Shiny yes, but is it insured?

Ground Rules not taking off

This year will be remembered at my school as the "grounded year".

Every morning, during assembly, some student makes a speech, which is intended at making our day more lively and getting it off to a good start. As we are students at the top of the school, we were asked to start the ball rolling at the beginning of the year, and we decided to talk on random topics, not having our speeches connected by any common theme.
I believe we were very lucky, because we were not affected by the craze which was to follow.

Starting from the class after ours, every student spoke on the topic of ground rules, punctuality, politeness, honesty, uniformity, monotony, but I digress, you know the sort of thing. It's healthy, I suppose, we should know that sort of thing, but it started to irk me when, for one whole month, student upon student, started the morning with "Ground Rules are an important part of a student's upbringing...". For heaven's sake they spoke on Punctuality for four days straight.

There are banners all over the school depicting the objectives of ground rules and what we should do, what we shouldn't do, etc. It finally got to the stage that I couldn't figure out whether the kids on stage believed what they were saying, or even in the worst case scenario, at least wrote the speech by themselves.

On one occasion, a seventh grader came out with a blockbuster oratorical, a part of which I quote verbatim, which confirmed my suspicions that the poor kid did'nt have a clue what he was talking about :

"Following ground rules is a very important trait which all human beings should posess for it gives us a sense of uniformity and belonging, and allows us conduct ourselves in a regular fashion, using proper mannerisms as befits us, who belong to a high strata in society..."

If he understood more than half of what he said, then I'm Sailor Moon.


The most lamentable part of it is, while these speeches started mid-way through June, it's nearing the end of October, and they're still going. I mean, we're not that thick are we?

Your Money or Your Life or...um...er...your other life?

This was an interesting question asked at a business interview:

"If a person with Multiple Personality Disorder threatens to take his(/her) own life, should it be considered as a suicide case or a hostage situation?"

And no, it wasn't an interview for a psychologist.

Monster Club Madness

Wait till Tiger Woods gets a load of this!!

Start Running

This is an African Proverb I came across and was greatly impressed by it. Tell me what you think

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it has to outrun the fastest lion,
Or it will be slaughtered.
Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up.
It knows it has to outrun the slowest gazelle,
Or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you are a gazelle, or a lion.
When the sun comes up,
You'd better start running.

Succint, non?