RJC is really ugly! All because of CPG.

Actually, it isn't so much that my high school, Raffles Junior College, is ugly, but rather that it is designed very poorly. I went back with Jason to visit my teachers from RJC. RJ moved from it's old campus in Buona Vista to Bishan. It has a new campus, just built less than a year ago.

And it is horribly built. The space between the buildings is not well utilized, the landscaping really sucks, and the hall is slanted outwards, making it really disorientating. There are little "chat rooms" which also look really squeezed out of nowhere, even though there is a lot of corridor space everywhere. And there are parts of the school, that lead to nowhere.

Not just that, but Singapore rains A LOT. The architect obviously forgot that fact. The staircases look like mini-waterfalls, with water cascading over all of them. Even the indoor ones are flooded. On top of that, there is little or no shelter walking from certain parts of the school to another. That means, if you need to get there when it's raining, you HAVE to get wet. Which was exactly what happened, because it was pouring like crazy. The entrance to the staff room gets soaked by the rain, so teachers will have to get wet getting in and out of the staff room. The classrooms are also soaked on one side because there isn't any rain guards above the windows to keep the rain out.

Apparently, the school is designed by CGP Corporation. Remind me never to give any of my contracts to them. Like one of the teachers said, "It looks good on the outside, that's what they care about. It's complete impractical everywhere else." None of the teachers had anything good to say about the design of the school. If even a person like me can see how bad the designing is, the architect should be fired for the absolutely shoddy job they did. Maybe I should write in to them about what I think about their designing of the school.

Oh, and now, the students can no longer go into the staff room to visit teachers like what it was. They have to stay outside and make a phone call to the teachers and wait for the teachers to come out of the staff room. That greatly reduced the teacher-student interaction which I so enjoyed back when I was in high school. Sigh, this really sucks. Going back to high school to visit isn't too enjoyable anymore, considering the school feels really impersonal. Luckily, my teachers are all still there, so it's still really fun chatting with them.

Well, looks like I have to live with the fact that my high school is an eye sore. But it still has my teachers in it, so that'll be enough for now. =)