And another thing about school...

Back when I was in grade 8 we started a new subject at school. It was called Counseling. For those unfamiliar with the subject, it’s basically one of those useless ‘voyage of self discovery’ subjects that us scholars listed under the broader ‘Fartarse subjects’ category. It didn’t take much for a subject to fall into the fartarse category, the criteria were simple:

1- No studying required 2- Walkover teachers (the kind you …well, walk all over…) 3- No exams 4- Lots of group work 5- Minor contribution to ones report card

A few other subjects that I considered fartarse were religion, history of art, computers, art and sports (all sports… no exceptions). I’m drifting… in any case back in Counseling classes, we were encouraged to think out of the box. In scenario X your preferred response would be ‘______’ (insert well thought out answer here). We’d answer a whole bunch of random questions after which our scores would be tallied and we were placed into categories similar to the fashion in which a farmer would grade his… potatoe crop for sale to different markets (hmm… struggling to think of a nice analogy here).

These magical categories were supposed to give you a better idea of the carrier path you wanted to take. For example, Jane scores xxx points! Well done Jane you are an Eagle/Ant/Fish/Dungbeetle. You should become a Doctor/Accountant/Social Worker/Plumber… Good luck with that! Byebye!


WTF!


It just pissed me off. Who was the arrogant piece of kaka that came up with this system and why did this person think that they could predict and guide the life of a 13 year old towards success by asking random questions and scoring us on our answers! We were kids, we had dreams, we had something to look forward to and that was already the best incentive for working hard and reaching our goals! Everything was going fine till we took your Satan spawn questionnaire and some A’hole decided “No, you wouldn’t make a very good aircraft pilot, maybe consider working 8 to 5, six days a week behind a desk in a small office counting stuff…”. GRRR!!!

Go AWAY! Just LEAVE! …and take your stupid questionnaire with you sadistic, dream shattering Hitleresque commie’ bastard!

If you are a kid reading this post (or adult that has fallen for that commie’ bastards trickery) take my advice: You have a brain! Just do what you want to and don’t let other people (especially those who haven’t a clue who you are) have an effect on your life decisions. If you don’t know what it is you want, simply pursue the truth… the rest will follow.

My Book

I've decided to write a book.

This will be no ordinary book(Anyone can write an ordinary book like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. I'm aiming for something extraordinary).

I have some big plans for characters which is why I have decided to post this section. I thought about this for a while and it turns out that I have some very interesting friends that would fall into place quite nicely in a fiction/adventure/comedy. All I need is your permission to have a character with your name (or similar), features and attributes. I also want free reign to be able to exaggerate and add bits to them.

You can also have some input in your character and its development. For a start I want to know if your char will play a good, bad or neutral role in the storyline (I'm personally going for neutral for my avatar but we need a good mix otherwise i'll have to introduce some real fictional characters).

You may not see significant results for the next few months as it takes a while to write a book. I do however intend to keep you posted with random bits on this blog as I go along. I'll also email and blog if I need some opinions, advice on your character development or if I need inspiration.

What I offer to you in return is having a say and playing a part in the distribution and allocation of 50% of proceeds to fund any education projects in South Africa (nice aren't I?). I didn't want you to get your hopes too high so I chose something that will help make a difference with any low or high amount of funding (so there). You can also play yourself in the movie (one day...).

If you aren't interested in becoming a character in a novel and do know of someone (interesting preferably) who would be good material send me their email address or give them the link to my blog

Thanks

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