Student Serafiel : Introduction?

[autumnbronze]

Serafiel:

wow, I feel really welcomed here

Back in stomp it's like people will bash you for no other reason than your avatar (for eg, saying \"your avatar looks so fake... you must be really ugly\".)

Good that you feel welcome. And I am sorry you had an unpleasant experience previously. Like I said, you are on a different \"playgrd\" here.

Serafiel:

I was surfing the net then saw this forum. Decided to create an account to inform people about what schools to choose. (Lots of exp because I got friends from many different schools).

Excellent dear, I am sure the parents here will definitely appreciate the help you can give. Thanks for the sharing

[markfch]

Serafiel:

Qifa->FMPS->NHHS->HC.

Serafiel,

:welcome:

I'm also new here, even though I am definitely not young like you. Have seen better days physically, ahem!

Your parents must be really proud of you. The fact that you're attending one of the best schools locally. I know I would if my DS does as well as you

Btw, since you've listed down your schools (past & present), be mindful that whatever you post will indirectly affect our (the much 'older' folks in this forum) impression of them ok. Know what I mean, know what I mean

[corneyAmber]

Serafiel:

But I still shall not say whether I'm a girl or guy

I already know...like what markfch says....you need to know what you post. The only comfort you can take is over here you are dealing with mainly matured adults.

[BlurBee]

:welcome: Serafiel.

[Serafiel]

ok, I will try to be polite to uphold the name of my school.

But seriously, it’s really hard for teenagers to behave in a good way. When I was in NH, I was not so concerned about upholding the reputation of my school, lol, since we don’t have a good rep anyway. But now, in HC, i must be polite, can’t jaywalk, can’t say swear words (not even abbreviations). Really hard to adapt lah.
FMPS was good in the sense that all the Christian values they instilled in me made me a polite person who never swore, but sadly they were "erased" in NHHS, lol. Now must find them again.
PS: HC is not as good as it seems (my dream was ^shattered^). I see girls and boys playing cards in McDonald’s in uniform, and some of them also shouts swearwords in school.

[ooptimizer]

The standard of many schools have dropped, even the top school. One HC boy was in the news for punching a bus driver…

[Jennifer]

Serafiel:

FMPS was good in the sense that all the Christian values they instilled in me made me a polite person who never swore, but sadly they were \"erased\" in NHHS, lol. Now must find them again.

Hugs to you.

My elder boy just began sec 1 in NJC. There are classmates using \"seemingly innocent\" words like smart butt/ retarded (I only saw these in his sms recently). I do not like these. Also noticed my elder boy has been calling the younger boy dumb more often over trivial matters. Peer pressure is a force we cannot underestimate.

I suspect it is lack of moral education in our schs that causes this issue. So many times, CME is taught at the end of the year. During my sec sch days, it was compulsory to take a religious study subject (either Buddhism, Christianity or Confucius for the Chinese). If MOE brings these back into our sch system, maybe we will see better behaved kids. Too many families are not addressing this basic moral values in depth.

[Serafiel]

sigh, nowadays students are becoming "cooler".

girls get bfs as early as in sec 1, with many of them having really short skirts (i’m proud to say i don’t!) and ankle socks. They also pierce multiple earholes, and dye their hair. Sad to say, I noticed some girls in HC looking very bimbo-like with colourful hairbands and brown hair. Their uniform has been altered to accomodate "shoelaces" which will help them tuck out their shirts.
In NH, many students are being "pressured" to say swear words because it’s cool. If you don’t really do that (like me) then you will be unpopular. Which is why my sec sch life is really horrible.

[corneyAmber]

Serafiel, during your sec education, may I know if you have any enrichment or tuition classes? If so, did that help with your stellar results?


As for the wayward behaviour that you have mentioned, I wonder if this is the teenagers’ way of expressing their frustrations??

Kudos to you for not being affected and influenced.

[Serafiel]

Haha, my results are hardly stellar -.-

I don’t know why my classmates want to be popular, but it is indeed really lonely and sad to be the only one in class with skirt touching your knees, no piercings, and un-tucked out shirts. But like I said, that’s the only way to enforce my habit of "mugging every day", unlike those girls whose standards dropped to ACJC?
I have tuition only in sec 4 when I got more nervous. Sadly, in sec 1-2 I rarely worked hard, and now I think I should have gotten tuition in sec 3. I liked my bio tutor–he wrote the textbook. However, the Math and Hist tutors were private and much more expensive… $240 a month? That’s all, tuition for Math, History and Bio only.