Journal Writing 2 - Joey

Who are my best friends in life?
I have many best friends in life. They are from the Military Band and some of them are from my class. After my arrival in this school then I've realised what is called 'Best Friend'. Only when I came here, only when I've got to know many friends from this school then I realised. You can basically call everybody that I can get along with well my Best Friends! Well, there may be times when I really got help from these BEST FRIENDS where I treasure it.

Are they of the same race as you?
They are of different races. Chinese and Malays. I won't be racist and only talk to Chinese and not Malays. If you are racist, then you'll miss a whole lot of friends. A whole lot of truthful friends.

Gender
Age
Race
Character
Circumstances (eg. classmate, groupmate, cca-mate)

Character-1
I ranked character as the most important one because I feel that the character is the main idea to get a true friend, a good friend. If a person's character is bad, I wouldn't want to get along with him/her. So I feel that it is the most important.

Circumstances-2
It's obvious that if the people are your classmates, groupmates or cca-mates you know them better and you see them more often. For example cca, most of us, we would love the cca that we chose so we would have friends who have the same interest with us in the cca. Hence, you would get along with them better. Classmates, we are in a same class, we always meet each other. You would surely find someone that you can be with together as friends. So, I feel that this is also important.

Age-3
Maybe age would be the 3rd most important factor in the friendship. Some teenagers wanted to feel mature, therefore they went to chatrooms to meet friends of ages in their twenties. It is also dangerous to get to know friends of a very different age. You might not know what that adult is thinking. So best is to stick to friends about the same age.

Gender-4
Gender would be the next important factor. Some girls prefer to have friends of the same gender but there are girls who could get along better with guys. It's best to have the same number of different gender of friends. So as not to be biased to each gender.

Race-5
Race to me is really not important. All the different races should get along well with each other and not to go separate ways. I have friends of different races, but sadly I didn't really have Indian friends. We should treat every race equally and stuff. Not to categorise each race.

Do you think Racial Harmony Day has served its purpose?
To some, maybe it has serve its purpose. But for some, they don't give a damn about Racial Harmony Day. What they enjoy about is the celebration and that they could study for a shorter period of time. That's why these days, in schools, there are programmes during Racial Harmony Day for students to take part and learn about Racial Harmony and seriously, it works. Programmes which are fun and challenging are always attractive to students. They could have fun and learn at the same time. One stone kill two birds!