Words

You see, what you say or write matters a lot. It has an impact enormous enough to completely alter a person's impression on you.

A friend of mine has just got embroiled in this problem. The problem is probably because he's too bold to say it out, or perhaps he's too cynical when it comes to studying. His expressing is bad. He uses a word that isn't appropriate and many people felt patronised or insulted. This creates an uproar, and various comics are drawn and photoshopped using his pictures to put him in a bad light.

Then there comes a second sentence he writes. It's also true, but yet it's insulting, especially if we know who he refers to.

This tells us something: language is a very powerful tool. Using it wrong or inappropriately can have a very dire result.

Some things, or truths, are not meant to be expressed. They are meant to be only felt, or concealed if expressing it can negatively harm anyone. It is true most of us are quite happy most of the time, or are already extremely ebullient when we managed to scrape through only one exam, but this isn't because we are stupid - this is because we simply have lower expectation for our achievements, contrary to what you believe, because you obviously have a very high expectation and ergo, feel stress.

Life is full of joy, and it's up to you to enjoy it. There are lots of fun scattered out there, and it's up to you to find it, enjoy it, or ignore it. Having too high an expectation is harmful, because then if you don't achieve it, you get disappointed, and depression follows. Why make yourself so unhappy?

Life is full of joy. Try to enjoy it and try to lead your life a different way, then maybe you'll realise why we are so happy even though our results ain't very optimistic.

Certain things require patience and time. Trying to get hold of something on first try is pretty greedy and is not going to work. Try to be patient and take things slowly, then perhaps you'll understand why most of us do not seem to be very stressed.

Stigmatisation

Many people are stigmatised. Minorities in a group are always stigmatised. There's no denying that anything that stood out like a sore thumb in a sea of stuffs would catch your attention and, if found to be out of ordinary, treated differently. Anything odd, especially human, is stigmatised. The only difference is to what extent.

This might sound crazy, but the issues of LGBT has just caught my attention (mind you, I'm not saying I'm homo). It has been hotly debated in US and just recently, Singapore, and it's pretty hard to turn a deaf ear towards a debate like this. 

It's a sensitive issue here in my country, but like everybody else in every countries, I just hope these gays can be treated fairly. Some are homo because of hormones that they have no control over. It's biology, not psychology. Ya, I admit, some are psychology, although I don't know how, but majority sounds like biologically triggered - correct me if I'm wrong though, I've not done enough research of LGBT. 

I'm not proposing any countries in the world to legalise same sex marriage or anything concerning the priviliges of the gays, I'm just hoping every persons in the world - no matter gay, straight, bi, lesbian, retarded, deformed, mentally unsound, paralysed, mute, blind or whatnot - can be treated fairly. Stigmatisation should be eradicated. Unless they are pestilential or bestial, shunning them from our lives simply isn't fair to them. Physical or biological handicap should not distinguish a person from another.

But you may argue - life isn't fair.

Jit Sin Form 6 Closed

Due to the new policy, Jit Sin is closing down its Form 6. All lower 6 students will be sent to Junior College Seberang Perai (SMK Permatang Rawa) for a totally different system. Change of school, change of teachers, change of system. I f*cking hate this!!!!!

I'm sick of becoming a white mouse. Why does it have to be so sudden? At least allow our batch to finish in our school, would ya?

Updates
According to the latest unofficial news, we'll not be moving to Junior College next year. I'm not sure about schools in areas outside Perai Tengah, but here's how it is there: Beginning next year, SMK Permatang Rawa will stop accepting form one students. Form two students next year will be allowed to complete their studies in their schools, which means they'll graduate in the school they went in. Then, in the year 2015, all form 6 students from the area will move to the newly named Junior College. So, students of lower 6 2012 and 2013 will complete their form six lives in their respective secondary schools. If you're studying in Jit Sin, you'll finish your studies in Jit Sin. If you're studying in SMK Bukit Mertajam, you'll end your form 6 life there. That's how it works, at least that's how they unofficially state it. Lower 6 students in 2014 will probably have to move to the Junior College in 2015. But we shall wait and see, for many changes can be made in that short time. 

Big 2

Ya, I know, for someone of my age I should have learnt it years ago. The problem is, due to the age gap with my siblings and lack of passion from my sister and family, I never got a chance to learn it at all. So, since most of my friends knew the game and played it well (enjoyed it too), I learnt it online by trial and error - never read any instructions beforehand, go straight to the game, and since it's a computerised game, if I try to use cards that aren't allowed, I won't be able to discard it; if I try to use cards that are not higher, I will be halted from discarding it. Trial and error - the most amazing way one can learn everything and the most effective way one can learn from. Now, I can play it quite well, and have actually found it quite addictive. Gosh!