Exams!

What is it with teachers and homework. They always come hand in hand. For once, it would be nice to hear your teachers saying "Lets cut class, just for today!" Not like it would affect our grades. If your slower, theres always after school hours, where the teachers scheme more ways to make us dread school. Do they just dislike us that much?

Its not that i hate homework, sometime its fun, I have to admit. However, is it so necessary thatwe do them all the time. Children learn from watching 'Sesame Street' maybe watching some documentary in class would help better.

So other than homework, the education system somehow likes to demoralize us and class us through exams. They place you in different classes according to your academic grades, and i feel that that is overrated. Its just basically separating the smart ones and the slower ones. Maybe it wouldn't kill if we were put together.

Exams. Also another way of saying, "Study or extinct in 10 years". Its so demoralizing that if we fail, people assume that we are going to have to beg for food, while the people who gets straight As would be successful.

Education is demoralizing.

Apple

Just go anywhere, walk on the streets, look around. Everyone, and i mean everyone, is using apple products. be it a simple 'ipodshuffle" or an "iPhone4", more than half the people you're staring at have it. If you don't believe it, you can go check it out yourself. if you have never ever heard of an apple product, you must most definitely come from Pluto.

Whats the big deal about "iPads", "iTouchs" or "iPhones"? I used to own an "iTouch", letting it dangle out of my pocket for everyone to drool about. All my classmates labeled it "WOW" and I would stand at a corner laughing about it. I have something they don't and they are envious. However, things have changed. Even the janitor in my school owns one.

I was just sitting in the bus plugged into my music and when i looked to my left and right, the lady in green stilettos and Chanel perfume with diamond earrings was using the "office" application on her "iPad", while the cigarette -scented street gangster with detailed tattoos was air-drumming to a song blasting from his headphones, as you probably suspected, plugged into his "iPhone". Do you see the extremes?

Having an apple product is no longer deemed "cool" or extraordinary, but cliche, and typical. Sure, it may be convenient as they have great marketing managers with minds like the consumers, but is it really necessary for some of us? I doubt so. They have fun and really eye catching applications that apply to all ages, from the 4 year old child living next door to me, to the 87 year old janitor in my school, apple products are dominant and rampant everywhere.

I wont be surprised to see "iMats" and "iWalls" in the future.