?

Hello! Those black things that look like pails? THEYRE CALLED RUBBISH BINS! Learn to use them~

2. Classrooms smelling like the cafeteria

Given the current state of our classrooms I am surprised how anyone can ever eat anything there. The floor is usually littered ankle deep in dust, at least nine different forms of of thrash mostly consisting of candy wrappers, random pieces of papers, food stuffs, melted sweets surrounded with black ants, and empty cans of drinks. Now that alone will be enough to make me revolted to the point of bulimia, but by the time we use the classroom, the room will stink the pungent smell of chilli sauce and various forms of nitrate packed coldcuts. That combined with the aircond is blech. You’d think they brought a deep fryer or something! To top that off, the air conditioner is probably not working. How is that for a learning environment?

3. The unequal distribution of wireless internet
Okay, let me paint you a picture, the FBEPS have it, the IM, the Library (some parts of it anyway) and the Hostel all have it. But FASS doesn’t! FOS doesn’t! IPI and SHBIE does not have Wireless internet! We also want to check our Friendster you know! We have blogs to update! Abolish unequality!

4. How rich the canteen people are getting by selling bad food to hungry students.

This annoys me so much! If they’re not selling food there I’m sure they’ll go bankrupt. First of all, the menu is extremely limited. The food is not that good. And everything is so bloody expensive! I am not expecting five star treatment from them, but you know, a little variety is… nice. And two pieces of fish (deep fried to the point of obscurity) DOES NOT qualifiy as a portion.

I am inclined to believe that the bad service is caused by the fact that the building is cursed. In the mean time, until the curse of the bad food and eternal bad service is lifted, we’ll just walk that extra mile to the Girl’s Hostel where we will definitely get better food, better portions, and a menu that makes us almost spoilt for choice.

5. Posters of “proper attire to wear to the University” stamped all over campus

Aiyoh. It looks like the Gallery of Fashion Horrors on a bad quality fashion blog. I am willing to accept any explanation or justification the models might have to explain their willingness to actually get into, well those clothes, take a picture and then allow those atrocities to be printed and pasted all over the UBD. Whether they were either paid a large sum of money or were held at gunpoint. If not that, hypnosis or black magic will suffice. These posters annoy me so much, they make my blood boil due to their mere existence.

First of all no one in this world dress like those people in the posters. Secondly, everyone ignores the posters anyway so it is a waste of money. Thirdly, they make me sad. So please take them away before I get clinical depression.

*Ends with yada yada yada with that I end my speech*

Hehe, what do you think? Short eh? Well, I don’t think I’ll be getting into the finals. BUT! This is a competition that is organised only once every decade by DELAL. Yes I am a sucker for those kinds of things. It’s all fun anyway.

But I would like to give many rounds of applauses to those who fought their demons, stood up and took part in this competition because I know it is not easy. 🙂 Well done!