SMK Jalan Arang

Well, my sincerest apologies for that looooong absence of posts (not that I noticed anyone noticed anyway). Life is kinda hectic at the moment, but that’s not going to stop a little update here now and then. Hopefully, of course. XD

For starters, there’s been a lot of buzzing about the up and coming SPORTS DAY! This year’s Sports Day is highly anticipated, highly participated and highly priced as well, I might add. Because for your information, if you don’t have an clue yet, transport will not be provided for all the athletes. Only 20 athletes from each House will get the limited spaces and for the rest, GO RENT A BUS or something. XD

Or ask your parents to send you on their way to work.

Anyway, it was the topic of Sports Houses that started me thinking. It would seem that even though SMKJA lacks a lot of basic appeal, the names we come up with, or rather, our dearly departed *choy choy choy* former principal, Pn Mary came up with, are really attractive when compared to other schools. Take, for example, SMK XX. The Houses’ names go "Rumah Rentap", "Rumah Rosli Dhobi" (yes, that murderer)… Another example? XXX, Johor: "Rumah Abdullah". You get the idea. In my opinion, our very own, personalized names sound a gazillion times better than that. Rumah Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar and Leopard. The names themself create a sense of awe and walaoeh, GAYA.

The actual results are a whole different story lah.

Other than that, check out our class names. From Form 1 to Form 3, the classes are branded by capitals of the world. Indianapolis, Amsterdam, Geneva, pheewit, classy man! Sounds loads better than a mere 1A, for instance, which can stand for many things, depending on one’s imagination. Like, 1 Atrocious or Arrogant. *ahem* No offense intended to other schools who have simple class names.

For Form 4 and 5, Atom, Elektron, Neutron and Proton go for the Science stream classes, which are very very suitable names, I might say. Arts stream classes have equally fascinating names, like Intan, Jade, Mutiara, Kristal and Sapphire. A tad girlish, perhaps, but sparkly (pun intended) all the same. If we had been stuck with the same names since two years ago, they would have been really dull. Sn 1 (Sains 1) and SS 2 (Sains Sosial). I wonder what Sains Sosial meant. If it meant social science, which by my interpretation means chemistry of the other sort, it would have been kinda suitable too, in a way. As you know, those students have a tendency to dabble in "social science". XP

Our school isn’t all that bad, now that you think of it, huh? Names create first impressions, anyway. I’ll leave the rest for next time. Till then, SMKJA’s cool!

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