BNP Paribas (Now with translation!)

I kinda like this ad from BNP Paribas (one of the larger banks in Paris)

Realized that the ad is in French which you (just like myself) probably don’t understand). So basically…..

The ad is saying BNP Paribas loves tennis (they support alot of those big tennis tournaments) and applies tennis to their daily lives. Investment banking, retail banking, etc etc etc (enter flood of strange banking people wanting to play tennis)

Doodle of the day

Is Crisis Core Cloud.

Not finished. And I suck at rendering cloth. His pants look like rock outcrops.

Stupid

Strange post I wrote very long ago. Chanced upon it just now. Managed to make me smile yet sadder all at once.

Wanna hear a song?

There was a girl

This amazing girl

She was my world

She stole my world

She made my grey skies blue

Something that rhymes with blue

She made my heart race

I’m so fortunate to have a taste

Of what making her smile feels like.

(guitar solo!)

There was this girl

This lovable girl

She was my world.

She can’t be my world.

I was stupid then. I’m stupid now. But stupider then.

Bitter bitter irony

Today was/is a day of wasted effort.

It all began with an email.

The email notifying me that I had been rejected from hall. This year, as with the years before, I have 12 points. I maxed out my CCA points and got the bare minimum for distance. I wasn’t the only one not to get a place in hall. Half the management committee didn’t as well. I begin to seriously question the system by which our lives are governed.

Nearly all my management committee members are not on the recommendation list for their respective halls. Why? Because we work so fucking hard for our school that we don’t have any extra time to put into hall. Coupled with the fact that this year, cut-off for all halls is now 15, half of us are ruled out of the equation.

This is the MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE for crying out loud. It becomes painfully obvious who the HAS system favors when only those who put a whole lot of time into hall instead get on the rec list. What is this system saying? That people who work for their schools are less important? That students who represent their faculties in the university are secondary? What the fuck is going on?

I can’t help but wonder if the triple room issue has something to do with the shortage of rooms. I had already anticipated the lack of rooms and massive exodus of seniors from the halls, but not this soon. And definitely not to this extent.

I feel really angry for my committee. That I’ve made them work so hard, yet they cannot be acknowledged for their efforts. Fine the system is supposed to be “fair” and place equal emphasis on distance and school involvement. But why do students who live nearer have to be forced into working so much damn harder than people who live further away? People who live in areas with 8 or 9 points simply join and event and BANG they get a hall.

It is because of this I am terrified that people will choose to work for hall instead of their schools. Already I’m hearing such cases from various sources of people having second thoughts about choosing school over hall. They need to retain culture but so do we. How do we pass on from one committee to the next when there is no committee to pass on to? Is my committee being penalized for being part of the school club? How can you penalize students when you refuse to reward them?

Sure then there’s the whole “they’re supposed to do this for passion” tirade I hear every damn meeting. But how CAN you be passionate when your passion is limited by the time of the last train or bus?

Don’t even get me started on how fucking inaccurate the distance calculation system is.

It is particularly hurting when this committee has done so much not only for the school but for the university. We’ve helped SAO recruit designers, we’ve represented NTU in the first time the university has ever been in a St Patricks day parade, we’ve given an effective voice to our students in the university, we’ve given many amenities, we’ve promoted the university, we’ve been part of HASIC (hahahahahahahaha)…

All that. And a rejection letter at the end.

I feel so jaded right now. I have a choice (with a car and a girlfriend willing to share her bed/floor/space outside the door). But what about my other committee members? What about the management committee of the other con clubs who must also undoubtedly face the same problem? I’m going to write a letter to SAO once I calm down.

We were useful. But now that we’re not, we’re tossed aside.

I’m furious, jaded and betrayed. And that’s an understatement.