A Graduation Without Graduates?

Listening to: Jann Arden's Insensitive

friday beckons. Cool.

fri's sked should read: melinda, xiaohui+adelene, yongxiang and peiwen (off the top of my head, forgot to take a good look at the schedule before i left today).

anyway, wanted to talk about the grad ceremony next wed. Today, it struck me that you guys might not be turning up at all. Hmm. Might? Who am I kidding, right? I mean, what's the draw of taking that prelim results slip, right? After all, to most of you, that piece of paper is rather non-consequential.

So i asked myeslf why in the world would you people turn up then?
Then i thought: "why does the school even bother to have a grad ceremony?"
Flashback to my college days: hmm..can't even rem whether i had a grad ceremony.

But walking around the staff room these days, and talking to fellow colleagues, i know for a fact that there are teachers out there putting in efforts to make the grad ceremony a memorable one.

i know some teachers who have prepared lil' presents, cards for their students.
Me: "What if these students don't turn up? Then what happens to these presents and cards?"

i know what's going through your mind: " ms chiew's just trying to make us feel guilty and *gasp* she's actually dishing out politically correct information!"

my response: you should know me better.

but i think it'd be a rather sad affair if the turn-out for the grad ceremony is a miserable one. sure, it isn't a bash, but at least, it's a symbol, a gesture from the college, from your tutors, and perhaps, the last chance for you to gather with your class and tutors, in a single space.

your call.
and i repeat, this is NOT propaganda.