Journal Writing 2 - Chong Thiew Hiao x)

Part One

• Who are your best friends in life?
  

I have a lot of friends but i still could not find one friend that could represent "best" at the moment. During primary school's days, i remembered whenever we argue with our friends, we
tend to say out the words like"don't friend you liao,you are not my best friend anymore". Agreed? But at that time, we do not really know who is your best friend,and who is your friend.
During primary school, i often write in my journal that i have a lot of best friends and i could really named a lot of them till the page is full and often when i got to write a Friends Corner Page, i could too named a lot of them and also put them into good friend, bad friend, etc. But when i reach secondary school life, i find that it is really a tough question to answer and sometimes, it is quite sad that people have friends, you don't. However, i hope my best friend is going to appear sooner or later.

Don't worry! I do not have best friends, but i had a lot of good friends. We all come from different races and we got along with each other quite well. Sometimes, we also share the same interests and hobbies. Although we come from different races, we are still able to stay together and at the same time, have fun and laughter. I think is rather fun to have a friend that is different race with you, as both of you could have endless topics to chat about, and you would not feel bored. No matter what, you don't judge your friends according to their races, do you? i hope not. I think it is alright that we do not have best friend at this time, as we still have other good friends that will accompany us throughout our life.

Part Two

1. character
i believe that majority of people would rank this first as i really think that character matters a lot, consist both the inner and outer side of a person. Would you like to be with someone that is a kind,caring and helpful person or would u rather to be with a bad,not honest and naughty person?
For me, i would chose the first one. I think that is rather difficult to work with somebody with a bad attitude and lazy person. You would want to trust the person instead of suspecting the person. Am i right to say that? I strongly agree that CHARACTER is the most important factor on the important in our friendship.

2.age
Sometimes, it is rather hard to communicate with somebody older than you, as different age group of people would have different thinking and ideas. It is rather difficult to understand the person who is smaller or bigger than you when you come to certain types of topics,i.e. Love, studies. It is much more easier to communicate with somebody who is the same age as you as because there isn't much gap between you two. I believed that if you were to choose to talk to a 30 years old man or a boy at the age of 14,15 years old, you would rather choose the second option as he is closer to your age. It depends.

3.circumstances
classmates,teammates,schoolmates are all helpers in your life. You all must be united as a group to achieve good result. We need teamwork for projects, we need classmates when we need help in school work and for schoolmates, we may need help in the future. We need them for many reasons, and so this is important too.

4.race
NO racist please. Sometimes, we like to crack about racist jokes but to me, it is just a form of entertainment. We should not hates the other races instead we should love each other. You would never know one day that your best friend turns up to be a different race with you, so don't make a assumption that race is important or we should not have friends from other races. We must learn from each other, if we don't understand, we used our mouth to ask.

5.gender
Gender? male or female? i understand that when we are young, we don't dare to touch the opposite gender's hands,hair or shoulder because we thought that people will misunderstood and rumors would be passing around. It did happened to me before, but no worries, we are all grown-up teenagers and we all know what is gender all about.So, it is okay to see a boy and a girl to sit together and chit chat. Don't worry about that.! You will soon get over it.
gender is not really that important to me.


Part Three
Do you think Racial Harmony Day has served its purpose?

i believed that every festival served its own purposes. It is just that different people have different thinking and we look at things at different angles.
Many people would think that it is a stupid day, waste their time but for other people, they think that this is a meaningful day that every different races come together and celebrate the day. The day that we could exchange things that we do not have in our races, there is no harm to learn a new language, try a new food.
It is a day where every different races come together and share things together.
i had fun during Racial harmony day, do you?



everybody! be happy!
have a nice weekend!

thiewhiao