Undergraduate life is a weird phase. Unlike other students or working adults who rejoice over a long public holiday-weekend break, uni students are probably the only ones who go “Urgh. Not another public holiday!” Well it’s not without good reason we react this way.

1. Public Holiday != Holiday. Contary to the practises in sec school/JC, lectures and tutorials which fall on a public holiday would have to be resheduled, and usually to some bad timing like late at night or other “free” days.
2. Who needs an official public holiday when I have one anytime I like? Lectures and tutorials are not compulsory so you can choose not to attend any, of course at the expense of your grade.
3. I already have a holiday on that day! With good planning, free days, officially or not (refer to point 2) can be allocated in our weekly schedule so having a public holiday coincide would be like having a holiday on Sunday without a makeup on Monday.
4. Since this is already my free day, the public holiday only serves to crowd the streets and buses and raise moive prices on an otherwise nice quiet weekday.

What a drastic change from NS days when public holidays are so longed after. Bleah.