Performance by Wild Rice, and other news.

Wild Rice - The importance of being Kay Poh

We had a performance by Wild Rice. The title as seen above is rather satirical. The play focuses on 4 neighbours and how they try to tolerate each other. More on this later.

The main characters were:

1. A Policeman
2. A Indian Resident from the HDB block
3. A Chinese Housewife
4. A Malay singer

In the story, the Chinese Housewife goes to the Void Deck to complain about the Singing of the Malay Singer, who is practicing before her sister's wedding in which she is performing. They both get into an argument as the Singing has a permit to perform at the void deck, while the housewife says that it is distracting her daughter from studying for "a very important exam".

At this point, the policeman shows up. He had lost a cat, Blacky, which his supervisor had ordered him to take care of. He is searching for the cat, a stray, so that he would not be scolded by his superior. At this point, the housewife tries to engage the policeman to help her quieten the singer. However, the policeman is tricked by the singer, who tells him that she saw Blacky.

At this point, while heading home, the woman is almost hit by clothes thrown down by somebody. It turns out the the clothes belong to the Indian resident. His wife threw the clothes down as he did not reserve a seat in their favorite restaurant for their wedding anniversary.

After this, the play goes on, and the characters manage to solve their problems. The play was packed with humour and was very interesting.

Other News:

Well, As you might have heard, a HCI student posted some grievances on STOMP. (http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/418626/teacher_takes_students_belongings_to_teach_them_a_lesson.html) He complained that his belongings were "taken away" by a teacher. However, this student certainly omitted certain points:

1. The teachers were safeguarding the items for them. Safeguarding. If they had been lost, he wouldn't have seen them again. (The last sentence is a quote from another student)
2. The classroom was not locked. All the classrooms involved had perfectly functional locks. It only takes 5 seconds to turn the locking knob.
3. The teachers posted a EMB message to the students whose belongings were safeguarded. The message was posted immediately after the belongings were taken. (The EMB is a sort of message board for teachers to send messages. The messages can be addressed to CCA groups, the entire student cohort, each level of the student cohort or private groups)

Furthermore, the incident has caused HCI to come under fire from many people, who only have a warped understanding of the issue.

For example:

horowitz said on 26 Jul, 2010

how can HCI allow its teachers to possibly commit theft within the school compound itself? the teacher should be sacked!!

We should reflect on this incident. Why did this happen?