Ximplicity v2.0

Kuen Cheng, a name that meant so much to me.. throughout my 17 years of Education, 7 years were spent in Kuen Cheng, the only reason i wasn’t able to get into the secondary school is because it’s not a co-ed school, therefore the name Kuen Cheng Independent Chinese Girls’ School. recently there’s quite a stir over some issues regarding the school and what happened really ache everyone who somehow related to Kuen Cheng.

just read today’s headline, the incident has evolved into something pretty serious, it seems that the alumni had applied warrant from the high court to freeze the school’s board, seizing them from further actions as well as the authority to run the school until further notice.

from sinchew chinese today: 董事會遭凍結, 坤成百年校慶取消

the whole incident revolves 2 main issues back since May or June this year:

1. Adoption of the co-ed policy for the school as opposed to it’s single-sex students approach for the past 98 years since her establishment
2. multi million dollar demolish and re-build of the existing quadrangle landmark of the school (坤中四合院).

for the first incident, there’s not much of debate can be done because so much has been done, and i guess everybody has a very valid point in securing their own stance. my stance for this has been pretty neutral. i guess what’s more important is that no matter whether it’s a single-sex school or it’s a co-ed school, the school should focus on taking care of the students’ well-being, academic growth, disciplinary and school’s reputation. though being a single-sex school has been Kuen Cheng’s uniqueness for the past 98 years, we should weigh what’s more important to the school. whether it’s the uniqueness or the future development.

in order to sustain the uniqueness, it is important to also at the same time keeping up with the school’s future development plan, sustaining the number of students to keep the school running. otherwise, there is no point standing firm on sustaining the uniqueness while at the same time pushing the school to a dead end.

as for the demolish and re-build of the quadrangle landmark, in my personal opinion, it’s unnecessary, and almost certainly a very wrong move. i heard there’re people out there saying that being a single-sex school is Kuen Cheng’s identity, to me, The Quadrangle Building IS the identity ! though i haven’t studied in that building before, i guess it’s a landmark, or should i say it’s a Heritage which deserves no demolition. it’s a big NO for demolishing that portion of the school!

anyway, the main point is: i guess there’s no need to bring these issues to this extent, it’s a school, it harms the reputation of the school, causing people to lose faith in whether they could even nurture young people for their future. i guess it’s important to really put issues onto the table and weigh to determine which is more important to the school, and then make the necessary decision.

good luck to Kuen Cheng

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realized of a very interesting fact just recently, quite a number of my buddies who is going to get married or just married have pretty interesting and juicy stories to tell us during the meet-ups. and i’m no kidding, it’s really some hot and juicy stories. stories which i haven’t heard from buddies who’re single..

with doubt, i decided to pass the question to friends from the opposite sex, trying to get the point of view from the other side. and the feedbacks i’ve gotten from them made me fell off the chair. it’s not that my mind is still stucked in the 80s, probably it’s because i didn’t realize that the world has been changing so drastically.

and the feedback?

“the ladies are afraid of commitment, sometimes, we girls just wanna have fun too.”

yes, that’s the feedback, and it’s been uniform from people to people, different walks of life, profession, age group. according to them, sometimes, they just wanna have fun, and to have the safest fun, married and soon to married men are at least 90% safe, damn it makes them sounds like condoms. why? again, according to them, attached men have the risk of dumping their girlfriends and go after this newly discovered “treasure”, and that would make them the disgusting, ugly, bitchy third party. with this much information, the problems with single guys is very obvious, isn’t it? so i guess, that’s the main reason which makes the engaged/married men safer and more “popular” nowadays, because no matter what, the married men would still have to go back to their wives. totally care-free flings for both parties.

the world’s changing real drastically because i never expect i would hear something like that from the ladies. all these while, it’s been the guys who’re more notoriously known to be playful, i didn’t expect the trend has been changing sides. however i am not generalizing the theory, as there are always multiple facet to a simple issue like this.

what my point is: i think it’s really becoming a norm that casual relationship is no longer a heartbreaker’s game. it is a game opened for everybody and anybody. of course, the most important thing being a good player is to know exactly the rules of the game and stick to the them, all the time.

so guys and girls, please, play nice, play well and play safe.

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