I'm here to tell you how inefficient and dumb the guards in the hostel are. With the exception of a few, of course.
First, I've had a terrorizing encounter in the common toilet. Somewhere around last year (or early this year, I forgot), I was taking my refreshing bath in the common toilet. The suddenly, I heard someone calling if there's anyone in the toilet. So naturally I responded, to inform her of my existence. It turned out that the female guard on duty was to bring a man to fix the bulb which died a few days ago. But I've already informed her of my presence, and please, I was taking my bath! To my horror, she said,'don't worry girl, aunty is here. He won't look at you.' Oh can you please use your next-to-grain-sized brain for once? Isn't it understood that you should wait for people to finish doing what they are doing in the toilet before inviting a guy into the girls' toilet? Her dumbness was totally beyong my comprehension.
Then, it was this new guard, a female also. I didn't complain about her inefficiency all the while because I know she's new here. There are procedures she needs to familiarize herself with, and that definitely takes some time, give her existing level of IQ. Alright you may question my being mean here but hey, if you don't like it then scram. I don't need you to criticize what I write, especially not when I was just pissed off by the very subject I'm blogging about. Anyway, it's been two months (or around there) and she is still behaving like a total noob. I hate wasting time standing at the guard post to wait for them to look for the list I'm supposed to sign. What's worse? They always take zillions of years to find my hostel pass. Their reason? I don't look like the photo. What is your problem? I'm not crossing the border or something. I've told you my room number so just give me the bloody pass! Ya so what if I went for some makeover or plastic surgery? Do you need to comment on that too?
Last year, I thought the hostel changed for the better. They abolished the signing in and signing out system and introduced the electronic tracking system to track our movement. That, I thought, was so intelligent of them and I truly liked that system. But few months later, they reverted back to the old, primitive system again. Reason was that there were people who make use of the loopholes in such system and played truant. Get your feets up and think, if you don't have the brain of the size of a grain (it rhymes!). Every system has loopholes. It's the matter of our integrity whether to find and make use of such loopholes. Are you then telling me that the old and primitive system you are using now is flawless and can track 100% movements of boarders? Tell me, then, how do people still manage to go clubbing if this system is perfect?
That's why this hostel is so inefficient. Actually, there's a rebel in everybody. The more you suppress it, the more rebellious it gets, and the more it wants to be unleashed. That's why the more stringent the rules are, the more people want to break them, because the satisfaction they get is greater and more rewarding. Look at VHall, they throw all responsibility to the boarders themselves. They don't have a system to track your movement. They believe that the boarders should be responsible for all their actions, and that they are able to think for themselves, to differentiate the right from the wrong. They are treated as adults, as people who are able and capable of choosing what is right for them.
We don't need canes to be well-behaved. Canes only come in when situation goes out of hand. Canes, then, should only be the punishment and not the signposts leading to good behaviour. Please, we are grown ups. Stop treating us like we are some three-year-old kids who needs babysitters to tell us when to walk and when to eat. Sometimes I think we'll turn out better if we are left alone to shoulder all our responsibilities. Then one is able to know for himself the consequences of his actions, and he will definitely think twice.
Oh, back to what pissed me to blog this. I was bored to death just now, so I thought of playing pool with my roomate. When we went down to the guard post (again) to loan the balls, they told me they were loaned away. So I thought maybe we could join those who were using the pool table (I assumed they were still playing since they haven't returned). But when we reached second floor where the pool table was, there was nobody there at all! We went to the guard post to check again because who in the world loaned the balls and brings them into the room? They have superb muscles is it?! And guess what I found out when I was at the guard house? I asked to see the record so that I know who borrowed it last and get it from her, just to find that the guard on duty loaned the balls to the guys! Note, he/she loaned the billiard balls from FEMALE BLOCK to the guys from MALE BLOCK! How smart that was! And so I wondered how come the guys needed two sets of billiard balls when there's only ONE pool table. The guard's answer was "because one never return." Whoa so SMART an answer! You mean if a guy borrowed billiard balls and never return and another guy wants to borrow billiard balls, you loan the billiard balls which belong to the female block to the guys? Have you no common sense or what? Just ask the guy to look for the guy who never return la!
It doesn't take a professor in top-notch university to tell you that, does it? Any commoner with COMMON SENSE can tell you that. Oh wait, maybe that's the case. He/she has got no common sense after all.
And it isn't difficult to know her level of IQ now. No wonder she works in a guard post.
Alright the previous sentence is judgemental and mean.
But I am pissed.
Maybe I'll apologize some time later, when I realize there's a need to.
But NOT TODAY.
