Comments on Blog Posts

On Phineas' blog post regarding the school track:


It is no doubt that being a tracker has been your passion for a long time, so never say never and train harder than ever since the track has been changed. Adaption is a way of success in life and I hope you manage to overcome all endeavours you encounter on the track, be it standing on the podium or crying your heart out at a nearby bench, because you are already a winner to be able to achieve your passion.


On Pei Yu's blog post regarding Prejudice and Discrimination:


I feel that discrimination is a more common problem between boys, as you have stated, 'defamation, entertainment, political purposes', because we study in a boy's school.
Through psychological studies, scientists realise that females are more empathetic than males, and that is exactly the reason why children are more attached to their mothers than fathers.

However, discrimination cannot be solved, and this is because it is human nature to be selfish. Why are the people in Africa suffering from starvation right this minute? Why are there children in African dying from malaria every 2 seconds? Yet, when you pay thousands of the dollars for a plane ticket to Bali for a week of relaxing and sunbathing in the beautiful scenery of the blue waters, there is no guilt in your actions. Some people call it 'indulging in simple pleasures of life', but right on the other side of the spectrum, there are activists doing whatever they can to save as many lives as they can.

I do not deny that it is inevitable that selfishness is present in every living soul, but we should always try our best to do what we can to open our hearts and be selfless.


On  Chun Yuen's comic strip:


I feel that the slogan of 'I am human, we are the same' is right in terms of humanity. However, we have to accept the fact that it is not so in reality, especially when we grow up to be adults and become a bigger part of the society.

In many cases, people feel that equality means having the same status, same benefits etc. However, that would seem more to be communism.
I think that equality is a concept of life in which we have to achieve through means which may be biased, but if everybody is equal in life, then it would be like living for the sake of passing time, without challenges and endeavors ahead.