Slice of Life (New Topic: Off to Tokyo)

Although I have always visited the Chat Topics and Forum Games section, I don't think I have ever created a thread here. Thus, I am going to try something different; every now and then, I will change the focus of discussion, an idea which I obtained from my fellow Fakku members.

Based on the current theme, [font=Arial Black][color=blue]all members are welcome to post their experiences, both good and bad, and hopefully engage in further discussion. Nonetheless, the main and general rules of Fakku must be adhered. Members may also come up with suggestions as to what the next topic of discussion should be; feel free to inform me via PMs or through posts in this topic.[/color][/font]

Why am I starting this topic? First and foremost, I would like to interact with everyone on a less random basis. More importantly, I hope to see a larger number of members come together, especially since some of us spend more time in specific sections and threads, which I may be guilty of as well.

Without further ado, the
Current Theme: [color=red]Off to Tokyo[/color].

[color=green]I thought I could drop by for a quick post before flying off to Tokyo for a holiday later this evening. Apart from FreeOtakuGhost and Room, are there any other members whom I can meet up with?

For my fellow members who have been to Tokyo previously, do you have any tips, suggestions and recommendations for a first time traveller?

I should be able to read your respective posts, since the hotel provides (limited?) free wifi. [/color]

Topics Discussed Previously:
- Office, School and Organisation Politics.
- Relationships and Friendships.
- Birthdays.
- Seiyuu, Shizuka Itou!
- Happy Birthday Nikon and Gambler 2011
- Salary and Allowances
- Rejection
- Guilty Purchases
- Christmas Wishlist
- More Heartbreak and Sorrow
- Getting Drunk?
- Interviews!?
- Tests and Examinations
- Moving On To Greener Pastures
- Unemployment
- Merry Xmas or Beary Christmas?

Last but not least, the always related images, which have been updated to females in sexy lingerie:



P.S. Thank you for your kind support and don't forget to spread the word about my thread. :P

(Reserved for future use, should the need arise.)

As a rule of thumb I try to stay out of workplace/school politics.

Lately this has become unavoidable due to my election to student government in my school. You would think attending a school where everyone is going to be an undertaker people would be able to act and dress professionally because that is what is expected of us in the real world.

Sadly there are a lot of people who wear leggings, sandals, ripped jeans and sweatpants, all of which are clearly forbidden in the dress code which is posted in every class room.

That is my experience with school politics. I could talk about the politics involved in my line of work but that would take me hours to write.

In my local area, there have been reports of tertiary students dressing shabbily when attending classes. Even though your school is more unusual by common standards, I should think most rules are similar in nature.

To a certain extent, having a poor dress code can be quite distracting when attending classes, but some may call it eye candy, depending on how one views the situation.

Hmm... is my topic too lengthy or serious for the Chat Topics and Forum Games section?

To a certain extent, more shameless self-advertising.

Maybe you should just make this thread topicless, bro.
I think people don't like being limited to certain topics, just sayin'.

Actually, you are quite right, although I am worried it might turn into a rant thread instead of a more balanced one. Perhaps I should attempt to make the changes straightaway, as suggested.

Hmm.... I'm no office person but... if its school.

My school life, mostly, has been lonely, I never had a true friend IRL, even now. There were some people I used talk to, but they used to just ditch me as if I'm trash. I was always treated negatively, as I was very fat, they used to bully me a lot, it includes drawing shit on the back of my uniform, directly beating me physically, and many other things. And it was like that from when I was young, and I used to just bear everything (for who knows why), until I'd start crying like a big baby, maybe its because I knew that'd just come back if I try to fend them off and that they'd try to take revenge...

People also used to call me girlish, since my nails used to be long (even now actually) and for my hair as well, kids sometimes think, that long hair are like girls, and thus, I'm girlish, or so it was that way back then.

I wonder if I properly followed the topic. > >;

(Also Gambler, I think you forgot to PM me?)

How come I never knew this thread exists? This is a fantastic one, although we should have the topic changed from time to time.

Anyway; I'm just a university student. There was some kinda election before, but I didn't vote. My first year, this side won, next year other side won, then it won again, but I didn't see any changes whatsoever. I wouldn't say I'm ignorant to the politics of my college, I have a friend who loves this stuff and whether I like it or not, I always find myself listening to him about it. But yes, I don't care much about it. I don't see how it might affect my student life, for better or worse. Students simply don't have enough power to do that here.

As for the smaller scale our physics department, it's something similar. There were times when I was nominated, but one way or the other I got myself out of it somehow. I hate to be entrusted with duties like that, even more so considering it would eat up what little free time I have. But interestingly, my friend that loooves politics got the position and I'm always helping him with whatever work out of boredom. I guess I just hate it when I'm expected to do it.

Thank you for your support in this topic, Rise-chan.

All of us might have been the victims of bullies at one point or another. Quite a while back, in a certain organisation, my looks were the subject of jokes. I don't deny that I was very upset and up till today, I still feel a little inferior when it comes to appearances.

However, we should not let bullies get to us. Although it is easier said than done, dealing with them in the appropriate manner (I am definitely not advising violence, which will make matters worse) could get them off our back.

I do apologize for not sending you a PM. Again, I am embarrassed to say that I have forgotten about the matter due to a few issues on my mind. Could you, as usual, trigger my memory again? ^_^;; My sincere apologies.



Woot hoot, thank you for your support too, Mibuchiha!

Sometimes, it is wise to stay out of politics, but then again, we should not be apathetic to the situation. Unfortunately for us, student councils do not seem to be as fun as protrayed in anime.

It is a shame you are not very interested about the role of a leader in your department or college, since I suspect you have the abilities to perform well. Passion about it is important too, but I guess you are able to contribute in other ways, such as offering help to your politics-minded friend.

Haha Gambler, I'd say I'll make a bad leader just because I lack the passion to do it! XD

But yep, I do help my friend a lot. Advice, planning, providing transport, working etc... we've been hanging together for 3 years, he knows how to manipulate my boredom. =3=

I also realized from the experience that it's not the work that I hate. I just want to always have the choice of stopping when I want. I've went "Fuck the rest, I told you how to do it so you can do it, ask me if you have probs." more often than not. Can't exactly do that if I'm the man in charge no?

You're welcome.

Hmm.... well, I have no confidence on my looks whatsoever, guess I know how you feel. I feel that girls gives me a bad and "eww" look all the time. ^^;

I've tried dealing with them, one of the ways were to make complaints to a teacher, but the teachers never cared... and their punishments were way too weak whenever they actually punished...

As I thought, you forgot. >_>
But well, I hope you send the PM soon.

Most definitely, when it comes to duties, the person-in-charge has quite a bit of responsibilities. Unfortunately for me, I cannot do the same for work. I can't go telling my boss "Screw it", can I?



Oh, that PM? Don't worry, I have not forgotten. I had wanted to send it out the last weekend, but something unexpectedly cropped up. Will attempt to schedule it for this weekend.

To a certain extent, teachers are in positions of power and like the above discussion with Mibuchiha, responsibilities come along with it. However, only with power can we uphold what we think is right... at least in my opinion.

Looking at it from another angle, the words of a manager hold more authority than the words of an ordinary executive, isn't it?

My school, as amazing as the 13 years were, is turning into a real shithole, really. I don't know how much politics enters into it now, but the principal put up a lot of rules which only got stricter as time passed by. I mean, really? A guy has his hair a little long, and you literally cut snips out of it in front of everyone in the afternoon assembly?! You can just suspend him until he gets a trim! Plus, lateness policies are really getting on my nerves. My cousin, along with some others, got expelled because of them. Granted, it was for the year-end result day, but they were all around 10yo!

The teachers are getting worse by the year, too. I had some really good teachers when I was young, and a few good teachers around graduation time. Hell, I can say with full confidence that some teachers barely gave good grades unless you took private tuition from them out of the school, something which our principal is absolutely against!

I live in Bangladesh, if that adds to anything.

Okay, school politics time! XD

It was a boarding school, so we lived in dorms. We were asked to pick a dorm head, and for my dorm, for whatever reason they picked me. I tried to refuse, but they insisted that my apathy and laid-back personality were exactly what they were looking for. So I couldn't refuse so yeah... >.>

So the day to send the form to the Head Warden came. My junior was the one sending it... and wtf. That was truly one of the most wtf day of our lives. The form was refused because the Head Warden said I should not be chosen as the head! I laughed my ass that time, I knew teachers didn't exactly like me, but to outright refuse what students had voted is just lulz. Unfortunately the other students didn't take it as well as me, they insisted that I should be the dorm head. Ugh... that led to some ruckus and I ended up taking the position. Why do they insist so much? Just because I'm one of the rare students that didn't give a damn about the hostel policy and things like that. One of the responsibilities of dorm head is to collect some amount of money form every students under his rule every month and gave it to the committee for whatever hostel funds. But hey, I have friends in the committee (for some reason my friends always have some sort of power) so I knew exactly where the money went. Sure they were used to buy things for students, but as usual, quite a sum of it went into the committees' wallets too. So I was reluctant to collect the money knowing that it would rarely be used right... and lol, no money whatsoever from my dorm. We were kinda alienated in how we managed our own stuff (or me accessing the powers of the committee through the back door), which to say the least, wasn't what the Head Warden and his student henchmen would love.

Since the Head Warden was also the Disciplinary Teacher, and he was in charge of choosing the prefects, no chance of me ever becoming one. Nothing to tell about me there.

Library politics! The uniform of my school is white, and damn I hated that. White shirts, okay, but pants? Uh, no... I've always envied dem prefects, they got to wear black. Of course I wont be chosen as that... so what could I do to let myself wear black pants? Be a librarian! So I got myself close to the teacher that was in charge of choosing librarians. She kinda liked me (for my honesty, as she put it), despite knowing what other teachers thought about me so it was pretty easy. But she just had to troll me. My original plan was to be just a random librarian that arrange books and lame hassles like that. But she made me in charge of a lot more than that... like planning book purchases, library activities and other things. Ugh, it was like she knew I hate responsibilities. Fortunately my buddy (the other guy that got close to her just for black pants) was put as the chairman, so we had our way with the library. A lot of things happened, and somehow the library month (one of the things we must do every year) was called the most successful one for reasons that are still beyond me. that left a lot of marks everywhere. the anon librarians generally hated us for it, and the normal students thought we were awesome. all in all it was a great experience, i got to spend my last 2 years in high school without wearing white pants at all. whee!

Tl;dr, it was a hassle, but still, good memories.

A little late in my reply due to responsibilities in real life, but as they say, better late than never?



Sometimes, principals of schools may be forced by the top management (such as the board of directors, politicians from the government) to implement certain rules, causing unhappiness among students. However, since they are primary school students, I suppos some leeway could have been given.

I am not sure about the situation in Bangladesh, but I suspect some people are taking up teaching as an occupation because of the salary, and not for the passion. Of course, I am not saying all teachers are bad or greedy, but having a passion about grooming the future pillars of society would be a good trait.



I guess there is some form of corruption in schools too, including the various committees. Now I see where society is headed. :D

Then again, I am glad to see that you stood up for what you believed in... by not doing anything, literally. :P

Agreed, I actually know some teachers who barely have/show any passion for teaching, I wish people would do things for not just money sometimes. -___-

By the way, time for a new topic?

Yay, a new topic and I hope response will be better this time round? ^_^;;

I wish I had friends to discuss this about D:

*Customary bear hugs*

What would you like to discuss about? And I do hope I fall under the category of friends. :)