Journal Writing 2 - Cheng Si Yi ><

Er.. me not quite used in changing fonts.. -.-ll sorry if there's any mistake.. ><

Part One

Who are your best friends in life?
Well, you can say that i have none. Even thought sometimes i treated someone else as my best friend, they do not regard me as one. Thus, I have none. However, i do have some friends quite close to me in class. Also, I trust that I will find my best friend someday, in the future.

Are they the same race as you?
Are they the same race? For best friend, it's in the future thus I am not sure. But, my current friends are definitely not the same race as me. Both of them were Malay. There were also a few friends which are the same race as me, Chinese. However, I am more closer to my Malay friends.

If they are, why so?
Sometimes, races doesn't count. So what if we speak different languages? We can still communicate in English! Student have been educated in schools to be racial harmony. If we do not like each other's races, it would be called raciest and it will be very hard to communicate when you hate someone's race. So why not make your own life easier? By making friends with other races, there will be a lot of benefits.

Part Two

Gender - 3
For my own personal thinking, i prefer having the same gender as me as we can talk along more well. However, if we sides too much to our own gender, it will cause us to have an anti-feeling towards the other gender. This may cause a side effect when we become adults. Thus, it is important that we communicate to both genders well but if i would prefer, i would stay closer to my own gender, IF possible.

Age - 4
Age is quite important as generation gap occurs. Sometimes, having to know a person older than you could be bad. As we were talking about modern things like mp3, mp4 or more new technologies, our old friend may not know much about it. It will also be easy to have conflict happening between us as we had a different thinking. Also, if a person is younger than ourselves, it will also be very hard to communicate as they may not understand what you are talking about. Thus, age is VERY IMPORTANT. For me, i prefer friends which are 3 yrs younger or older than me. Then, the things we talk about would be quite alike.

Race - 0 or 1?
I very much wanted to put 0 as it DOES NOT REALLY MATTER! That's my view. As long as we could communicate, race doesn't matter to me. I accept every type of races. Having different types of main language will not affect our communication towards each other.

Character - 5
-.-ll Character sure is the most important point of it all. You do not like to go out with a person that you totally hate his/her character, correct? The person's character reveals himself/herself and brings out the him/her inside themselves. Having a bad charactered friend may cause a lot of troubles as you cannot communicate with him/her well. Both of us will have very different thinkings thus may cause sparks in between us. If you met a friend you can make with a good character, it will be of good news as both of you could communicate well and even like each other's way of thinking.

Circumstances - 3
Er, i think it's reasonable? Cause we can communicate anytime, anywhere using hand phones or via emails. It can be easy to communicate to friends. But, places like underground tunnels may cause you to lose contact with your friend. So, it is also quite important.

Part three

Oh my gosh.. finally going to end.. ^^ i don't know if it's relevant or not.. >Do you think Racial Harmony has served it's purpose?
I would say yes. If schools did not educate students in racial harmony, there may be racist wars starting all over in Singapore and other countries. Racial harmony's purpose is very important for the peace for the whole world. It made almost all the countries avoid raciest riots and other demolishes that may occur when that happens. The Racial harmony now days are celebrated, to remind us not to be raciest and communicate well with other races. it also gives us opportunities to learn more about another race' cultures and we can also introduce to other races our own culture.

THE END!!!!! finally..