A letter to the MOE

To all you numb nuts at MOE,

You know, you have to come and implement that stupid, crappy way of JAE this year. What the hell is wrong with you? Do you people not see the flaws of modern technology? You guys are educated people, right? I wonder if you study economics. You see, in economics, it's all about demand and supply. Get it? You see, in our situation right now, we have:

Demand: Over 40,000 students.
Supply: Obviously not enough.

And it has to be in the year when the demand is highest for the past and next 20 years. What, can't you afford more servers? You are the ones who implemented this; you are the ones who should be making it work.

Guess what? It doesn't!

Who can solve the problem? You? Hah, don't make me laugh. You say "Alert: 2. We are currently experiencing high usage traffic. Please be patient as the system response may be slow. You may wish to avoid peak periods between 11am ~ 1pm and 4pm~6pm."

Yeah, sure, is "12am~2am" a peak period as well? I don't know, but your crappy server is still busy. If this is like this at this kind of time, I really cannot imagine the amount of crappiness you'd reach during your designated peak hours.

Look, why give yourself so much trouble and implement this stupid thing? Why can't we do this how everybody did before us? Do you really know what us students and our parents want?

No!

You really think we want convenience? That, oh, we're happy just because we can do everything on the computer (which some do not have) and on the internet (which, again, some do not have)? No, we don't care about that. We don't care about how convenient it's going to be. We won't mind if we can't slack on our asses to do this.

All we want is a peace of mind. Simple as that.

My parents stayed up until a while ago just to see if it'd work at the wee hours of the night. It still didn't, by the way. Why? Because they were worried. Worried about whether I'd even be able to apply at all.

My dad said he wants to call you guys first thing tomorrow. I'm wondering if he could even connect through, seeing as how you people have such thick skulls. Forget about sending e-mails, I'd bet your inbox is crammed with complaint mail.

So all in all, please stop doing funny things like these. All the time you think, "Oh, this should be good" and do it. That's so ironic, isn't it, in your position? You do this, people complain. You do that, people complain.

Well, too bad.

If you had some decent IT people around they could have told you that such an overwhelming amount of people trying to access one small server could cause a overload soon enough.

And peeps, the internet is not like the CBD. It's got traffic all the time. There really is no peak or non-peak hours, okay?

Good.

Yours sincerely,
Chua Zhaohan