Forever Love

As the sun rises, threshold of a new day is opened. I, as usual, still laying on my lukewarm bed and covered by my lovely coverlet. I look through my window, what a beautiful scenery! As the sun rises from the horizon, every life started to begin their new day as well as myself.

Mother is calling me. Oh no! I am late for school. With the speed of a lightning, I clean and dress myself up. Running downstairs, grab a piece of bread and run towards my bike. The journey to school has begun. Although I cycle to school five times a week, it seems that this journey never going to be bored. Everyday there is a new story.

I cycle along by the roadside. Hawkers start to yell for customers, children running on the street, mothers busy preparing to go to the market. Everyone is busy for the beginning of a new day. As I am already late, I take my own sweet time cycling to the school.

I park my bike at the parking lots. Walking swiftly to the class as I do not want to come across with any teachers walking by. Oh my God! How could I ever forget? Today is examination day. Oh no! How am I going to enter the class without the teacher noticing me? Now, I regretted. I should have sat by nearby the door.

I enter the class with the lightest step as the class is so quiet that only the sound of breathing can be heard. One more step and I will succeed! “Ivan, what do you think you are doing?” I am taken aback but still manage to calm myself down. “I am doing nothing. Just trying to sit down.” I replied to my teacher. “Now, stop talking and start answering!” Whew, I never feel so glad before. My heart is as if it has stopped beating when the teacher called me.

Now, one problem settled another prop up. I glance through the question paper and I feel empty. I am a dead duck! How am I going to answer these questions? I do not even read a book last night. As usual, my neck will extend like a giraffe and start searching for “food”. Thank God as the brainy student of my class is just by my side. I try not to take too much as this will alert the teacher. So, I just get enough to let me pass the exam.

Luckily, there is only one exam today. I start to feel very bored in the class. So, I leave the class to get some fresh air, of course without permission. I amble along the corridor and enjoying the “magnificent” scenery of my school. The wind is stirring the leaves. A cool gentle wind passes by and make me feel rejuvenate. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a girl collides into me. Her books and papers all scatter on the floor. She keeps on apologizing for knocking into me. To err is human, but to forgive is divine. I will not be furious for this especially to girl.


I lend her a hand and collect all the papers. For the first time, I have the good view of her. What an astounding discovery! Even greater than Columbus discovered America. How come I would miss out such a girl in this school? Her eyes sparkle like diamonds, her lips with the colour of strawberry are the sexiest ever seen, her figure is every man’s dream! Her beauty is impeccable! It is as if she is the angel sent by God to the earth. What a magnificent creation!

As I am snowed under by her perfection, I just cannot take my eyes off her. She noticed that. Within a second, her cheeks are as red as ripe tomatoes. She is blushing. She is so cute that almost prompted me to hug her. I just could not control myself and start laughing as her blush does not go away. She takes her books and papers, then run away. I try to catch up with her but she is as fast as a deer. I am looking forward to see her again.

The bell rang. It is recess time. Usually, I do not go to the cafeteria. However, my intuition tells me something is going to happen there. Wonderful thing! And my intuition is right. I meet with the angel again. This time, I am not going to let her fly away. I come close to her and introduce myself. I apologized for laughing at her just now. Her name is Kelly, same age as me – 17 years old. Now I make out why I never see her before. She never was here before. She is just transferred in from other school.

We become good friends very quickly. So quick that the whole class of mine calling us the “sweet couple”. I sort of feel there is some chemical reaction happening between us. And it does! I do not know where I get the guts to tell her. But, I just come up to her and tell her all I feel about her. I feel relieve but at the instant, I am so tense that I think I would conk out. As I wait for her respond, she just keep silent, seems like she is considering something. This make me feel even more nervous! At last, I see her lips are moving. “So, what do you think?” I am waiting for the answer. “Alright, I do have the same feeling with you.” That is the answer I have waited for! I am on the cloud nine! I cannot hold my ecstasy any longer! I grab and embrace her with all of my heart! I am very happy! “But! There is a condition.” At that moment, I am so contented that I would present her anything she asks for even my life! Finally, we are of the same mind to become couple on one condition – never neglect studies.

Since the first day we are together, we almost stick with each other for almost all the time in school. Wherever she is, I will be by her side. We go to the library everyday to study and of course, date. We enjoy our life everyday. Since the day she entered my circle of life, happiness and laughter surrounded me all the time. For once, I bring her home. I introduce her to my parents. She gives a very good impression to my parents and they have given the approval for us to move on with our relationship. I am very delighted with that.

However, one day, she just vanished into the thin air. There is totally no sign of her. I call her cell phone for a thousand times. I look for her at places she usually stops by. But, I am disappointed. Frustration starts to sink in me. I am as if fallen into an impenetrable darkness. I am as if strike by a lightning. Out of sudden, I fainted.
When I wake up, I am in the hospital ward room. I was sent in by a kind-hearted pedestrian. My parents are just by my side. I feel sad seeing my parents are very concerned about me. I am discharged after two days in the hospital. Since the day Kelly left, my smile and laughter have gone together with her. I go to school as usual. However, everyday seems like a perpetuity doom. Daytime, I am just a walking corpse, have no more emotions. During hours of darkness, only tears accompany me throughout the night until there are no more tears.

My examination of the year is just around the corner. The examination will determine where I will go for my future. But, I have lost my soul. My parents are worried and afraid my future will be gone. They keep on advising me to get ready for the exam. Not that I do not attempt, I do try my ever best to swot up but it is a failure. I really do not want to frustrate them.

One day, I receive a letter. My tears drop like an unchained pearls. Drop by drop, falling across my cheeks, I read the letter. “Ivan, I am very sorry for leaving you alone. I have to do so. I have no choice. My illness is getting worse. I doubt that I would survive. I know you will be mad at me for making the decision without discussing. But, I really do not want you to worry for me. I really like to see your smile and your laughter. Your laughter is just like the song of heaven. It is so melodious that it gives me the support to fight against my illness. Sometimes, it even gives me the hope that I might survive. So, I do not want your happiness to fade away. I hope you will carry on with your study and get outstanding results in the exam. You do not have to find me. By the time you receive this letter, I have gone back to my Lord. I will always remember you. You have given me the most precious memory to me. Bear in mind, study hard, and do not fail on me. I will pray for you here in heaven. Goodbye. Kelly.”

The letter from Kelly has awakened me from darkness. A light from heaven has guided me out of doom. Starting from the day I received the letter, with the spiritual support from Kelly, I study hard throughout day and night as to prepare myself for the exam. I can only succeed. There must be no failure!

After a month of vehement study, I have fully equipped myself up. During the exam, I answer the questions with all of my heart. I feel great relieve. I have not disappointed Kelly. I have done my best. Now, it is the time to wait for the results.

The dee day has come. I am very anxious to get my results. My name is called and the results slip is given to me. I look with my hands shaking. “Yes!” I have succeeded. I have got a straight As! I look towards the sky. Kelly, I know you are smiling at me from heaven. Rain of blessing pours down from the sky. I know it is the tears of joy from Kelly. Kelly, you will always be in my heart! You will always be my sweetest angel! This memory will pursue within me until I return to you.

Bahasa Malaysia

Now, how come i would want to write about "Bahasa Malaysia"?

This is because i've read on an article in The Sun newspaper.The article is an interview with award-winner writer Uthaya Sankar.The thing that caught my attention is he has been ask frequently on "why you speak so good in Bahasa Malaysia?".

Now, i've met the same condition before when i went for camps or programmes out of my school. Usually, natives people or our Malay friends even my own Chinese friends will ask me, "Wow, you speak very well in BM. How can it be?" Well... frankly speaking, i felt like tumbling when i heard this question. I was thinking why this kind of question was given to me. I mean, I'm a Malaysian. There's shouldn't be anything extraordinary about being able to talk in BM, right? But, it did happen. They felt like " Wow, a chinese can speak like a Malay. What an odd thing to see!!"

Based on the history subject i've learnt during my secondary school which was a compulsory subject, if i'm not mistaken, Bahasa Malaysia has became our national and official language since independence. So, what's so wrong or abnormal about when a malaysian like me can speak well in BM. Although i'm a chinese, mandarin is the third language for me to learn. Honestly, English is my 1st academically learnt language while Bahasa Malaysia is the 2nd and Mandarin is the 3rd. I've been mingle around with malay friends sice i was a kid. My childhood friends were Indians and Malays. I've only made friends with Chinese when i enter primary school.

What i want to say is this is what our country suppose to be. All races live in harmony. I've malay, chinese, indian, and siam friends. I can communicate well with all of them. I think its time for us to think again and deeply about the future of our country. People or society is the main ingredient in a country. Without people, there won't be any country.

Well, actually i'm quite puzzled with the language system of BM. As i recalled, the term "Bahasa Melayu" and "Bahasa Malaysia" had been vice versa converted many times during my primary and secondary education. Bahasa Melayu is the national language, then Bahasa Malaysia? If its the national language of Malaysia, then why can't it be Bahasa Malaysia? This is the question been discussed among my friends. I mean, if its called Bahasa Malaysia, its fair to everyone because we all are malaysian. But, when its called Bahasa Melayu, it sounds like the other races are not malaysian. They are just foreigners who are learning the language of natives people or the Bumiputra's.

Anyway, that's just my point of views. I would like to encourage my friends especially chinese, please master Bahasa Malaysia, for the sake of our ownselves. For students, we need excellent grade for BM to apply for scholarship or further studies in Malaysia. For non-students, we need to socialise and communicate in this country with various people. Lastly, we need to know our own national language because we are MALAYSIAN.

Equal right between men and women

For decades, people has keep on bring up this issue.

In our past time, men used to have higher status in social hierachy.Men seems to dominise all the important aspects either it be the leaders of a country to the master of a family.So, women seems to be useless in those time which they are of no value.

However, people started to oppose this unbalanced condition between men and women.In their propaganda, they indicate that women deserved to have their own rights and should not be under look by men. They proposed that men and women should have equal right in all aspects. However, how far does this had been going on?

For me, a teenager, what i've seen is the situation is still remained unbalanced. Undeniable, women had came out to be an important asset in human development. However, when we talked about equal right, i think its never going to happen.Why do i say that? This is because some roles hold by men cannot be replaced or done by women and vice versaly, there are roles that can only perform by women and not men. Nature has already set up its own system where men and women completed each other.

Now, maybe what i'm going to write will seem to be naive by someone, but its what i think. In school, girls always shout for equal right. But, when it comes to harsh work or exhausting work, they will use the excuse of we boys should be gentlemen. What is this crap?! I mean, when comes to issues that girls don't satisfy, they will start shouting for equal right between boys and girls. What is this suppose to mean?

Business, national development, human development have to include the participation of women, but women have to be excluded from doing any hard works. This is ridiculous. If girls want to prove that they can do whatever men could, then please prove it completely. Please don't use the excuse where men should be gentlemen to escape from your responsiblities. Girls demand for equal right, so take it. We'll have to bear equal job, equal work and equal status.This is not the matter of boys should or should not be gentlemen to ladies. Of course we boys will lend our hands when you girls need help, but it does not mean that we boys have to do everything while you girls can take your own sweet time gossiping and have your drinks.

Anyway, I know most of the girls will disagree if they read this. But, anyhow, i wish someday, things will change as i could not take it anymore!!

Hair Restriction

Yesterday, i've heard something contradict on this issue.Before that, i'm so curious of the purpose of setting up this hair restriction.I always been thinking that what does the impact so huge with the hair that makes the school/ministry to set up this rule.

I think the time has come for us to review this problem.The most common reason given by the authority is the hair restriction was set up with the purpose of avoiding students to spend too much time on fashioning with the hairstyle.Now, here comes the question. If that would be the reason, so why is the disciplinary teachers so particular of the students hair and demand them to trim their hair frequently as to maintain the standard guide? This scene happened almost everyday in front of my eyes where lots of students being called up just because of their hairs are just a little bit over the standard guide.Where is the rational of this action? Students attend school to study and learn. But, when they've been called up to the discplinary room or being hold by the disciplinary teachers, they are losing their time for study. So, how could this rule being benificial to the students?

Next, as this rule has been implemented, it became a burden for students. As we all know, hairs can grow rapidly. How much time does the hairs need to grow after the trim? 1 month? However, due to this rule, students have to always keep in mind that they are bounded by the rule whereby every month they have to trim their hair according to the standard guide. Is the burden, pressure and stress faced by a student is insufficient? Is this rule that important and necessary to be implemented? But, what i can see is just that, because of this rule, students had been added with unnecessary pressure. If the rule is set up to prevent students to put too much attention on the hair style, i don't see how is it working if students have to bear in mind that they are needed to trim their hairs once a month. I'm the ex-president of the counselling club in SMCC. Students had always approached me and told me that they're sick of this rule. Some of the students even play truant just to avoid their hairs been trimmed by the school authority. Is this the effect that we want from the rule? If there's nothing different with existance of the rule, then i might as well just abolish the rule. So, again, how is the rule being helping in improving the students achievement in academic and self-development?

Furthermore, i, myself, a teenager can always understand why some of the students tend to be rebellious on this issue. During this age, teenagers are in the process of translation/metamorphosis of a child towards an adult. Some of them will reach puberty where the appearance will start to change. Its normal for everyone love beauty. Everyone wish to present themseleves in the prettiest look including teenagers. So, what's so wrong of having fashioned hairstyle? Is it wrong to make ourselves look nicer? Is it wrong to turn ourselves into a beauty? We should look this matter optimistically. With a good appearance, students can actually build up their own self-confidence in facing the crowds. As we are walking towards globalisation, we needs creativity in every aspects. Why don't we see this as one of the way to promote creativity among students? Thus, the rule should stop being enforced by the school.

Apart from that, some students approached me and give me one simple question which i couldn't answer them, until now. "Why not every schools enforces this rule? I see some of the students from other school like SMK or High School, they can have their own hairstyles. Why our school has to enforce this rule while they don't?" Well... you see my trouble now. What should i answer them? They were unlucky to study in this school? Of course this won't be the answer. Students in our school have always been envy of them. The jealousy within them increased highly that resulted in the rebellious attitude of the students on this issue. So, why is this happening? How come there are schools that enforced in full forces on this rule but some don't? It shouldn't be happening this way, should it? However, nobody stand up and clear the puzzling questions in the students' mind. They'll only know how to avoid the question but never confronted it. This will never end.

Currently, i'm a F6 student. I've once ask my friends why wouldn't they choose to continue their study in F6. Astonishingly, one of the reasons is they don't want to be bounded by this sickening rule anymore. From this, we can see how had the rule affect students mind for 6 years and 5 years with a total of 11 years in elementary school and secondary school. Is this what the school and ministry hoping and wishing for to happen? The self development of students had shown negative impact by the rule. Shouldn't students being given the rights for their own appearance? Where is our human right?

In conclusion, its time for the abolishment of the hair restriction for secondary school students. We deserved to own our rights.