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Sunday, February 8, 2009

HELLO, THIS IS GERALDINE WITH YOUR (INTERESTING) UPDATES FROM DHS MAIL:

Hi Dunmanians! (:

I'm Kang Jia Hui and i'm one of the two candidates running for the position of the executive president for student council this year :D

i understand that the whole campaigning process is pretty short with you guys having to cast your votes on monday so i thought i'd email you guys and let you know more about my ideas for the school so that you can give me your feedbacks or suggestions and i can work on it!

i've been up and around the school and have spoken to quite a number of you and here's what i've gathered so far!

1) Canteen is too packed and bursting with students during recesses!
with the senior high students hogging the tables and chairs in the canteen, some of you have difficulties finding seats to have a proper meal during your recesses and end up eating on the floor (YIKES!) or standing at the empty spaces between stores :( and that's not how recesses should be like! So i'd be alerting the school about this problem and work with them to solve it! So far, i've thought of putting in more tables and chairs (since there is much empty spaces btw the tables now, more should be able to be slotted in), encouraging your seniors to study at the study lounges, propose an alternative eating place for junior high students (which should be prefably nearer to the junior high block), allowing dry snacks to be consumed in classrooms (provided we all clean up after ourselves :D) and also having a vending machine which sells snacks in the junior high block (so that you guys do not need to travel to the faraway land of the canteen!)

2) RECESSES ARE SIMPLY TOO SHORT
i am guessing that if i were to ask you guys to describe how recesses are spent, most would say 5mins spent walking to the canteen, 10 mins deciding what to eat and queuing up to buy it, 5 mins to find a spot to squeeze in, 7 mins to gobble up your food and 3 mins to run back to the classroom! and that's not my idea of recess breaks! recesses should be a nice break for all of us to take a mental break and have some food to last us for the rest of the day! and rushing from place to place doesn't sound much of a break! SO! i'll be working closely with the school to see what can be done about this and hopefully we can extend recess to 45mins if possible!

3) ALLOW EARSTICKS! (guys can skip this xD)
some girls have been proposing for earsticks to be allowed because they're easier to wear (and cheaper to replace if lost haha!) and they don't exactly look very flashy/negative, especially the transparent ones! and i agree! (: earsticks do not look any more flashy than identical/symmetrical earings which are allowed so they should be allowed! i'll be speaking to mr teo and proposing to the discipline committee for earsticks to be allowed. i guess as long as we still look proper and studious, there is not many reasons why earsticks should not be allowed :D i'm with you for allowing earsticks!

4) SNEAKERS SHOULD ALSO BE ALLOWED ON NON- PE DAYS
some of you feedback that sneakers should be allowed on non-pe days since you guys dont engage in sports and sneakers are comfortable enough for walking around. hence, i will be voicing this out to the school as well. i believe that as long as the sneakers do not look flashy and we still look like students (positive looking ones of course!), there is not much harm allowing sneakers to be worn on non-pe days! additional to sneakers, i will also propose for canvas shoes which are predominently(majority) white to be allowed as well! so fingers crossed while i push for this code of conduct to be changed! :)

5) MASS WATCHING OF MAJOR EVENTS IN SCHOOL
imagine a whole auditorium of friends standing up and roaring with cheers when a goal is scored! that's the awesome experience i wanna provide for you guys! so i propose mass watching of major events in school such as the FIFA WORLD CUP and the YOUTH OLYMPICS GAMES 2010! and any other exciting events which will be taking place in the years to come! it'd be a unique gathering of Dunmanains wouldn't it! :D (& of course it wouldn't be compulsory as different people have different interests! but i'll make sure there's a wide variety of programmes we can watch so everyone can be excited bout it!)

this is all the suggestions i've gathered so far! so if you have other feedback or ideas to solve/improve the above problems/situations pls do tell me! you can do so by replying to this email (: or simply stopping me in school if you see me (and recognize me xD)

and i really hope that you can vote me for executive president this coming monday! that is because being the Executive President would give me the platform to communicate the ideas to the school and it also puts me in a better position to fight for your wants and push for improvements in school (: and besides! i promise more fun, laughter to your DHS experience! :D

have a nice weekend! and i really hope you'd tick KANG JIA HUI this monday as i really hope to change DHS into a much better school for all of us and allow all Dunmanians to have a fulfilling secondary and JC school life! :D vote me for EP! vote KANG!! :)

lots of love!

Kang Jia Hui (:
5C22
EP Candidate

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