Monday, March 06, 2006
I don't know why I'm blogging, but I am. This is strange, really. Now my mind's gone kind of blank. Huh.. My brain really knows when to abandon me. To get the ball rolling, I suppose I'll talk about my Chinese composition homework! I know, I know, why talk about homework? or even worse, CHINESE homework??? Well, the teacher went through with us two articles today, and we're required to pick one and write a reflection - in chinese! (duh)
What are those two articles that can be so interesting anyway? Well, the first is about a seventeen year old student who recorded herself having sex (with her boyfriend). The phone went missing, and soon after, the video was played on the net. Seriously, how sick can one get? The fact that someone who found/ stole the phone posted it on the net was bad enough for the poor girl. However, in the Straits Times, the girl's flippant attitude disgusted me to no end. Her defense was "Everybody's doing it." I hope for her sake that she said it to "save face". If it was otherwise, sorry to disappoint her, but not everyone is doing it. Definitely not me and I'm part of everybody. We don't exactly see sex videos popping up all over the internet do we?
However, it got me thinking, when we kids do something wrong, and our defense is "everyone's doing it!" Then sometimes we are asked, "so if everyone is jumping of a cliff/ stealing/ taking drugs, you'll do it?" We tend to ignore that question thinking it silly of them to ask such a rethorical question. I mean, you can't exactly find cliffs in Singapore and most of us would be too busy schooling to steal and well, we've been taught that drugs kill. We definitely don't want to die. Yet, if you really really think about it, the concept behind the defense and the question is kind of the same isn't it? Why then do we dismiss the question thinking it silly? Isn't the 'crime' just as bad? A sin is a sin, irregardless of whether we think it's something small and not worth noticing. A white lie, is still a lie, we can't deny that. Sugar-coating words aren't enough to erase the fact that it's a sin.
Oh my, I've spent so much time on the first article. I'll do a quickie on the second one. The police have announced that all teenagers aged 16 years and below, if I'm right, are not allowed to loiter after 11pm. If caught doing otherwise, parents will be notified. This is to help decrease the crime rate amongst teenagers and prevent them from forming gangs of sorts. While I agree that they should do something about the crime rate thingamajigg, I think the responsibility of curfew setting and all that should go to the parents. I mean, a set curfew for everyone is not exactly fair to those who are responisible and mature enough to stay out so late. Oh well, to each his/ her own I guess.
I know these to articles are kind of old news, but talking about them now should mean that you fellas out there have read about them or heard about them. I got a nice story I wanted to put up, I received it in my email account. Though i forwarded it, I'd like to put it up here. After all stories are fun things, and can be meangingful. I'll do that tommorrow. Turrah.
