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I have nothing better to blog today and so here's an essay I wrote for Mr. Pang as punishment for ponning some Econs event in J1, lol... Here goes...
The canteen is a fundamental part of not only a student’s school life but also a teacher’s school life as well. So how can our school’s canteen be further improved?
Firstly, one major problem students tend to face would be the arrangement of the canteen benches and tables. More often than not, students find that they don’t have enough space to squeeze onto the benches to sit down and eat their food because the benches are mobile, like hydrated ions in water. So the irregular arrangement of benches and tables causes some places to be overly spacious while some have too little space. This reduction in space could cause students to be more likely to collide into each other, which may lead to disastrous results if the students are carrying hot food. This is akin to a chemical reaction where a reduction in volume causes the reacting particles to have more fruitful collisions, leading to an increase in the rate of reaction. Hence, what we can do would be to arrange the tables and benches in a regular structure like the carbon atoms in graphite and ensure that the benches and tables are firmly stuck to the ground so that they become immobile and only vibrate about their fixed positions, like particles in a solid. This way, it would ensure adequate space between benches and tables for students to pass through or sit down and hence reduce the possibility of collisions between students.
Secondly, it has been noted that the air particles in the canteen have a rather high average kinetic energy, causing much discomfort to students. This is usually the case during the non-peak periods where students are in the canteen after their PE lessons. It has been observed that the canteen has more than 10 fans, but they are only turned on around the time period of 10am to 11am, with the exception of the fans at the teachers’ tables, which are turned on throughout the whole day. Hence, it is suggested that the canteen fans be turned on from morning 8am to 11am so that students who have had their PE lessons can also not suffer from the high average kinetic energy of the air particles in the canteen.
Thirdly, we observe that some stalls like the newly opened noodles stalls and the newly opened Malay stalls have very poor business. Students would rather join a very long queue at the chicken rice stall than purchase from the above-mentioned stalls. This is probably due to three reasons, price, variety and quality of food. What could be done here is to suggest to the stalls to sell a greater variety of food. They could emulate the Japanese stall which has a great variety of dishes, from Teriyaki Chicken to Pork Katsu. The stall also sells sushi and provides wasabi and chilli powder. This is little wonder why Mr. Pang is often seen purchasing food from this stall. Also they can make use of the Economic Demand and Supply curves to determine their price. Since the price of food in the canteen is rather price elastic demand-wise due to quite a number of stalls, what they could do is lower the price a bit to attract more students to purchase their food. This way, they could still make more profit overall.
Fourthly, we also see that the canteen tables are predominantly dirty, which may attract birds when these birds’ chemoreceptors pick up the arenes produced by the food. I suggest that we could persuade the students to be more careful when eating so as not to dirty the tables unnecessarily.
Lastly, during the peak periods, usually from 10am to 11am, the canteen sees alot of students and the queues often become too long and distorted, especially for the more popular stalls. Then like free radicals attacking an alkene, some students would “conveniently” cut into queues. That is however, not the main problem as it happens very rarely since Hwa Chong students have high levels of integrity and great moral conduct due to the splendid job done by Mr. Pang and his team. The greater problem here would once again be the immobility of students within the congested canteen. However, due to the infrastructure of the canteen, not much can be done. Hence, I suggest that the recesses of students be staggered more evenly so as to alleviate this problem.
Kinda miss the JC days, lol...
The canteen is a fundamental part of not only a student’s school life but also a teacher’s school life as well. So how can our school’s canteen be further improved?
Firstly, one major problem students tend to face would be the arrangement of the canteen benches and tables. More often than not, students find that they don’t have enough space to squeeze onto the benches to sit down and eat their food because the benches are mobile, like hydrated ions in water. So the irregular arrangement of benches and tables causes some places to be overly spacious while some have too little space. This reduction in space could cause students to be more likely to collide into each other, which may lead to disastrous results if the students are carrying hot food. This is akin to a chemical reaction where a reduction in volume causes the reacting particles to have more fruitful collisions, leading to an increase in the rate of reaction. Hence, what we can do would be to arrange the tables and benches in a regular structure like the carbon atoms in graphite and ensure that the benches and tables are firmly stuck to the ground so that they become immobile and only vibrate about their fixed positions, like particles in a solid. This way, it would ensure adequate space between benches and tables for students to pass through or sit down and hence reduce the possibility of collisions between students.
Secondly, it has been noted that the air particles in the canteen have a rather high average kinetic energy, causing much discomfort to students. This is usually the case during the non-peak periods where students are in the canteen after their PE lessons. It has been observed that the canteen has more than 10 fans, but they are only turned on around the time period of 10am to 11am, with the exception of the fans at the teachers’ tables, which are turned on throughout the whole day. Hence, it is suggested that the canteen fans be turned on from morning 8am to 11am so that students who have had their PE lessons can also not suffer from the high average kinetic energy of the air particles in the canteen.
Thirdly, we observe that some stalls like the newly opened noodles stalls and the newly opened Malay stalls have very poor business. Students would rather join a very long queue at the chicken rice stall than purchase from the above-mentioned stalls. This is probably due to three reasons, price, variety and quality of food. What could be done here is to suggest to the stalls to sell a greater variety of food. They could emulate the Japanese stall which has a great variety of dishes, from Teriyaki Chicken to Pork Katsu. The stall also sells sushi and provides wasabi and chilli powder. This is little wonder why Mr. Pang is often seen purchasing food from this stall. Also they can make use of the Economic Demand and Supply curves to determine their price. Since the price of food in the canteen is rather price elastic demand-wise due to quite a number of stalls, what they could do is lower the price a bit to attract more students to purchase their food. This way, they could still make more profit overall.
Fourthly, we also see that the canteen tables are predominantly dirty, which may attract birds when these birds’ chemoreceptors pick up the arenes produced by the food. I suggest that we could persuade the students to be more careful when eating so as not to dirty the tables unnecessarily.
Lastly, during the peak periods, usually from 10am to 11am, the canteen sees alot of students and the queues often become too long and distorted, especially for the more popular stalls. Then like free radicals attacking an alkene, some students would “conveniently” cut into queues. That is however, not the main problem as it happens very rarely since Hwa Chong students have high levels of integrity and great moral conduct due to the splendid job done by Mr. Pang and his team. The greater problem here would once again be the immobility of students within the congested canteen. However, due to the infrastructure of the canteen, not much can be done. Hence, I suggest that the recesses of students be staggered more evenly so as to alleviate this problem.
Kinda miss the JC days, lol...