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"In need of a one night stand. CHIJ girls please stand up!"
The furore over Filter Members Club's usage of the school's crest on their recent posters for a themed party has ruffled many a feather and some IJ girls are really turning blue in the face from indignation and disgust.
I studied in CHIJ for 10 years of my life and I can say that I practically grew up in the blue pinafore. I'm a true blue IJ girl and I'm proud to be one.
The poster insinuates that all IJ girls are loose, cheap, slutty, and all the other sexually derogative terms you can list. I do not agree and neither do I condone the usage of our school crest with the slogan that came with it.
HOWEVER, I can find the ability to look at this with a sense of humour and I did have a giggle about it. I'm not offended and it's because I understand that -
#1 It came from a NIGHT CLUB.
Comeee on..not the saintliest place to hang out is it?
#2 It was, at the end of the day in the name of fun and brazen marketing
Even though there was no malicious intention behind the 'sacrilegious' posters, it's not to say that it should be overlooked or that it is absolved from all blame . I respect the IJ girls that are standing up for our school, but let's not start a witch hunt.
#3, The idea that CHIJ girls are into one night stands is just a stereotype.
I don't know how this image birthed, but most of my life, I've had new friends and acquaintances tell me, "Oh, I heard CHIJ girls all very havoc one hor", which is entirely untrue and false. If anyone is actually convinced that such a statement is true, I'ld personally find it very difficult to take this person seriously because clearly, they've been very ignorant for the most part. And then... why bother with ignorant people?
#4 I don't do one night stands
And that's enough for myself as an IJ girl, and everyone else who want to see.
It's like that series of light bulb jokes that play out steoretoypes of the junior colleges in Singapore. Some of them are far from flattering. My favourite ones are on ACJC, SAJC and CJC haha.
If you've never heard of them they go like this.
Yes, you can definitely take fun a little too far, but it goes down easier with a pinch of salt, or with bottles of Belvedere like the Members of Filter seem to like to do.
I studied in CHIJ for 10 years of my life and I can say that I practically grew up in the blue pinafore. I'm a true blue IJ girl and I'm proud to be one.
The poster insinuates that all IJ girls are loose, cheap, slutty, and all the other sexually derogative terms you can list. I do not agree and neither do I condone the usage of our school crest with the slogan that came with it.
HOWEVER, I can find the ability to look at this with a sense of humour and I did have a giggle about it. I'm not offended and it's because I understand that -
#1 It came from a NIGHT CLUB.
Comeee on..not the saintliest place to hang out is it?
#2 It was, at the end of the day in the name of fun and brazen marketing
Even though there was no malicious intention behind the 'sacrilegious' posters, it's not to say that it should be overlooked or that it is absolved from all blame . I respect the IJ girls that are standing up for our school, but let's not start a witch hunt.
#3, The idea that CHIJ girls are into one night stands is just a stereotype.
I don't know how this image birthed, but most of my life, I've had new friends and acquaintances tell me, "Oh, I heard CHIJ girls all very havoc one hor", which is entirely untrue and false. If anyone is actually convinced that such a statement is true, I'ld personally find it very difficult to take this person seriously because clearly, they've been very ignorant for the most part. And then... why bother with ignorant people?
#4 I don't do one night stands
And that's enough for myself as an IJ girl, and everyone else who want to see.
It's like that series of light bulb jokes that play out steoretoypes of the junior colleges in Singapore. Some of them are far from flattering. My favourite ones are on ACJC, SAJC and CJC haha.
If you've never heard of them they go like this.
Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.
Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.
Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.
Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.
Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They're too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.
Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They'll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.
Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb.
Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They'll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm? *raises eye-brows* )
Q:How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.
Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?
Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.
Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.
Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?
Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let's do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.
Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.
Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They'll find ways out of the dark.
Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.
Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.
Yes, you can definitely take fun a little too far, but it goes down easier with a pinch of salt, or with bottles of Belvedere like the Members of Filter seem to like to do.
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